Movies/TV Archive

Death By Lightning: Gilded Age Corruption and the Assassination of President James Garfield

While discussing the deep corruption in Minnesota, Adam recommended this new mini-series on Netflix called Death By Lightning. Gilded Age Corruption is the background in this show about James Garfield and his assassin Charles Guiteau. Adam Curry: It’s like three or four episodes about James Garfield, who was elected president almost kind of as a

Marketing With Terror For The Holidays

During the No Agenda Christmas Special, Adam mentioned that this clip portrays how cable networks deploy scare tactics for ratings. In this scene from Scrooged, Bill Murray is a network executive who presents his idea of the appropriate promo clip to show on it’s network ‘Scrooge’ Christmas special.

Game Show: The Floor

Adam brought up the big budget, Rob Lowe hosted game show, The Floor. The show has orgins from the Dutch production company, Endemol (Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Fear Factor, The Biggest Loser & Black Mirror). Adam thought it was shocking that one of the bits in the show is that they show people

Tip of the Day: The Manchurian Candidate

John Dvorak’s latest Tip of the Day is a longtime No Agenda Movie Pick, The Manchurian Candidate. Heck, we even use a still from this movie on our NoAgendaFun.com banner! Get your own copy of The Manchurian Candidate on Amazon. John Dvorak: So I’m not going to do this too often, but I’m going to do

Tip of the Day: Free Streaming From Tubi

“OK, this is a good one!” exclaimed John Dvorak. He’s talking about the streaming service Tubi, which has over 300 streaming channels. Dvorak points out it has many local broadcasters, so you can watch their news if you live in a different city. John admits, they do play a lot of repurposed, junk, movies –

Tip of the Day: Hard Hat Riot on PBS

John Dvorak really digs the new episode of American Experience on PBS titled, Hard Hat Riot. “It’s one of the best histories I’ve seen. I know part of it, I was there, pretty much—but I’m watching this going, this is all news to me. It’s fascinating!” From PBS.com: On May 8, 1970, construction workers in

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

John Dvorak: I recommend a movie for people out there who haven’t seen it. It’s an old movie, but you can dig it up now and again. It’s one of the first Le Carré films made, which was The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Adam Curry: Oh, classic… John Dvorak: And the reason

‘The Recruit’ Playing on Netflix

John Dvorak has a new show to recommend, The Recruit on Netflix. Adam is going to pass because he thinks its too violent. It’s about a schmuck that joins the CIA. And he gets beat up a lot because he’s an idiot. But the thing that’s remarkable about the show is the portrayal of the

House of David

Adam mentioned that he suggested to show producer, David Brunetti that they should all get in on the Christian film wave. MGM and, now Amazon, they have a huge hit on their hands with House of David. Adam warned it’s really gory and very well done! If you want to see heads getting chopped off…

Tip of the Day: Max Velocity – Severe Weather Center on YouTube

John C. Dvorak’s Tip of the Day takes us to Max Velocity – Severe Weather Center on YouTube. JCD describes him as a natural born broadcaster that knows how to talk and not stumble.

Tip of the Day: NFL Network’s ‘Football Live’ is Cheaper than NFL RedZone

This is a bit of a confusing tip as I can’t find any show called “NFL Football LIVE” listed on the NFL Network so we’ll have to take JCD’s work that this is available. Apparently, if you subscribe to YouTube TV, NFL Network is an included channel and this show (or feature) will give you

Tip of the Day: Somewhere Street

This time JCD recommends a ‘killer’ travelog tv show on the NHK network (from Japan). You can get NHK on some over-the-air tv stations, or like I do, as a streaming channel on my Apple TV. John C. Dvorak: So, I just want to recommend a TV show. If you get over-the-air broadcasts—which everyone should

The Naked Jungle

Insects are marching north due to climate change and it reminds Dvorak of an old movie called The Naked Jungle. He described it as a great movie about a giant army of ants marching towards civilization. Starring Charlton Heston. [NA1565 1:35]

The Bear

Adam loves The Bear on Hulu. It’s a drama about a Michelin star chef that has to takeover his brother’s Italian Beef sandwich shop in Chicago. [NA1567 1:12]

Died Suddenly

Is the Stew Peters documentary, Died Suddenly, a cover or Google Wash? If you now google search “died suddenly” it takes up the first couple of search pages, according to John C. Dvorak, who also called it a dumb documentary. They both seemed to agree it was an “Op”. Adam said he liked the movie

‘Songbird’ Is The Scariest Movie to Watch During the Pandemic

Adam asked if there’s been many movie productions in the last 8-10 months? The answer, not many! But get ready, because Netflix is now streaming the apocalyptic pandemic thriller, Songbird. In Songbird, the lockdown has been extended and the virus is now attacking brain tissue – death toll is at 110 million and infected Americans

Is Netflix Hiding “The Plot Against the President?”

Adam was being texted by everyone, “You got to see this documentary, The Plot Against the President!” This hot new documentary was supposed to be on Netflix, so Adam attempted to find it with his Roku’s voice search. Unfortunately, the Roku had a hard time finding the movie. Frustratingly, he had to go down sixteen spots

Feathered Cocaine: Follow the Falcon, Find the Terrorist

Feathered Cocaine is a documentary made around 2010 and was maybe discussed on the show around 2011. The film tells the story of underground falcon smuggling. Falcons are treasured by the wealthy elite throughout the Persian Gulf, the sporting birds have earned the label “feathered cocaine.”

My Octopus Teacher: Man’s Best Friend has Eight Tentacles

Adam just watched My Octopus Teacher, “If you haven’t watched this documentary, you haven’t lived! The octopus would recognize him, it would hug him!” 1284: 1:53

Schitt’s Creek

Schitt’s Creek is a new TV comedy from Canada starring Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara with Chris Elliott. Produced by the CBC. Adam described it as a borderline Farce and Un-Canadian Good! [1152 2:21]