Episodes

  • Jaws (Guest: Rachel Howzell Hall)

    Jaws (Guest: Rachel Howzell Hall)
    Nov 26 2021
    In the summer of 1975, Amity Island was terrorized by a serial killer...who happened to be a shark. That's how Rachel Howzell Hall, author of These Toxic Things, sees it. In this episode, she explains how Jaws, Steven Spielberg and Peter Benchley's classic tale of a shark running amok is, at its heart, a crime story. I gotta say, I was moved. https://www.rachelhowzell.com (Connect with Rachel Howzell Hall) Olivia Rutigliano, LitHub, July, 2020 - https://lithub.com/on-the-endless-symbolism-of-the-best-summer-movie-ever-made-jaws/ (On the Endless Symbolism of the Best Summer Movie Ever Made: Jaws (And How It Owes Its Dark Soul to Moby Dick)) Jessica Beebe, ScreenRant, September, 2020 -https://screenrant.com/jaws-movie-biggest-differences-peter-benchley-book/ ( Jaws: The Biggest Differences Between the Book and Steven Spielberg’s Movie) Chris Morgan, Yardbarker, November, 2021 - https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/20_facts_you_might_not_know_about_jaws/s1__35148047#slide_1 (Twenty Facts You Might Not Know About Jaws) (This one’s a bit shaky) Maria Puente, USA Today, August, 2018 - https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/08/07/jaws-mystery-did-unidentified-cape-cod-murder-victim-appear-scene/923860002/ (Jaws Mystery:  Did Long Unknown ‘Lady of the Dunes’ Murder Victim Appear in Movie Scene?) https://www.thelongshadowpodcast.com (TLS on the web) https://twitter.com/LongShadowPod (TLS on Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Facebook) https://ginnyrobbins.square.site (Ginny Robbins (original artwork)) https://ryanculwell.com/home (Ryan Culwell (theme music))
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    58 mins
  • No Country For Old Men (Guest: John Woods)

    No Country For Old Men (Guest: John Woods)
    Nov 19 2021
    Call it. 2007 was a banner year for films examining existential masculine dread. Michael Clayton. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford. There Will Be Blood. But above them all stands No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's classic novel. Author John Woods (Lady Chevy) joined us to discuss all the ways Cormac drills into the deepest, darkest parts of our collective psyche. https://www.authorjohnwoods.com (Connect with John Woods) Jake Dee, Screenrant, April, 2020 - https://screenrant.com/no-country-for-old-men-facts-trivia/ (10 Things You Didn’t Know About No Country For Old Men) Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, September, 2017- https://www.vulture.com/2017/09/remembering-no-country-for-old-men-10-years-later.html (Remembering No Country For Old Men, A Masterful Book/Movie Collaboration, Ten Years Later) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-country-for-old-men-2007 (Roger Ebert, 4 stars, November, 2007) Cinephilia & Beyond - https://cinephiliabeyond.org/no-country-for-old-men/ (‘No Country For Old Men’: The Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy’s Ruthless Examination of Life) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADoPXknQCI (Lessons From the Screenplay - Don’t Underestimate the Audience) TLS on the web https://twitter.com/LongShadowPod (TLS on Twitter) TLS on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Facebook) https://ginnyrobbins.square.site (Ginny Robbins (original artwork)) https://ryanculwell.com/home (Ryan Culwell (theme music))
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    56 mins
  • The Last Seduction (Guest: Kelly J. Ford)

    The Last Seduction (Guest: Kelly J. Ford)
    Nov 12 2021
    In 1994, Linda Fiorentino gave us the femme fatale to rule them all. Kelly J. Ford, author of Cottonmouths and Real Bad Things, talked with us about how Bridget Gregory became the template for the empowered, kinda evil female neo-noir characters to come. There'd be no Amy Dunne if there hadn't been The Last Seduction. http://kellyjford.com (Connect with Kelly J. Ford). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-last-seduction-1994 (Roger Ebert's Review - 4 stars - November, 1994) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200806-the-last-seduction-the-greatest-femme-fatale-ever (Anna Smith, BBC, August, 2020 - The Greatest Femme Fatale Ever?) https://crimereads.com/counting-down-the-greatest-crime-films-of-all-time-92/ (Otto Penzler, Crimereads, The Greatest Crime Films of All Time, #91) TLS on the web https://twitter.com/LongShadowPod (TLS on Twitter) TLS on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Facebook) https://ginnyrobbins.square.site (Ginny Robbins (original artwork)) https://ryanculwell.com/home (Ryan Culwell (theme music))
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    58 mins
  • Hell Or High Water (Guest: Taylor Moore)

