Episode 086: "MASH" & "McCabe and Mrs. Miller"
Altman Classics! Tonight's program features two of Robert Altman's best-received films - " The "been there" and "done that" sections are...
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Erick Schiele
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Episode 085: "Walter Mitty" & "Stranger than Fiction"
Tonight MG takes on a midlife double feature! " The "been there" and "done that" sections are blank. " Mid-life crisis stories are often...
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Erick Schiele
Jan 20, 20221 min read
Episode 084: "The Razor's Edge" & "Broken Flowers"
Dramatic Murray! Tonight MG has a Bill Murray double feature ! The arc of Bill Murray's career has been fascinating - beginning as the...
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Erick Schiele
Jan 5, 20221 min read
Episode 083: "After Hours" & "Bringing out the Dead"
Tonight MG has two crazed journeys through NYC from Scorsese! First up, Griffin Dunne is caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare version of SoHo i
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Erick Schiele
Dec 22, 20211 min read
Episode 082: "Nebraska" & "The Descendants"
MG brings the Payne! Alexander Payne's filmography contains some of the most bitter and hilarious films of the past twenty years, from...
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Erick Schiele
Dec 8, 20211 min read
Episode 081: "Sexy Beast" & "Cul-de-sac"
Tonight MG takes in some uninvited guests! First up, Roman Polanski's lesser-known dark comedy Cul de Sac, featuring a young-n-skinny...
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Erick Schiele
Nov 23, 20211 min read
Episode 080: "Dune - 1984" and "Dune - 2021"
Dune Vs. Dune! " Which Ear ? " It's Dune vs. Dune! Some have reappraised Lynch's attempt as a flawed classic, and now Villeneuve has...
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Erick Schiele
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Episode 079: "High Fidelity" & "Say Anything"
A Gen-X Flashback! " A Gen-X double feature!" Is there any actor that embodies Gen-X's sad-sack charms and misanthropic troubles more...
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Erick Schiele
Oct 28, 20211 min read
Episode 078: "Ghost Story", "Bad Milo" & "Ravenous"
Happy Halloween MG fans! Every year (hopefully) each of us pick horror movies that the others haven't seen - so break out the pumpkin...
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Erick Schiele
Oct 13, 20211 min read
Episode 077: "Badlands" & "Buffalo 66"
Tonight MG takes on a couple of road-trip romances " Romance on the run! " Terrence Malick's breakout hit Badlands & Vincent Gallo's...
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Erick Schiele
Sep 29, 20211 min read
Episode 076: "Looper", "12 Monkeys" & " La Jette"
It's that time again! Time Travel Part IV! Tonight the fourth in our Time Travel series serves up a classic, a would-be classic, and a...
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Erick Schiele
Sep 16, 20211 min read
Episode 075: "True Stories"
A movie Dan hasn't seen! It's True! Tonight we have the third in our Blind Spot series - first there was Chris with A Clockwork Orange,...
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Erick Schiele
Sep 1, 20211 min read
Episode 074: "Saturday Night Fever " & "Staying Alive"
MG double feature with one of the best of the 70's - Saturday Night Fever - and one of the worst of the 80's - the sequel, Staying Alive.
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Erick Schiele
Aug 18, 20211 min read
Episode 073: Snatch and The Long Good Friday
Oi! We have a butchers' at some cockney crime! Crime movies are one of our favorite genres here at MG, from John Huston's grainy noirs to...
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Erick Schiele
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Episode 072: Flash Gordon and Highlander
Queen of Sci-Fi! There are certain movies that if you see them at just the right age, become part of your cinematic DNA - you quote them...
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Erick Schiele
Jul 21, 20211 min read
Episode 071: Boogie Nights and the Genius of PT Anderson
MG on PTA! Paul Thomas Anderson has become one of the most respectable names in world cinema, with every new chapter of his filmography...
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Erick Schiele
Jul 7, 20211 min read
Episode 070: Annihilation and Under the Skin
Strange SF is back! Science fiction filmmaking was briefly set free of its genre constraints following Kubrick's 2001 - and in the early...
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Erick Schiele
Jun 23, 20211 min read
Episode 069: Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: Rogue One
Franchises done right! Conventional wisdom tells us that prequels, sequels and reboots are never as good as the originals, yet franchise...
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Erick Schiele
Jun 9, 20211 min read
Episode 068: Bridesmaids & Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Ensemble comedies are usually light and breezy, and that's true of our double feature tonight as well - but even our picks have...
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Erick Schiele
May 27, 20211 min read
Episode 067: "Moon and Robot & Frank"
When people think of science fiction, they generally think of mega-budget spectacles - noisy junk that slathers on the expensive visual...
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