Titus & Ryan Shinkel discuss David Lynch's Blue velvet, a movie about suburbia & the city, a boy growing up to be a man by facing evil, & the predicament of American freedom, which might mean ignoring evil or embracing it...

ACF Critic Series

ACF Critic Series #52 Blue Velvet

SPOILER ALERT!!! We spoil all of this 30 year old TV show, so if you're concerned about finding out what happens in Twin Peaks, please watch the whole thing before listening to us blather on and on about it for two fucking hours.

Chain Reaction Spooky Edition

SS - Twin Peaks S1E8

Talk about nostalgia! Dave reached all the way back to the stone ages to beer us this week's pick: The Flintstones 

Luckily for us, Mike had his bare feet all warmed up and ready to join us on this ride. 

Insert rock pun here. Yabba dabba doo! 

*The Flintstones © 1994 Universal Studios

EP52: The Flintstones (1994) feat. Mike

Some thoughts have a certain sound...so we put more than a few in this episode.

Welcome to our new (and *very* occasional) sub-series, A LITTLE BIT LYNCHY, where we explore the oeuvre of the director who brought us closer together: Mr. David Lynch. These episodes run longer than usual and we go far deeper into the weeds as we unpack both the wonderful and the strange of one of America's best cinematic artists.

To celebrate this month's release of a tiny little movie you may have heard of called Dune: Part Two, this week we're discussing Lynch's own take on Frank Herbert's magnum opus. While the spice does flow here it's not always in the right direction; Dave highlights the folly in condensing an 800-page book into two hours of Star Wars-lite, while Chris discusses how Lynch lost final cut - and his love for the film itself - thanks to Universal Studios being a bit of a dick (#ReleaseTheLynchCut). In addition to the inevitable comparisons to Denis Villeneuve's fantastic new films, we also talk about the highly quotable Lynch-original dialogue, the weirdness of Sting's casting, the problematic undertones of Baron Harkonnen, how it is that Patrick Stewart pulls off that mullet, and the generally wonderful human being that is Kyle MacLachlan (and the two *very* big Hollywood actors who almost got his role as Paul).

As I said, we go deep on this one!

Tell us what you thought at sliceofcherryguys@gmail.com! Long live the listeners!

EXTRA LINKS:
Amazon link for Max Evry's *amazing* book "A Masterpiece in Disarray: An Oral History of David Lynch's Dune", which was a big help for this episode and you should definitely read: https://www.amazon.com.au/Masterpiece-Disarray-David-Lynchs-History/dp/1948221292

David Lynch discusses not having final cut on Dune and why he distances himself from the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlE7DZrzik0

The unofficial Spicediver Edit of Dune '84, with 4K upscaling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHQA_0d9Mo

Radio Times article about Sid Sheinberg's terrible alternate name for Back to the Future, and the memo he wrote about it: https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/back-to-the-future-almost-had-a-really-bad-title/

Patrick Stewart speaking at a convention about the weird story of his Dune casting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_ficZ_ciE

Trailer for Jodorowsky's Dune, the documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky's amazing aborted attempt at adapting Dune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cJNR8HEw0

Dune 1984 (A Little Bit Lynchy Special Episode #1)

Titus & Ryan Shinkel continue their series on Dune with David Lynch's ambitous attempt to create out of Frank Herbert's galactic empire politics a moral fable about a young man coming of age.

Critic Series #59 Lynch Dune

Julius en Jasper bespreken twee films met FBI-agent Kyle MacLachlan en een mysterieuze zaak: The Hidden (1987) van Jack Sholder en Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) van David Lynch. Als er eentje zou moeten verdwijnen, welke mag dan blijven?

In de volgende aflevering van Julius vs Jasper worden Catwoman (2004) van Pitof en Madame Web (2023) van S.J. Clarkson.

The Hidden vs Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - Julius vs Jasper 111

Welcome back to our very occasional sub-series, A LITTLE BIT LYNCHY, where we recap the cinematic and televisual works of director David Lynch!

This week we discuss what might be his most coherent and, bizarrely, most optimistic(?) film - aside from The Straight Story - in 1986's Blue Velvet. Kyle MacLachlan gives a winning performance as a young uni student(?) investigating the torrid affairs of a nightclub singer while a crazed Dennis Hopper inhales a lot of oxygen(?) and swears a bunch. Also Laura Dern gets her Lynchian start here, and naturally kicks all kinds of acting ass.

Tell us what you thought at sliceofcherryguys@gmail.com!

EXTRA LINKS:
Janet Maslin's original review of Blue Velvet in 1986, via The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/19/movies/screen-blue-velvet-comedy-of-the-eccentric.html

Derek Morgan's retrospective review of Blue Velvet in 2020, via The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/09/david-lynchs-blue-velvet-reviewed-archive-1987

Blue Velvet (A Little Bit Lynchy Special Episode #2)

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Each week we talk about something that catches our fancy: movies, TV, video games, music, nothing's off limits. We often disagree with each other but we *always* have good chats with strong opinions and perspectives.

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A weekly podcast where two self-proclaimed film nerds talk movies. That's right, another movie podcast.

Throughout each episode, we assign point values for different categories to arrive at a final score. Then we surprise our co-host (and our listeners) with the next week's movie. On the last week of every month, we randomly select a film suggestion from our listeners!

We never know what we'll be talking about the next week! Shenanigans ensue.

Three friends agree to watch every episode and movie of the television hit Hart to Hart to determine once and for all if Hart to Hart is a good show. Join Ellen Ito (the devoted lover) Erik Blood (the nostalgic acquaintance) and Joe Garber (the dubious virgin) on a journey filled with fabulous fashions, furious fistfights, and of course MURDER!

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