Cinematic Omniverse

Can beauty kill? Is Christmas a time for crime? Can vampires have their own reality TV show? The answers await, festooned with Scott-and-Marty-flavoured fun!Columbo S03E01: "Lovely But Lethal" (at 1:25)Moonlighting S02E10: "'Twas the Episode Before Christmas..." (at 14:25)Forever Knight S01E17: "Unreality TV" (at 25:50)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty and Scott continue to survey and salute the Voice of Vader. This episode takes them through the nineties, a decade known for its Hollywood cannibals. What has James Earl been jonesing for..? Listen for answers!*If you build it, commentary on the following films will come:Field of Dreams (1989, Dir. Phil Alden Robinson) at 2:36The Hunt for Red October (1990, Dir. John McTiernan) at 24:38The Sandlot (1993, Dir. David Mickey Evans) at 40:37Coming 2 America (2021, Dir. Craig Brewer) at 1:01:34Also Continuity Boulevard (1:28:11) and Lightning Round (1:36:36)Man, do those boys know how to talk!*answers not likelyFollow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

In one of our most contentious episodes yet, we travel to the fabled realms of Zamunda, Hyboria, and France in pursuit of James Earl Jones's early film roles. If you're not coming with us, you're either suffering from catatonia or else you're just a baboon. BABOON!!James Earl Joints:The Great White Hope (1970, Dir. Martin Ritt) at 3:08End of the Road (1970, Dir. Aram Avakian) at 15:50Conan the Barbarian (1982, Dir. John Milius) at 32:04Coming to America (1988, Dir. John Landis) at 51:58What is good in life? Continuity Boulevard (1:12:06) and the Lightning Round (1:23:13).Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Columbo does a cooking show! Maddie meets the head of Network 23! Nick Knight pouts like a jealous teen! Scott and Marty are here to help you through it all.Columbo S2E8 "Double Shock" at 2:18Moonlighting S2E9 "Atlas Belched" at 17:58Forever Knight S1E6 "Only the Lonely" at 29:30Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, there was one star so bright, they kept casting her in films with "STAR" in the title! Scott and Marty provide you with the necessary cinematic pinhole box required to view Janet Gaynor's career (without permanent vision loss)!Featuring these flashes of brilliance:Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Dir. F.W. Murnau) at 2:47Lucky Star (1929, Dir. Frank Borzage) at 18:06A Star is Born (1937, Dir. William A. Wellman) at 30:07Bernardine (1957, Dir. Henry Levin) at 45:23Plus the usual gang of Continuity (1:00:40) and Lightning (1:07:50)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

A good detective show is like a chess match... or maybe it's like a blonde bombshell obsessed with her own portrait... or else it's like, um... vampires at Woodstock? Scott and Marty take their best shot with these unconventional episodes:Columbo S2E5: "The Most Dangerous Match" at 2:10Moonlighting S2E6: "Portrait of Maddie" at 14:55Forever Knight S1E13: "Dying for Fame" at 28:30Plus, we got yer Continuity Boulevard (42:58) and yer Lightning Round (47:45)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

After a dynamite run in the 1970s, working under luminaries like Altman, Kubrick, Allen, and Gilliam, Shelley Duvall's career went... other places. Here, Marty and Scott scour the back half of this great actor's filmography... mostly so that you don't have to.Films we pressed against our eyeballs this week:Roxanne (1987, Dir. Fred Schepisi) at 2:51Suburban Commando (1991, Dir. Burt Kennedy) at 21:35Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997, Dir. Guy Maddin) at 40:00The Forest Hills (2024, Dir. Scott Goldberg) at 55:43Plus! Continuity Boulevard at 1:20:21And! The Lightning Round at 1:27:10Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

