O.K. Video

  O.K. Video Episode 9 Ranking Batch 1 That's it for Batch 1, Monster Movie Remakes. Nathan and Ryan organize this season's films in order of preference and discuss the relative pros and cons one last time.  Thanks for joining us for our first season at O.K. Video. We are working on batch 2 and hope to sort out the last headaches with podcast services before we start posting them, hopefully at most a couple of weeks. We tease the topic of batch 2 at the end of this week's episode. If you have any questions or suggestions send us an email at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca - N 

  O.K. Video Episode 8 Mary Reilly It’s the final movie of the first batch! Thanks for joining us for our inaugural season of O.K. Video.  This week we are looking at a posh costume drama directed by Stephen Frears, starring future Oscar Winner Julia Roberts, the inimitable John Malkovich, marble-voiced maestro Michael Gambon, and a puckish young Michael Sheen, amongst many other familiar faces. That’s right, Mary Reilly is our eight and final feature and in case you can’t tell from the title, this is Jekyll and Hyde for the 90s y’all! Ryan and Nathan puzzle over this one a bit as it adopts a new vantage point on the classic tale but doesn’t seem that interested in being monstrous until it does all of the sudden. Hark, is that a Howie scream I hear? (90% sure I forgot the actual name of moviedom’s second-most famous scream during the recording). Anyway, next week is our batch one finale where we rank this season’s films.   Thanks again for listening, and if you want to gi...

  O.K. Video Episode 7 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Toast of the West End, Kenneth Branagh, directed a big, bold and certainly boisterous take on Mary Shelley's definitive work, Frankenstein , back in 1994. Surely a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, Helen Bonham Carter and the aforementioned spiritual reconstitution of the Bard himself won the hearts of the Academy and all who saw it, but the O.K. Video guys will determine exactly how high it should rank in the hall of cinematic masterworks.  If you want to ask us any questions about John Cleese's teeth or anything else, you can reach us at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca Thanks again for being part of our first batch of shows. We are hopefully on the verge of appearing on at least one major podcasting platform. Technology. What a miracle. It gives life to inanimate corpses and spreads audio data far and wide via scripts and codes and metadata and whatnot. If properly formatte...

 O.K. Video Episode 6 Wolf A Jack Nicholson passion project. A bizarre departure for Mike Nichols. Another "is this a remake?" for the O.K. Video staff to puzzle over, Wolf  is a film that dances between genres and has a lot of strange 90s pleasures to fawn over.  Thanks for joining us again for our sixth episode in this batch of movies focusing on monster movies derived from older monster movies that happened to come out when we were young and impressionable.  I've had some struggles with podcatchers and RSS feeds and default emails this past week so we are still a secret, direct link show for now. Hopefully that will change before batch's end.  Enjoy! - N