With special guest Abbie Phelps (@GoodHunterAbbie)! THE TRAIN is a fantastic Burt Lancaster vehicle, a showcase for supporting performers Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau, and, in a career dotted with bangers, one of director John Frankenheimer’s finest. With the Nazi occupation of France coming to an end, railway supervisor Paul Labiche (Lancaster)…

It defined an entire era of filmmaking. It recontextualized the tropes and narratives that came before. It festoons college dorm rooms across the world. It played at the Trylon on a newly struck 35mm print in 2024. Quentin Tarantino’s sophomore feature PULP FICTION is still “that movie”, whatever that means. An all-star cast stretched across three …

Kokubu (Raizô Ichikawa), captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa (Yūsuke Kawazu), a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish natur…

With returning guest Natalie Marlin! SECONDS is a 1966 film directed by John Frankenheimer from the original novel by David Ely. Past-his-prime New York banker Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) elects to undergo a procedure to give himself a new face and a new life. The Company, the shady organization that offers this service, completely reconstructs…

KIRU (also known as DESTINY’S SON) is a 1962 samurai film directed by Kenji Misumi and written by Kaneto Shindo, based on a novel by Renzaburo Shibata. The film stars Raizo Ichikawa as Shingo, the secret son of an assassin executed for the crime of killing her lord’s concubine. Shingo learns of his true nature after a rival family massacres his ado…

With Danny “Bagadonuts” Nagan, a real-life good fella and cohost of the Everything We Learned podcast! I mean, it’s GOODFELLAS. If you haven’t seen it, you kinda already have. But you should absolutely still see it (take it from Jason). Despite his status as an Irish-Italian-American, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) is a fish IN water among the most powerf…

With Trylonteer and Perkins superfan Kelly Krantz (@kransekage_)! PLAY IT AS IT LAYS is a 1972 drama film directed by Frank Perry from a novel and screenplay by Joan Didion. The movie stars Tuesday Weld as Maria Wyeth, a depressed actress stuck in an unhappy separated marriage with director Carter Lang (played by Adam Roarke), and Anthony Perkins a…

20 years after the world’s last baby was born, revolutionary-turned-working stiff Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is content to coast until the end catches up to the world — until his former lover and the mother of his dead son Julian (Julianne Moore) wrangles him into a plan to escort expecting mother Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey) to safety. Remembered (and he…

With special guest Blake Hester! When a secretive businessman passes away before he can be crowned chairman of a local yakuza family, his daughter — a precocious, disaffected schoolgirl — is suddenly thrust into the role. Surprised by her coronation but determined to restore the group’s good name, Izumi (Hiroko Yakushimaru) reluctantly assumes cont…

The Trylon turns 15 this year! That means it’s been five years since we first welcomed Trylon Film Programmer John “Mo’ Retta Blues” Moret to the podcast for a 10th anniversary interview. With five years of history to look back on and an extra-long, banger-laden Fall 2024 calendar to discuss, we sat down again with John in the hallowed lobby of the…

In Jonathan Glazer’s BIRTH, one woman’s inability to move past the death of her husband brings only more tragedy to her life when she’s forced to confront a version of him she never knew. When a 10-year-old boy named Sean (Cameron Bright) claims to be the reincarnation of Anna (Nicole Kidman)’s husband of the same name, the soon-to-be-remarried wid…

You’ve never seen a zombie movie like Shinichirou Ueda’s cult hit ONE CUT OF THE DEAD. It’s best if I don’t type anything more about it here, actually, just in case you haven’t seen it. (Little peek behind the curtain in keeping with the theme of the movie: It’s also because your editor is typing this on his lunch hour at his day job.) Suffice to s…

Impenetrable musing or Tarkovsky’s best? NOSTALGHIA is one of the Russian director’s most personal, maybe his single most personal, but that’s not the only lens (or even the most interesting one) to look at it through. In this discussion of her first and only Tarkovsky (so far), Natalie joins to help us see this one more clearly through a new lens!…

Brad Ward and Casey Kinnamon talk all things Cleveland Browns. Bold Predictions, Dak seen in a boot, Wide Receiver cut candidate interest? and More..... #Browns #NFL Topics: Browns, Cleveland Browns, NFL, Football Subscribe To The OBR: https://247sports.com/nfl/cleveland-browns/ Contact at Bward@TheOBR for Inquiries Learn more about your ad choices…

Geraldine Chaplin (Charlie’s daughter), Anthony Perkins, and Berry Berenson (Perkins’s wife) star in a taut, almost-revenge tale directed by frequent Robert Altman collaborator Alan Rudolph — REMEMBER MY NAME is a classic example of a cult classic. We couldn’t be happier to welcome Kelly Krantz (@kransekage_) back to chat about one of her favorite …

