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Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Your hosts Dan and Vicky take you on a hot date through movie history. They'll choose a random month, day and year and pick a favorite movie released on or near that date. It could be a love fest, it could get heated or it could turn into a threesome! Take a wild and funny ride in Dan and Vicky's movie time machine. You're invited on their Hot Date!
Episodes
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Voyagers (Episode 244) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
2021's science fiction drama Voyagers came out in the height of the pandemic when movie theaters were slowly reopening and came and went with very little…
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And Then There Were None (Episode 243) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
1974's And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians) was producer/screenwriter Harry Alan Towers second adaptation of the venerable Agatha Christie…
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Scene of the Crime (Episode 242) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1949's Scene of the Crime was a departure for MGM, the studio known for musicals and light comedies. New studio head Dory Schary was a fan of film noir and…
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Game 6 (Episode 241) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Game 6 was successful novelist Don DeLillo's first produced screenplay. Written in 1991 but not produced until 2004, the film was shot for $500,000 in…
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Top Ten Favorite British Films (Episode 240) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For Hot Date 240, a Top Ten episode, Dan and Vicky talk about their favorite British films - from horror to comedy to drama, your hosts pick some of their most…
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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (Episode 239) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is a collaboration by David Wain and Ken Marino, the comedy duo responsible for The State and Wet Hot American Summer…
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The Divorce of Lady X (Episode 238) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Merle Oberon, star of 1938's The Divorce of Lady X, had been involved in a car accident before shooting that left her face scarred. The comedy with co-star…
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Universal Soldier (Episode 237) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1992's Universal Soldier marked the first collaboration between stars Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. The action titans play Vietnam soldiers…
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Crank (Episode 236) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
2006's Crank was the directorial debut of co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Tayloer and their approach was incredibly hands on. One of the first film to…
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State Fair (Episode 235) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1962's State Fair marked the third screen adapatation of the novel by Phil Stong. As in 1945, this one was a musical but a big, colorful, expansive musical…
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Hokum (Episode 234) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Irish film director Damian McCarthy had only made two features before 2026's Hokum but has already proven to have a distinctive style and tone. McCarthy also…
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In God We Trust (Episode 233) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1980's In God We Trust was the second film of a three film agreement between actor/director Marty Feldman and Universal Pictures. Following the success of…
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The Wicked Lady (Episode 232) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1945's The Wicked Lady directed by Leslie Arliss was an enormous hit for Gainsborough Studios and is still considered one of the most popular and successful…
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Project Hail Mary (Episode 231) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky head back to the movies! This time it's the recent hit sci-fi comedy drama Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller directed by…
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Top Ten Favorite Indie Hits Costing Under A Million (Episode 230) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky are back with a Top Ten episode! This time your Hot Daters discuss their favorite films made for under a million dollars that went on to make a…
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The Driver (Episode 229) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The Driver from 1978 was written and directed by Walter Hill (Hard Times, 48 Hours, The Warriors) as a response to what he saw as coventional genre fare. Hill…
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (Episode 228) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The novel on which 1950's film Kind Hearts and Coronets is based treated the story of an entitled royal reject who goes to murdeous lengths to secure his place…
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The Tomb of Ligeia (Episode 227) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The final film in director Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle, The Tomb of Ligeia marked the second collaboration for Corman and screenwriter Robert Towne…
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (Episode 226) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
The late 2000's were chock-a-block with Winnie-the-Pooh projects. In addition to this week's Hot Date 2017 film Goodbye Christopher Robin starring Domhnall…
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Little Odessa (Episode 225) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1995's Little Odessa is a look inside a Russian American family and their ties to the mob in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Shot over two months in the brutal cold…
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A New Leaf (Episode 224) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For her directorial debut, comedienne and writer Elaine May chose to adapt the short story The Green Heart by Jack Ritchie into A New Leaf - the story of a…
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Wicked: For Good (Episode 223) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Four times a year, Hot Date goes to the actual movies to bring you a film playing right now! Vicky could not let the release of Wicked: For Good go by without…
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Ladies' Day (Episode 222) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Leslie Goodwins, director of 1943's Ladies' Day, a farcical comedy set in the world of baseball, needed a lead actress that woluld believably cause players to…
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James White (Episode 221) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Based on the story of his own mother's fight with cancer, director/writer Josh Mond made the lead character of 2015's James White a caregiver with his own…
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DO Call It A Comeback! - Top Ten Actor Comebacks (Episode 220) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
We've reached another Top Ten episode and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their hottest top ten actor comebacks. Every actor has a lull in their career, either…
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The Corruptor (Episode 219) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1999's The Corruptor was the second attempt by an American film studio to make an international star out of Chow Yun Fat. The Replacement Killers a year before…
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The Jungle Book (Episode 218) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1967's The Jungle Book was Disney's attempt to adapt the series of Rudyard Kipling's books into a children's animated film. Initial attempts to create a…
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Highest 2 Lowest (Episode 217) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Highest 2 Lowest, out today on Apple TV +, is the latest joint from Spike Lee. The film is the latest adaptation of Ed McBain's King's Ransom and follows in…
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Dracula's Daughter (Episode 216) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Originally envisioned as a vampire dominatrix with a dungeon to torture and feed on men, 1936's Dracula's Daughter underwent a radical reinvention to…
