Top Ten Movie Adaptations (Episode 210) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Release Date: 05/23/2025
Project Hail Mary (Episode 231) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky head back to the movies! This time it's the recent hit sci-fi comedy drama Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and based on the book by Andy Weir. Lord and Miller insisted that the special effects be all created practically - the most impressive of which is the character of Rocky. The rock creature was puppeted by James Ortiz and his team with Ortiz providing it's voice. Initially Ortiz's voice was meant as a marker until the directors cast another voice actor but they liked Ortiz's take so much,...
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Top Ten Favorite Indie Hits Costing Under A Million (Episode 230) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky are back with a Top Ten episode! This time your Hot Daters discuss their favorite films made for under a million dollars that went on to make a killing at the box office. Horror, drama, and romance all get the low budget treatment and in many cases change the landscape of film. Dan and Vicky also discuss some recently seen including the films Scream 7 and Stop Motion and lots of TV like Young Sherlock, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Shudder's 1000 Women of Horror, and Peaky Blinders. Our socials: hotdatepod.com FB: Hot Date Podcast X:...
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The Driver (Episode 229) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The Driver from 1978 was written and directed by Walter Hill (Hard Times, 48 Hours, The Warriors) as a response to what he saw as coventional genre fare. Hill was after making a film pure in intent and story without the typical Hollywood trappings. Audiences in 1978 were not impressed but the film has since been championed by contemporary filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright as an example of adrenaline fueled style over needless substance. The film stars Ryan O'Neal, Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Dern and Ronee Blakley. Along with this car chase classic, Dan and Vicky...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (Episode 228) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The novel on which 1950's film Kind Hearts and Coronets is based treated the story of an entitled royal reject who goes to murdeous lengths to secure his place in the lineage deadly serious. The film, however, written and directed by Robert Hamer, turns it into a pitch black comedy, perhaps the first of it's kind made in England. The Ealing Studios release stars Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, and in a tour-de-force, Alec Guinness playing eight characters. Dan and Vicky discuss the film, ranked as one of the best British films ever made, along with lots of recently...
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The Tomb of Ligeia (Episode 227) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
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The final film in director Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle, The Tomb of Ligeia marked the second collaboration for Corman and screenwriter Robert Towne. Towne would go on to be one of the hardest working and respected writers and script doctors in Hollywood (The Last Detail, Shampoo, Mission: Impossible, The Firm, Personal Best and Tequila Sunrise) and collect an Academy Award for writing Chinatown. Towne is quoted, however, as saying that his adaptation for The Tomb of Ligeia was the hardest he'd ever worked on. Dan and Vicky discuss the horror film along with...
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (Episode 226) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The late 2000's were chock-a-block with Winnie-the-Pooh projects. In addition to this week's Hot Date 2017 film Goodbye Christopher Robin starring Domhnall Gleason, Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald, there was another biopic with Ewan McGregor, several animated features and numerous documentaries. Dan and Vicky discuss the Simon Curtis directed biopic on writer A. A Milne's creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and the toll it took on his family along with some recently seen items like Primate, The Plague, The Secret Agent, and Harlan Coben's Run Away on Netflix. Our...
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Little Odessa (Episode 225) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1995's Little Odessa is a look inside a Russian American family and their ties to the mob in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Shot over two months in the brutal cold of a 1994 New York winter, Little Odessa stars two Oscar winners, Vanesaa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell, one nominee, Tim Roth, and fresh from his success in Terminator 2, Edward Furlong. Dan and Vicky discuss the feature film debut of director James Gray as well as lots of recently seen including 2025's meta sequel Anaconda, Paul Feig's The Housemaid, Marty Supreme, The Testament of Ann Lee with Amanda Seyfried, No Other...
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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...
info_outlineHot Date has reached it's next Top Ten episode and for this episode, Dan and Vicky pick their most favorite movie adaptations - films that started as books, plays, musicals, songs, even Twitter feeds!
Your hosts also talk about what they've seen recently including Sinners, Drop, the new season of Black Mirror, Kevin Bacon starring horror show The Bondsman, The Lincoln Lawyer, and the Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves.
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