The Movie Homework Podcast
It’s a jam-packed episode this week. We kick things off by talking about an explosive development in Ari’s life, Mariam finally watching Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill and Ari catching up with Richard Linklater’s film from last year Bernie.
This week Mariam had to watch two movies! More specifically the two worthwhile follow-ups to Die Hard: 1990’s Die Hard 2 and 1995’s Die Hard With A Vengence. Mariam picked Die Hard as her favorite piece of homework so-far, so what will she make of its sequels?
Ari’s homework was slightly weirder, the Russ Meyer directed, Roger Ebert penned sexploitation classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Ari had never seen a Russ Meyer film, so what will he make of his first venture into his filmography.
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Movie Homework Ep.52 - Die Hard Sequels & Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
A glorious screenshot from Die Hard - With a Vengeance. Coming up on Monday’s episode.
We’re back from our week-long hiatus, with a discussion of one of the most beloved documentaries ever made and a relatively little discussed joint in the oeuvre of Spike Lee. But before we get into that we discuss going to see Poltergeist exhibited in 70mm and Mariam watching Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye.
This week Ari had to watch Terry Zwigoff’s 1994 documentary Crumb, about the legendary cartoonist and artist R. Crumb. The film follows both him and his hugely dysfunctional family.
Meanwhile Mariam had to watch Spike Lee’s 1999 joint Summer of Sam. It deals with the effects the murders by the serial killer Son of Sam has on the community around it, and various other tangentially related things. Ari enjoyed it, although he acknowledges that it’s a huge mess, but what will Mariam make of it?
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This week we’re celebrating our fiftieth episode by counting down our top five favorite films the other host has made us watch. But before we get into the countdown we discuss the passing of Roger Ebert and some of the films we’ve been watching in the last days.
The countdown includes some films we knew for sure the other would pick, some surprises and some upsets.
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Welcome to the 49th instalment of The Movie Homework Podcast! As always be begin the show by discussing the films we’ve watched recently, with Mariam discussing the 1978 comedy Girlfriends by Claudia Weill, which mostly makes Ari curious about whether or not Bob Balaban was cute in it (SPOILER ALERT Bob Balaban is always cute.) Ari caught up with a classic Hollywood horror film, by watching Tod Browning’s Dracula.
This week Mariam had to watch the 2011 Icelandic comedy Á annan veg (Either Way.) Set in the 1980s the film centers on two men working together as a roadcrew, painting lines on deserted roads and putting up sticks to demarcate where the roads end. Their relationships with women and each other come to heads, in the mostly undramatic film. It is one of Ari’s favorite Icelandic films in quite some time, but what will Mariam make of its incredibly small stakes?
Almost as an antidote to Either Way is Ari’s homework, the 1996 teen thriller The Craft. It was a childhood favorite of Mariam’s, which she still feels has some merit, beyond nostalgia. But will Ari be immune to its charms?
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Welcome to the 48th installment of Movie Homework. We kick things off this week by talking about some of the films we’ve seen this week, with Mariam catching the classic The Wild Bunch and Ari examining the little-discussed Roman Polanski film Frantic.
This week Ari had to watch the 1997 Japanese thriller Cure. A detective is examining a series of identical murders, all performed by different killers. He starts to think that the killers might have been hypnotized, and shortly thereafter apprehends the suspect, which only makes the case harder to solve.
This week Mariam had to watch Neil Jordan’s film The Crying Game, which was a sensation when released in 1992. It centers on a member of the IRA played by Stephen Rea who gets involved with a girlfriend of an English soldier he captured, with sexy results!
We close the show by discussing what we’re gonna watch next week! As always you can email us, find us on Twitter and on Facebook and rate and review the show in iTunes!
Welcome to the 47th installment of Movie Homework. Both Mariam and Ari are working on their thesis’ but in between writing they’ve managed to watch some movies. Mariam watched the Japanese horror film Pulse, which actually ended up being quite a confounding experience. Meanwhile Ari was also quite confounded by a films cult-status, the monster film Tremors.
Ari’s homework this week was to watch Jerry Lewis’ second directorial feat The Ladies Man from 1965. Lewis stars as Herbert H. Heebert, who after having been spurned by his girlfriend has become quite phobic towards women, but after moving to Los Angeles he ends up working as a errand boy at a girl’s dormitory.
This week Mariam had to watch Werner Herzog nutso cop film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, starring Nicolas Cage as the titular bad lieutenant, whose port of call happens to be New Orleans. He’s involved in a murder investigation, drugs, gambling and he’s slowly loosing his grasp on everything.
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Movie Homework Ep.47 - The Ladies Man & Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
