Podcasts by Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

Saving Grace (Episode 181) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-12-08T13:00

A very special episode of the Hot Date Podcast with Dan & Vicky.  There's drama, there's tears, there's nausea inducing popcorn.  And, oh yeah, a movie to discuss. 

This time it's 2000's ...

Top Ten Creepy Performances (Episode 180) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-11-28T13:00

We've reached another tenth podcast which means Dan and Vicky give you their Top Ten!

This time, your hosts are counting down to their favorite top ten creepy performances!

Man, wo...

Aenigma (Episode 179) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-11-10T13:00

Italian horror director Lucio Fulci's 1988 Aenigma seems to have been inspired by films as varied as Carrie and Patrick, with a dash of Argento madness and 80's slasher thrown in for good measur...

Illusion Travels By Streetcar (Episode 178) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-10-23T02:09

Take a trip on decommissioned Streetcar 133 in Luis Bunuel's surreal and sweet 1954 film Illusion Travels By Streetcar (La Ilusión Vaja en Tranvía).  When two mechanics learn their favorite stre...

Sleep, My Love (Episode 177) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-10-06T12:00

1954's Sleep, My Love was an early directorial effort from German born emigre Douglas Sirk.  Sirk would later become recognized as an auteur - by, of course, the French - for his work with melod...

Chilly Scenes of Winter (Episode 176) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-09-19T12:00

Actors Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson were looking for film projects for their fledgling production company and all agreed that Ann Beattie's novel Chilly Scenes of Winter was rip...

Year of the Dog (Episode 175) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-08-25T12:00

Mike White's (White Lotus, Enlightened, Chuck and Buck) directorial debut Year of the Dog tells the story of Peggy Spade, a mild mannered people pleaser who's life is upended when she loses her ...

Gunfight at the OK Corral (Episode 174) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-08-11T12:00

Dan and Vicky head back to the old west for a Gunfight at the OK Corral.  The 1957 film directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas tells the oft told tale of the legen...

Crimewave (Episode 173) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-07-21T12:00

1985's Crimewave was the sophmore effort for Evil Dead director Sam Raimi, actor and producer Bruce Campbell and producer Bob Tapert.  The film started as the script The XYZ Murders by Joel and ...

Shock Corridor (Episode 172) Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-07-07T12:00

1963's Shock Corridor was director/writer/provocateur Sam Fuller's depiction of the search for truth in a hostile society bent on obfuscating and distorting it.  Set in a mental institution, Ful...

Watch On The Rhine (Episode 171) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-06-16T12:00

At a time when there was considerable United States naivete and even support around Hitler's domination of Europe, Warner Bros. took the calculated risk of releasing the fervently antifascist 19...

Top Ten Remakes (Episode 170) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-05-28T15:41

We're back with another Top Ten!  Every tenth show we try to pick a fun and engaging topic that'll yield a list of our favorite top tens. 

This time it's Top Ten remakes.  Vicky's criteri...

Pin (Episode 169) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-05-05T12:00

Dan and Vicky discuss the 1998 Canadian psychological thriller Pin from writer/director Sandor Stern starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn and the voice of Breaking Bad actor Jo...

The Double Life of Veronique (Episode 168) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-04-14T12:00

On Hot Date episode 168, Dan and Vicky discuss the French-Polish film The Double Life of Veronique starring Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas and Claude Duneton.  This was the breakth...

Paid In Full (Episode 167) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-03-24T12:00

Dan and Vicky discuss the randomly chosen 1950 melodrama Paid In Full starring Lizabeth Scott, Diana Lynn, Robert Cummings and Eve Arden.  

Your hosts also discuss some recently seen incl...

Easy Come, Easy Go (Episode 166) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-03-10T13:00

Although stuntmen did most of the underwater work, Elvis Presley, cast as Navy frogman Ted Jackson, whose job it was to diffuse sunken mines, still had alot of scenes in and around water in 1967...

Crime Story (Episode 165) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2023-02-24T13:00

Based on the true kidnapping story of wealthy Hong Kong businessman Teddy Wang, 1993's (although shot in 1993, it wasn't released in the US until 1996) Crime Story was an attempt by Jackie Chan ...

The Corruption of Chris Miller (Episode 164) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-02-03T13:00

Although produced in Spain, 1973's The Corruption of Chris Miller, has all the earmarks of a traditional Italian giallo - sexual tension in an isolated country house, bad dubbing and, most impor...

The Bribe (Episode 163) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2023-01-20T13:00

A starry cast brings 1949's The Bribe to life.  Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak are all on a fictitious Caribbean island together falling in love and ...

The Burning Plain (Episode 162) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-12-30T13:00

The Burning Plain was the directorial debut of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who took cues from his screenplays for Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel to weave the intergenerational story of tw...

