Missing Real with Mike D'Arrigo

In 1995, moviegoers and Godfather geeks were lining up to see Al Pacino and Robert De Niro share the screen for the first time ever in the crime epic Heat.   They might not have realized that in the 3 hour running time, they're together for maybe 3 minutes!  But OMG... those 3 minutes were riveting!   Even the other 2 hours and 57 minutes of it were pretty intense.  Crazy shootouts, double-crosses and heists, dysfunctional relationships, and a hopped-up live wire Al Pacino shouting at everyone he meets.  But when he finally gets face-to-face with De Niro, they chat over coffee.  Really.  That's the big hoo-ha: a quiet...

 How many times have they tried bringing that bonkers science fiction epic Dune to the screen?  Better question: why do I keep watching all of them?  I'm still no closer to understanding what on Arrakis is going on.  It's not very likely that this podcast is going to enlighten anyone as to what Frank Herbert was getting at, but that's okay!  It's more fun than surfing on a giant worm, I promise.  Together with my good friend Dave Chan, we chew the spice and discuss both David Lynch's 1984 disaster and Denis Villeneuve's 2021 update.  None of it makes much sense, other t...

When a stunningly gorgeous woman wants to have sex with you, for FREE,  the hour you meet her, that should raise a red flag.  Especially if she's really an H.R. Giger-designed alien creature masquerading as Natasha Henstridge.  Hey, it happens.  This 1995 movie delivers the blood and boobs (human and extraterrestrial, to be precise) and boasts a pretty impressive cast with a thankless assignment chasing this babe all over L.A. trying to stop her from getting pregnant and slaughtering her suitors.  Girl's got ISSUES!  But whatever species you might belong to, this is a really fun flick worth watchi...

You might be shocked that I'm actually covering a "new" movie on this podcast, since I'm usually going back to the 80s for my topics, but this one does have an "old" lead character and actor who's actually IN his 80s!  Harrison Ford, my all-time favorite star of the screen, returns one last time to play Indiana Jones, and the most nail-biting, cliff-hanging feeling about it is: will it suck as badly as Crystal Skull?  Here to share some insights, stories and personal connections to Harrison Ford is my very special guest Lisa Blake-Mitchell!  (Oh, sorry...were you expecting Ke...

How can the guy who wrote The Empire Strikes Back go on to direct this unmitigated disaster of a cinematic abortion??  I'm still in denial.  Blame it on drugs, maybe?  The drugs that Stephen King was on while recovering from multiple surgeries after being hit by a distracted motorist while he was out for a walk.  The novel he eventually churned out, Dreamcatcher, should have credited Oxycontin as co-author.  It was sort of kooky, but in a King style.  The movie version, courtesy of Lawrence Kasdan, is a whole different kind of horrible.  Sitting through it is only marginally prefera...