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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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No Escape (Episode 184) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Actor Ray Liotta was coming off crtitical acclaim for his star making turn in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas and was looking for a vehicle that would turn him…
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The Tamarind Seed (Episode 183) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1974's The Tamarind Seed was considered a departure for star Julie Andrews. After a break to raise her family, Andrews was looking for a role that would…
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The Gorilla (Episode 182) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1939's horror comedy The Gorilla was meant to be another 20th Century Fox showcase for the talents of The Ritz Brothers - three Newark born and Brooklyn raised…
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Saving Grace (Episode 181) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A very special episode of the Hot Date Podcast with Dan & Vicky. There's drama, there's tears, there's nausea inducing popcorn. And, oh yeah, a movie to…
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Top Ten Creepy Performances (Episode 180) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
We've reached another tenth podcast which means Dan and Vicky give you their Top Ten! This time, your hosts are counting down to their favorite top ten creepy…
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Aenigma (Episode 179) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Italian horror director Lucio Fulci's 1988 Aenigma seems to have been inspired by films as varied as Carrie and Patrick, with a dash of Argento madness and…
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Illusion Travels By Streetcar (Episode 178) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Take a trip on decommissioned Streetcar 133 in Luis Bunuel's surreal and sweet 1954 film Illusion Travels By Streetcar (La Ilusión Vaja en Tranvía). When two…
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Sleep, My Love (Episode 177) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1954's Sleep, My Love was an early directorial effort from German born emigre Douglas Sirk. Sirk would later become recognized as an auteur - by, of course…
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Chilly Scenes of Winter (Episode 176) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Actors Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson were looking for film projects for their fledgling production company and all agreed that Ann Beattie's…
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Year of the Dog (Episode 175) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Mike White's (White Lotus, Enlightened, Chuck and Buck) directorial debut Year of the Dog tells the story of Peggy Spade, a mild mannered people pleaser who's…
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Gunfight at the OK Corral (Episode 174) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Dan and Vicky head back to the old west for a Gunfight at the OK Corral. The 1957 film directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas…
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Crimewave (Episode 173) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
1985's Crimewave was the sophmore effort for Evil Dead director Sam Raimi, actor and producer Bruce Campbell and producer Bob Tapert. The film started as the…
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Shock Corridor (Episode 172) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
1963's Shock Corridor was director/writer/provocateur Sam Fuller's depiction of the search for truth in a hostile society bent on obfuscating and distorting…
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Watch On The Rhine (Episode 171) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
At a time when there was considerable United States naivete and even support around Hitler's domination of Europe, Warner Bros. took the calculated risk of…
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Top Ten Remakes (Episode 170) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
We're back with another Top Ten! Every tenth show we try to pick a fun and engaging topic that'll yield a list of our favorite top tens. This time it's Top Ten…
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Pin (Episode 169) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Dan and Vicky discuss the 1998 Canadian psychological thriller Pin from writer/director Sandor Stern starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn and…
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The Double Life of Veronique (Episode 168) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
On Hot Date episode 168, Dan and Vicky discuss the French-Polish film The Double Life of Veronique starring Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas and…
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Paid In Full (Episode 167) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Dan and Vicky discuss the randomly chosen 1950 melodrama Paid In Full starring Lizabeth Scott, Diana Lynn, Robert Cummings and Eve Arden. Your hosts also…
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Easy Come, Easy Go (Episode 166) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Although stuntmen did most of the underwater work, Elvis Presley, cast as Navy frogman Ted Jackson, whose job it was to diffuse sunken mines, still had alot of…
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Crime Story (Episode 165) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Based on the true kidnapping story of wealthy Hong Kong businessman Teddy Wang, 1993's (although shot in 1993, it wasn't released in the US until 1996) Crime…
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (Episode 164) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Although produced in Spain, 1973's The Corruption of Chris Miller, has all the earmarks of a traditional Italian giallo - sexual tension in an isolated country…
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The Bribe (Episode 163) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A starry cast brings 1949's The Bribe to life. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak are all on a fictitious Caribbean…
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The Burning Plain (Episode 162) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The Burning Plain was the directorial debut of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who took cues from his screenplays for Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel to…
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Summertime (Episode 161) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
When it came time make the film of Arthur Laurents successful play The Time of the Cuckoo, the natural casting choice was Shirley Booth, who won a Tony for the…
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Top Ten Whodunnits (Episode 160) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
We've reached our next Top Ten episode (something we do here at Hot Date when we reach every tenth show) and this time we're picking our favorite mysteries and…
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Humongous (Episode 159) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky offer a special Halloween episode of Hot Date covering the 1982 Canadian slasher Humongous. It was Vicky's idea to find a horror film from the…
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Edmond (Episode 158) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Stuart Gordon, known for creating the body horror classics Reanimator and From Beyond, reunited with writer David Mamet to direct the film adaptation…
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Three Husbands (Episode 157) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines. In Three Husbands, the title characters…
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A Thousand Acres (Episode 156) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
With Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres…
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The Blood Beast Terror (Episode 155) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Tigon British Film Productions, founded in 1966 as counter programming to the more well known Hammer Studios, nonetheless took a page from the Hammer playbook…
