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PODCAST

Wages of Cinema

Jack Gattanella

A podcast that is practically all about MOVIES! Cinema, films, celluloid, digital, whatever you want to call it. Jack and Andrew are the hosts, and we talk about new movies, classics, cult work, things we"ve seen and have never seen, special segments about directors and styles and trends, and "Required Reading" which is about movie books. And the "Local Vocal" series gives you in-depth interviews with NYC/NJ based filmmakers, actors, artists and musicians.

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01:25:28

Episode 92.1: RIP George Romero - ENDLESS POETRY -...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/08/07

Welcome back! After a somewhat-long hiatus (we explain why, sort of), we get right into it and talk about some things that have happened and movies Jack and Andrew have seen since the last FULL recording (as in, before episodes 90 and 91 on Spider-Man and Dunkirk, which we hope you've heard and enjoyed by now. 1st - Jack brings up some people who have passed on since last recording, and while Martin Landau, John Heard and Sam Shephard get some notice, it's the father of the "Zombie" movie, GEORGE

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00:52:34

Episode 91: DUNKIRK

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/07/21

What is bravery, or courage, or heroism? What happens when, well, there's no hope in sight and you may find yourself on a beach off the North coast of France - where England is a good stone's throw away for the typical superhero - and... no one is coming to get you and the enemy (who, conveniently due to the director's bravura sense of spacial cinematic sense, you don't get to really see like in other war movies where the German is the easy target) is out to kill you many times over dead?

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01:07:01

Episode 90: SPIDERMAN - HOMECOMING

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/07/09

Here comes you're friendly, neighborhood Hollywood world-wide billion-dollar franchise! Now that we're on to the... 249th Marvel Studios movie, what else is there to say about them? That they make entertaining product for the masses to masticate on marvelously? (We need a lot of 'M' words, don't we?) Or that they may be getting stale and have the same formula down pat? We aren't going to say either way just yet, but what we can say is that there is the SIXTH motion picture feature that is

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00:57:25

Episode 89.2: The MUMMY Movies (1932 - 1959 - 1999)

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/06/20

Imhotep. Karras. Your mama. Whatever you want to call him or it or 'what', you don't want to #&%@ with the Mummy. And yet, strange as it may seem, the Mummy is a bit of an underrated, or at least underestimated, character in the scope of horror cinema. Everyone can dig on Dracula with his Hungarian accent and eyes, or Frankenstein's monster with that head and arms, or even the Invisible Man because... hey, it's Claude Rains after all! But does the Mummy ever get his due? What if the Mummy is really,

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00:52:35

Episode 89.1: What The Devil Is That #6: AS THE GODS...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/06/14

Most filmmakers when given a screenplay that starts with a scene involving a floating, talking, demon (or is it an alien?) head (excuse me, a "Daruma", got that right, thanks internet) in a high school classroom making the tykes heads literally explode one by one as blood (and bloody marbles?) go flying everywhere would probably throw it across the room and go, "Kill it, KILL IT!" For Takashi Miike, he'd put it down carefully and go, "How soon do we start?" We watched the 2014 adaptation of the

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01:06:27

Episode 88: THE MUMMY (2017)

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/06/12

So, there's a new Mummy movie out... no, not THAT Mummy from a few years ago (yeah, the last one was nine years ago with Brendan Fraser, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor). This is part of the NEW deal, the one that Universal wants to get into the "Universe"/franchise game with their old Universal-Monsters, and this goes back to one of the first movie franchises with the likes of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man and Dracula (of which the original 1932 Mummy took more than a little inspiration from, but

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01:00:18

Episode 87: WONDER WOMAN

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/06/03

(Sing it with me, "IIIIIIII.... IIIIIIII..... I'm Wonder Woman..." as disco plays on and on....) Anyway, we saw Wonder Woman, the fourth film in this thing that Warner brothers is trying to do called the "DC Cinematic Universe". This time Zack Snyder isn't as deep into the mix as in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice... no, he only co-wrote the story and produced it. Yeah. So he's still in it, and one may be able to tell. But it's also the first major comic book blockbuster

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00:57:20

Episode 86.3: Dr. Jack & Dr. Andrew's Case Files #5:...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/29

Sometimes a movie bombs or doesn't do well at the box office and no one notices. Other times... you get George Lucas hitching his wagon to frequent collaborators Willard Huyuck and Gloria Katz (American Graffiti, Temple of Doom) and with his love for comic books he decided to take his try at producing one (by Star Wars comics creators MARVEL no less, making this the first feature-length adaptation of one of their properties). And... we got duck boobs. Oh yeah. Lea Thompson in full 80's hair

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00:32:40

Episode 86.2: What the Devil is That #5: SIEGE OF THE...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/29

And now we turn our attention to a King Arthur movie neither of us have heard of from the 1960's starring Ronald Lewis and Janette Scott. What have we done? wagesofcinema@gmail.com (PS: This replaces a previous upload of this episode segment, listen to THIS one and not that one as the previous one has been deleted)

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01:32:38

Episode 86.1: More non DC/MARVEL COMIC BOOK MOVIES -...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/29

First, in this end-of-May episode 3 part blow-out, Andrew and Jack read some messages from some listeners (one of whom you may know as a certain Guest Star who's name rhymes with 'Hat'). A lot of this concerns the Alien movies, most especially Covenant which we reviewed episode 85. This ends at 21:55 Then, Jack and Andrew talk MORE Comic book movies that are NOT adapted from DC or Marvel comics - remember, there are more comic book movies out there that aren't the big two (we previously talked

