Best Vicky Aguero Podcasts (2024)

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Pig (Episode 192) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:37:35

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Michael Sarnoski, director of the recent summer horror hit A Quiet Place: Day One, made his feature directorial debut with 2021's Pig starring Nicolas Cage and Alex Wolff. Pig is the story of a withdrawn farmer living in the Oregon woods with his trusted and lucrative truffle pig. When the pig is kidnapped, Cage's character embarks on a journey to …

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Three Guys Named Mike (Episode 191) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:16:41

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After winning the Oscar in 1948 for best actress in Johnny Belinda, Jane Wyman had her pick of projects and leading men. She chose the winning comedy Three Guys Named Mike in 1951 because of it's potential box office appeal and the chance to try her skills in a different genre. Her supporting cast of Mikes included Van Johnson, Howard Keel and Barr…

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Top Ten Movie Moms and Dads (Episode 190) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:38:56

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Hot Date has reached another tenth episode and that means a Top Ten extravaganza of movie memories and memorable moments. This time Dan and Vicky discuss their favorite Moms and Dads from film across the ages. The mission was accepted differently by your co-hosts so you're getting an eclectic list of perfect and imperfect parents. Dan, of course, f…

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Revolver (Episode 189) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:20:35

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A star studded cast joins Guy Ritchie regular Jason Statham in Revolver, the British auteur's violent meditation on the Ego and revenge. Ray Liotta, Andre Benjamin, Mark Strong, Vincent Pastore and Francesca Annis are all members of warring crime syndicates with Statham as the ex-con caught in the center. Ritchie was ultimately unhappy with the the…

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Christmas Holiday (Episode 188) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:06:03

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In 1944's Christmas Holiday, Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, both known for their achievements in musical comedies, were cast against type as a lounge singer with a sordid past and her abusive husband respectively. Audiences seemed to be ready for the change as Christmas Holiday, directed by stylist Robert Siodmak and based on a W. Somerset Maugham s…

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Paper Lion (Episode 187) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 49:48

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Alan Alda plays George Plimpton in Paper Lion, the 1968 film based on Plimpton's book of the same title. The book and film chronicle his attempt at joining the Detroit Lions during pre-season training for a story in Sports Illustrated. Several real life football players appear as themselves in the film inlcuding Alex Karras (who starred two more ti…

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Hammett (Episode 186) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:27:47

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When Francis Ford Coppola hired German auteur Wim Wenders to direct his first American film, little did he suspect the difficulty that film would have getting to screens. The movie was Hammett, a fictionalized account of the mystery writer Dasheill Hammett's second career as a private investigator. In real life, Hammett stuck to penning noirs but i…

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Stolen Face (Episode 185) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:18:07

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1952's Stolen Face was an early Hammer Films production. The British studio, which would later become synonymous with thrillers and horror films, also churned out it's fair share of melodramas and comedies. This film, about a heartbroken plastic surgeon who physically transforms a prisoner into the woman who jilted him, stars Lizabeth Scott, Paul H…

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No Escape (Episode 184) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:13:14

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Actor Ray Liotta was coming off crtitical acclaim for his star making turn in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas and was looking for a vehicle that would turn him into a bonafide movie star. For others that path was paved by action movies so Liotta signed on to 1994's No Escape hoping it would catapult him to international acclaim. As the stoic, brooding…

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The Tamarind Seed (Episode 183) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:18:55

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1974's The Tamarind Seed was considered a departure for star Julie Andrews. After a break to raise her family, Andrews was looking for a role that would reintroduce her to audiences in a new light. As the 70's were rife with political and paranoid thrillers, she jumped at the chance to play Judith Farrow - a woman reeling from personal tragedy who …

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The Gorilla (Episode 182) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:16:39

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1939's horror comedy The Gorilla was meant to be another 20th Century Fox showcase for the talents of The Ritz Brothers - three Newark born and Brooklyn raised brothers snatched from vaudeville by the studio in hopes they would bring Marx Brothers or Three Stooges size audiences. The film, however, was plagued with false starts, lawsuits and bad bl…

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Saving Grace (Episode 181) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:19:25

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A very special episode of the Hot Date Podcast with Dan & Vicky. There's drama, there's tears, there's nausea inducing popcorn. And, oh yeah, a movie to discuss. This time it's 2000's Cornwall shot Saving Grace starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson in the charming tale of a woman on the verge of bankruptcy with a plan to save her home by growi…

