The Super 70 Podcast

Dave A and I have not zoomed in a while. I reminisce about watching Turner Classic movies during a hospital visit. We ramble on about Badlands, Dogma, and One Battle After Another. After we’ve had our coffee, we take on Netflix and Reifenstahl’s Berg films. If it seems all over the place, that’s because it is. Also, we discuss my new 4K laser projector for my Kino Room. There was a lot of editing done on this, so I urge the listener to up that play speed to point five. Thanks for staying while Dave and I discussed everything under the sun. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

Abel Ferrara shocked the exploitation world with his feminist statement Ms. .45 (1981). Starring the incomparable Zoe Lund as a mute, submissive fashion designer in New York City, Ms. .45 exposes the everyday experience of women as a slugfest of misogyny and non-stop harassment. Lund’s role as Thana is critical in understanding the female experience, and why when she’s had enough, she’s ready to give something back to the male world that dominated her. The Super 70 Podcast is available wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. I am @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxed, and BluSky. All music on the Super 70 is written and performed by Rozalind MacPhail and you can find her on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube. An early cut of Ms. .45 with bad sound is currently on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aSl8UhGTY&t=1177s The Arrow UK has a brilliant edition here that is worth it for us fans: https://www.arrowfilms.com/p/ms-45-limited-edition-4k-uhd/17194059/?variation=17194059

We try to keep the Tarantino and Scorsese mentions at a minimum in this episode. The Super 70 Podcast is wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. I am @thatdylandavis on Letterbxd, Threads, and Blusky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail’s music on Soundcloud and iTunes.

What else can you say but that the man was great. He was great with Jane Fonda. He was great with Faye Dunaway. He was great with Debra Winger and Demi Moore. He was even great with guys like Sidney Poitier and of course his long friendship with Paul Newman. Dave bowed out this time, but Luke showed up to do a back-to-back recordings and this is our tribute to a great actor whom we will miss on the silver screen. Thanks for hanging out with Luke and I while we yapped about Robert Redford. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and Blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

Hey, folks, things got a bit serious in the States lately. We’ve had a spate of assassinations and assassination attempts the past few years. Trump’s been shot at twice. He's been hit once. Josh Shapiro’s governor’s mansion was burnt down. Melissa and Mark Hortman were murdered in their home. And of course Charlie Kirk was murdered just a few weeks ago. Political assassinations are not new in this country. Medgar Evers was killed in 1963, kicking off a spate of assassinations in the 1960’s that included among others: a President, a Senator, a governor, and two Civil Rights advocates. This violent atmosphere is trouble, absolute trouble for our country. But it sure does inspire outstanding art. Since the 60’s we’ve seen an astounding number of films addressing political murder in an effort to understand and convey the hopes and fears of our national polity. I asked Luke to come in the Hacienda and discuss assassination cinema and why we’re so fascinated by it. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

Luke fled, as Will Patton said in the Fishbourne movie. Wren stayed to list praises and grievances with the MCU, specifically the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. The conversation is a keen eye into the target demographic of the Disney / Marvel Studios franchise, as GenZ continues to dominate cinema pop culture as they age into maturity. Join Wren and I we sift through the Multiverse of TV Madness and Cinema Goodness. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

Well, we had to get to it sooner or later, and since the Fantastic Four: First Steps was released, I guess now was a good time as any. I asked my Gen Z kids Luke and Wren to come onto the pod to talk about what it was like to grow up with the MCU as the defining cultural shift from cinema in their lives. Their reactions are probably not that far off from what you expect only you’re not getting it from an app. You’re getting it from the horses’ mouth. Well, you kind of are getting it from an app, but you know what I mean. It’s not a social media app, right, like it’s kind of like, well it’s probably the Apple Podcasts player, or Pocket Casts or Spreaker or Himalaya or... Thanks for hanging out with Wren and Luke while we yapped about the MCU. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

