Craig & Friends

Whimsically Volatile

Craig MacNeil chats with the leading lights of queer culture: filmmakers, sex workers, artists, designers, musicians and icons. Formerly known as Whimsically Volatile.

  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    259: EYES OF LAURA MARS Movie Club (With Greg Garry!)

    Fashion Connoisseur and Creative Director for PETA Greg Garry joins me to talk the 1978's Faye Dunaway classic EYES OF LAURA MARS. Faye is the controversial fashion photographer Laura Mars, the fashion world’s most notorious photographer who’s having terrifying visions of murder. Tommy Lee Jones is the sensitive, world-weary cop in charge of the investigation, Brad Dourif is Ms. Mars’ troubled-yet-devoted driver and Rene Aubejonois is her fiercely protective agent & friend Donald Phelps. With a theme song by Streisand, photography by Helmut Newton and wall-to-wall taupe carpet - who could ask for anything more?

    Greg Garry on Instagram

    Craig & Friends on Patreon

    4 November 2024, 1:21 pm
  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    258: ADDAMS FAMILY Movie Club (With Joe Black)

    THE ADDAMS FAMILY gets the Movie Club treatment as Joe Black joins me to discuss on-set disasters, the long and rocky road of the film’s development, Barry Sonnenfeld’s technical wizardry and very specific personality, Anjelica Houston’s iconic performance and painful makeup process, MC Hammer, Raul Julia and his horrific eye calamity, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Dan Hedaya and the profound impact this picture had - and has - on Joe Black’s kind of goth.

    More Joe Black

    Craig & Friends Patreon


    1 October 2024, 7:01 am
  • 2 hours 7 minutes
    257: SECONDS Movie Club (With Erik Clapp)

    Erik Clapp of the mighty Cinema Force, EC Films & The Bobbie Wygant Archive joins me to discuss SECONDS. Starring Rock Hudson, John Frankenheimer's dark and deeply disturbing classic was released in 1966 to tremendous controversy and terrible box-office. Over the years, SECONDS has come to be rightly recognized as a paranoid, somewhat-misanthropic masterpiece.

    25 September 2024, 6:48 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    256: Pia Zadora! (Encore Presentation)

    Pia Zadora welcomed me to her gorgeous Las Vegas home to discuss her legendary life and career. We talk The Lonely Lady, owning a plane with your name on it, the Golden Globes scandal, her marriage to Meshulam Riklis, working with John Waters on Hairspray, dealing with depression, psychoanalysis, Celebrity Wife Swap, Voyage Of The Rock Aliens, Pia’s Place & Piatinis, perseverance, touring with Frank Sinatra, NAKED GUN 33 1/3, handling haters, Jermaine Jackson, working with Talullah Bankhead and more.

    ⁠MORE PIA⁠

    Support this show and receive exclusive content by joining the Craig & Friends Patreon

    16 August 2024, 11:54 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    255: Alex Cox!

    Legendary filmmaker Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell, Walker, Tombstone Rashomon etc) has a new film in the works, a film you can help make a reality by participating via Kickstarter. Click the link, snatch up the fabulous rewards available and thank Alex for decades of wonderful films.Alex & I discuss his collaborations with Joe Strummer, REPO MAN, studio politics, STRAIGHT TO HELL, Sam Peckinpah, Chateau Marmont, William Friedkin’s SORCERER, miserable encounters with Hunter S. Thompson and much much more.

    Alex’s KICKSTARTER

    Subscribe to the Craig & Friends YooToob channel

    Get your Craig & Friends T-Shirts

    Join The Craig & Friends Patreon

    Clip from BREAKFAST WITH HUNTER courtesy of Wayne Ewing

    23 July 2024, 4:18 pm
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    254: Marc MacNamara!

    Director, bon-vivant and raconteur Marc MacNamara joins me to talk directing gay corn, working with Falcon Nakedsword, co-hosting Discretion Advised (with our friend John Hill), getting kicked out of Micky’s, Fame Games On Fire Island, Thom Moulton, Cherry Grove, pop culture, Real Housewives, the legend of Willy Nilly and a whole lot more.

    Get Your Craig & Friends Movie Club shirts!

