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Boy, it sucks to be stranded in space!

On this 120th episode of the Triple FFF we’re going to chip away at the rock solid box office pairing of Author Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard as we discuss their two sci fi smash hits, 2015’s The Martian  directed by Ridley Scott and starring

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, MacKenzie Davis, Donald Glover, and Jeff Daniels along with 

2026’s Project Hail Mary...

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How can women like this sh--?!

On this episode -- #119 of the Triple FFF, we’re slipping into the world of prestige fashion,  passive aggressively cruel bosses and serious life lessons as we discuss The Devil Wears Prada and its long-awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Directed by David Frankel, the original 2006 film stars Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and Adrian Grenier, while the 2026 sequel reunites much of the original cast with the addition of Justin Theroux, Kenneth Branagh, Lady Gaga...

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On this 118th episode of the Triple FFF we’re going to ease on down the road into my least favorite genre, the musical biopic as we discuss Antoine Fuqua’s 2006 tribute to the late great King of Pop, Michael Jackson, cleverly entitled Michael. The film stars Jaafar Jackson — Michael’s nephew and the son of Jermaine Jackson — alongside Juliano Krue Valdi as the adult and child versions of Michael respectively,  with Colman Domingo and Nia Long as Joe and Katherine Jackson, plus Laura Harrier, Larenz Tate, Miles Teller, and Mike Myers as th...

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On this 117th episode of the Triple FFF we’re going descend into deep black comedy to discuss one of 2026 standout releases in a genre that is too often self-satisfied and weighed down by diminishing returns, The Drama, directed by Kristoffer Borgli and starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamadou Athie and Hailey Gates 

Joining me this week, boot-clad, black army jacket, turtle neck, horn-rimmed glasses and a cigarette dangling from her scowling lower lip, the Queen of Dark, my little sis, the one and only Roseanne Capu...

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Episode 116 –  The 3rd Person Narration/Paul Schneider/Nick Cave Standoff: The Assassination of Jesse Jame by the Coward Robert Ford v. Train Dreams. 

All aboard episode 116 of the Triple F—chugging along the tracks laid by legendary filmmaker Terrence Malick, we’re discussing two noteworthy films that closely follow his style in recounting tales of the American experience star ting with 2007’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Pau...

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Welcome to our 115th episode!  

All you lit snobs and library weirdos out there, have we got a treat in store!  This time on Fabulous Film & Friends we will be discussing not one, not two, not three but up to SEVEN filmed adaptations of Emilie Bronte’s classic 1847 tale of love, passion, class struggle, family trauma, REVENGE! And haunted winds ripping through the northern English moors. WUTHERING HEIGHTS!

I’m your host, Gino Caputi and I’m joined by my kid sis the English Literature Major and Wuthering...

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Happy New Year everyone ! And welcome to the 5th Annual Year End Review here at the triple FFF. We have a ginormous, star-studded show for you with an all star panel consisting of  a who’s who of series regulars Alex Robertson, Roseanne Caputi, David Johnson, Kendrick Wright and all the way from El Paso, Joe Field! 

Welcome everyone. 

We’re just going to get right into it. So right off the bat, 2025 is the year that didn’t make up for the doldrums of 2024 and the pandemic years so we saw...

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This week on Fabulous Film and Friends I’m doing something a little different and simply giving thoughts on a screening I attended of Star Trek II -The Wrath of Khan with William Shatner Live, a screening I was eagerly looking forward to because a) Wrath of Khan is one of my all-time favorite movies and b) William Shatner is my favorite actor of all time. 

Why is Star Trek II the best Star Trek film?
Is Shatner worth seeing live?

Find out!

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This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re going to pay tribute to the late, great Robert Reford and analyze just why this Hollywood icon belonged on the top of Mt. Olympus long before vanity, sanctimony and crass commercialism ruined his artistry. 

In other words, before he tarnished his legacy with offensive tripe like The Legend of Bagger Vance, the execrable Indecent Proposal and most especially by appearing as a generic schmoe bad guy #5 in Marvel movies, he was literally the undisputed KING of the Hollywood Hil...

