Podcast appearances and mentions of Ed Harris

Phil and Emily are joined by writer Emma Stefansky for Jon Turteltaub's National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007). Nicolas Cage's Ben Gates kidnaps the President (Bruce Greenwood) and chases a hidden city of gold to clear his great-great-grandfather's name in the Lincoln assassination. Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, and a scene-stealing Helen Mirren carry her Queen Best Actress Oscar straight into big, dumb, wonderful blockbuster hokum.The three dig into the Nic Cage escalation from the first film, the franchise's cheerfully unhinged relationship with American history, and why this brand of mid-budget, all-ages adventure has basically vanished from theaters. There's a real case here for reading Book of Secrets as the last gasp of the pre-Marvel four-quadrant treasure hunt. Silly, sturdy, and weirdly comforting same as the movie.Follow the show & guest:Podcast Like It's... - https://www.instagram.com/podcastlikeitsPhil Iscove - https://www.instagram.com/pmiscoveEmily St. James - https://www.instagram.com/emilystjamsEmma Stefansky - https://www.instagram.com/stefabsky

Is he a mild-mannered Indiana diner owner, or a cold-blooded Mob enforcer from Philly? On this episode of Hollywood Hangout, Boxman steps into the director's chair with David Cronenberg's 2005 masterclass thriller, A History of Violence! Join Boxman as he breaks down the razor-thin line between innocence and brutality in this graphic novel adaptation. In this episode, we talk about:The Cast Performances: Viggo Mortensen's insane dual-layer performance as Tom Stall/Joey Cusack, Maria Bello's incredible raw energy, and iconic, scene-stealing turns from Ed Harris and William Hurt.Quick Scene-by-Scene Breakdown: From that tension-filled, four-minute opening shot at the motel, to the legendary, lightning-fast diner showdown, the intense stair scene, and that heavy, unforgettable wordless final dinner. Little-Known Behind-the-Scenes Trivia: Discover the real story behind Ed Harris acting without pants in a scene, how the original comic differed, improvisations on set, and hidden details you definitely missed on your first watch!Grab a cup of coffee from the diner, hit play, and come hang out!Check it out every Friday at 9:30 PM Eastern. Live on YouTube.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hollywoodhangoutpodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ymX0HRkWB45ja11B2I6fmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hollywood-hangout/id1132940251Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/4647345?country=usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodHangout/

Nicolas Cage. Sean Connery. Alcatraz. Explosions.