    Hell Or High Water (Guest: Taylor Moore)
    Nov 5 2021
    The desolate plains of west Texas serve as the setting to 2016's Hell Or High Water, a bank-heist movie about family, desperation, and the inevitable end of everything. Author Taylor Moore--himself a west Texan--sits down with Baker and Jason to discuss how this very specific region of America runs through both the film and his own 2020 debut novel, Down Range. https://taylormoorebooks.com (Connect with Taylor Moore, author of Down Range) https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/cannes-film-review-hell-or-high-water-chris-pine-jeff-bridges-1201775089/ (Owen Gleiberman's review, Variety, May, 2016) TLS on the web https://twitter.com/LongShadowPod (TLS on Twitter) TLS on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Facebook) https://ginnyrobbins.square.site (Ginny Robbins (original artwork)) https://ryanculwell.com/home (Ryan Culwell (theme music))
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    58 mins
  • Taxi Driver (Guest: Daniel Creamer of The Texas Gentlemen)

    Taxi Driver (Guest: Daniel Creamer of The Texas Gentlemen)
    Oct 29 2021
    Yeah, we're talkin' to you. In 1976, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and Robert De Niro unleashed Taxi Driver on the world. This portrait of a damaged man prowling an uncaring city resonates as loudly today as it did then. Daniel Creamer, co-frontman of The Texas Gentlemen, dropped by to discuss why this film has drilled itself into our collective psyches.  https://www.thetexasgentlemen.com/ (Connect with Daniel Creamer and The Texas Gentlemen.) Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, April, 2016 - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/taxi-driver-oral-history-de-881032/ (Taxi Driver 40th Anniversary Oral History) Nix Santos, Indiewire, April, 2016 - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/taxi-driver-oral-history-de-881032/ (Quentin Tarantino on Taxi Driver) Eric D. Snider, MentalFloss, February, 2016 - https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67148/13-grimy-facts-about-taxi-driver (13 Facts About Taxi Driver) TLS on the web https://twitter.com/LongShadowPod (TLS on Twitter) TLS on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Facebook) https://ginnyrobbins.square.site (Ginny Robbins (original artwork)) https://ryanculwell.com/home (Ryan Culwell (theme music))
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Double Indemnity (Guest: William Boyle)

    Double Indemnity (Guest: William Boyle)
    Oct 22 2021
    Neo-noir author William Boyle joins Baker and Jason for a trip back to where it started; Billy Wilder's 1944 classic Double Indemnity. This one's got it all. Barbara Stanwyck. Fred MacMurray. Ill-planned murders. Mid-Atlantic accents. The pre-war insurance industry. The movie that launched noir still ranks among the best. https://linktr.ee/wmboyle4 (William Boyle), author of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46158734-city-of-margins?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=1nJX1AJrlA&rank=1 (City of Margins) and the upcoming http://pegasusbooks.com/books/shoot-the-moonlight-out-9781643138251-hardcover (Shoot the Moonlight Out), coming 11/2/21 from Pegasus Books. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-double-indemnity-1944 (Roger Ebert's review, December, 1998 - Four stars) Marc Rivers, NPR, July, 2019 - https://www.npr.org/2019/07/31/746391982/double-indemnity-is-75-but-anklets-and-film-noir-are-forever ('Double Indemnity' Is 75, But Anklets (And Film Noir) Are Forever) Matthew Jackson, Mental Floss, September, 2018 - https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/555415/facts-about-double-indemnity-billy-wilder-barbara-stanwyck (10 Fascinating Facts About Double Indemnity) TLS on the web https://twitter.com/LongShadowPod (TLS on Twitter) TLS on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Facebook) https://ginnyrobbins.square.site (Ginny Robbins (original artwork)) https://ryanculwell.com/home (Ryan Culwell (theme music))
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Guest: Chris Harding Thornton)

    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Guest: Chris Harding Thornton)
    Oct 12 2021
    Welcome to The Long Shadow. In our premiere episode, author Chris Harding Thornton joins Baker and Jason for a deep dive into David Lynch's 1992 maligned/revered "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me".  https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/pickard-county-atlas (Pickard County Atlas, by Chris Harding Thornton) Julie Muncy, Wired (May, 2017) - https://www.wired.com/2017/05/fire-walk-with-me-retrospective/ (The Maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is is Better--and More Important--Than You Know) Martyn Contrario, The Guardian (September, 2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/sep/02/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-david-lynch (Fire Walk With Me: how David Lynch's film went from laughing stock to the key to Twin Peaks) David Sims, The Atlantic (May, 2017) - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-25-years/526968/ (Revisiting the Nightmarish Twin Peaks Movie) TLS on the web https://twitter.com/LongShadowPod (TLS on Twitter) TLS on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/longshadowpod/ (TLS on Facebook)
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    57 mins