Cinema Shame

James and Allan pay their respects to the late, great Gene Hackman with a brand new Shamedown to kick off the 8th season of the Cinema Shame Podcast. To the table we bring our Top Five lists and three new-to-us movies starring Gene Hackman.  Follow us on Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Join Allan, James, and Kris for the 4th Annual First Watch Shamely Awards. They pick their favorite Films, Actors, Screenplays and Physical Media releases from whatever the hell they watched in 2024. Along the way they're joined by former Cinema Shame guests who share their own favorite watches from the past year.  Follow us on Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Matt Baume, author, podcaster, and video-maker -- whose work focuses on pop-culture and queer history -- first-time watches MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE (1991) alongside James and Allan in the Shamequarters.  Follow us on Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Dan Delgado, host of The Industry podcast, and Allan sealed their fate on the last Christmas episode of Cinema Shame by admitting they hadn't seen Ernest Saves Christmas. So, we watched Ernest Saves Christmas, know what I mean?  Follow us on Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

In between discussing Mustang blindess and singing bars from "Booty Juice," James and Allan discuss Hitchcock's MARNIE, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES, FAIL SAFE, KITTEN WITH A WHIP, THE TRAIN, and so much more.  Follow us on Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Critic, author, and screenwriter Stephen Rebello stops by the Shamequarters for a chat with Allan about Elia Kazan's ON THE WATERFRONT (1954). Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast

Not one, not two, but THREE new episodes of Cinema Shame within a week! Prepare your earholes for the end of an era. "Comic Guy" Mike Sterling, owner of Sterling Silver Comics has now watched Ridley Scott's 1982 masterpiece of sci-noir Blade Runner.    Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast

Happy Halloween! James and Allan tackle their terror and confront their respective greatest Dario Argento shame: Deep Red (1975) and Inferno (1980). They talk about the giallo, Argento's style (and substance), and recast The Three Mothers Trilogy as a musical.   Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast

James throws out his first Cinema Solo, a audio essay about The Natural and Field of Dreams and how the magic of movies changes as we grow more cynical about the existence of everyday miracles. ThirtyHertzRumble.com - a bl-g about Movies, Music and Nostalgia   Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast

Music industry insider and Fritz Media mogul Jen Fritz confessed to never having seen the most important movie musical about the music business - Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) - and we immediately offered a spot on the show to explain herself, and, of course, watch the movie.   Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast

"Bad" movie aficionado Chuck Dowling (Watercooler Films) soars into the Shamequarters to first-time watch Cannon Films' SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE! Can James and Allan survive this threat to humankind? Tune in to find out which one of them cracks first!   Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Ken Reid of the TV Guidance Counselor podcast joins Allan and James in the Shamequarters to first time watch not one--but TWO! movies about Vietnam vets unleashing PTSD on a bunch of small-minded assholes.    Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast. 

James opens the Cinema Shamequarters to a lineup of special guests to talk about the screen legacy of the "French monument" Alain Delon. This super-sized episode features Jen Johans, Will Slater, Greg Sahadachny, Eric Langberg, and Will McKinley.    Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Allan's first Cinema Solo spins an audio essay about the IMDB, The Saddest Website on the Internet, by way the disparate Hollywood stories of Helen Wood and Scott Baio.  Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast. 

James and Allan have a dream, and "bad" movie guru Paul Frieteg-Fey drops into the Shamequarters to tell them their dream will certainly definitely come true. And it does. The end. This episode is all about Hamid Khan's up-and-coming dance disasterpiece DANCE GODDESS (1987).   Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast. 

