Wed, 28 December 2016
The Fools goof on The Empire Strikes Back, Irvin Kershner's 1980 sequel to Star Wars (R.I.P. Carrie Fisher who passed during the editing of this episode).
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_108_Empire_Strikes_Back.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 8:31pm EDT |
Sun, 11 December 2016
The Fools finally tackle the Force and George Lucas' 1977 space adventure, Star Wars, and remember what it felt like to see this film for the first time. |
Sun, 27 November 2016
The Fools explore the wonderful world of John J. Rambo, terrorist of the small town of Hope, Washington, in Sly's 1982 action adventure, First Blood. |
Fri, 11 November 2016
The Fools finally goof on Scorsese's most entertaining film, Goodfellas. Yes it's all fun and yucks until the Professor relapses and snorts a bit too much coke. |
Fri, 28 October 2016
The Fools complete their Universal Horror month with the last of the pantheon of super monsters in the 1954 3-D classic, The Creature From the Black Lagoon.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_104_Creature_Black_Lagoon.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 6:44pm EDT |
Thu, 20 October 2016
The Fools continue their Universal Horror month with the 1941 classic, The Wolf Man, starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains. |
Fri, 14 October 2016
The Fools kick off their Universal Horror month with the 1932 classic, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff as our title character and Ardeth Bay. |
Thu, 29 September 2016
The Fools once again explore the beautiful mind of Terrence Malick and his meditative 2011 opus, The Tree of Life (Guest: Tobin Kirk). |
Sat, 17 September 2016
The Fools celebrate their 100th episode with arguably the most popular movie ever made by aliens: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_100_2001_Space_Odyssey.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 9:32pm EDT |
Mon, 5 September 2016
The Fools go join Keanu Reeves on his journey into The Matrix, the 1999 Wachowski Brothers' techno action classic, where we don't hang up. We just say click. |
Sat, 27 August 2016
The Fools complete their international tour in Japan with Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Japanese jidaigeki film, Rashomon, featuring Toshiro Mifune. |
Fri, 12 August 2016
The Fools continue their international tour in France this time with Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave classic, Breathless, featuring Jean Seberg. |
Sun, 7 August 2016
The Fools start their international tour in Italy with Vittorio De Sica's Neo-Realistic classic, Bicycle Thieves.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_96_Bicycle_Thieves.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 10:25pm EDT |
Thu, 21 July 2016
The Fools are picking their feet in Poughkeepsie with William Friedkin in his awesome crime thriller, The French Connection, with Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_95_French_Connection.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 2:56am EDT |
Wed, 13 July 2016
The Fools return to John Ford's Monument Valley to deal with a racist John Wayne in the 1956 western classic, The Searchers. |
Thu, 7 July 2016
The Fools fasten their seat belts and explore the Broadway theater and its colorful showbiz cast in Joseph Mankiewicz's 1950 melodrama, All About Eve. |
Tue, 28 June 2016
The Fools drop acid and go far out for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 masterpiece Apocalypse Now! |
Thu, 16 June 2016
The Fools continue their war campaign with Shosanna, Hans the Jew Hunter, and Aldo and his Basterds in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_91_Inglourious_Basterds.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 1:51pm EDT |
Mon, 6 June 2016
The Fools kick off their second annual war campaign with Michael Cimino's 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, with Bobby DeNiro and a young Chris Walken. |
Tue, 24 May 2016
The Fools complete their Godfather series and their goofing on Part II, and also discuss whether Part III is really that bad or a great film misunderstood.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_89_Godfather_3_of_3.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 9:49pm EDT |
Tue, 17 May 2016
The Fools continue their goofing on the Godfather films where Michael Corleone says this, and Michael Corleone says that, and we say..."Yeah, sure..." And Don Vito dies yet again.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_88_Godfather_2_of_3.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 8:26pm EDT |
Tue, 10 May 2016
The Fools take on Don Vito Corleone both young and old, his son Michael, and the rest of the family in part one of our three part series: The Rise of Vito.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_87_Godfather_1_of_3.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 7:27pm EDT |
Wed, 27 April 2016
The Fools tackle racism and ethics in their most politically incorrect and insensitive episode yet when they discuss the 1962 classic film, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_86_To_Kill_a_Mockingbird.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 9:09pm EDT |
Thu, 14 April 2016
The Fools return to the beautiful world of Terrence Malick and his second feature, Days of Heaven, with a young and handsome Dick Gere. |
Tue, 5 April 2016
The Fools explore Keyser Söze's The Usual Suspects, and our Host argues that what many consider a masterpiece simply is not (Tobin Kirk returns and defends).
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_84_Usual_Suspects.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 10:37pm EDT |
Tue, 22 March 2016
The bird is a winner when the Fools go full Bogey and trounce all over John Huston's 1941 film noir, The Maltese Falcon, with dames Brigid and Effie. |
Tue, 15 March 2016
The Fools tap into their inner feminine selves with Dustin Hoffman and Sidney Pollack in Tootsie, the best example of an early 80's comedy farce. |
Mon, 7 March 2016
The Fools are counting down the minutes with Super Trooper Gary Cooper in 1952's High Noon, with Grace Kelly, Lon Chaney, and a silent but deadly Lee Van Cleef. |
Mon, 29 February 2016
The Fools are in the rain this time with Gene Kelly, singin' and fartin' all over his 1952 classic, Singin' in the Rain, which may be the best musical ever put to film. |
Mon, 22 February 2016
The Fools go back to drink from the David Lean well and discuss his 1962 classic epic, Lawrence of Arabia, with Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_79_Lawrence_of_Arabia.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 8:57pm EDT |
Thu, 4 February 2016
The Fools come out of their closets and explore their love for one another with Ang Lee's romantic 2005 drama, Brokeback Mountain, with Jake and Heath.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_78_Brokeback_Mountain.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 10:35pm EDT |
Tue, 26 January 2016
The Fools talk comedy and tragedy plus time with Woody Allen's 1989 film, Crimes and Misdemeanors, starring Martin Landau from Space 1999.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_77_Crimes_Misdemeanors.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 11:01pm EDT |
Thu, 14 January 2016
The Fools start Season 3 with the epic of all epic films, Gone with the Wind. With Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara.
Direct download: Reel_Fools_Ep_76_Gone_with_the_Wind.mp3
Category:film reviews -- posted at: 9:15pm EDT |