Join Jason, Andrew and Gary as we natter about episode 608 of Better Call Saul: Point and Shoot

Join Jason, Gary and Andrew as we natter about episode 603 of Better Call Saul: Rock and a Hard Place

Join Jason, Gary and Andrew as we natter about the first two episodes of the final season of Better Call Saul!

Join Jason, Guillermo and Sion as we discuss season 4 of Netflix's Atypical!

JOIN PATRICK AND JASON as Natter Cast returns with our endlessh shummer of Sean Connery in John Boorman's 1974 class "Zardosh" uh "Zardoz."

Watching Zardoz in the 80s: "What the hell am I even watching?"
Watching Zardoz in 2020: "Yeah, I can see that happening."

JOIN JASON, SION, GARY AND JAY as we natter about episode 5x10 of Better Call Saul: Something Unforgivable!

JOIN JASON, SION, GARY AND JAY as we natter about episode 5x09 of Better Call Saul: Bad Choice Road!

JOIN JASON, GARY, SION AND JAY as we natter about episode 5x08 of Better Call Saul: Bagman

JOIN JASON, SION, GARY AND JAY as we natter about episode 5x07 of Better Call Saul: JMM!

JOIN JASON, SION AND GARY as we natter about episode 5x06 of Better Call Saul: Wexler v. Goodman!

JOIN JASON, SION, GARY AND JAY as we natter about the fifth episode of the fifth season of Better Call Saul: Dedicado a Max.

Join Jason, Gary and Jay as we natter about episodes 503 and 504 of Better Call Saul: The Guy For This and Namaste!

JOIN JASON, GARY, SION & JAY as we natter about the first two episodes of the fifth season of Better Call Saul, entitled "Magic Man" and "50% Off!"

JOIN GUILLERMO, SION AND JASON as we discuss season 3 of Netflix's Atypical!

Mr. Keslowitz is the author of numerous books on television and pop culture, including The Tao of Jack Bauer, Why You Better Call Saul and The Simpsons and Society as well as the Holocaust memoirs of his grandparents in From Poland to Brooklyn.

We are honored to have Mr. Keslowitz join us to discuss his new book which explores the impact of technology on society, individuals and even the machines themselves!

The Digital Dystopias is available on Amazon!

JOIN JASON, Sion and Cort as we natter about two Netflix originals: El Camino and Dolemite Is My Name!

Featuring...

AARON PAUL as 40-year old teenager, Jesse Pinkman

JESSE PLEMMONS as Evil Bobby Hill (the boy ain't right!)

ROBERT FORSTER as The Guy...you know...THE GUY!!!

EDDIE MURPHY as the eternal disco Godfather himself, Rudy Ray "Are You For REAL?!?" Moore

WESLEY SNIPES as The Guy From Rosemary's Baby

AND DA'VINE JOY RANDOLF as Lady "Not In The Mood" Reed who'll give you 24 hours to get to the point and 23 of them have already passed...are already gone...you alrea-...aw fughetaboutit.

 Ladies and gentlemen, the Natter Cast proudly presents Bob Fosse's 1980 classic self-polemic All That Jazz and Frederico Fellini's 1963 film 8 1/2 upon which it is based. 

Featuring:

Roy Scheider and Marcello Mastroiani as Joe Gideon and Guido Anselmi, who allowed themselves to be adored but not loved and whose giant rockets never took off without us

Leland Palmer and Anouk Aimee as Audrey and Luisa, women who could see through Joe and Guido so clearly that they had no choice but to marry them

Ann Reinking and Sandra Milo as Katie and Carla, who just wish their boyfriends were so generous with their...uh...admirers

Jessica Lange and Claudia Cardinale as Angelique and Claudia, who prove that only angels can love a bad man

Ben Vereen and Jean Rougeul as Carni and O'Connor Flood, two great entertainers, great humanitarians and Joe and Guido's dearest, dearest friends for [mumble mumble] years

Join Jason, Sion, Gary, Alan and Patrick as we natter about the series finale of Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne!

Join Jason, Gary, Donielle and Alan as we natter about episode 8x05 of Game of Thrones: Kick In The Bells

Join Jason, Gary, Alan and Donielle as we natter about episode 8x04 of Game of Thrones: Jumping the Starks!

Join Jason, Donielle and Alan as we natter about episode 8x03 of Game of Thrones: The Long Night!

Join Jason, Donielle, Alan and Patrick as we assure you that we are NOT crying! We just have something in our eye! What? You're the crying! You are!

And also as we natter about Game of Thrones 8x02: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Join Jason, Gary, Patrick and Alan as we natter about episode 8x01 of Game of Thrones: Winterfell, featuring...


SENSIBLE SANSA'S skeptical soliloquys 

ARYA learning that it's really all about family

TYRION, DAVOS AND VARYS dropping the ball

QUEEN CERSEI running out of love to give

AND BRAN AND JAIME learning that one good push deserves another

Join Jason, Sion, Gary and Donielle as we natter about the finale of season three of True Detective: Now Am Found!

