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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Keep forgetting to post here, but @randomactsofcin.bsky.social most recent episode compares and contrasts two versions of The Lower Depths by two masters of the craft. Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa.

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This week on @randomactsofcin.bsky.social we discuss John Sayles’ Lone Star from 1996!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

No, it’s not vampires and werewolves! This week we discuss Josef Von Sternberg’s silent gangster classic: Underworld! @randomactsofcin.bsky.social

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

No, it’s not vampires and werewolves! This week we discuss Josef Von Sternberg’s silent gangster classic: Underworld!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I love reading X-Men. But, man, I feel like the emotional hits hit harder when recapped by Jay and Miles. Just listened to the E is for Extinction episode and though I know the story, their telling still got me a bit teary eyed. I’m gonna miss this podcast. @xplainthexmen.bsky.social

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A little late this week, but @randomactsofcin.bsky.social episode on A Weekend in the Country is finally out! Track down a copy and join the 51 people on Letterboxd who have seen it!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This week on @randomactsofcin.bsky.social Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This week on @randomactsofcin.bsky.social we discuss Robocop!!!!! Hell yeah.

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@jedmackay.bsky.social just read the new issue 1 of MK, and goddamn am I excited to see where this goes! What a fantastic first issue!!!!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This week on @randomactsofcin.bsky.social we discuss Seijun Suzuki’s Youth of the Beast!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

New @randomactsofcin.bsky.social episode! This week we ease on down the road! It’s The Wiz!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New @randomactsofcin.bsky.social ep wherein we continue to struggle with the films of Guy Maddin.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

For whatever reason, ever my time Mike tries to do a W.C. Fields impression it turns into a Cagney impression.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This week a modern musical classic! It’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch!

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Frankenhiemer returns to podcast with a… weird art film? Sort of. All of the paranoia, threatened masculinity, mid-century gloss, and decaying middle-class domesticity of The Manchurian Candidate remain, but the potboiler-thriller plot is replaced with… vibes.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We return to Monte Hellman’s examination of American masculinity with a James Taylor and Dennis Wilson-starring road movie. Two nearly silent racers ramble across the American southwest, acquiring a disreputable father-figure, a notably underage girl, and a supporting cast of American weirdos.

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Goddamnit @gailsimone.bsky.social ! Uncanny 21! The last panel of that last page! Hit me right in the feels! Please write X-Men forever.

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Going Over Our Freds @goofpodcast.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

What's up, y'all! @wbxylo.bsky.social gets @meridith.bsky.social and special guest @mikebnoyes.bsky.social to rent softcore porn from the library so he can connect the film to Green Acres and the King of Cartoons! All this and Linda Blair dating Ricks! www.buzzsprout.com/2155545/epis...

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Sorceress - Going Over Our Freds

In this episode, we're discussing Sorceress (aka Temptress II), a 1995 fantasy / horror / soft-core movie with SPECIAL GUEST Mike Noyes from the Random Acts of Cinema podcast! Catch more of Mike ...

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We look back at the Akira Kurosawa kidnap picture/crime procedural High and Low! And maybe discuss the recent remake a little too.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Tavernier topples the poisonous heart of European colonialism. Whether our hapless police chief chooses inaction, or succumbing to his own selfish impulses, everything and everyone around him rots due to the fundamental moral corruption of racism. But it’s a comedy.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This week we discuss the first of many Zatoichi movies! Hell yeah!

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

William Friedkin directs this 2000s political courtroom drama starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson! Join our Patreon to enjoy the latest episode of Are You Friedkin Kidding Me?!?!

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Hungarian director Marta Meszaros adds unprecedented depth, humanity, and a whole other meaning to the question asked in countless groan-worthy bumper stickers: “Who adopted who?” Also, there some pretty great woodworking scenes!

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Poverty. Betrayal. Heroin. Death. But, like in a really funny and clever sort of way that’s just a real pleasure to watch. Spend some time with some of your best Scottish friends! Director Danny Boyle fully inhabits, then redefines 90s cinema, in this groundbreaking international phenomenon.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Kon Ichikawa’s An Actor’s Revenge! An unexpected surprise for the uninitiated.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

How Kate Got Her Groove Back! It’s David Lean’s Summertime!

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It’s time for another Friedkin Fill-In from our Patreon podcast, Are You Friedkin Kidding Me?!?? In this ep we dive into the 90s erotic thriller… Friedkin style!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I love learning about new music. Even if it’s old music. Just learned about this Zambia band Witch. They are bad ass. Already listened to one album. Will be listening to more. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_(...