In this week's episode, I take a look back at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Summer 2026 and rate them. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Armor series at my Payhip store: FALLARMOR The coupon code is valid through September 21, 2026. So if you need a new ebook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 319 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is September the 4th, 2026, and today I'm looking back at the movies and streaming shows I watched over Summer 2026. We will also have Coupon of the Week and an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. So let's start off with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Armor series at my Payhip store. That coupon code is FALLARMOR. As always, you can get the coupon code and the links to my Payhip store available in the show notes for this episode. This coupon code will be valid through September 21st, 2026, so if you need a new ebook for this fall, we have got you covered. Now an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. I'm pleased to report that the rough draft of Blade of Visions is done. It came to 99,000 words. It'd be kind of cool if it came to 100,000, but as I've learned in the 15 years I've been doing this, it's not a good idea to pad things for length. Editing is underway. I'm about 15% through the first pass of edits. I'm working on the cover design, so I'm on good track to have the book out before the end of the month. I also wrote a tie-in short story called Winter Crown and don't forget that [newsletter] subscribers will get a free ebook copy of that short story when Blade of Visions comes out later this month. So this makes a very excellent time to subscribe to my new release newsletter. I am also 12,000 words into Elven-Warlock, which will be the seventh book in the Half-Elven Thief series. Hopefully that will be out in October, if all goes well. In audiobook news, I think Blade of Thieves (as narrated by Brad Wills) and Cloak of Worlds (as narrated by Hollis McCarthy) are now finally available at all the usual audiobook stores, which includes Audible, Apple, Amazon, Kobo, Google Play, Chirp, and all the others. So if you want to listen to those if you are going on a Labor Day road trip, you can check those out. A reminder that Stealth and Spells Online: The Complete LitRPG trilogy (narrated by C.J. McAllister) is also available on Audible, so check that out. That's 32 hours long and that would also cover all your Labor Day travels. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing and audiobook projects. 00:02:22 Main Topic of the Week: Summer 2026 Movie Roundup So let's move on to our main topic this week. Our main topic this week is the Summer 2026 Movie Roundup and I always enjoy doing those. These episodes are a little less serious than some of the other episodes and it's fun to talk about things I enjoyed and that you might enjoy as well. And I did see a lot of new movies this summer. In fact, I went to the actual theater four times for Masters of the Universe, The Odyssey, Spider-Man, and Coyote vs. Acme, which is probably more than I've gone in a single season since before COVID times. So as usual, here are the movies I saw this summer (rated from least favorite to most favorite). The grades are totally subjective and based on nothing but my own thoughts and opinions. First up is The Breadwinner, which came out in 2026. This is basically standup comedian Nate Bargatze's act come to life as a movie. If you've seen Bargatze's standup, his usual routine is to portray himself as the dumb husband and bumbling Girl Dad, which is actually quite clever from a comedic standpoint since you're unlikely to have outraged mobs calling for your head if all you're doing is making fun of yourself. Anyway, Bargatze portrays Nate Wilcox, the best Toyota salesman in Nashville. (Don't worry, this is the first of only many product placement moments.) He lets his wife Kate manage the household and do the bulk of the work with their three daughters. When Kate's invention takes off on Shark Tank, she has to go to South Korea for two weeks to oversee manufacturing, leaving Nate in charge of the kids. Comedic chaos ensues. On the positive side of this movie, I did approve how this movie showed a married couple trying to work through a rough patch and do what's right for their kids and each other in a semi-productive way rather than blowing up their lives over nonsensical trivialities in the style of Eat, Pray, Love. On the downside, there was a lot of product placement, to the point where it at times felt like an extended commercial with bits of plot jammed in between product endorsement. No doubt most of the production budget came from product placement money. Will Forte was funny as an eccentric roofing contractor and Martin Herlihy as a shifty DoorDash employee. Kumail Nanjiani was funny as Nate's rival salesman at the car dealership. So overall, I would say this was blandly amusing and inoffensive with some funny slapstick moments. Overall grade: C- Next up is Supergirl, which came out in 2026. This movie really was sort of a strange combination of John Wick and the human trafficking subplot from 2020's Black Widow. The end result wasn't quite as good as Superman from 2025, alas. I did like this movie's interpretation of Supergirl. Kara Zor-El's departure from Krypton was way more traumatic than Superman's, so she's dealing with her unresolved emotional issues by traveling from planet to planet with red suns and getting hammered since the same yellow sun that gives Kryptonians their superpowers on Earth also keeps them from getting drunk because their bodies process alcohol too efficiently. However, Kara comes to a planet where a girl named Ruthye lives. Ruthye's family has been slaughtered by ruthless brigands yet led by Krem of the Yellow Hills and she's going on a quest for revenge. When Ruthye tries to recruit Kara for the quest, she's not interested, but then Krem steals Kara's spaceship and poisons her dog Krypto. Krem carries the antidote on his person, so now Kara and Ruthye team up to get vengeance on Krem and to heal Krypto. Krem is a nasty piece of work and he and his space gang travel from planet to planet abducting women to be their wives. I think the problem was that Krem was kind of a boring but nasty villain, but he was still boring. He was basically a space thug with too many piercings. Lex Luthor from 2025 Superman, by contrast, was a really interesting villain, this malignant narcissist who knows that his obsession with Superman is over the top, but he's going to act on it anyway. Additionally, I don't think this version of Supergirl is quite capable of being a lead character on her own. She'd make a superb secondary character, but I don't think she could quite carry a movie on her own. And Jason Momoa was pretty good as Lobo. Overall grade: C- Next up is Troy, which came out in 2004. I wanted to see this either before or after I watched The Odyssey this summer and ended up watching it the day before I went to see The Odyssey. I would say this movie was slow and ponderous, but I did enjoy watching it. This is an adaption of The Iliad and has the sort of slow stateliness of epic films from the '60s. It had good performances and good battle scenes. Brian Cox was enjoyable as a scenery chewing Agamemnon and Brad Pitt worked as Achilles. Interestingly, his version of Achilles reminded me of the interpretation of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen from Dune 2 as sort of a violent psychopath with his own twisted sense of honor. Oddly, despite the fact that this was rather a long movie, the ending seems a bit rushed, like we needed to hurry up and get to the Trojan Horse. It was amusing how Achilles' relationship with Patroclus was changed to "cousin" for the modern audience, but Greek views on sexuality would definitely be unpalatable with both right-wing and left-wing versions of the modern mind, which is a good thing because while the Greeks contributed a great deal to the development of civilization, they were into a lot of unsavory stuff. So overall, I would say this was a fun, epic movie, but I think this walked so the 2026 version of The Odyssey could run. Amusing fact: Christopher Nolan was apparently supposed to direct this, but the deal fell through and he got Batman Begins as a consolation prize instead. Overall grade: B- Next up is The Dink, which came out in 2026. This is an Apple TV comedy movie about pickleball of all things. I feel like this was made because some Apple executive got made fun of by some tennis players for playing pickleball and then decided to take revenge through media. Jake Johnson plays Dustin Boyd, a washed up former child tennis star who now works at his father's tennis club. The club has difficulties because of a growing influx of pickleball players who the hardcore tennis players hate. Dustin's father decides to use the club's bylaws to force a duel match to decide the issue, in the grand tradition of wacky comedy stakes. Dustin really wants to play the duel match, but his wrist is injured in an accident. To get his wrist mobility back, the doctor suggested he play some pickleball and Dustin views this as beneath him, but he really wants to play again, so he signs up for pickleball. This ends up being a wacky sports company/buddy movie as Dustin gradually befriends an eccentric older pickleball player. Ed Harris should really do more comedic roles. He was great as Dustin's stern, yet unscrupulous father. I do admire Apple TV's dedication to making random stuff. Overall grade: B- Next up is Green and Gold, which came out in 2025, and this is a melodrama about a farmer and his granddaughter dealing with the grim economic realities of farming. This is set in 1992/1993 era Wisconsin. Buck refuses to modernize his dairy farm in Door County, Wisconsin. His granddaughter Jenny is a talented musician and also a skilled farmer, and Buck wants her to take over the farm one day, but Jenny's ambitions are looking elsewhere. Events come to a head when Jenny realizes that Buck is deeply in debt to the bank, which is about to foreclose on the farm. However, Buck and the chief banker have a personal animosity, so they settle on a bet. If the Green Bay Packers win a Super Bowl title in 1993, the banker will give Buck one more year to turn things around on the farm. Meanwhile, Jenny begins to wonder if her music ambitions might generate the money to save the farm. Of course, if you are familiar with the history of the Packers, you know that they won a Super Bowl in 1996, not 1993. The movie has carried on the back of the very strong performances of its actors. It also has an ambiguously happy ending, as is true with so many things in farming. I like this movie because I've spent a lot of my life in the American Midwest, [and] I did appreciate how it shows the difficulties of the farming life. Also, this is important: a fall from a ladder is a plot point. Ladder safety is important, people! If you are going up a ladder, for heaven's sake don't climb the ladder in high heels like the character in question does. Wear sensible, well-fitting shoes with good soles. A very long time ago, I used to work with a guy who would climb extension ladders in cowboy boots. It is nothing short of the mercy of God that he didn't fall off and shatter half the bones in his body. Overall grade: B Next up is Grumpy Old Men, which came out in 1993. Apparently this is set in Wabasha, Minnesota, which is amusing because filming actually took place in several areas in the Twin Cities in Eastern Minnesota, but not actually in Wabasha. I found that personally amusing because I'm quite familiar with the area and so I recognize several filming locations. Anyway, the movie is about two retirees, Max and John, who are enemies and have been enemies for years, but Max is lonely and wants to get married again, and John is about to lose his house to the IRS due to tax problems. Things come to a head when an attractive literature professor moves across the street and both Max and John take an interest in her and start competing for her affections. However, it turns out that Max and John are actually best friends whose love language happens to be hatred and practical jokes, kind of like Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, but more on them below. This was a good character comedy/drama. It was interesting that the professor was an early version of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, albeit several decades before someone came up with the term. This is worth watching both as a character and comedy drama and a time capsule of the 1990s. Sometimes a movie ages a bit badly (Airplane and the Thomas Crown Affair from the Spring Movie Roundup come to mind), but this didn't. The sequel Grumpier Old Men from 1995 is basically the same movie, but with the characters acting about 20% dumber so a sitcom style plot can happen. Still entertaining, but not as good as the first one, so Grumpier Old Men only gets a B-, but Grumpy Old Men gets a B+. Next up is Masters of the Universe, which came out in 2026. It was amusing to read reviews of this movie because people thought way too hard about a movie that is essentially about battling action figures. Anyway, this was pretty good. It was nice to see a movie about a science fiction property that doesn't actually hate the source material. Basically it's a live action version of the cartoons from the '80s, albeit with somewhat more thoughtful moments. I heard someone suggest that it was close in tone to Thor: Ragnarok, and that seems accurate. The plot is that Skeletor conquers Eternia and 10-year-old Prince Adam is sent with the Sword of Power through a magical portal to Earth to keep him and the sword out of Skeletor's reach. However, Adam loses the sword while passing through the gate and 15 years later is working in human resources. He's still seeking for the sword despite his therapist trying to convince him that it was a trauma-induced fantasy. However, his persistence pays off and he does find the sword. Teela, who is one of the resistance leaders against Skeletor's rule, comes to Earth to find him and bring him back, but Skeletor's minions arrive to claim the sword as well. Adam and Teela escape back to Eternia and it's up to Adam to find a way to use the Sword of Power to become the hero that Eternia needs. Dolph Lundgren's cameo was great. Overall, I would say this is a fun movie to watch, especially if you're a Millennial or Gen Xer who saw the cartoons or the live action movie back in the '80s. Jared Leto has something of an increasingly questionable reputation these days, but he did a good job as Skeletor, played him halfway between the solemn gravitas of the 1987 version and the malevolent comedic cornball of the cartoons. Of course, in my opinion, the Frank Langella version from 1987 is the best version of Skeletor since he placed it with all the seriousness of a Shakespearean villain monologue at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In hindsight, it wasn't terribly surprising that this underperformed at the box office. It felt like it was made for guys my age, not for kids. I would've been comfortable bringing an eight-year-old to see The Mandalorian and Grogu or Super Mario Galaxy, but I would've been less certain bringing a kid that age to see Masters of the Universe. Additionally, it seemed very Marvel in tone, and I think the overall mood of the US these days is less "Marvel Cinematic Universe quips and banter" and more sort of the grimness of The Odyssey, which we'll talk about shortly. Overall grade: B+ Next up is Young Washington, which came out in 2026, a biopic of the early life of George Washington, covering how he more or less accidentally started the French and Indian War and how he recovered his reputation at the Battle of Braddock's Field. To be fair, the international situation at the time meant that someone was going to start the French and Indian War. It just happened to be Washington, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Overall, I liked this. It was reasonably historically accurate, though some of the emotional and family dialogue at times was a bit clunky. Additionally, Washington was portrayed as having revolutionary leanings much earlier in life than he actually did, since when he was a young man, he had no thoughts of being anything but a British subject and officer. That said, some of the most implausible stuff in the movie actually happened in real life. Like if I were to write in a novel that the future president of the United States personally rallied the army's rear guard to save as many men as possible from an ambush, and in the process had two horses shot out from under him and ended up with bullet holes in his hat and coat (all while fighting continuously), you would probably find that a bit implausible, but it actually happened that way. Washington's daring actions during that battle were one of the reasons he was appointed commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, that and there weren't many other colonials with as much experience of military command as Washington. In that vein, the battle scenes were the best part of the movie. They captured the brutality and messiness of 18th Century warfare without being especially graphic. Anyway, I'm glad this is getting a sequel. Maybe we'll end up with a Young Washington Cinematic Universe. Overall grade: B+ Next up is Meet the Parents, which came out in 2000, and this is probably one of the apex forms of cringe comedy. Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker, a nurse who's in love with schoolteacher Pam Burns. Greg wants to marry Pam, but overhears a phone call with her sister where she says her fiancé asked permission of her traditional father first. Greg decides that he's going to ask Pam's father's permission first to get off on the right foot, and so accompanies Pam to her sister's wedding and her parents' house to, as the title says, Meet the Parents. However, Pam's father is the former CIA counterintelligence officer Jack, and he and Greg immediately get on each other's nerves. To make things worse, the airline has lost Greg's luggage. From these two starting premises follow a cascading series of hilarious disasters that accumulate in a septic tank fire on the lawn. I'm not sure, but I think I saw this one in the theaters when it came out in 2000, and I thought it was funny then. With 26 years of additional life experience under the belt, I still think it's pretty funny, though you could still tell that this movie was filmed before 9/11 because if Greg had his airport meltdown seen today, the consequences would've been much worse. Overall grade: B+ Next up is O Brother Where Art Thou, which came out in 2000. This is a very, very, very specific adaptation of The Odyssey directed by the Coen brothers. George Clooney plays Everett, a convict who escapes from a chain gang in Mississippi during the Great Depression. He wants to find a treasure and he recruits fellow convicts Delmar and Peter to assist him. Along the way, Everett and his team encountered 1930s era versions of the Sirens, the cyclops, the blind prophet Tiresias, and other characters and foes from the original Odyssey myth. Everett and his friends end up running a scam where they pretend to be a Christian music group, but as it turns out, they're actually pretty good at singing, so this leads to unexpected hilarity and opportunities. This was also a very funny movie. Imagine The Odyssey is a comedy with a lot of singing set in the Deep South during the Depression, and you're there. If you're a fan of bluegrass music, this is worth watching. If you've seen Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, it's worth watching this just to ponder how the same source material can produce such wildly divergent interpretations. If you don't care about The Odyssey, then this is still a fun movie to watch. Proof: I mentioned to someone that I had seen this and she responded that she both loved the movie and was surprised to learn that he had in fact been inspired by The Odyssey. Overall grade: A- Next up is Hoppers, which came out in 2026. Like most Pixar movies, this was very high concept. Unlike many recent Pixar movies, it wasn't too depressing and didn't disappear up its own tailpipe. In the city of Beaverton, hot tempered girl Mabel bonds with her grandmother in their favorite place, a woodland grove favored by beavers. Years later, Mabel is a biology student under Dr. Fairfax, but is neglecting her studies to face off against her nemesis, the popular yet sketchy Mayor Jerry of Beaverton. Mayor Jerry wants to build an expressway that will wipe out the woodland grove, and he's perfectly within his rights to do it since no animals have been found living there. Since Mabel's grandmother has died, she's unwilling to give up the grove. However, Dr. Fairfax's research might give her a way. Dr. Fairfax has worked out a way to temporarily transfer human consciousness to a robotic beaver capable of speaking to real beavers, much like the plot of Avatar. In a funny scene, Fairfax angrily denies that it's just like Avatar. Mabel gets the idea to use this to convince real beavers to settle in the grove, thereby thwarting Mayor Jerry's plans. This touches off both a wacky yet poignant adventure. The plot was very well structured and it followed the proper rules of story structure, which I've talked about before. Mabel definitely is a protagonist who takes action, but experiences setbacks and problems of her own creation. It was pretty good. I say it was a return to form for Pixar after some of their weaker movies in the 2020s. Overall grade: A Now it's time for my three favorite movies of summer 2026, all of which I actually saw in the theater. First up is Coyote versus Acme, which came out in 2026. This movie had an extra surge of popularity from the fact that Warner Brothers canceled it as a tax write-off, but distributor Ketchup Entertainment revived it. That makes it a plucky underdog since Warner Brothers senior executives are kind of like the apex version of soulless corporate bug men. Like if I wrote characters in my books who acted like Warner Brothers senior executives, people would think I was being didactic and heavy-handed. Anyway, after decades of failures in efforts to capture the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote decides to sue Acme Corporation for its numerous defective products. Coyote teams up with a lazy strip mall lawyer named Kevin Avery, who specializes in getting small settlements from Acme. However, Avery and Coyote end up filing a massive lawsuit against Acme, which means they'll face the full wrath of Acme Corporation, including its ace lawyer Buddy Crane and its ruthless CEO, Foghorn Leghorn. What follows is a comedic courtroom battle as Coyote and Avery try to defeat Acme Corporation, defeat its sinister plans, and Coyote starts to realize that Road Runner might actually be his best friend. Both quite amusing and touching, and I'm glad this was rescued from the tax write-off vault. Overall grade: A Next up is The Odyssey, which came out in 2026. This wasn't quite as good as Oppenheimer in 2023 in my opinion, but it was still very good and very much worth seeing. It was weird that The Odyssey was briefly a football in the never-ending US culture war scrum because the movie isn't really political and doesn't really have a message beyond "war is destructive and bad", which every sensible person would agree with, and a lesser message of "violating the law of morality has unforeseen cascading bad consequences, including the destruction of civilization", which is also quite true and was one of the themes of Oppenheimer. Nolan himself dismissed the controversies as "irrelevant" and "part of the territory" since no one had actually seen the movie yet, and given that The Odyssey has made a billion and a half dollars as of this recording, I think that may have proved his point. I imagine the scrutiny from Batman fans back in the 2010s was way more intense since in the modern era, many people care more deeply about the accuracy of Batman than The Odyssey. I do think the debate over the historical accuracy in The Odyssey is pointless because the Odyssey is myth, not history. The Iliad and The Odyssey are a lot like Arthurian myth in terms of their actual historicity. Even when Arthurian legend was massively popular with English kings and nobles in the late medieval and early modern period (for example, Henry VIII's older brother was named Arthur in imitation of King Arthur), the version of Arthurian myth they celebrated and wished to emulate had virtually no connection to the reality of Britain in the 500s AD and was instead a sort of fantasy version of their own time in the 14th and 15th centuries. By the time The Odyssey was written down, no doubt a similar process was underway. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey and the Arthurian cycle probably have a kernel of historical truth buried underneath the tales of magic swords, sirens, cyclopses, and vengeful witches with magic islands. There likely was a Romano-British warlord who might have been named Arthur (or possibly Ambrosius Aurelianus) who held off the Saxons for a while before he was overwhelmed and killed. Likewise, Heinrich Schliemann was a highly eccentric and very sketchy crazy rich guy, but he did prove that there really was some version of the city of Troy that was destroyed at the end of the Bronze Age. But everything beyond those basic details came from thousands of years of embellishments and flourishes from later poets and writers. So arguing about the historical accuracy of The Odyssey is a bit like arguing if Star Wars portrays faster than light travel in an accurate way. That kind of argument is just missing the point entirely. It's also interesting to see how modern standards clashed with the ancient mindset. You know how I always say that everywhere in the United States is exactly the same right until it really, really isn't? I think ancient people are just like us until they really, really weren't. Like ancient people would have been superstitious to an extent that even the most credulous crystal and aura influencer on TikTok would find horrifying and frequently violent in a way that the most strident self-defense advocate would find shocking. The Odyssey's version of Odysseus feels guilt and remorse over his actions in a way an actual ancient Greek probably wouldn't have, but so what? This is The Odyssey viewed through the lens of the 21st century, just as those English nobles viewed the myth of King Arthur and his knights through the lens of their time. As I mentioned with Troy above, the ancient Greeks were often quite brutal and would celebrate sacking an enemy city. One side note before we get to the movie, I probably found it funnier than I should have how Nolan favorably cited classicist Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey as a source, and Wilson then had an extended and unintentionally comedic multi-article crashout about how much she hated the movie and of course how much she hated the commemorative Trojan Horse popcorn bucket. Apparently Wilson hated the movie so much she's going to do a new translation of The Odyssey, much to her publisher's baffled dismay. No one does offended huffy petulance quite like an academic. Anyway, back to the movie. It follows the familiar story of Odysseus through Christopher Nolan's preference for non-linear storytelling and practical effects. I did think it was interesting how in this interpretation, Odysseus explicitly connected the ruse of the Trojan Horse with the collapse of the Bronze Age and the rise of the Sea Peoples. It's also probably the most supernatural film Nolan has ever done with actual fantasy and supernatural elements as opposed to science fiction like Inception, Tenant, and Interstellar. Odysseus talks to Athena throughout the movie and it's left up to the viewer's interpretation whether or not he's actually talking to Athena or his own guilt-ridden hallucinations. That said, Odysseus encounters a witch with actual magic powers and travels to the underworld to speak with the shades of the dead, so it's entirely possible he's talking to the actual Athena. In this version, as I mentioned, Odysseus is guilt-ridden over the ruse of the Trojan Horse, which is shown as a violation of the sacred hospitality of Zeus's law and as great a crime as the creation of the atomic bomb in Oppenheimer, which of course is similar to Oppenheimer, where Oppenheimer's creation of the atomic bomb is treated similarly. There are also some genuinely scary sequences in the movie. The bit with the underworld is very spooky, the cyclops is actually quite frightening, and the character of Circe reaches the level of scary previously attained by Heath Ledger's version of The Joker in The Dark Knight. If Nolan ever decides he wants to do a horror movie, it will probably be one of the scariest ones ever made. To sum up, The Odyssey has great performances, great spectacle, great cinematography, and great action sequences. As an interesting interpretation of the original myth, definitely worth seeing. I think you can tell it was a great movie because of all the arguments on the Internet about "what does it really mean?" Great art often has that effect. Overall grade: A The final of my three favorite movies of [Summer] 2026 is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which came out in 2026. There's a rumor, and I don't know if it's true or not, that Tom Holland found the experience of working with Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey so eye-opening that he insisted that if they made another Spider-Man movie, it had to have a reason for existing other than "make a lot of money". If this story is true, it clearly worked. Previously, I though the two best Spider-Man movies were Spider-Man 2 from 2004 and Spider-Man: No Way Home from 2021. I must now amend that opinion to say that there are three best Spider-Man movies and Spider-Man: Brand New Day is one of the three. It is pretty good. I would've trimmed it here and there, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and is an excellent Spider-Man story that totally captures the essence of the character within a good story. It takes place four years after the events of No Way Home erased everyone's memory that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Peter has now been crime fighting full time, but it is taking a severe toll on his emotions and personal life that he's deliberately ignoring. Meanwhile, Spider-Man has become the beloved crime fighter of New York, trusted by both the NYPD and the Federal Department of Damage Control, which is a reoccurring frenemy for superheroes from other movies. When someone launches an attack on the headquarters of Damage Control, the director recruits Peter to fight their new enemy, a mysterious figure who uses telepathy to possess people from a distance. Peter is the only one who can sense it thanks to his spider sense, and he's also the only one able to resist the telepath's possession abilities. But despite his resistance to possession, fighting a telepath is a dangerous proposition for someone with as many emotional issues as Peter, and things start to spiral out of control when the telepath starts digging into his life. But there's another lesson Peter has to learn. People (and especially superheroes) who take the federal government at its word tend to regret it. For that matter, ignoring his emotional issues is causing Peter's spider powers to start acting in strange ways. But of course, at the end of the day, Spider-Man always follows his conscience, no matter how high the cost to him personally. Definitely an enjoyable movie. All the scenes with Spider-Man and Punisher were great, and the two of them had a great dynamic together. A few other Marvel Cinematic Universe people show up, but this is probably one of the most standalone movies the MCU has done in a while. Of course, the risk of MCU Continuity Lockout is always there (which is one of the reasons I started writing Half-Eleven Thief in 2023). Overall grade: A So I would say it was a pretty good summer for movies. It's also valuable lessons in not taking the Internet too seriously, which too many people do nowadays. There are all these dedicated analyses on X, Threads, and Reddit in June and May explaining why The Odyssey was going to fail for whatever reason, and instead it made $1.5 billion. So I think that's a good lesson in not taking everything you read on the internet a little too seriously. So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show enjoyable. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy, and we'll see you all next week.  

