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SMC Pod #150: BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY + Sequels...

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2023/05/12

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, A.J. Grier, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) buddies with animation writer (Daniel Spellbound) and returning guest, Anne Mortensen-Agnew, and makes a most unprecedented expedition through realms ethereal with Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, a bizarro sequel to Excellent Adventure – both starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter – that two thirds of this podcast like more than the first! More superior sequels are discussed. A.J. and Anne think Top

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SMC Pod #149: Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE + More...

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2023/05/05

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, A.J. Grier, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) does NOT keep quiet about Martin Scorsese’s powerful adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s Silence. Finally made in 2016, Silence was a passion project that Scorsese pursued for nearly thirty years! The Team also obsesses over other passion projects. Craig counts John Huston’s long-gestated The Man Who Would Be King as the beginning of the director’s late and great period! A.J. reckons that filmmakers like

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SMC Pod #148: Russ Meyer’s BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE...

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2023/04/28

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) freaks out with Russ Meyer’s kaleidoscope of Hollywood, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and its surprising co-writer, iconic film critic, Roger Ebert! One of his favorite movies, a fiery passion erupts from Edwin, especially when he hears Connor’s more muted reaction to the film! Craig appreciates Roger Ebert’s voice even if he didn’t always share his opinions. Daniel recalls the love he felt for Ebert

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SMC Pod #147: CLERKS + Kevin Smith!

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2023/04/21

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) makes a pit stop in Jersey with native son, Kevin Smith, and his debut feature, Clerks! While Smith came running out of the 90s indie scene, he’s had a rockier road than many of his contemporaries, but the Team has a lot of affection for him and his first film! Daniel delves into what Smith’s movie9os meant to him as a young filmmaker. Connor and Craig recount stories about Jason Mewes and Jon Peters that

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SMC Pod #146: Spring Holiday Movies!

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2023/04/14

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) springs into the season with a menagerie of films for holidays from January to May (that AREN’T Valentine’s)! Edwin honors our country for Presidents’ Day with Clint Eastwood’s Absolute Power. Daniel cracks open Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit for Easter! Craig keeps it kosher with Uncut Gems’ Passover sequence. Connor gets lucky with Irish martial arts film, Fatal Deviation, for St. Paddy’s

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SMC Pod #145: PURPLE RAIN + Musicians in Film!

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2023/04/07

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) takes stage with Prince’s seminal rock musical, Purple Rain, featuring a bevy of incredible songs by Prince and the Revolution! Daniel and Connor trade stories about Prince, including how he ended up doing the Batman soundtrack. The Team also jams with musicians in cinema! Craig notes the vast topic of blaxploitation films which feature incredible music (and some performances!) from artists like Isaac Hayes

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SMC Pod #144: Body Swap Movies!

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2023/04/01

Sorry this is a day late, it has been a wild one. Here’s the description: “The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) was set to talk about body swap movies like Freaky Friday, but they all touched a cursed VHS tape and swapped bodies themselves! Craig (as Connor) reminisces about the body swap movies of his childhood like Vice Versa and Like Father Like Son. Edwin (as Craig) yells about the “one true” film in this subgenre, Face/Off! Connor (as

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SMC Pod #143: Our 3rd Anniversary + Movies That Our...

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2023/03/24

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) celebrates the third anniversary of the pod by reflecting on their possibly changed feelings about the show and with a dialogue about how our opinions on movies change over time! Craig understands why Casablanca is the classic it is the older he gets. Daniel’s feelings on Michael Mann’s filmography have shifted in recent years. Connor explains how his favorite movies of any given year are often not his

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SMC Pod #142: The 3rd Annual Secret Movie Club...

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2023/03/17

It’s the big night and the Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) gets all gussied up for a discussion on the 95th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film of 2022, including Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once! The Team also presents you their favorite films of 2022 and what they’re looking forward to in 2023. Connor adored EEAAO, but has mixed feelings about its wins. Edwin is just mad about the one category that didn’t go the way

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SMC Pod #141: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY + Non-Bond...

