All Episodes

SMC Pod #228: Miles Williams & The Alex Theatre's return to 70mm

SMC Pod #227: Obsession, Backrooms, and Gen Z and Gen Alpha returning to movie theaters

SMC Pod #226: The Odyssey, The Epic, & Film Formats

SMC Pod #225: The Cult Classic Movie

SMC Pod #224: Movie Twists, shock endings, and comic buttons!

SMC Podcast #223: Movie Structure-The 3 Act, 5 Act, Symphonic structure & beyond

SMC Pod #222: 2025 Movies Pt 2 & Disclosure Day

SMC Pod #221: Internal vs. External Horror: Monsters Without and Within

SMC Pod #220: Inverting one movie to make another (Gemini movies)

SMC Pod #219: The Music Video Movie Director Generation

SMC Pod #218: From the stage to the screen-Adapting plays into movies

SMC Pod #217: Directing the Action Film

SMC Pod #216: Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Russian Sci Fi Hard to be a God, and our family field report

SMC Pod #215: Soviet Sci‑Fi: Hidden Masterpieces from Solaris to Silver Globe

SMC Pod #214: Casablanca: A case study of how a Studio Team Built a Masterpiece

SMC Pod #213: Ken Loach & his 1969 masterpiece KES

SMC Pod #212: Luis Buñuel, L'Age d'Or

SMC Pod #211: Movies & AI

SMC Pod #210: Frederick Wiseman-Master Documentarian

SMC Pod #209: The movie repertory theater, the video store, and the streamer

SMC Pod #208: Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton-the start of two cinematic traditions

SMC Pod #207: The Character Actor

SMC Pod #206: Movies that capture what it means to be Jewish-American

SMC Pod #205: The movies of 2025

SMC Pod #204: The Two Stevens-Steven Spielberg & Stephen King

SMC Pod #203: Classic Hollywood Christmas

SMC Pod #202: The Italian Stylists

SMC Pod #201: Blade Runner & dystopian sci-fi movies

SMC Podcast #200: Lightning Bottle Movie Masterpieces

SMC Pod #199: The Toronto Film Festival 2025 1st Person POV-Blake Winston Rice & his short DISC

SMC Pod #198: 10 horror movie discoveries

SMC Pod #197: Is this Cinema Part Three: A Serbian Film

SMC Pod #196: The Godfather trilogy & why it's a true trilogy

SMC Pod #195: Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER & the 2025 theater experience

SMC Pod #194: Pixote, Come and See, and the real horror movies

SMC Pod #193: Star Persona vs. Great Actors and everything in between

SMC Pod #192: Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, & movies that capture the real Los Angeles

SMC Pod #191: Lorne Michaels & The Movie Impressario

SMC Pod #190: The Children of Caligari-Persona, 3 Women, Mulholland Drive

SMC Pod #189: The Val Lewton RKO horror unit of the 1940's & Jacques Tourneur

SMC Pod #188: Marlon Brando's ONE EYED JACKS (1961) & the eccentric Western

SMC Pod #187: The complex American character through 100 years of American cinema

SMC Pod #186: Rossellini's 1940's War trilogy: Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero & the thematic trilogy

SMC Pod#185: Steven Spielberg's JAWS & Why it's the exception to the rule

SMC Pod #184: The Fantasy, Sci-Fi, & Horror genres (and how they are reflected in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings)

SMC Pod #183: Francesco Rosi's SALVATORE GIULIANO (1962, Italy)

SMC Pod #182: The Cannes Film Festival with someone who's been there!

SMC Pod #181: Recent movies that give me hope

SMC Pod #180: Is This Cinema Part 2 Part 2! Conversation on what is cinema

SMC Pod #179: Is this Cinema Pt II: The Human Centipede

SMC Pod #178: Gene Hackman - A helluva actor

SMC Pod #177: Roger Corman's Rules 2: The Spawning!