SUBTEMBER is upon us again and we start it off with 2013 Phantom starring Ed Harris, David Duchovny, Lance Henriksen and William Fichtner. The who's who of people that have been in other amazing to pretty good movies. Down Bubble

Some new titles in physical media this week and a few to catch up with from last week, Erik Childress & Peter Sobczynski have you covered. They include a couple of monumental documentaries from Barbara Kopple and the history of Ozploitation is lovingly told in its own doc. Val Kilmer dons the mask(s) of a classic character while Jude Law and Ed Harris snipe at one another. Danny Boyle's original rage-infested tale gets an upgrade as does a film once torn apart by the Weinsteins. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are sister witches, there's an early appearance by Rachel Ward and poor Don Johnson has to choose between Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Connelly. Poor guy. 2:49 - Criterion (Harlan County USA (4K), American Dream) 16:07 - Sony (28 Days Later (4K Steelbook)) 26:57 - Ad Break 28:57 - Vinegar Syndrome (Night School 4K, Lady in White 4K, Not Quite Hollywood) 52:29 - Cinematographe (54 4K) 1:06:37 - Ad Break 1:08:37 - Paramount (The Saint (4K), Enemy at the Gates (4K Steelbook)) 1:22:49 - WB (Practical Magic (4K)) 1:30:45 - Radiance (The Hot Spot 4K) 1:51:54 - New Blu-ray Announcements CLICK ON THE FILMS TO RENT OR PURCHASE AND HELP OUT THE MOVIE MADNESS PODCAST OR BUY FROM MOVIEZYNG Be sure to check out Erik's Weekly Box Office Column – At Rotten Tomatoes Critics' Classics Series – At Elk Grove Cinema in Elk Grove Village, IL Chicago Screening Schedule - All the films coming to theaters and streaming Physical Media Schedule - Click & Buy upcoming titles for your library. (Direct purchases help the Movie Madness podcast with a few pennies.) Erik's Linktree - Where you can follow Erik and his work anywhere and everywhere. The Movie Madness Podcast has been recognized by Million Podcasts as one of the Top 100 Best Movie Review Podcasts as well as in the Top 60 Film Festival Podcasts and Top 100 Cinephile Podcasts. MillionPodcasts is an intelligently curated, all-in-one podcast database for discovering and contacting podcast hosts and producers in your niche perfect for PR pitches and collaborations. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It's time once again for our annual summer special, and this year we have The Wrong Stuff. In 1983, Philip Kaufman assembled Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward and others to portray the men with THE RIGHT STUFF. But what happened when Hollywood tried to turn some of those guys into science-fiction and fantasy stars? The answer, apparently, was Nazis fighting demons, the ancient Korean art of dodging bullets, and interspecies alien childbirth. For THE WRONG STUFF, Cody, Robert, and Nat take a look at three adaptations starring alumni of THE RIGHT STUFF⁠ — each of which arrived with at least some hope of bigger things to come. Time tracks: 0:00:00 - THE KEEP Discussion 0:30:23 - REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS Discussion 1:03:15 - ENEMY MINE Discussion

Released in August 1989, The Abyss is a science-fiction adventure, survival thriller, Cold War drama, and bruised love story all at once. James Cameron wrote and directed it, with Gale Anne Hurd producing, Mikael Salomon handling cinematography, and Alan Silvestri composing the score.The story begins when the U.S. nuclear submarine Montana mysteriously sinks near the Cayman Trough. With a hurricane closing in and Soviet ships moving toward the wreck, the Navy sends a SEAL team to Deep Core, an experimental underwater oil-drilling platform. The civilian crew is led by Virgil “Bud” Brigman, played by Ed Harris. The platform's designer—and Bud's estranged wife—Dr. Lindsey Brigman, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, arrives with the military team.The mission appears to be a dangerous salvage operation. Then Lindsey sees a strange light moving beneath the water. As the storm cuts Deep Core off from the surface and SEAL commander Hiram Coffey begins to unravel under pressure, the crew realizes the ocean may contain an intelligence that has been watching humanity very closely.If you are new to the podcast then please consider following us on the platform that you love, we can be found most anywhere that you listen to your favorite podcasts. Please leave us a rating and review if you listen on iTunes and a 5 star rating if you listen on Spotify. If you like what you hear then please share the show with your friends and family. If you would like to help support the podcast by donating a small amount or any custom amount you choose then please visit the following link:https://retrolife4u.com/supportThis is not a membership or anything just a way for you to help support us without paying a reoccurring monthly fee when you feel like you are able to help.If you have any questions, comments, suggestions for shows or you have a question you would like us to read on air then email us at retrolife4you@gmail.comYou can find us on social media at the following places:FacebookInstagramTik TokYouTubeRetro Life 4 You Website

Message Dan and MikeGlengarry Glen Ross turns 34 this year, and we're finally giving David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play its due on the show. James Foley's 1992 film adaptation brings together an absolutely stacked cast — Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, and Alan Arkin — for the story of four desperate real estate salesmen pitted against each other in a brutal sales contest. We dig into how this film actually came together, including the fascinating parallel between Pacino championing this project the same way Sean Penn championed Foley's At Close Range, and how Pacino personally scouted Kevin Spacey on Broadway for the role of Williamson. We also talk through the casting history of Shelley "The Machine" Levene, a role that nearly went in a very different direction before Jack Lemmon delivered one of the great performances of his career.We get into why the film's most famous scene — the one everyone quotes — wasn't even in Mamet's original play, and why we think the "sales" angle is honestly the least interesting theme once you dig into what this movie is really about. We also trace the play's legacy through its Broadway revivals, from Joe Mantegna's original Tony-winning run as Ricky Roma, through the 2015 revival that brought Pacino back to the stage alongside Bobby Cannavale, all the way to 2025's star-studded cast.Before we get into the film, we open with a story about a very ill-fated car-buying negotiation involving a local salesman, and we close things out with a confession about how we got worked over by a couple of very skilled salesmen on the streets of San Diego during Comic-Con. Fair warning: this one earns its language warning, but we'd argue it's essential viewing regardless. If you take one recommendation from us all year, make it this one.Support the showOh Brother Podcast:Support the Show! (Be The First to Listen with Early Access)Listen on all podcast platformsSubscribe on YouTubeFollow us on Instagram

Zo somehow finds himself deep, deep under the surface of the ocean: near the Cayman Trough while America and the Soviet Union have their Cold War. He's aboard the most advanced underwater facility ever constructed. The Navy commandeered the facility to investigate a sunken submarine, but, to Zo, the Navy SEAL officer sent to oversee operations don't appear wrapped to tight. The SEAL's presence only cranks up the tension for the hard working crew as the engineer and designer of this underwater office space is also here. By herself she's messy enough, but she's in the middle of a contentious divorce with this cramp space's commander. There's almost too much drama for comfort, but then designer/engineer starts seeing . . . things. She claims that their are underwater crafts that don't belong to either the U.S. or U.S.S.R. She even suggests that humans may no longer be the most advanced species on Earth. Episode Chapters 00:10:28 Opening Credits for The Abyss starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn 00:21:03 Favorite Parts of the 1989 film The Abyss  01:28:34 Trivia from the Underwater Sci-Fi Adventure - The Abyss  01:39:45 Critics' Thoughts on James Cameron's The Abyss Please leave a comment, suggestion or question on our social media: Back Look Cinema: The Podcast Links:Website: www.backlookcinema.comEmail: friends@backlookcinema.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@backlookcinemaTwitter: https://twitter.com/backlookcinemaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BackLookCinemaInstagram: https://instagram.com/backlookcinemaThreads: https://www.threads.net/@backlookcinemaTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@backlookcinemaTwitch https://www.twitch.tv/backlookcinemaBlue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/backlookcinema.bsky.socialMastodon: https://mstdn.party/@backlookcinemaBack Look Cinema Merch at Teespring.comBack Look Cinema Merch at Teepublic.com Again, thanks for listening.

