100 of Something

Folks, the comedy Gods have answered our prayers and have sent us respite from the harrowing brain-plague that was Bringing up Baby... Spilling forth into our cups is the veritable ambrosia of the 1935 Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera." Their first MGM picture, their first picture with a plot that included actual points, their first picture without Zeppo--who left the team to become an agent. Co-starring opera singer Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones in a bona-fide sub-plot fit for the most dramatic of films! Ladies and gentlemen I give you--a please don't forget to give them back when you're finished with them--the Marx Brothers...

Space ships, wormholes, aliens, Muppets?!? What could go wrong? Turns out, plenty. @galaxharr and I watched Farscape Season 1 episode 16 and though we survived, we are a little worse for wear. Find out where we think this one is headed! Listen up you frelling frells!

Oliver Stone's 1986 meditation on war and what it's good for, Platoon is up today. Does it hold up? Should maybe they turn the Oscar for Best Picture in? Find out!

Here it is folks, the premier episode of my podcast with my daughter, @galaxharr. We're going to watch one episode each of 100 Sci-Fi TV shows. And then see if we can determine what the show is about based on that single viewing. First up, Red Dwarf, the British Sci-Fi comedy series from the late-80s, early 90s. Enjoy!

Swing Time! This 1936 gem, originally titled "Never Gonna Dance," was the *sixth* collaboration between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and is probably their best.  Classic songs, exceptional dancing and just the bare minimum of plot to hold it all together. See if you can spot the plot of pretty much every dance-themed movie made since! Also, the title had virtually nothing to do with the content of the film, it was re-titled to capitalize on the Swing craze that was sweeping the nation at the time.

Meet Stingo, he's new in town. He's here to write the Great American Novel™ He meets his upstairs neighbors Sophie and Nathan. They became the best of friends. And then... Sadness. And sadness. And more sadness. And Nazis. Sophie's Choice.

Upping our Scorsese count to 1, it's the first of nearly a half dozen pictures of his that maybe fell off the back of a truck or somethin' and on to this list. Whaddaya say if anybody aks where you got it? Nuttin'. You shut your mouth and do your time like a man. Fortunately, your sentence in this case is only about an hour. So listen up.

Well kids, after much debate we decided to just go ahead and re-record this one. The original was pretty messed up. So here it is, the grand-pappy of buddy-cop, procedure-be-damned, go-with-your-gut, angry captain is angry, trope films; William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971).

"I'm trying to be the shepherd, Ringo." Quentin Tarantino set the movie world on fire with his 1994 homage to pop culture, Pulp Fiction. Join us as we talk monologues and circular storytelling...

Bored teens in a dying Texas town hop beds and trade jabs in Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film, "The Last Picture Show." @the_Fro and I watched it and we've got something to say: "It's a message film wrapped in a soap opera and smothered in malaise."