Martin Harries

Can a war film also be a comfort film? This month we're exploring that question. First up this week, special guest Martin Harries of Film Vs. Film Podcast joins us to discuss one of his favorite comfort picks and a perennial rewatch around the holidays with family, The Guns of Navarone. We talk about the paradox of comforting war films; Carl Foreman's script, which placed mythmaking far above historical fact; J. Lee Thompson's directing style, which balanced blockbuster action sequences with phi...

This week, Martin from Film vs. Film Podcast joins us as we kick off a month of westerns with the movie that totally changed the genre, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the title characters. We talk about the perfectly balanced William Goldman screenplay that is equally hilarious and tragic, the exceptional director-cinematographer team-up of George Roy Hill and Conrad Hall, the iconic pairing of Newman and Redford that makes this film as much a budd...

For week 3 of our sci-fi series, we're pivoting from Alien to the xenomorph's equally malevolent human-hunting enemy, Predator! We're joined by the phenomenally funny and insightful Martin and Boaz from Film vs Film Podcast, and we discuss subverting toxic masculinity, cartoonish violence, meaningless folksy sayings, gun culture, ultimate frenemies Dutch and Dillon, extraterrestrials taking hunting vacations on earth, and the multiple governorships spawned by this film. You son of a bitch, get t...