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Join Dave and Elise every week for a buggy-ride of cinematic exploration. A bilingual Montreal native and a Prairies hayseed gravitate to Toronto for the film culture, meet on OK Cupid, and spur on each other's movie-love, culminating in this podcast. Expect in-depth discussion of their old favourites (mostly studio-era Hollywood) and their latest frontiers (courtesy of the TIFF Cinematheque and various Toronto rep houses and festivals). The podcast will be comprised of several potentially n ...
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In this weeks episode: Kev is playing on hard mode; Sheepdog reveals he has a summer and winter coat; Anna returns to vacuuming ghosts and Pab isn't afraid any more (…he is). All this and much more on episode 564 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using …
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Our second Anna Magnani Sampler includes three Hollywood films, two with parts written for her by her friend Tennessee Williams, as well as the second film directed by Pasolini: The Rose Tattoo (1955), Wild is the Wind (1957), The Fugitive Kind (1960), and Mamma Roma (1962). Paired with a wacky Burt Lancaster, a bullying Anthony Quinn, a quietly in…
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In this weeks episode: Sheepdog has returned with stories of Switzerland and Pab gets in to visual novels. All this and much more on episode 563 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https:…
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In this episode of our Lilli Palmer Acteur-ist Oeuvre-view series, we watched a couple of 1969 movies somewhere on the horror spectrum: De Sade, a movie of ideas that doesn't live up to them, written by famed horror/sci fi author Richard Matheson; and The House That Screamed, an Italian slasher with a twist or two to recommend it. Good parts for Li…
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In this weeks episode: Kev in one way or another is about to be annoyed with Pab; Sheepdog has been shipped off to Switzerland; Anna has Switch games at the ready and Pab might be done with service games. All this and much more on episode 562 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com G…
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For this MGM 1947 Studios Year by Year episode, we discuss Cynthia, a gentle family melodrama starring a luminous 15-year-old Elizabeth Taylor as an over-protected teenager, and High Wall, a psychiatric film noir with great roles for Robert Taylor and Herbert Marshall as sweaty noir protagonists at cross purposes. Our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto…
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In this weeks episode: Kev and Sheepdog are conducting a series of lift tests; Anna is on a mission to finish a game and Pab finally made it. All this and much more on episode 561 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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After some rocky episodes, our Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view uncovers a couple of gems: Nobody Runs Forever aka The High Commissioner (1968, directed by Ralph Thomas), a spy thriller bursting at the seams with the charms of Rod Taylor and Christopher Plummer, and Hard Contract (1969, the only feature film made by writer-director S. Lee Pogosti…
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In this weeks episode: Kev has beef; Sheepdog is a simpleton; Anna finds a Playstation heirloom and Pab doesn't play out on a school night. All this and much more on episode 560 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Sheepdogs Kickstarter! Check it out here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.co/jXlNMxa…
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For this Paramount 1947 Studios Year by Year episode we watch a couple of films by producer/director team of Seton I. Miller and John Farrow: California, starring the belligerent sexual tension of Barbara Stawyck and Ray Milland in a left-leaning fable about the establishment of law and order in the West Coast, and Calcutta, a terrific Alan Ladd/Ga…
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In this weeks episode: Kev is finally putting his degree to good use; Sheepdog has become a taxi driver; Anna gets jump scared IRL and in game and Pab has started preparations for the DLC of the year. All this and much more on episode 559 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Sheep…
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For our June Special Subject we revisit the work of Kenji Mizoguchi, looking at two films from earlier than his best-known (in the West) period: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), about cross-class lovers and what it takes to become a great artist, and The 47 Ronin (1941), based on a true story that became emblematic of samurai values. To…
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In this weeks episode: Kev has been invited to an adult night; Anna has lost her gaming mojo and Pab has found his comfort game. All this and much more on episode 558 of MGP If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Sheepdogs Kickstarter! Check it out here: ⁠⁠https://t.co/jXlNMxajOB⁠⁠ Get FM24…
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This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view sees Lilli in two small but crucial roles: Sebastian (1968), starring Dirk Bogarde as a Cold War cryptanalyst of divided political loyalties, and Oedipus Rex (1968), starring Christopher Plummer as Freud's favourite plaything of the gods. We discuss Cold War politics, the Swinging Sixties New Woman, fr…
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In this weeks episode: Kev had an audience of one and loved it; Sheepdog behaves as you'd expect him to; Anna has two open world games on the go and Pab isn't happy with the new season . All this and much more on episode 557 of MGP If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Sheepdogs Kickstarte…