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Top Ten Creepy Performances (Episode 180) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:37:54

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We've reached another tenth podcast which means Dan and Vicky give you their Top Ten! This time, your hosts are counting down to their favorite top ten creepy performances! Man, woman and children are eligible. Try and guess which actor appears on both lists, which actor has two performances highlighted. What made-for-TV film makes the list!? Have …

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Aenigma (Episode 179) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:13:48

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Italian horror director Lucio Fulci's 1988 Aenigma seems to have been inspired by films as varied as Carrie and Patrick, with a dash of Argento madness and 80's slasher thrown in for good measure. Shot in Serbia standing in for Boston, the film features make up effects by Guiseppe Ferrante, cinematography from Luigi Ciccarese and a score by Carlo M…

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Illusion Travels By Streetcar (Episode 178) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:06:43

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Take a trip on decommissioned Streetcar 133 in Luis Bunuel's surreal and sweet 1954 film Illusion Travels By Streetcar (La Ilusión Vaja en Tranvía). When two mechanics learn their favorite streetcar is being taken off the line for good, they take it for one last drunken joyride that turns into an existential examination of life in a big city. The f…

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Sleep, My Love (Episode 177) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:29:05

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1954's Sleep, My Love was an early directorial effort from German born emigre Douglas Sirk. Sirk would later become recognized as an auteur - by, of course, the French - for his work with melodramas (Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows). Sleep, My Love, starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche and Hazel Brooks, was his atte…

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Chilly Scenes of Winter (Episode 176) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:30:53

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Actors Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson were looking for film projects for their fledgling production company and all agreed that Ann Beattie's novel Chilly Scenes of Winter was ripe for adaptation. Indie director Joan Micklin Silver came on board with John Heard and Mary Beth Hurt leading the cast. The film struggled at the box office…

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Year of the Dog (Episode 175) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:25:31

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Mike White's (White Lotus, Enlightened, Chuck and Buck) directorial debut Year of the Dog tells the story of Peggy Spade, a mild mannered people pleaser who's life is upended when she loses her dog Pencil in a poisoning accident. Or was it an accident? Molly Shannon plays Peggy with a strong supporting cast that includes Peter Saarsgard, John C. Re…

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Gunfight at the OK Corral (Episode 174) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:29:14

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Dan and Vicky head back to the old west for a Gunfight at the OK Corral. The 1957 film directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas tells the oft told tale of the legendary, albeit short, gun battle between the Earps and the Clantons and the violence, greed and passions that lead up to it. In a wide ranging conversation, yo…

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Crimewave (Episode 173) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:22:21

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1985's Crimewave was the sophmore effort for Evil Dead director Sam Raimi, actor and producer Bruce Campbell and producer Bob Tapert. The film started as the script The XYZ Murders by Joel and Ethan Coen. Raimi and genre friendly production company Avco-Embassy agreed the script was a winner and started shooting on a 2.5 million dollar budget. And …

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Shock Corridor (Episode 172) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:34:28

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1963's Shock Corridor was director/writer/provocateur Sam Fuller's depiction of the search for truth in a hostile society bent on obfuscating and distorting it. Set in a mental institution, Fuller's story of a Boston Globe journalist who gets himself committed to solve a murder gets at the hypocrisy and violence that can occur when that search butt…

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Watch On The Rhine (Episode 171) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:27:01

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At a time when there was considerable United States naivete and even support around Hitler's domination of Europe, Warner Bros. took the calculated risk of releasing the fervently antifascist 1943 film adaptation of Lillian Helman's Tony award winning play Watch on the Rhine. Aiding them in delivering the important message was outspoken liberal Bet…

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Top Ten Remakes (Episode 170) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:25:10

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We're back with another Top Ten! Every tenth show we try to pick a fun and engaging topic that'll yield a list of our favorite top tens. This time it's Top Ten remakes. Vicky's criteria was films that are better or just as good as the original. Dan didn't really stick to that criteria as you'll hear but the lists are eclectic, cover several genres …

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Pin (Episode 169) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:20:57

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Dan and Vicky discuss the 1998 Canadian psychological thriller Pin from writer/director Sandor Stern starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn and the voice of Breaking Bad actor Jonathan Banks. Stern is most famous for penning The Amityville Horror from 1979. Your hosts discuss the cult favorite along with plenty of recently seen incl…

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The Double Life of Veronique (Episode 168) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:15:40

