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Episode 120 – Any Given Movie


In honor of Beneath the Darkness, Spencer and Greg discuss Dennis Quaid. For New Year’s they tackle party movies, before giving DVD picks of the week.

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Top 5 – Bad Titles For Good Films

Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time Brandi and Allen share their top 5 bad titles for good films.

This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes, and Zune. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here.

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Episode 86 – The Rise of Johnny Depp

Spencer and John look back on Johnny Depp’s rise to stardom in honor of Pirates of the Caribbean 4, share some things they wish would go away now, and give their DVD picks of the week.

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Film Review – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

In 1987, Gordon Gekko famously told us that greed was good.  Flash forward to the present, and it appears that greed has turned in to the norm.  With director Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street (1987), he presented us with a cautionary tale about the risks of one’s obsession with wealth.  In his newest film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), he shows us the affects of that obsession, how it can break a person’s life, and how it can hurt the people we care for the most.  The first film revolved around the Reagonomics of the 80’s, here we deal with a present day market on the brink of collapse.  It is the link with what is happening today that made this one of the more fascinating films of the year.

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