Timecode Cowboys
Alec & Danny Smight, father and son filmmakers, discuss movies, TV and Hollywood history, from its humble beginnings to present day and beyond!
Episodes
22 episodes
TCC_205 A Mondo STAR WARS Deep Dive with Special Guest Colin Smight
Timecode Cowboys | Season Two | Ep. 5 | A Mondo STAR WARS Deep Dive with Special Guest Colin Smight (May the 4th Special)This is the one we’ve been teasing for over a year… and it finally happened.For ...
TCC_204 Bad day at Black Rock
Timecode Cowboys | Season Two | Ep. 4 | Dan & Al Talk … Bad Day at Black Rock!We’re back to basics this week — one film, one town, and a whole lot simmering beneath the surface.Fresh off a spontaneous midweek...
TCC_203 Spring Training!
Timecode Cowboys | Season Two | Ep. 3 | Spring Training! Cactus League Chronicles & Baseball CinemaWe hit the road this week for a spring training run through Arizona. What starts as a simple baseball trip becomes a...
Timecode Cowboys | Season Two | Ep. 2 | From Marvel to Morocco: Rave Cinema, Superhero Fatigue & Haunted L.A. Locales
Timecode Cowboys | Season Two | Ep. 2 | From Marvel to Morocco: Rave Cinema, Superhero Fatigue & Haunted L.A. LocalesWe’re back in the saddle with a new RØDECaster setup and a proper grab-bag conversation that veers...
TCC_201 The Universal Backlot: Hollywood’s Factory Floor
Timecode Cowboys | Season Two | Ep. 1 | The Universal Backlot: Hollywood’s Factory FloorIn this S2 premiere episode, we explore the history, mythology, and everyday reality of Universal Studios Hollywood — not as a theme park,...
TCC_115 TV Pilots!
Timecode Cowboys | Ep. 15 | TV PILOTS! (Season One Finale)We’re closing the book on Season One — and doing it the only way we know how: by talking about the strange, high-stakes, half-forgotten corner of Hollywood histo...
TCC_114 David "P". Loughery
Timecode Cowboys | Ep. 14 | David P. Loughery: The Man, The Myth, The LegendWe’re back — and this week we literally walked off the 18th green, dropped our clubs, and hit record. Why?Because David P. Loughery — scree...
TCC_113 Universal Monsters & Other Ghost Stories
Timecode Cowboys | Ep. 13 | Universal Monsters & Other Ghost StoriesHappy Halloween!!! On this, our oh so spooky number 13th episode, Danny and Alec dust off the silver nitrate and dive headfirst into Uni...
TCC_112 Judgment Day: The Future According to Cameron
Timecode Cowboys | Ep. 12 | Judgment Day: The Future According to CameronThis week marks a new era for Timecode Cowboys — cleaner lines, simpler frames, same father-son chaos. At the urging of our resident design whisperer Cla...
TCC_111 The A.I. frontier
Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 11 | The A.I. Frontier ☕🤖This one starts with an espresso machine that refuses to cooperate… and ends with an existential conversation about the fate of art, energy, and humanity itself....
TCC_110 Danny and Alec chop it up
Timecode A.I. WestCowboys | Ep. 10 | Ten Gallons Deep: California Gold, Twilight Zones & The WildOur 10th episode! Ten rides in the can, and we’re celebrating the only way we know how — bygoing completely ...
TCC_109 Rob Young III
Timecode Cowboys | Ep. 9 | Renaissance Man Robert Young IIIThis week we’re catching up with one of Danny’s oldest friends and collaborators — filmmaker, actor,musician, and bona fide creative polymath Rob Young III —...
TCC_108 Crescenzo Pt 2
Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 8 | Pt. 2 | Salad Days & Starfields with Crescenzo 🌌🎬Our ride with cinematographer extraordinaire Crescenzo Notarile continues — and this time we’re diving into his salad days working on ‘...
TCC_108 Crescenzo!
Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 8 | Pt. 1 | Lights, Camera… Crescenzo! 🎥✨We finally wrangled our biggest guest yet — the one, the only, Crescenzo Notarile — Emmy-nominated cinematographer, lifelong student of light 🧠💡 and all-...
TCC_107 Cannes!
Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 7 | Cannes You Believe It?! 🇫🇷🎞️We’re back in the saddle after a wild ride to the Cannes Film Festival 🥂🎥 — where Danny’s work on Slauson Recwas a last-minute addition to the prestigiou...
TCC_106 Claire Smight
Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 6 | The Smight Stuff: Claire, Con Artists & Paper MoonThis week, the Smight family expands—and upgrades.✨Claire Smight—art director, film connoisseur, and certified agent of cool—makes h...
TCC_105 Mark Baldwin
Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 5 | Doctor’s Orders: Learning to Love the Cut with Mark Baldwin (and Dr. Strangelove)This week, we step into the war room and go full Kubrick. Editor, documentarian, and raconteur Mark Baldwin j...
Timecode Cowboys | Episode 4 | Edit Room Rodeo: John Heath on his Career in and Out of the Cutting Room
Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 4 | Edit Room Rodeo: John Heath on his Career in and Out of the Cutting RoomThis week, The Cowboys welcome their very first guest to the corral: producer, editor, and director John Heath 🎥✂️. We saddle up ...
Timecode Cowboys | Episode 3 | "Vanishing Point" The Cult Classic That Outran the ’70s
Buckle up, movie lovers — it’s time to hit the gas!🔥In Episode 3 of Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys, we cruise the highway with Vanishing Point (1971), the cult classic that turned a white Dodge Challenger into an everlasting symbol of freedom, fatal...
Timecode Cowboys | Episode 2 | “Lonely are the Brave" and other stuff too!
Is Lonely are the Brave (1962) the real beginning of New Hollywood? In this episode of Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys, we saddle up with one of the most underrated modern Westerns ever made — a film that saw Kirk Douglas swapping six-shooters for existenti...
Timecode Cowboys | Episode 1 | The 70's
Welcome to the first episode of Timecode Cowboys, where we dive deep into the rugged, rebellious terrain of 1970s cinema! 🎥 From gritty antiheroes to groundbreaking auteurs, the ‘70s redefined Hollywood storytelling with daring new visions. 🍿🤠<...