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For people who loves movies, by people who love movies. We are several students who study film and communications at Concordia University in the city of Montreal and also happen to work at the same repertoire video store downtown. We decided to bring together a two part weekly radio broadcast in which we not only review movies but music related to the films we speak of.

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Episode 100 - The Naked Lunch

Along with Tom Green and that guy from Kids in the Hall who never smiles, director David Cronenberg is perhaps Canada’s creepiest cultural export. But not the ghosts and ghouls sort of way. The uncle who buys you underwear for Christmas and licks his palm after shaking your hand kind of creepy. In the past 30 years, Cronenberg has returned time and time again to themes of sexuality, infection, and a really slimy combination of man and machine. And while his recent work, such as the Oscar ...

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Episode 99 - Audrey Hepburn

"Exqusite and with a sense of innocence, Audrey Hepburn was a rare actress for her time, compared to the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Mae West. Audrey was far from the volumptuos, typical hollywood movie star, she was a pleasant, petite woman with an enchanting Anglo-European accent, big doe-like eyes, a long swan neck, demure smile, melodious voice, charismatic manner, and perfect wardrobe. Audrey was also very modest, describing herself as an actress that didn't have much technique because ...

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Episode 98 - Steven Soderberg

Up to this point, the career of Steven Soderbergh has unfolded like every independent director’s wet dream. His early films, such as 1989’s sex, lies and videotape, were the sort of intimate, deeply personal stories that stun film critics at Sundance but tend to find less success when playing alongside Rocky sequels. Nevertheless, the director has found great commercial success in recent years, with films like Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s 11 ringing in millions at the box office and, i ...

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Episode 97 - History of the Academy Awards pt 2

Episode 97 comes a day after the 81st Academy Awards and we have our comments on the highlights and lowpoints of the show. As well we look back at two films that won best picture in the past and one which we feel should have. First up is the first and only film X-rated film to win the big award, Midngiht Cowboy. Second we take a look at Cabaret, the film that took home the award for best director over Francis Ford Copolla's work on The Godfahter. Finally we review one of Simon's favorite fi ...

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Episode 94 - Camp Blood

Friday the 13th is the first and some say the best in a long running horror series that got sillier and more far-fetched the longer it pressed on. The film is in now way groundbreaking coming after cult favorites Black Christmas, Halloween and Bay of Blood, but does it do the trick in a killer-in-thee-woods item that hardly moves outside the realm of cliches. Find out the answer to this question and everything else you wanted to know about the franchise but couldn't bother wasting your time ...

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Episode 92 - Film Noir

Aside from pornography and mid-nineties cyperpunk, film noir is likely the most instantly recognizable cinematic genre. Its dramatic, high-contrast lighting, black and white cinematography, and Expressionist-influenced camera-work defined the look of the gritty, sexually charged crime films of the 1940s and 50s. And while movies like The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and Touch of Evil are cornerstones of the genre, the style spawned a wide variety of pulp classics from around the world. ...

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Episode 91 - History of the Academy Awards part 1

With the 81st Academy Awards a little over a month away, Sound on Sight presents three special reviews of past Best Picture winners, each picked by a different host. Rick had singled out 1934's It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable. 1955's Marty was Simon's pick, and 1961's hit musical West Side Story was picked by Ali. How have these supposed classics held up over time? Find out, as we discuss the films and dole out way more Oscar trivia than previously th ...

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Episode 90 - Holiday Horror

Over the last thirty years, moviegoers have endured countless films that carry the tag "slasher" - nearly all of them being direct descendants of two classic horror films, Bob Clark's "Black Christmas" (1974) and John Carpenter's "Halloween." Since then, they've become an efficient source for studios to make quick cash, as they're inexpensive to make and usually bring swift business year-round. A surefire way to get your slasher seen? Tie it to a holiday, in a move we see major studios trot ...

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Episode 89 - Hot Docs

With the Oscars just a month away, we take a look back at two Oscar-nominated films we did not have a chance to review yet. Israel's "Waltz With Bashir" is up for Best Foreign Film, although it might also have contended in the Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary categories, as it features eyewitness accounts of the 1982 Lebanon War from those who fought it. Werner Herzog's Antarctic adventure "Encounters at the End of the World," up for Best Documentary, will be reviewed as well. As ...

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Episode 88 - My Bloody Valentine

Horror historians can easily trace the origin of the slasher film back to Halloween, Black Christmas, and even Psycho. However, until recently, few but genre enthusiasts would point to the role early ‘copycat’ films had in keeping slashers alive the early 80s, before endless sequels sapped the lifeblood from the genre like a severed artery. Canadian director George Mihalka’s 1981 film My Bloody Valentine was just such a movie; controversial in its time, then nearly forgotten, a 3D rem ...

