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Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics
Two guys with strong opinions watch films separately, then discuss them on the show for the first time. Can their friendship survive? Join Mike Takla and Dan Moran as they talk about one film each episode, recreating the conversations film lovers have as they walk out of the theater. They often go beyond the fifteen-minute time limit, but never without reason. There are no pauses, pontifications, or politics–just enthusiasm for great movies. Send requests to pagesandframes.com
June 15, 2026
Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen has called A Streetcar Named Desire the most well-directed film ever made and its influence on Blue Jasmine (2013) is unmistakable. Both …
May 18, 2026
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
In 1828, a seventeen-year-old boy was found wandering the streets of Nuremberg, holding two letters and unable to say more than a few words. The loca…
April 27, 2026
Chinatown
“Forget it, Jake—it’s Chinatown.” This piece of advice is as famous as it is useless: Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will never be able to forget what h…
April 13, 2026
Get Shorty
Hollywood loves making movies about itself: on this show alone, we’ve done Sunset Boulevard, Sullivan’s Travels, and Singin’ in the Rain. Get Shorty (…
March 16, 2026
A Star Is Born (1937)
A Star Is Born has been filmed four times, but the first version is the best: a combination of Singin’ in the Rain and Death of a Salesman, David O. S…
March 2, 2026
Boiling Point
Every other movie seems to be touted as a “tour de force”--but Philip Barantini’s 2021 look at ninety minutes in the life of a chef and everyone aroun…
February 16, 2026
His Girl Friday
The average estimated words-per-minute in a feature film is 90; His Girl Friday (1940) clocks in at 240. And yet the fast dialogue is only one of its…
February 2, 2026
Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century (1934) is a screwball comedy that moves like a runaway train and we are delightfully tied to the tracks. John Barrymore’s audacious …
December 22, 2025
The Dead
“Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland.” That line from James Joyce’s story is heard at the end of John Huston’s 1987 ada…
December 8, 2025
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire (1987) is a film that stays with the viewer; part of how it works is to flood the viewer’s mind with images that seem, at first, disco…
November 24, 2025
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Something film fanatics often say is that a particular director’s work is really “about the movies.” Sometimes that’s true and sometimes it isn’t–but…
November 10, 2025
The Beast
Have you ever felt that you keep making the same mistakes or that you have fallen into a pattern that could be Exhibit A as proof of reincarnation? T…
October 27, 2025
The Trip
My Dinner with Andre (1981) is a film that uses the simple premise of two men sharing a meal as a vehicle for exploration of how we should live our li…
October 13, 2025
Miami Vice
Many movies tell us how to watch them. Whether it’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, Casablanca, or Rear Window, movies steer the viewers to certain reaction…
September 29, 2025
History Is Made at Night
Every so often, you encounter The Perfect Movie: something with a screenplay, cast, and direction that combine in a way that reminds you of what happe…
September 15, 2025
The Straight Story
Everybody was shocked when, in 1999, David Lynch released a G-rated film with a Norman Rockwell setting that didn’t have a dark underbelly or wild rev…
August 25, 2025
Excalibur
We’ve seen many attempts at transferring Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and its variants onto the screen, but none of them capture the spirit of the orig…
August 18, 2025
The Boston Strangler
In a film in which the audience buys its tickets knowing who will play the title role, what happens when you don’t have him enter the frame until a so…
July 25, 2025
If I Should Die Before I Wake
Flannery O’Connor said that stories about pious children tend to be false. She’s right, of course, but she doesn’t even say the half of it: stories a…
July 21, 2025
Moonstruck
Our episode on Moonstruck (1987) was almost never made: as with Manchester By the Sea, Dan harbored an irrational suspicion against it–but when he fin…