CINEMATIC OMNIVERSE is back, with one of our favourite leading ladies! How did Shelley Duvall first become an actor? Which 1930s starts inspired her performance as Olive Oyl? Why do Scott & Marty find the word "coerced" hilarious? You'll find the answers (such as they are) in this, the first of two Duvall retrospective episodes!We cover DuvALL the following:Brewster McCloud (1970, Dir. Robert Altman) at 3:17The Shining (1980, Dir. Stanley Kubrick) at 21:10Popeye (1980, Dir. Robert Altman) at 47:48Time Bandits (1981, Dir. Terry Gilliam) at 1:05:44Continuity Boulevard at 1:25:27Lightning Round at 1:35:57Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Words cannot describe how monumental this, our 100th Episode, truly is... but we can't figure out how to make a silent podcast, so we're sticking with the talkies as we wrap up our series on self-reflective cinema. Join Marty and Scott as they scope out these four funky films:Tropic Thunder (2008, Dir. Ben Stiller) at 6:39The Artist (2011, Dir. Michael Hazanavicius) at 24:17Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019, Dir. Quentin Tarantino) at 39:20The Fall Guy (2024, Dir. David Leitch) at 1:07:07Plus the long and winding Continuity Boulevard (1:19:58) and the pyroclastic Lightning Round (1:35:43)!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty and Scott's centuries-spanning survey of filmic navel-gazing reaches an especially gaze-worthy era: the 80s and 90s. How did the Dream Factory imagine itself? And how do you even know it's a dream, unless you put a dwarf in it? Don't look into the camera! Just join us.The cinematic octopi we wrestle this week:Cinema Paradiso (1988, Dir. Guiseppe Tornatore) at 2:39The Player (1992, Dir. Robert Altman) at 18:24Ed Wood (1994, Dir. Tim Burton) at 37:10Living in Oblivion (1995, Dir. Tom DiCillo) at 49:18Plus a hubristic stab at continuity (58:50) and a humbling round of lightninging (1:17:52).Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Scott and Marty continue their chronological deep dive into self-reflective filmmaking. Tune in as they brave monkey ghosts, talking mimes, and the occasional crotch muppet in their tireless quest to answer the question: When you gaze into the camera's lens, does the camera also look into you?Films we chase down on our motorized wheelchairs:Sullivan's Travels (1941, Dir. Preston Sturges) at 1:52Sunset Boulevard (1950, Dir. Billy Wilder) at 19:268 1/2 (1963, Dir. Federico Fellini) at 34:54Silent Movie (1976, Dir. Mel Brooks) at 49:13And don't forget Continuity Boulevard (1:06:36) and the lascivious Lightning Round (1:26:30)!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Scott and Marty go back -- WAYYY BACK -- to the nudists, clock goblins, and rarebit fiends of silent cinema -- as they launch an unprecedented FOUR PART series on how FILM SEES ITSELF! It's so exciting, it requires ALL CAPS and LOTS of exclamation points!!!Covered this week (Holy Monkeyshines!):Meta-movies of the 19th century at 4:00A Trip to the Moon (1902, Dir. George Méliès) at 30:09The Great Train Robbery (1903, Dir. Edwin S. Porter) at 39:21Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906, Dir. Edwin S. Porter) at 50:56Behind the Screen (1916, Dir. Charles Chaplin) at 55:34The Extra Girl (1923, Dir. F. Richard Jones) at 1:05:16Movie Crazy (1932, Dir. Clyde Bruckman and Harold Lloyd) at 1:14:51All this, plus Continuity Boulevard (at 1:29:52) and the illustrious Lightning Round (at 1:35:15). Whew!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

He's the paragon of character actors, and the podcast's unofficial mascot: Harry Dean Stanton. It's a labour of love as Marty and Scott ramble through his long filmography. Check it out!The Wrong Man (1956, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) at 4:18Paris, Texas (1984, Dir. Wim Wenders) at 18:37Man Trouble (1992, Dir. Bob Rafelson) at 36:04Lucky (2017, Dir. John Carroll Lynch) at 50:56Continuity Boulevard at 1:11:04and the barely-legal Lightning Round at 1:22:23Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

