Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 33 Film Flam #3: Drinking!

Nothing says the holiday season is upon us better than drinking and competition. Tell your loved ones how you feel by beating them at movie/drinking related trivia.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 33 Film Flam #3: Drinking!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 32 Slumber Party Cinema #6: Cocktail

Is it dignified to be so drunk in public? What if we're only discussing being drunk in public? Today we discuss just how drunk to get while talking about 1988's Cocktail starring Tom Cruise.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 32 Slumber Party Cinema #6: Cocktail

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 31 Heralds & Denouncements November 2019

Heralds & Denouncements is back fancy friends, and we're not just heralding and denouncing any old films but rather a collective by a single performer chosen by each host.

Heralds:
Basil:
Land of the Dead (2005, George Romero)
River's Edge (1986, Tim Hunter)

Patrick:
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009, Werner Herzog)
At Eternity's Gate (2018, Julian Schnabel)
Spider-Man (2002, Sam Raimi)

Reuben:
Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula)

Denouncements:
Basil:
Red Rock West (1993, John Dahl)
Hoosiers (1986, David Anspaugh)

Patrick:
Antichrist (2009, Lars Von Trier)

Reuben:
Barbarella (1968, Roger Vadim)
9 to 5 (1980, Colin Higgins)
Coming Home (1978, Hal Ashby)


Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 31 Heralds & Denouncements November 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 30 Spitball #3 Performers

What is a good performance? We work out this and many other questions about acting in this week's spitball discussion.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 30 Spitball #3

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 29 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood #5: Faye-FI

Another week, another nostalgic walk down memory lane. This time, Basil, Patrick, and Reuben discuss Faye Dunaway's three movies in the AFI 100 movies 100 years list; both how they used to feel about the movies and how they feel as extremely old men.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 29 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood #5: Faye-FI

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 28 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood #4: Jim Carrey

We discuss the exploits of one James Carrey and his towering influence on the comedy of the 1990s.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 28 Is That All There Is To My Childhood #4 Jim Carrey

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 27 Heralds & Denouncements: October 2019

Heralds:

Reuben:
Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan, 2007)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)

Patrick:
Knock Knock (Eli Roth, 2015)

Basil:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Tobe Hooper, 1986)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)

Denouncements:

Reuben:
What a Girl Wants (Dennie Gordon, 2003)
The First Wives Club (Hugh Wilson, 1996)

Patrick:
Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019)
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)
The Concept of Fraternities

Basil:
Twilight Zone: The Movie (Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, and Steven Spielberg, 1983)
Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 27: Heralds & Denouncements October 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 26 Readin' N Watchin' #4: Smooth Talk

Basil and Hayley host Reuben for another episode of Readin' N' Watching, how do we feel about Joyce Carol Oates' twitter presence edition? We recorded this months ago, and I didn't edit it or re-listen to it in order to publish it, so this is the description you get. Enjoy!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 26 Readin' N Watchin' #4: Smooth Talk

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 5: Up and Down

Sorry for the hiatus fancy friends! Combined with Reuben being on vacation, we've had numerous audio failures which meant instead of being ahead on recording we were suddenly behind. But I think this episode was worth the wait because we bring you our first drunk criticism.

Patrick and Reuben woke up, watched most of 1993's Up and Down (dir. Luc Moullet), joined their coworkers for a pedal tour/pub crawl, came back and finished the movie, then continued to drink while podcasting about it. Please forgive the ice clinking sounds! It's a necessity for drunk podcasting!

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 5: Up and Down

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 4: Booksmart

Patrick is joined by special guests Kris and Justin to talk about Olivia Wilde's directorial debut, Booksmart.

