Michael McShane
Michael McShane talks The Bard. With Laura House and movies with Michael Snyder. Michael McShane is known to American and British audiences from the hit series Whose Line Is It Anyway? One of his larger TV roles was as Kramer‘s nemesis Franklin Delano Romanowski(FDR) on Seinfeld. He also had a cameo role as a doomed hypnotherapist in the film Office Spaceand [...]
Gay GOP Shocker
Is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the closet? Blue America PAC Founder and Treasurer Howie Klein says yes and joins us to out yet another family values conservative. Can it be the GOP has become the party of the mentally ill? This is one show you don’t want to miss. Plus movies with Film [...]
Comedians Eating It
Comedy Writer Tess Rafferty whose new book “Recipes For Disaster: A Memoir” talks about cooking, writing for television, eating, bleeding and her amazing parties. Plus Film Critic Michael Snyder. Review this podcast on iTunes. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Confessional Stand-up
Why are gay and female comics more fun to watch? Is there room for confessional comedy in mainstream clubs? Could it possibly be true that the Los Angeles comedy scene is America’s most fertile arena? The history of Alternative Comedy. Beth Lapides is the founder of Uncabaret which has given rise to some of the [...]
Feldman Can’t Shut Up
Feldman actually defends Jon Stewart for calling Daily Show writers “A-holes,” then he launches into Malcolm Forbes’ homosexuality, Senator Lindsay Graham’s homosexuality, tries to explain the Fiscal Cliff and comes up with some odd theory about how to stop the war on X-mas. Plus Michael Snyder on movies. Podcast: Play in new window | Download [...]
Lincoln And Petraeus
David questions the nobility of Lincoln and the Civil War and then attacks General David Petraeus’ honor, and not because of the adultery. Movie Critic Michael Snyder joins him from Northern California. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Daddy Keep Me Safe
Foreign Affairs, Guns, Movies and David’s Son. With Movie Critic Michael Snyder. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
All Politics Is Local
Howie Leib is running for state senate in New York. He tells us what it’s like running as a progressive liberal in upstate New York. Plus movies with critic Michael Snyder. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Romney’s Weak
Is “The Master” the best movie of the year? Howie Klein on the elections, film critic Michael Snyder on movies that just opened. Plus Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
The Interviews Unedited Part One
Our talks with Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald and Film Critic Michael Snyder were cut down for the radio show. Here they are in their entirety. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
MICHAEL SNYDER is a journalist, editor, broadcaster, screenwriter, and animation developer who splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco. After leaving his longtime position as entertainment critic/nightlife columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle to co-develop the Cinemachine movie-review search engine for Sonicnet/MTV Interactive, he moved from a terrestrial radio gig at KITS-FM to join the on-air team at Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's Sirius/XM Left channel where he can be heard reviewing new films and covering pop-culture on Friday mornings. Michael is now editor-in-chief and film columnist of Bon Voyage – an English-language family-travel magazine published in Brussels, Belgium for the European market. He previously served as the movie critic for Six Degrees magazine's Miami, Detroit and Atlanta editions; as an editor and writer at Gracenote, Inc., on the company's DVD database project; and as a consultant for the music-oriented online community MOG.com. Currently consulting on film and TV projects in Hollywood, he was part of the creative team that developed the CW network's cartoon series "Eon Kid.” Michael has done television series development for WildBrain Animation, Wild Hare Studios, Storytime Pictures and Alligator Planet. He co-authored the scenario to the ballet "Lear" -- featuring a score composed by former Police drummer Stewart Copeland -- for the San Francisco Ballet. Michael also co-wrote songs for the legendary theatrical rock band the Tubes, including the top-40 hit "Tip of My Tongue" and the Halloween perennial "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman." In addition, Michael was the movie reviewer for Knight Ridder's Street Miami weekly; editor-at-large for the ground-breaking online music publication Addicted to Noise; on-air commentator over CNET Radio; nightlife editor for San Francisco Focus magazine; and contributing writer for San Francisco magazine. Plus, he has written for such publications as Salon, GEO, High Times, Creem, and the British pop-music weekly New Musical Express.