It takes all sorts of people to make an underworld. Like... Vulcans? Leprechauns?! Canadian mayoral campaign managers?!? Scott and Marty circulate amongst a very odd rogue's gallery, and return to share all the results with you.In this episode, our televisual exposes include:Columbo S2E6 "A Stitch in Crime" at 2:12Moonlighting S2E7 "Somewhere Under the Rainbow" at 14:36Forever Knight S1E14 "Spin Doctor" at 25:55Plus our regular amazeballs features: Continuity Boulevard (at 41:50) and the ever-lovin' Lightning Round (at 45:35).Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Dust off your ruffs and merkins! It's time for Scott and Marty and You to screw your courage to the sticking place, and check out some of Shakespeare's weirdest cinematic outings. Feast thine ears:Chimes at Midnight  (1966, Dir. Orson Welles) at 2:48Throne of Blood (1957, Dir. Akira Kurosawa) at 20:27Prospero's Books (1991, Dir. Peter Greenaway) at 35:2010 Things I Hate About You (1999, Dir. Gil Junger) at 56:30PLUS! Continuity Boulevard at 1:12:58, and the Lightning Round at 1:24:14Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Criminals have overrun Scott and Marty's television sets! Maybe some vampires too. There's only one thing to do: call in the gumshoes!In this episode, we scrape the gum off the shoes of these fine televisual offerings:Columbo S2E5 "Requiem for a Falling Star" at 1:55Moonlighting S2E6 "Knowing Her" at 15:20Forever Knight S1E13 "Father Figure" at 30:00Plus other stuff!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

A civil rights crusader. Wife of Ossie Davis. An Oscar nominee with a career spanning EIGHT DECADES. It's the incredible Ruby Dee!Scott and Marty scrutinize the tenacious Dee's first, last, best, and worst movies:The Jackie Robinson Story (1950, Dir. Alfred E. Green) at 2:441982 (2013, Dir. Tommy Oliver) at 16:28Do The Right Thing (1989, Dir. Spike Lee) at 30:00and *heavy sigh* Baby Geniuses (1999, Dir. Bob Clark) at 45:40Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

By the pricking of my thumbs, something DICK FILLED this way comes! We're talking, of course, about TV detectives, and gadzooks! There are a lot of them in this week's episode. Scott and Marty stake out the following serials:Columbo S2E4 "A Dagger of the Mind" at 2:55Moonlighting S2E5 "My Fair David" at 15:50Forever Knight S1E12 "Dead Issue" at 27:20Plus! Trusty ol' Continuity Boulevard (40:05) and the ever-lovin' Lightning Round (46:30)!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

This week on Cinematic Omniverse...It's David f*****g Lynch.Heads are scratched over:Eraserhead (1977) at 4:13The Elephant Man (1980) at 23:49Wild at Heart (1990) at 42:09The Straight Story (1999) at 1:00:30Also in this super-sized episode:Continuity Boulevard at 1:17:52Lightning Round at 1:35:25Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET... just leave it alone, and instead use your favourite podcasting device to dig into the ear-tickling antics of Marty and Scott, as they discuss, critique, and riff on...Columbo S2E3 "The Most Cruicial Game" (at 2:25)Moonlighting S2E4 "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" (at 14:15)Forever Knight S1E11 "Hunters" (at 28:05)...and for Elite Listeners only (that's you!), there's Continuity Boulevard (at 43:55) and our patented Lightning Round (at 50:22)!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

For the first podcast of 2025, Marty and Scott study the unorthodox filmography of John Cazale, who starred in FIVE Best Picture-nominated films in the 1970s... and that's it.Your listening options are twofold: play straight through, or hop around:The Godfather (1972, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) at 2:20The Godfather Part II (1974, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) at 17:17Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Dir. Sidney Lumet) at 29:40The Deer Hunter (1978, Dir. Michael Cimino) at 42:00Continuity Boulevard at 56:54Lightning Round at 1:22:45NOTE: Cazale's fifth Best Picture-nominated film was The Conversation, about which we conversed in Episode 52, our Gene Hackman ep!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

