Jack Nicholson: Hidden Drugs, Road Rage, and a Shocking Crime
In some of Hollywood's best-loved movies, Jack Nicholson played jokers, sailors, inmates – even the Devil himself. But he never played...
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BADLANDS: SPORTSLAND
BADLANDS is a true-crime anthology podcast from Jake Brennan, creator and host of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND. BADLANDS Season 2: Sportsland is all about the...
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20 of 226 episodesBonus Episode: The Screening Room – The Silence of the Lambs
This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about death's head moths, Ford Pintos, fava beans, and the 1991 Jonathan Demme film 'The Si...
Bonus Episode: Was New Hollywood’s Big Bang Actually a Lee Marvin Movie?
In this week's Wrap Party, Zeth is looking back at the dawn of New Hollywood and wondering if the 1967 film 'Point Blank' has proved more im...
Jodie Foster: A Teenage Star-Turn, a Deranged Stalker, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
After being nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a child prostitute in the 1976 film Taxi Driver , Jodi Foster gave up acting to g...
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Hereditary
This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about seances, possession, grief, demon kings from hell, and the 2018 Ari Aster film 'Hered...
Bonus Episode: Breaking the Rules and Disrupting the Narrative
In this week's Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about 'You Can See Everything,' the new A24 documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppe...
Jayne Mansfield: Nude Scenes, Satan’s Slave, and a Gruesome Death
Whether she was filming Hollywood's first major nude scenes, or posing against a backdrop of Satanic skulls and pentagrams, Jayne Mansfield...
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – A Ghost Story
This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about bedsheets with the eyes cut out, time and eternity, and the 2017 David Lowery film 'A...
Bonus Episode: Comfort Horror and Cursed Films
In this week's Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the "comfort horror" subgenre that he may or may not have just made up, as well as 'Rosemar...
Poltergeist Curse: Paranormal Activity, a Plane Crash, and Murder
Four different actors from the 1980s horror franchise Poltergeist died within a 6-year span. Dominique Dunne was murdered. Julian Beck succu...
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – 25th Hour
This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about 9/11 in cinema, the life that came so close to never happening, and Spike Lee's 2002...
Bonus Episode: From Cocaine Cowboy to Toolman
In this week's Wrap Party, Zeth is talking 1991, 'Home Improvement,' 'Twin Peaks,' and the chasm between Tim Allen's public persona and his...
Tim Allen: Cocaine in Kalamazoo, Life in Prison, and Flipping for the Feds
Before he was headed to infinity and beyond, Tim Allen was headed to life in prison for a low-level drug deal in Michigan. This is the story...
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Mulholland Drive
This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about dreams, doubles, mysteries, and the 2001 David Lynch film 'Mulholland Drive.' Plus we...
Bonus Episode: We Are the Dreamer Who Dreams and Then Lives Inside the Dream
In this week's Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about movies as dreams, movies as mystery, and the mystery of the dreamlike David Lynch. And Jake...
David Lynch: A Brutal Murder, a Corrupt Small Town, and the Secret Origins of Twin Peaks
In 1908, a girl was brutally murdered in a small town in upstate New York. The town was seemingly idyllic, but beneath the surface, it was c...
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – So I Married an Axe Murderer
This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about beat poetry, Alcatraz, noggins so big they're virtual planetoids, and the 1993 romant...
Bonus Episode: Tony Soprano Would Not Approve
In this week's Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the glaring omission of 'The Sopranos' from the New York Times' 100 Best TV Shows of the 21...
Phil Hartman: Blackmail, an Attempted Presidential Assassination, and a Murder-Suicide
Before he was deemed "the Glue" by his castmates at Saturday Night Live , Phil Hartman worked as a rock 'n roll roadie and a graphic designe...
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Enemy of the State
This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about bugs, wiretaps, hidden cameras, and the 1998 Tony Scott film 'Enemy of the State' sta...