by The Flickcast, Nov 9 2020 // 10:01 AM

On this episode Chris and Joe move on from development hell into the virtual Hell-on-Earth often created by visionary director David Lynch. This is the first of a new series where the boys go deep into the work and career of a specific artist and discuss their style, technique and what makes their work resonate with audiences.
Lynch’s films and television achievements include Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks. All of these, and the rest of his work, are characterized by stunning visuals, complex characters, outrageous situations and often stark brutality. He’s been praised as a genius visionary by fans and critics alike and he’s won numerous awards.
His work has been discussed and studied for years with the director himself offering rare information as to what his work means and why he’s presented it the way he has. So what does it all mean, really? Chris and Joe think they’re up to the challenge of explaining it all so, in this first in a series of Deep Dives, they wade in on the films, television and career of David Lynch.
It’s pretty great. Thanks for listening.
WARNING: This episode may contain discussions about COVID-19, mental health and quarantine. We understand not everyone is in a place to talk about or hear discussions surrounding these issues. Please do what’s best for you. Stay safe everyone.
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Tagged: Bill Pullman, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Deep Dive, Dennis Hopper, Dune, Eraserhead, Fire Walk With Me, Harry Dean Stanton, Inland Empire, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Palmer, Lost Highway, Mark Frost, Movies, Mulholland Drive, Sheryl Lee, The Straight Story, TV, Twin Peaks
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by Douglas Barnett, Mar 26 2012 // 3:15 PM

Repo Man (1984), not to be confused with the movie about two guys who go around repossessing people’s internal organs when they miss a payment, is a Punk Rock classic starring Emilio Estevez as a clean cut kid in the dirty business of repossessing cars in the seedy underworld of Los Angeles.
Otto Maddox (Estevez) has just been fired from his job as a supermarket stock boy due to his lack of respect for authority. Later that night at a Punk Rock house party, he also finds out that his girlfriend Debbie is cheating on him with his best friend Duke. To make matters worse, Otto also finds out that his hippie parents gave away money that was promised to Otto for finishing college to a sleazy televangelist. What’s a broke, depressed punker supposed to do now?
After a long night of drinking and wandering the streets, Otto runs into Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) who pleads with Otto to help get his pregnant wife’s car out of a bad area and deliver it to the hospital where she’s going into labor. Otto initially refuses to take the job for less than $20 and finds out that he has been suckered into stealing a car.
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Posted in: Action · Comedy · Cult Cinema · DVD · DVD Reviews · Indie · Monday Picks · Movies · Netflix · Sci-Fi · Universal Pictures
Tagged: Alex Cox, Emilio Estevez, Fox Harris, Harry Dean Stanton, Repo Man, Tom Finnegan, Vonetta McGee
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by Douglas Barnett, Feb 6 2012 // 12:00 PM

This week’s pick is yet another John Carpenter classic. Kurt Russell stars as the first ever action hero of the 1980s in Escape From New York (1981). After success with Halloween and the horror classic The Fog, Carpenter’s next project would be a unique blend of science fiction, action, noir and a western. The result is one of the finest multi genre classics of its time.
Set in a dystopian future (now the past) the United States’ crime rate rises to an astonishing four hundred percent in 1988. To combat the growing crime rate, the United States becomes a totalitarian police state and the great city of New York is turned into the one prison for the whole country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected around all of Manhattan Island, all the bridges and waterways are mined, and the United States Police Force patrols the wall perimeter to insure no one escapes. Once you go inside the prison, you never come out.
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Posted in: Academy Awards · Action · Blu-Ray · Cult Cinema · DVD · DVD Reviews · MGM · Monday Picks · Movies · Prequels and Sequels · Sci-Fi
Tagged: Adrienne Barbeau, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Doubleday, Harry Dean Stanton, Issac Hayes, James Cameron, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ox Baker, Tom Atkins
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by Douglas Barnett, Aug 2 2010 // 1:00 PM
Red Dawn is the ultimate “what if” Cold War movie. Set some time in the mid alternate 1980’s, Red Dawn depicts a world which has fast been assimilated into the sphere of Soviet influence. After NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) which was established by western powers after World War II to halt the advance of the Soviet Union rapidly dissolves, the United States is alone and left vulnerable to the threat of communist invasion.
Acclaimed director John Milius (The Wind & the Lion, Farewell to the King, Flight of the Intruder, Rough Riders), and future director/screenwriter Kevin Reynolds helm this 1984 cult classic.
Patrick Swayze (Jed Eckert), Charlie Sheen (Matt Eckert), C. Thomas Howell (Robert Morris), Lea Thompson (Erica Mason), Jennifer Grey (Toni Mason), Powers Boothe (Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner USAF), Harry Dean Stanton (Tom Eckert), Ron O’ Neal (Col. Ernesto Bella), and screen great Ben Johnson (George Mason) round out the cast.
The fictional town of Calumet, Colorado serves as the backdrop for the World War III invasion of the U.S. On a typical September morning as students are listening to their teacher’s lecture on the Mongol conquests of Asia, his attention is drawn to the sight of Soviet paratroops landing on the high school varsity football field. As violence erupts as the enemy quickly gains control of the town for more troops to be dropped in, six teenagers (Swayze, Sheen, Howell, Brad Savage (Danny), Darren Dalton (Daryl), and Doug Toby (Aardvark) flee to the mountains in order to avoid capture.
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Tagged: Ben Johnson, Brad Savage, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Doug Toby, DVD, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey, John Milius, Kevin Reynolds, Lea Thompson, MGM, Neflix, Patrick Swayze, Powers Boothe, Ron O' Neal, War
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by Joe Gillis, Jan 27 2010 // 3:00 PM

It’s almost February and some really great movies are hitting store shelves this week for the first time and for the first time on Blu-ray. This week’s releases include This Is It, Surrogates, Whip It, Saw IV, the complete run of NBC’s canceled-too-soon Southland and the Blu-ray release of Wim Wenders’ classic Paris, Texas with Nastassja Kinski and Harry Dean Stanton. (pictured above).
Check out this week’s new releases:
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Atonement ~ James McAvoy (Blu-ray)
Bright Star ~ Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw (Blu-ray and DVD)
Fame (1980) ~ Irene Cara (Blu-ray)
Give ‘Em Hell Malone ~ Doug Hutchison, Thomas Jane (Blu-ray and DVD)
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell ~ Matt Czuchry, Geoff Stults (Blu-ray and DVD)
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Tagged: Bruce Willis, Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, ParisTexas, Radha Mitchell, Sam Sheppard, Saw IV, Shawnee Smith, Southland, Surrogates, This is It, Whip It, Wim Wenders
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