Summertime (Episode 161) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-12-17T14:00

When it came time make the film of Arthur Laurents successful play The Time of the Cuckoo, the natural casting choice was Shirley Booth, who won a Tony for the Broadway production and had an Osc...

Top Ten Whodunnits (Episode 160) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2022-12-02T13:00

We've reached our next Top Ten episode (something we do here at Hot Date when we reach every tenth show) and this time we're picking our favorite mysteries and whodunnits.  From Poirot to Parker...

Humongous (Episode 159) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-10-31T12:00

Dan and Vicky offer a special Halloween episode of Hot Date covering the 1982 Canadian slasher Humongous.  It was Vicky's idea to find a horror film from the 80's that she hadn't seen and Dan ha...

Edmond (Episode 158) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-10-28T12:00

Director Stuart Gordon, known for creating the body horror classics Reanimator and From Beyond, reunited with writer David Mamet to direct the film adaptation of the controversial playwright's o...

Three Husbands (Episode 157) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-09-23T12:00:26

1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines.  In Three Husbands, the title characters receive letters about their wives' ...

A Thousand Acres (Episode 156) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-09-16T12:00:36

With Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres sets the action on an Iowa farm.  In...

The Blood Beast Terror (Episode 155) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2022-08-05T12:00:34

Tigon British Film Productions, founded in 1966 as counter programming to the more well known Hammer Studios, nonetheless took a page from the Hammer playbook by making horror and exploitation f...

Sister, Sister (Episode 154) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-07-22T12:00:15

Director/screenwriter Bill Condon has since become an Oscar winning filmmaker with credits ranging from writing 2002's Chicago to directing two films in the Twilight series.  But his directorial...

The Undying Monster (Episode 153) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-07-08T12:00:22

In response to the success Univeral was having with it's monster series, 20th Century Fox endeavored to bring their own monster movies to the big screen. Taking cues from the mix of horror and c...

A Wedding (Episode 152) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2022-06-24T12:00:47

Robert Altman's Chicago set A Wedding from 1978 tells the story of two families and the lavish and chaotic day they marry off young Dino (Desi A...

Purple Noon (Episode 151) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-06-10T12:00:40

The Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted twice for the screen - most recently in 1995 in a star studded version by director Anthony Minghella.  But the novel's first...

Picture It! - Top Ten Best Picture Winners (Episode 150) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2022-05-20T12:00:21

For our milestone 150th show, we offer our Top Ten lists of our favorite Best Picture Winners of all time.  From ribald comedies to dark thrillers to ripped from the headlines dramas, Dan and Vi...

Red Lights (Episode 149) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-05-06T12:00:11

Off of the critical success of his 2010 film Buried (which trapped star Ryan Reynolds inside a coffin for 90 minutes) director Rodrigo Cortes had the clout to attract Sigourney Weaver, Robert DeNir...

Dawn of the Mummy (Episode 148) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-04-22T12:00:06

Filmmaker Frank Agrama, mostly known today as the producer of family friendly fare like the Robotech TV and video game series and a Heidi miniseries, got his start with more adult material like the...

Picnic (Episode 147) Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2022-04-01T12:00:54

1956's Picnic, adapted from the Pulitzer and Tony award winning stage play by William Inge, gave director Joshua Logan the chance to realize the grand picnic of the title on actual locations in Kan...

Cronicas (Episode 146) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-03-18T12:00:06

With the powerhouse producing team of Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron behind it, 2004's Ecuadorean drama Cronicas had an easy time being chosen as that country's submission for the Best Fo...

Who Killed Teddy Bear (Episode 145) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-03-04T13:00:34

1965's Who Killed Teddy Bear mixes spasmodic dance sequences, lewd phone calls, predatory lesbians, incest, and Sal Mineo in short shorts to create one of the strangest films to come out of the ...

So Dark The Night (Episode 144) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-02-18T13:00:09

The unique 1946 film noir So Dark The Night gave actor Steven Geray his first and only chance to play the lead in a film.  Up until then, and for years after, he was a reliable and memorable sup...

Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (Episode 143) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-02-04T14:30:39

In the early 70's Hammer Studios, Britain's premier production house for horror and fantasy films, was at a crossroads.  The Hammer name connoted class, style and a certain elegance but the new wav...

The Commitments (Episode 142) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2022-01-21T18:00

1991's The Commitments was a departure for filmmaker Alan Parker.  Traditionally an explorer of the darker reaches of human interaction (Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning), the film was instead a...

Putney Swope (Episode 141) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-12-31T18:00

For our final Hot Date of 2021, we chose Putney Swope, written and directed by Robert Downey Sr.  As an indictment of corporate greed, the advertising business and race, the film was Downey's re...

