OETA Movie Club Podcast

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.Support the show

The Magnificent Seven:Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.The Great Train Robbery:England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.Support the show

When Sebastian, a pianist, and Mia, an actress, follow their passion and achieve success in their respective fields, they find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.Support the show

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.Support the show

A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.Support the show

Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.Support the show

When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.Support the show

Several different motorists witness a single car crash in the California desert and, after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, turn against each other in a mad dash across the state to get to it.Support the show

Benjamin Button, born in 1918 with the physical state of an elderly man, ages in reverse. He experiences love and break-ups, ecstasy and sorrow, and timelessness by the time he dies in 2003 as a baby.ANDLovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.Support the show

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.Support the show

A New Yorker newly separated from his wife moves in with his best friend, a divorced sportswriter, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.Support the show

The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.Support the show

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.Support the show

A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.Support the show

The original 1970s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.Support the show

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.Support the show

New in TownA Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PrideThe determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.Support the show

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.Support the show

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.Support the show

Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.A musical comedy from 2002.Support the show

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.Support the show

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.Support the show

In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.Support the show

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.Support the show

After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.Support the show

An insurance salesman is oblivious of the fact that his entire life is a TV show and his family members are mere actors. As he starts noticing things and uncovers the truth, he decides to escape.Support the show

An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.Starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, and Winona Ryder.Support the show

Moonstruck:Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.Bride and Prejudice:A modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, that features the lives of four unmarried daughters in an Indian family.Support the show

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.Starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant.Support the show

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.Support the show

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.Support the Show.

In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.Support the Show.

A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.Support the Show.

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.Support the Show.

In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.Support the Show.

A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. Starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Support the Show.

The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.Support the Show.

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.Support the Show.

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems. Jeff and Robert sit down and talk all things "Terms of Endearment." From behind-the-scenes antics to little known trivia. We cover it all! Support the Show.

Robert and Jeff settle in for a Double Feature. This week it's "Witness" and "Chinatown." First up, "Witness." While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.Followed by, "Chinatown." A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.Support the Show.

Jeff & Robert sit down and discuss Eight Men Out. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. Starring John Cusack, D.B. Sweeney, and Charlie Sheen.Support the Show.

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. Starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert. Written by Dalton Trumbo.Support the Show.

This episode of The OETA Movie Club Podcast features "Funny Face" starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. An impromptu fashion shoot at a bookstore brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk. Jeff & Robert share the little-known trivia about this movie.Support the Show.

Robert and Jeff sit down and discuss "Little Man Tate." A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift. It stars Jodie Foster and Dianne Wiest.Support the Show.

Jeff and Robert discuss all the little-known trivia facts about "The Artist." This is a silent, black & white movie but don't let that scare you away. This Oscar winning movie is truly great. When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.Support the Show.

This week Robert and Jeff talk about the 2016 academy award winning film Fences starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. A working-class African American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.Support the Show.

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. Jeff and Robert sit down and discuss all things trivia and behind the scenes with A Place in the Sun. Support the Show.

Robert and Jeff discuss "Lion". A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of miles from home. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. Check it out, learn some trivia, and listen each week wherever you get your podcasts. Also, find us Saturday nights at 9pm and Friday nights at 11pm on OETA!Support the show

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana. Join Robert and Jeff for some behind the scenes gossip on Gene Hackman! Please listen wherever you get your podcasts and tune in each week Saturdays at 9pm and Fridays at 11pm on OETA! Support the show

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig starring Gary Cooper and Babe Ruth as himself. Robert and Jeff speak on the early days of baseball and how basically, the team owners and managers were jerks. They also throw in a few good trivia facts. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and tune in each Saturday at 9pm and Fridays at 11pm for great movies on OETA! Support the show

A coming-of-age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.Join Robert and Jeff as they talk little known trivia facts from this film.Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.Support the show