SMC Pod #176: Adaptation Pt 2-The Haunted House movie

SMC Pod #175: Adaptation Part 1: Frankenstein (novel) to movie (1931, James Whale, Universal)

SMC Pod #174: Dialogue-less Movies (Pure Cinema)

SMC Pod #173: The state of cinema, 2025 (it's rough)

SMC Pod #172: Is this Cinema? I: Pasolini's Salo or 120 Days of Sodom

SMC Pod #171: Watershed movies

SMC Pod #170: Bill Murray, the Agony & The Ecstasy

SMC Pod #169: David Lynch, an appreciation

SMC Pod #168: The Lubitsch Touch, a prologue

SMC Pod #167: Akira Kurosawa, Master Filmmaker, 2025 Edition

SMC Pod #166: 2024, the year in movies

SMC Pod #165: Stanley Kubrick, Director of 2020

SMC Pod #164: Alfred Hitchcock, Director of 2023

SMC Pod #163: Roger Corman's Rules

SMC Pod #162: Thanksgiving special-Giving thanks for the Bravo Channel (early 1990's)

SMC Pod #161: What is a masterpiece & masterpiece inflation

SMC Pod #160: CRUMB & The dark documentary (A deeper doc dive Part II)

SMC Pod #159: Communicating cinematically or ”An idea in every shot”

SMC Pod #158: Why PSYCHO is the 2001 of Horror movies

SMC Pod #157: Filmmaker Sensibilities: Blockbuster vs Art House

SMC Pod #156: Sex in American Cinema and the X & NC-17 Rating

SMC Summer Podcast #10: Twin Peaks:The Return Parts 9-18 & SMC Pod #115: Tom Cruise

SMC Summer Pod #9: When Hitchcock experiments & SMC Pod #108 Repost The High Concept Low Budget Film

SMC Summer Pod #8: Twin Peaks The Return Parts 1-8 & SMC Pod #10000 Repost Favorite pre 23rd Century Movies

SMC Summer Pod #7: Personal Favorite movies of the 21st century & SMC Pod #96 re-post Speed Racer

SMC Summer Pod #6: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me & The Missing Pieces + SMC Pod #86 repost

SMC Summer Pod #5: Twin Peaks Season 1 & 2 Deep Dive + SMC Pod #85 repost: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

SMC Summer Pod #4: David Lynch, Twin Peaks, & the nexus of TV and Cinema + Defend This Movie #1 repost

SMC Summer Pod #3: William Friedkin, the passing of the 70’s guard, and SMC Radio Hour #4 repost

SMC Summer Pod #2: Box Office, Critical Success, Longevity + SMC Pod #15: Spike Lee Repost

SMC Summer 2023 Pod #1:When you have to reshape a movie & SMC Pod #1 Repost

SMC Podcast #155: David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY & Directors’ Oddball Entries

DEFEND THIS MOVIE #11: William Friedkin’s CRUISING

SMC Pod #154: The Fourth of July and Other Summer Holiday Movies!

SMC Pod #153: SEVEN SAMURAI Special!

SMC Pod #152: Comfort Food Movies + WE BOUGHT A ZOO!

SMC Bitesize Pod 4: The Heirs of ”The Wizard of Oz”

SMC Bitesize Pod 3: The ”Perfect Movie”

SMC Bitesize Pod 2: The Life Cycle of Lord of the Rings as cinema

SMC Bitesize Pod 1: Lars Von Trier’s EUROPA/ZENTROPA (1991)

SMC Pod #151: The 2023 Palm Springs 70mm Getaway Recap!

SMC Pod #150: BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY + Sequels That Are Better Than the Original!

SMC Pod #149: Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE + More Passion Projects!

SMC Pod #148: Russ Meyer’s BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS + Roger Ebert!

SMC Pod #147: CLERKS + Kevin Smith!

SMC Pod #146: Spring Holiday Movies!

SMC Pod #145: PURPLE RAIN + Musicians in Film!

SMC Pod #144: Body Swap Movies!

SMC Pod #143: Our 3rd Anniversary + Movies That Our Opinions Have Changed On!

SMC Pod #142: The 3rd Annual Secret Movie Club Podcast Oscars Special!

SMC Pod #141: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY + Non-Bond Spy Films!

SMC Pod #140: Hitchcock’s Disciples

SMC Pod #139: NOTTING HILL and LOVERS ROCK + Movie Pairings!

SMC Pod #138: SPELLBOUND + Romantic Thrillers!

SMC Pod #137: BEING JOHN MALKOVICH + Spike Jonze!

SMC Pod #136: JACKASS + high art and low art!

SMC Pod #135: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES + Sight & Sound 2022!

SMC Pod #134: Winter Break ‘22/’23 Catch-Up!

DEFEND THIS MOVIE #10: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM

SMC Pod #133: Celebrating John Ford, Our Director of 2022