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Sister, Sister (Episode 154) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director/screenwriter Bill Condon has since become an Oscar winning filmmaker with credits ranging from writing 2002's Chicago to directing two films in the…
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The Undying Monster (Episode 153) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
In response to the success Univeral was having with it's monster series, 20th Century Fox endeavored to bring their own monster movies to the big screen…
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A Wedding (Episode 152) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Robert Altman's Chicago set A Wedding from 1978 tells the story of two families and the lavish and chaotic day they marry off young Dino (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and…
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Purple Noon (Episode 151) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted twice for the screen - most recently in 1995 in a star studded version by director…
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Picture It! - Top Ten Best Picture Winners (Episode 150) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
For our milestone 150th show, we offer our Top Ten lists of our favorite Best Picture Winners of all time. From ribald comedies to dark thrillers to ripped…
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Red Lights (Episode 149) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Off of the critical success of his 2010 film Buried (which trapped star Ryan Reynolds inside a coffin for 90 minutes) director Rodrigo Cortes had the clout to…
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Dawn of the Mummy (Episode 148) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Filmmaker Frank Agrama, mostly known today as the producer of family friendly fare like the Robotech TV and video game series and a Heidi miniseries, got his…
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Picnic (Episode 147) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
1956's Picnic, adapted from the Pulitzer and Tony award winning stage play by William Inge, gave director Joshua Logan the chance to realize the grand picnic…
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Cronicas (Episode 146) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
With the powerhouse producing team of Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron behind it, 2004's Ecuadorean drama Cronicas had an easy time being chosen as that…
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Who Killed Teddy Bear (Episode 145) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1965's Who Killed Teddy Bear mixes spasmodic dance sequences, lewd phone calls, predatory lesbians, incest, and Sal Mineo in short shorts to create one of the…
Hot Date with Dan and VickySo Dark The Night (Episode 144) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The unique 1946 film noir So Dark The Night gave actor Steven Geray his first and only chance to play the lead in a film. Up until then, and for years after…
Hot Date with Dan and VickyDr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (Episode 143) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
In the early 70's Hammer Studios, Britain's premier production house for horror and fantasy films, was at a crossroads. The Hammer name connoted class, style…
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The Commitments (Episode 142) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1991's The Commitments was a departure for filmmaker Alan Parker. Traditionally an explorer of the darker reaches of human interaction (Angel Heart…
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Putney Swope (Episode 141) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For our final Hot Date of 2021, we chose Putney Swope, written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. As an indictment of corporate greed, the advertising business…
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Bad To The Bone: Top Ten Movie Villains (Episode 140) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
We're back again with another of our famous Top Ten List episodes. This time we're looking at our favorite movie villains. Those despicable, pathetic…
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (Episode 139) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A negative pickup for Universal Pictures to cash in on the 3D trend partially initiated by the company's own Jaws 3, low budget sci fi epic Metalstorm failed…
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Brighton Rock (Episode 138) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1948's Brighton Rock, based on the novel by Graham Greene, was a controversial hit in England where critics felt it reached new levels of depravity and on…
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Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (Episode 137) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A star studded cast highlights the crime drama Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, director Gary Fleder and screenwriter Scott Rosenberg's entry in the…
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Blood of the Vampire (Episode 136) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1958's Blood of the Vampire had all the earmarks of a Hammer film without actually being one. Hammer regular Jimmy Sangster was brought in to write the script…
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Darling (Episode 135) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky chose the random Hot Date of August 21, 1965 and decided on the film Darling starring Julie Christie, in her Oscar winning lead performance, and…
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Street Smart (Episode 134) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A passion project for star Christopher Reeve, 1987's Street Smart became instead the auspicious introduction of film audiences to Morgan Freeman and Kathy…
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Rollercoaster (Episode 133) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Two years after having the biggest blockbuster to date with Jaws and three years after the successful disaster pick Earthquake, Universal Studios pulled out…
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The Blue Angel (Episode 132) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Josef von Sternberg was lured back to Eastern Europe from Hollywood in 1930 by producer Erich Pommer to direct a film about mad Russian monk and con…
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Street Scene (Episode 131) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted to populate his film of Elmer Rice's play Street Scene with a mix of actors from the hit Broadway production and Hollywood. To…
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It's A Crime - Top Ten True Crime Films (Episode 130) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Murder, kidnapping, revenge, sex and love gone wrong. All the subjects, and more, of some of the greatest films based on true crime events. And all getting a…
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One Night In Miami (Episode 129) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Oscar winning actress Regina King directs One Night in Miami, a fictionalized account of the meeting in 1964, post the Clay/Liston fight, between Cassius Clay…
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Love And A .45 (Episode 128) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1994 was a very busy time for 25 year old future Oscar winner Renee Zellweger. She found work in six films that year - everything from a Texas Chainsaw…
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No Questions Asked (Episode 127) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The 1951 noir No Questions Asked was a rarity for MGM. The studio, mainly know for epics and musicals, steered clear of edgier material. But when producer Dore…
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Tampopo (Episode 126) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Juzo Itami's 1985 film Tampopo, about one woman's search for the perfect ramen recipe, has become so popular over the years that the restaurant industry around…
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Ode To Billy Joe (Episode 125) - Hot Dat with Dan and Vicky
Based on the popular folk song of the same name by Mississippi born singer Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billy Joe was a huge hit when released in the summer of 1976…