And be sure to check out Justin Thomas' season wrap up at Top Shelf Fandom!

Join Jason, Gary and Donielle as we natter about the seventh episode of the third season of True Detective: The Final Country!

Join Jason, Sion, Donielle and Gary as we natter about episode 3x06 of True Detective: Hunters In The Dark!

Join Jason, Sion, Donielle and Gary as we natter about episode 3x05 of True Detective: If You Have Ghosts, featuring...

Woodard counting to three for the last time in his life, Wayne and Amelia having some of that hot "post justifiable homicide" sex, Julie Purcell (or some random woman) saying cryptic things, Scoot McNairy wondering what it all means, Old Roland killing time with his dogs, Super Detective Purple Haze finally getting around to reading his wife's book about the one case that has haunted him for decades and Bill Clinton lining a birdcage.

Join Jason, Gary and Donielle as we natter about episode 3x04 of True Detective: The Hour and the Day, in which we learn..

Roland prefers mass produced psychos to limited edition psychos, Julie had aunts in the pants, that "black" is an adequate description of a human being, that Wayne feels inadequate and useless (which is the same thing), that vicissitudes are a hell of a drug, that Roland met the Man from Hope, that Tom apologizes twice for getting racial once, that snooty counts drive Pintos and that some trashmen like to go out with a bang. 

Join Jason, Gary, Donielle and Juan as we natter about the third episode of the third season of True Detective wherein we learn:

...that 1990 Wayne has a better memory than 1990 Roland...that whoever wrote the ransom note wasn't exactly the Zodiac...that the Ozark Children's Outreach Center DID reach out...that Martians think Julie Purcell is on a snake farm...that the protests stopped after the draft ended...that Walmarts are TOO DAMN BIG...that Wayne has said his piece...that motel sex is the best sex...that the Boyle kid didn't really know the Purcells too well...that Mr. Hoyt is on safari...and Wayne is a bit of a hunter himself...that Han and Leia were sitting in a tree...that imaginary Amelia is almost as hot as she is scary...and that Roland wants two fingers of Southern Comfort

 Join Jason, Gary, Sion, Donielle and the one and only Bobby Shovel as we natter about the first two episodes of True Detective season 3! Featuring...

MAHERSHALA ALI as Det. Wayne "Purple" Hays, who absolutely remembers that one time the moon blew a fuse. That's reliable.

STEPHEN DORFF as police detective and micro-brew namesake Roland West whose Lego hair and progressive views on feminism make him a hit with the ladies.

CARMEN EJOGO as school teacher and definitely NOT a CIA-trained Black Panther assassin, Amelia Hays nee Rearden

SCOOT MCNAIRY as well-balanced family man Tom Purcell

 

Join Jason, Gary and Sion as we natter about this month's exciting Netflix features including: Roma, Bird Box, Bandersnatch, The Kominsky Method, Sex Education and Dumplin.

And then join us for a deep dive on John Grisham's The Innocent Man which dares ask the question: did Ricky Bobby kill Laura Palmer?

Join Jason, Donielle, Gary, Andrew and Sion as we natter about the first season of HBO's True Detective!

Join Jason, Sion, Andrew, Gary and Donielle as we review season one of HBO's True Detective!

Join Jason, Gary and Patrick as we discuss Michael Radford's 1984 movie of George Orwell's 1948 book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984, featuring

JOHN HURT as thought criminal and sexual pervert, Winston Smith


SUZANNA HAMILTON as scrounger and enemy of the Revolution, Julia .. uh .. Julia Something

RICHARD BURTON as patriot and digital arithmetic expert O'Brien .. uh, Something O'Brien

CYRIL CUSACK as shop owner and totally not a thought cop, Charrington. Just Charrington.

AND GREGOR FISHER as razor blade hoarder, thought criminal and chocolate enthusiast, Parsons. Tom Parsons.

Join Guillermo, Jason and Sion as we discuss season 2 of Netflix's Atypical!

Join Jason, Sion, Jay and Gary as we natter about episode 4x10 of Better Call Saul: Winner

Join Jason, Gary and Jay as we discuss episode 4x09 of Better Call Saul: Wiedershen

Join Jason, Sion, Gary and Jay as we discuss episode 4x08 of Better Call Saul: Coushatta!

