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