Friday Film Showcased

From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at the rise and rise of sports gambling, a horrifying epidemic that has taken over the USA and the world, as predicted in the Tony Scott / Shane Black Christmas classic The Last Boy Scout.
Whether you're a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one's for you. You could bet on it, but you shouldn't.
Happy Friday the 13th!
See also: https://thesundae.net/2026/01/02/friday-film-showcased-shane-black-christmas-the-last-boy-scout/
Theme Music: Bach J.S. Christmas Oratorio. BMV 248. Part 4.

What have WE done to Solange?
Originally released in two parts, this special omnibus edition of Friday Film Showcased (FFS) collects Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan's discussion about their giallo season into one big bite.
Films discussed: Deep Red, Stagefright Aquarius, Bay of Blood, Blood and Black Lace, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Dressed to Kill, Pieces, Lizard in a Woman's Skin, What Have You Done to Solange? and Don't Torture a Duckling.
More topics: the various tropes of the giallo genre, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and most importantly Lucio Fulci, the entangled history of the noir, the ‎krimi, and the giallo, and red phones.

Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with part one of a two part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing's novel The Big Clock. We are doing this as a tribute to the late Gene Hackman, who is not in the movie discussed in this episode, but was alive when it came out. But was he a child? Listen and find out!
Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss topics including: Ray Milland (man), ray-millanding (verb), The Powerhouse Charles Laughton, queer coding and the Hays Code, clocks of various sizes and mechanisms, comedic genius Elsa Lancaster of Bride of Frankenstein fame, Maureen O'Sullivan who surely is only in this as a favour to her husband John Farrow (father of Tia, Mia, and this film, if directing is fatherhood), how much can you actually fit behind a bar, President McKinley, and the existential quest to find one's self. Literally!

Heart and Souls. We fell in love with this film: Heart and Souls. We fell in love, except Dean thought... that it was just okay.
Things discussed:
The 1990s' VHS rental market
The van-based secondary market for VHS in the form of Video Van Men
Film tricking you into feeling things or into perceiving motion
Insanely bad marketing campaigns: When Counterprogramming Goes Wrong
Robert Downey Jr: a vaudeville kid unstuck in time?
Ron Underwood, or A Modern Icarus
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love '90s Comedy Scores
Beethoven (the dog)

Song title: Autumn Mvt 1 Allegro (Tony Vivaldi) / Artist: John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players / Source: Free Music Archive / License: CC BY-SA

🎶Hey hey, we're Friday Film Showcased, and people say we don't showcase around, but we're too busy editing to load any podcasts up... 🎶
From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Bob Rafelson's almost-forgotten existential Monkees movie, Head (1968), written by Jack Nicholson!
Whether you're a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one's for you. So take the last train to Clarksville, you randy Scouse git: this is the podcast that will make you believe in daydreams.
Fun fact: Mike Nesmith's mother invented Tipp-Ex.
See also: https://thesundae.net/2024/08/23/friday-film-showcased-episode-3-jack-nicholson-the-fortune-1975-five-easy-pieces-1970-about-schmidt-2002-more/

Song title: Autumn Mvt 1 Allegro (Tony Vivaldi) / Artist: John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players / Source: Free Music Archive / License: CC BY-SA