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Travis Bickle On The Riviera

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Hi there! I'm Tucker Stone, one of the three guys who hosts a podcast called Travis Bickle on the Rivieria. I've written for places like Flavorwire, The Comics Journal, Comixology and The Factual Opinion, and am currently punching the clock at Nobrow, a publisher of comics, graphic novels and children's books. Back in 2012, my friend Sean Witzke, a movie critic whose most recent work can be read at Grantland, started this podcast as a way to continue the conversations (and arguments) we had been having about movies amongst our mutual blogs.

Although neither one of us had listened to a lot of podcasts, we felt that our cantankerous, expletive laden diatribes might be of interest to others, and in the years since, we have been extremely lucky to be proven right: people, for whatever reason, like to listen to a couple of miserable depressives wax nostalgic over action movies from the 80's. (It probably didn't hurt that the hugely talented Michel Fiffe drew our logo image!)

When I became a father in 2013, longtime friend of the show and frequent guest host Morgan Jeske came on board to keep Sean from going stir crazy with backed-up opinions. Jeske--the talented cartoonist behind books for Image Comics like Change and Zero--rapidly made himself indispensable, and after my return to the show, it only made sense to welcome him on as an official host, turning this gruesome twosome into the trio it had always been destined to be. As the episodes have piled up (you can check out our episode guide, with every movie, director and special episode listed here), the show was continually graced with a murderers row of guests from the world of comics and film--you can see all of those amazing people at that link as well.

All of that brings us right up to right now, a cold day in October: the day where we ask for help. Simply put, the increased interest in the show has meant that we've had to put a bit more into the nuts and bolts of paying for it than we used to, and we thought 133 episodes (at most recent count) was enough to try passing the hat to help meet the costs. The show isn't in danger of going anyway anytime soon--Sean, Morgan and I like hurting each others feelings just a little too much for that to be a real concern--but we would appreciate the breathing room that financial support will allow. Below you'll see the various levels of pledge options and the rewards they provide--we're pretty excited about them, especially the one where we send you surprises you can't return--but even if you come away thinking that we don't deserve one thin dime, it still means a lot that you stopped by in the first place. Thank you for reading, but most of all thank you for listening!

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Feb 10, 2015

On this episode, your hosts discuss:

0:00:00 - 0:29:15 - Trailer roundup! Topics discussed: Jupiter Ascending, White God, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Ant Man, Arrow, Outcast, 50 Shades of Grey, Paul Verhoeven, Adrian Lyne, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Joe Ezterhas, Unfaithful, Jacob's Ladder, 9 and a Half Weeks, Basic Instinct, Gone Girl, Brian De Palma, Sliver, Angel Heart, The Wrestler, Heat, Nosferatu, Magic Mike XXL, Season of the Witch, Adrian Brody, Toy Story, X-Men Days of Future Past, Planet of the Apes, Mandingo, Nymphomaniac, I Am Number Four, Jumper, Poltergeist, The Grudge, The Descent, Larry Hama, Doomsday, Ninja, Magic the Gathering, The Winning Season, Bad News Bears, Breaking Bad, Half Nelson, Snow Angels, Friday Night Lights, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Antichrist, Hostel 2, 28 Days, Transformers 3, Joe Carnahan, Chronicle, Whiplash, Interstellar, and Call of Duty.
0:29:16 - 0:37:55 - Tucker watched American Sniper (2014), directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller.

Also discussed in this section: Forrest Gump, Steven Spielberg, The Hurt Locker, Ghost in the Shell, Vern, Matt Taibbi, and The Economist.
0:37:56 - 0:49:19 - Tucker saw Taken 3 (2014), directed by Olivier Megaton, starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Forrest Whittaker, Dougray Scott, and Famke Jansen.

Also discussed in this section: Xander Berkley, Mission Impossible 2, Hugh Jackman, Wolverine, Car 54 Where Are You, Terminator 2, Point Break, Point Blank, Breaking Point, Boiling Point, Repo Man, Flashpoint, Breaking The Girl, Girls Don't Cry, Boys Don't Cry, The Joy Luck Club, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, The Waterboy, The Woodsman, The Clearing, Triumph of the Spirit, Michael Mann, John Wick, Chain Reaction, The Gift, Speed, James Spader, Grown Ups 2, andThe Matrix.
0:49:19 - 0:54:30 - Tucker and Sean both watched The Phantom Carriage (1921), directed by Victor Sjostrom, staring Sjostrom, Hilda Borgstrom, and Tore Svenneberg.

Also discussed in this section: The Shining, Muppet Christmas Carol, Sunn O))), Shakespeare, the Bible, and Dr. Strangelove.
0:54:31 - 1:13:54 - Sean watched Kawachi Karumen (1966), directed by Seijun Suzuki, starring Yumiko Nogawa, Ruriko Ito, Chikako Miyagi, Michio Hino, and Kayo Matsuo.

Also discussed in this section: Christian Movie Trailers dotcom, Story of a Prostitute, Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, Nicholas Cage, the Star Wars prequels, Tomorrowland, Fast & The Furious 7, Sideways, Shoot Em Up, Children of Men, Closer, Duplicity, The Brothers Bloom, Summer Catch, Fever Pitch, Jimmy Fallon, Remo Williams, Seth Meyers, Fireproof, and Old Fashioned.