Silver Screeners

The holiday season has given us many delightful films, but none as delightfully dubious as these. With good-natured affection, hear about these two flicks that are memorable, but perhaps, for some viewers (and in one case, their own leading actors!), not for the reasons they intended. Plus, behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive, trivia, and listener shout-outs! Music: @fuzzeke

50 years ago, 'Father Karras' suffered a crisis in his faith. Meanwhile, film actress 'Chris McNeil' grew horrified when her 12-year-old daughter 'Regan' showed increasingly disturbing and violent behavior. And 'Father Merrin,' trained to exorcise evil demons from afflicted individuals, joined forces with 'Father Karras' to prove that the power of good conquers the forces of evil. DJ Nik and Rachel Frend of the Gold Standard Oscars Podcast return for a discussion about this 1973 cultural juggernaut that made heads spin like never before. Plus, poll results, trivia, and listener shout-outs!

Celebrating film noir month, or Noirvember, in style with return guest DJ Nik as we explore 1944's Laura, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, and Vincent Price, and 1945's Detour, starring Ann Savage and Tom Neal! Plus, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs! Happy Noirvember to you and your kin.

Celebrate International Dance Day with two films turning 40 years old - 1984's Breakin' and 1984's Footloose. Does 'Special K' look like Three's Company's Joyce DeWitt? Who's the internationally-known action star who makes an early appearance as a breakdancing extra? Does the talented, charismatic Kevin still bring home the bacon for the new generation? All this and more. Plus, poll results, interactive trivia, listener shout-outs, and behind-the-scenes fun facts!

Jacob Marley may be "dead as a doornail," but it's a Dickens doubleheader as Richard Donner's Scrooged, starring Bill Murray, turns 35, while we get a fictionalized look behind the curtain at how Dan Stevens's depiction of author Charles Dickens wrote the bloody thing in the first place in 2017's The Man Who Invented Christmas, also starring the great Christopher Plummer as old Ebenezer. Plus, poll results, interactive trivia, behind-the-scenes fun facts, and listener shout-outs!