Movies/TV Archive
04 Oct 2025
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
30 Sep 2025
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
26 Jun 2025
‘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
18 Mar 2025
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…
02 Jan 2025
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.
23 Oct 2024
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
07 Oct 2024
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
13 Jul 2023
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]
11 Jul 2023
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]
02 Jan 2023
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
06 Nov 2020
‘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
02 Nov 2020
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
22 Oct 2020
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.”
16 Oct 2020
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
07 Jul 2019
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]
04 Feb 2019
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

After talking about the new Johnny English movie, Adam said that during discussion on 5G that some show producers pointed that the second Kingsman movie, Kingsman: The Golden Circle had a variation of this – everyone has a phone and a central point can kill you. Dvorak hasn’t seen it yet but liked the first movie
04 Feb 2019
Johnny English: Strikes Again

John Dvorak describes the “new Johnny English movie with Mr Bean – whole movie is about a Silicon Valley guy who is a data monger!” John further said he enjoyed it and admitted to seeing it in a theater. John further said that for admirers of good writing will appreciated a couple of the bits
24 Jan 2019
Bird Box Caused by Cellphones and 5G?

Is the Bird Box a metaphor for the implications of our civilization’s addiction to cell phone use? Adam wasn’t interested in watching Netflix’s hit movie, Bird Box because he didn’t want to watch a stressful movie with Sandra Bullock and some kids in a row boat. Award winning director Susanne Bier made this beautifully shot, but
08 Jan 2019
How Cummings Used Data to Win BREXIT

Comic Strip Blogger sent Adam a link to a video of Dominic Cummings explaining at a marketing conference how they won the BREXIT referendum. Adam describes Cummings as the is the Brad Parscale (ran Trump’s digital media) of BREXIT. Cummings ran the ‘Vote Leave’ campaign and facebook campaigns. Adam likes this stuff because it’s very
16 Nov 2018
Madam Secretary

In a recent episode of CBS’ Madam Secretary the main protagonist of the show, US Secretary of State (played by Tea Leone) seeks advice on how to give a national speech on a recent disaster that occurred at the White House. Like a wise diplomat, she turns to her wise predecessors; Madeline Albright, Colin Powell