No U-turns At The Drive-in

This unique classic who's influence reaches far and wide across the cinematic landscape deserves a look from all film buffs. It may ispire you. It may haunt your dreams. One thing is certain, you will never see movies the same way again after you've looked inside The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari! This Week's Topic: The One That Started All The Madness! Refferences To Past Reviews: Nosferatu / The Phantom of the Opera / The Babadook / It's Such a Beautiful Day Check out Rob Zombie's "Living Dead Girl" Next Week: A Happy Hollywood Halloween!

With Special Guest: Evan Jones! As silent as the grave he rises from his coffin. A shadow falls over your heart, dread rakes it's hairy, clawed fingers through your mind. Then a middle aged goth musician hits a note on a keyboard and you remember you're in a theater watching F. W. Murnau's timeless terror, Nosferatu!  This Week's Topic: The Best Adaptation of the Best Horror Fiction Novel References To Past Reviews: Horror of Dracula / MMPR The Movie / Metropolis See the RESTORED VERSION HERE!! Next Week: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari!

With Special Guest: Evan Jones! There's something lurking in the shadows behind the stage. Something from the past come back to haunt us. The roots of Horror Cinema run deep; a seemingly endless labyrinth filled with trap doors, torture chambers, masked men, and screaming beauties. Follow the pathways deep enough and you will find a man of a thousand faces seated at the corpse of an piano organ. His name is Lon Chaney, though you might know him better as his most famous face of all, The Phantom of the Opera! This Week's Topic: Silent Horror! References To Past Reviews: The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Evil Dead II / The Serpent and the Rainbow / The Lodger / Blackmail / Metropolis See This Movie HERE! Next Week: Nosferatu!

A Sci-fi film from the end of the silent cinema era that's astoundingly strong on the science! You can't help but look back in awe at the depiction of space travel here, which is so close to what would come over 30 years later, and not wonder how they did it. Fritz Lang must be a future person, as evidence here's Woman in the Moon! This Week's Topic: Astonishingly Ahead of Its Time! References To Past Reviews: Things To Come / Metropolis Next Week: The Phantom of the Opera!

With Special Guest: Sarah Hartman! For over 40 years Wes Craven brought nightmares into the dreamland of the silver screen, leaving multiple bloody marks on cinema history. Join us as we take take a look into why his films were so deeply affecting to generations of not just horror fans, but general filmgoers as well, and dig up one of his underrated greats, The Serpent and the Rainbow!  This Week's Topic: The Influence and Lagacy of Wes Craven's Movies! References To Past Reviews: They / The Babadook Check Out Boogeymen II: Masters of Horror! Next Week: Woman in the Moon!

Have you ever had a dream where you're playing a video game, and in the video game the character you're playing is playing a video game that you're playing, and then the character you're playing ing the video game realizes he's not playing the video game and that he is in fact a character in a video game being played, then you wake up and realize you fell aspleep playing a video game and you at the screen and it says press X to continue your life? You can't figure out how or why it would say that, then you look around and the character you were playing in the video game is in your living room and you just know they're there to kill you and take over your life, but before you can do anything they shoot you. With the sound of the shot ringing in your ears you wake up gasping for breath and looking up you realize that on tv you're watching the second part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire! This Week's Topic: Are You A Simulation? Next Week: The Serpent and the Rainbow (A Tribute to Wes Craven)

With special guest Matt Allegretti!  We're taking time out this week to talk with Lucas about his intensive edit of the Star Wars prequels. Chopping the movies down into three 60 to 90 minute streamlined films that get to and hightlight a plot that most miss amongst the myriad of action sequences and awkward dialogue. It's Heroin! This Week's Topic: Editing your way to a better movie.  References To Past Reviews: I Don't Care, I Love That Movie

You ever stop and think. . . and think, and think, and think? All the strange things in life we put in the background of our day to day lives to focus on the road before us. How often do we take the time to notice those odd little wonders that make so much of life around us? Sometimes it takes a bad experience to change our perspective enough to look up at the clouds and think, It's Such A Beautiful Day! This Week's Topic: A Surreal, Philosophical Animation About Life and Death and Existence. References To Past Reviews: Chico & Rita Next Week: Welt Am Draht (World on a Wire)!

A remarkably unromantic tale of two musical immigrants caught in a lifelong on-again off-again realtionship because I guess they're supposed to be in love. The animation is great, but eveything else is Chico & Rita! This Week's Topic: Character Motivation is NOT a Given! References To Past Reviews: Wizards Next Week: It's Such a Beautiful Day!

It's a heavy(metal) handed epic fantasy overloaded with political satire! The only people who could possibly absorb this are clearly Wizards! This Week's Topic: Creative World, but Random Narrative References To Past Reviews : Nomads / The Last Shark / The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension / Heavy Metal See this Movie HERE! Next Week: Chico and Rita!

In the early 2000s these films tackled the space epic in animation with surprisingly similar elements. Though both were box office failures, they found a cult following with some teens at the time, so we take a look to see how they hold up and consider what might have been. If you haven't seen them, then nows the time to rediscover Titan A.E. and Treasure Planet.  This Week's Topic: Compare, Contrast, and Rant References To Past Reviews: Ladyhawke Next Week: Wizards!

Street kids protect their turf from extraterrestrials, and maybe learn something in the process. You know, I mean, the ones that don't get eaten. It's Attack the Block! This Week's Topic: Genuine Characters and Fantastic Visuals, But Lacking Big Laughs References To Past Reviews: Leprechaun Next Week: Titan A.E.!

