Splattercast #416 is up. We go pretty deep on the Charlie Hebdo thing, and also slosh around in a barrel with Kim Jong Un.
I find the Charlie thing, and the larger context, to be fascinating and perhaps representative of what may be The Issue of Our Time. This next link is to a conservative website, so please don’t associate it with my co-hosts who are all pinko commies would likely take some issue with it, but I found a lot of food for thought here.
Wild times, to say the least.
Splattercast #408 is up and it’s dead sexy.
We’re just about to kick off Noirvember 2014 and I got to thinking, the Noirvember episodes have got to be among the more worthwhile in the history of the Splattercast. If you weren’t following the show back when we started the theme month, you might go check out these older episodes – or, at least (better yet?), check out the films that we discussed.
Noirvember 2010
Splattercast #201
Week 1 of Noirvember: M, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Black Cat, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Public Enemy. The first week of Noirvember kicks off with a bang! This week, we discuss the cultural influences of noir and look at a group of films that are antecedents of noir and which influenced the films of the 40’s and 50’s.
Splattercast #202
Noirvember continues with the experimental phase of Classical Noir (1940-43). This week we talk about Stranger on the Third Floor, The Maltese Falcon, This Gun for Hire, I Wake Up Screaming, and Shadow of a Doubt.
Splattercast #203
The studio period of noir: Double Indemnity, Detour, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and The Blue Dahlia.
Splattercast #204
This week we take a look at the crazier side of film noir with a look at the final phase of the 1950’s: Kiss Me Deadly, Touch of Evil, White Heat, D.O.A., and Panic in the Streets.
Splattercast #205
This week, we talk about the intersection between horror and noir with some fun films like Cast a Deadly Spell, The Brute Man, Witch Hunt, The Brute Man, and the Tales from the Crypt episode You, Murderer!
Noirvember 2011
Splattercast #253
Sunset Boulelvard and Nightmare Alley.
Splattercast #254
Robert Mitchum as a private eye wrapped up with a femme fatale in Out of the Past and a hustler who gets entangled in his own con in Night and the City.
Splattercast #255
Criss Cross and The Killing.
Splattercast #256
Two John Huston classics: The Asphalt Jungle and Key Largo.
Noirvember 2012
Um, I guess we didn’t do one that year…
Noirvember 2013
Splattercast #352
A couple Orson Welles flicks, The Lady From Shanghai and The Third Man.
Splattercast #353
Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and In A Lonely Place.
Splattercast #354
The Killers and Kiss of Death.
Splattercast #355
Kirk Douglas in Ace In The Hole and James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces.
Splattercast #356
Gilda and Laura.
A trailer for another one of our movies.
DVD/BluRay drops like a hot ass this Fall! Keep listening to the Splattercast for full details and info.