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-sode 4: Booksmart

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 25 Spitball #2 Auteurs

Reuben, Patrick, and Basil gather to talk Auteur Theory, how it came to be and what it really means for film and film criticism as a whole.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 25 Spitball #2 Auteurs

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 24 Film Flam #2 Auteurs

"August" Auteur Month continues, this time with an old podcast format. Basil hosts with Ilya, Patrick, and Reuben as he questions their knowledge of auteurs and other famous directors. Listen in to learn new games and hear how bad we all are at them (except for Ilya)!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 24 Film Flam #2 Auteurs

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 23 Revisitation Rights #1 Auteurs

August Auteur Month continues, this time with another new podcast format. This time, Revisitation Rights! We go back to movies we saw and didn't like when we were younger, but have a feeling we might like more now that we're older. Ilya picked Southland Tales (2007), directed by Richard Kelly. Patrick picked Le Samourai (1967), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and Reuben picked Beauty & The Beast (1946), directed by Jean Cocteau. Basil was going to pick Unforgiven (1992), directed by Clint Eastwood, but a terrible confluence of sleep deprivation and no half & half for his morning coffee made him miss the episode. How did the other three feel about these revisits? Listen in to find out!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 23 Revisitation Rights #1 Auteurs

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 22 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood? #3: Auteurs

August is Auteur Month here at Fancy Film Fellows! Basil, Patrick, and Reuben discuss movies they loved as children but haven’t seen since they were children. The theme this time is auteurs! So we picked three movies by well-regarded directors that we considered childhood favorites and decided to revisit them with adult eyes. Reuben picked Manhattan, Basil picked Forrest Gump, and Patrick picked O Brother, Where Art Thou? Do these movies still hold up? Or were they better left to the vestiges of memory?

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 22 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood? #3: Auteurs

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 21 Heralds & Denouncements: August 2019

Heralds:

Basil:
Mumblecore (Megan Boyle & Tao Lin, 2011)
Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991)

Ilya:
Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) (David Fincher, 1992/2003)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
Mindhunter: Season 2 (David Fincher, 2019)

Patrick:
The Big Space Travel (Valentin Selivanov, 1975)
Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019)

Reuben:
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Darkman (Sam Raimi, 1990)

Denouncements:

Basil:
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)

Ilya:
No denouncements this month!

Patrick:
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015)
Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018)

Reuben:
The Mummy (Stephen Sommers, 1999)
Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov, 2008) Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 21: Heralds & Denouncements August 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 20 Readin' N Watchin' #3: The Swimmer

Basil and Hayley drink too much then take a nosedive into the ennui-laden waters of '60s upper-middle class literature/cinema. We discuss John Cheever's short story, "The Swimmer" and compare it to the movie of the same name, directed by Frank Perry.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 20 Readin' N Watchin' #3: The Swimmer

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 19 Slumber Party Cinema #5: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

This week Patrick, Ilya, and Reuben bring a bunch of food to their Slumber Party! Dinner and a movie, what could be more '90s cable television than that? So gather 'round the dining table and listen in as they discuss 1994's Eat, Drink, Man, Woman directed by Ang Lee.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 19 Slumber Party Cinema #5: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 3: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

We return with another miniature episode about a new release. Continuing a tradition we started on Loose Canons with Furious 7 we are here to review the new Fast & Furious movie. This time our whole core four was able to join us, making this mini episode a mini in name only. Neither the cast nor the running time was very miniature. We answer all the important questions about this new spin-off, such as “Should The Rock have sex?” and “What’s the deal with Jason Statham’s sister-daughter?” and “When did it seem like this movie would end?”

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 3 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 18 Heralds & Denouncements: July 2019

Patrick couldn’t make it this week, so it’s just three of the core four: Basil, Ilya, and Reuben.