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Witch (Zamrock band) - Wikipedia

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Director/Writer/Star Albert Brooks reawakens an early shared film trauma of your two loyal hosts. Can this Uber-Boomer satire of drop-out idealists living in Reagan's America be salvaged? Might it even be... good?

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The thriving, dynamic 1980s New York Ball Room scene is revealed to an unsuspecting world in Jennie Livingston’s groundbreaking documentary. Dan Connell joins us again to discuss this iconic film.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Bergman takes us on a journey into the past, to revisit youthful summer love. But don’t worry: this is all seen through the memory of an emotionally detached beauty left unable to find meaningful emotional attachments following a pointless tragedy. But, maybe it does all of this in an uplifting way?

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Trump just sitting on the toilet posting racist shit.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Our Patreon podcast, Are You Friedkin Kidding Me!?!? is back! This month we discuss William Friedkin’s 1997 remake of 12 Angry Men.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul weaves a mind-bending 'exquisite corpse'-style tale narrated in Mysterious Object at Noon

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Slight addendum: NO to kings. YES to drag kings. Supporting queer art is revolutionary, baby!

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Lions! Tightropes! Clowns! Charlie Chaplin’s last true silent film brings the big top to the big screen. Hijinks ensue.

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ed Wood City of Lost Children Sorry to Bother You City of God

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Les Visiteurs du Soir But is it an allegory? Made under Nazi occupation, French filmmaker Marcel Carné created magical medieval fantasy about the devil and his minions who invade a castle full of beautiful, disillusioned lovers and wreak havoc. Maybe they can… love the devil away?

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A sexy 80s minor league baseball movie with a major league cast! One of us loves it! The other thought it was okay. Listen to find out who!

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s my birthday and I want you to buy yourself a gift! Treat yo’self to a copy of my first book, Seven Days Seven Years. (And if you like it check out the sequel, Seven Years Later) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B087...

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Seven Days, Seven Years

Seven Days, Seven Years [Noyes, Mike] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Seven Days, Seven Years

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We are Random Acts of Cinema. You subscribe to our podcast. Prepare to listen. Fairy tales get that inimitable Reiner-treatment in this nostalgic classic picked for Mike's birthday enjoyment. Prepare for the "leads" to take a back seat to a supporting casts that exceeds all reasonable expectations

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A classic of French comedy. But how well does that work for a couple of Gen Xers?

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This presidency is so exhausting. Trump does something illegal. Everyone bitches and complains - as we should. Nothing changes. Rinse. Repeat. Things can’t go on like this.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Four Feathers! Three Friends! One Hotel Room! Too many tiki drinks? We got together with our friend Max to celebrate his birthday and discuss Zoltan Korda’s The Four Feathers from 1939.

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Derrick Scocchera @derricksco.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

For those of you who haven't seen it, don't have The Criterion Channel, or are just feeling daffy and want to watch it again, here's IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING with a brief intro by Stephen Fry. Be sure to set it to 1080p for the best quality playback. #filmsky #shortfilm #stephenfry

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IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING WITH INTRO FROM STEPHEN FRY

A social satire narrated by Stephen Fry (Gosford Park, The Sandman) Through a series of vignettes, the often inexplicable behaviors of contemporary humans are observed…

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Greg Mottola’s takes the viewer on a frantic ride through Manhattan… and into our hearts. Sort of. Really he just reaffirms our love for Parker Posey and somehow gets one of the hosts on the side of Leiv Schrieber for the first time.

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Derrick Scocchera @derricksco.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Roxie is more than just a movie theater – it’s a hub for community, connection, and creativity. They’re raising funds to buy their building, which would ensure that this essential and quintessential SF institution can thrive for the long haul.

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Forever Roxie Campaign - Join us

We are closing in on our goal and only have $1.5 million left to raise, thanks to early support and enthusiasm of our community and generous donors who care deeply about San Francisco film culture.

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Can they Cancan? Well those who can can! This week Jen Renoir celebrates France and we celebrate Jean Renoir! So lift up your dress, kick up your legs, and enjoy this fun episode.

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Mike Noyes @mikebnoyes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In buying Dazzler comics I wound up buying my first Deadpool comic that happened to be written by @gailsimone.bsky.social fun read!

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Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A modern spiritual masterpiece dares to propose a world filled with angels, who look upon humanity with a detached sense of whimsy. Until a brash, brilliant, beautiful heart surgeon dares to question a universe who steals the life of one of her patients, and one of these angels… falls for her.

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