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01:07:14

Episode 85: ALIEN COVENANT

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/21

Not counting when that rascally Xenomorph fought the Predator in two rather wildly WTF movies from the past decade, we now have the sixth Alien-franchise films. 'Covenant' follows Prometheus, which you may or may not have seen (though we certainly talked about that 2012 film, all the way back in episode *9.4* in our retrospective on director RIDLEY SCOTT - Jack mistakenly said episode 4 in this episode fyi, our apologies for the error), and... how did this one come out? We had a spirited

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00:44:40

Episode 84: KING ARTHUR - LEGEND OF THE SWORD

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/13

How do we begin with this story? So now we have many, many King Arthur movies out there, right? There's one from 1953 (go back to episode 19.2 where we talked about 'Knights of the Round-table), there's the (quasi) classic Disney one from the 60's, John Boorman's Excalibur, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (not to mention the 2004 Clive Owen one, lest I forget... okay, I did, sorry, it was like 13 years ago y'know!) But we really needed one more, which really, like, got IN to the myth of

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01:28:14

Episode 82.3: HORROR In April 3D (Pt 3)

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/01

So here we come to the third part of this episode, #82, and also the third in this return to HORROR in APRIL! And sure it may technically be now May, but a) we recorded this in April, gosh-darn-it, and b), hey, it's still April *somewhere* at the moment (thank you, west coast!) And one day if one finds this and they have no idea what month is which, this can fit in just fine.... Anyway, now Jack and Andrew simply talk about a whole host of horror fare, and it's all movies that have come out in

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00:37:35

Episode 82.2: What the Devil is That #4/HORROR in...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/01

This podcast is rated for the COOL audiences! But seriously, as Jack and Andrew continue their exploration of movies that have eluded them so much that the titles make them go WHOA, here is an especially 'insert Keanu Reeves on a loop' title: THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (which was titled "La Residencia" in Spain, not as auspicious of course), which stars Lilli Palmer as a headmistress at a boarding school for wayward teen girls, and... well, that's all to say for now. Listen, if you're not SCARED!

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00:51:17

Episode 82.1: RIP JONATHAN DEMME - YOUR NAME - FREE...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/05/01

Tonight we begin the 82nd Wages of Cinema Podcast extravaganza on... a sad note, as the wonderful filmmaker (and more importantly a good person) Jonathan Demme passed away and Jack takes some stock of how he could be taken for granted as a great filmmaker (and once again Jack and Andrew debate if Silence of the Lambs is a true "horror" film). Then, Jack discusses some new movies he's seen that are out from all over the world (Japan, England, South America, Hollywood), along with a classic Russian

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00:57:15

Episode 81: HORROR in April 3D pt 1 - THE VOID

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/04/11

Jack and Andrew of the Wages of Cinema welcome you all back to the third annual installment of HORROR in APRIL. Why April? Because we love horror movies and it's another half a year until October, so we're going to soak up the genre, dangnabbit! We have a different approach this year, however, as we will present the first segment as a NEW horror movie that is out now in select theaters and VoD (YouTube, iTunes, etc), and then we'll come back later this month with more reviews. First up... what

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01:33:53

Episode 80.3: FIVE EASY JACKS (Nicholson)

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/04/02

Pick a movie, any movie, I won't look... now your Jack Nicholson movie has to be.... astonishing, brilliant, revelatory, mad, insane, dramatic, heartbreaking, quiet, angry, brash, crude, mischievous, deranged, p*ssed, scary, funny, amused, amusing, delirious, fearful, masculine, critical of masculinity, normal, over-the-top, SMILEY!? Jack Nicholson is a favorite actor of the Wages of Cinema, and April will mark the 80th birthday of the iconic "Shark Grin" himself. But instead of simply doing a

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00:36:04

Episode 80.2: What the Devil is That #3: THE...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/04/02

On this third installment of 'What the Devil is That', Andrew and Jack really get a much fuller sense of what the title of this experiment in seeking out movies we've never heard of as the film is from South Korea and is... well, it's unlike anything we've quite seen before. Even Scorsese has to come on before the movie starts in an introduction and tell the audience, "No, trust me, Korean cinema isn't usually *this* extreme." Oh, boy. We watched the 1960 familial-infidelity-rat-poison drama THE

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01:07:59

Episode 80.1: FUTURE OF MOVIE THEATERS - BABY JANE -...

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/04/02

After a discussion for roughly the first 20 minutes where Jack mentions the latest Cinema-Con, where the National Association of Theater Owners (or, and don't laugh, NATO), get together with the studios for a trade/industry convention to check out what's going on with new movies (Jack and Andrew also briefly talk about the latest JUSTICE LEAGUE trailer), and in this discussion a major component being how studios may decide to go to a faster streaming/on-demand service system for new titles and what

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01:06:03

Episode 79: KONG: SKULL ISLAND

Wages of Cinema ·

2017/03/12

"What does it have to do with 'Nam?! What does anything have to do with NAM?!"! - The Dude (Jeff Lebowski) to Walter in The Big Lebowski What indeed.... Jack, Andrew, and that lovable supplementary scamp Guest Star Matt (Matthew Catania) went over to see the second installment in the new Warner Brothers/Legendary MonstersVerse franchise (first the 2014 Godzilla, now this, guess what comes next?) How does it work to put 1973 Vietnam-era action and mayhem and US militarism in the midst of THE most

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