Episode 077: Badlands + Buffalo '66
Romance-on-the-run is one of cinema's most enduring genres, from Gun Crazy to Wild at Heart - but tonight's selections are a strange breed all by them...
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Martini Giant loves movies like you love movies. Three industry professionals, Chris Nichols, Daniel Thron, and Erick Schilele gather biweekly to talk obsessively about their favorite films, share insider stories on moviemaking, and drink some mighty fine cocktails. In this podcast, there's no kind of film we don't love, and everything is on the table from Infinity War and A Star is Born to Alphaville and Eraserhead. So if you like your opinions served up as strong as your drinks, then sidle up to the bar, my friend, and enjoy the expertly mixed, lovingly crafted hot takes of Martini Giant.
Episode 076: La Jetée, 12 Monkeys, Looper
Tonight the fourth in our Time Travel series serves up a classic, a would-be classic, and a should-be classic… and all three share fascinating connect...
Episode 075: True Stories
Tonight we have the third in our Blind Spot series - first there was Chris with A Clockwork Orange, then Erick with Ferris Beuller's Day Off - but giv...
Episode 074: Saturday Night Fever + Staying Alive
MG takes on a unique double feature with one of the best movies of the 70s and one of the worst movies of the 80's! That's right: John Badham's brilli...
Episode 073: Snatch + The Long Good Friday
Crime movies are one of our favorite genres here at MG, from John Huston's grainy noirs to Michael Mann's sleek modernism. But there's something extr...
Episode 072: Flash Gordon + Highlander
There are certain movies that if you see them at just the right age, become part of your cinematic DNA - you quote them with your friends, memorize ev...
Episode 071: Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson has become one of the most respectable names in world cinema, with every new chapter of his filmography being greeted as a major ...
Episode 070: Annihilation + Under The Skin
Science fiction filmmaking was briefly set free of its genre constraints following Kubrick's 2001 - and in the early 1970s, flying saucers and rubber ...
Episode 069: Mad Max: Fury Road + Rogue one: A Star Wars Story
Conventional wisdom tells us that prequels, sequels and reboots are never as good as the originals, yet franchise installments make up two-thirds of t...
Episode 068: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown + Bridesmaids
Ensemble comedies are usually light and breezy, and that's true of our double feature tonight as well - but even our picks have crowd-pleasing, sit-co...