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Episode 87 - American Mendes

Mendes made his directorial debut in 1999 with American Beauty, a tense suburban black comedy, starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. The film won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as netting Mendes a number of seperate prizes for his direction. Mendes' second film, in 2002, was Road to Perdition. Critics praised Paul Newman for his performance and the film was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor, and won one for ...

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Episode 86 - Barflies, Boxers, Gumshoes, and small time Gangsters

"I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. I'm willing to give them 100 per cent this time. I just want a second chance at Hollywood." Mickey Rourke Mickey Rourke has had quite a career. He has moved back and forth from boxer to actor, and back again. Rourke has been called many things by many people, but conventional has never been one of the adjectives used to describe him. Tune into our first of a two part special on the man himself.

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Episode 85 - Director Stephen Daldry special

Daldry made his feature film directorial debut with Billy Elliot, but previously he had been a theatre director. He won awards on Broadway as well as the West End. His next film was The Hours, and it won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for Nicole Kidman. Recently, he directed a stage musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, and a film version of The Reader, based on the book of the same name and starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. He has received two previous Academy Award nominations fo ...

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Episode 84 - The Last Lunch (Top 10 of 2008)

Episode 84 - The Last Lunch The very last installment of the program known as The Naked Lunch will be more like the Last Supper, as it takes on its new timeslot of Monday 9-11 one hour early for a year-end three-hour blowout of epic proportions, and gets ready to take on a new, more ambitious form in the new year. As a special year-end treat, Simon and Rick will run down their respective picks for the year's ten best films, all set to the sweet sounds of the year's best soundtracks.

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Episode 83 - Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky - he may look like an accountant, but you couldn't call his career boring. First he unveils his debut picture, Pi, a sci-fi thriller made for sixty grand, and launches his career in auspicious style. He follows it up with one of 2000's most hotly debated films, the Hubert Selby Jr. adaptation Requiem for a Dream, a hyper-stylized and brutally frank exploration of the power of addiction, which earns Ellen Burstyn a Best Actress nomination. Then things go slightly awry: he pl ...

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Episode 82 - The Usual Suspect (Bryan Singer special)

A Hollywood standby over the last decade and a half, Bryan Singer first came to the attention of most moviegoers with his third film, the labyrinthine crime thriller The Usual Suspects, in 1994. Since then, he's tried on Stephen King, the X-Men and Superman, and now he's decided to tackle one of history's most blatant what-might-have-been scenarios: the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler, in his new thriller Valkyrie. Long known as a consistent force in moviemaking, if not exactly a tr ...

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Episode 81 - The Curious Case of David Fincher

Episode 81 will focus on the magical, heart-warming film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. With it’s life-spanning story, moving back and forth, it has brought up some comparisons to the sentimental Oscar favorite Forrest Gump. Is the usually edgy director pandering to the Academy and a mainstream audience. We will discuss wether or not we think these accusations are in any way valid. In the second half of the show we rewind the clock back a year and focus our attention on David Finch ...

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Episode 80 - The Day Radio Sound Still

Simon takes some time off to avoid reviewing the new remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and Ricky and Ali are left to cover the mess. We start our countdown of our top 5 soundtracks of 2008 and Ricky continues his 2009 predictions with naming what he thinks will be the surprise hit film and it's not The Watchmen.

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Episode 79 - European Cinema

In episode 70 we will review the film Hunger starring Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who led the 1981 Irish hunger strike and participated in the no wash protest (led by Brendan "The Dark" Hughes) in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death. In the second half of the show we will Gomorrah the 2008 hyperlink crime film directed by Matteo Garrone, bas ...

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Episode 78 - Danny Boyle special

One of Britain's most celebrated breakthrough talents of the '90s, director and producer Danny Boyle made his name with his acclaimed 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. An angry, funny and groundbreaking film about a group of heroin addicts that took a non-judgmental approach to drug use, the film won equal parts praise and controversy, as well as lasting fame for its director. Since than Danny Boyle has tackled many genres – be it the sci fi thriller Sunshine or the George ...

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Episode 77 - A Short podcast about Kieslowski

Way back in Episode 28, we discussed Krzystzof Kieslowski's seminal Three Colors trilogy with our resident European film expert, Eduardo Lucatero, and promised to return to discuss the revered Polish master's earlier work. Well it's taken forever, but we finally got our act together to discuss A Short Film About Love, A Short Film About Killing, and his most challenging film, The Double Life of Veronique. Rick had to sit this one out, but joining Simon is returning guest Eduardo and friend ...

