Episodes

  • The Complete Works Ep. 106: Tom Cruise – TAPS (1981)
    Jul 28 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 106 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Harold Becker's 1981 film Taps. Cast Taps stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Giancarlo Esposito, and Evan Handler. Plot Synopsis Taps (1981)’s plot synopsis: based on Devery Freeman's 1979 novel Father Sky, "Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.” Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 106 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 106 via Podcast Stream
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    33 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 105: Tom Cruise – ENDLESS LOVE (1981)
    Jul 14 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 105 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Franco Zeffirelli's 1981 film Endless Love. Cast Endless Love stars Tom Cruise, Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford, and Beatrice Straight. Plot Synopsis Endless Love (1981)’s plot synopsis: based on the book same name by Scott Spencer, "Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod is consumed with his love for Jade Butterfield. So when Jade’s father exiles him from their home, David does the only thing he thinks is rational: He burns down their house. Sentenced to a psychiatric institution, David’s obsession metastasizes, and upon his release, he sets out to win the Butterfields back by any means necessary.” Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 105 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 105 via Podcast Stream
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    24 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 104: Christopher Nolan – OPPENHEIMER (2023)
    Jun 22 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 104 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer. Cast Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, David Krumholtz, Kenneth Branagh, and David Dastmalchian. Plot Synopsis Oppenheimer (2023)’s plot synopsis: based on the book by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, “The movie follows theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project (started in 1939 it ran from 1942 to 1946) and his contributions that led to the creation of the very first atomic bomb during World War II.” Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 104 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 104 via Podcast Stream
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    40 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 103: Christopher Nolan – TENET (2020)
    Jun 9 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 103 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Christopher Nolan's 2020 film Tenet. Cast Tenet stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Himesh Patel, Andrew Howard, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Martin Donovan, Carina Velva, Dimple Kapadia, Jonathan Camp, and Katie McCabe. Plot Synopsis Tenet plot synopsis: "Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 103 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 103 via Podcast Stream
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  • The Complete Works Ep. 102: Christopher Nolan – DUNKIRK (2017)
    Jun 5 2024
    The Complete Works Ep. 102 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reacts to and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug discusses Christopher Nolan's 2017 film Dunkirk. Cast Dunkirk stars Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Damien Bonnard, Aneurin Barnard, Lee Armstrong, James Bloor, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Luke Thompson, Michael Biel, Constantin Balsan , Billy Howle, Mikey Collins, Callum Blake, Dean Ridge, and Bobby Lockwood. Plot Synopsis Dunkirk plot synopsis: "Starting in May of 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Mobile App, Google News, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, Flipboard, and Threads. The Complete Works Ep. 102 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 102 via Podcast Stream
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  • The Complete Works Podcast Ep. 101: Christopher Nolan – INTERSTELLAR (2014)
    Apr 25 2023
    The Complete Works Podcast Ep. 101 The Complete Works podcast is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reacts to and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug discusses Christopher Nolan's 2014 film Interstellar. Cast Interstellar stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy, Matt Damon, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Timothee Chalamet, David Oyelowo, Collette Wolfe, Francis X. McCarthy, Bill Irwin, Andrew Borba, Wes Bentley, William Devan, Michael Cain, David Gyasi, Josh Stewart, and Casey Affleck. Plot Synopsis Interstellar plot synopsis: "In 2067, a global famine caused humanity to abandon scientific pursuits such as space exploration. Ex-NASA pilot Joseph Cooper is forced to work as a farmer. One day, Cooper experiences a gravitational "anomaly" in his daughter Murph's bedroom. He deduces it to be a pattern of GPS coordinates and arrives at a secret NASA facility headed by Professor Brand. Brand explains to Cooper that it is engaged in a secret mission to discover an exoplanet capable of supporting life and that he is working on a gravity-equation. He enlists Cooper's help to pilot an exploratory spacecraft with three other scientists – Romilly, Doyle, and Brand’s daughter Amelia. The crew travels through a wormhole on board the Endurance to pass through to another galaxy. Their mission is to investigate three planets, orbiting a supermassive black hole called Gargantua, each of which was previously explored by a NASA scientist-explorer." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works Podcast episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, and Flipboard. The Complete Works Podcast Ep. 101 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 101 via Podcast Stream
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    25 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 100: Christopher Nolan – THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012)
    Jul 26 2021
    The Complete Works Ep. 100 The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reacts to and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug discusses Christopher Nolan's 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises. Cast The Dark Knight Rises stars Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Stewart, Daniel Sunjata, Burn Gorman, Diego Klattenhoff, Josh Pence, Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, Joey King, Alon Aboutboul, Nestor Carbonell, Brett Cullen, Thomas Lennon, and Juno Temple. The Dark Knight Rises was written by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan. Plot Synopsis The Dark Knight Rises' plot synopsis: "It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. The Podcast Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, and Flipboard. The Complete Works Ep. 100 on YouTube The Complete Works Ep. 100 via Podcast Stream
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    37 mins
  • The Complete Works Ep. 99: Christopher Nolan – INCEPTION (2010)
    Jun 14 2021
    The Complete Works Ep. 99 The Complete Works is a review and in-depth analysis podcast. FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reacts to and analyzes every film in the filmography of Christopher Nolan, scene-by-scene in each episode. This week, Doug discusses Christopher Nolan's 2010 film Inception. Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. Inception was written by Christopher Nolan. Inception's plot synopsis: "A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O." Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once or visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list "The Complete Works" in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Find us on iTunes, subscribe, star rate, and critique this podcast. Listen to this The Complete Works episode and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast Facebook Page, and our Podcast YouTube Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, and Flipboard. The Complete Works Ep. 99
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    42 mins