JOIN JASON, GARY AND PATRICK as we discuss David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, based on the book by Robert Graysmith, featuring:


MARK RUFFALO as the gun-toting, bow-tie-wearing, Animal Cracker eating, Zodiac-investigating, due-process respecting, circumstantial evidence dismissing San Francisco super cop, Dave Toschi

JAKE GYLLENHAAL as the code-breaking, Aqua Velva drinking, California size underestimating, late night rainstorm surprise visiting author slash cartoonist (and not the other way around), Robert Graysmith

ANTHONY EDWARDS as the sushi-curious, apologetic, fast-moving, telefax-having homicide detective, Bill Armstrong

ELIAS KOTEAS as the pen-stealing, cigarette forbidding, shoe brand noticing Solano cop, Jack Mulanax

DONAL LOGUE as the Rick Marshall suspecting, cartoonist indulging, Riverside vacationing, fancy-big-city-telefax non-having Napa investigator, Ken Narlow

CHLOË SEVINGY as the reasonable precaution recommending, non-existent pasta dish ordering, sleazy plan suspecting, most interesting date having, book completion demanding Melanie Graysmith

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. as the vest-wearing, Vallejo crime covering, Aqua Velva disparaging, r-word denying, non-target-hitting, "whatever else it is he's doing" non-out cutting of it ace reporter, Paul Avery

JOHN CARROLL LYNCH as possible non-Zodiac killer, Arthur Leigh Allen

AND JAMES LEGROS as that one guy from Point Break

 In David Fincher's film Zodiac, author Robert Graysmith's former wife Melanie is portrayed by Chloë Sevigny. 

In this episode of Natter Cast, we speak with the real Melanie Graysmith about her experiences consulting on the film, the friendship she and Robert developed with San Francisco homicide investigator Dave Toschi and the impact both the real case and the 2007 film had on their lives.

Beyond her role in the Zodiac story, Melanie Graysmith is an accomplished writer, educator and artist. You can learn more about her work here on her website and on her Facebook page.

Melanie also has an interest in clockmaking. Pictured here is a clock she made for Dave Toschi commemorating Mark Ruffalo's performance in Fincher's film.

The Natter Cast extends its warmest thanks to Melanie for talking with us and for helping us with our podcast coverage of Fincher's film! 

Join Jason, Gary and Jay as we discuss episode 407 of Better Call Saul: Something Stupid

Join Jason, Sion, Jay and Gary as we discuss episode 4x06 of Better Call Saul: Piñata!

Join Jason, Gary, Sion and Jay as we discuss episode 4x05 of Better Call Saul, entitled "Quite A Ride!"

Join Jason, Gary, Sion and Jay as we discuss episode 4x04 of Better Call Saul: Talk

Featuring..

NACHO having a bad feeling in his gut.

JIMMY painting himself into a corner.

MIKE AND ANITA dining out.

AND KIM, cruising the courts for a little drama.

Join Jason, Sion, Gary and Donielle as we discuss three Netflix trigger warning shows, including:

Hannah Gadsby's one-woman non-comedy-comedy show,  Nanette, wherein Mz. Gadsby breaks new ground by literally calling Pablo Picasso an a-hole.

Noted Private School Negro, W Kamau Bell, who has no comment on Pablo Picasso, but gives his phone every reason to call him the n-word.

And lastly Jessica Biel shows us in The Sinner that huggin' and kissin' is all fun and games until it morphs into hittin' and stabbin'.

Join Jason, Gary and Jay as we discuss episode 4x03 of Better Call Saul: Something Beautiful

Join Jason, Sion, Gary and Jay as we discuss episode 402 of Better Call Saul, entitled "Breathe"

Join Jason, Sion, Gary and Jay as we discuss episode 4x01 of Better Call Saul: Smoke, featuring...

THE RETURN of Cinnabon Gene!



SAFETY INSPECTOR Mike Ehrmantrout!


BOO BOO ARM KIMMIE!

HOWARD and his cross to bear

NACHO taking a pill

AND, AS ALWAYS...a side of Frings!

Join Jason, Gary, Patrick and Sion for our discussion of two films inspired by the late San Francisco super-cop, Dave Toschi: Bullitt and Dirty Harry.

Some movies feature car chases, but Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen, is a car chase that features a movie.

Frank Bullitt, aka Frank Bullitt's Car's Sidekick, is a groovy, new wave bohemian jazz aficionado who knows that time is not only a flat circle, but it also starts now.

He's also San Francisco's top Lyft driver, with a city map whose accuracy makes Watch Dogs II look like the AuthaGraph.

Harry Callahan, on the other hand, is tough-as-nails, all-business, neo-fascist, ketchup-hating lunatic vigilante who has got to be compensating for something with that hand cannon of his.

But when Scorpio is running loose through the city and all the mayor/Animal House dean can think to do is put Harry on Double Secret Suspension, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" 

And join us next month for our coverage of David Fincher's Zodiac, featuring Mark Ruffalo as the man who kept our city safe without driving recklessly or losing track of how many high powered bullets he fired into the middle of a crowded street.

And be sure to check out Duffy Jennings' upcoming memoir of his in San Francisco journalism!

Join Jason, Andrew and Sion as we discuss the essential elements of the William Peter Blatty Cinematic Universe, including...

THE EXORCIST, in which we learn that you're better off with the Pazuzu you know than the Pazuzu you don't, the bed must be on the floor and going through puberty in the 1970s is a much rougher ride than classic rock songs have led us to believe.

THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, in which Black Superman auditioning for a production of Hamlet for dogs is among the least bizarre thing that happens.



AND THE EXORCIST III, where Bill Blatty decides to finish off his story with characteristic elegance and subtlety.