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Episode 76 - My Own Private Idol

A director who is capable of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers, Gus Van Sant has managed to carve an enviable niche for himself in Hollywood. Since debuting in 1985 with Mala Noche, Van Sant has become one of the premiere bards of dysfunction, populating his films with a parade of hustlers, junkies, psychopathic weather girls and troubled geniuses. After two failed attempts, Van Sant has finally brought to fruition his biopic on Harvey Milk, ...

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Episode 75 - Another Gay Film Festival

This week sees the arrival of the twenty-first edition of Montreal's Image+Nation fest, featuring a wide-ranging survey of new films that touch on LGBT themes. To celebrate, we'll be tackling a few of them, including XXY, (which served as Argentina's submission for the Academy Awards last year), as well as the gross-out spoof flick Another Gay Sequel (as well as touching on its predecessor, Another Gay Movie) and, perhaps most excitingly, Bruce LaBruce's gay zombie satire Otto, or, Up With ...

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Episode 74 - Baz Lurhmann special

Rumours spead that the the new film by Baz Lurhmann, Australia, may be a box office disaster with squabbles over the length of the movie and even its ending. That is until Opran went on her show raving about how it was the best film she had seen in years. Studio heads no longer need to worry about it`s box office numbers now that millions of Oprah heads are getting ready to rush and see some are calling the Next Gone With The Wind. Reports are that Baz Luhrmann wrote 6 endings and shot 3. D ...

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Episode 73 - Teenage Wasteland

Episode 73: I Was a Teenage Vampire Teenage girls everywhere are frothing at the mouth over Twilight, the Vampire teen-romance flick adapted from Stephanie Meyer's best-selling books. Ricky and Simon are in rough terrain here, being completely outside of the film's target audience, so our guest Ally, who's more familiar with the series of novels, helps out with the details. We also rewind to the 80's to take a look at two classic teen-vampire movies - Joel Shumacher's The Lost Boys and Kat ...

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Episode 72-B- James Bond (Daniel Craig)

In recent years there has been a flood of movie remakes and reboots. The majority of these films have been seen in the Horror genre. However action films are not too far behind in numbers, with recent reinventions of Get Smart, Charlie’s Angels, The Terminator series and even Indiana Jones. Most are outright horrible but once in a while there comes along a gem and Casino Royal was exactly what the Bond franchise needed. Fast forward two years and we’re treated to the follow up film in ...

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Episode 72 - A - James Bond (Sean Connery special)

With 1964's Goldfinger, the third James Bond story to reach the screen, the "Bond formula" had reached maturity. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, a participant in the scripting of the previous two movies, Dr. No and From Russia with Love, had identified those elements of the series that audiences liked. So, for this film, his storyline (adapted loosely from Ian Fleming's 1959 novel) enhanced the action sequences, added more beautiful women, gave 007 an Aston Martin loaded with neat gadgets, an ...

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Episode 71 - Alex Gibney special

Alex Gibney seems to be drawn to calamity. The documentarian's three major features so far focus on volatile topics and controversial events. His newest, currently in theaters, is called Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson, and it illustrates the troubled journalist's path from political rabble-rouser to caricature. We'll be essaying that particular film, as well as looking back at his 2007 Oscar winner Taxi to the Dark Side (a grueling look at detainee abuse in America's War on ...

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Episode 70 - Global Metal

Global Metal

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Episode 69 - Ricky Rocky Horror Picture Show `2009

Tune in to our yearly Halloween tradition here at The Naked Lunch as we count down the top 31 horror films of the past 31 years. Also reviews on two Canadian horror films, The Changeling and Black Christmas.

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Episode 68 - Festival wrap up!

Three Men and a Geek There's so much great stuff at the multiplexes these days that Rick and Simon need to zoom out and take on a set of major directors one by one, tackling their newest features. First up - and the subject of the most debate from critics - is Charlie Kaufman's ambitious and troubled directorial debut Synecdoche, New York. Then we've got Clint Eastwood's new Oscarbait historical drama Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. On the lighter side of things, we ...

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Episode 67 - X Presidents

Tune into our very first special on director Oliver Stone. With his new film W. being released, we have decided to review his Presidential Trilogy. Aldo Àugust`Parise joins me in the studio while Simon Howell joins us live from New York City. Politics has never been this fun!

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Episode 66 - Hot Docs

Episode 66: Docs at the FNC Special guest Derek Gladu returns once more to help Simon pick apart th new documentaries that have seen release at the FNC, including the high-wire chronicle Man on Wire (one of the year's best-reviewed films), and two Canadian docs; a very personal doc about transsexuality called She's a Boy I Knew from director Gwen Haworth, and an NFB doc about the emerging and evolving Nigerian film industry entitled Nollywood Babylon. Derek and Simon also kick off a weekly ...

