Episode 317 - SwitchBack
Your hosts Jon Cross and Jim Wallace discuss 1997’s serial killer thriller, SwitchBack from Jeb Stuart, the writer of Die Hard and The Fugitive, starring Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover and R Lee Ermey. The discussion gets passionate, interesting and goes to lots of different places - which is more than you can say for SwitchBack.
Episode 316 - Hotel Artemis
Hosts Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk about Drew Pearce's 2018 Sci-Fi Actioner, Hotel Artemis starring Jodie Foster, Jeff Goldblum, Sterling K Brown, Dave Bautista and more.
Episode 315 - Keys to Tulsa - A Sleazy Spader Springtime 5: "This Time It's Sleazonal" No.4
Our intrepid explorers of James Spader’s world of sleaze, Jim Wallace and Jon Cross discuss the decidedly dud like Keys To Tulsa which co-stars Eric Bleedin’ Stoltz.
Episode 314 - Slow Burn - A Sleazy Spader Springtime 5: "This Time It's Sleazonal" No.3
For the 3rd episode of Sleazy Spader Springtime 5: This time it’s Sleazonal! Your guides to the realm of Sleazy James Spader, Jon Cross and Jim Wallace experience the slow burning sensation of 2000’s Slow Burn a film that should probably have been slowly burnt.
Episode 313 - The Stickup - A Sleazy Spader Springtime 5: "This Time It's Sleazonal" No.2
Jon Cross and Jim Wallace discover the underlying Kennedy conspiracy related to the 2002, sleazy thriller, The StickUp for this 2nd episode of Sleazy Spader Springtime 5: This time it’s Sleazonal!
Episode 312 - 2 Days in the Valley - A Sleazy Spader Springtime! 5: "This Time It's Sleazonal" No.1
Jon Cross and Jim Wallace return to the realm of the James Spader sleaze and talk 2 Days in the Valley for this 1st episode of Sleazy Spader Springtime 5: This time it’s Sleazonal!
The Old Dark House
The Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is embracing the goofy and offering a hand across the ocean to cinematic huckster William Castle and his 1963 collaboration with Hammer, The Old Dark House.
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time Vols. 1 - 3
Jon Cross reviews a trio of docs that are, once again, taking a look at the world of cult films - from midnight movies to campy comedies and Point Break… for… reasons.
The Snorkel
The Bloke Down The Pub, our Hammer Horror fanatic, ruminates on how casting can prove so vitally important to presenting a strong idea well, especially where The Snorkel, from 1958, is concerned.
Four Sided Triangle
When we need him most, the Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down The Pub, is back and this time he’s gone back to the beginning, to when Hammer Films took their first tentative steps in to the realm genre film with the 1953’s Sci-Fi effort Four Sided Triangle. What did they learn, what mistakes were made? read on…
Episode 307 - Where Our Hearts Can Be a Shambles Inside Llewyn Davis
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!
SUNDANCE REVIEW: David Bruckner’s The Night House
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.
Episode 306 - Come To Daddy
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.
Episode 305 - Color Out Of Space
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.
Sundance Review: Promising Young Woman
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.
At Twenty Five: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
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.
SUNDANCE REVIEW: Minari
Lisa Gullickson, reviews Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood drama Minari from the Sundance Film Festival 2020
SUNDANCE REVIEW: Dick Johnson is Dead
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.
Episode 304 - The Gentlemen
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.
At Twenty Five: Drop Zone
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!