Danny Gaylord from Film is Lit came on the pod a few weeks ago to talk about Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning. I had so much material on that I decided to cut some out and present it here. Literature and film go together, and Film is Lit is catered to that idea. Much like David Fincher’s perfect film Zodiac is factually based on Robert Greysmith’s exhaustively researched book on the infamous murderer. Film is Lit is the podcast that breaks down these narratives the best. Check them out wherever you find podcasts. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

What can we say that hasn’t already been said about the last Mission Impossible film? And why can’t we just go through it all again? Just because we love cinema, love Tom Cruise, and every tangent in between. Danny Gaylord joins us from the Film is Lit Podcast as we fawn over and shake our head at this very, very flawed film. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and Blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

It started on our first Kino Day of 2025. I slipped in an 80’s movie while we camped out and did fuck all but watch films for as long as we could. That movie was Turk182!, and it led to us watching an 80’s movie every weekend. Luke sat down with me the weekend before he flew to Berlin to talk about the strange era that made cinema so good. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook. You can find Luke at Berlin Alexanderplatz on a Friday night.

I don’t know what you savages do in the rest of the world, but here in the fourth largest city in America, most theatres discount movie tickets on Tuesday night. The result, the Davis family has butts in seats, usually by five thirty, watching whatever it is we didn’t see the previous Friday. Tightwad Tuesday is a Davis family tradition to keep our cinemas alive. My son Luke and I made an astonishing amount of them since he got back from Deutschland, and we go over those 2024 releases here. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook. You can find Luke across the street from Tempelhof Airport, probably in a Canadian Bar.

My friend and frequent guest on the show, Dave Anderson, went to go see Sinners opening weekend. I saw it that following Tightwad Tuesday. Dave messaged me and it read ‘let’s try that zoom thing because Sinners is so good.’ And that’s what this is. On the backside we discuss the recent Academy rule change, A24 aesthetics, BBS, and the morality of playing podcasts back at faster speeds.

After recording the Adventures of Ford Fairlane Commentary, Paul Emig, Warren Hayes, and myself discussed misogyny, jingoism, comedy, cinema, and the comedian trends in Hollywood.

Mega-controversial comedian Andrew Clay Silverstein got his big break on Rodney Dangerfield’s 1988 HBO special and soon thereafter was playing arenas. His comedy album The Diceman Cometh went gold and following a live set on MTV, he was banned from that network. His next album, The Day the Laughter Died, went gold in seven weeks, and eventually went platinum. He then hosted the most controversial episode of SNL ever which led to cast boycotts and huge controversy. 1990 saw the release of this film, earning the infamous Golden Raspberry for the worst film of the year and Clay the worst actor of the year. Join Warren Hayes, Paul Emig and me for a scene by scene retching of what could possibly be the most misogynistic film Hollywood has ever made. All music is by Rozalind MacPhail. You can find her at www.rozilandmacphail.com. On Twitter @flutegirl Warren on Twitter @warren_hayes Find me at www.thatdylandavis.com On Threads & Letterbxd @thatdylandavis thatdylandavis@gmail.com You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail and her music on Soundcloud.

If any of you have been following along then you know that my son Luke spent his fall semester in Berlin. In between trips to European capitals, taste testing the continent’s best beer, and understanding the dangers of the AfD, he also took a German Film Class that spanned the 20th Century. He also saw a few flicks over there and we compared notes. This is our conversation. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail and her music on Soundcloud. I’m Dylan Davis and we’ll meet next time probably in L.A. Find Rozalind www.rozalindmacphail.com On Twitter @flutegirl Find me at www.thatdylandavis.com On Threads & Letterbxd @thatdylandavis thatdylandavis@gmail.com

After Rear Window, Dave and I decided to find out how long into the night we could go drinking beer, talking about Hitchcock, and discussing his 2024 Letterbxd, David Lynch, Beavers, the nature of God, the duality of man. The meaning of life. Is wrestling fixed? What is Martinizing and why does it only take an hour? You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail and her music on Soundcloud. I’m Dylan Davis and we’ll meet next time probably in L.A. Find Rozalind www.rozalindmacphail.com On Twitter @flutegirl Find me at www.thatdylandavis.com On Threads & Letterbxd @thatdylandavis thatdylandavis@gmail.com https://youtu.be/POgWODZyUGQ?si=RIzigCeQhqCdokAR

