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Travis Bickle On The Riviera


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!

Sep 29, 2014

It's a movie podcast!

  • 0:00:00 - 0:19:24 - Tucker and Sean both watched A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), directed by Scott Frank, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, Boyd Holbrook, David Harbour, and Brian Astro Bradley. 

    Also discussed in this section: 8 Million Ways to Die, Death Wish, Lawrence Block, the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, Blitz, screenwriters-as-directors, Phillip Marlowe, Goodfellas, Zack Snyder, Cobra, Robert Mckee, Joe Eszterhas, and actors using lightsabers. 

  • 0:19:25 - 0:29:30 - Tucker watched Basic (2003), directed by John Mctiernan, starring John Travolta, Connie Neilsen, Samuel L Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Taye Diggs, Tim Daly, and Harry Connick Jr. 

    Also discussed in this section: Rashamon, Columbo, JSA (the Park Chan-Wook movie), Pulp Fiction, Hope Floats, P.S. I Love You, Copycat, Working Girl, Demonlover, The Wood, Gladiator, The Best Man, and Mind Hunters. 

  • 0:29:31 - 0:37:03 - Sean watched The Black Windmill (1974), directed by Don Siegel, starring Michael Caine, Donald Pleasance, Delphine Seyrig, John Vernon, and Joss Acklund.  

    Also discussed in this section: Get Carter, Taken, Bill & Ted, Hard Boiled, Timecop, Robocop: Prime Directives, Total Recall 2040, Species 2, Predator 2, Shakespeare in Love, Sliders, and Legends of the Dark Knight.  

  • 0:37:04 - 0:53:17 - Both Sean and Tucker, on the reccomendation of Abhay Khosla, watched Detention (2011), directed by Joseph Kahn, starring Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Spencer Locke, Shanley Caswell, Erica Shaffer, and Aaron David Johnson. 

    Also discussed in this section: David Cronenberg, Greg Araki, Scott Pilgrim, Heathers, Clueless, Jean-Luc Godard, Children's Hospital, Torque, Scream, Pretty in Pink, Rushmore, Spartacus, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Pierrot Le Fou, Cabin In the Woods, 3 O'Clock High, and old episodes of Dinner For Five.

  • 0:53:18 - 1:12:26 - To close out, Tucker watched 3 Men and a Baby (1987), directed by Leonard Nimoy (WHAT?), starring Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, Nancy Travis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Dave Foley. 

    Also discussed in this section: Billy Madison, This Is 40, Neighbors, the Ted Danson episode of Magnum PI, Maze Runner, Jeff Bridges, and Green Lantern.

  • Next Week: PERSON OF INTEREST IS BAAAACK

  • Our outro music this week: "Chariots of Pumpkins " by John Carpenter & Alan Howarth 
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