There are film podcasts that aspire to scholarship, and then there is Fear and Loathing in Cinema, which aspires mainly to survive its own conversations. Think of it as a 2 A.M. diner where the coffee has developed opinions, the French fries have entered witness protection, and two friends are discussing cinematic history with the urgency of men who have just discovered that the Constitution may contain dirty jokes on an uninhabited desert island.
For this special bonus episode, Bryan Kluger and Marc Ciafardini welcome the legendary musician and film composer Randy Edelman, a man whose résumé is so packed with movies that there is a decent chance his music has been playing somewhere in your life without your permission. You may not immediately recognize the name, but you certainly recognize the sound in films like The Mask, Six Days Seven Nights, Ghostbusters II, Dragonheart, Twins, MacGyver, My Cousin Vinny, Billy Madison, and plenty more. Edelman has spent decades doing one of cinema’s strangest and most important jobs, which is making us feel things before we’ve quite figured out why we’re feeling them.
On this very special 90-minute conversation, Randy takes us back to the beginning with his origins in music, the films that shaped him, the music that shaped him, the peculiar alchemy of writing for the screen, and the stories that accumulate when you’ve spent a lifetime wandering through Hollywood with a piano nearby. And because apparently one career wasn’t enough, Randy also has a brand-new album, Green Park, available everywhere now. It’s another chapter in a musical life that has moved comfortably between film, records, orchestration, comedy, drama, and the occasional giant Hollywood dragon.
So pour yourself something questionable, put the phone down for ninety minutes, and join us for a conversation about movies, music, memory, and the man behind some of the scores you didn’t realize you knew by heart. And if you happen to find yourself in New York around the holidays, Randy will be performing at Carnegie Hall on December 19th. Get your tickets. It is Carnegie Hall, after all. And unlike the diner, they may actually know where the coffee came from.
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WRITTEN BY: BRYAN KLUGER
Bryan Kluger is an entertainment critic, writer, and podcast host with a deep love for film, horror, and pop culture. His work has appeared in outlets such as Arts+Culture Magazine, High-Def Digest, Screen Rant, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, Fark, and Boomstick Comics. He hosts My Bloody Podcast and Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, along with a weekly radio show, where he brings sharp insight, humor, and an unabashed passion for movies to every conversation.
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