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BACK 2 THE BALCONY

Antonio Palacios and Justin Henson

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert - two titans of cinematic review. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong - but always captivating. Your hosts Antonio Palacios (host of THE CULTWORTHY CINEMA PODACST) and Justin Henson ( host of THE MOVIE WIRE PODCAST) - are here to take you BACK TO THE BALCONY!! Each week we will discuss a film from the 70"s, 80"s and 90"s in order to determine where we stand with the critique of this infamous television duo. Be sure to tune in each week - don"t forget to like, rate and

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#77- CASUALTIES OF WAR!

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2025/06/20

This week we discuss the film CASUALTIES OF WAR. Pvt. Max Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) is stationed in Vietnam under Sgt. Tony Meserve (Sean Penn). Though Meserve saves Eriksson's life during battle, the two men clash when the callous senior officer orders the abduction of Than Thi Oanh (Thuy Thu Le), a young Vietnamese woman, to be used as a sex slave. When Eriksson refuses to take part in the abuse of Oanh, tensions between him, Meserve and the rest of the unit heat up and finally explode during a

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#76- EVENT HORIZON!

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2025/06/14

This week we dive into the 1997 horror/sci-fi flick EVENT HORIZON! After disappearing for seven years, revolutionary spaceship Event Horizon is rediscovered. The team of scientists sent to investigate find that the entire crew is dead, and a terrifying, malevolent presence is lurking on board. Hear our take on the film and on the review of SISKEL AND EBERT.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo:

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#75- BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS!

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2025/06/05

This week we cover the obscure Robert Altman film - BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS! By 1885, beloved cavalryman Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman) has hired a publicist and producer to help shape and promote his traveling Wild West show, which presents historically inaccurate reenactments of conflicts between U.S. troops and Native Americans. Cody hires Chief Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts) to play himself, as a villain, in stagings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. But, to Cody's dismay, star performer

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46:27

BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#74 - THE DREAM TEAM!

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2025/05/29

This week we cover the 1989 comedy - THE DREAM TEAM! Psychiatrist Dr. Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) takes four mental patients on an outing to Yankee Stadium. Billy (Michael Keaton) is a nihilistic author, Henry (Christopher Lloyd) lost his bearings while working as a mailman, Jack (Peter Boyle) thinks he is the world's scapegoat and the childlike Albert (Stephen Furst) is obsessed with baseball broadcasts. When two corrupt cops incapacitate Dr. Weitzman, the four troubled men must fend for

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49:35

BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#73 - EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN!

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2025/05/22

This week we tackle ..(get it?).. the 1988 film EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN! Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#72 - THE AMATEUR

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2025/05/15

This week we are covering the original 1981 version of THE AMATEUR!When the wife of CIA agent Charles Heller (John Savage) is killed by a group of terrorists in Munich, Germany, he decides to hunt down the escaped killers. However, he is only a code specialist without combat expertise, and he does not have agency permission. Using classified information, Heller blackmails the CIA into training him and sending him into Czechoslovakia, where the killers are currently located. Once he arrives, Heller

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45:06

BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#71 - BLOODLINE!

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2025/05/09

This week we cover the 1979 film BLOODLINE!A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.Hear our take on the film and the review of Siskel and Ebert. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo:

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49:38

BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#70 - FADE TO BLACK!

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2025/05/01

This week we discuss FADE TO BLACK!Eric Binford is a lonely movie-buff who struggles to find his place in the world. The rejection by a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, who embodies his obsession, sends him on a killing spree during which he transforms himself into classic film characters.Hear our take on the film and on the review of Siskel and Ebert!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo:

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48:39

BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#69 - SERIAL!

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2025/05/01

This week we discuss the film Serial!Inspired by the Cyra McFadden novel The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, Serial is director Bill Persky's (TV's Kate & Allie) satirical look at the lifestyles of California's 1970's hippie culture. Viewed through the eyes of Harvey Holroyd (Martin Mull, TV's Roseanne), a man perplexed by the behavior of his wife Kate (Tuesday Weld, Pretty Poison) and their liberal-minded friends, Serial lampoons everything from feminism, free love and sexual

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46:26

BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#68 - YANKS!