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Tom and Bert review and discuss their Favorite Movie "Character Actors" >> Part 2So what is a character actor? A Character Actor is a film or TV performer who specializes in portraying unique, offbeat colorful people in supporting roles.These are the actors/actresses that you may recognize by their faces yet might not know their names BUT you will remember their performances because they may be memorable in a scene or two even more than the leading Men and Ladies.The list spans from the 1930's thru today!!Listen in and hear what favorites of yours may be listed.CHAPTERS:(:30) Intro(1:04) Fred Willard, Wilfred Brimley & Ed Harris(6:54) Michael Madson, Murray Hamilton & Luis Guzman(12:11) Stephen Root, Harvey Keitel & Robert Davi(18:55) Joe Pantoliano, Peter Lorre & Ving Rhames(25:32) Bruce McGill, R Lee Ermey & J.T. Walsh(31:22)  Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy & Marissa Tomei(39:54) Roy Scheider, Burt Young & John Goodman(49:32) Dyan Cannon, Pam Grier & Woody Harrelson(62:01) Danny Aiello, James Earl Jones and It's a Wrap!Enjoy the Show!You can email us at reeldealzmoviesandmusic@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page, Reel Dealz Podcast: Movies & Music Thru The Decades to leave comments and/or TEXT us at 843-855-1704 as well

Jason and Rachel review The Dink on Apple TV, a pickleball comedy that somehow seems to hate pickleball. We get into why the movie isn't very funny, why the pickleball makes no sense, why the cast deserved better, how Andy Roddick and John McEnroe are wasted, why the “dink off” ending is painful, and how a Hallmark movie called Pickleball Christmas somehow did this premise better. Plus: spoon mics in a backyard, Jake Johnson, Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen, Ben Stiller's gross doctor scene, fake pickleball extras, grunting, May-December weirdness, and the eternal question: who is this movie actually for? Subscribe to Thumb War for movie reviews, TV breakdowns, Patreon chaos, and occasional accidental pickleball advocacy. ️ Available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts & Spotify Support the show on Patreon for ad-free episodes & bonus content : http://bit.ly/44Mo8xU Like & Subscribe Leave a 5-star review if you're enjoying Thumb War Email us: ThumbWarPod@gmail.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This 8/20/2026 broadcast explores the concept of hyperreality, suggesting that our world is a "totalitarian Disneyland" where fake events are seamlessly integrated into history. The speaker argues that major media events—including political crises and high-profile deaths like those of Princess Diana or Hayden Panettiere—are actually scripted performances within a "PSYOP Entertainment Complex."By highlighting eerie coincidences and occult subtexts, the host posits that these events are part of a "Metascript" designed to manipulate public perception and replace actual agency with simulated participation. The IPS encourages a "non-belief" stance, urging individuals to adopt an "off-world stage perspective" to see through systemic media fakery. Ultimately, the text serves as a critique of modern media, claiming that society has been "crate trained" to accept a fictional universe as literal reality.Support the IPS Think TankKey Topics and Themes from the Transcript* Platform Migration from YouTube to Substack* Summary: The speaker argues that YouTube is no longer a viable “ground zero” for organizing the “off-world stage perspective” because the platform censors content, demonetizes creators, and targets users through biased algorithmic recommendations. In contrast, Substack functions as a more neutral platform that is fully capable of hosting the community's entire live chat, written archives, and transcript database.* Supporting Quotes:* “And since they have demonetized us, I don't see the incentive to making it [YouTube] the center of focus other than people are accustomed to it.”* “Substack might be a better and more like neutral ground zero.”* “We do want Substack to be the ground zero. For the off-world stage perspective. Because YouTube does nothing but censor.”* Tragic August Deaths and the Virgo Archetype* Summary: The speaker notices a repeating chronological pattern where famous, high-profile women—specifically Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, and the actress Hayden Panettiere—die in the month of August at exactly 36 years old. This narrative pattern contains an esoteric, mythological subtext that mirrors the astrological sign of Virgo (the spring maiden) and her symbolic kidnapping into the underworld by Hades.* Supporting Quotes:* “But I want to go deeper into it because something had me thinking about August and the significance of this month as it relates to these high profile tragic deaths, usually with some adequate representation of the spring maiden.”* “The theme seems to be the kidnapping of Persephone as we go into the end of summer, as we approach the equinox.”* “So you have 36 Monroe, 36 Diana, 36 Hayden, and August. These are the common denominators.”* Hyperreality and Simulated Public Agency* Summary: Referencing Jean Baudrillard and the YouTube video “We live in a totalitarian Disneyland” by Academic Agent, the speaker describes hyperreality as a “real plus fake” state. In this environment, simulated global events are codified into historical records as official facts. Under this closed system, public political participation, such as voting, is merely “simulated participation” that replaces genuine human agency with an illusion of control.* Supporting Quotes:* “So hyperreal refers to real plus fake. And we're talking about simulated events. Things that didn't happen. That become part of our historic record that are now officially real.”* “The system of simulation is a combination of government, news media, and mainstream entertainment.”* “It seems like voting is simulated participation instead of actual agency. It's a steam valve because it gives people the illusion of control.”* The Gnostic Demiurge in Cinema* Summary: Hollywood films frequently rely on Gnostic allegory, utilizing authority and controller figures played by actor Ed Harris to represent Saturn, Hades, or the Demiurge. Examples include Kristoff in The Truman Show, the Man in Black in Westworld, and Wilford in Snowpiercer. These pairings dramatize a captive initiate trapped within an artificial, deterministic simulation overseen by a cold, godlike architect.* Supporting Quotes:* “Kristoff is an archetype of the Demiurge, a godlike architect who shapes a false reality.”* “The audience identify with the trapped figure, Persephone, Alice, Truman, because our condition mirrors theirs. We too live in an underworld of the demo urge or the programmer.”* “each of these pairings dramatizes the initiate or captive with the architect or the warden.”* The Charlie Kirk Death Deconstruction* Summary: The speaker asserts that the political commentator Charlie Kirk never existed as a real individual but was a fictional character played by a lifetime PSYOP actor. The public “assassination” of Kirk was a highly choreographed theatrical performance featuring a practical special effect “squib” and blood bags. Alternative establishment stories claiming Kirk went into “witness protection” are dismissed as controlled subplots designed to keep the public emotionally invested in the reality of the simulation.* Supporting Quotes:* “Charlie never existed except as a character, a PSYOP actor.”* “For that to be a squib, he wore a mask of himself with the skin that goes over the chest. He wore a blood bag. They did rehearsals. The whole thing was rehearsed. It was choreographed.”* “The idea that he faked his death and went into witness protection to hide from Israel assumes that the whole dynamic is real.”* “MSM Plus” (Conspiracy Theories) vs. “MSM Minus” (Skepticism)* Summary: Mainstream conspiracy theories are categorized as “MSM Plus” because they add convoluted layers of speculation and intrigue to fill gaps in news narratives, ultimately keeping people trapped in establishment-controlled subplots. The speaker's “MSM Minus” approach relies instead on a subtractive methodology that systematically filters out media lies and removes the overarching metascript from their worldview.* Supporting Quotes:* “We call ourselves MSM minus is because we subtract from the lies... We subtract the meta script from our worldview.”* “The reason why that's significant is that MSM Plus is a subset of the mainstream box. It builds. So they fill in the gaps with conspiracy conjecture.”* “All conspiracy theories are truth or bait. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to hide the provable and observable fact that these events in question are actually simulated.”* AI-Generated Media as an Emerging Art Form* Summary: Despite platforms like YouTube terminating millions of faceless AI channels under the guise of “inauthenticity,” the speaker defends AI-generated media as a collectively generated emerging art form. Asserting that they personally prefer AI-generated content over human-produced content, the speaker highlights their own experiment co-authoring a structured essay called The News Testament using ChatGPT and five of their personal transcripts.* Supporting Quotes:* “We're looking at a phenomenon, the emergence of a new art form. It's kind of like this collectively generated phenomenon.”* “I prefer AI slop to human slop, and there's a lot of that.”* “I took five of my transcripts and I asked for ChatGPT to co-author with me an essay called The News Testament, The Mainstream Media as World State Church.”Links Mentionedbitchute.com/infiniteplanesocietyOdysee https://odysee.com/@InfinitePlaneRadio:a Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video on the app: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit infiniteplanesociety.substack.com/subscribe

Every Wednesday, Jake & Ben compete in Two 5-selection drafts - One sports-related & one not sports-related. This week on What You Got Wednesday: Sports Franchises You'd Like to Own & Ed Harris Movies Vote for your winner @JakeAndBenKSL on Instagram or Facebook. 

Hour 3 of Jake & Ben on August 19, 2026 Stewart Mandel from The Athletic was on The KSL Sports Zone earlier today to talk about his Big 12 Predictions. He thinks Morgan Scalley could face some challenges in Year 1, is he too low on the Utes? What You Got Wednesday: Sports Franchises You'd Like to Own & Ed Harris Movies Audio Vault: Remember When Jim Furyk's Tournament-Winning Putt was Interrupted by a Weather Report?

We look back at 1998, as Brandon joins us to talk about The Truman Show. 

Diane and Sean discuss most successful failure of space movies, Apollo 13. Episode music is, "Re-entry and Splashdown", by James Horner from the OST.-  Our theme song is by Brushy One String-  Artwork by Marlaine LePage-  Why Do We Own This DVD?  Merch available at Teepublic-  Follow the show on social media:-  BlueSky: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD-  IG: @whydoweownthisdvd- Tumblr: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD-  Follow Sean's Plants on IG: @lookitmahplants- Watch Sean be bad at video games on TwitchSupport the show

Moviewallas: One Night Only, The End of Oak Street & Spider-Man: Brand New Day This week on Moviewallas, Joe, Rashmi, and Yazdi tackle three very different new releases: the high-concept romantic comedy One Night Only, the dinosaur-filled suburban adventure The End of Oak Street, and the latest chapter in Tom Holland's Spider-Man story, Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The team also responds to listener feedback about The Odyssey, including the suggestion that Peter Jackson might have been better suited to tell the story across several films. Then it is time for another edition of “I Can't Find Anything to Watch…”, with three streaming recommendations and a bonus pick from a listener. Streaming Picks Margot's Got Money Troubles – Apple TV Rashmi recommends this series starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, and Greg Kinnear. A college dropout and aspiring writer must find a way to support herself and her new baby while facing a rapidly growing pile of bills. The Room Next Door – Netflix Yazdi recommends Pedro Almodóvar's thoughtful drama starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The film explores friendship, dignity, life, death, and the choices people make when confronting mortality. The Dink – Apple TV Joe recommends this warm-hearted pickleball comedy starring Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris, with appearances from Ben Stiller and several familiar faces. It may lovingly mock the sport and its players, but it also delivers a funny and thoroughly enjoyable Friday-night movie. Bonus Pick: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder – Netflix Listener Michelle recommends this binge-worthy mystery series for fans of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. One Night Only In a fictional New York City where premarital sex and public displays of affection are forbidden for all but one night of the year, two people search for love while repeatedly missing, finding, and losing one another over the course of a single evening. Directed by Will Gluck and starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, the film combines a deliberately absurd premise with the familiar pleasures of a romantic comedy. The hosts discuss the unanswered questions raised by its strange dystopian world, whether the premise needed a sharper political edge, and why none of that ultimately matters when the two leads have such appealing chemistry. Stylish, funny, romantic, and considerably more risqué than its sweet nature initially suggests, One Night Only succeeds by making the audience genuinely care about whether its central couple will find their way to each other. The End of Oak Street Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, The End of Oak Street follows a suburban family whose neighborhood is transported somewhere unfamiliar after a mysterious cosmic event. Starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery, the film blends family drama, science fiction, horror, and the nostalgic spirit of 1980s Amblin adventures. The team describes it as Jurassic Park in suburbia – hammy, underwritten, occasionally ridiculous, but enormously entertaining. They discuss its impressive creatures, its surprisingly frightening and violent moments, its commitment to genuine danger, and the way it captures the look and atmosphere of films such as Super 8, E.T., and the classic Spielberg productions of the era. It may not be the film that saves cinema, but it is a loud, tense, nostalgic popcorn movie that deserves to be experienced in a theatre. Spider-Man: Brand New Day Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker in the fourth film of this Spider-Man series, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Following the events of the previous film, Peter is living alone in a world where the people closest to him no longer remember who he is. As he continues his life as Spider-Man, the emotional weight of that loneliness begins to shape his choices. The hosts discuss the film's quieter and more melancholic tone, its focus on sacrifice and isolation, the importance of revisiting the previous movies before watching, and whether audiences may be feeling some degree of superhero fatigue. While Yazdi questions the reuse of familiar Marvel villains, Rashmi and Joe respond strongly to the film's emotional core, focused storytelling, and the journey of a Peter Parker forced to ask what a meaningful life looks like when it must be lived alone. The action is polished, but it is the film's heart, relationships, and sense of longing that make Brand New Day stand out. Like, comment, and subscribe for spoiler-light film reviews, streaming recommendations, listener feedback, movie news, and general banter. Send your feedback to: mail@moviewallas.com Hosted by Joe, Rashmi & Yazdi www.moviewallas.com Stay until the end to hear the latest experimental Moviewallas outro. Timestamps 00:00 – Start 00:41 – New Moviewallas Music and Episode 600 04:08 – Listener Feedback on The Odyssey 05:59 – Streaming Picks 06:15 – Margot's Got Money Troubles 06:58 – The Room Next Door 08:33 – The Dink 11:30 – A Good Girl's Guide to Murder 11:53 – One Night Only 25:21 – The End of Oak Street 44:04 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day 56:21 – Closing Thoughts and Outro Music #Moviewallas #OneNightOnly #TheEndOfOakStreet #SpiderManBrandNewDay #SpiderMan #TomHolland #AnneHathaway #EwanMcGregor #MonicaBarbaro #CallumTurner #DestinDanielCretton #MoviePodcast #FilmReviews #StreamingPicks #TooManyMoviesTooLittleTime

