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Hi Everyone. Hope everyone is surviving snowpocalypse 2026. We are buried here and I'm trying to get this episode out at the last minute (as usual) before we lose power.

Our new theme this round is 'The Ocean is Vast' and in this episode we will be discussing the 2012 film Kon-Tiki, where in 1947, with five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific. The film is based on true events and is a dramatization of the 1950 documentary film of the same name.

We also discuss many interesting facts and figures about Earth's oceans, fears people have involving the depths and the lure of ocean tales.

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Buon Giorno! Welcome to our inaugural listener's choice pick, which is exciting for us. It is a suggestion from loyal listener, two-time guest host, and very good friend Brian. He would like us to watch and review "Inglourious Basterds," a 2009 alternate history film set in Nazi occupied France, from one of the MRT crew's most unanimously loved directors, Quentin Tarantino. Starring.... so many fantastic actors: Brad Pitt, Christoph Walz, Michael Fassbender, et al.

We also talk about our love for Tarantino and why we think his films are special, as well as review some very interesting trivia about this particular film, which was definitely a turning point in his directorial career.

So, schnapps and strudel all around, as we pose the question: Does film have the power to burn the Third Reich to ashes? . . . That's a bingo!

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We close out our “Criterion” theme with 1973’s Don’t Look Now, spine number 745 in the Criterion Collection. This Nicholas Roeg adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier short story stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as grieving parents who are mourning the accidental drowning of their daughter. While working on restoring a historic church in Venice, they are approached by a pair of sisters, one of whom claims she is a psychic, and she has a warning from the spirit of the deceased daughter.

We also discuss whether we believe in psychics, and Karl tells a story of a visit his mom made to a psychic that made an impression. I’m getting a message from beyond…that you will give this episode a listen!

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We continue on with our Criterion Collection theme: this time it's spine number 1156; "Arsenic and Old Lace," a 1944 screwball comedy classic, directed by Frank Capra and starring Carey Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre. Based on a stage play of the same name, this is the story of a dysfunctional, and mildly insane, family who literally have bodies buried in their basement.

We also dive into what "screwball comedies" are exactly, how they came to be, and why they probably don't resonate much with modern audiences. There is definitely one among our party that does not care for them, and that always makes for a lively discussion.

But. . . if you like the idea of murderous little old ladies, Teddy Roosevelt, and Boris Karloff lookalikes, then this may be the film for you!

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Hello everyone, and welcome to season 4 of the Movie Roulette Tuesday Podcast!

We have a lot in store for this season and to start we are shaking things up by.... dropping shake-ups. But worry not! We have something new and exciting to take their place. We detail the changes in this episode.

Kicking off the new season is our new theme, "The Criterion Collection". Yes, all films this round need to have an esteemed place among the Criterion Collection or at least be available on the Criterion Channel... or maybe not... mistakes were made.

Our first film is 1975's Dog Day Afternoon. Starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, the film follows three amateur robbers who plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does. To top it all off, it's based on a true story.

So welcome back everyone and thanks for listening!

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Welcome to the end of Season 3! While we don't watch a movie this episode, we do go back and look at what we have seen over the past year, including our annual tradition of bestowing superlatives, as well as how our little podcast is growing and where people are listening. We also talk a little bit about we might have in store for Season 4.

It was the best of films; it was the worst of films (and perhaps the weirdest as well)... and THAT is the beauty of Movie Roulette Tuesday!

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We close out our final theme of the season with the 2008 film The Fall, about a young girl who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a movie stuntman recovering from a fall in a hospital in 1915 Los Angeles. Karl’s shakeup was that his pick had to include a fantasy element, and that comes into play as the stuntman tells the little girl a story about revenge, and her imagination fills in the details.

The film was directed by Tarsem, who also directed some notable music videos, so we talk about some of our favorite music videos. We also talk about reading books to our own children and what kinds of stories they enjoyed.

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Things get curiouser and curiouser as we fall down the rabbit hole into our penultimate film episode of the year. We continue to travel through the looking glass, this time with an unreliable narrator. And so we follow the travels of "Alice," a 1988 stop-motion film directed by our favorite Czech surrealist artist Jan Svankmajer, based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, if Alice lived in an East European nation behind the Iron Curtain.

We also explore who exactly IS the "unreliable narrator" and how Lewis Carroll's Alice novels influence modern media. Have we gone mad? I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are. . .