If you have been contemplating cold-blooded murder, DON'T DO IT! Or at least, check out this collection of TV detective reviews before you act. If nothing else, it will help you decide in which decade (and city) to kill.Skewered in this installment:Columbo S2E2 "The Greenhouse Jungle" at 2:10Moonlighting S2E3 "Money Talks... Maddie Walks" at 19:47Forever Knight S1E10 "Dead Air" at 33"00Plus Continuity Boulevard (44:51) and the ever-lovin' Lightning Round (49:30)!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty and Scott continue their deep dive into Rowlands's fifty-eight year filmography. After the death of her husband, auteur John Cassavettes, Rowlands... wait, what am I doing? You need to listen to the episode to get the story!Dissected within:Night on Earth (1991, Dir. Jim Jarmusch) at 1:26The Mighty (1998, Dir. Peter Chelsom) at 18:55The Notebook (2004, Dir. Nick Cassavettes) at 31:25Parts Per Billion (2014, Dir. Brian Horiuchi) at 44:51Plus! Continuity Boulevard kicks in at 57:58, and Lighting (Round) strikes at exactly 1:03:00. Heads up!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

With a film career spanning 56 years, there's no easy way to encapsulate a class act like Gena Rowlands... so Scott and Marty dedicate a two-parter to this luminous lady, whose filmography threads the careers of some of cinema's most maverick auteurs.Didja get all that? It's Gena time.Shadows (1958, Dir. John Cassavetes) at 2:20A Woman Under the Influence (1974, Dir. John Cassavetes) at 15:50Gloria (1980, Dir. John Cassavetes) at 33:40Another Woman (1988, Dir. Woody Allen) at 33:40Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Only two men are brave enough to ask the hard questions: What's up with all these 30-, 40-, and 50-year-old detective shows these days?? And those two men are Marty and Scott... and the answers they find can be time-logged as follows!Columbo S2E1 "Etude in Black" at 02:25Moonlighting S2E2 "The Lady in the Iron Mask" at 15:45Forever Knight S1E9 "I Will Repay" at 26:00And there's more! Continuity Blvd and a yawn-suppressing Lightning Round!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Are you ready for an entertainment experience more invasive than Feel-Around? More devastating than bespoke porn? More transcendent than live organ transplants? Marty and Scott return to the omniverse of film with four sketch comedy anthologies. That's, like, 60 movies for the prize of... well, it's all free!Sketchy flicks we excoriate:Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972, Dir. Woody Allen) at 2:00Kentucky Fried Movie (1977, Dir. John Landis) at 19:00Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983, Dir. Terry Jones) at 34:20Amazon Women on the Moon (1987, Dir. Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton) at 47:50Followed by a bajillion omniverse connections, and a lightning round that will send your afro flying in all directions!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Columbo digs deep! David squares off against his own flesh & blood! And Nick Knight meets his match in Chinatown. Who knew you could immobilize a vampire with basic acupuncture? Scott and Marty did NOT.Rehashed in this episode:Columbo S1E7 "Blueprint for Murder" at 2:05Moonlighting S2E1 "Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?" at 15:30Forever Knight S1E8 "Cherry Blossoms" at 28:12Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

It's still the spooky season, and we've got your vampires right here. COP VAMPIRES! Also, Detective Columbo and Maddie and David, who are not vampires... AS FAR AS WE KNOW. Cue the spooky music!Columbo S1E6: "Short Fuse" at 1:50Moonlighting S1E6: "The Murder's in the Mail" at 19:00Forever Knight S1E7: "False Witness" at 31:20Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Movies are back! And just in time for Halloween! Scott and Marty celebrate in the best way possible: welcoming back horrorcore guest star Abbey Schwartz, to discuss three stone cold classics, each of which is a BRAND NEW WATCH for at least one of the three! WILL THEY SURVIVE? WILL YOU?!?Movies Vivisected:John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) at 2:50John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) at 24:50The Lost Boys (1987) at 41:50Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Would you, could you, murder somebody on a train? You both would and could if you were legendary character actor Vincent Schiavelli! If you don't know who that is, or what is Schiavelli's connection to Moonlighting's Allyce Beasley, then this ep will be a real learning experience for you. If you DO know all that, you're probably already listening!Commentary on the following episodes, at the following timestamps:Columbo S1E5: "Lady in Waiting" at 1:30Moonlighting S1E6 "Next Stop Murder" at 12:00Forever Knight S1E6 "Dying to Know You" at 23:20Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

