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  • The Complete Works Ep. 110: Tom Cruise – ALL THE RIGHT MOVES (1983)

    The Complete Works Ep. 110: Tom Cruise – ALL THE RIGHT MOVES (1983)
    Sep 23 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 110 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Michael Chapman's 1983 film All the Right Moves. Cast All the Right Moves stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Gary Graham, Paul Carafotes, Chris Penn, Leon, Sandy Faison, James A. Baffico, Mel Winkler, and Terry O'Quinn. Plot Synopsis All the Right Moves (1983)’s plot synopsis: "An ambitious young football star is trapped in a dying mill town--unless his gridiron skills can win him a way out." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 110 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 110 via Podcast Stream
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    27 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 109: Tom Cruise – RISKY BUSINESS (1983)

    The Complete Works Ep. 109: Tom Cruise – RISKY BUSINESS (1983)
    Sep 2 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 109 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Paul Brickman's 1983 film Risky Business. Cast Risky Business stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur, Bronson Pinchot, Curtis Armstrong, Nicholas Pryor, Janet Carroll, and Raphael Sbarge. Plot Synopsis Risky Business (1983)’s plot synopsis: "A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 109 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 109 via Podcast Stream
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    26 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 108: Tom Cruise – LOSIN’ IT (1983)

    The Complete Works Ep. 108: Tom Cruise – LOSIN’ IT (1983)
    Aug 17 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 108 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Curtis Hanson's 1983 film Losin' It. Cast Losin' It stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P. Navin Jr., and Henry Darrow. Plot Synopsis Losin' It (1983)’s plot synopsis: Four teenagers from early 1960s Los Angeles are on their way to Tijuana, Mexico: Dave, Woody, Spider, and Dave's brother Wendell. Dave, Spider, and Woody are there to lose their virginity, while Wendell came along to buy fireworks. They end up picking up a woman named Kathy, who goes with them because she wants a fast divorce from her husband, and they get into a series of hijinks and misadventures south of the border. Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 108 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 108 via Podcast Stream
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    25 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 107: Tom Cruise – THE OUTSIDERS (1983)

    The Complete Works Ep. 107: Tom Cruise – THE OUTSIDERS (1983)
    Aug 4 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 107 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film The Outsiders. Cast The Outsiders stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, and Leif Garrett. Plot Synopsis The Outsiders (1983)’s plot synopsis: 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, "In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.” Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 107 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 107 via Podcast Stream
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  • The Complete Works Ep. 106: Tom Cruise – TAPS (1981)

    The Complete Works Ep. 106: Tom Cruise – TAPS (1981)
    Jul 28 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 106 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Harold Becker's 1981 film Taps. Cast Taps stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Giancarlo Esposito, and Evan Handler. Plot Synopsis Taps (1981)’s plot synopsis: based on Devery Freeman's 1979 novel Father Sky, "Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.” Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 106 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 106 via Podcast Stream
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    33 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 105: Tom Cruise – ENDLESS LOVE (1981)

    The Complete Works Ep. 105: Tom Cruise – ENDLESS LOVE (1981)
    Jul 14 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 105 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Franco Zeffirelli's 1981 film Endless Love. Cast Endless Love stars Tom Cruise, Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford, and Beatrice Straight. Plot Synopsis Endless Love (1981)’s plot synopsis: based on the book same name by Scott Spencer, "Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod is consumed with his love for Jade Butterfield. So when Jade’s father exiles him from their home, David does the only thing he thinks is rational: He burns down their house. Sentenced to a psychiatric institution, David’s obsession metastasizes, and upon his release, he sets out to win the Butterfields back by any means necessary.” Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 105 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 105 via Podcast Stream
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    24 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 104: Christopher Nolan – OPPENHEIMER (2023)

    The Complete Works Ep. 104: Christopher Nolan – OPPENHEIMER (2023)
    Jun 22 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 104 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer. Cast Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, David Krumholtz, Kenneth Branagh, and David Dastmalchian. Plot Synopsis Oppenheimer (2023)’s plot synopsis: based on the book by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, “The movie follows theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project (started in 1939 it ran from 1942 to 1946) and his contributions that led to the creation of the very first atomic bomb during World War II.” Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 104 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 104 via Podcast Stream
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    40 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 103: Christopher Nolan – TENET (2020)

    The Complete Works Ep. 103: Christopher Nolan – TENET (2020)
    Jun 9 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 103 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Christopher Nolan's 2020 film Tenet. Cast Tenet stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Himesh Patel, Andrew Howard, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Martin Donovan, Carina Velva, Dimple Kapadia, Jonathan Camp, and Katie McCabe. Plot Synopsis Tenet plot synopsis: "Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 103 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 103 via Podcast Stream
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