James and Allan strut around the Shamequarters in tasteful one-pieces -- inspired by former Miss Universe Canada contestant (turned radio personality) Angela Valiant's tales of pomp and pageantry -- before discussing Angela's first time watch of the underseen and totally irreverent dark comedy DROP DEAD GORGEOUS.    Twitter: @CinemaShame Bsky: @cinemashame.bsky.social Instagram: @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Allan and James welcome comic blogger and podcaster Devon Sanders into the Shamequarters to discuss the blaxploitation classic TRUCK TURNER (1974). We're never telling which one of us hadn't seen the movie.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Kris takes the com to introduce THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990) featuring award-winning writer and walking movie encyclopedia Jen Johans of FilmIntuition.com and the Watch with Jen podcast.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Kris declares the 1984 Shamedown a sentient bag of cocaine and casts the deciding vote on BLAME IT ON RIO. James and Allan tackle their most egregiously overlooked cinema from the greatest year in pop culture: THE WOMAN IN RED, RAZORBACK, NINJA III: THE DOMINATION, ELECTRIC DREAMS, and so, so much more.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

After Kris takes a bubble bath with a toaster, writer and publisher Rod Lott joins Allan in the Shamequarters to discuss Hal Ashby's HAROLD & MAUDE.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

After Kris jumpstarts a new Cinema Shame season, comic creator Troy-Jeffrey Allen joins James and Allan in the Shamequarters to discuss 1988's ACTION JACKSON (RIP Carl Weathers).  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast.   

James and Allan watch a bunch of movies and then seek revenge on all of those that have wronged them or their famlies. It's the 1973 Shamedown.   Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Amazon Podcasts   CREDITS Talking Heads:   emcee: Kris Myers (@kris__myers)   host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) host: Allan Mott (@HouseofGlib) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

James and Allan host the Third Annual First Watch Shamely Awards where they pick their favorite Films, Actors, Screenplays and Songs from whatever the hell they watched in 2023. Along the way they're joined by some special guests.   Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Amazon Podcasts   CREDITS   Talking Heads:     emcee: Kris Myers (@kris__myers)   host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) host: Allan Mott (@HouseofGlib)   Special Guests:   Beth Accomando (@cinebeth) - Cinema Junkie Dan Delgado (@_Dan_Delgado) - The Industry, The Jockey Club A.S. Hamrah (@hamrahrama) - The Earth Dies Streaming  Jen Johans (@FilmIntuition) - FIlm Intuition, Watch with Jen Eric Jones (@deacon05oc) - Photo Flo Will McKinley (@WillMcKinley) - Old Movie Weirdo In Residence Brian Saur (@bobfreelander) - Pure Cinema Pod, Just the Discs Raquel Stecher (@RaquelStecher) - Out of the Past Blog   Music Contained in this Podcast:   Preacher Boy – “Shamedown” 

James and Allan spin the wheel of fate and plunder their "shelves" for movies they already own but haven't seen. Allan shows his "O" face with an experimental cult film from Jane Arden, and James scratches off a big Blake Edwards oversight. Follow us on Twitter (@CinemaShame), Bsky (@cinemashame.bsky.social) and Instagram (@CinemaShamePodcast). 

Dan Delgado joins James and Allan in the tinsel-blitzed Shamequarters to discuss 1985's Santa Claus the Movie starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow. We talk about neurotic reindeer, GI Joe aircraft carriers, perpetual plywood Christmas, reindeer puppets, and Santa Claus stuffing the Mrs. inside his Tauntaun.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast.  Dan Delgado is the host of the podcasts The Industry and The Jockey Club: A Let It Ride Podcast.

James and Allan dare to return to the cinematic wasteland of 2003 to watch that which should have remained unwatched. In honor of Tiptoes (2003), we podcasted on our knees... and begged for mercy.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

James and Allan adopt the  Cinemonster's Hooptober horror movie watching prompts to select their October watchpile. They'll share spooky tales of health spas gone murderous, Wes Craven collecting a Disney paycheck, Henry, and primordial maneating (and loving) squidmonsters.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame, Bsky @cinemashame.bsky.social, and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast.   