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Episode 65 - Bloody Radical part 5 - The New Wave Film Festival `2008

Montreal's esteemed Cinema Nouveau film festival rolls on, and we've got a steaming fresh batch of reviews from this year's Temps Zéro (aka The Wild Bunch) section - essentially, the most off-the-wall material to see inclusion. That includes the very controversial (and very graphic) French thriller Martyrs, Korean western The Good, the Bad and the Weird, manga adaptation Detroit Metal City, and the curious Belgian black comedy JCVD, starring none other than iconic action star Jean-Claude V ...

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Episode 64: Fernando Meirelles

Episode 63: Fernando Meirelles Brazil's Fernando Meirelles made quite a splash in 2002 with his breakthrough feature City of God, a brutal and vibrant portrait of crime and street life in one of Brazil's worst slums. It has become one of the most popular foreign films of the new decade. He followed it up with The Constant Gardener, a political thriller based on John le Carré's novel of the same name and starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. After taking on le Carré, Meirelles has take ...

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Episode 63 - Cool Hand Luke

Paul Newman wasn’t just an Oscar-winning movie star and director, he was a philanthropist, practical joke player, and award-winning race car driver. The roles he chose were immortalized by his outstanding performances in films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Hustler, The Sting, The Verdict, The Color of Money. He was an electric Mt. Rushmore with a thousand twinklers behind his bright blue eyes Here is the first of a two part ...

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Episode 62: The Man With the Palahniuk

It was nearly 10 years ago that David Fincher adapted Chuck Palahniuk's controversial novel Fight Club into a film that became an international cult phenomenon - in more ways than one. In the intervening years, many have proposed other Palahniuk-based film projects but none of them ever got off the ground - until now. Actor-director Clark Gregg bravely stepped up to the plate to helm Choke, a dark comedy based on Palahniuk's novel of the same name, and he even raked in some half-decent acto ...

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Episode 61: Directors Lucas Moodysson & Peter Sollett

Director Peter Sollett hasn't been kicking around too long, but he's already made a splash in two distinctly different realms: first, as an indie darling with his coming-of-age dramedy Raising Victor Vargas, and now returning with the seeming heir to Juno's hipster-comedy throne, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. (He even remembered to drag Michael Cera along.) We'll discuss both films at length, as well as taking a quick sojourn to Sweden - where Ricky D recently spent a good chunk of hi ...

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Episode 60 - Human Frailty and Divine Intervention

With the U.S, political landscape becoming increasingly partisan and religiously based, we thought it a good time to reflect on some recent docs that have highlighted religion's place in society - Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's provocative Jesus Camp, Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil, and Lucy Walker's Amish teen documentary Devil's Playground. Will they all pass muster before the Naked Lunch's deities of judgment? As with Episode 59, it'll be Simon and guests, with Ricky D taking a well-des ...

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Episode 59 - Raising the Coens

This week sees the release of the Coen brothers' new comedy-thriller Burn After Reading, so we thought it an appropriate time to dig up some of the Coens' first comedies - namely, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy. Some of these films have attained the status of cult classics, while some (okay, just Hudsucker) have earned a less prestigious claim. We're going to take a look back at these 90's films, but not without also passing judgment on Burn After Reading. A caveat: Ri ...

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Episode 58 - Blood Radical pt. 4

Things get extreme on this show as we bring you the 4th edition to our on going series entitled``Bloody Radical``. A series where we have collected wholly distinctive and proudly risk-taking genre films. Bear witness to the ongoing continuation of the bold new chapter on Naked Lunch Radio. In this edition we finally have the chance to take full advantage of attending the world premiere of James Isaac`s new film Pighunt. Also our review of The Burrowers which just had it’s world premier a ...

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Episode 57 - David Mamet pt.1

The most recognized element of Mamet's style is his sparse, clipped dialogue. Mamet's dialogue is so unique that it has become known as "Mametspeak". His language is not so much "naturalistic" as it is a poetic impression of streetwise jargon. Noted for his strong male characters, Mamet's plays often deal with the decline of morality in a world which has become an emotional and spiritual wasteland. In 1984, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross which recreated the atmos ...

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Episode 56 - Six soldiers. Full moon. No chance. (Director Niel Marshall special)

With a resume only three movies deep, Briton Neil Marshall's filmography is already amusingly contradictory. His first proper feature was the low-budget werewolf flick Dog Soldiers, which was light enough to have almost featured Simon Pegg in its cast. He followed it up with The Decent, one of the most revered horror films of the '00s, replete with doom-filled imagery and claustrophobic chills. Most recently, however, he unleashed his very own tribute to John Carpenter and Roger Miller, the ...

