Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category

  • Lambcast #748 Megalopolis

    by Richard Kirkham · Oct 1, 2024 at 0:59 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #748   Megalopolis

    It’s not every week that a new film from one of the great directors of our times drops, but that is exactly what we have on this week’s episode. Director Francis Ford Coppola has delivered a dream project that he has envisioned for four decades at least. As usual, he has taken on great financial risk to achieve his artistic vison, and that dominates the talk about the film elsewhere. Here we talk about the artistic merit of the...

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  • Lambcast #747 “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” MOTM

    by Richard Kirkham · Sep 24, 2024 at 16:44 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast, MOTM · 1 Comment
    Lambcast #747   “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”  MOTM

    A limited selection of MOTM suggestions resulted in an executive decision to go with three time runner up, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as the September MOTM. No one was happier than the film’s frequent champion, James Wilson of “Blogging by Cinema Light”. James was chomping at the bit to discuss this classic film from 1939.

    The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history....

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  • Lambcast #746 Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (2024)

    by Richard Kirkham · Sep 9, 2024 at 19:33 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #746   Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (2024)

    September is often a dumping ground for films that the studios have no faith in, but that is not the case this week. It seems like Warner Brothers has deftly maneuvered a film they have great expectations for, into a spot with little competition and an audience anxious for a legacy sequel. The cash is rolling in and now so are the opinions. 

    Our gaggle of guests this week include Emily Slade from the “Why This...

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  • Lambcast #745 Roll Your Own Top Five

    by Richard Kirkham · Sep 4, 2024 at 2:02 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast, Roll Your Own Top 5 · No Comments
    Lambcast #745   Roll Your Own Top Five

    This week is a DIY project for the LAMBS. They are to assemble a top five list of any subject that they choose. So a Top Five List of anything movie related that they want to talk about: Stars, Films in a Genre, Taglines, Quotes, Posters, Songs, Scenes, it’s all up to the guests. What will they come up with?

    Well, Thomas Stoneham-Judge of ForReel is about to cover the Toronto International Film Festival, so he figures out a way...

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  • Lambcast #744 The Towering Inferno-August MOTM

    by Richard Kirkham · Aug 27, 2024 at 0:01 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast, MOTM · 1 Comment
    Lambcast #744   The Towering Inferno-August MOTM

    Paul Newman and Steve McQueen head an all star cast in the granddaddy of all disaster films, “The Towering Inferno”. If this looks familiar to you, then you are a longtime LAMB, because we did cover it as a MOTM back in 2016. That episode is currently lost, so this is a chance to restore the film to it’s rightful place on the LAMB wall of fame. 

    The world’s  tallest building is being dedicated with a party on...

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  • Lambcast #743 Alien: Romulus

    by Richard Kirkham · Aug 19, 2024 at 23:03 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #743   Alien: Romulus

    Seven films into the “Alien” Franchise (excluding the AVP Crossovers), Ridley Scott turns the reins over to Fede Alverez, to try and revive the series. Has he succeeded? The box office and Rotten Tomatoes seem to say yes, but our community may have some different standards and you will certainly want to hear from this group of critics/fans.

    Horror is the ecosphere that Lisa Leaheey and Damien Riley live in. Heather...

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  • Lambcast #742 The 1984 Movie Draft

    by Richard Kirkham · Aug 5, 2024 at 23:00 CEST · Draft, Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #742  The 1984 Movie Draft

    One of the things everybody seems to agree on is that 1984 was a landmark year for films. There were blockbusters that still have franchise installments up to today, as well as esoteric foreign language films, and cult movies galore released in that 366 day window. In was inevitable that the LAMB community would get a showdown of movies from that period.

    Six Filmslingers have gathered for a draft to see who has picked the best slate...

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  • Lambcast #741 Deadpool and Wolverine

    by Richard Kirkham · Jul 29, 2024 at 21:53 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #741   Deadpool and Wolverine

    One of the highly anticipated summer films opened this weekend, and the LAMB was there to take it in. Ryan Reynolds finds a way to dig Wolverine out of his grave and bring Hugh Jackman back to his signature role for the third in the irreverent “Deadpool” films. Is it a resurrection that works or should the whole thing be buried in the backyard? Our guests this week will answer that question and many more for...

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  • Lambcast #740 “The Last Starfighter” MOTM

    by Richard Kirkham · Jul 23, 2024 at 16:56 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast, MOTM · 1 Comment
    Lambcast #740  “The Last Starfighter” MOTM

    Greetings LAMBs, you have been recruited by the LAMBcast to listen to this week’s episode, after you do, the Kodan Armada will be but a trifle for you to dispense with, it’s Movie of the Month time. The July MOTM was championed by Matthew Simpson of the Awesome Friday Podcast, and he hosts a crew of fellow recruits as we discuss the 1984 charmer “The Last Starfighter”.

    We share our histories with the...

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  • Lambcast #739 Fly Me to the Moon

    by Richard Kirkham · Jul 16, 2024 at 18:45 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #739  Fly Me to the Moon

    It’s 1969, the World is awaiting the first human landing on the moon, and apparently NASA needs some sponsorships. In the years before corporations paid to have their names on the football field/stadium/arena/parking space, they sold products associated with the event they wanted to associate with. Apparently Scarlett Johannsson is responsible for TANG! being the official breakfast drink of the astronauts and Omega being the watches...

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  • Lambcast #738 What’s New?

    by Richard Kirkham · Jul 10, 2024 at 3:38 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #738   What’s New?

    The Lambcast tries to catch up with a bucketload of movies that have opened in the last couple months by having our guests bring three new films to the discussion this week. Jeffrey Lyles of “Lyles Movie Files” returns to the show with some Glen Powell appreciation. Tony Coogan of “Coogs Reviews” has a documentary and a new animated classic to talk about. The Vern from “Cinema Recall” compares notes with...

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  • Lambcast #737 Horizon An American Saga Chapter 1

    by Richard Kirkham · Jul 2, 2024 at 17:20 CEST · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments
    Lambcast #737   Horizon  An American Saga Chapter 1

    Actor/Director Kevin Costner returns to the big screen with an ambitious series of films, tracking the expansion of the United States into the Western part of the continent. Told from the perspective of several different characters, the story is a fictionalized version of history, presented in the manner of a novel. Some of the critical responses target the structure of the film, but our panel finds it evocative and creatively...

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