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Forbidden Films

Forbidden Films

By: Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky
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Hosted by writer-director Wayne Kramer (The Cooler, Running Scared) and producer Barry Germansky (Marlowe, Riff Raff), Forbidden Films is a podcast about the movies they won't make anymore.


Each week, Wayne and Barry take a deep dive into a once critically regarded film or commercial success that by today's regressive standards is now deemed either problematic or unlikely to ever be made again in the same way. Pushing back against political correctness, the duo bring their own filmmaking experience and love of movies to a lively — and controversial — discussion about living in illiberal times where self-censorship and timidity, fueled by corporate greed and fear of social media blowback, has led to the catch phrase, "They'd never make that film today."


Forbidden Films is a shot against the bow of cinematic cowardice and a clarion call to the industry to start making bold and challenging films again. From the early James Bond films to Saturday Night Fever to A Clockwork Orange and beyond, tune in for some insightful and pugilistic conversations. Rated Mature Audiences Only.


Music Acknowledgement: The Forbidden Films theme is a track called "Ghosts" by renowned film composer John Murphy. It is available on John's album "Anonymous Rejected Filmscore."

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Episodes
  • Body Heat

    Body Heat
    Jul 1 2026
    "You aren't too smart, are you? I like that in a man." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are getting under the sheets with Body Heat, writer-director Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 revamping of the film noir genre. Everything old is new again — this time with a sultry femme fatale for the ages, Matty Walker, played by the combustible Kathleen Turner in her screen debut, who seduces William Hurt's small town horndog lawyer, Ned Racine, into offing her husband and bringing about Ned's eventual cum-uppance. All to the tune of John Barry's alto saxed-up score and Richard H. Kline's sweaty cinematography. With supporting turns from Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, and Mickey Rourke, this granddaddy of the modern film noir delivers in the best tradition of Billy Wilder, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Siodmak, and Fritz Lang – with the added bonus of boobs, butts, and profanity. So, beware of the wind chimes, never buy a strange woman on the boardwalk a snow cone, and stay out of the boathouse. Click play for a fun conversation about sex, death, and humidity.

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • All That Jazz

    All That Jazz
    Jun 17 2026
    "It's showtime, folks!" Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are hopping on a Greyhound bus to Broadway to revisit Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical and tragically prescient All That Jazz. It's a phantasmagorical, warts-and-all look at the life of Joe Gideon, a tortured Broadway director and filmmaker choreographing his way into oblivion. Joe is at war with his second-guessing financiers, his pursuit of perfection, his failing health, and his own raging libido in Fosse's multiple Oscar-winning masterpiece. Prepare to be dazzled by Roy Scheider's fearless, self-excoriating performance, Ann Reinking's virtuosic dance moves, and Alan Heim's manic postmodern editing that keeps it all moving to an unsettling arrhythmic beat. So fire up the Vivaldi, pop some Dexedrine, light up an unfiltered Camel, lubricate your eyeballs, and come take off with us.

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    2 hrs and 3 mins
  • James Bond Movies of the 1960s and 1970s, Part II

    James Bond Movies of the 1960s and 1970s, Part II
    Jun 13 2026
    "I didn't know there was a pool down there." Join us for part two of our Bond retrospective as Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky keep their Walther PPKs firmly lined up on 007's most threatening villains: the henchmen of political correctness. Our hosts continue to opine on what the Bond movies used to do so well in the 1960s and 1970s and what's missing from the current mission directive: F.U.N. Part two features: You Only Live Twice through Moonraker. Connery to Lazenby to Moore. It's the Biggest. It's the Best. It's Bond and B-e-y-o-n-d!

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    1 hr and 57 mins
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