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2025/04/17

This week we cover the 1979 film YANKS!Matt (Richard Gere) and John (William Devane), U.S. soldiers stationed in England during World War II, are both beginning affairs with British women, but they soon find their romances complicated by moral dilemmas and a clash of cultures. Jean (Lisa Eichhorn), a girl from a working class family, has caught Matt's eye, and John is trying to woo the elegant Helen (Vanessa Redgrave). However, both woman are already involved with local men who have left for the

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#67 - GALAXINA

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2025/04/09

This week we cover the sci-fi spoof GALAXINA!When an interstellar police cruiser is sent to recover a precious blue crystal in the 31st century, crew member and android Galaxina (Dorothy Stratten) is left alone as the others are put into suspended animation as part of the mission. While bumbling Capt. Cornelius Butt (Avery Schreiber) and the others sleep the years away, Galaxina begins to fall in love with the pilot of the vessel, Sgt. Thor (Stephen Macht), but their romance is complicated when a

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#66 - BLINK

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2025/04/01

This week we tackle another "discovery" with 1992's BLINK. Blinded at the abusive hands of her mother as a young girl, Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe) is now a musician in Chicago. After an operation, she partly regains her sight, but sometimes she can remember things only hours after first seeing them. When she thinks she sees the person who murdered her neighbor, the police detective John Hallstrom (Aidan Quinn) becomes involved both with the case and with Emma. Now the killer is after Emma, and John

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#65 -THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE...

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2025/03/28

This week we cover THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS!Justin and I wrap up Musical March with this fun film starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton!Miss Mona (Dolly Parton) runs the Chicken Ranch, a brothel with a long history in a small Texas town. The locals have a good relationship with the institution, and Mona is respected in the community. The sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd (Burt Reynolds), also looks out for the Chicken Ranch due to his past with Miss Mona. However, when pious reporter Melvin Thorpe

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#64 - A CHORUS LINE!!

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2025/03/18

This week Justin and I continue our month of musicals with A CHORUS LINE! Hundreds of hopefuls congregate at a cattle call for Broadway dancers. A sour director, Zach (Michael Douglas), and his brusque assistant (Terrence Mann) whittle down the ranks until they're left with 16 dancers. All tell their life stories -- some tragic, some comic -- and explain their love of dance. Tension mounts when Cassie (Alyson Reed) -- once both a big star and the director's lover but now desperate for a part --

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#63 - NEWSIES!!

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2025/03/15

This week we are covering NEWSIES!!In this musical, homeless New York City newsboy Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) befriends two newcomers to his trade, brothers David (David Moscow) and Les Jacobs (Luke Edwards). When publisher Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall) sets new rules that make it harder for the young newspaper salesmen to make a buck, the boys go on strike. Bryan Denton (Bill Pullman), a journalist who's sympathetic to their plight, gives them some tips in public relations, as the

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#62 - HAIR!!

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2025/03/05

This week Justin and I tackle the first movie of Musical March - HAIR, directed by Milos Forman! In New York City for the first time while on his way to enlist in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Oklahoma farm hand Claude Hooper Bukowski (John Savage) meets up with a freewheeling group of Central Park hippies led by the irrepressible George Berger (Treat Williams). When the unlikely friends meet upper-middle-class debutante Sheila Franklin (Beverly D'Angelo), sparks fly between the country boy

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#61 - THE SISKEL AND EBERT QUIZ...

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2025/02/25

This week we take a break from film reviews to play a little game. I test Justin's brain power by playing clips of Siskel and Ebert reviews where he has to guess the film that they are discussing. Play along!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#60 - THE BILL MURRAY EPISODE

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2025/02/18

This week we take on the Siskel and Ebert special dedicated to Bill Murray. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#59- ERNEST GOES TO CAMP (A...

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2025/02/11

This week we do another listener request, but this time with a twist. Since Siskel and Ebert did not review Ernest Goes To Camp (but we love it anyway) - we decided to do a speculation episode on how we think they would have rated the movie!Hear our take on the film and the review of Siskel and Ebert!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony

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BACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#58 - THE THING!!

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2025/02/04

This week we tackle the film THE THING.n remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it

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