Season 2 - Ep 20 - Tough Guys Don't Dance and Hologram Man
Matt Poirier from the Direct to Video Connoisseur joins us and we are back in the world of Wings Hauser! We dip into Cannon Films and talk Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don't Dance.
Then we are talking about the company that took the Cannon baton and ran with it, PM Entertainment and Hologram Man.
The Killers Edge
My written review for the PM Entertainment produced, Wings Hauser starring, The Killers Edge
Season 2 - Ep 19 - Troll & Delta Heat
Matt Poirier joins us to talk about the bizarre Michael Moriarty starring and John Carl Beuchler directed movie, Troll and Anthony Edwards is miscast alongside an always welcome, Lance Henriksen in the sweaty, action, VHS pick - Delta Heat
Season 2 - Ep 18 - In the Paré Way - DragonFight and Seizure
On this Gary Hill and I talk about the Michael Paré fim DragonFight from 1990, and our VHS pick, Seizure which is equally loopy but a lot more 70s is the first movie from Oliver Stone!
Season 2 - Ep 16 - The Kiss & Soldier
Matt Poirier joins me to talk about The Kiss - a criminally under seen, gonzo possession horror from 1988 starring Joanna Pacula and Meredith Salenger and Soldier, the oft maligned, sci-fi flopperooni from Paul W. S. Anderson, starring Kurt Russell
Season 2 - Ep 11 - On the Wings of Love - A celebration of all things Wings Hauser
Matt Poirier from Direct to Video Connoisseur, joins us to head down a Wings Hauser rabbit hole and discuss a wild sextet of his films - Dead Man Walking , Street Asylum, Mutant, Nightmare at Noon, The Art of Dying and Living to Die.
Season 2 Ep 9 - Pam Grier Night at the Sizzler - The Arena & Black Mama, White Mama
Matt Poirier joins us to talk all about Pam Grier with plenty of rambling segues about food, inspirational stories, babies and dogs on planes, female action leads, Barbie and more!
Season 2 Ep 7 - 2 Middle Aged Men Watch 90s Era Jim Belushi Films #3 - Retroactive
On this, the third episode in our run of Belushi tinged episodes, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier talk a 90s Era Jim Belushi Science-Fiction, Indie Action Spectacular Retroactive.
Cynthia Rothrock, Righting Wrongs Special Edition 3 Disc Blu-Ray set from Vinegar Syndrome and how physical media continues to be the only outlet for true film fans
We review the long-awaited, new Vinegar Syndrome, 3-Disc, Special Edition of Righting Wrongs starring Yuen Baio and Cynthia Rothrock
Episode 351 - Gotcha! and Never Too Young To Die - Spy Kids and Teen Agents Part 2
Scott Toomey joins Jon Cross again, continuing their talk on 80s movies where kids and/or teenagers get embroiled in espionage and dragged into danger! Two such films are Gotcha! and Never Too Young to Die - hear us talk about these films and more on an all new episode!
Episode 348 - Cloak & Dagger and If Looks Could Kill - Spy Kids and Teen Agents Part 1
Scott Toomey joins Jon Cross to talk 80s and 90s movies where kids and/or teenagers get embroiled in espionage and dragged into danger! Two such films are Cloak & Dagger and If Looks Could Kill AKA Teen Agent - hear us talk about these films and more on an all new episode!
Episode 346 - The Fan
Jon Wallace joins us back in the Diner to talk the 1996 Baseball thriller, Tony Scott’s The Fan, starring Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes.
Episode 340 - Wrath of Man
This week Jim and Jon talk about mad ice cream vendors, they go deep into all sorts of conversations and theories regarding the new Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham movie, Wrath of Man and there’s also another great shed based email from listener, Robin Doyle!
Episode 338 - Willy's Wonderland
This week’s episode is a podcast Frankenstein’s Monster that was cobbled together despite technical issues and really grumpy hosts. See if you can notice. Oh and we talk about an energy drink hopped up and mute Nic Cage fighting large, animatronic, anthropomorphic, cartoon animals.
Action U.S.A. - [Collector's Edition] (Blu-ray) - MVD Rewind
We review the new MVD Rewind Blu-Ray release of the, until-recently-quite-rare, 80s stunt-heavy action flick, Action U.S.A. from renowned stunt coordinator, John Stewart.
Episode 337 - Breach
On this episode Jim Wallace implausibly manages to get Jon Cross to watch and talk about (at length) the low budget Bruce Willis, Sci-Fi movie Breach directed by someone very lazy who once made a Dove commercial.
Episode 334 - Maximum Overdrive
As host Jon Cross was briefly in North Carolina we decided to cover one of the State’s wildest and weirdest movies, Maximum Overdrive. We don’t take all of the cocaine but Stephen King did and what resulted from it, is, at the very least, interesting. Oh and Jon starts a cult…
Episode 331 - Toy Soldiers
This week our intrepid podcast hosts explore the memesphere, discuss sheds, devise a variety of weird t-shirt slogans and go back to our childhood….childhood…childhood (echo) to talk the teens vs terrorists, boarding school set action caper, Toy Soldiers - as a tie-in to our star, Keith Coogan, interview!
Interview with Keith Coogan
I had the absolute pleasure to talk to actor Keith Coogan all about the action, comedy, drama, adventure movie Toy Soldiers that is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year!
Episode 325 - Dirty Knights' Work AKA Trial by Combat AKA A Choice of Weapons
We talk the last of our current run of Donald Pleasence movies, Dirty Knights' Work AKA Trial by Combat AKA A Choice of Weapons, a thoroughly British comedy drama about a bunch of wannabe toffs taking dress up too far and then we make an Eric Idle based decision that could end the podcast for ever!!