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Welcome to the launch of our epic 5th season on Fabulous Film & Friends! This is the big one! The one that everyone will be talking about for years to come. 

Why? Because this is the episode where I finally get to trash the Barbie movie as we dive into the idea of “When Good Directors Go Bad.”

Inspired by the recent release of 2025’s Paul Thomas Anderson/ Leonardo DiCaprio domestic terror extravaganza One Battle After Another which also stars Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Chase I...

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On our season finale to our 4th blockbuster year in the podcast space,  we’re going to answer the burning question on everyone’s mind these days: 

What’s the deal with Richard Lester? 

In order to find the answer, we’re digging into the notable works from his four decades in show business, starting with 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night starring John Lennon Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr aka the Beatles along with Wilfred Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin and Victor Spinetti then onto 1973 &74’s...

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As promised, this week on episode #109 of "Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to weigh in on the two big ticket super hero extravaganzas from the Summer of 2025:  James Gunn’s Superman starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Skyler Gisando, Wendell Pierce, Edi Gathegi, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Sara Sampaio and Nicholas Hoult up against The Fantastic Four: First Steps directed by Matt Shakman and starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Julia Garner and Ralph Ineson.

Returning for yet another daringly detailed deep...

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This week, on our 108th episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re looking at Danny Boyle’s 2025 summer entry 28 Years Later as well as the two other films that led up to it, 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. Mr. Boyle directed the segments one and three, and the second entry was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, The stars of the first movie were Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleason, Megan Burns and Christopher Eccelson. The second movie was a regular who’s who of up-and-comers from 2007...

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On our 107th podcast, we here at the Triple FFF thought we’d try to once again attempt relevance and discuss a current big release, this time Wes Anderson’s 2025 father-daughter high stakes business and espionage caper The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Scarlet Johansson, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Rupert Friend and Benedict Cumberbatch. As well as Mr. Anderson’s troupe of good-natured bit players and walk ons which includes Bill Murray, F. Murray Abraham, Wilem Dafoe and now Charlotte Gainsb...

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Was there ever an era in cinema history when the obsession with cars, speed, and outrunning the law—whether you were a hick, a hippie, or a world-weary urbanite—captured the public’s imagination more than in the early 1970s?

That’s what we aim to ponder on this, our 106th episode of the Triple FFF as we discuss not one, not 2 but THREE POWERHOUSE mainstream movies of muscle-car mayhem starting with 1971’s Vanishing Point directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring Barry Newman, Dean Jagger, Paul Koslo, Severn Darden, An...

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Flashing back to episode #72 of Fabulous Film & Friends way back in 2023, we covered Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 and so we here on FFF felt duty bound to our fans to give our take on its follow up and what could very possibly be the final sequel to the entire M:I franchise, 2025’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett. 

Keeping...

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We’re gargling out the taste of comic book fare on our 104th episode yet still swimming the turbulent oceans of their inspiration, the source of their epic power and mystery: Homer’s Odyssey!

Yes we’re going to compare and contrast two versions of the Odyssey as seen through the eyes of Italian filmmakers starting with 1954’s Ulysses directed by Mario Camerini and starring Kirk Douglas, Silvana Magano and Anthony Quinn up against 2024’s The Return directed by Uberto Pasolini and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette B...

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On this, our 103rd episode, Marvel demanded it and we delivered. Like good corporate citizens, we dutifully marched to the local cineplex and went to see 2025’s Thunderbolts* directed by Jake Schreier and starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, Geraldine Viswanathan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. 

Why? Because well, what else is playing in theaters that has any marquee value?

My guests today are my two pals from the Treasure Valley that migrated to the great state of Utah, David Johnson DMD and Burton Bro...

