Waking Life(2001) w/Robert Yaniz Jr of Crooked Table Media

 

 

 Richard Linklater's animated odyssey,Waking Life features a lot of interesting conversations gets discussed in our latest episode. Robert Yaniz jr of Crooked Table Media whose own podcast (Franchise Detours) is covering The Before Trilogy(Also directed by Linklater) comes on to discuss the many fascinating aspects of this very unique art film.

Liquor Bank 2025 Short Film - Written Review

 

Liquor Bank

Cast: Antwone Barnes, Sean Alexander James

Writer and Director:Marcellus Cox

**** out of Five *'s

Incredible drama about a young man who relaps into drinking after being sober for a year and the one man who still wants to fight for him.  This is a well shot, tightly edited chamber style drama that takes place in just one setting.  Not an easy feat to pull off but director Marcellus Cox does a great job with the material.

Random Thoughts of a Movie Insomniac: June 2025

 It's been a while since I have done one of these but let's check on a few movies I watched recently.  Im actually reading more and so that is what I spend a lot of my free time doing.  That and listeing to podcasts and watching YouTube reviews and reactions on older movies.  Been working a lot too so I don't get a chance to watch a lot of new things .

The Materialists

Paddington Trilogy w/ Caitlin of The Bechdel Cast, & Amy of Women InSession

 

On today's episode, 3 great movies are being discussed with two great guests all about one amazing bear, Paddington. The Vern invites Caitlin from ⁠The Bechdel Cast ⁠ and Amy from ⁠Women InSession ⁠to talk about all 3 Paddington movies for this fun episode.

Our Favorite Ensemble Films and Deserted Island Picks.

 

On today's episode, The Vern is joined by three great gents to talk about our favorite ensemble films.  Movies that feature a large cast with many characters in diffeent plots and sub plots

Guests are

Todd of Forgotten Films

Cam of Jacked Up Reviews

Donnie of Cage's Kiss (and Donnie's Choice episodes)

Dogma(1999) 25th Anniversary Review

 

Dogma

Cast: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino

Writer and Director: Kevin Smith

 **** and a 1/2 Stars out of Five.

Sometime in the year 1990, a young guy named Kevin went to watch a little indie film called Slacker.   Made in Austin Texas featuring a cast of just residents and scenes of just people talking with no big central narrative.  This feature from first time director, Richard Linklater was a huge influence on Kevin.  Like Dave Bowman touching the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Kevin Smith was so blown away that a movie could be made with just your friends.  He got a bunch of credit cards, sold his comic books and made one of the most iconic films of 1994, Clerks. ( I promise, there is a review of Dogma in this article)

Barbarella(1968) w/ Phillip of Making Tarantino

 

Blast off for adventure with a secret agent that is truly out of this world. Jane Fonda is Barbarella. A secret agent who is tasked with retrieving a device and a man named Durand Durand. Made right after 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes. This sci fi pop art feature was met with a lot of mixed reaction when first released and certainly does now as well