A podcast about Louisiana at the Movies, the highs, the lows and the lagniappe!
Join MyNewOrleans.com Film Critic Jeremy Marshall, along with Film Critic Lucia Bellanger Koski and Future Shock Video owner Eden Chubb each week as they dive into the movies that make Louisiana.
SEASON 1
What happens when Dracula meets Mardi Gras at the cusp of a new millennium? You get a whole lot of blood and a nu-metal cinema classic! This week, join us for Lucia’s Birthday Episode as we don our leather dusters, snag a cheeky Café Du Monde (even though we don’t drink…coffee),and stalk the French Quarter searching for Virgins of the Mega Store variety with Gerard Butler and Johnny Lee Miller in “Dracula 2000” (2000). Read more thoughts from Lucia and Jeremy here.
Welcome to New Orleans, where “wise guys” run the streets, corrupt cops are charming scamps, and being taken to a fais do-do against your will is just a way of life, cher! Join us as things get steamy between Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin, not to mention a stuffed alligator, in “The Big Easy” (1986).
“The Muscles From Brussels” invades New Orleans and is Cajun(?) apparently, in this high-octane action classic, the first American film directed by the inimitable John Woo. Come for the motorcycle chases and stay for the rattlesnake punches as Jean-Claude Van Damme high kicks his way through a “most dangerous game” in “Hard Target” (1993).
The Big Easy gets sleazy when a rumpled gumshoe detective (Mickey Rourke) takes a case from a mysterious benefactor (Robert DeNiro) that takes him from the back alleys of New York City to the sweat-soaked bayous of Louisiana. A movie that very nearly carried an NC-17 Rating, join us as we venture through a haunted New Orleans where the devil always gets his due with Alan Parker’s “Angel Heart” (1987).
This week, James Bond takes a trip down south to New Orleans in pursuit of a dastardly, yet pragmatic, entrepreneur/dictator who loves heroin, shark tanks, and tarot seductions (though, not necessarily in that order). Join us as we tip back a Sazerac and play little alligator hop scotch with Roger Moore in “Live and Let Die” (1973).
The vampire life seems like a glamorous one, especially in New Orleans, until you end up spending centuries playing cat and mouse with your charismatic situationship who can’t die, no matter how much of his blood you spill. Rare has a movie had more Louisiana bona fides than this classic homoerotic epic, a sharp-toothed tale where Tom Cruise lets his freak flag fly, the world is introduced to the generational talent that is Kirsten Dunst, and Brad Pitt looks like he wants to eat a bullet…mostly because he does! Break out the torches and crack back open the old Tumblr page because this week on Reel Magnolias, we’re diving fangs first into the cadaverous clutches of Anne Rice’s “Interview With The Vampire” (1994).