Heralds:

Basil:
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)

Ilya:
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 2003)

Denouncements:

Basil:
As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)
Privacy Settings (Joe Swanberg, 2013)

Ilya:
The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)

Reuben:
(500) Days Of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997)
Child’s Play 2 (John Lafia, 1990)
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2019)

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 18 Heralds & Denouncements: July 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 17 Pitch Sesh #1

This week we introduce another new format: Pitch Sesh! For this segment one of the hosts pitches a movie idea and the other hosts step into their Producer Shoes to help them finesse their dream project. For this episode Patrick pitches a movie chomping at the bit to get some Oscar love, a film about a small-town gun store owner who has to call his entire life into question after his son is killed in a school shooting. Bucky Barnett, who longtime listeners may remember from our Loose Canons days, returns to help Basil and Reuben decide on a star-studded cast and crew to propel this movie to thirsty Academy Award glory.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 17 Pitch Sesh #1

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 16 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood? #2: Kids Sports Movies

Basil and Patrick are joined by returning-guest Kevin Dugan to talk about all those 90s sports hits. We saw these movies as kids and loved them, but how do they hold up now? Are they home runs? Are they touchdowns? Are they… whatever the word for doing really well in a bobsled run is? Or are they strike-outs, fumbles, failures to finish?

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 16 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood? #2: Kids Sports Movies

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 15 Seen/Unseen #2 Aladdin (2019)

Patrick is joined by special guest Reo Townsend to discuss Guy Richie's 2019 remake of the Disney classic Aladdin. There's discussion of Will Smith's hair, various depictions of the Genie, and whether or not Disney will try to include every cultural holiday into their IP collection.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 15 Seen/Unseen #2 Aladdin (2019)

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 14 Slumber Party Cinema #4: Muriel's Wedding

This week, Fancy Film Fellows does another Slumber Party Cinema episode where we take a chance on Muriel's Wedding. Patrick, Reuben, and Basil are the podcasting queens. Mamma mia! So much to talk about, from marriage to performative politics. Be a super trouper, and when we ask you to listen to us discuss this movie, say, "I do I do I do I do!" Waterloo?

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 14 Slumber Party Cinema #4: Muriel's Wedding

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 13 Heralds & Denouncements #3: June 2019

The end of June is upon us. We are deep into summer and the core four (Ilya, Reuben, Patrick, and Basil) have spent their time indoors! Watching movies! Here’s what they thought of some ones they really liked and really didn’t.

Heralds: 

Reuben: 

Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch) 

Fat City (1972, John Huston) 

Patrick: 

Coraline (2009, Henry Selick) 

Basil: 

Shutter Island (2010, Martin Scorsese) 

Ilya: 

Collateral (2004, Michael Mann) 

Denouncements: 

Reuben: 

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg) 

Patrick: 

Missing Link (2019, Chris Butler) 

Trading Paint (2019, Karzan Kader) 

Iron Man (2008, Jon Favreau) 

Basil: 

Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, Joseph Zito) 

The Final Destination (2009, David R. Ellis) 

To Live And Die In L.A. (1985, William Friedkin) 

Ilya: 

End Of Watch (2012, David Ayer) 

Chernobyl (2019, Johan Renck) 

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 13 Heralds & Denouncements #3: June 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 12 Seen/Unseen #1: Brightburn

This week we bring you another new format, Seen/Unseen! For this two-person podcast one of the people on the show has seen the film to be discussed and the other hasn’t! In this case Patrick brings in new guest Alesha Mitchell to discuss the 2019 film Brightburn. Patrick has seen the film and all Alesha has seen is the trailer! What does she think about the movie? What’s her impression? What does Patrick think with the whole movie in perspective? Where do they converge and where do they differ?

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 12 Seen/Unseen #1 Brightburn

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 11 Readin' 'N' Watchin' #2: Children Of The Corn

Hayley and Basil return with another episode of Readin’ N Watchin’ to discuss one of the so-called Master Of Horror’s most famous short stories and the adaptation it inspired. This film series is easily the most prolific of all Stephen King adaptations, as there are currently nine films and a made-for-TV remake in the series. How did we feel about the first one? All that corn! All those outlanders!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 11 Readin' 'N' Watchin' #2: Children Of The Corn

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.10 Slumber Party Cinema #3: Flowers of Shanghai

Ilya is away to Munich, so this month’s Slumber Party Cinema is just Patrick, Basil, and Reuben. While Hou Hsiao-Hsien came up frequently on our previous podcast, Loose Canons, this is the first time we’ve done a full episode on one of his films. We talk about opium, meta-textual commentary on making movies, portrayals of women, the downsides of at-home film viewing, and whether or not sad Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is a good person.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.9 Slumber Party Cinema #3: Flowers of Shanghai

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 9 Heralds And Denouncements #2: May 2019

We finish off the month of May with another episode of Heralds and Denouncements. The core four — Ilya, Basil, Reuben, and Patrick — return again to talk about the movies we saw in the last month that we liked and disliked very strongly.

