Your March Madness winner series has arrived. Chosen by the listeners, our latest subject is Robert Zemeckis, a Hollywood hitmaker who gives us plenty to cover.
How Did This Get Made's Paul Scheer (Black Monday, The League) returns with Jason Mantzoukas (Big Mouth, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) for a rare-Rated R Zemeckis - Used Cars (1980).
How did Robert Zemeckis go from commercial flops to a career-defining time-travelling trilogy of blank checks? It's all thanks to his "guarantor" from 1984 - Romancing The Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
It was the #1 film of 1985. It's a theme park ride. An animated series. It spawned video games. Comic books. Musicals. It's in the goddamn Library of Congress.
A noir for kids. Disney and Warner Bros characters together for the first and last time. Live action drama with kooky Tex Avery-style animation. There's really no movie quite like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
In Back to the Future, Marty ends up in 1955, the same age as his parents. In the sequel he has to jump between that timeline and a bizarre 2015. The natural conclusion to this blockbuster trilogy? A wild western.
Now armed with an arsenal of wild special effects, Zemeckis takes it up a notch with 1992's Death Becomes Her - the first to include computer-generated skin on film.
Zemeckis and Hanks reunited once again. Another box office and critical success. Filmed over two years, Cast Away captures both talents performing at the top of their respective games.
This is Beowulf. Yes in 2007 Bobby Z took the Old English epic poem and, once again using cutting edge mo-cap technology, delivered a 3-D movie that this week's guest Jordan Hoffman, aptly describes as resembling a PlayStation 3 cut scene.
In 1974 Philippe Petit performed his infamous walk between the Twin Towers. Director Robert Zemeckis many years later after discovering the story in a children's novel would create a 3D film based on this event.
Over four months and 19 movies, we have finally reached the end of our mini series on the films of Robert Zemeckis. Richard Lawson (Vanity Fair) joins to discuss 2020's The Witches and #thetwofriends offer up their filmography rankings.