Following up last week's coverage of the Studio 54 musical drama, we discuss the lauded Director's Cut and welcome special guest Louis Jordan who wrote the New York Magazine article telling the film's journey to being re-released and rediscovered. Check out Louis's podcast Mother! Murderer! Podcaster!   Support the Machine to keep it running for as little as $1/month over at Patreon. Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com. Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine. Special thanks to Nate DuFort. Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

The Machine sends us to August 28, 1998 to cover the multi-character music drama 54 starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Breckin Meyer, and Mike Myers. It’s 1979, and 19-year-old gas station attendant Shane O’Shea (played by Ryan Phillippe) is determined to break out of his humdrum suburban life in New Jersey to experience the glitz and glamor of New York City’s hottest and most exclusive nightclub, Studio 54. Standing in the crowd outside the club, Shane catches the eye of 54’s eccentric and mercurial owner, Steve Rubell (played by Mike Myers), who grants him entry and gives him a job as a shirtless bartender. As Shane is drawn into the world of casual sex, drug use, and glamorous debauchery inside the club, he forms a friendship with fellow waiter Greg (played by Breckin Meyer) and Greg’s wife Anita, an aspiring musician (played by Salma Hayek). But when this hard partying lifestyle begins to take its toll on his relationships - and the IRS takes an interest in 54’s dubious finances - Shane seeks an escape from this world of glitz and glamor with soap opera day-player and club regular Julie (played by Neve Campbell). Written and directed by Mark Christopher   Support the Machine to keep it running for as little as $1/month over at Patreon. Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com. Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine. Special thanks to Nate DuFort. Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

In this mini episode, we discuss motion capture actor Terry Notary, personal exposure to Tarzan throughout our lives, and we play the Trailer Game.   Support the Machine to keep it running for as little as $1/month over at Patreon. Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com. Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine. Special thanks to Nate DuFort. Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

The Machine sends us to June 29, 2016 to cover the pulp adventure blockbuster The Legend of Tarzan starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, and Christoph Waltz. Eight years ago, Tarzan (played by Alexander Skarsgard) left the jungle with his American wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), and returned to his family’s estate in England, where he lives a life of luxury under his birth name, John Clayton, Earl of Greystoke. In 1889, Clayton, Jane, and American diplomat George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson) return to Africa at the invitation of King Leopold II of Belgium, who has invited them to tour his colonies in the Congo Free State. Little do they realize that the invitation is a trap: the king’s nefarious envoy Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz) plans to capture Tarzan and deliver him to Tarzan’s old nemesis Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou) in exchange for blood diamonds to finance the king’s brutal colonial regime. When Jane is captured by Rom’s forces, Tarzan must reclaim his title as king of the jungle and rally human and animal allies to defeat the colonizers and free his friends. Directed by David Yates Written by Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs   Support the Machine to keep it running for as little as $1/month over at Patreon. Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com. Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine. Special thanks to Nate DuFort. Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

In this mini-transmission, we discuss the soundtrack to Life or Something Like It, the least sexy sex talk, and some Frasier speculation. We also play the trailer game and the Machine spits out the clues for next week's film.   Support the Machine to keep it running for as little as $1/month over at Patreon. Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com. Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine. Special thanks to Nate DuFort. Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

The Machine sends us to April 26, 2002 to cover the Angelina Jolie film Life or Something Like It. Seattle news reporter Lanie Karrigan (Angelina Jolie) has carefully curated her dream life: Marilyn Monroe looks, a star baseball player fiancé (Christian Kane), and a rising career. When the opportunity to go national comes up, her station manager pairs her with Pete, a seasoned producer (Edward Burns,) to strengthen her profile. However, when Pete sets up an in-the-field interview with Prophet Jack (Tony Shaloub), a homeless soothsayer, he informs Lanie that she will not only not get the new job, but that she will die in seven days. Directed by Stephen Herek Written by Dana Stevens and John Scott Shepherd   Support the Machine to keep it running for as little as $1/month over at Patreon. Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com. Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine. Special thanks to Nate DuFort. Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

In this Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre mini-transmission, we discuss what the actual “ruse” is, a costuming faux pas (more French idioms!), and play the Trailer Game—the game that is sweeping the nation where we try to guess which moments will appear in the trailer for the film. Also, the Machine gives us some clues for which movie it’s sending us next!   Keep the Machine running for as little as $1/month over at Patreon.   Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com.   Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine.   Special thanks to Nate DuFort.   Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

The Machine sends us to March 3, 2023 to cover the Guy Ritchie action spy comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre starring Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Hugh Grant, Josh Hartnett, and Bugzy Malone. When a top secret technological weapon is stolen by a billionaire arms dealer, a team of super spies must find a way to retrieve it. The team recruits the arms dealer’s favorite Hollywood actor as their cover to infiltrate his confidence and stop him from selling the weapon before it takes down the world’s financial systems.   Support us for as little as $1/month over at Patreon. Movie Memory Machine is part of the Grunt Work Podcasts network. For more information on today’s episode, visit moviememorymachine.com. Theme song by Porky’s Groove Machine. Special thanks to Nate DuFort. Follow us: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

Movie Memory Machine makes its first transmission Friday, April 26, 2024. Subscribe now on your favorite podcatcher!

Coming April 26th, 2024. Movie Memory Machine is a podcast dedicated to films that are forgotten but not gone. Each episode the Machine will send us backward and forward through time and force us to blow the dust off a wide release film that history has forgotten. In this trailer episode, you get to meet the captives of the Machine: Landen Celano and Truman Capps. Join us on this adventure through the foggy ether of memory and movies!