EPISODE #20: DAZED AND CONFUSED

School’s out for summer! Break out the 8-tracks, put on your favorite bell bottoms, and join Adam and Jim as they travel back to May 28, 1976 to get Dazed and Confused.

SHOWNOTES

• Dazed and Confused - Criterion

• Directing

  • Director: Richard Linklater

    • Where’d You Go Bernadette (2019)

    • BoyHood (2014 - Criterion)

    • Before Sunrise / Sunset / Midnight (1995, 2004, 2013 - Criterion)

    • Slacker (1991 - Criterion)

  Acting

  • Randall “Pink” - Jason London

    • To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar

    • Aerosmith videos for Crazy and Amazing

  • Pickford - Shawn Andrews

  • Mitch - Wiley Wiggins

  • Don - Sasha Jenson

    • 29 years old when the movie came out.

  • O’Bannion - Ben Affleck

  • Wooderson - Matthew McConaughey

  • Mike - Adam Goldberg

    • How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days (with Matthew McConaughey)

  • Slater - Rory Cochran

    • Empire Records

  • Simone - Joey Lauren Adams

  • Michelle - Milla Jovovich

    • The Fifth Element

    • Resident Evil

  • Darla - Parker Posey

  • Cynthia - Marissa Ribisi

    • Pleasantville

  • Clint - Nicky Klatt

  • Hirshfelder (Mitch’s friend) - Jeremy Fox

    • Gilmore Girls, Dawson’s Creek, Beverly Hills 90210

  Music

  • Dazed and Confused Soundtrack

    • iTunes

    • Spotify

  Other Media

  • Recent interview on The Guardian with Richard Linklater and Wiley Wiggins

  Other Movies

  • American Graffiti (1973)

    • Directed by George Lucas

  • The Big Chill (1983)

    • Directed by Lawrence Kasdan

EPISODE #19: ARMAGEDDON

It’s the end of the world, and you’re all invited! Join Adam and Jim and a group of roughneck oil drillers as they travel to the edge of space (and their sanity) in order to save the Earth from Armageddon.

SHOWNOTES

• Armageddon - Criterion

• Director: Michael Bay

  • Bad Boys

  • The Rock

• Acting:

  • Harry Stamper: Bruce Willis

  • Grace Stamper: Liv Tyler

    • The Leftovers

  • A.J. Frost: Ben Affleck

  • Dan Truman: Billy Bob Thornton

  • Chick: Will Patton

  • Rockhound: Steve Buscemi

  • Lev Andropov: Peter Stormare

    • Steve and Peter previously appeared together in the 1996 movie Fargo

  • Colonel Willie Sharp: William Fichtner

  • Oscar: Owen Wilson

    • The Royal Tenenbaums 

  • Bear: Michael Clark Duncan

  • Jennifer Watts: Jessica Steen

  • Flight Director Clark: Chris Ellis

    • Apollo 13

    • That Thing You Do

  • Psychologist: Udo Kier

    • Melancholia

  • Guest Comedians

    • Eddie Griffin

    • Mark Curry

      • Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper

  • Movies

    • Independence Day

    • Deep Impact

    • The Right Stuff

  • Cinematography:

    • 5 Things That Happen In Every Michael Bay Movie(including slow motion)

  • Music:

    • Bon Jovi - Mister Big Time

    • Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

    • Ben Affleck sings “Leaving On A JetPlane” to Liv Tyler

EPISODE #18: THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Adam and Jim are discussing The Princess Bride? Inconceivable! Join us in episode #18 as we travel with Westley, Fezzik and Inigo Montoya across the countryside of Florin, past the Cliffs of Insanity, to rescue Princess Buttercup from the castle of Prince Humperdinck, all the while avoiding the shrieking eels, flame spurts, lightning sand and Rodents of Unusual Size.

SHOWNOTES

• The Princess Bride - Criterion

• Director: Rob Reiner

  • This Is Spinal Tap

  • A Few Good Men

  • Sleepless in Seattle

  • The American President

  Writer: William Goldman

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

  • All the President's Men

  • Misery

  • Absolute Power

  • The General's Daughter

  Actors:

  • Westley - Carry Elwes

    • Psych - Pierre Despereaux

      • Extradition - British Columbia

      • Extradition II - The Actual Extradition Part

      • Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy Rusty Old Dagger

      • Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels, and Burton Guster’s Goblet of Fire

  • Inigo Montoya - Mandy Patinkin

    • Homeland

  • Buttercup - Robin Wright

    • Forrest Gump

    • House of Cards

  • Vizzini - Wallace Shawn

    • My Dinner with Andre (Criterion #479)

      • COTC episode #12

    • Toy Story - Dinosaur

  • Fezzik - Andre the Giant

  • Humperdinck - Chris Sarandon

  • Count Ruben - Christopher Guest

    • This is Spinal Tap (Criterion #12)

    • Waiting for Guffman

    • Best in Show

  • Miracle Max - Billy Crystal

  • Valerie - Carol Kane

  • The Albino - Mel Smith

  • Clergyman - Peter Cook

  • Fred Savage & Peter Falk have no names

    • Wonder Years

    • Columbo