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Episode 55 - Return to the Arthouse (Gus Van Sant pt.1)

So you really liked Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James. How would you like to watch him fumble around the desert with Matt Damon for 100 minutes, at an average of one minute per shot? That's a brief but accurate description of Gerry, the first film in Gus Van Sant's professed "trilogy" of films about death, along with the school shooting drama (and Palme D'Or winner) Elephant and the grungy lament Last Days. We'll be discussing all three films, as well as h ...

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Episode 54 - Canada vs. America

This week's programming is all about controversy. On the polite side of that coin, we have Nanette Burstein's new documentary feature American Teen, which has been assailed by many critics as being an MTV-style pseudo-documentary, complete with careful editing choices and subject coaching. Meanwhile, Canada's own Guy Maddin continues to work in his own strange little realm, releasing the strongly autobiographical art film My Winnipeg, which has been kicking around in festivals for quite som ...

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Episode 53 - Days of Thunder

Spokespeople for the mentally disabled are up in arms over Ben Stiller's star-studded new comedy, Tropic Thunder, in which Stiller plays an action star who makes an ill-advised attempt at Oscar gold by starring in Simple Jack, whose tagline reads: "Once upon a time...there was a retard." Paramount's been forced to remove promotional materials that refer to the film-within-a-film, and some have even called for the movie to be re-edited. When all the hoopla is set aside, however, is there a d ...

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Episode 51 - David Gordon Green special

What’s going on with David Gordon Green? First he directs a line of stellar, intense art films, beginning with the coming-of-age drama George Washington and the woozy, lovesick All the Real Girls, then eventually does a complete 180 to helm the Apatow-produced stoner-action-comedy Pineapple Express (starring Seth Rogen, who Rick might have a personal beef with…). Word is he wants to do a dragon movie next. But is this apparent wunderkind really all he’s made out to be? Find out when R ...

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Episode 50 - Hot Docs pt.1

Beginning our newfound pledge to cover more documentary features, we present a full hour of docs we’ve recently taken in - two from the Fantasia festival and one just for the fun of it, and we’ve invited documentary fanatic Derek Gladu to chip in. I Think We’re Alone Now follows two very different social misfits (one a severe Asperger’s case, the other a medical hermaphrodite) who share one common quirk: their love of (and subsequent obsession over) 80’s pop star Tiffany. We’ve ...

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Episode 49 - Bloody Radical part 3 - Hour 2

All kinds of exciting things happen to human flesh in our final show on Fantasia's new wave of American horror films. It's harvested in harsh socioeconomic conditions in Darren Lynn Bousman's passion project Repo! The Genetic Opera. It's hung up on hooks and stripped like cattle in the much-anticipated Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train. (Those last two were both world premieres, folks.) It's devoured and processed in all kinds of nasty ways in teen zombie comedy Dance of the D ...

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Episode 49 - Bloody Radical part 3 - Hour 1

All kinds of exciting things happen to human flesh in our final show on Fantasia's new wave of American horror films. It's harvested in harsh socioeconomic conditions in Darren Lynn Bousman's passion project Repo! The Genetic Opera. It's hung up on hooks and stripped like cattle in the much-anticipated Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train. (Those last two were both world premieres, folks.) It's devoured and processed in all kinds of nasty ways in teen zombie comedy Dance of the D ...

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Episode 49 - Bloody Radical part 3

All kinds of exciting things happen to human flesh in our final show on Fantasia's new wave of American horror films. It's harvested in harsh socioeconomic conditions in Darren Lynn Bousman's passion project Repo! The Genetic Opera. It's hung up on hooks and stripped like cattle in the much-anticipated Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train. (Those last two were both world premieres, folks.) It's devoured and processed in all kinds of nasty ways in teen zombie comedy Dance of the D ...

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Episode 48 - The Killing Joke - (The Dark Knight special)

The Dark Knight It's the year's most anticipated film, so accordingly we've got an extended look at The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's latest Bat-opus. We're going to look in-depth at Nolan's work on the series, as well as getting into the nitty-gritty on the film itself, both in spoiler and non-spoiler segments. If you haven't seen it yet (and why not?) come for the first part, then stay and join the cool kids for the spoiler section once you've had the pleasure. Same Bat-time...you get ...

