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Dec 25, 2019

Kat Elliott Vanderjagt joins MG to discuss one of her favorites: the British indie MirrorMask, written by Neverwhere's Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean.  The two had previously collaborated on the graphic novel 'Violent Cases,' and McKean himself is most famous for the cover art to Gaiman's award-winning comic


Dec 11, 2019

Before hitting the box-office stratosphere with his portrayal of Ant-Man, Paul Rudd's unique persona - a blend of heartfelt and hilarious - landed him roles in a huge range of movies, from serious indies like Niel LaBute's The Shape of Things to comedies like the Ivan-Reitman-produced I Love You Man. But MG argues that...


Nov 27, 2019

MG is joined by killer VFX artist Nicole Arnell as we take on an underseen masterpiece. David Fincher's Zodiac is now regarded as one of the best movies of the new millennium, but feeling more like All The President's Men than Se7en, this informationally dense, intentionally unresolved micro-epic initially failed to...


Nov 14, 2019

Over the past twenty-four years, Michael Mann's epic crime drama Heat has risen to the status of an American masterpiece, and has influenced a huge range of directors, from Christopher Nolan (the entire opening of The Dark Knight)  to Wes Anderson (where Max buys dynamite in the Rushmore).  And we love it - hell, you...


Oct 31, 2019

MG takes on two films about guys on an inevitable downward slide - each played by actors whose star was on the rise: Bob Fosse's politically incorrect manifesto Lenny, stars Dustin Hoffman as the boundary-shattering, fantastically offensive, and deeply troubled comedian Lenny Bruce, and the Safdie Brothers' Good Time,...