Movie Roulette Tuesday: The Podcast
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165 episodes
Excalibur
We've got another new theme this week and this time we will be delving into "movies that could not be made today". There could be various social, technical, political or other reasons why but regardless, these will be movies that would no...
Taxi Driver
This week we have another listener pick for the podcast; this time it is a submission from our wonderful, longtime friend and fellow cinephile Andrew, who recommended to us (in a very off-the-cuff fashion), 1976's "Taxi Driver." Directed ...
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
We finish up our theme of “All Roads Lead to Rome” with Dario Argento’s 1970 directorial debut, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, a giallo film set in Rome. It’s about an American writer vaca...
Groundhog Day
Do you ever have that feeling of deja vu? Of history repeating itself? Of waking up to Sonny and Cher EVERY morning? Well if not, no worries! You can live vicariously through the hapless and cynical weatherman, Phil Conn...
Gladiator
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED (by our podcast)?! We are starting a new theme this week and this time it's "all roads lead to Rome". If you're unfamiliar with the phrase it is a proverb that means there are many different ways (or paths, m...
Strawberry Mansion
Our "I can't remember" theme is over and it's time for another listener pick before starting the next round. 'Strawberry Mansion' was sent to us in a dream by Kayla w...
Project Hail Mary
It’s time for a field trip as the MRT crew hits the theater for Karl’s pick, Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling as a school teacher who awakens on a spaceship with no memory of how he got...
The Snake Pit
This episode, we continue our theme of “I Can’t Remember.” Our pick, “The Snake Pit,” a very Deep Track from 1948 starring Olivia de Havilland, is about a woman who wake...
Memento
It's time for a new theme and this time around we have "I can't remember". This round will involve movies related to memory loss, amnesia, forgotten identity, ummm... loss of memory and maybe some other themes that I can't seem to recall ...
Mirrormask
We have our next listener chosen pick this week, which is 2005’s MirrorMask, suggested by friend of the show Melissa! This film is about a teenager who escapes from her life working at her famil...
Leviathan
We close out our theme of “The Ocean Is Vast” this week with 1989’s creature feature Leviathan, about a crew of underwater minors battling a mysterious undersea enemy. Is it a ripoff of Alien an...
The Poseidon Adventure
This week, the vastness of the ocean continues; this time we are trapped on a capsized cruise ship, overturned by a rogue wave and climbing our way to freedom in reverse. That's right, it's 1972's "
Kon-Tiki
Hi Everyone. Hope everyone is surviving snowpocalypse 2026. We are buried here and I'm trying to get this episode out at the last minute (as usual) before we lose power.Our new theme this round is 'The Ocean is Vast' and in t...
Inglourious Basterds
Buon Giorno! Welcome to our inaugural listener's choice pick, which is exciting for us. It is a suggestion from loyal listener, two-time guest host, and very good friend Brian. He would like us to watch and review "
Don't Look Now
We close out our “Criterion” theme with 1973’s Don’t Look Now, spine number 745 in the Criterion Collection. This Nicholas Roeg adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier short story stars Donald Sutherl...
Arsenic and Old Lace
We continue on with our Criterion Collection theme: this time it's spine number 1156; "Arsenic and Old Lace," a 1944 screwball comedy classic, ...
Dog Day Afternoon
Hello everyone, and welcome to season 4 of the Movie Roulette Tuesday Podcast!We have a lot in store for this season and to start we are shaking things up by.... dropping shake-ups. But worry not! We have something new and ex...
Season 3: Year In Review
Welcome to the end of Season 3! While we don't watch a movie this episode, we do go back and look at what we have seen over the past year, including our annual tradition of bestowing superlatives, as well as how our little podcast is grow...
The Fall
We close out our final theme of the season with the 2008 film The Fall, about a young girl who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a movie stuntman recovering from a fall in a hospital in 191...
Alice
Things get curiouser and curiouser as we fall down the rabbit hole into our penultimate film episode of the year. We continue to travel through the looking glass, this time with an unreliable narrator. And so we follow the travels o...
Enter The Void
It's our final theme of the season! Things are about the get a little (or a lot) weird as we go 'Through the Looking Glass'. We'll be watching films that delve into alternative realities, parallel worlds, or mirror universes—where t...
Malpertuis
We close out our theme of “The Great Escape” with 1971’s Malpertuis (also known as The Legend of Doom House), a relatively obscure Belgian fantasy film about a sailor trapped in the mansion of h...
The Count of Monte Cristo
Continuing on with our theme, we have one of the greatest escapes in literature! This week had to be a "period piece" and so we have chosen 2002's