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Episode 47 - Tokyo Shock, Japanese Rock! (part 2)

When it comes to madness and mayhem, nobody can deliver it quite like the Japanese, and we've recently been exposed to a series of hyperactive Japanese flicks so action-packed (though not, of course, always actually good) that we've put together a follow-up to our previous Japanese spotlight. This time, we're tackling "Machine Girl," Takashi Miike's spaghetti western throwback "Sukiyaki Western Django," and the much-touted splatterfest "Tokyo Gore Police."

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Episode 46 - Bloody Radical part 2

U.S. horror has taken a beating oer the last few years, with most of the most prominent genre films coming out of Asia - principally Japan and Korea. At this year's Fantasia, however, several new U.S. films are being touted as part of a new U.S. rennaisance - Jonathan Devine's teen-angst thriller "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane," actor Christopher Denham's directorial debut "Home Movie," and Stuart Gordon's latest work, "Stuck." But do any of them actually deliver the goods?

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Episode 45 – Fantasia 2008

Our coverage on the Fantasia Film Festival continues. In this broadcast we are pleased to be among the first to review several films here in North America. To kick things off is the new film from director Ole Bornedal entitled The Substitute, a stellar teen coming-of-age story and a ripping sci-fi adventure. We will also focus on two films from Canada. One is the new film from the same team that brought us Hobo with A Shotgun. The second is Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer starring the one and o ...

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Episode 44: The Spanish Inquisition

In a nice bit of synchronicity, Fantasia has offered us a slate of new Spanish fantasy and horror films – specifically, the much-hyped “verité” thriller [rec], silent throwback La Antena, apocalyptic thriller Before the Fall, and the time-travel black comedy Timecrimes. Meanwhile, over in Hollywood, Spanish wizard Guillermo del Toro is finally ready to unleash his latest opus, Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Lucky for you, we were able to catch all of these films over the past week, and ...

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Episode 43 - Bloody Radical part 1

Voted best film podcast 2008! Tune into Episode 42 of The Naked Lunch with our reviews and full coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival Our first review will focus on what some are calling the must see film of the year, “Let The Right One In.” This Swedish vampire film is without a doubt, stunning. A vampire film that follows the rules of the vampire mythology while mixing in a rare coming of age story that is both powerful and touching. Dare we say Masterpiece? Also a look back at la ...

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Episode 42 - WallE & Johnny Five

Reviews on WallE and Short Circuit plus interview clips and the music of Louis Armstrong.

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Episode 41 - Crossing Heaven Head On (Fatih Atkin special)

Born in Germany as the son of Turkish parents, the 30-year-old director is a child of globalization: like the musician Manu Chao, he samples and remixes elements from a diversity of cultures, material easily available to his generation for the first time. «We grew up with the video recorder - and my great role models were not from Europe. Neo-Realism or Film Noir, that didn’t come until later. In the beginning I was really keen on American cinema: love, violence, action, simply good stor ...

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Episode 40 - Hollywood blacklists (The Jules Dassin special pt.1)

One of the most defiantly visible survivors of the Hollywood Blacklist was American director Jules Dassin. Following high school in the Bronx and drama school in Europe, Dassin made his stage debut at age 25 with the Yiddish Theatre in New York. In Hollywood, Dassin worked his way up to a directorial spot at MGM’s short subjects unit, where he handled a brilliant 20-minute adaptation of Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart (1941). This led to a promotion to features like Nazi Agent (1942), Reunion ...

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Episode 39 - The Happening

The second of out two part special on director M. Night Shyamalan. Will Ricky continue to defend the film maker and his three previous films and more importantly will Simon deliver the havoc he promised last week, and tear them all apart? What is the real cause of The Happening? Was there a side message commenting on how we as a society have problems in communicating amongst each other? Tune and get ready to send us some feedback.

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Episode 38 - Be Kind Rewind! (Director Michel Gondry special)

There are many ways to crack a Rubik's Cube. Michel Gondry did it with his toes. A year ago, the film director posted a short video on YouTube showing this skill ... Things aren't always as they appear in a Gondry film. Tune into our special on director Michel Gondry. a French Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.

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Episode 37 - The Dark Night

M Night Shyamalan The modern Hitchcock The studio pet who could do no wrong? Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan is shaping up to be the new Spielberg/Hitchcock: A master storyteller with a gift for twists and a keen understanding of public taste. Listen to the first part of our M . Knight special. Will Ricky & Simon defend the so called master of thrillers or will they just tear him to shreds. Tune in and find out!

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Episode 36 - The Incredible Hulk vs. The Hulk

Tune into our review of The new Hulk movie as well as a look back to the 2003 film!