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For this Universal 1946 episode, we chose a B-movie double bill, The Cat Creeps (directed by Erle C. Kenton, best known for Island of Lost Souls) and She-Wolf of London (directed by Jean Yarbrough, Abbott and Costello specialist), hoping for hidden gems. But did we find any? And in the Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, our Powell and Pressbur…
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In this weeks episode: Kev has returned to his gaming roots by buying games and not playing them; Sheepdog has a kickstarter (link below); Anna wants to pet the animals and Pab becomes a god. All this and much more on episode 556 of MGP If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Sheepdogs Kicks…
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In this week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we encounter more Nazis in a couple of movies very loosely based on real WWII incidents: Disney's Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), based on Operation Cowboy (but with the equine eugenics shoved into the subtext), and Operation Crossbow (1965), about the attempt by British Intelligence…
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In this weeks episode: Sheepdog wants his memory wiped and Pab finds religion. All this and much more on episode 555 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/lollujoFM24⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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This week we have a whopping big episode for you: Part 2 of our look at Samuel Goldwyn Productions, dealing with the 1940s; and, in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, brief discussions of three Powell and Pressburgers, kicking off TIFF's May retrospective. For this episode we watched The Little Foxes (directed by William Wyler), The Pride …
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In this weeks episode: kev and Anna are on holiday so Sheepdog and Pab are manning the ship, where they discuss things such as Sheepdog shouting at his boss and Pab liking the collectibles. All this and much more on episode 554 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for jus…
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In this RKO 1946 episode we discuss Crack-Up (directed by Irving Reis), an eerie noir with a couple of great Expressionist set pieces. Pat O'Brien oozes vulnerability as a WWII vet and populist art critic who has to find out who's trying to make him look, or go, insane; Claire Trevor plays the love interest who's trying to help him (or is she?). Oh…
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In this weeks episode: kev is a Star Wars guy now; Sheepdog made a valiant effort; Anna likes the "actiony bits" and Pab has become an insider. All this and much more on episode 553 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode is a George Seaton double feature that once again gives us Lilli the sophisticate and Lilli the saint: in The Pleasure of His Company (1961), she plays the ex-wife of Fred Astaire, an absentee father whose plan to recapture his youth by seducing their daughter into becoming his travelling compa…
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In this weeks episode: kev tries some bean cakes; Sheepdog always listens; Anna wants to see how the Tallnecks are made and Pab is reminiscing in Japan. All this and much more on episode 552 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checko…
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This week's Fox 1946 Studios Year by Year episode features the strange bedfellows of Henry Hathaway's The Dark Corner, a curiously feminist film noir in which the tormented protagonist is saved by the persistence of a good woman (played by Lucille Ball), and Edmund Goulding's The Razor's Edge, based on a Somerset Maugham novel about spiritual enlig…
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In this weeks episode: kev gets a delivery; Sheepdog rages out; Anna is inadvertently speedrunning and Pab picks up every item. All this and much more on episode 551 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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Our examination of the film career of Lilli Palmer continues with a couple of excellent films that show us Palmer's range when playing "loveable": But Not for Me, in which she gives a comedic performance as the ex-wife of a Broadway producer played by Clark Gable, benevolently interfering in his budding relationship with young actress Carroll Baker…
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In this weeks episode: kev goes to see the giraffes in Harrods; Sheepdog gets kissed by a fan; Anna just wants to Lego in any medium and Pab has bought a holiday home. All this and much more on episode 550 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LO…
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For this Warner Bros. 1946 episode we watched two fantastical biopics, Devotion (directed by Curtis Bernhardt), starring Ida Lupino and Olivia de Havilland as Emily and Charlotte Brontë, and Night and Day (directed by Michael Curtiz), starring Cary Grant as Cole Porter and Monty Woolley as himself. We found them to be like night and day in terms of…
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In this weeks episode: kev has been talking about eggs on the radio; Sheepdog has been injured by April fools; Anna has started a scary game and Pab is off riddle solving. All this and much more on episode 549 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using cod…
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In our April Special Subject, Part 1 of our look at the films of Samuel Goldwyn, we discuss Dark Angel (1935), These Three (1936), Dodsworth (1936), and Wuthering Heights (1939), a selection heavy on Dave favourites Merle Oberon, William Wyler, and Gregg Toland. We ask in what sense these are "quality" films, and in what ways they escape our expect…
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In this weeks episode: kev has returned with his game of the year; Sheepdog can now uninstall Pokémon; Anna has tried every new game and Pab talks about pawns. All this and much more on episode 548 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at…