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2023/03/10

The Top Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) goes undercover with Tomas Alfredson’s masterful adaptation of John le Carré’s dense spy thriller, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman, which the whole Team loves except for a mole who hates it! The Team also surveils spy films that are NOT part of the Bond franchise. Craig infiltrates the WWII subgenre with Army of Shadows, Black Book, and Lust, Caution. Dad-iel reignites his love for The

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SMC Pod #140: Hitchcock’s Disciples

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2023/03/03

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) worships at the temple of cinema and SMC’s director of 2023, Alfred Hitchcock, by canonizing the filmmakers that have followed in Hitch’s incomparable footsteps! Connor goes obvious and talks Brian lDe Palma. Daniel goes obvious (for him) and talks Park Chan-wook. Edwin invokes Gus Van Sant and his possibly heretical remake of Psycho. Craig beatifies both Steven Spielberg and David Fincher, who he proposes

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SMC Pod #139: NOTTING HILL and LOVERS ROCK + Movie...

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2023/02/24

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) gets together to discuss SMC’s recent double feature screening of romcom classic Notting Hill and modern gem Lovers Rock! Programmed by Team member Joshua Oakley, Notting Hill and Lovers Rock are paired because, while they are wildly different films about romance, they both take place in West London. The Team also dives into the art of movie pairings, a huge part of programming films at SMC. Connor “shares”

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SMC Pod #138: SPELLBOUND + Romantic Thrillers!

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2023/02/17

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) cozies up to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 Spellbound, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck with a famous and startling dream sequence by Salvador Dalí! Hitchcock, our director of 2023, is a progenitor of the romantic thriller, so the Team also looks at other romthrills. Connor analyzes their split lineage that leads to both erotic thrillers but modern action movies as well. Craig nominates Pedro Almodóvar as

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SMC Pod #137: BEING JOHN MALKOVICH + Spike Jonze!

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2023/02/10

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) enters the mind of skater-auteur Spike Jonze and his directorial debut, the darkly comic Being John Malkovich, written by Charlie Kaufman. BJM is one of Connor’s favorite films and he gushes about its existential horror and daring style! Edwin prefers Jonze’s follow-up Kaufman-collab, Adaptation. Craig admires his shorter work, including an Apple ad he made with FKA Twigs and his incredible music and

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SMC Pod #136: JACKASS + high art and low art!

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2023/02/03

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) rides the bull for the full eight seconds with the Jackass series, co-created by Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze, featuring Knoxville and a group of other knuckleheads doing ridiculous and vulgar pranks and stunts! The Team also analyzes high art and low art, the dubious distinction between the two, and whether or not these terms are even valid. Daniel and Connor bond over their adolescent obsessions with

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SMC Pod #135: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE,...

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2023/01/27

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) sits down to talk about Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, which just topped Sight and Sound’s “Top 100 Greatest Films” critics’ list in 2022! The movie’s ascendance to number one was controversial for multiple reasons and the film itself splits our heroes. They also exchange a few words about the full list published by BFI, what they think about lists like this, and

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SMC Pod #134: Winter Break ‘22/’23 Catch-Up!

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2023/01/20

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) reconvenes to detail what they’ve been up to for the last five weeks while they weren’t recording and what they’re hoping to bring into 2023. Connor is stoked about his big, cool box! Edwin brags about “watching” a lot of films and gaslights the others. Daniel went road trippin’ around the country. Craig deals with the technical aspects of editing a movie. And considering this is the Secret MOVIE Club

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DEFEND THIS MOVIE #10: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE...

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2023/01/13

Screenwriter Steve Grest (originator of the Defend This Movie idea) returns to the pod to debate Secret Movie Club programmer and founder Craig Hammill about Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, and Ke Huy Quan! The 1984 sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark was controversial upon release for its dark content, and Steve agrees that it is a joyless, annoying slog. Craig admits that Temple has its problems, but he also thinks the

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SMC Pod #133: Celebrating John Ford, Our Director of...

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2023/01/06

Secret Movie Club programmer and founder Craig Hammill is joined once more by SMC blog writer Patrick McElroy to start 2023 with a recap of our director of 2022, John Ford, maybe the most important American filmmaker of all time. Craig and Patrick love the old man and his films, which include classic westerns like The Searchers and Stagecoach as well as acclaimed dramas like The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley. Along with diving deep into his movies, Craig and Patrick also delve into

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SMC Pod #132: Victor Sjöström’s THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE...

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2022/12/30

To close out 2022, the Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) toasts silent classic, The Phantom Carriage, directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, a sort of Swedish Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life set around New Year’s Eve! The Team also continues their journey through the holidays with NYE in film: Daniel thinks it’s about time to talk about About Time, Craig keeps going with The Godfather series, Edwin likes to end the year with

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