Heralds:
Basil:
Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant)

Reuben:
Shoeshine (1946, Vittorio De Sica)
Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock)

Patrick:
Kitbull (2019, Rosana Sullivan)
Deep Cover (1992, Bill Duke)

Denouncements:
Basil:
Sophie’s Choice (1982, Alan J. Pakula)
The Suckling (1990, Francis Teri)

Reuben:
It (1927, Clarence G. Badger)
Rocco And His Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)

Patrick:
Little (2019, Tina Gordon)

Ilya didn’t have anything to Herald or Denounce this month! So all he did was host. And what a hosting job he did!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 9 Heralds And Denouncements #2: May 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 2: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Our second mini-episode! Another new release! This time Patrick is joined by Reuben and Basil to discuss the newest entry in the John Wick series. Ilya couldn’t make it because it doesn’t come out in Germany until next weekend. Damn those German release dates. This is much closer to what we meant by an actual mini-sode. It’s under an hour! We talk about franchises, heroes and villains, stunt work, violence, all that stuff.

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 2: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 8 The Spit Ball #1: Titles

Fancy Film Fellows has another new podcast and another new format. This week it's The Spit Ball, a roundtable question podcast, where one of the Fancy Fellows brings a topic that they want to discuss more generally as opposed one specific movie or a couple of movies. The Spit Ball the first is about film titles and is hosted by Reuben. All of the original crew joins in as we discuss what we think of titles, what some good and bad titles are, what makes them good or bad, and even how and why movie titles might be different than titles for other artforms.


Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 8: The Spit Ball #1: Titles

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 7 Readin' 'N' Watchin' #1: Brokeback Mountain

Another week another Fancy Film Fellows podcast series. This time it’s a series we’re calling Readin’ ‘N’ Watchin’: No Stephen King Adaptations Allowed. In this series we pick a short story that was adapted into a movie, read the short story, then watch the movie! Basil and Hayley created this series and the only guest for the inaugural episode is Hayley’s pet bird. He makes a lot of noise though! Apologies for that. They didn’t realize as they were recording just how loud he would be. We promise all future episodes will be bird-free.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 7 Readin' 'N' Watchin' #1: Brokeback Mountain

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.6 Film Flam #1

This week we bring you our first episode of a series we’re calling Film Flam, where we play movie related trivia games. In the ultimate example of navel gazing, we play some games we stole from Doug Loves Movies and an extended game of trivia about our former podcast, Loose Canons. Reuben hosts the game show, while Patrick, Basil, and Ilya try to find out just how much they know about themselves!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.6 Film Flam #1

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 1: Avengers: Endgame

This week we bring you our first Mini-Sode of Fancy Film Fellows. At least, that’s what we intended it to be. But a three hour movie ends up bringing a lot of talking, so the only thing very miniature about it is the number of hosts. Last year Reuben and Patrick did an episode on Avengers: Infinity War so this time we thought it would be fun if the other half of the core four, Basil and Ilya, came on to discuss the second half of the biggest movie event of the 21st century.

