This week, Marshall, co-host of our Youtube show Twin Cinema, joins us to talk about Takashi Miike's bloody Japanese samurai flick 13 Assassins! When an evil, sadistic lord threatens to usher shogunate-era Japan into a new time of war, an old samurai gathers a team of 13 ronin to stop him. Does the film's nonstop action at the end justify the long stretch of talking and walking in the beginning? Find out what we thought, and check out our custom cocktail and drinking game!
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It's Oscar season once again, and Film Twitter impresario Jacob Oller (@JacobOller) joins us to talk about David McKenzie's hard-hitting crime thriller/neo-Western Hell or High Water! When two brothers (Chris Pine, Ben Foster) take to bank robbery to save their mother's farm in poverty-stricken west Texas, it's up to an old Texas marshal (Jeff Bridges) to bring them in. Hear our thoughts on this (and the rest of the Oscar field), along with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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This week, Darren Aronofsky aficionado (and regular guest) Derek Jarvis returns to help us unpack the psychedelic, time-hopping spiritual masterpiece The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz as two lovers navigating the mysteries of the Tree of Life across three different time periods. The results are beautiful, deeply engrossing, and well worth a watch along with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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"Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee." - Juliet, Act 4, Scene 3
It's that lovin' time of year, listeners, and this time around we're celebrating Valentine's Day with Baz Luhrmann's flashy modern retelling of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes! Shannon of the Stage of Fools podcast and Mercy Street Theatre's Julia Rohed accompany us as we talk about Shakespearean language, unconventional film adaptations of the Bard, and Romeo and Juliet's utter lack of peripheral vision. Listen anon with thine custom cocktail and drinking game!
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Alcohollywood is back for 2017, and we've brought Consequence of Sound's Blake Goble out to sea to talk about Kathryn Bigelow's 2002 sub drama K-19: The Widowmaker, starring a wery Russian Harrison Ford and a not-so-wery Russian Liam Neeson as competing captains on a radioactive Russian sub at the height of the Cold War. Take a listen and enjoy our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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At long last, Alcohollywood presents a project years in the making: Indiana Jones and the Monkey King! Chris Columbus’ unproduced 1985 screenplay comes to life in this full-cast radio drama with sound effects, original music, and voicework from your favorite Alcohollywood guests!
In Part 4, Indy (Nick Freed) tries to mollify moon-eyed college student Betsy (Betsy Stone), who threatens to....kill herself if she can't be with Indy? Geez, this got dark fast. Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: This episode contains several unfunny scenes depicting attempts at suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
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At long last, Alcohollywood presents a project years in the making: Indiana Jones and the Monkey King! Chris Columbus’ unproduced 1985 screenplay comes to life in this full-cast radio drama with sound effects, original music, and voicework from your favorite Alcohollywood guests!
In Part 3, Indy (Nick Freed) commiserates with Marcus Brody (Chris Bashen) about his potential next mission, and all the sidekicks he's lost along the way. Wait...lost? Like, Sallah and everybody? Geez, that's a gut punch. Take a listen and enjoy!
Full Cast and Credits at http://www.alcohollywood.com
At long last, Alcohollywood presents a project years in the making: Indiana Jones and the Monkey King! Chris Columbus’ unproduced 1985 screenplay comes to life in this full-cast radio drama with sound effects, original music, and voicework from your favorite Alcohollywood guests!
Part 2 sees Indy (Nick Freed) returning to his day job as a mild-mannered professor, only to face his greatest nemesis yet... angry students!
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Full Cast and Credits at http://www.alcohollywood.com
At long last, Alcohollywood presents a project years in the making: Indiana Jones and the Monkey King! Chris Columbus' unproduced 1985 screenplay comes to life in this full-cast radio drama with sound effects, original music, and voicework from your favorite Alcohollywood guests!
In Part 1, our story begins with rugged adventurer (and mediocre fisherman) Indiana Jones (Nick Freed) visiting Scotland to enjoy some much-needed recreation, only to become ensnared in a murder investigation involving g-g-g-ghosts!
Full Cast and Credits at http://www.alcohollywood.com
Theme Song: "Live Oak" by A Giraffe
Happy holidays, listeners! For our Christmas episode this year, Shannon Campe of the Stage of Fools podcast joins us once again to dig into the 90s cult Christmas classic Home Alone, starring Macauley Culkin and directed by Chris Columbus!