James and Allan spin the wheel of fate and plunder their "shelves" for movies they already own but haven't seen. Allan fires up the DVR for a viewing of the Mickey Rooney semi-noir Quicksand (1950). James dusts off the "J" shelf for Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) so that they can talk about Barbie (2023) and Transformers: The Movie (1986). Obviously. Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

Allan talks to Julia Marchese (@juliacmarchese) of the Horror Movie Survival Guide Podcast about 1987's The Chipmunk Adventure.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

James and Allan spin the wheel of fate and plunder their "shelves" for movies they already own but haven't seen. We lose a Rebecca but gain an old new friend, Kris. James hitches a Train Ride to Hollywood (1975) with Bloodstone while Allan finds more than exclamation points in Andy Sidaris' Stacey! (1973) and Seven (1979).  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

James and Allan spin the wheel of fate and hit the "shelves" for movies they already own but haven't seen. Rebecca raids the liquor cabinet while the guys opine about John Byrum's The Whoopee Boys (1986) and Alan Rudolph's Love at Large (1990). Do either of these movies get to back on the shelf? Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

On this supersized episode, James and Allan discuss their favorite first-time watches from 1963 and welcome Rebecca to the Cinema Shame family. And speaking of family... the gang's all here -- Liz and Richard, Carroll, Sidney, Seijun, Akira, and even a very special appearance from Buddy Love.  Follow us on Twitter @CinemaShame and on Instagram @CinemaShamePodcast. 

This is an unedited excerpt from the '1972 Shamedown' featuring Allan's anecote about Michael Ritchie's involvement in The Bad News Bears Go to Japan. It includes all the "ums" and "likes" all the horrible speech patterns that emerge during the third hour of recording. Enjoy!

James and Allan Mott give a rundown of their most notable first-time watches from 1972. Cinema Shame is sponsored by DVD Netflix. Because yes -- you can still get DVDs and Blu-rays sent directly to your mailbox. Subscribe at https://dvd.netflix.com/.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts Cinema Shame on Twitter: twitter.com/cinemashame DVD Netflix on Twitter: twitter.com/dvdnetflix James on Twitter: twitter.com/007hertzrumble Allan on Twitter: twitter.com/houseofglib

James and Dan Delgado (@_Dan_Delgado) find out that Daniel Day Lewis does indeed find Madeleine Stowe in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans (1992). Cinema Shame is sponsored by DVD Netflix. Yes -- you can still get DVDs and Blu-rays sent directly to your mailbox. Subscribe at https://dvd.netflix.com/.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts Follow Cinema Shame on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CinemaShame Follow DVD Netflix on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dvdnetflix Subscribe to Dan Delgado's The

James and Allan Mott give a rundown of their most notable first-time watches from 1982. Cinema Shame is sponsored by DVD Netflix. Yes -- you can still get DVDs and Blu-rays sent directly to your mailbox. Subscribe at https://dvd.netflix.com/.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts Follow Cinema Shame on Twitter: twitter.com/cinemashame Follow DVD Netflix on Twitter: twitter.com/dvdnetflix

Only the penitent moviewatcher will pass. James and Kris Myers look back on 25 years of Spice World (1997), imploring naysayers to give it another look in 2022. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) Kris Myers (@Kris_Myers) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown” 

James and Allan Mott give a rundown of their most notable first-time watches from 1992.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Allan Mott (@HouseOfGlib) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown” 

James and Allan Mott give a rundown of their most notable first-time watches from 2002.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Allan Mott (@HouseOfGlib) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown” 

James and Raquel Stecher talk about their favorite first-watches from the year 2021, awards style. Along the way they're joined by a few special guests. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Raquel Stecher (@raquelstecher) Shamely MC: Eric Jones (@deacon05oc) Special Guests: Brian Saur (@bobfreelander), Beth Accomando (@cinebeth), Will McKinley (@WillMcKinley), Carlo (@ThiefCGT), Colleen O'Brien Fiore (@FussyFilm), Jen Johans (@FilmIntuition), Ashley Rincon (@oOoOoBarracuda), Nora Fiore (@NitrateDiva) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