Join Guillermo, Jason, Sion and Gary as we discuss Netflix's autism spectrum family melodramedy "Atypical", featuring:

SAM, whose turn ons include thinking about sex and thinking about penguins. Mostly penguins.

DOUG, who clearly didn't think through the ramifications of making one poor choice in your life when everyone you love is an obssessive-compulsive repressed rage-a-holic emotional sadist.

ELSA, who is played by Jennifer Jason Leigh and is therefore perfect and that's all you need to know and can we PLEASE talk about something else like for example what a complete a-hole Doug was to her a decade and a frickin' half ago already.

ZAHID, Sam's coworker and one-man #MeToo class action lawsuit waiting to happen.

CASEY, who loves her brother, but can't think about anything but running, running away, running anywhere, running all the way to the EFF...BEEE...EYE.  Okay, maybe just college instead of the FBI.

AND JULIA, who proves that no matter how neuro-typical you are, none of us is more than one chocolate covered strawberry away from blowing up our lives and shopping for a TV in our pajamas in the middle of the night.

Thank you for supporting the Natter Cast and thanks as always to The Distance for our opening music: Caffeinated Woman!

MERCURY 13 .. in which we learn that the ladies' auxiliary of the space program had to have the same right stuff as the guys, only backwards and in high heels.

THE PUSH .. in which we learn that destroying people's confidence in their own common human decency can be fun!

Check out the controversy on Derren Brown here.

THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR .. in which we learn that even in the 1930s, no matter where you go, there you are. Until you disappear and are mummified at sea.



WILD WILD COUNTRY, in which we learn that you cannot make an enlightened, sex-crazed cult community without breaking a few salmonella eggs over a salad bar.

Special thanks to The Distance for our music!

Join Jason, Gary, Sion and Patrick as we discuss our Netflix picks for February 2018, featuring...

BRIGHT, the film in which fairy lives don't matter. And neither does plot, character motivation or backstory. But character chemistry and fun action do, so there's that.

And be sure to check out Lindsay Ellis' video essay on the apotheosis of lazy worldbuilding in Bright.

RETRIBUTION aka ONE OF US, in which two Scottish families do their best to convince themselves that they're not in a Vince Gilligan series despite the looming presence of Lydia Rodarte-Quayle.

ALTERED CARBON, based on the book that envisioned a future of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, comes a series that envisions a future of sex, drugs and Edgar Allen Poe.


DIRTY MONEY, or "Mr. Robot - The Home Game" in which we learn that Volkswagon are naughty boys, there's a such a thing as a strategic maple syrup reserve and Donald Trump is the president. 

Thanks for listening and be sure to join us next month for more Netflix madness!

IN THE HUNT for Red October, we learn that Russians are not always the bad guys...and Americans are not always the good guys...for example:


MARCO RAMIUS, who chooses a somewhat radical option for protesting his country's health care system

VASYLI BORODIN, whose matrimonial aspirations might work out better in Utah than Montana or Arizona

JACK RYAN, who probably sends a memo every week suggesting that America should just start swiping nuclear submarines. It was bound to eventually be a good idea!

ADMIRAL GREER, who finds your lack of faith disturbing

JONESY, who can hear invisible submarines and has Pavorati coming out of his...wherever

CAPTAIN MANCUSO, whose talent for remembering Playmate of the Month measurements will probably be more applicable in the civilian job market

AND FRED THOMPSON, who takes patriotic pride in dumps of an unplanned nature

And be sure to join us on Facebook in our binge-watching, film-loving, stream-addicted group, "I Can't Stop Watching Netflix!"

We open with a short discussion of some of the shows we've been watching, including...


GODLESS, in which we learn that there's nothing a man can do that a woman can't do better, unless that man is Jeff Daniels or Sam Waterson in which case it's an even money bet

WANTED, for those who love Breaking Bad, Thelma & Louise and Australia but just can't seem to pick one.

WORMWOOD, in which we learn that you should probably either drop acid or work for the CIA. It's not good to do both.

And then we continue to our in-depth coverage of Peaky Blinders, featuring...

THOMAS SHELBY, who is not a traitor to his class, just an extreme example of what a working man can accomplish

POLLY SHELBY, who is evidently trying to sleep with everyone on Game of Thrones

ARTHUR SHELBY, who should probably stick to ranching and fixing cars instead of fights

JESSIE EDEN, who is red all over, not just on her right hand

ALFIE SOLOMONS, who is thinking of retiring...maybe to Italy...nah

ABERAMA GOLD, whose red right hand has a finger of unusually small size...little, one might call it

AND LUCA CHANGRETTA, who will make the Blinders an offer they can't understand

Enjoy the show, and be sure to join us soon for the sheckond in our sheries of the Shummer of Sean Connery: The Hunt for Red October

And next month when we begin our tribute to a true San Francisco hero, Dave Toschi (who passed this week at age 86), starting with 1968's class Steve McQueen film, Bullitt.