    Listen to Discretion Advised

    Discretion Advised On YooToob

    Marc on Instagram


    Craig & Friends

    Join The Craig & Friends Patreon 

    Instagram

    Twitter


    4 July 2024, 4:50 pm
  • 1 hour 40 minutes
    253: MANHUNTER Movie Club (Part 2) With Gala Avary & Rich Johnson

    We continue our marathon discussion of Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER. We talk the danger of the distorted lens, the self and shadow self, how Mann’s obsession with the smallest details enriches the bigger picture, Willam Friedkin’s near casting as Hannibal, Mann's impeccable song & score selections, digital vs. film, Mann's Chicago origins & extensive work in television & The Keep.

    We also address (nearly all) of your Listener Comments & Questions. Our apologies to those we didn’t get to, send us further comments and corrections for a supplemental addendum which will feature the missing contributions. Organizational difficulties thwarted our best intentions.

    Get Your Craig & Friends Movie Club shirts!

    Subscribe to Craig & Friends on YouTube

    Follow ⁠Gala Avary⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Rich Johnson ⁠on the socials

    Listen to The Gala Show

    This show brought to you by ⁠Craig & Friends on Patreon⁠

    Sign up, support the show and get set for special exclusives

    11 June 2024, 10:26 am
  • 1 hour 39 minutes
    252: Salina EsTitties!

    The one and only Salina EsTitties joins me for a lively chat about growing up in the Castro, gay uncles, bringing Mexican-American culture to the stage, chems*x and the way out, RuPaul’s Drag Race, representation, keepin’ on the hustle, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Kenny Ortega, Survivor and much much more.

    Get Your Craig & Friends Movie Club T-Shirts

    Check EstTitties hott new track PAPI 

    Instagram & Twitter & TikTok

    YouTube


    Craig & Friends

    Instagram & Twitter & TikTok

    Craig & Friends YouTube - subscribe now


    This show us brought to you by the Craig & Friends Patreon Sign up now

    31 May 2024, 6:28 pm
  • 1 hour 42 minutes
    251: MANHUNTER Movie Club (Part One) With Gala Avary & Rich Johnson

    Michael Mann's 1986 classic MANHUNTER gets the full Movie Club treatment. So full, it had to be split into 2 parts.

    Gala Avary & Rich Johnson join me for a an in-depth investigation of the first film adaptation of a Hannibal Lector fable (Lecktor in this film), Michael Mann's masterful color-coding, Alex Cox's dismissive and rather confused summary of the film, Miami Vice, William Petersen, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan's terrifying Francis Dolarhyde, the birth of forensics in crime stories and so much more. Plus: movies, cinema AND film.

    Stay tuned for Part Two

    Get Your Craig & Friends Movie Club T-Shirts!

    This show brought to you by Craig & Friends on Patreon

    Subscribe to ⁠Craig & Friends on YouTube⁠

    Follow ⁠⁠Gala Avary⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠Rich Johnson ⁠⁠on the socials

    Listen to ⁠The Gala Show

    Sign up, support the show and get set for special exclusives

    27 May 2024, 5:27 pm
  • 2 hours 14 minutes
    250: Michael Vegas!

    Adult performer & producer, pegging enthusiast & pioneer Michael Vegas joins me to talk Altoid roulette, filmmaking, color-coding, overcoming internalized shame, Taser golf, meeting the love of his love (creative & life partner Siouxsie Q) in a uniquely specific, Robert Greene & The 48 Laws Of Power, Ada & I making a cameo in Michael & Siouxsie’s upcoming passion project The Bottom Floor, realistic & rigorous approaches to maintaining happiness, overcoming a near-fatal motorcycle accident so much more.

    More Michael Vegas

    Instagram

    Siouxsie Q 

    Instagram


    Follow Craig & Friends

    Instagram

    Twitter

    TikTok

    Subscribe on YouTube

    This series is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/CraigAndFriends⁠⁠⁠ Head on over and see which tier suits you, support the show and get exclusive content

    2 May 2024, 1:49 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    249: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Movie Club With Tom Schwartz (Vanderpump Rules)

    Released in 1990 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES was a blockbuster smash. No one burned with the fever of Turtle Power more than my guest, Tom Schwartz (Vanderpump Rules). Get a nice cheese pizza, stay out of the sewer and enjoy our chat about this cultural phenomenon.

    This series is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/CraigAndFriends⁠⁠⁠ 

    Head on over and see which tier suits you, support the show and get exclusive content.

    Follow the show on Instagram & Twitter

    Tom Schwartz on Instagram

    Pump Rules Podcast Instagram

    Pump Rules Podcast Spotify & Apple Podcasts


    29 April 2024, 2:15 pm
  • More Episodes? Get the App
© MoonFM 2024. All rights reserved.