In one of the most magnificent careers in cinema history, Alfred Hitchcock outdid himself with a run from 1951 to 1960 that encapsulated not only some of the best Hollywood films of the decade, but of all time. In the middle of this impressive flex is Hitch’s complex ode to gender roles, gender relationships, and expectations. Hitchcock, who already had gone everywhere and done everything for film, challenged himself by limiting everything except his imagination. Rear Window was shot on one set with minimal actors, and included his lead actor not just staying in one room, but staying in one chair for the entire film. Casting Jimmy Stewart, America’s all town boy, against type as a voyeur, Hitchcock uses a high form of the Kuleshov Effect to tell an insidious tale of murder in the big city. Join Dave Anderson and I as we muse scene by scene through the Master’s use of light, incredible technicolor camera panning, and do I need to mention Grace Kelly, to create a subtext describing the phases, levels, and intricacies of being in love and being human. Along the way we discuss Stewart’s role as the first Redditor, De Palma’s aping of the master, and how even Die Hard rips off Hitchcock. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. I’m Dylan Davis and we’ll meet next time probably in L.A. Works Cited Belton, John. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Limelight. 2004 Fawell, John. Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film The Well-Made Film. Southern University Press. 2001. Sharff, Stefan. The Art of Looking in Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Cambridge University Press. 1999.

Luke and I start off by discussing Ali Abbassi’s controversial biopic “The Apprentice.” We try to talk about the President Elect’s record as a rapist, his friendship with Roy Cohn, and well... at least we tried. Meander we did through our cinema experiences while Luke is in Deutschland. We discuss what we’ve seen, what we haven’t, and then Luke takes plenty of time scrolling through my Letterbxd to roast my reviews. There must be better ways to spend time with your son than on Zoom talking horror, Steven Seagal, and Golan Globus Cinema, but I don’t know what they are. Thanks for hanging out with Luke and I while we talked about The Apprentice. Find Rozalind MacPhail’s music at www.rozalindmacphail.com . You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. You can email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. You’ll see us next time at the Cinelux. Get off at Alexanderplatz.

We’re running a few weeks late due to the release schedule in Deutchland, but here is Luke and I talking about experiencing Tim Burton’s latest big hit and how it played out down in the Potsdammer Platz. Find Rozalind MacPhail’s music at www.rozalindmacphail.com . You can find me, my books and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. You can email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. You can find the small, thermal exhaust port right below the main port.

Luke is going to school in Berlin this semester and there’s no good reason why he can’t keep up with the release schedule. In between Brewmaster classes, history classes, and yes, a true to form Deutch Kino Class, Luke has been streaming Prime and heading down to you guessed it, Berlin Alexanderplatz, or Zoo Station to see what it is the rest of the world says is great... or sucks. A little background if you hear us toss around a few terms. An OV in German cinemas is the Original Version. This screening will have no changes whatsoever. No dubbing, no subtitles (unless they’re part of the original film). OmU is Original Mit untertiteln, Meaning ‘original with subtitles’, OmU films have the original audio* along with subtitles. Unless otherwise specified, assume these subtitles are German. OmdU stands for Original mit deutschen Untertiteln. This is the film in OV with German subtitles. Then there is OmeU or Original mit englischen Untertiteln. Films with English subtitles since there are so many English speakers in Germany. Last is DF for Deutsche Fassung meaning German Version. This is the first one German audiences look for, meaning it has been dubbed into German. Most Hollywood film are dubbed into German, and most theatres in Germany carry both the DF and the Omdu. This episode we catch up and find out what the other is seeing. Find Rozalind MacPhail’s music at www.rozalindmacphail.com Find Warren Hayes on Twitter @Warren_Hayes. You can find me, my books and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. You can email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. You can find the small, thermal exhaust port right below the main port. Thanks for hanging out with Luke and I while we talked about the Joker. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. You can email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. You’ll see us next time at the Delphi Lux. Get off at Zoo Station.