New year, new endeavors! We have successfully launched into the maw of 2023 over at Uncut Gems Podcast and here’s a round-up of everything we recorded over the past month!
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Uncut Gems Podcast (December 2022 Round-Up)
And just like that, 2022 has come to a close and over at Uncut Gems Podcast we have completed a fine year of talking about great movies and pushing our journey forward. Granted, it was a year peppered with challenges – from hurricanes to new jobs and everything in between – but we have somehow persevered, increased our productivity, got Randy to join the show as a permanent host and now we are all abuzz with what’s to come in 2023. But more on that at the end of this write-up. For now, here’s what happened in December 2022!
Continue readingUncut Gems Podcast (September – November 2022 Round-Up)
The last three months over at Uncut Gems Podcast ended up becoming a colourful assortment of double and triple bills, some more connected than others. Nonetheless, what connected them all was that we had immense fun while recording these conversations! Here they are!
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This year we decided to devote the month of August to none other than John Woo with a particular focus on his Hollywood movies. In fact, the idea to do this stemmed from the fact that one of our hosts is a massive fan/apologist of John Woo and he also happen to have his birthday in August. And if you pouch your lips just the right way, you will easily pronounce the word August as “A-Woo-gust”; this stuff just writes itself.
Continue readingUncut Gems Podcast in 2022, so far
I haven’t posted about Uncut Gems Podcast in here in a long while, which is mostly a result of the show finding its permanent new home at its own dedicated website HQ (uncutgemspodcast.com); and I do believe I may have mentioned it before (here) when I was still grappling with massive changes to my schedule (with which I am still grappling, in case you haven’t noticed). However, I thought I might as well going forward re-introduce some form of coverage for the show, especially because working on it has become my main focus this year and – owing to the show still being extremely niche and tiny – any and all coverage could potentially make a difference.
Continue readingThe Uncut Gems Podcast – Episode 49 (End of Days)
In this episode of the show we marked the arrival of 2022 by talking about the devil. And photos in pickle jars. And corpses in hydromassage bathtubs. In other words, we trained our sights on Peter Hyams’ 1999 Arnie vehicle End of Days.
Continue readingThe Uncut Gems Podcast – Episode 48 (R XMas)
In this episode of the show we celebrate Christmas by diving into the drawer of proper ‘deep cuts’ and fishing out a Christmas movie that probably nobody else knows, Abel Ferrara’s R X Mas.
Continue readingThe Uncut Gems Podcast – Circling The Matrix Marathon
If you’ve been keeping up with our show, you probably know by now that all throughout the last month-and-a-half we’ve been exploring films tied somehow to The Matrix, which we did in the run-up to the release of The Matrix Resurrections in cinemas. However, if you just discovered us, I thought it would be a good idea to gather everything we’ve done towards this goal in one place.
Continue readingThe Uncut Gems Podcast – Episode 45 (Equilibrium)
“Circling the Matrix” marathon continues on the show as we shift our weight a bit and – instead of a movie that may have inspired The Matrix – talk about a movie whose existence is partially (if not wholly) owed to the success of The Wachowskis’ breakout hit, namely Equilibrium.
Continue readingThe Uncut Gems Podcast – Episode 43 (Hackers) and Episode 44 (Johnny Mnemonic)
In the last two episodes of the show (apologies for bundling them together here, but it almost works out because both movies discussed in these episodes are from the same year) we continued to circle The Matrix by jumping back in time and examining some of the movies that may have inadvertently served as parts of the cultural template upon the Wachowski film that indubitably reshaped the blockbuster landscape.
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