The Searchers

Hey, everyone! So Chris and Kevin have been hopping on the documentary train even when they don’t realize it! Following our coverage of the mockumentary, Waiting for Guffman, and a real documentary, Linsanity, the dudes jump onto the horror pseudo-documentary, Ghostwatch, from 1992. It’s not just any simple horror flick! This little gem scared the bejeezus out of viewers when it first aired on BBC1. Can art transcend such boundaries through a special live broadcast format nowadays, or are we past it? Tune in to hear the guys wax poetic on this unexpected kick-off to Horror Adjacent season here on The Searchers! Submit your mailbags to us at [email protected]. Thank you. Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us. Follow us on Letterboxd.com if you'd like to see what we've recently watched. Ben, Chris, & Kevin

Ben and Chris try something very different with their first Searchers review of a Spanish language film. Was it a terrible idea? Listen and find out. 

The Searchers are running the mainstream trail on this last episode before Horror Adjacent™ Month. Kevin and Chris cover whiny Spike Lee's claim to fame, Do the Right Thing (1989). Ben definitely did not use his newborn as an excuse to skip this episode.  Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us. Follow us on Letterboxd.com if you'd like to see what we've recently watched. Ben, Chris, & Kevin Our episode catalogue: https://searchersfilmpodcast.podbean.com/ Follow Mitch on Letterboxd, HERE. Also, find him on his podcast is on YouTube, HERE. 

On the latest entry of The Searchers, Ben is joined by returning guest Mitch Capps to cover not a Western but a "Western-adjacent" film. This time we're going back to a favorite director of the show, John Ford, with his early talkie The Lost Patrol starring Victor McLaglen and Boris Karloff. Listen as we compare this to the rest of Ford's filmography, discuss McLaglen's career, evaluate religious symbolism in Boris Karloff's performance, and maybe a very random DCU tangent. Is this John Ford movie a hidden oasis out on the trail? Listen and find out. Thanks for listening, y'all! Please rate us a 5/5, and review us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to us. Follow us on Letterboxd.com if you'd like to see what we've recently watched. Ben, Chris, & Kevin Our episode catalogue: https://searchersfilmpodcast.podbean.com/ Follow Mitch on Letterboxd, HERE. Also, find him on his podcast is on YouTube, HERE.   

Back to Hollywood's Golden Age! Following our recent episode on David Lean's The Passionate Friends, Chris picks another gem from the '40s: Vincente Minnelli's The Clock, starring Judy Garland opposite Robert Walker. Does the perfect romance film exist? Take it from Haddaway: "What Is Love?" This one makes a strong case — strangers on a New York street become strangers on a train, and strangers fearing the future become strangers in love in the present. Who cares what tomorrow brings when happenstance can unlock romance like this? It's a film of rare firsts and lasts: one of only three non-singing roles in Garland's career, and one of Walker's few against-type performances. The tragically short lives of both leads add a haunting layer to the film's meditation on time — could a movie like this get made today? Join Chris and Kevin as they roll back the nitrate reels of Golden Age Hollywood to find out.