Silver Linings Playback 235 – Rent (ft. Shawn M. Smith)

Chris Columbus, Featured, Jonathan Larson, musica theatre, musicals, Podcasts, Rent, Silver Linings Playback, Taye Diggs

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Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, they are watching maligned musicals.

This week, Joel and Andy are joined by Rent superfan Shawn M. Smith to discuss the film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical that was inexplicably directed by the guy who did Home Alone and two Harry Potter movies.

  • Rent (2005)
  • Directed by: Chris Columbus
  • Written by: Jonathan Larson (book), Stephen Chbosky (screenplay by)
  • Starring: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 234 – Pennies From Heaven

Bernadette Peters, Featured, musica theatre, musicals, Podcasts, Silver Linings Playback, Steve Martin

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Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, they are watching maligned musicals.

This week, Joel and Andy discuss the odd and incredibly dark Steve Martin musical Pennies From Heaven, which they both found utterly delightful.

  • Pennies From Heaven (1981)
  • Directed by: Herbert Ross
  • Written by: Dennis Potter
  • Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris, John McMartin, Christopher Walken

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 233 – Paint Your Wagon

Clint Eastwood, Featured, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin, Old West, Podcasts, Silver Linings Playback, Westerns

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Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, they are watching maligned musicals.

Joel and Andy head to the Old West for Paint Your Wagon, a baffling musical starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg as a throuple in a Gold Rush town.

  • Paint Your Wagon (1969)
  • Directed by: Joshua Logan
  • Written by: Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay), Paddy Chayefsky (adaptation)
  • Starring: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 232 – Joker: Folie à Deux (ft. Lars Periwinkle)

Batman, comic books, DC Comics, Featured, Harley Quinn, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Lady GaGa, Podcasts, Silver Linings Playback, Todd Phillips

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Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, they are watching maligned musicals.

Joel, Andy and their guest Lars Periwinkle kick things off with the most maligned musical to come out this year: Joker: Folie à Deux. They try to figure out why this film is a musical in the first place and who, exactly, it’s supposed to be for.

  • Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
  • Directed by: Todd Phillips
  • Written by: Scott Silver & Todd Phillips (written by), Bob Kane & Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, Paul Dini & Bruce Timm (characters created by)
  • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Leigh Gill

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 231 – Daughters of Satan (ft. David Dastmalchian)

Ant-Man, comic books, David Dastmalchian, DC Comics, Featured, Marvel, MCU, Podcasts, Silver Linings Playback, Suicide Squad, The Dark Knight, Tom Selleck

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Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. It’s October, so it’s time to panic … with a month full of Satanic Panic films!

This week, Joel and Andy turn to a man who spent a Late Night With the Devil, David Dastmalchian, to help them find the silver linings in the 1972 Tom Selleck film Daughters of Satan.

And together, they uncover the shocking truth that this film about a haunted witch painting inspired Magnum, P.I.

Daughters of Satan (1972) 
Directed by: Hollingsworth Morse 
Written by: John C. Higgins (screenplay), John A. Bushelman (story)
Starring: Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Tani Guthrie, Paraluman, Vic Silayan, Vic Diaz

Closing Song: “Halloween Hop” by David Dastmalchian, LVCRFT and Thunderwolf

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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