TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
Mike and Dave are two Gen X Dads who grew up watching movies because there was nothing else to do. Tooky is a Millennial dad-in-training who grew up with the internet, and thus never needed to watch ROAD HOUSE on cable. Mike (a standup comedian) and Dave (an improviser and occasional academic) will present Tooky (comedian, social critic and dad-in-training) with a new (old) movie every week and answer the important questions: Are white people ok? When did Nic Cage become a whole thing?Are these movies good, or are Mike and Dave wallowing in toxic nostalgia? Every Tuesday, TDM promises to bridge the generation gap, one dad movie at a time.
Intro/outro music: "It's Almost Late Night" from the album WE HAD A GOOD RUN by Dave Rabinow, available at www.daverabinow.com
TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
VERTIGO
Our Hot Hitchcock Summer Series continues! The Dads look deep within themselves through the eyes of ur-Dad James Stewart, and if you think he's in wholesome IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE mode here, boy, are you in for a surprise. Speaking of surprises, this film delivers three absolute stunning performances that belie reality:
Jimmy Stewart as a semi-obsessive creeper (although maybe not totally surprising after his performance in REAR WINDOW; see our episode from July 8);
Kim Novak falling for a man half her age (boy, Hitchcock sure has a thing, doesn't he?);
San Francisco being consistently temperate and sunny in the summer.
No one spins a psychological thriller better than Hitch (if you can get past his, er, "proclivities"; your mileage may vary), and no one has more fingerprints on more Dad movies than him, either (you can see traces of it in BLADE RUNNER, JAWS, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and plenty more); so strap in and make sure you're wearing the right necklace before you jump into the temperate waters of the San Francisco Bay because this week the Dads all have (1958's) VERTIGO!