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Welcome to our 102nd Blockbuster Episode, The BEST of Jared Hess Part 2: Enter Jack Black where we will discuss and dissect the afore-mentioned actor and director pairings starting with 2006’s Nacho Libre starring Jack Black, Héctor Jiménez, Ana de la Reguera, Darius Rose and Peter Stormare compared to 2025’s megahit blockbuster A Minecraft Movie starring Black again, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Danielle Brooks Dawn, Jennifer Coolidge and  Jemaine Clement. 

My solitary guest tonight is the only muchacho bold enough to help me fill our...

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It’s Episode 101 and while we’re gearing up to charge full speed ahead, we’re going to take a quick look back at the halcyon days of the fall/winter of 2024 when two earth-shattering comic book movie bombs were unleashed on the cinema going public. 

We’re talking Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie a Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beets and Brendan Gleeson  up against JC Chandor’s – who are we kidding? Marvel/Sony’s Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, Russell Crow, Ariana Debos...

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Welcome to the monumental 100th Episode of Fabulous Film and Friends where we are going to discuss the TOP 3 Comedies of ALL TIME in this podcast host’s estimation. We’re talking about 1984’s Spinal Tap directed by Rob Reiner, starring Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Tony Hendra, June Chadwick and Bruno Kirby then 1985’s Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, starring Paul Ruebens, Elizabeth Daly, Mark Holton, Jan Hooks, Diane Salinger, Morgan Fairchild and James Brolin topped off with 1987’s Raising Arizona Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen starring Nicholas Cage, Holly Hunter, John...

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Hello Loyal Film Fans, we’re busting out, shields first, with our 99th episode and wanted to do something both timely and topical so we’re going to look at Marvel’s Captain America films replete with the newly released Captain America Brave New World. 

I’m your host Gino Caputi and I am joined by Joe Field, author, hypnotherapist and comic book store royalty, named after his Uncle Joe who owns Flying Colors Comics in Concord California.  https://www.flyingcolorscomics.com/

Welcome back Joe!

Before we celebrate...

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Our 2024 Top 5 (ish) round up. 

Plus Everybody's "Worst of." 

With David Johnson, DDS, Burton Brown, Joe Field & Alex Robertson

Watch the video version
https://youtu.be/7_TmPHcVsCk

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Welcome to our FFF Christmas mash-up where we are going to look at the two important titles released on the 25th of December in the year of  Our Lord 2024: Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers and starring Lily Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Bill Skarsgard, and Willem Dafoe up against A Complete Unknown directed by James “Walk the Line/Ford Vs. Ferrari” Mangold and starring Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Maria Barbaro, Dan Fogler, and the one two punch of craggy, Oakie-faced Narcos Alums:  Boyd Holbrook and Scoot...

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends, we’re going to scale down and take a look at the freakin’ sweet indie filmmaking skills of director Jared Hess with his 2004 quirky sleeper hit, Napoleon Dynamite starring Jon Heder, John Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efron Ramirez, Tina Majorino, Haylie Duff, Trevor Snarr, Shondrella Avery, and Diedrich Bader alongside the even quirkier and sleepier box office bomb, Gentlemen Broncos, made in 2009 and starring Michael Angarano, Jermaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge, Halley Feiffer, Hectór Jiménez, Mike White and Sam Rockwell. 

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Welcome back to another blockbuster episode of Fabulous Film & Friends, our 95th to be precise, and I do apologize for the delay in production. But kids, I’m a working man and if you want a more reliable and steady stream of FFF episodes, be sure to like and subscribe to the channel on Youtube or Buzzsprout, et al.  And by all means tell your friends about us! 

So! This week! We’re going to make up for lost time and come out swinging to face not one but two of Joel a...

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends it’s time to embrace our inner sap as we compare two seminal historically-themed weepie romances that have managed to endure, despite being laden with copious amounts of kettle corn, enough to fill two silos full really: 1980’s Somewhere in Time, written by Richard Matheson directed by  Jeannot Szwarc starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer against 1997’s Titanic written and directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, David Warner, Francis Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton and Kathy B...