In this episode, we learn about Marty's sacred Moonlighting viewing ritual. All this plus a Lightning Round for the ages!Find our commentary on the episodes here:"Suitable for Framing" - 1:54"The Next Murder You Hear" -  15:22"Dance By the Light of the Moon" - 27:55Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty and Scott sift through a heap of half-baked mysteries, desperately seeking hints of greatness. You've seen the shows... now watch the podcast!!In this episode, we roast:Columbo S1E3 "Dead Weight" (starting at 1:35)Moonlighting S1E3 "Read the Mind, See the Movie" (starting at 15:13)Forever Knight S1E4 "Last Act" (starting at 29:45)Plus Continuity Blvd and our notorious Lightning Round!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Toronto has a serial killer problem! Cops and former cops face off! And the world's greatest assassins... can't aim worth a damn? Detectives Marty and Scott are on the case(s)!Check out our commentary of the following hard-to-track-down episodes!Columbo S1E2: "Death Lends a Hand" - 2:20Moonlighting S1E2: "Gunfight at the So-So Corral" - 14:15Forever Knight S1E3: "...For I Have Sinned" - 26:20Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Tubeheads Marty and Scott return with a very special (that is, absurdly esoteric) maxi-series on three detective shows from three different decades:1) The 1970s' bumbling lieutenant, COLUMBO!2) Reigning screwballs of the 1980s, Maddie and David from MOONLIGHTING!3) FOREVER KNIGHT, a mostly forgotten 1990s series about a vampire cop!In this debut episode, we review the pilots. Check out our commentary at the following points:Columbo S1E1: "Murder by the Book" - 11:00Moonlighting S1E1: "Moonlighting: Pilot" - 24:40Forever Knight S1E1&2: "Dark Knight" - 42:50Check out the original episodes... uh... somewhere online? Best of luck!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

In a supersized season finale podcast, cinewizards Scott and Marty cast _filmography levioso_ upon British baritone Alan Rickman, conjuring up two of Marty's all-time favourite films as well as a bonafide hidden gem. Don't miss it!Die Hard (1988, Dir. John McTiernan)The January Man (1989, Dir. Pat O'Connor)Dogma (1999, Dir. Kevin Smith)Eye in the Sky (2015, Dir. Gavin Hood)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Scott and Marty may not know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies, but thanks to this week's movies, they know all about trailblazing actress Butterfly McQueen. And so, good listeners, shall you!Gone With the Wind (1939, Dir. Victor Fleming)Mildred Pearce (1945, Dir. Michael Curtiz)Amazing Grace (1974, Dir. Stan Lathan)The Mosquito Coast (1986, Dir. Peter Weir)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

The boys get frisky with this golden opportunity to explore the career of 80s golden boy Val Kilmer.Top Secret! (1984, Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) Heat (1995, Dir. Michael Mann)Moscow Zero (2006, Dir. María Lidón)Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Dir. Joseph Kosinski)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Would Ms. Wood have wanted us to revisit even her most wretched films? I warrant Ms. Wood would!The Searchers (1956, Dir. John Ford)Tomorrow is Forever (1946, Dir. Irving Pichel)Meteor (1979, Dir. Ronald Neame)Brainstorm (1983, Dir. Douglas Trumbull)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Like any strapping heterosexual men, Marty and Scott find lots to love about Italian bombshell Sofia Loren. But they are equally impressed by her acting chops in this quartet of unorthodox flicks. Saluti!NOTES: The audio for this ep gets dodgy on occasion. Sorry 'bout that.Quo Vadis (1951, Dir. Mervyn LeRoy)Two Women (1960, Dir. Vittorio De Sica)Firepower (1979, Dir. Michael Winner)The Life Ahead (2020, Dir. Edoardo Ponti)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

While tracking a trailblazing filmmaker through the wilds of Newfoundland, Scott and Marty stumble on a film that blends their favourite sub-genres into one Blacktacular film! All this, plus floating houses, talking bears, and windmills of the mind.John and the Missus (1987, Dir. Gordon Pinsent)The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, Dir. Norman Jewison)Blacula (1972, Dir. William Crain)Two Lovers and a Bear (2016, Dir. Kim Nguyen)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

