Cosmic Motion

Hubert Selby Jr.’s taboo-smashing 1964 novel jumps to the screen in Uli Edel’s theatrical adaptation starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Ricki Lake and many others in an ensemble piece about poverty-stricken troubled souls in 1950s Brooklyn. What emerges is dark and disturbing and yet thoroughly human. Join Bill, Colin and writer/director George Zaver as they take a long walk down some shadowy s...

Trucker “Rubber Duck” (Kris Kristofferson) runs afoul of Arizona Sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) after Wallace extorts money from Duck and his friends. So begins the latest in a series of conflicts between Rubber Duck and Wallace, including the sherriff trying to detain his friend Spider Mike (Franklyn Ajaye), with Wallace in hot pursuit as Duck and company hightail it for the New Mexico border to avoid getting arrested. V...

Peter Winter (Peter Greene) has a lot going on in his head and most of it is painful. It’s all he can do to try to appear “normal” when he isn’t alone. Despite all this, Peter wants to find the daughter who was taken away from him. Meanwhile an investigator searches for a child murderer and his suspicions are beginning to point to Peter. Is Peter’s daughter in trouble? Join Bill and Colin as they investigate Lodge Kerrigan’s d...

Trombone player Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) has just met Julie Peters (Mare Winningham) at the La Brea Tar Pitts in the Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, and it looks like this could be instant true love. Yet the night they’re supposed to go on a date, by complete coincidence Harry finds out that the U.S. is beginning a nuclear war in less than an hour…or is it? Now Harry has to find Julie and take shelter for a possible end-of-the...

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (aka CEMETERY MAN) relates the story of melancholy and discontented Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett), who watches over a cemetery in a small European town where the dead won’t stay buried. He takes it upon himself to put “returners” back into their graves. One day he stumbles upon the love of his life (Anna Falchi) burying her husband. When said husband returns from the dead and kills her, Francesco begins...

John Boorman has built an eclectic body of work ranging from the experimental and deconstructionist POINT BLANK (1967) to the coming-of-age military drama QUEEN & COUNTRY (2014). In this episode, Bill and Colin explore his less-talked-about EXCALIBUR, a strange and inspired Arthurian fantasy drawing from various mythological sources. The cast is an embarrassment of riches including Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Gabriel Byrne,...

Welcome to our first episode! Timothy Carey was a beloved character actor and all-around eccentric who tore his way through a number of television shows and films including various from the likes of auteurs Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes. Yet Carey had an interest in making his own films as well, and he wrote, directed and starred in this uniquely bizarre and, in many ways, effective take on the perils of powerlust and the cul...