

You know the story, we see Tom Hanks, in a much different role than when he last appeared in our War arc with Saving Private Ryan, as the magical dimwit who floats through life with ease and somehow has a part in almost every major American event from the 1950s – 1980s. HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc! What better way to finish off the Vietnam War, than with one of the "best" films about the war, and just in general, of all time? Of course, we're talking about the 1994 Robert Zemeckis classic FORREST GUMP, starring Tom Hanks.

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas run to the finish line with our final Vietnam film in our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?. If you enjoy the podcast, leave a Rating and Review! It really helps us out! As always, you can follow the Podcast on () and () If you'd like to Support the Podcast and get Bonus Content, visit: () This Podcast is produced by (The Prince Charles Cinema) and (The Breadcrumbs Collective) Does it hold up and have a place as one of the great cult vampire movies of all-time? Or is it a great crime film that is dragged down by its shlocky genre film second half? Tune in to find out. The film is notable for making stars of Clooney and Salma Hayek, as well as featuring some pretty groovy tunes, but it is clearly a film of two parts.
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Once across the border, this very Tarantino-esque, talky crime thriller turns full bat shit crazy, when they find themselves holding out in a bar that is a haven for vampires. Starring George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino as the Gecko brothers, a pair of fugitives on the run for a string of robberies and murders, who kidnap the Fuller family of Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, and Ernest Liu commandeering their RV and using it to escape into Mexico with. It's Week One : Vampires, and we're talking the Quentin Tarantino penned, Robert Rodriguez directed classic FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Mexico and find themselves locked up in a bar full of blood-sucking vampires! It's October! So that means it's the return of the Spooky Ookie season on the podcast, and we bring back our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY! Over the next four weeks we'll present a different horror film, based on Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, and Oh, My (a spooky Grab Bag). Tune in as we dig into all the legend and lore surrounding this movie, and question how it holds up over two decades later. Numerous films would parody it, and even more tried to duplicate its formula, but it is a one of a kind cultural achievement of the late-1990s. The Blair Witch Project is one of the most successful independent movies of all-time. Audiences were confused if they had just seen a snuff film, debates raged in the early days of the internet, and countless individuals flocked to the town of Burkittsville, Maryland to learn more about the Blair Witch, Rustin Parr, and the fate of the missing film students (all of which were a complete fabrication). Earning over 4000 times its shoe-string budget back at the box office, the film brought the found-footage genre into the mainstream completely blurring the lines of fact and fiction. It's Week Two (Witch Week) of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and we are talking about the 1999 sleeper hit that invented modern film marketing, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a hike in the woods and discover some old videotapes from some film students who went missing while shooting a documentary about a fabled witch.