Join Jason, Gary and Jay as we discuss Alan J. Pakula's 1976 classic, "All The President's Men," featuring..

BOB WOODWARD'S amazing grasp of human language

CARL BERNSTEIN'S record breaking nicotine consumption

BEN BRADLEE'S cranky insistence on verifiable facts

THE DARK WISDOM of Deep Throat

HUGH SLOAN'S shattered idealism

AND DON SEGRETTI'S nickel and dime rat fracking operation

Join Jason, Patrick and Malik as we natter about the classic 1986 sword and sorcery fantasy action extravaganza, Highlander! Featuring...

CONNOR MCCLEOD, born in 1518 in Glenfinnan...not France...definitely definitely not France.

JUAN SANCHEZ VILLALOBOS RAMERIZ, the "effeminate" Egyptian Spaniard who doesn't like Scottish food...played by Sean Connery.

HEATHER MCCLEOD nee MACDONALD, Connor's second wife who's a tad more groovy with the whole "possessed by Lucifer" thing.

BRENDA WYATT, NYPD's resident metallurgist who is willing to overlook a decapitation or two if it means she can do the no pants dance with a guy with a severe abdominal wound.

THE KURGAN, the strongest of the immortals, not quite a people person. Bit of an introvert.

Join Jason, Alan, Patrick, Andrew and Gary as we discuss episode 7x07 of Game of Thrones: The Dragon and the Wolf, featuring...

EURON going full player character, skipping dialogue and jumping straight to the "bad guy" option on the response tree.

BRIENNE telling Jaime that loyalty cannot coexist with zombies.

BRONN telling Jaime that it's all cocks from here on in

THE HOUND and Brienne coparenting like a couple of divorcees

LITTLEFINGER'S failure of imagination

THEON manning up by not staying down

THE CLEGANEBOWL weigh in

AND JON AND DANY playing Aunts in the Pants

Join Jason, Gary, Sion, Donielle, Patrick and Alan as we natter about episode 7x06 of Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall!

Featuring: Tormund and the Hound breaking Gendry's balls, Jon whipping it out for Jorah, zombie Direbear!, Dragons vs. frickin' ice zombies!, the Hound in no house throwing stones, frickin' zombie dragon! And Jon and Dany...sharing a moment.

Join Jason, Sion, Gary, Alan and Patrick as we natter about episode 7x05 of Game of Thrones: Eastwatch, featuring...

DAENERYS "liberating" the Tarlys from the burden of not being a pile of ashes

ARYA learning that little fingers hold big secrets

BRONN AND JAIME'S trip down the River of Teleportation

JON AND DROGON sharing a moment

SAM Samstepping on Gilly's big reveal

TYRION'S PLANS turning to ash...but not in his mouth

Join Jason, Sion, Patrick and Andrew as we discuss episode 7x04 of Game of Thrones: The Spoils of War, featuring...

LITTLEFINGER AND DR. BRANHATTAN trying to out creepy each other

ARYA ASSURING SANSA that she's not on the list

BRIENNE AND POD getting a lesson in swinging their swords

BRON getting his smirk with Dickon

JAIME suffering from PTSD: Post Targaryen Stress Disorder

CERSEI opening her new credit card from the Iron Bank

JON doing a little spelunking with Dany, if you know what I mean. And if you don't, I mean literally going into an actual cave made out of stone. She's is AUNT you big pervs!

ALL THE DICKON you can handle and more!

AND DROGON taking one for the team!

GARY, JASON AND SION give their instant take of Game of Thrones episode 7x03: The Spoils of Dickon...err...War.

With bonus discussion of the Netflix original series Ozark.

And join us later this week for our full coverage of this epic episode!

Join Jason, Patrick, Gary Alan and our special guest the one and only Aron Hubbard of Bald Move as we discuss episode 7x03 of Game of Thrones: The Queen's Justice, featuring...

JON AND DANY getting a little glass

EURON being a real pisser

SAM catching up on a little light reading

ELLARIA having the worst Mother's Day ever

LADY OLENNA holding her liquor

VARYS deciding whether to choke the life out of Melisandre now or wait until she returns from home (choke her now! choke her now!)

Join Jason, Sion and Gary for our discussion of Game of Thrones 7x02: Stormborn, including...

JON AND SANSA agreeing to disagree about whether they've agreed to disagree

GREY WORM AND MISSANDEI getting it off and getting it on

JAIME AND CERSEI meeting the famous Dickon Tarly

ARYA reminiscing over hot pie with Hot Pie

DAENERYS completing the map room level of Dragonstone II: The Dragonstonening

AND THEON taking a dunk and feeling irked

Join Jason, Sion, Donielle, Patrick and Alan as we discuss episode 7x01 of Game of Thrones: Dragonstone, featuring...


ARYA (hopefully) adding a certain singer/songwriter to her murder list

EURON heading euroff to eurwhoknowswhere

CERSEI mapping out her options

DAENERYS learning that castles...made of sand...slip into the sea...e-ven-tu-ally

BRIENNE teaching Pod the Rod how not to get scrod

JON getting the concept of rewarding loyalty and punishing betrayal instead of constantly doing the opposite Sansasplained to him.

