Happy Holidays Everyone. Time for It's a Wonderful Life

Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest directors of all time and Goodfellas might just be his masterpiece. (Unless it's Taxi Driver, or Raging Bull, but we'll have to get to those films later)

This Week on The Cine-Files, Steve and John discuss one of the most successful movie franchises of all time and the brilliant 2006 reboot starring Daniel Craig. James Bond, Casino Royale. Need we say more?

Apocalypse Now (need we say more)

Everyone needs to feel good sometime and we at The Cine-Files think there's no better recipe for feeling good that The Muppets. So, join us and our special guest, Michael Oosterom in a journey back to 1979 and the original Muppet Movie

This Week on the Cine-Files, John and Steve explore the mythology of the American Experience though one of it's great pastimes, Baseball. The Natural, is one of the great sports movies of all time, starring Robert Redford, and directed by Barry Levinson.

John and Steve enter the disturbing world of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's classic, the Shining.

This Friday, The Cine-Files digs deep into one of the greatest action films of all time, Die Hard, Directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman

John and Steve go back to 1957 to explore the first film from director Sydney Lumet. 12 Angry Men is a tense, courtroom drama starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and a world class ensemble. It's as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.

Monty Python and the Holly Grail!! Special guest Michael Ross!! Need we say more.

This week on The Cine-Files, L.A. Confidential, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pierce, Kim Basinger and an amazing ensemble. This one is definitely worth watching again.

John and Steve are joined by the wonderful Kathleen Early to discuss Edward Albee's masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis.

John and Steve dissect the Frank Capra classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur. If you love America, you'll love this podcast.

In this week's Cine-Files, John and Steve return to the old west to discuss the 1960 classic, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn and Charles Bronson. It's time of the The Magnificent Seven.

Steve and John look into the martial arts film that started it all, Enter the Dragon starring Bruce Lee.

This week on The Cine-Files, John and Steve dig deep into 1989 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, Cinema Paradiso. It's a fascinating, lyrical love letter to movies and one of John's all time favorites.

The great Victoria Garcia Kelleher joins John and Steve to talk about what might be the greatest romantic comedy of all time, When Harry Met Sally, directed by Rob Reiner, written by Nora Ephron and starring Meg Ryan and Bill Crystal

John and Steve explore the Orson Welles classic Touch of Evil.

This Week on the Cine-Files, John and Steve explore one of the greatest comedies of all time, Mel Brooks' 1974 film Young Frankenstein starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn and Peter Boyle. http://cine-files.net

John and Steve discuss a film that not only launched the career of one of the most innovative and iconoclastic directors of the last 20 years but was also at the forefront of the independent film movement. Quinten Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs

John and Steve go back to 1968 and the classic Sci-Fi film Planet of the Apes starring Charlton Heston. Do you think this movie has anything to say about America today?

John and Steve explore the archetype of all westerns, 1952's High Noon starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly

In honor of the reboot of Ghostbusters, John and Steve explore the original starring Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moraines Sigourney Weaver and Directed by Ivan Reitman

Steve John Explore the 1984 Best Picture Amadeus Starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, Directed by Milos Forman from a Peter Schaffer Screenplay

This Week on The Cine-Files we will talk about the classic 1978 Superman starring Christopher Reeve with Writer, Producer and My Little Pony Guru, Michael Vogel. Who knows, we might even get into a heated debate about more recent Superman Movies.

This week, in honor of The Greatest, Steve & John tackle the 1996, Academy Award winning documentary, When We Were Kings.

On the first episode of The Cine-Files, John and Steve dig deep into the Stephen Spielberg classic, Raiders of the Lost Ark.