Ciara and Dean swung by The 250, Darren Mooney and Andrew Quinn’s podcast about the top-rated films on IMDb, to talk about John Davidson biopic I Swear. At least, ostensibly.
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Showcased Selections: Sports Gambling
From the archives, a bite-sized edition of Friday Film Showcased looking at the rise and rise of sports gambling, a horrifying epidemic that has taken over the USA and the world, as predicted in the Tony Scott / Shane Black Christmas classic The Last Boy Scout.
Whether you’re a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one’s for you. You could bet on it, but you shouldn’t.
Showcased Selections: Sports Gambling – Friday Film Showcased
See also: https://thesundae.net/2026/01/02/friday-film-showcased-shane-black-christmas-the-last-boy-scout/
Theme Music: Bach J.S. Christmas Oratorio. BMV 248. Part 4.
Showcased Selections: American Giallo – Dressed to Kill (1980)
From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Brian De Palma’s American giallo Dressed to Kill. Or is it a giallo? Yes. Is it transphobic? Probably. Is it a great film? Definitely. What’s Brian De Palma’s deal? I guess we’ll never know.
Whether you’re a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one’s for you. Put on your best clothes… to kill?
Showcased Selections: American Giallo – Dressed to Kill (1980) – Friday Film Showcased
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Music: Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 – III || Marine Chamber Orchestra (MusOpen)
For more, check out our giallo omnibus here: https://thesundae.net/2026/03/02/friday-film-showcased-omnibusd-giallo-deep-red-dive/
The Sundae Film Awards 2026
We watched a lot fewer new films than usual this year. Amid the wider atmosphere of horror and sorrow and grim foreboding in the world, it felt like a dispiriting year for popular cinema, the first big stumble since Tom Cruise resuscitated its prospects in 2022. Still, don’t let that take away from the films we loved enough to celebrate, because they’d all be great films in any year. A frenetic sports epic about table tennis? Pynchon as Terminator 2 in the key of stoner comedy? Rapid-cut montages of Irish news footage? These are the things that movie dreams are made of!
As with every year, we gave one award for each of the eight major Oscars: we care about most of the others (except for the fake awards like Best Original Song) but this post would be absurdly long if we picked those too. We each did out our personal nominees and then selected the winner by consensus, so the winners only come from films that both of us have seen and nominated, but we’ve each picked a personal runner-up regardless of whether the other has seen or nominated it. We also each gave a Special Achievement Award for something that doesn’t fit our other categories.
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Friday Film Showcased Omnibus’d: Giallo Deep (Red) Dive
Originally released in two parts, this special omnibus edition of Friday Film Showcased collects Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan’s discussions about their giallo season into one big bite. Revisit without having to click from one episode to another. Listen for the first time by plunging into the two-hour-and-something deep end. Tell your friends. Tell your grandparents. Subscribe on all the platforms.
Omnibus'd: Giallo Deep (Red) Dive… on Grey Velvet in a Woman's skin… of Blood! It's exactly what you think it is – Friday Film Showcased
Films discussed: Deep Red, Stagefright Aquarius, Bay of Blood, Blood and Black Lace, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Dressed to Kill, Pieces, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, What Have You Done to Solange? and Don’t Torture a Duckling.
More topics: the various tropes of the giallo genre, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and most importantly Lucio Fulci, the entangled history of the noir, the krimi, and the giallo, and red phones.
Friday Film Showcased – The Big Clock (1948): The Big Clock/No Way Out Special Part 1
Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with part one of a two part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing’s novel The Big Clock. We are doing this as a tribute to the late Gene Hackman, who is not in the movie discussed in this episode, but was alive when it came out. But was he a child? Listen and find out!
Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss topics including: Ray Milland (man), ray-millanding (verb), The Powerhouse Charles Laughton, queer coding and the Hays Code, clocks of various sizes and mechanisms, comedic genius Elsa Lancaster of Bride of Frankenstein fame, Maureen O’Sullivan who surely is only in this as a favour to her husband John Farrow (father of Tia, Mia, and this film, if directing is fatherhood), how much can you actually fit behind a bar, President McKinley, and the existential quest to find one’s self. Literally!
The Big Clock (1948) – The Big Clock/No Way Out Special Part 1 – Friday Film Showcased
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Showcased Selections: Head (1968) starring The Monkees!
🎶Hey hey, we’re Friday Film Showcased, and people say we showcase around, but we’re too busy editing to load any podcasts up… 🎶
From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Bob Rafelson’s almost-forgotten existential Monkees movie, Head (1968), written by Jack Nicholson!
Whether you’re a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one’s for you. So take the last train to Clarksville, you randy Scouse git: this is the podcast that will make you believe in daydreams.
Fun fact: Mike Nesmith’s mother invented Tipp-Ex.
Showcased Selections: Head (1968) starring The Monkees! – Friday Film Showcased
Friday Film Showcased – Shane Black Christmas: The Last Boy Scout
For the ninth day of Christmas, Friday Film Showcased gave to me: a podcast episode about The Last Boy Scout, written by Mr. Christmas himself, Shane Black!
Ciara and Conor talk about Ten-Camera Tony Scott, Hot Shot Jimmy “Cardigan” Carter, and the rise of sports gambling. Listen below or on your favourite podcast platform, and remember, Satan Claus is out there and only growing stronger.
Shane Black Christmas: The Last Boy Scout – Friday Film Showcased
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2025 in Film(s That Didn’t Come Out in 2025)
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2025 was a year that happened and now it’s over. Ciara completed her PhD and finally watched Tiger King. Dean presented at his first conference and finally finished the second season of China Beach. Along the way, we saw Richard Herring live, and The Pillowman at The Gate Theatre, and did a long-overdue guest episode of our podcast with our friend Conor.
We also watched a lot of films, some of which stuck with us so much we just had to tell you about them. You’ll have to wait until the tenth (TENTH!?) annual Sundae Awards in March for our thoughts on new releases. In the meantime, as ever, please enjoy a selection of our favourite films from this year that didn’t come out this year.
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Meet Me in St. Louis: The Sundae Presents, Episode 42
Ciara and Dean take a Christmas journey to St. Louis, Missouri with Judy Garland. They talk about wonderfully horrible children, the history of world’s fairs and whether John Truett is a neurodivergent king.
Meet Me in St. Louis – The Sundae Presents
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