EP23-Best Actor/Director combinations

Everyone has their favorite combinations – peanut butter a chocolate, bagels and cream cheese, Abbot and Costello, fava beans and a nice chianti. In this episode the boys discuss their favorite pairings for actors and directors, and the screen magic they create. Chemistry isn’t just between actors.

This episode is sponsored by P-Harmony for Death Row Inmates

Quotes:

Drew: “John Wayne represents old-style westerns until the ‘60s”

Dave: “Jesus man, are you sure we are actually recording? Can I get somebody who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to movies?”

Drew: when discussing Raging Bull “…it was a fringe art film!”

The List:

Tim Burton & Michael Keaton

Sam Raimi & Bruce Campbell

John Wayne & John Ford

Robert De Niro & Martin Scorsese, Leonardo Di Caprio

https://youtu.be/9k3zfeEkLgU

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp

Sam Raimi and Toby McGuire

Alfred Hitchcock & Cary Grant, and James Stewart

• Rear Window
• Psycho
• Vertigo
• North by Northwest

Adam McKay and Will Ferrell

Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won an Oscar for Capote, died at 46 in 2014

• Boogie Nights
• Punch Drunk Love
• Magnolia
• The Master

John Huston and Humphrey Bogart

David Fincher and Brad Pitt

• Se7en
• Fight Club
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks

 

Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy

• Bridesmaids
• The Heat
• Spy
• Ghostbusters

Ridley Scott & Russell Crowe

• Gladiator (2000’s Best Picture winner)
• A Good Year
• American Gangster
• Body of Lies
• Robin Hood

Coming Attractions:

New movie-trailer style video for intro