AND SAM just farting around with the same old shyte.

CHECK OUT Pat Sponaugle's blog here.

JOIN JASON, Gary and Sion for our coverage of the Coen Brothers' 1996 classic Fargo. Aw..geez.

Join Jason and Andrew for our throwdown of the original 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the 1978 pornstachstastic remake, featuring...

KEVIN MCCARTHY and Donald Sutherland as Misters Doctors Matthews/Miles Bennells

DANA WYNTER and Brooke Adams and the Elizabeths/Beckys Driscolls

KING DONOVAN and Jeff Goldblum as the Jacks Belicec

CAROLYN JONES and Veronica Cartwright as Teddy/Nancy Belicec

AND LEONARD NIMOY playing against type as an emotionless space alien

AND BE SURE to check out Meg Tilly's awesome monologue from 1993's reimagined "Body Snatchers"

Join Jason, Sion and Andrew as we natter about episode 3x10 of Better Call Saul: Lantern, featuring...

CHUCK ROAST fighting the powers that be

HOWARD boldly seeking out new worlds and new civilizations where Chuck has any sort of excuse for himself

KIM opting for the good stuff

HECTOR working through his daddy issues

AND JIMMY living life, as ever, on the wire

JASON talks to attorney Steven Keslowitz about his new book Why You Better Call Saul. (link here)


Mr. Keslowitz is also the author of The World According To The Simpsons, The Tao of Jack Bauer and From Poland to Brooklyn.

www.stevenkeslowitz.com

Join Jason, Sion and Andrew as we natter about episode 3x09 of Better Call Saul: Fall, featuring...

CRASHIN' KIMMIE, a woman out standing in her field

LYDIA AND MIKE deciding to skip the whole "new employee orientation" thing and get straight to the money laundering

NACHO patiently waiting for Don Hector to take a pill

SLIPPIN' JIMMY'S transformation into Riggin' Bingo Jimmy

AND CHUCK AND HOWARD getting things mixed up

Join Jason and Andrew as we natter about episode 3x08 of Better Call Saul: Slip, featuring...

JIMMY discovering that working for shmug shmealers is better than working for shmouche shmozzles.

MIKE EHRMANTROUT, a man out standing in his field

NACHO, who may need to switch to decaf

KIM giving Howard one last document to review

AND CHUCK going out for a little stroll

Join Jason and Sion for our instant take of Better Call Saul 3x08: Spin! And catch us later this week for our full podcast of this ep!

In this very special Memorial Day edition of the Natter Cast, Jason and Sion talk with actor Francisco Cordova who played the booking officer in episode 3x03 of Better Call Saul: Sunk Costs.

If you would like a transcript of our interview with Mr. Cordova...you should start typing as soon as it starts playing.

Join Jason, Andrew and Sion as we discuss episode 3x07 of Better Call Saul: Expenses. Featuring...

SLIPPIN' JIMMY'S transformation into Pickin' Up Trash For The County Jimmy

KIM throwing the book at Paige

MIKE sowing his oats at Pancakes Anonymous

AND NACHO taking a pill

Join Jason, Sion and Gary for our instant take of Better Call Saul 307: Expenses.  And join us later in the week for our full cast of the ep!

Join Jason, Sion and Andrew for our coverage of Better Call Saul 3x06: Off Brand, featuring:

SLIPPIN' KIMMIE'S closing argument in defense of Breakin' And Enterin' Jimmy.

SAUL GOODMAN sporting a look that says "you can trust me because I'm in the witness protection program."

NACHO sewing up a thing or two.

CHUCK'S midnight stroll in...SPACE PANTS!

AND LYDIA AND GUS doing some location scouting for the Fring Cave.

Join Jason and Sion for our instant take of Better Call Saul 3x06: Off Brand. And join us later this week for our full podcast!

Join Jason, Andrew and Sion as they natter about episode 3x05 of Better Call Saul: Chicanery, featuring...

SLIPPIN' KIMMIE misleading her clients by defaming the character of a respected jurist.

HUELL BABINEAUX'S magically light touch

CHUCK stepping one strawberry over the line and going full Bogart

AND JIMMY, who would never lie and manipulate his brother the way Chuck did...except in court, of course.

Join Jason and Sion for our instant cast of Better Call Saul 3x05: Chicanery, and be sure to join us later in the week for our full take on this great episode!

Join Jason, Sion and Andrew as we natter about the fourth episode of the third season of Better Call Saul: Sabrosito, featuring...

HANDYMAN MIKE'S adventures in contracting.

GUS FRING'S inspiring "I Believe In America" speech.

SLIPPIN' KIMMIE'S cold call express.

DON ELADIO and Don Hector's Greek theater revival.

JIMMY working up his whole "remorse" play.