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 1: Avengers: Endgame

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.5 Slumber Party Cinema #2: Summer of Sam

This week we return for our second episode of Slumber Party Cinema. Basil, Ilya, Patrick & Reuben all get together to discuss one of Spike Lee’s less talked about ‘90s movies. Toxic masculinity in the ‘70s abounds! Adrien Brody plays a punk rocker. Post-Romy And Michele Mira Sorvino is here! Ben Gazzara! How did we feel about Spike Lee’s take on the serial killer genre. Listen in!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 5 Slumber Party Cinema #2: Summer of Sam

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.4 Heralds And Denouncements #1: April 2019

Ilya, Reuben, Patrick, and Basil bring you the first expanded edition of Heralds & Denouncements, the once segment now full podcast where we discuss recent watches that we felt strongly about (both positively and negatively). In this episode, we heralded and denounced the following films.

Heralds:
Ilya:My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997, PJ Hogan)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese)
High Flying Bird (2019, Steven Soderbergh)

Reuben:The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, William Dieterle)
Romeo + Juliet (1996, Baz Luhrmann)

Patrick:Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
Greta (2019, Neil Jordan)
The Eleventh Year (1928, Dziga Vertov)

Basil:
Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis, 2003)

Denouncements -
Reuben:
True Lies (1994, James Cameron)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996, Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)

Patrick:
The General (1926, Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton)

Basil:
Waiting for Guffman (1996, Christopher Guest)
Final Destination (2000, James Wong)
Aquaman (2018, James Wan)

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 4 Heralds and Denouncements #1: April 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.3 Not This Again! #1: Pet Sematary

Basil, Patrick, and Reuben bring you the first episode in a series about Hollywood remakes called “Not This Again.” For our first episode we compare two Stephen King adaptations. None of us had ever seen the 1989 original, and with the recent release of the 2019 remake we decided to take a trip back to 20 years ago. And then another trip to a week and a half ago. Do we go with the curmudgeon consensus regarding remakes and declare the original better than the new one? Or do we think the new one brings fresh blood to some stale ‘80s horror?

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 3 Not This Again! #1: Pet Sematary

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.2 Is That All There Is...To My Childhood? #1: Robin Williams

This week brings the first episode of a segment Basil hosts entitled, “Is That All There Is… To My Childhood?”

Every episode Basil and his fancy guests will go back and watch a movie they loved as a child, but haven’t seen since they were a child. Then they’ll discuss what they liked about it as a kid, perhaps share some specific memories (first time they can remember seeing it, if they have any childhood associations with the movie, etc.), and discuss how they feel about the movie now, watching it as an adult.

For our first episode we went with a triple feature from the king of ‘90s children’s entertainment, Robin Williams! Basil is joined by returning Loose Canons guest, Hayley Boyd, and first-time guest, Kevin Dugan, to discuss this trio of Williams. How do these films full of manic energy and goofy voices hold up? Listen in and find out.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 2 Is That All There Is...To My Childhood? #1: Robin Williams

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.1 Slumber Party Cinema #1: Texasville

We’re Back!

After a much longer than anticipated hiatus, we have returned with our new podcast, Fancy Film Fellows!

For those of you who followed us over from Loose Canons, welcome! We hope you enjoy the new show. It’s going to be a much looser format. Even though our old podcast was called Loose Canons, we actually started to feel that it wasn’t quite loose enough. The format of “pick a movie, discuss it” every week started to feel a little too hemmed in. As such, our new show will be something of a variety show. A Film Revue, if you will. Sometimes we’ll do the old way, where we focus on just one movie, but sometimes we’ll just play some trivia games, or talk about multiple movies under broader topics, or just talk about what we’ve been watching lately. We have a lot of ideas and hope you’ll enjoy every last one of them.

For those of you who have never heard Loose Canons, our old archive can be found right here on this website (under the aptly titled “Loose Canons Archive” tab), so feel free to go back and listen to some older episodes. They are very good!

Anyway, we concluded Loose Canons with a discussion of Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show,” so we figured the only appropriate way to launch our new show was with a discussion of that movie’s (far less famous) sequel, “Texasville.” And that’s what we did! For those who remember we were pretty harsh on old Petey Bog’s AFI classic. Do we feel the same way about its sequel? Listen in and find out!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 1 Slumber Party Cinema #1: Texasville