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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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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.
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/
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!
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
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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!
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Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Hey gang, it's Hump Day again! This week we're going old school back to Medieval Times and the Golden Age of Hollywood with our review(s). We're covering three movies on this episode of the Searchers. Ivanhoe (1952), Knights of the Round Table (1953), and The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) make up the unofficial trilogy by director Richard Thorpe and actor Robert Taylor. Listen to Chris and Ben discuss these three movies, South Park jokes, other Arthurian inspired movies, and more on Medieval Brugh Down! See ya in June!
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Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
This week on The Searchers, Chris and Ben delve into the Eurocrime genre, aka Poliziotteschi, and review Execution Squad (La polizia ringrazia). Please enjoy, everyone.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Next time we are covering three movies directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor! Go find 'em!
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Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Greetings, all... it is hump day yet again. Today, you've arrived and reached The Searchers' Trading Post, where we offer you goods at a bargain price: 6 movie reviews in 70 minutes. The three of us have traded amongst ourselves to give some popular films and hot commodities a very brief moment in the sun, if you will. This series of episodes we will do every so often to give ourselves a bit more leeway with our review picks and provide you listeners with a lot of content (in brevity). The basic idea is to give each respective host a movie to watch and review in about 10 minutes.
The movies in this edition of Trading Post are as follows (with timestamps):
00:00:30 - Breaking Away (1979), directed by Peter Yates and starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern & Jackie Earle Haley
00:14:45 -Tampopo (1985), directed by Juzo Itami and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, & Ken Watanabe
00:24:01 - Grand Prix (1966), directed by John Frankenheimer and starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, & Antonio Sabàto
00:35:36 - Still Walking (2008), directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin Kiki & Yoshio Harada
00:46:31 - Love Affair (1939), directed by Leo McCarey and starring Irene Dunne & Charles Boyer
00:59:24 - Broadcast News (1987), directed by James L. Brooks and starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks & Holly Hunter
01:11:31 Ratings
We hope you enjoy!
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Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Remember, everyone: our release schedule is every two weeks now. On this one, Ben and Chris review The Lover from 1992, which was fairly controversial for the time. Now, probably not so much. Chris asks Ben about sexual content depicted in movies, and it gets... "heated." Even though the film is an erotic romance/drama set in the Far East, somehow we still end up discussing a bit of the new John Wick and Chris' coworker eating Kangaroo. C'est la Vie!
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