AND HOWARD AND CHUCK who will leave no tape unaccounted for and no rat un-...uh...chucked.

And be sure to check out Andrew's political musings at Whispering In A Wind Tunnel.

Join Jason and Sion for our instant take of Better Call Saul episode 3x04: Sabrosito!

And join us later in the week for our full podcast!

Join Jason and Andrew as we natter about Better Call Saul 3x03: Sunk Costs, featuring...



MIKE AND GUS working together to take down Hector's business, because who the hell imports ice cream into the United States anyway?

KIM who has enough work on her hands defending her clients without having to also defend her partner.

CHUCK, who seems to be able to handle being around electricity when disbarring his brother is on the line

AND JIMMY, for whom orange is the new bleak...

Join Jason and Sion for our instant take of Better Call Saul 3x03: Sunk Costs. And join us later in the week for our full podcast of this great episode!

Join Jason, Sion and Andrew as we discuss episode 3x02 of Better Call Saul, featuring

CHUCK AND HOWARD'S private investigation club playing the waiting game, deciding the waiting game sucks and opting for Hungry Hungry Hippos

KIM deciding to take on just one more client for $20

FRANCESCA before she becomes the broken, soulless woman working at Saul's

ERNESTO really not grasping the concept of keeping one's yapper shut

MIKE who is evidently willing to travel all over New Mexico to get his gas cap back

AND JIMMY, who wanted nothing more than a pimento-cheese stake out with everyone's favorite grandpa but OH NO! WISHFUL THINKING!

Join Jason and Sion for our instant take of Better Call Saul 3x02: Witness

Join Jason and Sion for the return of Better Call Saul, picking up right where we left off with...

CHUCK continuing his investigation of the Case of the Unearned Typo.

KIM'S punctuation which is anything but punctual.


MIKE'S DIY silent automotive bug hunt.



AND JIMMY, who is getting deeper and deeper into some truly major fudge.

Join Jason and Sion for their instant take of the season premiere of Better Call Saul!

Choose Natter Cast. Choose Trainspotting. Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fooking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fooking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fook you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fooking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fooked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

In this very special edition of Natter Cast, Jason, Gary and Donielle examine Oliver Stone's brilliant yet deeply flawed masterpiece, JFK.

Wherever you come down on the question of JFK, this film is a must see.

On the Trail of the Assassins

Everything begins with Jim Garrison's book, On The Trail of the Assassins

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

Oliver Stone was also deeply influenced by Jim Marrs' book, especially regarding government involvement at the highest levels.

Case Close

Gerald Posner's book addresses many of the allegations made by Garrison, Stone, Marrs and others and presents the case for Oswald having acted alone.

The JFK 100

Dave Reitzes webpage "The JFK 100" direct addresses historical inaccuracies, some might say distortions, in Stone's film and provides alternate explanations for the evidence in the case against Clay Shaw and David Ferrie.

Underworld USA

Finally, if you're looking for a great rendition of the JFK conspiracy that admits it's pure fiction, check out James Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy

 Wherever you come down on it, whether you think Oswald acted alone or literally everyone in the country except Oswald was involved, we hope you enjoy Stone's movie and our conversation!

Part two of our coverage of Westworld, season 1

In this edition of the Natter Cast, Alan, Cort and Jason discuss the first season of HBO's Westworld.


Featuring...

Dr. Robert Ford - An eccentric genius who has, for some reason, developed a low opinion of humanity after a mere 35 years of running an orgy of sentient Fleshlights programmed to placate the psychopathic desires of bored rich people.

Bernard - Ford's deeply insightful partner who, for some reason, doesn't seem to notice that he never needs to eat or go to the bathroom.
 

Dolores - Part time robot revolutionary and professional farm-girl feck-puppet

The Man in Black - Griefer completionist and amateur Johnny Cash impersonator

William - Okay, it's the 21st century and everyone knows it's okay for boys to play with dolls, but there are limits, Billie.

Logan - Just because you're right, doesn't mean you're not a complete dick

Teddy - He's a loser, baby, so why don't you kill him? A dozen times a year? For 30 years? While your wife and daughter beg for scraps of your emotional attention?

Maeve - She can be whatever the frack she wants, as long as it's a madam in a 19th century western saloon

Armistice - Someone teach her how to use a phone and then give her my number

Hector - I don't always die mid-sentence while robbing a brothel, but when I do, I....BLAM!

On this very special edition of Natter Cast, Jason and Sion answer the Bald Move podcast of Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break, which Jason and Sion commissioned precisely so they could have this moment to celebrate one of the great action films of the 90s.

Featuring...

KEANU REEVES as Special Agent Johnny Utah who defines the universal overlap point on the Venn diagram of a) young b) dumb and c) full of...even more dumb.

PATRICK SWAYZE as Bodhi. Surfer, bank robber, spiritual guru, also surfer and bank robber, which leads to kidnapper and murderer but...you know...spiritual guru still applies.