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For this week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we watched Jacques Becker's The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958), in which Palmer, playing Modigliani's rejected lover Beatrice Hastings, perfects her persona of brittle dissociation; and Mädchen in Uniform, the 1958 remake of the famous Weimar-era film about a teenager at an all-girls' board…
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In this weeks episode: kev and Anna are still away so Sheepdog and Pab answer listener questions. All this and much more on episode 547 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/lollujoFM24⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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This MGM 1946 Studios Year by Year episode is a Jules Dassin double feature that shows the range of the famed blacklistee even during his most constrained studio period: the noirish romantic drama Two Smart People, about two con artists (Lucille Ball and John Hodiak) and a cop who are all out to con each other; and the remarkable A Letter for Evie …
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In this weeks episode: With Kev and Anna away Sheepdog gets put on boss duty and Pab is in search of AI. All this and much more on episode 546 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/lollujoFM2…
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For this Lilli Palmer episode of our Acteurist Oeuvre-view series, we watched another West German movie, Devil in Silk (directed by Rolf Hansen), and Life Together (directed by Clément Duhour), a tribute to famed French playwright, screenwriter, and film director Sacha Guitry with an all-star cast. We analyze the surprisingly sophisticated structur…
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In this weeks episode: Kev has worked his way up to general manager; Sheepdog really does know how to treat a lady; Anna has glittery walls and Pab is learning how to drive. All this and much more on episode 545 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using c…
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In this Paramount 1946 episode we look at two movies featuring Veronica Lake which otherwise could not be more dissimilar: Miss Susie Slagle's (directed by John Berry), about the trials of pre-WWI Johns Hopkins medical students living in a boarding house presided over by Lillian Gish; and famous Lake/Ladd noir outing, The Blue Dahlia (directed by G…
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In this weeks episode: Kev has a new obsession; Anna has restarted to get caught up; Sheepdog gets across the line just in time and Pab has a 4 star resort. All this and much more on episode 544 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at ch…
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In this Universal 1945 episode of The Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year, we look at a couple of noir-adjacent films, Robert Siodmak's The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton as an abused husband who looks for a way out of his miserable marriage when he meets sweet and lovely Ella Raines, and the comedy/crime film Lady on a Train, which stars Deanna Dur…
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In this weeks episode: Kev is easily sold; Sheepdog can't believe the dialogue; Anna has once again dove into the madness and Pab is getting in to poker. All this and much more on episode 543 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at check…
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In this Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we discuss Tay Garnett's Main Street to Broadway (1953), a pleasant curiosity with an all-star New York theatre cast, including Palmer and Rex Harrison in a brief sandwich-themed couple cameo, but nearly stolen by Lynchian radio humourist Herb Shriner; and Fireworks (1954), Palmer's first German f…
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In this weeks episode: Kev is disappointed at the lack of snogging, Sheepdog has some family game time; Anna is impressed by a food court and Pab is exploring the underworld of Hawaii. All this and much more on episode 542 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35…
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For this RKO 1945 episode, two beautifully filmed noirs (by Harry J. Wild), Edwin L. Marin's Johnny Angel, another noir with a femme fatale (Claire Trevor) who loves too much (and gets a very unexpected - and gory - redemption), and Edward Dmytryk's Cornered, in which Dick Powell learns why you shouldn't hunt down Nazis and kill them with your bare…
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In this weeks episode: Kev and Anna are off cruisin', so Sheepdog and Pab get together to chat about things such as: forgetting which Final Fantasy you're playing and having a conversation with a crawfish. All this and much more on episode 541 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com …
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For our Valentine's 2024 episode we looked at two movies about obsession that interrogate the notion of romantic love: Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Chantal Akerman's La Captive (2000). If you think an extensive discussion of sexual assault and of what it would mean to be "pressed to death" by your partner's love sounds like essential Valent…
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In this weeks episode: Kev is back in high school; Sheepdog has seen the light; Anna just wants to get the "green one" and Pab almost has a musket. All this and much more on episode 540 of MGP! If you have any messages or questions for the gang then send them over to : Mgukpodcast@gmail.com Get FM24 for just £35.05 using code LOLLUJO at checkout: ⁠…
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Our Fox 1945 episode features two of the greatest and greatest-looking film noirs: Otto Preminger's Fallen Angel and John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven. We unpack the movies' love triangles, in which two strong-willed women exert their influence over a passive man; their treatment of the topics of love and obsession; the unique cinematic qualities…
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