Pop Quiz, Hotshot. Andy Ross watches Jan De Bont's Speed (1994) for the first time. What does he think? What... does he think? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts   CREDITS   Talking Heads:   host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss)   Music Contained in this Podcast:   Preacher Boy – “Shamedown” 

James and Dan Day, Jr. each pick three essential horror films featuring Peter Cushing and/or Christopher Lee that came from outside the Hammer-verse.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Dan Day, Jr. (@CushingLee) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

James and Allan Mott (@HouseOfGlib) dissect what went wrong (and oh so right) with The Oscar (1966).  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Allan Mott (@HouseOfGlib) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

James and Nick Britt (@campbelldropout) talk about their favorite first-watches from the year 2020, awards style.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Nick Britt (@campbelldropout) Shamely MC: Eric Jones (@deacon05oc) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

James and Nora Fiore (@NitrateDiva) talk the tenets of Film Noir and share their favorite first-time watches from Noirvember 2020. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Nora Fiore (@NitrateDiva) Not Fred MacMurray: Eric Jones (@deacon05oc) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

Annie Jung discusses her first viewing of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Bonus! Colleen Fiore, aka Fussy Film, relays how the 1946 movie played to her classroom full of high school students. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: host: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) guest: Annie Jung (@WalkerPinkLabel) guest: Colleen Fiore (@FussyFilm) angel: Eric Jones (@deacon05oc) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

Film critic for KPBS San Diego and host of the Cinema Junkie podcast, Beth Accomando, talks about Zombies and Not Zombies for our Halloween 2020 horror special.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) Beth Accomando (@cinebeth) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

Marketing Manager for Netflix DVD, Annie Jung, helps James ring in a new era in Cinema Shame and shares her three handshake/comfort films. James presents three of his own and attempts thematic relations because double features! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Stitcher Radio / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Amazon Podcasts CREDITS Talking Heads: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) Annie Jung (@WalkerPinkLabel) Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy – “Shamedown”

Film writer and host of the Tomb of Ideas podcast, Trey Lawson,  presents his final Quarantine Comfort film, Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) and host James Patrick pairs it with one of his own for a Happy Time Double Feature. Subscribe on iTunes / Stitcher Radio / Spotify CREDITS: Talking Heads: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble)  Trey Lawson (@T_Lawson)  Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy - "Shamedown" Akira Ifukube - "Godzilla (Main Theme)" Pharoahe Monch - "Simon Says" Recorded in April 2020. Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

Film writer and host of the Tomb of Ideas podcast, Trey Lawson,  presents his Quarantine Comfort film, The Band Wagon (1953) and host James Patrick pairs it with one of his own for a Happy Time Double Feature. Subscribe on iTunes / Stitcher Radio / Spotify CREDITS: Talking Heads: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble)  Trey Lawson (@T_Lawson)  Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy - "Shamedown" Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray - "That's Entertainment!" The MGM Studio Orchestra - "Dancing in the Dark" Nanette Fabray - "Louisiana Hayride" Judy Holliday - "It's a Perfect Relationship" Dean Martin - "Do It Yourself" Dean Martin, Judy Holliday - "Just in Time" Judy Holliday - "The Party's Over" Judy Holliday - "Drop That Name" Recorded in April 2020. Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

Film writer and host of the Tomb of Ideas podcast, Trey Lawson,  presents his Quarantine Comfort Film, The Shadow (1994) and host James Patrick pairs it with one of his own for a Happy Time Double Feature. Subscribe on iTunes / Stitcher Radio / Spotify CREDITS: Talking Heads: James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble)  Trey Lawson (@T_Lawson)    Music Contained in this Podcast: Preacher Boy - "Shamedown" Jerry Goldsmith - "The Shadow" Taylor Dayne - "Original Sin" Danny Elfman - "Final Confrontation" Recorded in April 2020. Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.