Our feelings are mixed. On one hand there's a lot of good gags and visuals, on the other there are jokes, scenes, and characters that just don't work. Does it balance more towards good or evil? Find out in our discussion of Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead! This Week's Topic: Funny vs Unfunny References To Past Reviews: Dead Snow / Night of the Living Dead / Horror of Dracula / Monsters / Evil Dead II / Return of the Pink Panther / Ong-bak Next Week: Attack the Block! http://vtp.ee/joint-same-day-loans

You ever notice how, like, science fiction sometimes has other meanings to it, like... metaphors? I'm sorry, I have to pee. OMG! MONSTERS! This Week's Topic: The World Has More To Say Than The Characters In It Movies Mentioned From Our Past Reviews: Iron Sky / Dead Snow Next Week: Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead!

With Special Guest: Paul Dederick! This was no boating accident, Jellyheads! This was Italians making their own version of yet another blockbuster. This time it's JAWS! With zero regard for copyright the underwater mechanized menace is redone, but not to bore you with the action you already know the Italians, as they always seem to do, spice things up with their own creative/mind boggling/cheesy effects. As far as we're concerned, this is The Last Shark! This Week's Topic: Italian Imitation Films! Movies Mentioned From Our Past Reviews: Warriors of the Wasteland / Star Odyssey / Blood Tide / Alien Contamination / Nomads See This Movie HERE! Next Week: Monsters!

With Special Guest: John Armitage! The prehistoric creatures return with nukes and it's up to a crack team of technicians dressed like mercenaries to send them back to the stone age! The bites are bigger in Carnosaur 2! Topic: Monster Movie Mash Up! Movies Mentioned From Our Past Reviews: Carnosaur / Sharktopus Thanks to Maltin on Movies! See the movie HERE! Next Week: The Last Shark! 

We look back at when classic horror took a violent turn, and all the great artists who made that happen. Thank you, from psychojellyfish!  Horror of Dracula! This Week's Topic: A Small Tribute to Christopher Lee and Hammer Horror) Other Movies Mentioned: Jurassic World (Jarassic Park franchise)/ Star Wars (Prequel franchise)/ Ted (franchise)/ Dracula (1931)/ The Blob (1958)/ The Curse of Frankenstein/ Tomb of Ligeia/ Crimson Peak/ Jason Lives: Fridat the 13th Part VI/ The Wicker Man (1973)/ The Wicker Man (2006 remake :P)/ When a Stranger Calls/ We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story/ Dracula; Prince of Darkness/ The Mummy (1959) Movies Mentioned From Our Past Reviews: Black Sunday/ Hercules in the Haunted World See the BBC Documentary on British Horror we used as a source for our discussion HERE! Next Week: Carnosaur 2!

With Special Guest: Charity Buckbee! Little feet find big adventure (as long as they don't get eaten or starve to death) in The Land Before Time! This Week's Topic: Childhood Memories of Scary Movie Moments! Other Movies Mentioned: Jurassic Park (franchise)/ The Magic of Belle Isle/ Titan A. E./ The Secret of Nimh/ Anastasia/ All Dogs Go to Heaven/ The Pebble and the Penguin/ Rock-A-Doodle/ An American Tail/ An American Tail: Fievel Goes West/ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/ Who Framed Roger Rabbit/ Titanic/ Avatar/ Braveheart/ Star Wars (franchise)/ The Magnificent Seven/ Seven Samurai/ Hidden Fortress/ Bambi/ Dumbo/ The Brave Little Toaster (franchise)/ Jason X/ Leprechaun 4: In Space/ It/ Killer Clowns from Outer Space/The Lion King/ Atlantis: The Lost Empire/ Frozen/ Brave/ The Land Before Time (franchise)/ Dinosaurus!/ Nosferatu/ Dracula (1931)/ Lord of the Rings (franchise) Movie Mentioned From Our Past Reviews: Battle Beyond the Stars/ The End of the World/ Hercules in the Haunted World See This Mo

Jurassic June Begins Here! This theme has a real big bite, but don't be chicken. Give it a listen! Our patron saint of bad movies, Roger Corman, delivers the bloody fun goods once again with Carnosaur! This Week's Topic: Connections, Disconnections, and Diversions from Jurassic Park! Other Movies Mentioned: Jurassic Park (franchise)/ Transmorphers/ Atlantic Rim/ Alien/ Return of the Living Dead/ Ghostbusters/ Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood/ Friday the 13th (franchise)/ Carrie/ A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)/ The Beyond/ Troll/ Hatchet (franchise)/ The Blob/ Mad Max: Fury Road/ Independence Day/ Godzilla 1985/ Carnosaur (sequels and spin-offs)/ Star Wars (prequel franchise)/ Terminator (franchise)/ Deliverence Movies Mentioned From Our Past Reviews: Dinocroc vs Supergator (with Travis Richey)/ Alien Contamination/ Embryo/ The Alpha Incident/ Sharktopus/ Battle Beyond the Stars/ Heavy Metal/ Ip Man See all the action HERE! Next Week: The Land Before Time!

With Special Guest: Matt Buckley! Have you ever heard about the man who trained Bruce Lee? Did you know he single handly defeated Japan during World War II? And then he went on to fight vampires with Abraham Lincoln! Yes, I said "and then". You do the math. He was known as Ip Man! This Week's Topic: Historically Skewed Hero Worship vs Interesting Character Development! Other Movies Mentioned: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins/ Mad Max: Fury Road/ Star Wars (franchise)/ Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter/ The Avengers/ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/ Flash Point/ 300/ The Land Before Time/ Jurassic Park/ Jurassic World Movies Mentioned From Our Past Reviews: Wheels on Meals/ Ong-bak/ The Babadook/ Snowpiercer Next Week: Carnosaur! See Full Movie HERE!