Zo is in the wrong place at the wrong time: in the midst of Russia during an intense moment in World War II or, as the Russians would come to call it: The Great Patriotic War. In a city once known as Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga river the fighting has intensified as Russian civilian fighters and the Soviet Red Army desperately defend their country against the onslaught of the German Nazi war machine. Zo as well as the rest of the citizenry experience their morality weakening day by day, but gradually news of hope appears as a light at the end of a long dark tunnel. People begin to talk about an amazing sniper named Vasily Zaitsev picking off Germans as easily as a child might break sticks. The exploits of Zaitsev bolsters both the citizens of Stalingrad and the hearts of the Red Soldiers and they fight on. Victory in sight.   Episode Chapters 00:09:29 Opening Credits for Enemy at the Gates starring Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz 00:18:08 Favorite Parts of the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates  01:01:46 Trivia from the WWII war drama - Enemy at the Gates  01:12:59 Critics' Thoughts on Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemy at the Gates Please leave a comment, suggestion or question on our social media: Back Look Cinema: The Podcast Links:Website: www.backlookcinema.comEmail: friends@backlookcinema.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@backlookcinemaTwitter: https://twitter.com/backlookcinemaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BackLookCinemaInstagram: https://instagram.com/backlookcinemaThreads: https://www.threads.net/@backlookcinemaTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@backlookcinemaTwitch https://www.twitch.tv/backlookcinemaBlue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/backlookcinema.bsky.socialMastodon: https://mstdn.party/@backlookcinemaBack Look Cinema Merch at Teespring.comBack Look Cinema Merch at Teepublic.com Again, thanks for listening.

This week Andrew and Ted discuss the Apple TV original comedy "The Dink" starring Jake Johnson and Mary Steenburgen ... co-starring Ed Harris, Aaron Chen, Lynne Marie, and Cleo King. When a private tennis club finds it's core is being threatened by pickleball the club president (Harris), turns to obscure "duel challenge" in the club bi-laws to send the pickleball players packing. The club hosts a tennis tournament to find out who will represent the club side in the duel. Dustin (Johnson), who happens to be the son of the club president and former Junior Tennis phenom, ultimately wins the club championship and assumes that he will represent the club. His attitude changes after he injures himself and is prescribed pickleball as his physical therapy. There he falls in love with not only the game but with his partner Candace (Steenburgen) who is a number of years his senior. When it comes time for the duel the club pulls a last minute audible and subs Dustin with professional tennis player Andy Roddick. Dustin then takes over for the pickleball side of things and uses a forgotten rule to choose the game so instead of tennis Roddick and Dustin face off in a pickleball match. John McEnroe provides color analysis for the match from the stand as a spectator.

Willa and Eric are starting a band! Willa would like to be cast in the next Yellowstone spin off and Eric launches 'Spoilerman' plans. The lads warn off the trolls giving Irish model Sarah Morrissey heat online for her inner city accent. They're backing legendary actor Ed Harris to be allowed sing in the next season of Dutton Ranch and they are very open to him joining the band...Yellowstone Spoiler Alert for anyone who hasn't yet watched it so don't @ us! New episodes Mondays and Thursdays.'DM me hun' on Instagram (@houseoffunpod) | TikTok (@houseoffunpod) Voice notes very welcome.Email Eric and Willa at HouseOfFun@goloudnow.comContains strong language and adult humour.Clip credits: (Sarah Morrissey) - Newstalk's Lunchtime Live with Andrea Gilligan (Ed Harris) Variety Editor Marc Malkin via Instagram.

Jeromy sat in the hot seat this episode, or as close to it as a chair across from an old friend can get. Jen asked him the question she asks every guest: name a moment you had to tell the truth. He came back with two. The first goes back to his dad. Big personality, bigger reputation, a helicopter stunt pilot for Hollywood's biggest films and Kona Ironman finisher and he raised Jeromy along with his brother. Everyone who knew his dad saw the legend. Few saw the temper that turned physical. For many years, Jeromy grappled with which parts of his father's story were safe to tell out loud. This episode, for the first time, he told the rest of it. Some takeaways that will stay with you: loving someone and telling the truth about them are not opposites and waiting until someone is gone to say the real stuff  may be the most honest timeline available. Jeromy's second truth goes back to Hollywood where he spent decades building the kind of career most people spend a lifetime trying to break into. He walked away from it to build Running Water Coaching instead, and it took him years to hit send on the email that made it official. Nine minutes of terror later, the response he got was the opposite of what he feared. Takeaways Truth-telling often requires us to count the cost. Loving someone and telling the truth about them are not opposites. Waiting until someone is gone to say the real thing may be the most honest timeline available. The risk you're most afraid to name out loud is often the most liberating. A hard childhood and a great life aren't opposing evidence. Top Quotes Jen: "What is a pivotal moment where you had to say what was true?" Jeromy: "I don't want to wake up in the morning, close my journal of all the things I really am, and go do some other thing." Jeromy: "Most people spend ten years banging on the door trying to get in. I was looking for the key to get out." Jeromy: "I want to be in the self-help aisle at Target, not in Beverly Hills." Jeromy: "If I fall on my face, I'd probably have more love and respect from the people I love and respect the most anyway." Jeromy: "Within nine minutes of being terrified, I was like, really? That's it?" Jeromy: "He wasn't a perfect human. He was famous with famous people, not with the general public." Jen: "Truth is the great liberator." Resources Mentioned Daring Greatly, Brené Brown Alex Hormozi G20 (film), written by Logan and Noah Miller Touching Home (film), starring Ed Harris, produced by Jeromy Zajonc Dipsea Race, Mount Tam, Marin County Going to California (TV series) Running Water Coaching, Jeromy Zajonc Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) Website: https://runningwatercoaching.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coach_jeromyz/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jzajonc LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jzajonc/ About Jen Oliver:Jen Oliver is a speaker, podcaster, and communications coach - equipping people to speak with greater impact and presence. Whether you are speaking on stage, promoting your brand, or voicing your needs in a relationship - communicating with your truest voice and cultivating human connection with your audience is the key to influence. Jen coaches individuals privately and within her Signature group programs - in addition to delivering workshops as a guest expert in a variety of settings. Jen serves as a 4-season Executive Producer, Director of Curation, and Speaker Coach for TEDxFolsom. She is a committed force behind WomanSpeak™ - an internationally recognized body of work teaching the art and soul of public speaking. Jen is on a mission to support 1 million women as they speak with uncommon levels of freedom and confidence. Tap into more at REALjenoliver.comemail: jen@REALjenoliver.compodcast website: ListenForREAL.com90-day TEDx Talk ACCELERATORWomanSpeak™website: REALJenOliver.comLinkedIn:@thejenoliverInstagram: @realjenoliverFacebook: @jen.oliver.806001If you believe conversations like these belong in the world, please subscribe, rate & review this podcast - and even better, share it with someone else as a REAL conversation starter. Subscribe to all things Jen at REALJenOliver.

Hey, you! Be a buddy and take our listener survey! It'll help us keep the show great and maybe even...make it better?! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! - Producer Marissa and the MaxFilm Gang *** Is it possible for a sports comedy to fit the formula, but still break the mold? Josh Greenbaum, director of Barb and Starr Go to Vista Del Mar, takes a whack at it with THE DINK, starring Jake Johnson and Mary Steenburgen. It's streaming now on AppleTV. And we have comedian (and yes, pickleball enthusiast) Jaron Myers with us to discuss! Then we get some pitches together for thoroughly modern movies that wouldn't have made sense a few years (or decades) ago.  What's Good? Alonso - Severin Films' Disco Italiana box set Drea - Bob the Drag Queen recapping Love Island on YouTube Jaron - Big Brother 24-Hour Feed recap podcasts Kevin - SDCC ‘26 (check out Minister FarraComic-Con) ITIDICSony, Alamo Drafthouse, to Reopen Cinerama Dome/Arclight at Long LastComic-Con 2026 – Hits and MissesParamount/WB Merger Paused Until June 2027, Or Court Ruling Staff Picks Drea: Mustache Alonso: Family Plot Jaron: Heavyweights Kevin: Paper Lion PS: Get PHYSICAL MEDIA merch at MaxFunStore.com! Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, or LetterboxdWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

It is arguably the biggest blockbuster of the summer - Spiderman: Brand New Day starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and the usual cast of Marvel characters! Also Apple TV+ movie ‘The Dink' starring Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris and Ben Stiller.

In this week's episode of the world's-fastest-movie-review podcast, Jackson and Mike review TWO new films!!! First, "THE DINK" Former tennis standout Dusty Boyd turns to the booming world of pickleball in an effort to save his family's struggling country club. Along the way, he rediscovers his competitive spirit while navigating family relationships, old rivalries, and an unlikely second chance. Starring Jake Johnson, Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen, Ben Stiller, Chloe Fineman, Patton Oswalt, Andy Roddick, John McEnroe, and Aaron Chen. Directed by Josh Greenbaum. Then, a quick review of "LARS SHRIKE WALKS THE NIGHT" A mysterious man named Lars Shrike awakens in a desolate landscape knowing only his name and that he has escaped. As memories, hallucinations, and reality blur together, his search for identity becomes an increasingly surreal journey through a world where every answer deepens the mystery. Starring Kelsey Grammer, David Clennon, Christine Lin, Kati Schwartz, Will Amato, Bobby Furst, Laurie Drayton, Emmy Collins, and Elizabeth Gorcey. Written and directed by Gary Walkow.

