Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This week a true classic! Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo! 100
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026We were locked out for a while but we’re back! 110
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025For whatever reason, ever my time Mike tries to do a W.C. Fields impression it turns into a Cagney impression. 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025This week a modern musical classic! It’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Frankenhiemer 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. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025This week- Lizzie Borden’s docudrama/dystopian/feminist/way ahead of its time (but at the same time very much of its time) Born in Flames 100
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025We 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. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025We look back at the Akira Kurosawa kidnap picture/crime procedural High and Low! And maybe discuss the recent remake a little too. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Tavernier 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. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025This week we discuss the first of many Zatoichi movies! Hell yeah! 192
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Hungarian 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! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025William 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?!?! 011
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Poverty. 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. 142
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Kon Ichikawa’s An Actor’s Revenge! An unexpected surprise for the uninitiated. 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025How Kate Got Her Groove Back! It’s David Lean’s Summertime! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025It’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! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025A special treat for everyone this week! Straight from our Patreon pod, Are You Friedkin Kidding Me?!?! In this episode we discuss William Friedkin’s 1990 horror film, The Guardian! 100
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Fresh off of his iconic Dracula, director Tod Browning returns to his roots with a domestic drama/crime film cast almost entirely with side-show performers with little-to-no screen acting experience. The viewers are asked - and very much confronted with the question of - who are the REAL freaks? 100
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Director/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? 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The 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. 131
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Bergman 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? 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Our Patreon podcast, Are You Friedkin Kidding Me!?!? is back! This month we discuss William Friedkin’s 1997 remake of 12 Angry Men. 031
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul weaves a mind-bending 'exquisite corpse'-style tale narrated in Mysterious Object at Noon 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Lions! Tightropes! Clowns! Charlie Chaplin’s last true silent film brings the big top to the big screen. Hijinks ensue. 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Les 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? 131
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025A 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! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025We 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 142
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025A classic of French comedy. But how well does that work for a couple of Gen Xers? 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Four 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. 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Greg 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. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025This week we dip back into Fellini for his 70s nostalgia drenched romp back into fascist Italy. It’s Amarcord! 100
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Can 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. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A 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. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Come gather 'round children, it's high time ye learned. About a hero named Harlan County and a devil named Duke Power. The fight never stops. And Barbara Kopple’s beautifully specific and devastatingly timeless documentary about a grueling coal miner’s strike won’t let us forget it. 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Listen to our 300th episode where we discuss Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This week we travel to Morocco to listen to the music of Nass El Ghiwane in Trances! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Our second Bond film for the pod as we dip, once again, into the laserdisc collection! It’s From Russia With Love! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025A comedy classic! Mel Brooks’ The Producers! 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Spend some time gambling in the French Riviera with Jeanne Moreau! It’s Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels! 152
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Boris Karloff! Christopher Lee! A period medical drama? I mean, I guess it does have some horror elements, but it’s mostly drama. 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Neither a documentary on the films of David Lynch nor a film about the man we knew as David Lynch. But an account of a young man who through circumstance and single-minded drive, would find himself in and construct just the sort of environment that could form a David Lynch. 141
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025How man Jean’s can they pack into one movie?! -Luc Goddard! -Paul Belmondo! AND Seberg! It’s Breathless! 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This week we return to the Shohei Imamura’s “Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes” collection with his “entomological study” of one woman’s lifelong struggle for survival and purpose in a cruel modern world. Style, ambiguity, and shock mark this as a classic Imamura story. 141
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Legendary Hong Kong/Hollywood action auteur John Woo sets an early pace for his legendary career with a period-kung fu movie about two swordsman-buddies caught in the midst of a bloody revenge plot between warring clans. Spoiler alert: there's a martial arts master whose style is "asleep." 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025From the clanky jangle of that first Tom Waits song to that jangly clank of the last Tom Waits song, you know you are in for a treat. Jim Jarmusch pops back up on the show with his humanist anthology of five stories set in cabs, each taking place in a different city on the same night. 121
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Cat, piano, well, watermelon, mirror, bananas. You know, you're basic horror movie formula. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi spins a eerily formulaic but wildly unanticipate-able story of teens. And death. It’s House! 151
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 24/12/2024This week we really bring the Christmas spirit! With … The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 111
Random Acts of Cinema @randomactsofcin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024It’s Orson Welles! It’s Shakespeare! Everyone involved is at the top of their game! Filmed across continents on location! It was a labor of love 3 years in the making! Yep. No problems here. None at all. No need to investigate further… 131
