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Today on the Ellroy Boys, we’re discussing a couple of films concerned with assassins, their networks and men who attempting to stop them. One, is a lean home invasion flick starring Frank Sinatra & Sterling Hayden, Suddenly, the other is The P
The Ellroy Boys are joined by one of the finest people on the planet, the crime fiction scholar and author, Steven Powell. This show would not exist without his work as he is truly the original Ellroy Boy. Additionally, he created the wonderful
The Night and the City is a wonderfully warped and thrilling noir that welcomes the audience into a shifting & vicious world hijacked by frauds and hucksters of the worst variety. The real heroes of the story, those like Gregorius (Stanislaus Z
This week on THE ELLROY BOYS...Brendan and Sam are joined by dear friend and honorary Ellroy Boy, jack, the perfume nationalist, to discuss a mutual favorite work, James M. Cain's masterpiece, Mildred Pierce. And while we spend some time talki
This weeks episode finds the Ellroy Boys talking about classic film noir, In a Lonely Place in addition to Dario Argento's Tenebrae. The first film, arguably auteur Nicholas Ray’s best movie, is a deeply personal excavation of Hollywood’s dark
The Ellroy Boys are joined by the brilliant writer & poet, Hayden Church to discuss Hitchcock's lurid masterpiece of obsessive love, 1958's VERTIGO starring Jimmy Stewart & Kim Novak. We discuss peeping, prowling, perversion & how all these mat
This week, the intrepid Ellroy Boys venture into serial killer cinema. First, they discuss David Fincher's magnificent, epic procedural drama, 2007's Zodiac, in addition to 1971's singular and bizarre grindhouse oddity, The Zodiac Killer. The l
The Ellroy Boys discuss David Lean's tragically beautiful, Brief Encounter, with the wonderful and wise, @bimboubermensch. The film, an adaptation of Noël Coward's Still Life, tells the story of an affair between two married strangers who meet
The Ellroy Boys discuss Andre De Toth's minimalist noir masterwork, Crime Wave, an exceptionally well crafted crime picture elevated by it's sure handed direction and incredible cast, featuring Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia, and T
This week, the Ellroy Boys examine Samuel Fuller's sublime "The Baron of Arizona", an especially strange and wonderful western about infamous master forger, James Reavis and his fraudulent attempt to lay claim to the state of Arizona. The boys
On this blessed episode, Sam & Brendan are joined by the esteemed original ellroy boy Walter Kirn to discuss Billy Wilder's electric & all-consuming masterpiece DOUBLE INDEMNITY(1944), as well as James M. Cain's novel of the same name. Blauerge
The Ellroy Boys discuss William Friedkin's bold existentialist opus, Sorcerer(1977), a nihilistic meditation on fate and a reimagining of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear (1953). Four men from four different worlds find themselves in a
The Ellroy Boys & Eddie of Car Crash (@edboy9k) talk Billy Wilder's masterful Ace in the Hole, a beautifully crafted and enthralling cinematic denunciation of corrupt media magnates, crooked newspapermen & mob morbidity. It's a sordid and cruel
We're back in the books for this very special episode featuring original Ellroy Boy and brilliant crime fiction scholar and author, Steven Powell, as well as genius artist Howling Mutant. This time we're talking L.A Confidential, the third nove
The Ellroy Boys are joined by Rock and Roll Dream Shaman Dan Thrall @danXthrall aka the Nipsey Russell of podcasts, to talk master maximalist Oliver Stone's batshit 90's neo-noir U-Turn. Once again, no stone is left unturned and the second chap
The wonderful & wise Walter Kirn joins the boys for an off-the-cuff hang. We talk Ellroy, his brilliant book Blood Will Out, and the eternal dullness of psychopaths. Kirn further shares some excellent anecdotes, including a few about being frie
The one and only Howling Mutant is back with the boys, to talk Suicide Hill, the third and final novel in James Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkin's trilogy. It's almost certainly the finest book in the series and coincidently this is our best ep on the tri
Today, The Ellroy Boys are joined by the one and only, J a c k @lotus__point, to talk about what might be the greatest film ever made, Michael Cimino's 1985, ultraviolent, police procedural turned borderline grand guignol style soap opera, Yea
The Ellroy Boys are joined by @bimboubermensch to discuss John Dahl's 90's neo-noir masterpiece, The Last Seduction. Not a single stone is left unturned and at some point Brendan becomes completely nude. Produced by @goldpny
The Ellroy Boys dig deep into the second installment of the demon dog's Lloyd Hopkins trilogy, Because the Night. While the sequel to Blood on the Moon has been largely dismissed as the least compelling Hopkins adventure, the boys find a lot to
This weeks episode is the first of what will be a trilogy dedicated to Arizona on film. To begin, we talk about a film everyone should see, 'White of the Eye', directed by notorious and brilliant freak, Donald Cammell. There isn't anything else
The Ellroy Boys dechurn, rechurn, and start somewhere close to the beginning. That means our brother, @Howlingmutant0 joins @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan and @rubberwidow to talk Blood on the Moon, the first novel in Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkins trilo
The boys are joined by the brilliant & mysterious Gwen @rancid0rchid to discuss Gary Sherman's singular, sleazoid slimeball masterpiece of a movie, Vice Squad (1982)starring the one and only Wings Hauser as Ramrod, the Judge Holden/Terminator o
THE ELLROY BOYS ride again...this time deep into the dark, tar-pit heart of Los Angeles, as depicted in Ellroy's first two LA Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia & The Big Nowhere. So, go ahead and pour yourself a strong drink and settle in for ne
The Ellroy Boys (@rubberwidow, @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan)are joined by two very, very special guests, Jack (@lotus__point)and Howling Mutant (@Howlingmutant0)to discuss Sam Peckinpah's melancholic booze-soaked desert noir Bring Me The Head o
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