Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

Director Walter Hill had his hands full on the set of his 1975 directorial debut Hard Times.  He had cast Charles Bronso... Read more

1951's The Strange Door had the talents of Charles Laughton in the lead but Universal hung their hopes on Boris Karloff ... Read more

When director Peter Medak (The Changeling, Romeo Is Bleeding) cast twins brothers Martin and Gary Kemp to play the infam... Read more

Even before director George Sidney and stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak and Angela Lansbury finished shooting 1946's The ... Read more

After the success of his 1958 film The Defiant Ones, which confronted issues of racial division, director Stanley Kramer... Read more

Ernst Lubitsch left his native Germany in 1922 as an ambitious 30 year old looking to make his mark in American movies. ... Read more

There were so many variables in bringing the nearly two hour Marx Brothers classic A Day At The Races to the screen -- t... Read more

Hot Date has reached episode 90 and that means hosts Dan and Vicky come up with another Top Ten movie list.  This time, ... Read more

Director Dick Maas can be arguably credited for putting The Netherlands on the horror map with his 1983 film Der Lift.  ... Read more

From the fertile imagination of Terry Gilliam comes The Adventures of Baron Munchausen from 1989 but it wasn't without i... Read more

Robert Bresson, director of this week's Pickpocket and numerous films that helped define the French New Wave, was known ... Read more

Despite the success of his Daphne Du Maurier adaptation Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock thought the film too sentimental and r... Read more

It's hard to imagine any cast being better than the one director Jean Cocteau eventually assembled for his 1950 loose fi... Read more

NOTE:  In trying to accommodate necessary social distancing, this week's podcast was recorded with Vicky calling in via ... Read more

Please note that Hot Date 102 was recorded BEFORE the Covid-19 pandemic hit crisis levels. Our discussion of it reflects... Read more

1941's Cottage To Let started life as a play in London's West End.  It was a huge hit and film director Anthony Asquith ... Read more

Hot Date with Dan and Vicky hits it's 100th episode with a look back at the podcasts that made us.  Your hosts choose th... Read more

French provocateur Francois Ozon's uses the frame work of fairy tale Hansel and Gretel to tell his violent and twisted s... Read more

For episode 85 of Hot Date, Dan and Vicky take us to Scandinavia for the comedy Elling, starring Per Christian Ellefsen ... Read more

The plot of 1939's Lady of the Tropics strangely mirrored the life of it's star Hedy Lamarr.  In the film Lamarr is a wo... Read more