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Sep 30, 2018

We conclude our acclaimed "Ronald-Reagan-appears-for-two-minutes-as-a-radio-announcer" series with Boy Meets Girl (1938), a Hollywood satire/"crazy comedy" adapted from the smash Sam and Bella Spewack play. Directed by Warner comedy ace Lloyd Bacon, the film certainly has its charms, but James Cagney and Pat O'Brien are...


Sep 28, 2018

Abandon all hope of a grant, ye who enter here! Take a one-week one-shot detour through Grant Morrison and Philip Bond's Kill Your Boyfriend with Elise and Dave. Also: Elise gets autobiographical (fortunately, not about killing any boyfriends) and another fine Todd Murry letter prompts us to discourse at length upon...


Sep 23, 2018

Tropic Zone may not be much of a film, but it proved to be a hell of a conversation piece for your Bonzo panelists! We delve into the afterlife of the WW2-era "Good Neighbor Policy", the sadly stunted career of co-star Estrelita Rodriguez, the relationship of this 1950s A-minus Pine-Thomas production to Warner Brothers'...


Sep 21, 2018

Elise and Dave decommission this leg of the podcast with a discussion of We3's fateful finale, in dialogue with written pieces by Jog, John R. Parker, Patrick Meaney, and David Brothers

Also: another talk-provoking letter from Todd Murry (much of it keyed to this fine essay on the grimness and grittiness...


Sep 16, 2018

If Wyoming Steve Gibson didn't exist, those darned culture industry stupidity profiteers would've had to invent him. What's that? He doesn't exist? Hot damn! The Gipper takes a back saddle to Dick Powell once again in 1938's COWBOY FROM BROOKLYN, a film that (as contemporaries were quick to observe) did absolutely...