In this week's episode of the Filmmaker's Podcast, host Dom Lenoir takes the reins while Giles Alderson is away in Bulgaria. We are thrilled to welcome back director Josh Greenbaum for an esteemed "hat trick" third appearance on the show, along with actor and screenwriter Sean Clements. We dive into their new film, The Dink, a pickleball sports comedy that captures the nostalgic magic of late 90s and 2000s filmmaking. While the film brings the laughs, it also tackles universal and relatable themes like parental pressure, coaching aspirations, identity, ego, and pursuing second chances in your 40s. Josh and Sean share their filmmaking process, discussing how to successfully direct non-actors and improvisers, the art of trimming "precious" scenes for the greater good of the movie, and what it was like collaborating with producer Ben Stiller. What We Discuss in This Episode: The Return of Josh Greenbaum: Celebrating Josh's third appearance on the podcast and why he was drawn to The Dink as his next project. The World of Pickleball: Exploring the absurdity, accessibility, and real-life tennis community controversy surrounding the fastest-growing racket sport. Nostalgic Comedy & Themes: Harking back to classic 90s/2000s comedies like Happy Gilmore, Best in Show, Dodgeball, and The Wedding Singer, while exploring universal themes of identity, ego, and parental pressure. Screenwriting Origins: Sean Clements shares his personal journey as a former junior tennis player, his initial resistance to pickleball, and how finding an unlikely community of older players inspired the script. Collaborating with Ben Stiller: How Ben Stiller came on board to produce, his script notes, and how he helped bring former pro tennis player Andy Roddick into the cast. Directing Improvisers & Non-Actors: Josh's philosophy on creating a safe set where actors aren't afraid to fail, letting comedic talents like Aaron Chen ad-lib, and guiding dramatic actors like Ed Harris and non-actors like Andy Roddick to play their roles straight for maximum comedic effect. Kill Your Darlings (What's Good for the Movie): Sean talks about the transition from sitcom writing to feature films and a pivotal note from Josh on shortening a dramatic scene to serve the overall pacing of the film. The Power of Music: Using needle drops (from country music to Britney Spears' "Work Bitch") and score by Dara Taylor to drive character and emotional tone. Summer Filmmaking Advice: Dom's closing thoughts on how filmmakers can balance taking a summer break while prepping development and location scouting for the September autumn rush. Host: Dom Lenoir Guests: Josh Greenbaum & Sean Clements The DINK is our now on APPLE TV #TheDink #JoshGreenbaum #SeanClements #Pickleball #SportsComedy #Filmmaking #Screenwriting #Directing #BenStiller #AppleTV #TheFilmmakersPodcast #IndieFilm #Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chosen by Dave, and adapted by David Mamet from his Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play, Glengarry Glen Ross was directed by James Foley and assembled one of the most formidable acting line-ups of the 1990s: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce and Alec Baldwin. Made for an estimated $12.5 million, the film turns offices, restaurants and rain-soaked streets into a pressure cooker of desperation, ego and spectacularly aggressive salesmanship. Mamet reportedly received $1 million to adapt his own play, expanding the material specifically for the screen.Despite strong reviews, the film earned approximately $10.7 million at the North American box office and was not an immediate commercial success. Its reputation continued to grow through VHS, television and home-video releases, with Jack Lemmon winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and Al Pacino receiving Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. It is now regarded as a cult classic, particularly among actors, salespeople and anyone who has ever endured a motivational meeting conducted by someone who clearly despises them.Trailer Guy SynopsisIn a struggling Chicago real-estate office, four salesmen are fighting for their livelihoods.First prize is a Cadillac. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize… is unemployment.With the best leads locked away and the clock running down, every conversation becomes a contest, every customer becomes prey, and every colleague becomes a possible enemy. This week, closing the deal is not merely business.It is survival.Fun FactsDavid Mamet based the original play partly on his own experiences working in Chicago real-estate offices during the late 1960s.Alec Baldwin's character, Blake, does not appear in the original stage play. Mamet created him exclusively for the film adaptation.Baldwin appears in only one scene, yet his performance produced many of the film's most quoted lines and became a lasting part of sales culture.The famous “Always Be Closing” speech has been referenced and parodied in television shows, comedy sketches, advertising and corporate training sessions—sometimes by people who may have missed the fact that the scene is not exactly presenting healthy management advice.The movie's title refers to two fictional property developments: Glengarry Highlands and Glen Ross Farms.Al Pacino was the only member of the principal cast to receive an Oscar nomination, earning a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance as Ricky Roma.Jack Lemmon reportedly considered Shelley Levene one of his favourite roles, describing the character as someone who had once been successful but could no longer understand why his methods had stopped working.Jonathan Pryce's character, James Lingk, is the only significant male customer seen in the film, making his uncomfortable conversation with Roma one of the story's few glimpses outside the sales team's competitive world.Much of the cast had extensive theatrical experience, helping the dialogue-heavy production retain the rhythm, precision and intensity of a live stage performance.Support the ShowIf you enjoy the show and would like to support us, we have a Patreon ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.If you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leaving us a 5-star review (and a short comment) really helps more people discover the show. It's quick, free, and makes a huge difference.Referral links also help out the show if you were going to sign up:⁠⁠⁠NordVPN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NordPass⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/vhsstrikesback⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Yep, we're reviewing a movie called THE DINK (1:38), named after a type of shot in Pickleball - a real sport - called a "dink." No, we're not making that up, and yes, Evan and Dave really watched this movie, which stars Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris. Johnson is a long-washed up tennis player, Steenburgen is his pickleball partner, and Harris is his father.  Anyway, one member of Spoilerpiece really liked THE DINK, and one just hated it. Hated it. Can you guess which is the liker and which one isn't? Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1986 film STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME, in honor of its fortieth anniversary.

¿Merece la pena ver The Dink? En esta crítica sin spoilers analizamos la nueva película de Apple TV, protagonizada por Jake Johnson, con Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen y producida por Ben Stiller. En este nuevo episodio de Razones para Ver repasamos qué ofrece esta comedia deportiva que utiliza el fenómeno del pickleball para hablar de segundas oportunidades, relaciones familiares y de cómo afrontar los cambios cuando la vida no sale como esperábamos. Si quieres saber si The Dink merece tu tiempo sin que te destripen la película, aquí encontrarás todo lo que necesitas antes de verla. En este vídeo hablamos de: Crítica sin spoilers de The Dink. Jake Johnson como protagonista. La dirección de Josh Greenbaum. El papel de Ben Stiller como productor. ¿Funciona como comedia deportiva? ¿Merece la pena verla en Apple TV?

Jake Johnson joins Dana and David this week to talk about doing comedy with Ed Harris, his experience with New Girl guest star Jon Lovitz, and his new movie The Dink. Also, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, and remembering back when old people were old.

The Dink streams globally on Apple TV on Friday, July 24, 2026 Want to be featured on the next Q&Andy? Send us a video on our socials or email us at askandy@servedmediagroup.com Andy Roddick sits down with actor Jake Johnson ahead of the release of The Dink, the Apple TV pickleball comedy that also marks Roddick's film debut, and the two swap stories about Ed Harris's on set intensity, Brad Gilbert's coaching cameo and emoji habit, and the eternal tennis versus pickleball debate.

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190. The Phantom (1996) Hello Excellent Phantoms! On the new episode of HWGW , join Hunter: The Ghost Who Talks, and Allison: Known to Slam Evil as they discuss the first comic book super hero! Other subjects include: the Venn diagram of grift & fetish, James Remar Supremacy, Glorp social, and Ed Harris' brother Fred! Plus: Allison's Westerns Corner! Easy, BZ, beautiful, it's The Phantom (1996) Questions, comments, requests? Write us at: WriteHWGW@gmail.com

Jelly Roll's Daughter, Bailee Ann, says the internet will 'Crumble' if we find out the real reason for the divorce and Ex Bunnie XO shows the new house following the split. Tom Cruise gives a weird speech at the World Cup and Travis teases this is it for him. Ed Harris gives us details on the behind the scenes "Dutton Ranch" Drama. Jerry O'Connell it talking to anyone who will lesson. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In an episode we first ran back in 2014, we explore how a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a phrase that has hounded journalists and lawyers for 40 years and embodies the tension between the public's desire for transparency and the government's need to keep secrets.   Whether it comes from government spokespeople or celebrity publicists, the phrase “can neither confirm nor deny” is the perfect non-denial denial. It's such a perfect deflection that it seems like it's been around forever, but reporter Julia Barton takes us back to the 1970s and the surprising origin story of what's now known as a “Glomar Response.” With help from David Sharp and Walt Logan, we tell the story of a clandestine CIA operation to lift a sunken Soviet submarine from the ocean floor and the dilemma they faced when the world found out about it. It's an episode we first released in 2014, but given some things in the news recently, it resonated with us again. In the 40 years since that operation, the Glomar Response has become boilerplate language from an array of government agencies. With help from ProPublica editor Jeff Larson and NPR's Dina Temple-Raston, we explore the implications of this ultimate information dodge. ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer explains how it stymies oversight, and we learn that, even 40 years later, governmental secrecy can be emotionally painful. More information about Glomar: After 40 years, many of the details of Project Azorian are only now coming to light. The US government's default position has been to keep as much of it classified as possible. It took three years for retired CIA employee David Sharp to get permission to publish his account of Project Azorian. And FOIA played an indirect role in that, as Cold War historians got the CIA to release, in redacted form, an internal history of the mission. After that and a threat of legal action, Sharp was finally able to publish his manuscript in 2012. We mentioned conspiracy theories that have swirled around Project Azorian filling the void where official silence has reigned. One of them is promulgated in the 2005 book “Red Star Rogue” by Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond. They posit that the K-129 was taken over by rogue Stalinist KGB agents in order to start a nuclear conflict. But the conflict was to be between the US and China, as, according to the authors, the sub had powers to disguise its sonic signature as a Chinese Navy vessel. This book is the basis of the 2013 drama “Phantom,” which features Ed Harris and David Duchovny as Soviet military officers who sip vodka in a very un-Russian way. Russian Naval historians, like Nikolai Cherkashin, are not only insulted by this take on the cause of the K-129's demise, they say the true cause is much easier to pinpoint: They say an American vessel, possibly the USS Swordfish, collided with the Soviet submarine. Despite the fact that the US government has turned over many documents about Project Azorian and what it found to the Russian government, many in the Russian Navy stand by their theory that it was far too easy for the US to locate the K-129 on the bottom of the Pacific, given the technology of the time. According to these theories, Project Azorian was nothing more than an elaborate cover-up disguised as ... an elaborate cover-up. We can neither confirm nor deny that we exactly understand how that would have worked in practice or execution. It's one of the more solemn moments of the Cold War, and one that the Glomar Response helped keep a secret for a very long time.LATERAL CUTS:What Lies Beneath (https://radiolab.org/podcast/what-lies-beneath)  EPISODE CREDITS:  Reported by - Julia Barton Sign up for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Signup (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Multi-hyphenate actor, producer, writer, and director, Sarah Drew is best known for playing 'Dr. April Kepner' for nine seasons on the hit ABC series "Grey's Anatomy" and Hannah Rogers in Warner Bros' "Everwood". Her recent TV credits include Freeform's hit series "Cruel Summer" which was the recipient of the Hollywood Critics Association Award for Best Cable Drama Series, and the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series "Amber Brown," written, directed and produced by Bonnie Hunt. Sarah released four films in 2023, producing and starring in Lifetime's "The Girl Who Caught a Killer", Sony Affirm's "Birthright Outlaw", and starring in Hallmark's "Guiding Emily". "A Cowboy Christmas Romance" marks Sarah's second feature film that she's written and executive produced for Lifetime, in 2022, Sarah produced and starred in her writing debut "Reindeer Games Homecoming" as part of Lifetime's holiday slate. Sarah made her directorial debut in "Grey's Anatomy: B-Team the Webisodes" which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Awards for an Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. She recently directed a radio play for LA Theater Works called "Fever Syndrome" which is set to be released later this year. In film, some notable projects include her debut in Columbia Picture's "Radio" alongside Ed Harris and Cuba Gooding Jr., as well as the lead in the hit Sony comedy "Moms' Night Out" alongside Patricia Heaton and Sean Astin. In 2022, she received a Canadian Screen Award Nomination for her lead role in Lifetime's "Stolen By Their Father". She began producing with Provident Films' "Indivisible," in which she starred alongside Tia Mowry. Sarah got her start in the arts at a young age before booking the lead role of the critically acclaimed production of Romeo and Juliet at McCarter Theatre Center, an award winning regional theater, in her fourth year of university. The opportunity catapulted her career, opening doors thanks to rave reviews by critics. She went on to make her Broadway debut in Vincent and Brixton, a classic play based on Vincent van Gogh, at the Lincoln Center Theater, then London's West End, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television and film. From stage to screen, Sarah emphasizes the importance of leading with your strengths by sharing a story of how a last-minute gut decision to perform a monologue instead of a musical number at a casting director workshop launched her career. You won't want to miss this episode as Sarah discusses how she approaches text, what makes for a dynamic self-tape, and the love she's found for producing, writing and directing. These are the unforgettable stories that landed Sarah Drew right here. Credits: The Stars Between Us Mistletoe Murders Grey's Anatomy Birthright Outlaw Guiding Emily How She Caught a Killer Reindeer Games Homecoming Cruel Summer Glee Everwood Mad Men Amber Brown Private Practice Mom's Night Out Radio Guest Links: IMDB: Sarah Drew, actor, producer, director, writer Instagram: @thesarahdrew THAT ONE AUDITION'S LINKS: For exclusive content surrounding this and all podcast episodes, sign up for our amazing newsletter at AlyshiaOchse.com. And don't forget to snap and post a photo while listening to the show and tag me: @alyshiaochse & @thatoneaudition THE BRIDGE FOR ACTORS: Become a WORKING ACTOR (50% off special) THE PRACTICE TRACK: Membership to Practice Weekly CONSULTING: Get 1-on-1 advice for your acting career from Alyshia Ochse COACHING: Get personalized coaching from Alyshia on your next audition or role INSTAGRAM: @alyshiaochse INSTAGRAM: @thatoneaudition WEBSITE: AlyshiaOchse.com APPLE PODCASTS: Subscribe to That One Audition on Apple Podcasts SPOTIFY: Subscribe to That One Audition on Spotify STITCHER: Subscribe to That One Audition on Stitcher EPISODE CREDITS: HOST/PRODUCER: Alyshia Ochse WRITER: Maddie McCormick WEBSITE & GRAPHICS: Chase Jennings SOCIAL: Alara Cerikcioglu

