SMC Pod #222: 2025 Movies Pt 2 & Disclosure Day
Lesson learned. Each year produces so many fascinating movies; it's better to wait and see as many as possible before recording a pre-emptive "Movies of 2025" podcast. So Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill to make up for this mistake records "Movies of 2025 Part 2". SIRAT, THE SECR…
SMC Podcast #223: Movie Structure-The 3 Act, 5 Act, Symphonic structure & beyond
Aristotle in his POETICS made a simple yet incisive claim-good dramatic work has a 3 act structure-a beginning, a middle, and an end. Horace in classic Rome expanded this to a 5 act structure. In the age of cinema, a slightly modified three act structure has been the dominant approach in American…
SMC Pod #224: Movie Twists, shock endings, and comic buttons!
There are so many ways to end a movie. Some of the most powerful, yet hardest to do, are movie twists. This is where your entire reality and understanding of what has come before gets a kick to the head. Movies like The Sixth Sense, Psycho, Fight Club, even the wonderfully hysterical and nutty I K…
SMC Pod #225: The Cult Classic Movie
A cult classic movie often wasn't a mainstream hit upon release. But over time, a devoted committed subculture grew around the movie with the belief, nay, the knowledge that this was a masterpiece movie. Cult classics like Elvira Mistress of the Dark, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, El Topo, Erase…
SMC Pod #226: The Odyssey, The Epic, & Film Formats
Christopher Nolan's just released The Odyssey is another Nolan juggernaut, having made $700 million in just 12 days of release. It's also the first movie shot fully on IMAX film. And it's a certified classical epic. Often, cinema has pulled a kind of miraculous magic trick by finding technologies …
SMC Pod #227: Obsession, Backrooms, and Gen Z and Gen Alpha returning to movie theaters
Stop us if you've heard this one before. . .Curry Barker's dark horror comedy Obsession and Kane Parsons' sci-fi horror mindbender Backrooms are scrambling narratives about the decline of movie theater attendance. These two low budget horror features combined have made almost $800 million box offi…
SMC Pod #228: Miles Williams & The Alex Theatre's return to 70mm
Artistic Director Miles Williams has been part of the great theater re-inventions in Los Angeles. In downtown Los Angeles alone, Miles was at the center of the Orpheum and United Artists Theater's incredible turnarounds. Several years back he took the helm of the Alex Theater movie palace in Glend…
SMC Pod #229: Ernst Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper, MOST DANGEROUS GAME, KING KONG, GRASS, & CHANG
Though not necessarily on the tips of every cinefile's tongue, the filmmakers Ernst Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper blazed a trail and crafted a certain kind of action-adventure template that American movie making has been indebted to ever since. Even if it rarely approaches the same levels. The …
SMC Pod #230: Bringing back Cinema pop culture relevancy
Buckle up Secret Movie Clubbers, it's going to be a bumpy pod. Movies have always found a way back to pop culture primacy when the naysayers have prematurely tried to call cinema out for the count. Exhibit 1: just a few months ago, both OBSESSION and BACK ROOMS came out of nowhere to make a combin…
SMC Pod #232: The Road Trip movie
The Road Trip movie is a fertile sub-genre that allows all sorts of variations. You get broad warm comedies like National Lampoon's Vacation, Eurotrip, and Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Wim Wenders used the road trip to explore character growth in his incredible 1974 Alice in the Cities as did A…
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