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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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Saturday Jan 06, 2024
The Trailer Park Boys Christmas Special (2004) - Ep 45
Saturday Jan 06, 2024
Saturday Jan 06, 2024
Attention everyone, this is your Trailer Park supervisor speaking. Julian's Christmas contest scheme is no more! You will all have to give all your presents back to me so I can turn them into the authorities. If not, Barb has informed me that I won't be able to get drunk on Christmas Day. And there's no way that's going to happen!
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Trading Post II: Christmas Edition - Ep 44
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Merry Christmas from the Searchers! This week, we return to the trading post format and trade 3 Christmas films. Below are the films and the timestamps in case anyone wants to avoid spoilers.
Chris reviews Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - 00:00:00
Ben reviews Something from Tiffany's (2022) - 00:21:00
Kevin reviews White Christmas (1954) - 00:39:08
See you next year! (Hint: there may be a special episode before New Years for some greasy listeners!)
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Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
This week on The Searchers, Kevin, Ben and Chris discuss the latest film from legendary director Hayao Miyazaki, How Do You Live? Unfortunately it was re-titled by GKids to "The Boy and the Heron," which the three of us agree was a dumb move by the distributor. We meditate over why Miyazaki chose this as his potential last film, and why it was something that pulled him from retirement. Historical trends, modern Japanese culture, personal reflection, the gorgeous animation, and the comparison to other animated works are thoughtfully discussed. Were we over-hyped? Or is this the best Studio Ghibli film of all time? Listen and find out.
Submit your mailbags to us at thesearcherspodcast@gmail.com. Thank you.
Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us.
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Our episode catalogue: https://searchersfilmpodcast.podbean.com/
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Double Impact (1991) - Ep 42
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
It's time to feel the impact with this review of Jean-Claude Van Damme's Double Impact. Ben introduces both Kevin and Chris to one of his favorite JCVD films from his 80s and 90s stardom. We get into the nitty gritty on the production, select scenes from the movie, the music, and everything Hong Kong. Enjoy the Muscles from Brussels? Well then this one is dedicated to you. How could two Van Dammes be wrong?
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Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us.
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Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!! We all have many things to be thankful for, but for today's episode The Searchers are extra thankful for director John Frankenheimer... well, because he lets us rant about movies for 90 minutes. Listen to guests Nick Langdon and Max join Chris in explaining to Ben their recent project in which they delved into the filmography of the prolific director. Movies discussed include: Grand Prix, Ronin, Black Sunday, The Train, The Challenge, The Gypsy Moths, The Horsemen, The Iceman Cometh, Seven Days in May, and more! All aboard the Thankenheimer train!
You can find Nick and Max both on Letterboxd, HERE and HERE.
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Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us. Reviews really do help!
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Monday Nov 13, 2023
Mister Roberts (1955) - Ep 40
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
NOW HEAR THIS, NOW HEAR THIS… spooky season is now over… we’ve now sailed off in our rusty bucket in search of a new destination on which to drop anchor. This time (EPISODE 40!) returning to a breezy and sweet picture by the great John Ford, aka 1955's Mister Roberts starring Hank Fonda. Ford wasn't the only director due to production problems; however, he ended up crafting his Pacific-set perfection with Donovan's Reef a few years later, which we covered long ago on episode 14. Hold fast... and hear about the production problems and other interesting facts about the stage-play adaption, Chris' negativity, Kevin's "lowest" John Ford rating, and how Ensign is the best name you've ever heard, and more... only on this episode of The Searchers. Bottoms up, mate!
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Dead Heat (1988) - Ep 39
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Happy Halloween week, y'all! To culminate our first Horror-Adjacent October, Ben, Chris & Kevin review Dead Heat (1988) starring Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo. The movie follows Roger Mortis, a police detective who is paired up with a new partner named Doug Bigelow. The two end up investigating a series of strange murders committed by criminals who seem to come back from the dead. As they dig deeper into the mystery, they learn of an evil scientist named Arthur P. Loudermilk (Vincent Price) who has discovered a secret to bringing the dead back to life and is creating an army of undead criminals. Is this an overrated cult film or a bona fide classic? Listen and find out! Knowmsayin?
We spend the last twenty minutes or so discussing other seasonal movies we've seen or plan to close out October with, including mentions of John Wayne, Bella Lugosi, Evil Dead 2, more Vincent Price, and The Exorcist III, among others. Don't miss out on the greasy Trailer Park Boys easter eggs either.
Until next time, when we cover Mister Roberts directed by one of the pod's fave directors, John Ford.
Submit your mailbags to us at thesearcherspodcast@gmail.com. Thanks!
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 Oct 16, 2023
Wolf Guy (1975) - Ep 38
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Our second episode for 2023 Halloween covers Sonny Chiba in Wolf Guy (1975), and it's Kevin's first Sonny Chiba movie!! Woah! We read two mailbags at the beginning of the episode which gets us into some western TV talk. Afterwards we get to the meat of the discussion with our thoughts on the Toei cult classic, a description given to Wolf Guy by Arrow Video. Topic timestamps for those who use Podbean are available. Thanks for listening.
Submit your mailbags to us at thesearcherspodcast@gmail.com. Thank you, Mitch and Odie!!
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/