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Matt Farley from Motern Media joins Jon Cross to wax rhapsodic about the new Miscellaneous Plumbing Album - Where Our Hearts Can Be A Shambles - the trials and joys of being an independent musician, the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis, their plans for a big doco and more!
In another review of a movie that premiered at Sundance 2020, Lisa Gullickson takes a look at The Night House from Director David Bruckner, starring Rebecca Hall.
Recorded last year at the World Premiere but released as Ant Timpson’s comedic and dramatic, wild and weird indie horror, Come To Daddy, starring Elijah Wood and Stephen McHattie, gets its U.S. release this week. Jon Wallace and Jim Wallace join us to share their thoughts on this unique and fun movie.
Jon Cross is joined by Dr. Nick Consol, King of the Keys, to discuss Richard Stanley’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Color Out Of Space starring the almost-always-worth-the-entry-fee, Nicolas Cage.
Lisa Gullickson looks at her third Sundance film, Promising Young Woman, a razor sharp satire and social commentary of female revenge and culpability in the heart of the #metoo era from writer/director Emerald Fennell and starring Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Adam Brody, Molly Shannon and Clancy Brown.
TF Parent presents the next in his series of reviews looking at movies turning 25 years old. This month it’s the first and, arguably, the best of the Tales from the Crypt movies, Demon Knight starring William Sadler, Dick Miller, Billy Zane and Jada Pinkett.
Lisa Gullickson, reviews Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood drama Minari from the Sundance Film Festival 2020
Lisa Gullickson, at the Sundance Film Festival, looks at the documentary Dick Johnson is Dead by filmmaker Kirsten Johnson who takes a unique look at her father’s Alzheimer's disease and his inevitable passing.
Grow out your scruffy goatees, put on your flat caps, strap on your ludicrously tartan tracksuit and affect a wobbly mockney accent because this week our hosts talk Guy Ritchie’s latest, The Gentlemen.
Our contributor TF Parent looks at one of our favourite genres: the nonsensical, high-adrenaline 90s action film. This month it’s Drop Zone with Snipes, Busey and Yancy (it’s like Nancy but, ya know… with a Y) Butler that turns 25 years old. Does it hold up? What are the pros and cons of 90s effects? Have a read and find out!
Jon Cross is joined by Moe Porne, Doc Paul Crowson and Andrew Buckley for the eighth annual New Year’s Special Episode. This year they’re talking the often forgotten genre of 1980s sex romps, most specifically: Revenge of the Nerds, The Last American Virgin, Hamburger: The Motion Picture and Splitz!
Jim Wallace and Jon Cross celebrate this most cosy of times with a discussion, over some hearty stew and a tasty burger, of the perennial holiday favourite It’s a Wonderful Life and wonder how a nation raised on this film ended up voting in Mr. Potter!
Aaron Carruthers is back and taking a look at the new Blu-Ray/DVD release of Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light.
Grumpy old, irrelevant men Jon Cross and Jim Wallace return to the New York City, diner, nightlife to discuss Rian Johnson’s Knives Out.
Jon Cross looks at the new documentary about the first eight films by Quentin Tarantino.
Old friend of the show, Doug Frye from The Schlock Treatment Podcast joins us for our 300th episode to talk Ninjas in Shadow Killers Tiger Force and Pray For Death! There’s also a SURPRISE and VERY SPECIAL guest, new comedy, music and more!
After making three underrated, surreal, splatter classics, filmmaker Peter Jackson turned to some true life horror for his fourth feature film in the Director’s chair. Heavenly Creatures launched the careers of Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey and it turns 25 years old this year. T F Parent, takes a look back…
Jon Cross is joined by living, freedom loving, real-life American Ninja, Jay Mayo to talk the first 80s ninja film to star Sho Kosugi in a lead role, Revenge of the Ninja.
Host Jon Cross and guest Axl Kay dissect, discuss and ask questions of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise from part 2 through to the 2012 remake. It’s a fascinatingly weird and sometimes wonderful franchise which rattles off into some mad places. Altogether now… GARBAGE DAY!
The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, is realising just because you don’t have the best boss doesn’t mean you can’t do good work in Hammer’s 1963 film, Maniac.