Bad To The Bone: Top Ten Movie Villains (Episode 140) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-12-03T18:00

We're back again with another of our famous Top Ten List episodes.  This time we're looking at our favorite movie villains.  Those despicable, pathetic, misguided, attractive movie characters - ...

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (Episode 139) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-11-20T18:00

A negative pickup for Universal Pictures to cash in on the 3D trend partially initiated by the company's own Jaws 3, low budget sci fi epic Metalstorm failed to spark at the box office.  Of the ...

Brighton Rock (Episode 138) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-10-29T22:34:30

1948's Brighton Rock, based on the novel by Graham Greene, was a controversial hit in England where critics felt it reached new levels of depravity and on screen violence.  It also met the ire o...

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (Episode 137) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-10-15T17:00

A star studded cast highlights the crime drama Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, director Gary Fleder and screenwriter Scott Rosenberg's entry in the 1990's spate of talky neo noir thrill...

Blood of the Vampire (Episode 136) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-10-01T17:00

1958's Blood of the Vampire had all the earmarks of a Hammer film without actually being one.  Hammer regular Jimmy Sangster was brought in to write the script.  The film very much echoed the st...

Darling (Episode 135) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-09-10T17:00

Dan and Vicky chose the random Hot Date of August 21, 1965 and decided on the film Darling starring Julie Christie, in her Oscar winning lead performance, and Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey as...

Street Smart (Episode 134) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-08-27T17:00

A passion project for star Christopher Reeve, 1987's Street Smart became instead the auspicious introduction of film audiences to Morgan Freeman and Kathy Baker.  Freeman, mostly known for his f...

Rollercoaster (Episode 133) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-08-06T17:00

Two years after having the biggest blockbuster to date with Jaws and three years after the successful disaster pick Earthquake, Universal Studios pulled out all the stops with ...

The Blue Angel (Episode 132) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-07-23T17:00

Director Josef von Sternberg was lured back to Eastern Europe from Hollywood in 1930 by producer Erich Pommer to direct a film about mad Russian monk and con man Rasputin.  Sternberg set his sig...

Street Scene (Episode 131) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-07-09T17:00

Producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted to populate his film of Elmer Rice's play Street Scene with a mix of actors from the hit Broadway production and Hollywood.  To play the lead Rose, Goldwyn had Nan...

It's A Crime - Top Ten True Crime Films (Episode 130) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-06-18T17:00

Murder, kidnapping, revenge, sex and love gone wrong.  All the subjects, and more, of some of the greatest films based on true crime events.  And all getting a Spotlight, wink, on Hot Date's lat...

One Night In Miami (Episode 129) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-06-04T17:00

Oscar winning actress Regina King directs One Night in Miami, a fictionalized account of the meeting in 1964, post the Clay/Liston fight, between Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X...

Love And A .45 (Episode 128) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-05-21T17:00

1994 was a very busy time for 25 year old future Oscar winner Renee Zellweger.  She found work in six films that year - everything from a Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel to grunge classics Realit...

No Questions Asked (Episode 127) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-05-05T03:21:07

The 1951 noir No Questions Asked was a rarity for MGM.  The studio, mainly know for epics and musicals, steered clear of edgier material.  But when producer Dore Schary became head of production...

Tampopo (Episode 126) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-04-16T17:00

Juzo Itami's 1985 film Tampopo, about one woman's search for the perfect ramen recipe, has become so popular over the years that the restaurant industry around the world adopted it's name for ma...

Ode To Billy Joe (Episode 125) - Hot Dat with Dan and Vicky from 2021-04-02T17:00

Based on the popular folk song of the same name by Mississippi born singer Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billy Joe was a huge hit when released in the summer of 1976.  The film was the brainchild of Max...

What A Carve Up! (Episode 124) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-03-19T17:00

The obscure 1962 film What A Carve Up!, retitled No Place Like Homicide! for it's American release, brings British comedians Sidney James and Kenneth Connor together in a comedy thriller with to...

High Life (Episode 123) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-03-05T18:00

Renowned French director Claire Denis was shooting her dour  thriller High Life while nursing her dying mother. She credits the real life tragedy in her life for the somber, sometimes oppressive...

Secret of the Blue Room (Episode 22) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-02-19T18:00

Shot in 6 days for the super stingy price tag of $69,000, Kurt Neumann's Secret of the Blue Room, a remake itself of a German film, was enough of a success for Universal Pictures that they remad...

The Last Passenger (Episode 122) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-02-05T18:00

2014's The Last Passenger was the feature directorial debut of British filmmaker Omid Nooshin and tragically his last.  After a long battle with depression, the ambitious and talented director, ...