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Harry Connickuh everyone! Every year, the week before Christmas, we celebrate the life and works of Sir Harry Connick, Jr. - this time around, returning guest Jane Dempsey joins us to talk about William Friedkin's Bug, adapted from the Tracy Letts play! Here, Connickuh plays third fiddle to Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon as a pair of co-dependent strangers who shack up in an Oklahoma motel room to hide from the world, only to find themselves dealing with a strange bug infestation - that may or may not be real. Check it out along with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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This week, Julia Rohed of Mercy Street Theatre Company joins us to squeak about the 2003 remake of Willard, starring the ever-creepy Crispin Glover as an eccentric mama's boy who starts doling out his own brand of justice against those who wrong him - with the help of a few friendly rats. It's a surprisingly eccentric, Raimi-esque dark comedy with a wicked sense of humor, and we take it all in with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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This week, Patrick O'Rourke of Pat Trek joins us to kick off December with the Jean-Claude Van Damme action film Sudden Death! Basically "Die Hard in a hockey stadium," Sudden Death features a disgraced fire marshal (JCVD) who has to save the Vice President and his own daughter from the clutches of a madman (Powers Boothe) holding them hostage during a Hawks-Penguins game. Featuring kick-fights with henchmen in penguin suits and the most industrious MacGyvered weapons, Sudden Death is a total blast - especially with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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This week, fellow Chicago film critic Jacob Oller joins us to unpack the pure-strain craziness of 1978's The Manitou! When a woman finds a rapidly growing fetus-tumor on her back, her tarot card-reading boyfriend (Tony Curtis) and the Native American guy who hates it when you litter (Michael Ansara) join forces to exorcise an evil 400-year-old demon. Space lasers, noble savage stereotypes and earnestly goofy special effects abound, and we talk about it all with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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This week, we lean into the everlasting arms of special guest Adam Kempenaar of Filmspotting as we discuss the Expressionistic style and intriguing moral center of Charles Laughton's acclaimed 1955 noir thriller The Night of the Hunter!
ANNOUNCEMENT: For the month of January 2017, we'll be pre-empting new episodes of the podcast in favor of bringing you our long-awaited full-cast radio drama Indiana Jones and the Monkey King! Don't worry, our spinoff shows Twin Cinema and Alcohollywood On Tap will run as scheduled.
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Get your tickets for Filmspotting, Filmspotting: SVU, CinemaJaw and The Next Picture Show’s live podcast performances at the Chicago Podcast Festival!
Clint’s guest spot on the Kill By Kill Podcast (Episode 14)
Get Tickets for VStheUniverse’s Holiday Geek Show (featuring Alcohollywood!)
PUNCH Drink's article on movie drinking games, feat. Alcohollywood
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This week, Theo Estes of our spinoff web series Twin Cinema (subscribe to our Youtube channel for new episodes every other week) joins us to get artsy with Todd Haynes' 1995 independent drama Safe, starring Julianne Moore!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Look out later this week for the launch of our biweekly spinoff podcast, Alcohollywood: On Tap, which will cover new releases, independent films, and offer interviews and festival coverage! Subscribe on iTunes!
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This week, Allison Shoemaker of The AV Club, Consequence of Sound and Podlander Drunkcast joins us to talk the 1996 Sylvester-Stallone-in-a-tunnel thriller Daylight!
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In our second minisode covering the Chicago International Film Festival, Clint tells Jared about the latter batch of films he caught at CIFF 2016, including Park Chan-wook's latest The Handmaiden (with help from Consequence of Sound's Dominick Suzanne-Mayer), the Jim O'Heir-starring dark comedy Middle Man, and more! Also, Clint sits down for an interview with Kaleidoscope writer/director Rupert Jones about working with his brother Toby Jones, and the visual rhythms of psychological horror.
We finish out our month-long breakdown of 'versus' horror movies this week with Consequence of Sound's Dominick Suzanne-Mayer, as we discuss the 1993 horror mish-mash Dollman vs. Demonic Toys! A sort of half-movie cobbled from stock footage from three different movies in the Full Moon Entertainment catalog - Dollman, Demonic Toys, and Bad Channels - along with a bit of new footage, this film sees Lilliputian space cop Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson) and a human nurse shrunk down to 11 inches (Melissa Behr) teaming up with a full-sized policewoman (Tracy Scoggins) to take down a cabal of laser-spewing, rape-happy toys. It's only an hour long, but it's just as ridiculous as that synopsis implies! Check it out along with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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This week, Grant of History Honeys and Chip & Ironicus joins us once more for Horror V. Octorbor, continuing our month-long breakdown of 'versus' movies with Alien vs. Predator! Paul W.S. Anderson's limp, ill-advised match-up movie combining Fox's biggest sci-fi monsters forgets what made the other two series good in the first place, basically remaking Resident Evil in an ancient Mayan-Aztec-Antarctican(?) temple, complete with paper-thin characters and dated effects. Still, we have a good time with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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In this special minisode, Clint breaks down his coverage of the 52nd Annual Chicago International Film Festival for its opening weekend, including capsule reviews of A Quiet Passion, I, Daniel Blake, Paterson, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, and his most anticipated films of the fest!
This week, we continue our month of 'versus' horror movies with the 2010 horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, along with special guest Matt Kubinski of CinemaJaw! Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine star as a couple of rednecks who are mistaken for hillbilly killers by a group of college kids when they accidentally kidnap college girl Allie (Katrina Bowden), resulting in a gut-busting sendup of horror tropes centered around an adorable pair of comedic buffoons. Check out our episode, along with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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All month, we're celebrating our fifth Horror Octorbor by taking on a slew of 'Vs.' horror movies! To start off, actor Andrew Saenz (of the upcoming indie film El Algun Lugar) joins us to talk about Ronny Yu's 2003 sloppy horror mash-up Freddy vs. Jason.
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