In the 1950s, Tim Barlow lost his hearing while testing artillery for the British Army. 20 years later, he became an actor! Marty and Scott check out Tim's best, worst, last, and first films in a strictly audio medium. Ironic? Perhaps. Awesome? Always.My Cousin Rachel (2017, Dir. Roger Michell)The Eagle Has Landed (1976, Dir. John Sturges)Privates on Parade (1983, Dir. Michael Blakemore)Hot Fuzz (2007, Dir. Edgar Wright)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty and Scott rub elbows with Bollywood! You've heard of Genghis, and Noonien Singh, now join us as we celebrate one of the great unsung Khans!Salaam Bombay! (1988, Dir. Mira Nair)Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Dir. Danny Boyle)Hisss (2010, Dir. Jennifer Lynch)The Lunchbox (2013, Dir. Ritesh Batra)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty and Scott take you to the Land of the Rising Sun, where they sample ramen, crime, dementia, and death. The ramen tastes great!High and Low (1963, Dir. Akira Kurosawa)Tampopo (1985, Dir. Juzo Itami)Departures (2008, Dir. Yojiro Takita)A Long Goodbye (2019, Dir. Ryota Nakano)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

On this week's film-stuffed episode, Marty and Scott pay their respects to stage and screen legend Angela Lansbury. Whodunnit, we ask? And by "it" we mean "bowled us over and won our hearts." And the answer is... well, Lansbury. I maybe set that up wrong. But join us!Gaslight (1944, Dir. George Cukor)Mutiny (1952, Dir. Edward Dmytryk)The Manchurian Candidate  (1962, Dir. John FrankenheimerGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, Dir. Rian Johnson)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

It's hard not to be fonda this Classic Hollywood actor, even when he appears in abominable Jaws ripoffs. Join Marty and Scott for a dubious tour of Henry Fonda's first, best, worst, and last movies!Farmer Takes a Wife (1953, Dir. Henry Levin)Twelve Angry Men (1957, Dir. Sidney Lumet)Tentacles (1977, Dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis)On Golden Pond (1981, Dir. Mark Rydell)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Cinephiles Marty and Scott are back, unearthing the last, first, best, and worst entries in the fabulous filmography of the actor whose spit takes knew no equal: Alan Arkin!Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Scott and Marty return after a long hiatus… or was it a vacation?? It turns out your favourite cinephiles have been kicking around the great city of Los Angeles, and they've brought back four souvenirs to share: the City of Angels's first, worst, best, and last appearances on film!Safety Last! (1923, Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)1941 (1979, Dir. Steven Spielberg)L.A. Story (1991, Dir. Mick Jackson)Destruction Los Angeles (2017, Dir. Tibor Takács)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Meet the many faces of the man who plays God… with our hearts! It's Easy Reader's first, best, worst, and last (so far) films!The Pawnbroker (1964, Dir. Sidney Lumet)The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Dir. Frank Darabont)Vanquish (2022, Dir. George Gallo)A Good Person (2023, Dir. Zach Braff) Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty & Scott follow a jazz singer, watch Huey Lewis delivering the News, and learn what happens when the Devil doesn't wash his face.Presenting Lily Mars (1943, Dir. Norman Taurog)Witchery aka La Casa 4 et al. (1988, Dir. Fabrizio Laurenti)Pump Up the Volume (1990, Dir. Allan Moyle)Short Cuts (1993, Dir. Robert Altman) Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

"It's like if a tree could act."The Virgin Spring (1960, Dir. Ingmar Bergman)The Seventh Seal (1957, Dir. Ingmar Bergman)Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977, Dir. John Boorman)Echoes of the Past (2021, Dir. Nicholas Dimitropoulos)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Did the Big O blow his cinematic wad on his first try? Did his last, unfinished project hint at greater glory? Scott and Marty ponder these and other unanswerables in this plus-sized episodeCitizen Kane (1941, Dir. Orson Welles)Touch of Evil (1958, Dir. Orson Welles)Necromancy (1972, Dir. Bert I. Gordon)The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Dir. Orson Welles)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com