The Parallax Review

We close our 1975 season by inviting Spencer Sacht Lund to join us to discuss Milos Forman's Oscar-sweeping adaptation of Ken Kesey's classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

To truly understand Robert Altman's multi-character masterpiece, we brought in musical maestro Neil James who produces for a menagerie of talented artists and performs music as three wildly different acts - Astrocolor, Stray Cougar and the Righteous Rainbows of Togetherness! Learn all about the Nashville method and how today's political moment moment mirrors the populist frenzy of America's bicentennial

To discuss the first transgender box office smash, we brought in gay twitter legend Jamie Fricken Gib (now on Bluesky) because we aren’t the experts on this. Find out how Al Pacino’s crime comedy caper defied convention to take in over a hundred million in 1975 money and rake in award nominations.

“To break down Stanley Kubrick’s forgotten masterpiece Barry Lyndon, Ben and Jim invited along a very special guest, magic mushrooms. That’s right, the phantom member riding along on every group shroom trip accompanied us on a journey through 17th century politics and the minutiae of camera lenses, just in time for Jim to have a minor breakdown since we recorded this the day Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. How did Redmond Barry acquire the name and title of Barry Lyndon? Will freedom of speech survive? Find out!”

Steve Saunders of Skull Cultist joins us to illustrate the complex historical background of Andrei Tarkovsky's misunderstood masterpiece, MIRROR, which marked the end of the legendary Russian master making films in the USSR. Discover the profound impact this Criterion collection classic has had on generations of filmmakers despite being initially overlooked

For our special fun size Halloween episode our co-host at TV Show Show, Mike McDermott, joins us to discuss the film that ended the original Godzilla franchise, Terror of Mechagodzilla! Original Gojirs director Ishiro Honda returns with such a massive fumble it almost killed the king of the monsters for good. Find out how!

Guest Dave Dirk joins us for a special Halloween time warp episode chronicling the one film that has never left theaters since 1975 - the Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Jim and Ben discuss Dersu Uzala - directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Maxim Munzuk & Yury Solomin.

Jim and Ben are back for season 2 of the Parallax Review. They are kicking things off special guest Mike Vincent of Dudes of the Dead, and discussing A Boy and His Dog - directed by L.Q. Jones and adapted from a Harlan Ellison story, it stars Don Johnson Susanne Benton, Alvy Moore and Jason Robards.

Jim and Ben discuss The Godfather Part 2, directed by Francis Ford Coppolla. 

This week Jim and Ben discuss Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks!

This week Jim and Ben discuss Towering Inferno, directed by Irwin Allen.

This week Jim and Ben discuss Murder on the Orient Express, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman.

Jim and Ben discuss Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto and debate whether Art Carney really deserved to beat Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman for the Best Actor Oscar

This week Jim and Ben discuss Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Roman Polanski!

Jim and Ben discuss Dark Star, directed by John Carpenter!

This week Ben and Jim discuss The Gravy Train aka The Dion Brothers directed by Jack Starrett! 

This week Ben and Jim discuss The Man with the Golden Gun, directed by Guy Hamilton. 

This week Jim and Ben discuss The Red Snowball Tree directed by Vasily Shukshin

This week Jim and Ben discuss Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry - Directed by John Hough.