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The Searchers podcast is the passion of three cinephiles who seek to guide you across the potentially overwhelming and untraversed regions of cinema. After a long day toiling through the grassy knolls, dry deserts, and rocky slabs, you deserve a break. Come on down and warm yourself by the fire, crack open a beer, and join us. New episodes every other week.
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6 days ago
6 days ago
Ben and Chris talk about two episodes they watched from Sherlock Hound, an anime from the 1984-1985 season inspired by the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character. The two episodes are "Little Martha's Big Mystery!?" (小さなマーサの大事件！？) and "The Air Battle Over Dover!" (ドーバー海峡の大空中戦！), both directed by none other than Hayao Miyazaki. Yes, we've touched on him before in a Cinema Crusades episode, but now Miya-san is the center of our attention. We kept this one short, you're welcome!
In October, we are covering Horror-adjacent films! The first will be John Carpenter's Vampires (1998). (Just no slashers, demonic possession, or body horror shit; we don't do those - Kevin and Ben)
Stay tuned for later in the year or early 2024 for our review of The Boy and the Heron, aka "How Do You Live?" (君たちはどう生きるか ).
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Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Christopher and Benjamin return to the well of westerns with their review of Rawhide directed by Henry Hathaway, who most fans of the genre will know as the director of True Grit (1969) among other notable collaborations with John Wayne. Hathaway also dabbled in film noir in the 1940s, so it's no surprise this B&W western was influenced by that directorial style. Rawhide includes maybe the best role of regular western heavy Jack Elam, and a stunning performance from tough and beautiful gal Susan Hayward... Tune in to hear about this lesser known classic western!
You can find Rawhide on YouTube, for free, HERE.
Furthermore, happy birthday to Chris!
If you like westerns, check out our past review of The Big Country (1958), HERE.
Submit your mailbags to us at thesearcherspodcast@gmail.com. We got a mailbag on this episode from LB friend Odie. Thank you!!
Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us. Reviews really do help!
Follow us on Letterboxd.com if you'd like to see what we've recently watched and to read our individual movie reviews! Ben, Chris, & Kevin
Our episode catalogue: https://searchersfilmpodcast.podbean.com/
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Summer break is over, and kids are going back to school. On this week's episode of The Searchers, we review Painted Faces which is about children going to a very different and difficult school in Hong Kong during the 1960s to train for Peking Opera. Those children included Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. After covering Jackie Chan on episode 2 of the podcast, we're excited to finally be making our way back to Hong Kong cinema with this one.
The first couple minutes is an interview clip of Sammo Hung talking about how he ended up at a Peking Opera school.
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Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
It's already that time again.. another The Searchers episode out now! This time, Kevin and Ben discuss how Tom Cruise is trying to carry action cinema, heck, cinema in general, on his back alone in his Mission: Impossible series. Did Cruise & team succeed this time around with its 7th installment? Listen and find out.
There will be a couple weeks until the next episode is released, so enjoy this and the recently released Roadgames (1981) review with guest Nick Langdon. Be seein' you sometime in August.
Submit your mailbags to us at thesearcherspodcast@gmail.com. Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us. Thank you!
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Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Let's get down to bizzo, shall we? This week The Searchers are joined by friend of the pod and fellow movie reviewer Nick Langdon to review the Australian film Roadgames from 1981. It stars Stacy Keach and Jamie-Lee Curtis and is directed by Richard Franklin. Tune in to be filled in to loads of information about Australian cinema since Mr. Langdon comes from down unda, mate. We had a great time discussing not only the film but Hitchcock references, Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!, Mad Max, and many more Aussie things. Don't worry, this one is sweet as.
Find Nick's LB profile HERE and his substack HERE.
Find WTM HERE, Eric's LB profile HERE, and Brett's LB profile HERE.
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Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
We're back with another episode of The Searchers, and do we have a special ep for all you faithful listeners! Join us as we discuss the long forgotten, Academy-Award-winning (when that meant something) drama film from 1963 Lilies of the Field starring Sidney Poitier. This episode is even more special because we have friend o' the pod Joe Wilson guest spotting with Ben and Kevin. Joe is one of the writers who heads up 100 Movies Every Catholic Should See which is relevant to the film due to its religious themes, and because Joe picked it for us to watch of course. Listen to Joe, Kevin, and Ben discuss the film, other religious movies, Mel Gibson, The Oscars, and a lot more... right here on The Searchers.
Find Joe's website HERE. Follow Joe on Letterboxd HERE. Watch Lilies of the Field on Amazon Prime HERE.
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Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
The Searchers Podcast turns 30 (episodes total, that is) this week with our review of Certified Copy (2010). Certified Copy (Copie conforme) is a film written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and it is now available on Tubi, HERE. This film is our way of keeping the Italy topic going for one more episode! Set in Tuscany, the film focuses on a British writer (William Shimell) and a French antiques dealer (Juliette Binoche), whose relationship undergoes an odd transformation over the course of a day. We start off the episode with a short discussion about Chris' recent hobby, disc golf. There's also some discussion on the original Star Trek films, other recently seen films, Zoolander, and (of course) Trailer Park Boys. The review starts at the 13-min mark. Enjoy, everyone!
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Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
All three of The Searchers reunite after quite some time to cover Kevin's pick: Broken Lullaby (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This pre-Code drama stars Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, and Phillips Holmes. We talk about the "Lubitsch Touch" among other things, such as Chris listening to silent films with Phil Collins as his own personal film soundtrack... Can someone mailbag in and inform Ben and Kevin why Chris is the way he is?! Enjoy, everyone!
We'll cover that Abbas Kiarostami film next time, gang!
Submit your mailbags to us at thesearcherspodcast@gmail.com. Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to us. Thank you!
Follow us on Letterboxd.com if you'd like to see what we've recently watched and to read our individual movie reviews! Ben, Chris, & Kevin
Our episode catalogue: https://searchersfilmpodcast.podbean.com/