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Tattoo (Episode 215) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1981's Tattoo, the lone feature effort of commercial director/co-writer Bob Brooks, was fraught with pre and post production problems. The film, about a tatto…
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It Happened To Jane (Episode 214) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
1959's It Happened To Jane was the rare Doris Day film that didn't hit with audiences at the box office. Columbia attempted a re-release in 1961 under a new…
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A Quiet Place To Kill (Episode 213) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A Quiet Place to Kill (aka Paranoia) was the third collaboration between Golden Globe winning American actress Caroll Baker and Italian horror and thriller…
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Ballerina (Episode 212) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date is shaking things up again by choosing a recent date and a movie hot from theaters to discuss. Dipping into the John Wick universe, Dan and Vicky…
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Crossfire (Episode 211) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1947's Crossfire, directed by Edward Dmytryk, is based on the novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks. In Brooks' novel, a gay man is murdered by a soldier…
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Top Ten Movie Adaptations (Episode 210) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date has reached it's next Top Ten episode and for this episode, Dan and Vicky pick their most favorite movie adaptations - films that started as books…
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Born Romantic (Episode 209) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
2000's Born Romantic is a little seen British comedy about dating in the Y2k era. Chock a block with UK stars including Craig Ferguson, Catherine McCormack…
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The Monkey (Episode 208) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Based on the Stephen King short story, Oz Perkins The Monkey tells the story of a wind up toy monkey that haunts the lives of twin brothers Hal and Bill…
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The Rickshaw Man (Episode 207) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The Rickshaw Man, Hiroshi Inagaki's 1958 film about a gruff rickshaw driver who becomes the surrogate father to a boy who loses his father unexpectedly, is a…
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Six Souls (Episode 206) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Originally titled Shelter and produced independently in 2010 with Swedish filmmakers Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein co-directing, the Julianne Moore starring Six…
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My New Gun (Episode 205) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Struggling to find a role that would break her from beautiful girlfriend, adoring wife parts, 1992's My New Gun gave Diane Lane her first starring vehicle. It…
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Slither (Episode 204) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1973's Slither was the directorial debut of Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin, My Girl) and the screenwriting debut for W.D. Richter (Invasion of the Body…
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Clash By Night (Episode 203) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Of his time working with then burgeoning film actress Marilyn Monroe, Fritz Lang recalls a 26 year old who struggled with self esteem issues, set tardiness…
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Paris Blues (Episode 202) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The couples paired up in Martin Ritt's 1961 musical drama Paris Blues were more than just smart casting. Real life married paramours Paul Newman and Joanne…
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Megan Is Missing (Episode 201) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky discuss the found footage horror thriller Megan is Missing. The film, starring many first time actors and shot for under a week on a $35,000…
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Top Ten Directorial Debuts (Episode 200) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Our 200th Episode! 200 episodes of Hot Dates and Hot Takes on some of the weirdest, most beautiful and just plain bad movies. We've covered Oscar Winners and…
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Home Room (Episode 199) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
The 2002 film Home Room imagines the unlikely friendship between two survivors of a school shooting - women from very different backgrounds united in tragedy…
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Blood Oath (Episode 198) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
The 1990 Australian film Blood Oath (aka Prisoners of the Sun) is the harrowing true to life story of the military tribunal put together on the Indonesian…
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The Reckless Moment (Episode 197) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Joan Bennett and James Mason, in only his third US film, play blackmailee and blackmailer respectively in director Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment - his tale…
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J.D.'s Revenge (Episode 196) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Shot on location in New Orleans, blaxploitation horror film J.D.'s Revenge was the introduction of two of the hardest working and respected Black actors in the…
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Experiment in Terror (Episode 195) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Shot on location in foggy San Francisco, Blake Edwards' Experiment in Terror was his follow up to Breakfast at Tiffany's - again engaging a young sophisticated…
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Longlegs (Episode 194) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date is shaking things up for our latest episode. Instead of reaching back in history for a random date, Dan & Vicky stay in the present and discuss the…
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The Inglorious Bastards (Episode 193) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
After Italian producers balked at director Enzo Castellari's idea to remake The Dirty Dozen, he raised the money himself and hired American B-movie titans Bo…
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Pig (Episode 192) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Michael Sarnoski, director of the recent summer horror hit A Quiet Place: Day One, made his feature directorial debut with 2021's Pig starring Nicolas Cage and…
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Three Guys Named Mike (Episode 191) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
After winning the Oscar in 1948 for best actress in Johnny Belinda, Jane Wyman had her pick of projects and leading men. She chose the winning comedy Three…
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Top Ten Movie Moms and Dads (Episode 190) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date has reached another tenth episode and that means a Top Ten extravaganza of movie memories and memorable moments. This time Dan and Vicky discuss their…
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Revolver (Episode 189) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
A star studded cast joins Guy Ritchie regular Jason Statham in Revolver, the British auteur's violent meditation on the Ego and revenge. Ray Liotta, Andre…
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Christmas Holiday (Episode 188) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
In 1944's Christmas Holiday, Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, both known for their achievements in musical comedies, were cast against type as a lounge singer…
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Paper Lion (Episode 187) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Alan Alda plays George Plimpton in Paper Lion, the 1968 film based on Plimpton's book of the same title. The book and film chronicle his attempt at joining the…
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Hammett (Episode 186) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
When Francis Ford Coppola hired German auteur Wim Wenders to direct his first American film, little did he suspect the difficulty that film would have getting…
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Stolen Face (Episode 185) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1952's Stolen Face was an early Hammer Films production. The British studio, which would later become synonymous with thrillers and horror films, also churned…