Category: Canon Fodder Episodes

Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine in The Wild Bunch

Canon Fodder – The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch (1969; Dir.: Sam Peckinpah) Canon Fodder Episode 17 Aging cinephile Daniel and Corky face off against Sam Peckinpah’s violently apocalyptic western classic. But did the film drive your hosts wild, or did it get their panties in a bunch? THE WILD BUNCH FACTS & FIGURES […]

Homayoun Ershadi takes a picture of a couple from his automobile in Taste of Cherry (1997)

Canon Fodder – Taste of Cherry

Taste of Cherry (1997; Dir.: Abbas Kiarostami) Canon Fodder Episode 16 On this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky drive through the streets of Sacramento looking for someone to help them unlock the secrets of Abbas Kiarostami’s Palme d’Or winner. But will your hosts cherish their Taste of Cherry or decide […]

Roger Livesey as Clive Candy in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Canon Fodder – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943; Dir.: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) Canon Fodder Episode 15 On this week’s episode, old battle axes Daniel and Corky trade war stories with The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. But does this decades-spanning intimate epic from The Archers […]

Falconetti as Joan of Arc praying in Carl Dreyer's silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

Canon Fodder – The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Dir.: Carl Theodor Dreyer) Canon Fodder Episode 14 Daniel and Corky revisit Danish dandy Carl Dreyer with this review of his 1928 silent masterpiece. But do your hosts have a passion for Joan of Arc, or are they passin’ on Joan […]

Bill Nunn as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing.

Canon Fodder – Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing (1989; Dir.: Spike Lee) Canon Fodder Episode 13 On a temperate day on separate streets in various sections of Sacramento, Corky and Daniel’s agreement about the brilliance of Do the Right Thing smolders and builds until it explodes into canon fire. DO THE RIGHT THING FACTS […]

Los Olvidados (1950) - Directed by Luis Buñuel

Canon Fodder – Los Olvidados

Los Olvidados (1950; Dir.: Luis Buñuel) Canon Fodder Episode 12 Your hardly young but certainly damned hosts Daniel and Corky review Luis Buñuel’s surrealistic neo-Realist classic. LOS OLVIDADOS FACTS & FIGURES Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #157 (tied) Mexican theatrical debut: Nov. 9, 1950 IMDB synopsis: […]