Layers of social prestige have assigned Comtesse Louise de [name redacted] (Danielle Darrieux) a role that doesn’t accommodate her wider range of human desire. She knows that paying a debt by selling her diamond earrings, gifted by her husband General André de… (Charles Boyer), will offend the hierarchical foundations of her way of life — a life of…

Special guest Sam Penix joins the show to talk new on Lonnie Phelps car crash, The AFC North and Browns on Hard Knocks In-season, and the latest on Amari Cooper plus more.... #Browns #Cleveland #NFL #Football #Dawgpound Topics: Browns Cleveland NFL Football Dawgpound Subscribe To The OBR: https://247sports.com/nfl/cleveland-browns/ Contact Brad War…

With returning guest, master’s degree holder, and Trylon volunteer Benjamin Savard (@ItBenjaminScott)! After POPEYE (1980) squashed the ‘80s for director Robert Altman, he came back with a wry, cynical film adaptation of Michael Tolkin’s 1988 novel, “The Player”. In the resulting movie of the same name, Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill, a bigshot Hol…

Brad Ward and Casey Kinnamon host with guest Abby Mueller to talk Amari Cooper holdout, Watson Restructure, Burning camp questions and more #Browns #Cleveland #DawgPound #NFL Topics: Browns, Cleveland Browns, Football, NFL Subscribe at The OBR: https://247sports.com/nfl/cleveland-browns/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad…

With Abbie Phelps (@goodhunterabbie)! Orson Welles’s final Hollywood film has it all: A complicated production history, a contentious editing lifecycle, and a ‘true-to-vision’ recut that followed the original release by some 40 years. It’s a story about Hank Quinlan (played by Welles), a dyed-in-the-wool noir detective who’ll do anything to exact h…

With Finn Odum (@Finnematic)! LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) is a harrowing journey through violent change. The leader of a cult spins a cautionary fairy tale to indoctrinate followers, telling the story of Maria, a girl who finds herself locked in an abandoned house in the woods after narrowly avoiding the jaws of an overbearing wolf outside. Afrai…

Brad Ward and Casey Kinnamon dive into some of the OTA action, talk about critical position battles and tough roster decisions, Mike Vrabel and Jameis Winston stars of the day....Plus More.... Topics: Cleveland Browns, Browns, Football, NFL Subscribe at The OBR: https://247sports.com/nfl/cleveland-b... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcas…

Frank Galvin will try the case — against the medical professionals whose negligence left a woman a vegetable, against the church that funds it, against the wishes of the victim’s family, and against just about everybody else. THE VERDICT, Sidney Lumet’s OTHER courtroom drama has a bit of a ‘70s vibe to it, despite releasing in 1982. Maybe it’s beca…

With Natalie Marlin! Whatever you know about ZARDOZ — it’s by the guy who made DELIVERANCE (1972), it’s a weird meme, Charlotte Rampling’s instant pregnancy, Sean Connery’s nutsling — we promise you, it’s just the beginning. A critically divisive movie that’s garnered a cult following in the five decades since its release, it’s certainly earned tha…

With Kelly Krantz! Liliana Cavani’s psychological, post-Holocaust perverted thriller went down as one of the most controversial movies of all time. In a concentration camp during World War II, concentration camp officer Max (Dirk Bogarde) and his prisoner victim Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) form a sadomasochistic relationship. Their relationship is c…

NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a hinky Hitchcock tale of mistaken identity, assumed identity, shifting truths, and a man with a huge butt chin using a SpongeBob-comically-small razor. Cary Grant stars as an ad man who gets caught up in a Cold War game of cat-and-mouse (he’s the mouse) opposite double agent Eva Marie Saint, Broadly European Bad Guy James Mas…

Casey Kinnamon joins the show to talk through the Browns draft, The AFC North post-draft and what the Browns need to do to best finish the roster, and much more... #Browns #NFL Topics: Browns, Cleveland Browns, NFL, NFL Draft, Football Subscribe to the OBR: https://247sports.com/nfl/cleveland-b... Contact Brad Ward at BWard@TheOBR.com Learn more ab…

LEGEND is a 1985 fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Hjortsberg. It stars Tom Cruise in one of his first leading roles as Jack, a pure-hearted forest-dweller who is in love with Princess Lily (played by Mia Sara). Hoping to show her something beautiful, Jack introduces Lily to two majestic unicorns that live in a remote par…