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On Hot Date episode 168, Dan and Vicky discuss the French-Polish film The Double Life of Veronique starring Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas and Claude Duneton. This was the breakthrough film of Polish auteur KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, who went on to make the acclaimed Color Trilogy and the Dekalog series. Your hosts also discuss dog sitting…

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Paid In Full (Episode 167) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:11:37

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Dan and Vicky discuss the randomly chosen 1950 melodrama Paid In Full starring Lizabeth Scott, Diana Lynn, Robert Cummings and Eve Arden. Your hosts also discuss some recently seen including Cocaine Bear, All Quiet on the Western Front, Top Gun: Maverick, and the series Fleischman is in Trouble and History of the World Part II. hotdatepod.com FB: H…

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Easy Come, Easy Go (Episode 166) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:16:18

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Although stuntmen did most of the underwater work, Elvis Presley, cast as Navy frogman Ted Jackson, whose job it was to diffuse sunken mines, still had alot of scenes in and around water in 1967's Easy Come, Easy Go. This necessitated being clothed head to toe in scuba gear and getting wet occasionally - two things Elvis was not a fan of. Also appe…

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Crime Story (Episode 165) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:19:49

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Based on the true kidnapping story of wealthy Hong Kong businessman Teddy Wang, 1993's (although shot in 1993, it wasn't released in the US until 1996) Crime Story was an attempt by Jackie Chan to expand his dramatic acting range. Audiences, and Chan himself, were not completely happy with the results. The film didn't make much of a box office impr…

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The Corruption of Chris Miller (Episode 164) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:41:54

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Although produced in Spain, 1973's The Corruption of Chris Miller, has all the earmarks of a traditional Italian giallo - sexual tension in an isolated country house, bad dubbing and, most importantly, a black clad killer. The film is directed by J.A..Bardem, uncle of Oscar winner Javier Bardem. The lush cinematography is by Juan Gelpi and the gran…

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The Bribe (Episode 163) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:19:37

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A starry cast brings 1949's The Bribe to life. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak are all on a fictitious Caribbean island together falling in love and scheming to steal leftover ammunition parts. This somewhat forgotten noir was written by Marguerite Roberts, whose career was put on hold when she was blackl…

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The Burning Plain (Episode 162) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:14:11

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The Burning Plain was the directorial debut of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who took cues from his screenplays for Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel to weave the intergenerational story of two families, one white and one Mexican, colliding and seeking redemption. The film stars Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, and Joaquim de Alm…

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Summertime (Episode 161) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:14:50

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When it came time make the film of Arthur Laurents successful play The Time of the Cuckoo, the natural casting choice was Shirley Booth, who won a Tony for the Broadway production and had an Oscar for the 1952 film Come Back Little Sheba. But producers felt she was too old and not enough of a box office draw. Director David Lean was determined to g…

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Top Ten Whodunnits (Episode 160) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:24:09

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We've reached our next Top Ten episode (something we do here at Hot Date when we reach every tenth show) and this time we're picking our favorite mysteries and whodunnits. From Poirot to Parker, giallo to slasher, we're choosing the films that kept us guessing, made us gasp and even gave us some chuckles. Along with our main topic, you'll hear abou…

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Humongous (Episode 159) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:23:07

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Dan and Vicky offer a special Halloween episode of Hot Date covering the 1982 Canadian slasher Humongous. It was Vicky's idea to find a horror film from the 80's that she hadn't seen and Dan had. They were almost successful - after all Vicky's seen ALOT of movies. Humongous, directed by Prom Night's Paul Lynch and written by The Changeling's Willia…

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Edmond (Episode 158) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:25:05

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Director Stuart Gordon, known for creating the body horror classics Reanimator and From Beyond, reunited with writer David Mamet to direct the film adaptation of the controversial playwright's one act play Edmond. Gordon and Mamet were colleagues in the Chicago theater scene and first collaborated on the original staging of the writer's Sexual Perv…

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Three Husbands (Episode 157) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:19:23

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1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines. In Three Husbands, the title characters receive letters about their wives' possible infidelity and in Three Wives the ladies recieve missives from a woman announcing she is running away with one of their husbands. Caspary specilaize…

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A Thousand Acres (Episode 156) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:20:41

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With Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres sets the action on an Iowa farm. In the 1997 film, Jason Robards plays the raging patrirach of the Cook family, whose bequest of his land to his three daughters, played by Jessica Lange, Miche…

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The Blood Beast Terror (Episode 155) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:15:09