Pool Sceners We just celebrated a major birthday in this country. We celebrated brave patriots taking a stand against tyranny and oppression. It has been 30 years since Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel took a stand against a government that betrayed him and his men.  We head back to 1996 and join Sean Connery, Ed Harris and Nicolas Cage in Michael Bay's second ever movie... Welcome to "The Rock!"   BUY YOUR POOL SCENE PODCAST SHIRTS AND STICKERS TODAY!!! DM US ON OUR FACEBOOK TO PURCHASE TODAY!!!   SPREAD THE WORD POOL SCENERS! JOIN THE POOL SCENERS GROUP ON FACEBOOK FOR EXCLUSIVE AND INCLUSIVE CONTENT! LIKE. COMMENT. SUBSCRIBE. RATE AND FOLLOW... APPLE. SPOTIFY. PODBEAN. PODBAY and EVERYWHERE PODCASTS ARE FOUND! LEAVE A 5 STAR REVIEW. WE READ IT ON THE AIR. YOU WIN A PRIZE!!! HAVE AN IDEA FOR AN EPISODE OR A POOL CHECK...MESSAGE US AT ONE OF THE LINKS BELOW. CONTRIBUTE TO THE SHOW ON LINKTREE!! WE GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!! Linktree: https://www.linktr.ee/poolscenepodcast Email: PoolScenePodcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoolScenePodacst Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PoolScenePodcast Discord: poolscenepodcast Threads: https://www.threads.com/poolscenepodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/thepoolscenepodcast Twitch: https://twitch.tv/poolscenepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/PoolScenePodcast

This week, the boys grab a beer and check their home for cameras to see if they're actually trapped in “The Truman Show”! I think we're due for a sequel, right, Peter Weir? John is ready for it to be darker and more F-ed up. Would he still cast the guy from “Liar Liar”? You'll have to tune in! We also give some mini-reviews of the two biggest releases of June: “Supergirl” and “Toy Story 5”. Grab a six pack of cold brewskies and listen along. linktr.ee/theloveofcinema - Check out our YouTube page!  Our phone number is 646-484-9298. It accepts texts or voice messages.  0:00 Intro; 5:05 “Supergirl” mini-review; 13:31 “Toy Story” 5 mini-review; 19:08 1998 Year in Review; 37:55 “The Truman Show”: Films of 1998; 01:19:02 What You Been Watching?; 1:25:36 Next Week's Episode Teaser Additional Cast/Crew: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris, Paul Giamatti, Peter Krause, Natascha McElhone, Andrew Nicchol, Milly Alcock, Craig Gillespie, David Corenswet, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, David Krumholtz, James Gunn, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Conan O'Brien, Greta Lee, McKenna Harris, Andrew Stanton, Scarlett Spears. Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say Edited & Produced by Dave Green. Beer Sponsor: Carlos Barrozo Music Sponsor: Dasein Dasein on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H3GPgYigeKNlZKGx11KZ 
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Respect me, respect my space program! This week we're joined by the legend, Sunday Jeff! Today, we're talking all about the NASA's finest moment, Apollo 13! This movie stars Tom Hanks, Bill Baxton, Gary Sinese, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan and was directed by Ron Howard. Come join us, as we talk space travel and all about this interstellar rescue mission. We are proud to announce our NEW Patreon is available: https://www.patreon.com/reviewinghistory Please Like and Subscribe! Click the Bell to Get Notifications! Please give us a rating and a review on ApplePodcasts. It helps potential sponsors find the show! Check out The Wholly Roast use promo code RHP26 or Rhist26 Sign up for @Riversidefm: https://www.riverside.fm/?via=reviewi... Sign up for @BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/reviewinghistory Buy Some Merch: www.reviewinghistorypod.com/merch Email Us: Reviewinghistorypod@gmail.com Follow Us: www.facebook.com/reviewinghistory twitter.com/rviewhistorypod letterboxd.com/antg4836/ letterboxd.com/spfats/ letterboxd.com/BrianRuppert/ letterboxd.com/brianruppert/list…eviewing-history/ twitter.com/Brianruppert #comedy #history #podcast #comedypodcast #historypodcast #nasa #american #americanhistory #apollo13 #space #moonlanding #tomhanks #ronhoward #film #cinema #movies #moviereview #filmcriticisms #moviehistory #hackthemovies #redlettermedia #rlm #historybuff #tellemstevedave #tesd

Scott Yager of Challenge Mania joins us for a 30th Anniversary celebration & retrospective of The Rock (1996), starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage & Ed Harris. NON-SPOILER REVIEW OF THE ROCK (1996): Great Action Film Scores - 3:55 Scott's 1st Viewing Experience - 6:10 The Mikes' 1st watches - 13:30 Its Legacy Holds Without A Sequel - 17:48 The James Bond Theory - 20:04 30th Anniversary - 24:11 Do we want a sequel or a remake? - 26:40 If we cast the remake - 31:45 Best San Francisco movie ever - 37:35 What Action Movies Still Have The Same Effect Today? - 41:02 SPOILER WARNING - 46:33 What Tarantino and Sorkin wrote (?) - 47:33 That Hans Zimmer Score - 55:04 Act I Discussions on Fun Character Intro's & Plots Ahead of Their Time - 56:40 The Suite at the Fairmont Hotel & Running Amok in San Francisco - 1:10:45 Into the Alcatraz Scenes w/ a stacked crew - 1:17:13 Mid Movie Action Sequences & Must Have Merch - 1:26:18 Barreling to the End - 1:32:22 That Ending, A Fun Epilogue & More Sequel Thoughts - 1:34:40 Final Thoughts & Grades - 1:38:39 OUTRO: Follow Scott Yager's work: https://challengemania.live/ https://x.com/SHOTOFYAGER https://www.patreon.com/ChallengeMania https://www.instagram.com/challengemaniapodcast/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/ChallengeManiaPodcast/ And enjoy Mike, Mike, and Oscar here: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

In this episode, we review our second selection in this month of epic films, director Philip Kaufman's historical drama about the Mercury Space Program, "The Right Stuff", starring Ed Harris, Sam Shepard and Scott Glenn! Listen now!

In this episode, Scott welcomes an old friend to the podcast - Sarah Uriarte Berry. Scott and Sarah did a production of "Grease" together and they had a great time reminiscing about the show and talking about her incredible career on Broadway, on tour, and what it was like being the very first Belle at The Disneyland Resort. Sarah Uriarte Berry made her Broadway debut as Eponine in "Les Miserables" and later reprised her role for the 10th Anniversary Production. She also starred as Belle in "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" twice on Broadway: First at the Palace Theater, and 11 years later, paired with Donny Osmond at the Lunt-Fontanne. Also on Broadway, Sarah won critical acclaim as Franca in "The Light in the Piazza" at Lincoln Center Theater, where she received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.On tour, she played the role of Betty Schaefer in "Sunset Boulevard" with Petula Clark and the role of Julie Jordan in "Carousel" with Patrick Wilson. For "Carousel," she won an Ovation Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She also recently toured with "Disney Princess - The Concert."Other notable theatre credits include starring as Cinderella in "Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" for the New York City Opera alongside Eartha Kitt, Nicola in "Taboo" opposite Boy George, "Next To Normal," "End Of The Rainbow," "A Little Night Music" at the Kennedy Center, soloist in Bernstein's Mass at Carnegie Hall, and "Sondheim on Sondheim" at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Vanessa Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Jonathan Groff.Sarah's film appearances include roles in the feature film "Frontera" starring Ed Harris, Eva Longoria and Michael Peña, and "Pretty Bird" starring Billy Crudup. On television, Sarah's appeared on "Law and Order - Criminal Intent," "Six Degrees," The Tony Awards, and can be seen as Saint Jellorica in the infamous Cats episode of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."Email: TheMouseAndMePodcast@gmail.comSupport: www.patreon.com/themouseandmeFB and Instagram: “The Mouse and Me”Music by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.filmmusic.io

It's as if 007 went to prison for decades, was let out by government guys played by John Spencer & William Forsythe and then he had to help a nerdy Nicolas Cage save hostages on a deserted island. Well, hold up, that IS the plot of The Rock! Michael Bay's action movie is deeper than you might expect, with Ed Harris playing a superstar Marine general who becomes a terrorist…with sympathetic complexity. Cage is the out-of-his-element expert on chemical weapons who teams with Sean Connery's Bond-like ex-spy who once escaped from Alcatraz. The flick is a Bay/Bruckheimer/Simpson collab so it's gaudy, loud, tart-tongued and very exciting. Those 2 Mexican stand-offs are phenomenal scenes. There's death and destruction in The Rock, sure, yet it's just fun. So, yesh, cut Agent Goodspeed some slack as he battles the guy threatening to launch deadly gas while mourning his men (and "his wife") in this 744th episode. Well, Actually: Mason uses SF Information to find his daughter...he doesn't just magically remember a phone number he never had. Also, the funny line about bailing on lemons is in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, not I Love You, Man. Also also, it DOES seem like Tony Todd's character knocks over a rock on purpose to start a massacre in the shower scene...and also at least SOME of Hummel's marines are killed when that "all enemies…foreign, sir, and domestic" melee is over. Subscribe to this podcast in your application. Rate the show, review it, follow, all that. Look for me on Letterboxd (RyanHYES) and juice up an email (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). Tweet (@moviefiend51) or Sky (ryan-ellis) too.

