Show Notes
Actor, writer and director Clark Duke (THE OFFICE, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, KICK-ASS, ARKANSAS) to celebrate his new Christmas crime thriller STRANGLEHOLD. We get into growing up in rural Arkansas surrounded by VHS rental stores, discovering Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, making CLARK AND MICHAEL with Michael Cera, the lost magic of video stores, the death of the monoculture and why everyone suddenly wants to own CDs again. Plus: The Smashing Pumpkins, mini-DV cameras, Michael Mann's MIAMI VICE, ENTOURAGE, professional wrestling and Clark's love for Burt Reynolds. We also take a detour into Peter Bogdanovich's THEY ALL LAUGHED, the tragic story of Dorothy Stratten and Bob Fosse's devastating STAR 80.
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