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re taking on the monumental challenge of dissecting Francis Ford Coppola’s sprawling, controversial and somewhat divisive 2024 opus, Megalopolis starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LeBeouf, John Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Grace Vanderwaal , Kathryn Hunter, and Dustin Hoffman. Plus, as a bonus James Remar, and D.B. Sweeney in essentially featured background roles.

I’m your host Gino Caputi and joining me this week are two of my sturdy and stalwart fellow film snobs, who had th...

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to back to the late 1950’s early 1960’s when men smoked heavily, recklessly enjoyed sophisticated cocktails and liked their women the way they wore their suits: skinny and tight! A time when spies and cold wars were the talk of the town, and all the cool cats admired two preeminent and influential thrillers. We’re talking 1959’s North by Northwest directed by the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carey Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Ne...

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As we blast off into our 4th Season here at Fabulous Film and Friends, and with the recent release of Alien Romulus, we thought it only fitting to take a look at ALL the Alien movies, minus the execrable Alien v. Predator films, starting with 1979's Alien directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphett Koto, John Hurt, Veronica Cartright and Ian Holm followed by 1986's Aliens, directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver again, joined by Michael...

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On this 90th episode and Season 3 finale of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to dig into 2024’s Wildcat, centering around the life and works of Great American Author Flannery O’ Connor and directed by Ethan Hawke, starring the director’s daughter Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Phililip Ettinger, Cooper Hoffman, Steve Zahn, Rafael Casal, Alessandro Nivola Christine Dye, Vincent D’Onofrio and Liam Neeson. 

I’m your host Gino Caputi and joining me this week to try and unpack all of this literary and cinematic heaviness are Lit major and...

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends it’s the moment all yall cowpokes been watin’ fer.  

We’re biting the bullet and comparing the two star-studded “Gunfight at the OK Corral” epics, pitting 1993’s Tombstone directed by George Pan Cosmatos starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang, Dana Delany, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Joanna Pacula Michael Rooker, Thomas Hayden Church, Jason Priestly, Billy Zane, Billy Bob Thornton, Charleton Heston and Robert Mitchum against 1994’s Wyatt Earp directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin...

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’ve jumped on that bandwagon and got a full fledged case of Deadpool-mania!

That means we’re going to discuss all three of Ryan Reynolds happy little R-rated capers which started in 2016 with Deadpool directed by Tim Miller, starring Ryan Reynolds, TJ Miller Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic,  Ed Skrein, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni and Gina Carano. Then continued with 2018’s Deadpool 2, directed by David Lietch and starring pretty much the same cast minus Skrein and Carano with the addition of Josh Brolin, Zazie B...

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On our 87th episode we’re looking back at the year 1996, a simpler time when humanity came together and made big hits out of unsophisticated and unabashedly emotional sci-fi adventures. We’re talking Independence Day directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Mary McDonnell, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Fox and Randy Quaid and Star Trek First Contact directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart, Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Alfr...

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re giving our first impressions of Kevin Costner’s Horizon An American Saga Part 1. The actor/director headlines the production along with Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Luke Wilson, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Will Patton, Abbey Lee, Jena Malone, Tatanka Means, James Russo, John Beavers, Jamie Cambpell, Michael Angarano, Dale Dickey and Jeff Fahey

I’m Gino Caputi and joining me this week is Roseanne Caputi, my kid sister and my good friend, actor, photographer, gunslinger Gordon Alex Robertson. 

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On this 85th episode of Fabulous Film and Friends we are going to connect the dots between three seminal cautionary tales from the 80’s: 1984’s Repo Man directed by Alex Cox and starring Emelio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Barash, Jennifer Balgobin, Dick Rude, Tracey Walter, Sy Richardson, Vonetta McGee, Richard Foronjy, Tom Finnegan, Eddie Velez, Del Zamora, Zander Schloss, Fox Harris and Jimmy Buffet. Then 1987’s River’s Edge directed by Tim Hunter starring Keanu Reeves, Crispin Clover, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, Joshua John Miller, Josh Richman...