Top Ten Funny Men (Episode 120) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2021-01-22T18:00

Hot Date has reached another Top Ten episode - just what we do here every tenth podcast - and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their favorite all time male comedic film performances.  Spanning mo...

Under Milk Wood (Episode 119) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-12-31T18:00

Here we are at the end of 2020 taking stock of the strange and intense year that was.  There's lots of introspection, reflection, and depression happening.  So does Hot Date have the movie for y...

The Blue Gardenia (Episode 118) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-12-18T18:00

By all accounts a job for hire, The Blue Gardenia nonetheless benefited from having German director Fritz Lang at the helm.  On a tight 21 day shooting schedule, Lang and cinematographer Nichola...

Trollhunter (Episode 117) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-12-04T18:00

Before Norwegian filmmaker Andre Øvredal found acclaim with his festival fave The Autopsy of Jane Doe and box office clout with 2019's teen horror hit Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, he wrote...

Don't Answer The Phone (Episode 116) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-11-20T18:00

Originally a screenplay titled Nightline, 1980's Don't Answer The Phone was shot under the title The Hollywood Strangler - perhaps a nod to director Robert Hammer's stated purpose to make a film...

Jewel Robbery (Episode 115) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-11-06T18:00

Released in 1932, Jewel Robbery flaunted the sexual chemistry between it's two leads, introduced marijuana as a comedic motif and had it's debonair criminal escape police capture at the end -- a...

The Haunted Strangler (Episode 114) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-10-23T17:00

At 73, Boris Karloff was looking for material that would finally give him the chance to show his range as a performer.  He knew he couldn't escape his reputation as a reliable box office horror ...

By Night's End (Bonus Episode) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-10-06T17:00

Courtesy of TriCoast Entertainment, Dan and Vicky review By Night's End from director Walker Whited.  The home invasion thriller, co-written by Whited and Sean McCane, stars Michelle Rose and Ku...

Mary Queen of Scots (Episode 113) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2020-10-02T17:00

Your Hot Date hosts travel back in time to 1561 and the tumultuous return of Mary Queen of Scots from France to stake her claim to the English crown from her cousin Queen Elizabeth.  It's a stor...

The Crime of Helen Stanley (Episode 112) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-09-18T17:00

At just under an hour, the 1934 murder mystery The Crime of Helen Stanley hardly overstays it's welcome.  It was the fourth film in the Inspector Steve Trent series with Ralph Bellamy playing th...

Dealin' With Idiots (Episode 111) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-09-04T17:00

SOUND QUALITY ALERT:  THERE WAS AN UNFORTUNATE HUMAN ERROR IN THE RECORDING OF EPISODE 111.  WE'D FIRE THE SOUND TECHNICIAN BUT HE'S ALSO YOUR CO-HOST.  SINCEREST APOLOGIES.  HOPE THE SOUND ISSU...

Top Ten Favorites of the 80's (Episode 110) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-08-14T17:00

The Me First Decade.  The Decade of Greed.  The Yuppie Decade.  There are many names for the 1980's.  But the decade also represented an eclectic one for movies.  It was the decade that Hollywoo...

Baron Blood (Episode 109) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-07-17T17:00

For 1972's Baron Blood, director Mario Bava brought together the talents of some of the era's greatest genre stars and designers.  German actress Elke Sommer played the female lead and would do ...

Narc (Episode 108) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-07-03T17:00

For it's assured visual style and performances from Ray Liotta and Jason Patric, Joe Carnahan's Narc was the talk of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and pu...

Becky Sharp (Episode 107) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-06-26T18:54:16

Our original episode 107 was lost to the sound gods so we've kept the Hot Date chosen at the end of that podcast and move forward with the Vanity Fair adaptation Becky Sharp from 1935 s...

Wristcutters: A Love Story (Episode 106) - Hot Date with Dan&Vicky from 2020-05-30T21:16:53

Please excuse our sound issues during this episode.  We hope it doesn't detract from your enjoyment of it.

Not your typical romantic comedy, director Goran Dukic's Wristcutters: A Love St...

Foreign Correspondent (Episode 105) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-05-01T17:00

Despite the success of his Daphne Du Maurier adaptation Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock thought the film too sentimental and romantic and longed to return to the type of sharp thriller that had made h...

Orpheus (Episode 104) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-04-17T17:00

It's hard to imagine any cast being better than the one director Jean Cocteau eventually assembled for his 1950 loose film adaptation of the Orpheus myth.  But there are stories that Cocteau off...

My Cousin Rachel (Episode 103) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky from 2020-04-03T17:00

NOTE:  In trying to accommodate necessary social distancing, this week's podcast was recorded with Vicky calling in via Zoom.  We apologize in advance for the sound quality and hope to g...