Kael Your Idols: A New Hollywood Podcast

The Spiciest Curry: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Happy Halloween Kael Your Idolators! For this spooky episode we’re letting our freak flags fly and boogying down with the beloved holiday classic: The Rocky Horror Pictur

A Joe Don Baker Halloween Double Feature

Welcome to a world of thrills and chills as we continue to eulogize recently deceased new Hollywood figures with the most terrifying dead celebrity of them all: Joe Don B

A Bugger’s Life - The Conversation (1974)

We recorded a conversation about a recorded conversation! Join us for this deep dive into Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal New Hollywood Palme d’Or winner The Conversation.

Jaglom's Jagfilms

Oh boy did we have a ball with this one! For this ep we dive headfirst into the wild and singular world of Henry Jaglom, a true maverick who eschewed conventional narrati

Four Films by Frederick Wiseman

Our series of New Hollywood elegies continues with no signs of stopping in sight! This episode we present a paen to visionary documentarian Frederick Wiseman, whose stark

Method and Empathy: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

To quote Roger Ebert: movies are emotion machines. And in this episode we discuss a most finely-tuned piece of emotional machinery, 1979’s Oscar juggernaut Kramer vs. Kra

Daughters and Decor: Interiors (1978)

Welcome back to the Woody Allen show! ugh… Last ep we covered Annie Hall and for this one we’re returning right back with his immediate follow up: Interiors.  If you got

Keenly Keaton: Annie Hall (1977)

It’s time for everyone’s favorite and not at all problematic film topic: Woody Allen! Whatever you might think of the man, we would be remiss as a movie podcast about New

Altman’s Alt Boy: Brewster McCloud (1970)

For his follow up to MASH, Robert Altman decided to bring us all… this! The wonderfully bizarre Brewster McCloud of course stars the late great Bud Cort in the title role

Shelley in the Hotel-y: The Shining (1980)

We are thrilled and disturbed to bring you this episode on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining! As we continue our tributes to film legends who recently died we thought it fitt

A Father’s Fate: The Great Santini (1979)

Our series of elegies to 70's film heroes we lost last year continues with a discussion on The Great Santini. In this episode we pay respects to Robert Duvall - wide

Baby Daddy Blues: Eraserhead (1977)

To celebrate the life of visionary director David Lynch, we present to you a discussion of his masterpiece of uncanny parental anxiety, Eraserhead. We break down the maki

Talking Therapy: Ordinary People (1980)

We've been busy preparing a slate of episodes to pay tribute to some of the giants of New Hollywood who have recently left us. First on the “in memoriam” docket is n

Our top 5 movies of 1975 and 2025

Another December passes into January on the old calendar and we’re just out here doing the same thing we do every year: counting down our favorite films of the season, as

I'm Streaming of a Trite Christmas

Come on in and celebrate with the Kael Your Idols Christmas Crew! Join Sam and Elena, and their special yearly Christmas guest: Ameerah Holliday, as the three proudly bre

Jack Nicholson '75

In our first ever episode dedicated to an actor we train our sights on the man, the myth, the legend that is Jack Nicholson. Specifically our focus is on his four 1975 ca

Meanwhile in Germany: Kings of the Road (1976)

For Elena’s Birthday this year we decided to break format and discuss the German New Wave classic Kings of the Road. This three hour Wim Wenders film is a quietly meditat

Robert Altman: Five at Fox

In a surprising birthday TWIST, Sam has decided to make us cover not just one film for their birthday but FIVE! And guess what? They’re all delightfully quirky and weird.

Blood Sudser: House of Dark Shadows (1970)

The word “vamp” has multiple meanings. To some it might mean a seductive woman. To many it will bring to mind a sanguinarily obsessed undead creature with long fangs that

The Parent’s Traps: The Last House on the Left (1972)

Listen here you little twerps! We’re gonna getcha with this one. Elena and Sam are gonna show you no mercy as they discuss Wes Craven’s first feature film: The Last House