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Tigon British Film Productions, founded in 1966 as counter programming to the more well known Hammer Studios, nonetheless took a page from the Hammer playbook by making horror and exploitation films. Tigon films, however, are often marked by a low budget mean streak and grittiness. Successes for the company included 1967's The Sorcerers, 1968's The…

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Sister, Sister (Episode 154) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:14:43

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Director/screenwriter Bill Condon has since become an Oscar winning filmmaker with credits ranging from writing 2002's Chicago to directing two films in the Twilight series. But his directorial debut came with 1987's Sister, Sister, a Gothic thriller set in Louisiana and starring Judith Ivey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Eric Stoltz. Dan and Vicky dis…

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The Undying Monster (Episode 153) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:15:22

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In response to the success Univeral was having with it's monster series, 20th Century Fox endeavored to bring their own monster movies to the big screen. Taking cues from the mix of horror and comedy Universal had begun to explore, The Undying Monster has a scary castle, a family curse, a pair of funny Scotland investigators and visual style to spa…

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A Wedding (Episode 152) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:21:06

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Robert Altman's Chicago set A Wedding from 1978 tells the story of two families and the lavish and chaotic day they marry off young Dino (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin (Amy Stryker). An all star cast of 70's luminaries, including Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Dina Merrill, Vittorio Gassman and Geraldine Chaplin, is joined by so…

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Purple Noon (Episode 151) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:22:20

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The Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted twice for the screen - most recently in 1995 in a star studded version by director Anthony Minghella. But the novel's first filmed version came in 1960 from two time Oscar winning director Rene Clement. Called Purple Noon in an ode to the vibrant Italian sky over Sicily where the…

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Picture It! - Top Ten Best Picture Winners (Episode 150) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:27:28

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For our milestone 150th show, we offer our Top Ten lists of our favorite Best Picture Winners of all time. From ribald comedies to dark thrillers to ripped from the headlines dramas, Dan and Vicky honor those honored with the most prestigious film award in the world. But our hosts don't stop there! They talk about some recently seen including Nic C…

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Red Lights (Episode 149) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:21:38

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Off of the critical success of his 2010 film Buried (which trapped star Ryan Reynolds inside a coffin for 90 minutes) director Rodrigo Cortes had the clout to attract Sigourney Weaver, Robert DeNiro, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones and Elizabeth Olsen to his next project. 2012's Red Lights is the story of a duo of supernatural debunkers who meet their m…

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Dawn of the Mummy (Episode 148) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:12:02

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Filmmaker Frank Agrama, mostly known today as the producer of family friendly fare like the Robotech TV and video game series and a Heidi miniseries, got his start with more adult material like the 1981 horror film Dawn of the Mummy. Taking over direction from fired original director, Armand Weston, Agrama shot the grisly feature in his home countr…

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Picnic (Episode 147) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky 1:15:15

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1956's Picnic, adapted from the Pulitzer and Tony award winning stage play by William Inge, gave director Joshua Logan the chance to realize the grand picnic of the title on actual locations in Kansas. But the filming was not without it's headaches. With two insecure lead actors, tornadoes that threatened to shut production down, and thousands of e…

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Cronicas (Episode 146) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:15:58

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With the powerhouse producing team of Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron behind it, 2004's Ecuadorean drama Cronicas had an easy time being chosen as that country's submission for the Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards. It didn't get that honor but still had the star power to guide it to international acclaim. John Leguizamo, perfo…

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Who Killed Teddy Bear (Episode 145) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:13:59

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1965's Who Killed Teddy Bear mixes spasmodic dance sequences, lewd phone calls, predatory lesbians, incest, and Sal Mineo in short shorts to create one of the strangest films to come out of the swingin' sixties. It's directed by Joseph Cates and stars Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray, and Elaine Stritch. Dan and Vicky discuss this odd film along wi…

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So Dark The Night (Episode 144) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:30:10

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The unique 1946 film noir So Dark The Night gave actor Steven Geray his first and only chance to play the lead in a film. Up until then, and for years after, he was a reliable and memorable supporting player in films like Spellbound, Gilda and All About Eve. Geray had fled his homeland of Hungary after his pointed impersonations of Hitler and Musso…

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Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (Episode 143) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 1:28:10

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In the early 70's Hammer Studios, Britain's premier production house for horror and fantasy films, was at a crossroads. The Hammer name connoted class, style and a certain elegance but the new wave of horror was grittier and more explicit. Playing against The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hammer films could almost appear quaint. So Hammer p…

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