Friday Film Showcased

Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with the second and final part of our two-part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing's novel The Big Clock, ostensibly in tribute to the late Gene Hackman. That is borne out in this episode, as Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss a film Gene Hackman is actually in: No Way Out (1987), in which he stars opposite Kevin Costner.
Ciara and Conor discuss topics including: bad alternate titles, Mel Gibson and Roger Donaldson re-enacting Who's On First, remakes vs readaptations, limo-based coitus, inaccurate IMDb trivia, Cold War paranoia, Will Patton's Smithers energy, magic computers, Iran-Contra, bad music, great twists, and whether Kevin Costner could play baseball in the Old West.

Mentioned:
Kevin Costner on Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gHNGa2sCs
Richard Schickel's review of No Way Out for Time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080408202708/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965232,00.html
Paul Haspel, Agency Games in Cold War Washington: Politics and Gender in No Way Out, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 38(3), pp. 133–142. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01956051003725236
Kevin Costner on baseball movies vs westerns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDbEYJ9Mbtk

From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Brian De Palma's American giallo Dressed to Kill. Or is it a giallo? Yes. Is it transphobic? Probably. Is it a great film? Definitely. What's Brian De Palma's deal? I guess we'll never know.
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. Put on your best clothes... to kill?
Starring Michael Caine! Angie Dickinson! Nancy Allen! Keith Gordon from Christine! Dennis Franz, who's not mentioned in this episode but is great! Sorry, Dennis, we love you!
See also: https://thesundae.net/2026/03/02/friday-film-showcased-omnibusd-giallo-deep-red-dive/
https://thesundae.net/2025/01/25/friday-film-showcased-episode-5-giallo-dont-torture-a-duckling-1972/
https://thesundae.net/2024/12/07/friday-film-showcased-episode-4-giallo-screamless-bunny-edition/
https://thesundae.net/2024/11/29/friday-film-showcased-episode-4-giallo-deep-red-bay-of-blood-dressed-to-kill-what-have-you-done-to-solange-and-more/

Music: Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 - III || Marine Chamber Orchestra (MusOpen)

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!