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Episode 35 - Anti-Establishment Films of the 90`s made by the Establishment

The following are five films that my friends and I grew up with. Each film was granted repeat viewings through out the years. They all share common themes. They all feature a great sound track not to mention numerous tracks that appeared on each film that never made the official soundtrack cd. They all were coming of age films and considered part of the the Gen X momement. They were all produced within the Hollywood system and both early and breakthrough films for each director. Each screen ...

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Episode 34 - French, SEx MuRDErs!

France has long been a gathering spot for artists from across Europe and the world. For this reason French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations. We have thus brought you specials on some of the Directors who have crossed over to France to make films. Including Poland`s Krzysztof Kieslowski and Austria`s Michael Heneke. It`s the country that brought you Jean Luc Godart, Jean Pierre Melville, Francois Truffault and many other great directors. Now in the 21st cen ...

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EPISODE 33 - Rambo & Son of Rambow have SEX in The City with STrangers on Prom Night!

A little something for everyone... Reviews on Sex and The City, Son of Rambow, First Blood, Prom Wars and the Strangers. Also a special interview with director Phil Price and screenplay writer Myles Hainsworth. Be prepared for a heated debate between Simon and Rick plus some great music from artists such as Gillian Welch and Joanna Newsome.

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Episode 32 - Bullwhips and Fedoras - A History of Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones special

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Episode 31 (2nd hour) - Art School Confidential

Tune in to the Naked Lunch (After Hours) this week as we will be stepping outside the mainstream in our History of Comic Book Films marathon! Special guest August from "Rein In August will join Sic Ric and discuss the works of Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Ralph Bakshi and many more. Also the best in Jazz music and talk on Chasing Amy, American Splendor, and ton of other surprises!

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Episode 31 (1st hour) - Art School Confidential

Tune in to the Naked Lunch (After Hours) this week as we will be stepping outside the mainstream in our History of Comic Book Films marathon! Special guest August from "Rein In August will join Sic Ric and discuss the works of Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Ralph Bakshi and many more. Also the best in Jazz music and talk on Chasing Amy, American Splendor, and ton of other surprises!

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Episode 30 (2nd hour) History of Comic Book Film Adaptations Part One

The first or a four part series. Listen in as Sic Ric reviews everything from Captain America in the 1940`s to the most recent comic films.

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Episode 30 (1st hour) - History of Comic Book Film Adaptations Part One

The first or a four part series. Listen in as Sic Ric reviews everything from Captain America in the 1940`s to the most recent comic films.

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Episode 29 - No Use For A Name

You know the summer is on it`s way with the opening of the first blockbuster film. Iron Man opens up this week with a projected 65 millions box office take. What better way to open our show than with our review of the film and an interview with director John Favreau. Also Simon joins me in the studio once again this week has we tackle on two heart breaking documentaries; War Dance & Young at Heart. Last week we were not able to broadcast due to CJLO’s annual award show. What happens wh ...

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Episode 28 B - Color Me Kieslowski

Tune in to our special on director Krzysztof Kieslowski. We will take a look back at his four foreign films produced in France which includes the Double life of Veronica and his Blue, White and Red trilogy.

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Episode 28 A - Beyond The Valley of the Silicone Dolls

Tune into the first hour - our Hollywood hour! Movies Reviewed: The Bands Visit Before The Devil Knows Your Dead Lars & The Real Girl Juno John Cho Interview & more...

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Episode 27 - A Midnight Snack (2nd hour)

The second half of out special on the best heist films about a bank job. Also the special sneak peek at Forgetting Sarah Marshall. All this and more!

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Episode 27 - A Midnight Snack (1st hour)

Special on director Roger Avary. New to DVD, box office talk etc.

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Episode 26 - Swatch Watches & Diet Coke Heads

Five excellent films revolving around a dark subjest - suicide. Movies reviewed are Wristcutters, Heathers, The Bridge, Tout est Parfait and The Virgin Suicides

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Episode 25 - A - The Getaway

Tune in as we review The Bank Job and take a look back at the top 5 Heist films revolving around a bank robbery.

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Episode 24 – Funny Games

He is best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society.

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Episode 23 - Paint my Masterpiece

Thursday March 6th – Art Is a Lie Tune in to our first episode focusing solely on documentaries. First we kick it off with our second entry in our Masterpiece Cinema page. Of course we are talking about our very much delayed review of Style Wars. Journey with us through a history of Hip Hop culture only to break and discuss the newest DVD release “My Kid Could Paint That. Also a look back at the film “Who The Fuck is Jackson Pollock? This is sure to be one of our best shows yet!

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Episode 22 - A No Brainer! Zombies in Pop Culture part 2

Tune in for the second of a two part special on zombies in pop culture. We will review everything from Evil Dead to Shaun of The Dead. Also our reviews on the newest DVD releases including Murder Party, 30 Days of Night, Rage and Beowulf. All this & more!

