The Walk
Adam started talking about this new movie on Netflix/Amazon called The Wire about high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s death defying walk between the two towers of the World…
Movies/TV
Star Wars Spoiled
While listening to last week’s show (NA 785) John Dvorak shared that he just watched the new Star Wars movie and let fly a string of spoilers.…
Killing Ed
Adam is going to see a special screening of the documentary Killing Ed. Directed by Mark Hall, Killing Ed explores the Turkish based Gülen movement and it’s…
The Ratings Game
While discussing mob influence on politicians, Adam mentioned The Ratings Game which portrays the mob kidnapping Nielsen ratings families to influence the results. The Ratings Game is a…
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Suffragette
Suffragette is a historical period bio pic covering the British women’s suffrage movement of the 1890’s to 1900’s. The film stars the period film standby, Helena Bonham Carer In…
Mitchell Brothers Porn Kings
While discussing Vice reports being staged, John Dvorak brought up the Mitchell Brothers. Adam didn’t recognize the name so John explained that they were porn kingpins in…
San Francisco 2.0
Dvorak mentioned he just saw San Francisco 2.0. the HBO documentary made by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter. The film explores how San Francisco is getting real expensive and…
Our Culture is Marketing – This is What We Do
Adam Curry presented these two audio clips of screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman giving a talk at a British film industry conference. Adam described it, So nicely encapsulated what No…
The Americans
In NA 684 the TV show, The Americans was brought up. The show’s consultant, Joe Weisberg, used to be with the CIA and has used some of his…
Monuments Men
Adam thinks he might get invited to the movie premier for Monuments Men when it's eventually released. The George Clooney directed film deals with art work stolen…
The Fifth Estate
Best known as the "Wikileaks film" - just bombed at the box office. The DreamWorks film was actively campaigned against by Julian Assange. Adam mentioned this failure…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Get it at Amazon Mentioned few times recently on No Agenda. Vintage, cerebral spycraft film starring Gary Oldman.
Eraserhead
"Just go see it!" exclaimed John Dvorak. He further added it's a "disturbing film". Eraserhead is director David Lynch's first full-length motion picture and is an acquired…
Sushi: the Global Catch
While Adam was in Marfa, Texas, he met Mark Hall the director of this award winning documentary. [NA 547 :54]
