Paint Your Wagon (Episode 36) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Release Date: 09/16/2016
A New Leaf (Episode 224) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For her directorial debut, comedienne and writer Elaine May chose to adapt the short story The Green Heart by Jack Ritchie into A New Leaf - the story of a rich playboy who loses all his money and schemes to marry and murder a rich woman. Walter Matthau plays the entitled Henry Graham and May herself plays the ditzy but lovable Henrietta Lowell. The film went over budget and time, necessitating a couple extra million dollars and 40 extra shooting days. Paramount took the final edit away from May, winnowing her original 3 hour cut into the existing 90 minute theatrical...
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Wicked: For Good (Episode 223) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Four times a year, Hot Date goes to the actual movies to bring you a film playing right now! Vicky could not let the release of Wicked: For Good go by without discussing it so we bring you the continuing saga of Elphaba Thropp and Galinda Upland, Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West respectfully, of the Land of Oz. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Butero star along with Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum. Also catch up on your hosts recently seen like Rental Family, Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out, Zootopia 2, Caddo Lake, I Don't Understand You, Netflix...
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Ladies' Day (Episode 222) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Leslie Goodwins, director of 1943's Ladies' Day, a farcical comedy set in the world of baseball, needed a lead actress that woluld believably cause players to throw games and lose focus. Stunning Mexican beauty Lupe Velez was just that actress; and luckily, Goodwins and Velez had a good working relationship. She was the star of his Mexican Spitfire films, a series with Velez as the recurring lead. This would be their last collaboration as Velez would tragically end her own life only a year later. Dan and Vicky discuss the forgotten comedy along with lots of recently seen...
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James White (Episode 221) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Based on the story of his own mother's fight with cancer, director/writer Josh Mond made the lead character of 2015's James White a caregiver with his own addiction and commitment issues. He enlisted up and comer Christoper Abbott to play the lead and Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon as his mother. Set and shot in New York City, Mond scored the film with music from Kid Cudi and gave the singer a supporting role. Dan and Vicky discuss the indie drama along with lots of recently seen like Shelby Oaks, Tron:Ares, Black Phone 2, Richard Linklater's Blue Moon, and Luca Guadagnino's...
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DO Call It A Comeback! - Top Ten Actor Comebacks (Episode 220) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
We've reached another Top Ten episode and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their hottest top ten actor comebacks. Every actor has a lull in their career, either intentional or not, and Dan and Vicky are paying tribute to actors who stuck it out and came back bigger and better. Dan takes the theme in his own direction so you'll be excited to hear how your hosts have added their own spin it. You'll also get thoughts on plenty of recently seen movies and TV like Bone Lake, Challengers, Him, One Battle After Another, Anemone, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Alien: Earth. Our socials: ...
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The Corruptor (Episode 219) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1999's The Corruptor was the second attempt by an American film studio to make an international star out of Chow Yun Fat. The Replacement Killers a year before with Mira Sorvino failed to thrill audiences and The Corruptor, about a New York Chinatown war between two rival gangs, didn't exactly make waves. Ironically, it took a Tiawanese filmmaker, Ang Lee, to bring Fat world recognition a year later with hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Dan and Vicky discuss the Mark Wahlberg co-starring buddy cop actioner along with some political talk and lots of recently seen...
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The Jungle Book (Episode 218) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1967's The Jungle Book was Disney's attempt to adapt the series of Rudyard Kipling's books into a children's animated film. Initial attempts to create a screenplay were nixed by Walt Disney for being too bleak and violent. The final version of the script by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, and Vance Gerry was chock a block with songs, talking animal characters, and toned down threats. The film became the second highest grossing Disney movie at the time and spawned several sequels and live action remakes. Dan and Vicky discuss their very first animated film on Hot...
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Highest 2 Lowest (Episode 217) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Highest 2 Lowest, out today on Apple TV +, is the latest joint from Spike Lee. The film is the latest adaptation of Ed McBain's King's Ransom and follows in the direct foorsteps of Akira Kurosawa's version, High and Low. Shot on the streets of New York City by frequent Lee collaborator Matthew Libatique, the film also fuses several different musical cues and genres to create the story of a kidnapping gone wrong and the moral dilemma it presents for the music mogul now tasked with paying the ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky,...
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Dracula's Daughter (Episode 216) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Originally envisioned as a vampire dominatrix with a dungeon to torture and feed on men, 1936's Dracula's Daughter underwent a radical reinvention to accommodate a more sensitive Production Code. Gloria Holden's daughter is a more thoughtful, melancholy blood sucker, trying in vain to turn her back on her vampiric roots. The only character from the original to make it into the sequel is Van Helsing (Von Helsing in this version). Bela Lugosi was meant to reprise his role but moved on after the film's production was delayed several times. Dan and Vicky discuss the...
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Tattoo (Episode 215) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1981's Tattoo, the lone feature effort of commercial director/co-writer Bob Brooks, was fraught with pre and post production problems. The film, about a tatto artist (Bruce Dern) unnaturally obsessed with a fashion model (Maud Adams), had it's release date pushed back after Brooks protested the edit producer Joseph Levine created without his input or approval. Transit authorities in NY took down pre-release posters for the film in response to complaints about the images presented - a woman's bare bound legs covered in tattoos. And Dern insinuated on the press tour that he and...
info_outlineDan and Vicky look at the 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg and Ray Walston. To adapt his own Broadway show for the big screen, producer and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner chose writer Paddy Chayefsky and composer Andre Previn. They changed the source material considerably and scored 10 million dollars from Paramount to bring their nearly three hour version to the screen. Fraught with production problems, the film, shot almost entirely on real sets built in the rugged Oregon mountains, went 10 million dollars over budget and ushered in the beginning of the end for the movie musical.
In addition to their thoughts on this bloated, plot heavy epic and it's legacy, Dan and Vicky talk about what they've seen lately. Vicky, of course, outwatches Dan with the Italian series Gomorrah, the horror films The Black Cat, The Sender, Phenomena, The Funhouse and Torso, and the 1969 James Garner starring Marlowe. Dan gives his reflections on Stranger Things and the new film Don't Breathe. They also nearly come to blows over the slasher Humongous -- guess who likes it and who doesn't.
They also touch on the negatives and positives of big box stores (?), the impact of In A Gadda Da Vida and the great songs of October 1969.
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