GARY BUSEY as Pappas. He smokes cigars in federal buildings. He assigns his agents to learn to surf. He eats sandwiches two at a time. And that's just what Busey does on weekends. What till you see what he does in this movie.

AND LORI PETTY as Tyler...whose friendzone is a tougher ride than Mavericks.

Thanks again to Bald Move for doing our commission!

Now, are we going to jump or jerk off?  Let's watch Point Break!

In this episode of the Natter Cast, Jason, Cort and Sion discuss Donald Glover and Hiro Murai's African-American-driven sit-dramedy, Atlanta.

Our cast of characters includes:

Earn Marks, new father and wannabe manager of all things rap has returned to Atlanta after dropping out of Princeton, to the delight of everyone in his family.

Earn's cousin, rapper Paper Boi is all about that Paper Boi, paper boy, all about that paper...boy.  Also he's about smoking out at 420, outdoor interior decoration, randomized gun play and not tapping Kaitlyn Jenner.


Vanessa, Earn's baby mama and "it's complicated" serial hookup knows how to Jackie Brown her way down the hall at work toting a condom full of contraband piss...even if Tobias is in whiteface.

And finally, we have Darius. Darius is...well, Darius will measure your tree. Darius will use rats as phones. Darius, you see, is the man for his time and place.  He just fits right in there.

So join the Natter Cast as we delve into the harsh Georgia winter with...Atlanta!

In this very special Halloween edition of Natter Cast, Natter Caster Jason and Oscar Blogger Andrew throw George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead into the arena to fight it out.  Which of the three films contributed the most to the modern zombie horror phenomenon?

Our first contender is...

Night of the Living Dead

...in which we learn the Johnny is already damned to hell, that "they're" coming to get Barbara too, that farmhouses are creepy places even without a zombie apocalypse to worry about, that Ben escaped from the ghouls in an exciting scene that would have been far too expensive to film, that race relations get strained when the living dead are closing in, that Tom really knows how to drive that truck, that Judy likes staying put and that the dead...are all messed up

Our next contender is...

Dawn of the Dead

...in which we learn that Fran's professional ethics are just about the only thing to survive the apocalypse, that Stephen doesn't know a thief from a bad guy even when he qualifies as both, that rednecks enjoy killing zombies, that people still think there's respect in dying, that when there's no more room in hell we must stop the killing or lose the war, that Roger's got this (man) he's got this by the ass, that there are no charges against Martinez or any of his people, that the only thing more annoying than a Hare Krishna is a zombie Hare Krishna and that bikers are generally down on people who don't share.

Rounding off the ticket is..

Day of the Dead

...in which we learn how people of Hispanic descent might feasibly pronounce "yellow," that for some reason no one thought to bring a powerful radio to a hidden bunker, that Captain Rhodes has professional monkey farm running skills that might come in handy in the civilian world, that Major Cooper loses face, that John thinks they're living in a great big 14 mile TOMBSTONE! (witanepitafonitnobudygonnaboddatoread), that Aunt Alicia screens her calls, that Bub has issues with Rhodes and that zombies, who do not breathe, might hypothetically still choke.

Check out our epic throw down and be sure follow the Oscar Blogger at academyhistory-oscarblogger.blogspot.com!

What's your favorite zombie film? Tell us in the comments below or join us on Facebook at Natter Cast!

In this episode of Natter Cast, Jason and the Oscar Blogger himself Andrew Littlefield do a remake throw down of Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks' 1951 classic "The Thing From Another World" against John Carpenter's 1982 classic remake entitled simply "The Thing."

Andrew will be defending the original classic, in which we learn that army guys get nervous around girls, that artctic researchers are GGG with a little light rope bondage, that only animal arrogance denies the intelligence of vegetables, that scientists can be both smart AND filled with "wild blueberry muffins" and that you can boil, bake or fry a carrot, even a vampire space carrot.

Jason will be defending the remake, in which we learn that computers are cheatin' beyotches, that Norwegians are crazy Swedes, that space clones are voodoo bowl sheet, that the Backscatter Effect has been rockin' out for hundreds of thousands of years, that the chameleon strikes in the dark, that spending the winter tied to a frickin' couch can affect mood, and that things can even freak out other things.

So join Jason, Andrew, Garry, MacReady, Nauls, Childs, Captain Hendry, Nikki, Blair, Palmer, Dr. Carrington, Scotty, Windows, Dr Stern and the rest for a two our tour (a two hour tour!) of Thing vs. Thing!

And be sure to check out Andrew's Oscar Blog!

On this 30th Anniversary of Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy we learn that Sid and Johnny are naughty boys, that you can want a pizza and smell like one too, that sox is boring, ugly, hippie shyte, that it's a real drag looking like an established star, that the Rock Head does.not.do.d.rugs, that John got beat up by fascists, the being a Rude Boy is evidently a family run industry, that the four cruelest words in the English language are "no women on the tour," that you have no right to be strung out when you can be selling healthy anarchy, that fire is a beautiful thing, that stabbing your girlfriend is on the serious end of your frack up scale and that...Love Kills.