Welcome to another episode of The Video Store Podcast. This week I am recommending four movies about undercover work. That can mean a lot of things in movies. Sometimes it is a young cop trying to prove himself. Sometimes it is a guy returning to a place where everyone already knows him. Sometimes it is a job that starts out dangerous and then gets worse because the people doing it begin to lose track of who they are supposed to be.I have always liked this kind of story because it gives crime movies a built in problem right away. The person at the center has to lie, but the lie only works if part of it feels true. That is where these movies live. None of them treat undercover work as clean or especially clever. It is usually sweaty, stressful, and bad for everyone involved.No Man's Land (1987)No Man's Land stars D. B. Sweeney as a young cop who goes undercover to get inside a Porsche theft ring run by Charlie Sheen. It was directed by Peter Werner and written by Dick Wolf, which is a little interesting now because most people probably connect Wolf with Law and Order and television crime stories. Here he is working in a very eighties lane, with stolen sports cars, Los Angeles money, and Charlie Sheen doing the smooth rich kid criminal thing.This is not the deepest movie on the shelf, but it has a good setup and a lot of period texture. The car stuff helps. A crime ring built around stolen Porsches feels very much of its moment, and the movie understands the appeal of that world even while it is showing you the danger underneath it. Sweeney is good as someone who is not quite ready for the assignment, and Sheen is believable as the guy who makes bad choices look attractive.The cast also includes Randy Quaid, M. Emmet Walsh, Lara Harris, and Bill Duke. I always like when Bill Duke shows up in something, and in this week's lineup he shows up twice, once here as an actor and later as the director of Deep Cover (1992). That was not the reason I picked these four, but it is a nice bit of video store shelf connection.State of Grace (1990)State of Grace stars Sean Penn as Terry Noonan, an undercover cop who returns to Hell's Kitchen and reconnects with the people he grew up with. The problem is that those people are now tied into the Irish mob, and some of them still see him as one of their own. That makes the undercover part more personal than usual. He is not just pretending to belong. In some ways, he already did.The cast is a big part of the reason to watch this one. Ed Harris is controlled and cold as Frankie Flannery, Gary Oldman is all nerves and damage as Jackie, and Robin Wright gives the movie more emotional weight than it would have had with a thinner version of that role. John Turturro and John C. Reilly are in there too, which gives the movie one of those casts where you keep noticing people before they became more familiar.It was directed by Phil Joanou, written by Dennis McIntyre, shot by Jordan Cronenweth, and scored by Ennio Morricone. That is a lot of strong names attached to a movie that never became as famous as it probably should have. Part of the problem is timing. It came out in 1990, the same year as Goodfellas, and that is a tough shadow for any New York crime movie to stand in. State of Grace is not Goodfellas, and it is not trying to be. Rush (1991)Rush is a heavier version of the undercover story. Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh play narcotics officers working a drug case in 1970s Texas, and the movie is less interested in the mechanics of the investigation than in what the job does to them. It is about crossing lines, then having trouble finding those lines again.The movie was directed by Lili Fini Zanuck and based on Kim Wozencraft's novel, which was inspired by her own time as an undercover narcotics officer. Pete Dexter wrote the screenplay, and the cast includes Sam Elliott, Max Perlich, and Gregg Allman. That last bit always makes the movie feel slightly stranger on paper than it plays on screen, because Allman fits into the world of the movie pretty naturally.Rush is not a casual watch. Jason Patric was very good in this period at playing men who seem like they have already made peace with ruining themselves, and Jennifer Jason Leigh makes her character's slide feel believable without turning it into a big speech. Eric Clapton did the music, and the soundtrack became better known than the movie in some circles because of Tears in Heaven. The film itself is rougher and less sentimental than people might expect from that association.Deep Cover (1992)Deep Cover stars Laurence Fishburne, still credited here as Larry Fishburne, as a police officer recruited by the DEA to go undercover in Los Angeles. Jeff Goldblum plays the lawyer and criminal operator he gets close to, and Goldblum gives the movie a different kind of villain than the usual street level dealer. He is funny, polished, and awful in a way that feels very specific to him.This was directed by Bill Duke, and it is one of the best undercover crime movies of the period. It has the shape of a genre film, but it is also angry about the systems around the drug war. Fishburne is excellent because he never plays the character as a cool movie cop enjoying the danger. He looks like someone being hollowed out by the job, which makes the movie more interesting as it goes along.The title song is also a major part of the movie's history. Deep Cover was Dr. Dre's debut solo single and introduced a lot of listeners to Snoop Doggy Dogg. That song has lived on in a big way, but the movie deserves to be remembered right alongside it. It is sharp, stylish, and still feels a little mean around the edges.All four of these movies are about people who are supposed to keep their identities separate, and none of them are very good at it for long. No Man's Land (1987) gives you the flashy version with stolen cars and rich criminals. State of Grace (1990) makes it about old friends and old wounds. Rush (1991) turns the assignment into something punishing and personal. Deep Cover (1992) takes the undercover story and pushes it into something colder and more political.If I were standing behind the counter this week, these are the four I would point you toward. They are not all doing the same thing, but they belong together on the same rental stack. Undercover movies work best when the job stops being just a job, and each of these gets there in its own way.Thanks for reading Video Store Podcast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.videostorepodcast.com

In this episode of It's a Sign! The Art of Alignment, astrologers Kristina Martin and Tara Redfield decode the synastry and birth charts of actors Ed Harris and Amy Madigan—revealing the cosmic chemistry behind their 40-year marriage.

Take pleasure in the gut-wrenching excitement of a 90s action milestone! This week on The Dana Buckler Show, we are heading straight to Alcatraz to break down Michael Bay's 1996 definitive high-concept thriller, The Rock.Coming off the success of Bad Boys, Michael Bay was handed the keys to a massive blockbuster budget, a killer premise, and an absolutely legendary cast. The result? A beautifully shot, fast-paced, explosion-filled masterpiece that stands as a high-water mark for the golden era of 90s action cinema and Hollywood summer blockbusters.In this cinema retrospective, film historian Dana Buckler dives deep into: The Powerhouse Trio: The incredible, lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry between Nicolas Cage's frantic, vinyl-loving FBI chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed and Sean Connery's sophisticated, badass British operative John Patrick Mason. The Sympathetic Villain: Ed Harris's brilliant, nuanced performance as General Hummel—an antagonist with legitimate, tragic motives that elevate the stakes way beyond a standard hostage situation. The Pinnacle of 90s Action: From the iconic, destructive Ferrari car chase through the streets of San Francisco to the brutal shower room standoff, we break down why the practical effects and set pieces in this film still hold up today. The Uncredited Script Doctors: How Hollywood legends like Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, and Jonathan Hensleigh secretly helped polish the razor-sharp dialogue. Whether you're a long-time fan who can quote "Your best! Losers always whine about their best" line-for-line, or you're revisiting this classic Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer production era for the first time, grab your green smoke and join us for the ultimate film review.Welcome to The Rock!Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/danabucklershowJoin my Patreon for early access to all episodes, plus a new exclusive podcast, go to Patreon.com/howisthismovieSubscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform by going to https://linktr.ee/DanaBucklerShowJoin our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/danabucklershowJoin Our Patreon for early access to all episodes, plus a new exclusive podcast, go to Patreon.com/howisthismovie #TheRock #TheDanaBuckler Show #90sAction #NicolasCage #SeanConnery #MichaelBay #FilmPodcast #MovieHistory #CinemaRetrospective #ActionMovies #90sCinema #FilmBuff

This is music to stir the blood. Episode #759 of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast brings you Altan, Scythian, Low Lily, Hanneke Cassel, and more. Fifteen tracks to get your pulse going. Let's do this.  -  -  Subscribe now at CelticMusicPodcast.com! The Byrne Brothers, Elizabeth Sutherland, Ashley Davis Band, W. Ed Harris, Erin Ruth, Sean Heely and Beth Patterson, Low Lily, Sue Tillotson & Jim Cunningham, Rambling Sailors, Hanneke Cassel, Paddyman, The Celtic Kitchen Party, Scythian, Altan GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items with what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2026 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create this year's Best Celtic music episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:02 - Intro: Rachel Hair 0:10 - The Byrne Brothers "Yvonne's Waltz (The Byrne Brothers)" from Living the Dream 3:22 - WELCOME 4:50 - Elizabeth Sutherland "Elsa's Dance (The Fairy Garden)" from Forest Dreams 7:16 - Ashley Davis Band "Here By My Side" from When the Stars Went Out 11:37 - W. Ed Harris "The Sligo Maid" from Cares of Tomorrow Can Wait 14:32 - Sean Heely and Beth Patterson "Allan Tyne of Harrow" from Stir the Blood to Fire 19:46 - FEEDBACK 24:08 - Low Lily "Brothers in Arms" from 10,000 Days Like These 28:48 - Sue Tillotson & Jim Cunningham "An't Isgair" from Water Horse 33:13 - Rambling Sailors "Whiskey in the Jar" from Tales From the White Horse 36:37 - Erin Ruth "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" from Traditions & Original Work 39:30 - THANKS 41:20 - Hanneke Cassel "Strathspey O' Death #1 / Strathspey O'Death #2 / Colonel Thornton / Running Around the Tree" from Some Melodious Sonnet 45:35 - Paddyman "The Secret of a Real Irish Pub" from One for the Road [Explicit] 49:18 - The Celtic Kitchen Party "Wolfe Island Jig" from Sociable! 51:25 - Scythian "My Son John" from Jump at the Sun 54:47 - CLOSING 56:31 - Altan "Lurgy Streams" from The Widening Gyre 1:00:25 - CREDITS Support for this program comes from Dr. Annie Lorkowski of Centennial Animal Hospital in Corona, California. Support for this program comes from John Sharkey White, II. Support for this program comes from International speaker, Joseph Dumond, teaching the ancient roots of the Gaelic people. Learn more about their origins at Sightedmoon.com Support for this program comes from Cascadia Cross Border Law Group, Creating Transparent Borders for more than twenty five years, serving Alaska and the world. Find out more at   www.CascadiaLawAlaska.com Support for this program comes from Hank Woodward. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to follow the show. You'll find links to all of the artists played in this episode. Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you'll get 7 weekly news items about what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Best of all, you will connect with your Celtic heritage. Please tell one friend about this podcast. Word of mouth is the absolute best way to support any creative endeavor. Here's something worth knowing. Clean energy is now the cheapest source of new electricity in most of the world. Solar. Wind. Battery storage. The technology works. The prices are down. There is no good reason to keep burning fossil fuels except one: money. Fossil fuel companies spend millions lobbying politicians to block clean energy policy. That investment pays off for them. It does not pay off for the rest of us. We get higher energy costs, dirtier air, and a planet that keeps warming. So here's what you can do. Contact your elected representatives. Tell them you want clean energy policies that put people first. Not corporate profits. Your voice matters. Use it. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME THE IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a Celtic musician and also host of Pub Songs & Stories. Every song has a story, every episode is a toast to Celtic and folk songwriters. Discover the stories behind the songs from the heart of the Celtic pub scene. This podcast is for fans of all kinds of Celtic music. We are here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email the artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. These musicians are not part of some corporation. They are small indie groups that rely on people just like you to support their music so they can keep creating it. Please show your generosity. Buy a CD, Album Pin, Shirt, Digital Download, or join their community on Patreon. You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. ALBUM PINS ARE CHANGING THE WAY WE HEAR CELTIC MUSIC Looking for a fresh way to support the music you love? Meet the Album Pin. Album Pins are lapel pins themed to a specific album — and each one comes with a digital download. Wear your music. All of my latest pins are wood - burned and locally produced, which means a smaller footprint and a one - of - a - kind feel you won't find anywhere else. Pick yours up at magerecords.com THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! This episode is brought to you by our generous patrons. These are the listeners who make the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast possible every single week. They keep the music coming. They keep this community alive. And I am so grateful for every one of them. If you love this show, I invite you to join them. A special thanks to our latest Patron of the Podcast: Paul, Ty, Cody HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST Go to our Patreon page. Decide how much you want to pledge every month, $4, $12, $25. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Send me a photo. If you're in a Celtic band, send me an audio recording of you performing live. Just audio. I'll use it in a podcast episode later this year. Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic. Jennifer Van Boxel emailed: "Mark, I just finished listening to episode #749, Celtic Protest Songs, and I want to thank you for using your specialized platform to say things that really need to be said these days. Thank you for taking the financial hit to bring those songs to us. I am already a Patreon, and I had been debating whether or not to renew my year subscription when it runs out in a couple months. This episode has persuaded me to continue to monetarily support this podcast. I also appreciate the Pride Month specials you've done in the past, emphasizing that Celtic music is a space for everyone." 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Cathy and Todd discuss Apollo 13 (1995) for Space Month, Ron Howard's docudrama starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris, based on the true story of NASA’s near-disastrous 1970 lunar mission. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and grossed over $355 million worldwide, cementing its place as one of the great survival stories ever put on screen. They discuss the complicated legacies of the astronauts, the emotional devastation of the wives left behind, and why the most famous line in the film isn’t what anyone actually said. Some Ways to Support Us Sign up for Cathy's Substack Order Restoring our Girls Join Team Zen Links shared in this episode: For the full show notes, visit zenpopparenting.com. This week's sponsor(s): Avid Co DuPage County Area Decorating, Painting, Remodeling by Avid Co includes kitchens, basements, bathrooms, flooring, tiling, fire and flood restoration. David Serrano- Certified Financial Planner- 815-370-3780 MenLiving – A virtual and in-person community of guys connecting deeply and living fully. No requirements, no creeds, no gurus, no judgements Todd Adams Life & Leadership Coaching for Guys Other Ways to Support Us Follow us on social media Instagram YouTube Facebook Buy and leave a review for Cathy’s Book Zen Parenting: Caring for Ourselves and Our Children in an Unpredictable World Find everything ZPR on our Resources Page Guys- Complete a MenLiving Connect profile

Why does healthy food taste bland? And how do you fix it? Celebrity chef and Food Network Chopped champion Ed Harris joins Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room to reveal how to make plant-based meals explode with flavor. From layering spices to using fresh herbs like parsley, Chef Ed shares the exact techniques he uses in professional kitchens to transform simple ingredients into unforgettable dishes.