john cusack

I’ve been considering Woody Allen’s Play it Again, Sam quite a bit since viewing it the other day. I really like the contrast between Allen’s film critic character, and the fictional Bogart he receives life advice from. It seems to me that this is something many of us do. We pick up pearls of wisdom from movies and other stories that we can apply to our own lives.

One of the running themes of this week's show is the question of "Why?" Explaining why we have the opinions we have is an important element of film critique, which we talk about this week as Rafe rants about Kevin Smith's anti-critic Twitter tirade. We also talk about the rising prices of movie tickets and how the 3-D phenomenon has been exploited to that end.

It’s been a while since we’ve had a fantastic time travel movie, and with the release of Hot Tub Time Machine it will continue to be a while before we get one that’s fantastic.

So one night a bunch of guys are sitting around with nothing better to do than hop in a hot tub and start drinking. The next thing you know craziness has ensued and the group of friends are transported back in time to 1986.

We're back with new reviews of Old Dogs and The Fantastic Mister Fox, as well as Rafe's survival story after watching Twilight.

We'll admit it - Woody Harrelson has very little to do with this week's podcast, but when you find a picture of him looking like a madman, you can't pass it up.

We credited Eli Roth with the creation of the “torture porn” sub-genre of movies - a subsection of film where creative and graphic ways of torturing victims on screen superseded plot or character development. I think it’s time to give Roland Emmerich credit for the disaster porn sub-genre.

For the first time in a few weeks, we have new reviews to talk about, with Disney's A Christmas Carol and The Men Who Stare at Goats in theaters. Up is headed for DVD/Blu-ray this week which has us excited.

Just in time for our artist of the month, John Cusack, a new edition of Say Anything was released today on DVD and Blu-ray. It’s a movie we’ll be talking about later in the month, but what I want to focus on today is the curious promotional event that happened in New York to celebrate the new release of this classic comedy.

Twenty years ago we fell in love with Lloyd Dobbler as he held his boom box over his head and professed his love in song to the tune of “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel. Two decades have passed and John Cusack still is making memorable performances across many genres.