Dafriend Or Dafoe

The first of three collaborations between Willem Dafoe and Wes Anderson, 2004’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a colorful and heavily-casted film with interesting characters and scenes starring the amazing Bill Murray. Definitely worth a view if you’ve never seen it before but probably not Anderson’s best work.  See what Ann and Isaac had...Read moreRead more

A mercenary is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness. His mission- find the last Tasmanian tiger and collect samples of its DNA. Willem Dafoe is “The Hunter” in this 2011 Australian film, shot on location in Tasmania with long stretches of dialogue-free scenery shots. Going from just one minute of Dafoe...Read moreRead more

John Waters earned himself a big-budget studio-backed film after his independent cult classics became more and more popular. The result was 1990’s Cry-Baby, starring Johnny Depp and featuring a very brief cameo appearance by our main man, Willem Dafoe. This was the first Waters film Isaac had ever seen, and it boasts a look that Ann...Read moreRead more

It’s 1993. You’re Madonna. You’re crazy famous. You want to make a movie. What do you do? You star in Body of Evidence with Willem Dafoe! There’s no easy way to say this- This is just NOT a good movie! But it is “so bad it’s good” so there’s that. Our boy, Dafoe, gets a...Read moreRead more

In the near future, humanity deals with a food production crisis by using genetically modified foods to the point where multi-infant births are the norm, causing a population explosion! To deal with this, the government imposes a one-child policy, causing a dilemma for Willem Dafoe as he becomes the guardian to a set of sextuplets. They...Read moreRead more

A movie made by a bartender with zero experience in the film industry, 1999’s The Boondock Saints is a cult classic with an amazing background story. The subject of an intense bidding war and released only weeks after the Columbine High School massacre, this movie found a second life thanks to Blockbuster Video and rabid...Read moreRead more

Recommended by our listener, Wayne, 1999’s eXistenZ by David Cronenberg is a multi-layered sci-fi thriller based in a world where virtual reality is more attractive than the real world to most, and where Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh must play an elaborate game to evade capture from assassins. We definitely think you should watch this movie before...Read moreRead more

From the writer of the classic “Taxi Driver”, Light Sleeper never figures out what kind of film it wants to be – a crime thriller, a romantic piece, film noir, etc, etc. On this episode, Ann and Isaac mull through the 1992 movie with the consensus that you shouldn’t unless you have Amazon Prime. The picture...Read moreRead more

A film with A-list talent and a successful director… that you’ve probably never heard of. On this episode, Ann and Isaac get into the 2006 film, American Dreamz! This attempt at dark satire falls way short of funny or dark, lingers way past its welcome and can’t decide what audience it wants to attract- light-hearted comedy...Read moreRead more

On this episode, Ann and Isaac get into the Nic Cage produced 2000 film, Shadow of the Vampire! In this movie, Willem Dafoe simply steals every scene he’s in, carrying the picture under heavy prosthetics to the point of being nearly unrecognizable. The supporting cast also comes to play to provide a great indie-horror/dark comedy.  If you’ve...Read moreRead more

On this episode, Ann and Isaac get into the widely panned Sandra Bullock box-office bomb Speed 2: Cruise Control. The production of this movie literally nearly killed its two main stars. While an overall horrific film, Dafoe steals every scene he’s in. Listen now to hear what your hosts thought of this action clunker. If you’ve got something about...Read moreRead more

On this episode, Ann and Isaac get into 2017’s Murder On the Orient Express. Despite all of the talent involved with this picture, critics are pretty evenly divided on this movie. Our hosts, however, are of a unified opinion when it comes to this Kenneth Branagh production. This show is super spoiler-heavy so in you don’t want to...Read moreRead more

On this episode, Ann and Isaac talk about the independent 2017 release, The Florida Project. This film has gathered a lot of attention for the award-worthy performances of Willem Dafoe and several of the other players featured in the movie. IMDB describes the film as “Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as...Read moreRead more

In this episode, Ann and Isaac discuss David Lynch’s Wild At Heart. IMDB describes this film as “Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor,” but that doesn’t even begin to do this film justice! This is a weird one, folks, and we hope...Read moreRead more

In this episode, Isaac and Ann look at 1988’s Mississippi Burning. IMBD describes the film as “Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up...Read moreRead more

In this episode, Ann and Isaac discuss 1985’s To Live and Die in L.A.! IMDB descibes this movie as “A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter  (Dafoe!) who killed his partner.” Isaac loved this movie! Ann… not so much! But both had a lot to say about it! We...Read moreRead more

In this episode, Isaac and Ann discuss 1981’s The Loveless!  This was Dafoe’s first role in a motion picture* and his first leading part in a film! Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, The Loveless follows a group of outlaw bikers and is often compared to The Wild One. We hope you enjoy our discussion and feel free...Read moreRead more

This is the very first episode of Dafriend Or Dafoe – The only podcast that celebrates the work of master thespian, Willem Dafoe! In this episode, hosts Isaac Gonzalez and Ann Tindall explain the theory behind the show and tease what to look forward to in the weeks to come. We are dropping five episodes...Read moreRead more