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Episode 21 - Road to the Oscars

Charlie Bartlett vs. Ferris Bueller! Oscars picks & Predictions!

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Episode 20 -B (2nd hour) Jumper!

In the second hour special guest J.C. along side Ricky D and Dr. J review the films Jumper, Gone baby Gone and Mystic River. All that and more!

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Episode 20 - A (1st hour) St. Valentine`s Day Massacre

Our first of a two part special on zombies in pop culture. Reviews of White Zombie, Re-Animator and the films of director`s Fulci and Romero. All this and more.

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Episode 19 - B - Rated X by an All Whyte Jury

Director Ralph Bakshi special.

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Episode 19 - A - Modern Cowboys

Special on recent westerns made within the past decade.

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Episode 18 - Everyday People

Films reviewed: The Killer of Sheep (which was our first entry into our “Masterpiece Cinema page.“) Goerge Washington ( directorial debut by David Gordon Green.) The King of Kong, A Fist Full Of Quarters (which not only won Best Documentary on The Naked Lunch Movie Awards `2007 but also made Sic Ric`s top 10 list.) & last but not least…. In studio interview with Director Eduardo Lucatero!

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Episode 17 - Rocket Science

Episode 17 : What is Cloverfield? Also the top 5 sea monsters, Spanish horror films, our review of the Orphanage, Rocket Science and more.

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Episode 16 - Punch Drunk Radio

Episode 16 - Punch Drunk Radio - A special one hour review on director Paul Thomas Anderson and his ingenious body of work. - The complete what to do list in Hollywood for 2008! - Golden Globes reviews -Top 10 moments in Paul Thomas Anderson`s films

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Episode 15 - The Naked Lunch Movie Awards `2007

Is “There Will Be Blood” the best film of the year? Tune in as we give out The Naked Lunch awards to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry including directors, actors, and writers. Also a special review on the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson `There Will Be Blood`.

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Episode 14 - Top 10 Films & Soundtracks of 2007

Listen in as we countdown our ten favorite films and soundtracks of 2007!

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Episode 13 - Ricky Rotten Awards

Tune in to our Thursday Dec. 13th broadcast for a look back at this year`s funniest film, Superbad. Also a review on I Am Legend, The Omega Man & Last Man On Earth. All this and more!

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Episode 12 - Superstar! The Todd Haynes Story

Superstar: The Todd Haynes Story Listen to our broadcast from Thursday Dec. 6th for a very special look at director Todd Haynes and all his movies from Velvet Goldmine to his new smash hit "I'm Not There". A ton of great queer related Canadian rock and enough Dylan cover songs to keep you warm under the cold winter.

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Episode 11 - Pimp My Radio Show!

Special guest DJ's Laurent Blaze of 33mag & Dr. J help Sic Ric review the movies The Mack, Hustle & Flow & American Pimp. All the best hip hop from the U.K , U.S.A. & right here in Canada!

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Episode 9 - Minnesota Madness - The Coen Brothers special

Our very special look at the Coen brothers! We will take a look at their entire filmograpy and focus mostly on the thrillers. Everything from "Blood Simple" to "No Country for Old Men" with Special guest DJ Iron Man Dan.

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Episode 8 - Director Jack Hill special

Funk, Soul, Pam Grier, Jack Hill & Exploitation ! Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban black audience; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation.” Blaxploitation films starred primarily black actors, and were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music. Variety magazine credited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song with the invention o ...

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Episode 7 - Transmission - Joy Division, 24 Hour Party People & Control.

Reviews on the movies Control, 24 Hour Party People and a look back at the Manchester music scene of the late 70`s and early 80`s. Hosted by Sic Ric & Chrystina Benyo.

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Episode 6 - Midnight Radio - Halloween special part 2

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years in the second half of our Halloween special.

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Episode 2 -B Acrpss The Universe

Reviews on Across the Universe

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Episode 5 - Ricky Rocky Horror Picture Show - Halloween special part 1

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years in our 1st of a 2 part Halloween special!

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Episode 4 - Fantastic Mr. Fox - the Wes Anderson special

Wes Anderson special

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Episode 3 - Lost in Translation - Tokyo Shock & Japanese Rock

Get ready for some Japanese rock, movie talk and Tokyo shock. Episode 3 is now ready to download. Reviews on Cyber punk Japanese films and the musical artist of the week is a man who has left his prints everywhere in rock and punk music. Of course we are talking about Captain Beefheart.

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Episode 2 -A Rebels on The Backlot - The Grindhouse special

Reviews on Deathproof

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