Celluloid Dirt Podcast
1) Private Eye: The Detective Goes Pulp
It's all punching hoods and kissing dames in this week's episode as we follow the detective into the 50s with a series of Mike Hammer adaptations. It's another super-sized edition as we cover I, The J...Show More
2) Private Eye: The Other Marlowes (Part I)
Bogart wasn't the only Marlowe running around LA during the 1940s. In tonight's episode we look at five other Marlowe adaptations and discuss how they stack up - or don't - against the icon. We're tal...Show More
3) Private Eye: Bogart
It's Bogie, baby! We kick off the noir era of the detective in proper style with the icon himself, Humphrey Bogart, and two of his most enduring and definitive performances - The Maltese Falcon and Th...Show More
4) Private Eye: William Powell, Gentleman Detective
Before noir and the pulp detective, we had the gentleman detective. Urbane, witty, often an amateur, he drew from literary sources like Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie. And fe...Show More
5) Private Eye: Introduction
Welcome to our first season - The Private Eye! We kick things off with a broad look at what we expect to find and what we're looking forward to watching this season. Recommendations: Tristan - Doom ...Show More
6) Inside Man
You can't rob an armored car - except when you can, like in these two tales of action packed heists - 1949's Criss Cross, and 2021's Wrath of Man. Recommendations: Tristan - Train to Busan, Crimes o...Show More
7) Private Eye Season Teaser
A little update on our upcoming season.Music by Scott Buckley
8) Motor City Confidential
Let's hit the highway and ride. We're checking out two tales of heists gone wrong in Detroit - 1978's Blue Collar, and 2021's No Sudden Move. Recommendations: Tristan - Encanto Fred - Playtime Wri...Show More
9) Hard-boiled Home Invasion
We return! This time we're breaking into your homes and threatening you with the violence of cinema, looking at two home invasion flicks - 1955's The Desperate Hours, and 2022's Windfall. Recommendat...Show More
10) Nightmare Alley Redux
For the first movie pairing, Fred & Tristan take the obvious route of looking at the two Nightmare Alleys - Edmund Goulding's 1947 adaptation, followed by Guillermo Del Toro's 2021 adaptation. Togethe...Show More