Time Bandits

This week on Time Bandits, we have bad dreams of nuns and Boglins when we visit A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child.  Then we check out an album that has become an industry (industrial?) standard – yes, it’s seminal industrial band Ministry’s album A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. Our guest for today’s episode it Torontoist writer and contributor Jessica Buck! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/time-bandits/message

Do you love werewolf movies but often wish they had way less werewolves in them? Then Howling V: The Rebirth is the movie for you! We didn’t feel right subjecting a guest to this masterpiece of cinematic bullshit, so we’re going it alone this week. Since this podcast revolves around a time machine, we thought we’d check out a different kind of machine: a pretty hate one! We’re listening to Nine Inch Nails‘ classic Pretty Hate Machine and trying to figure out what makes Trent Reznor so sad and cranky. Check it out! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/time-bandits/message

This podcast needs an enema! And that enema comes in the form of a nostalgic look back at a movie that redefined the summer blockbuster, Tim Burton’s Batman. And what better album to pair it with than it’s own ridiculous soundtrack but the equally ridiculous Prince? Stop the press, who is that? It’s Indie 88’s own morning host Matt Hart here to share his thoughts and memories of this ubiquitous movie-going experience. You’ll develop quite a lemon crush on this partyman. I’m going to stop doing that now. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/time-bandits/message

This week the guys find themselves in Lock Up where the evil warden lets them play football, build cars and drink as much toilet wine as they can stomach. Then they kick off a whole new wave of half-assed ska with the seminal album Energy by seminal ska-punk act Operation Ivy. Their guest this week will be Taylor Wyatt (Secret Screening Room). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/time-bandits/message

This week the fellas travel all the way to West Germany for the 1989 premiere of The Punisher, starring Time Bandits favorite Dolph Lundgren. Then they bust a move down to the principal’s office as they cold mack on Young MC’s crazy def debut, Stone Cold Rhymin’. Their guest this week is perennial favorite rapper/Modern Superior podcaster Wordburglar!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/time-bandits/message

The gang is down one member this week, with Greg still away on vacation overseas. Regardless, Dan and Casey are keeping the time travel spirit alive, hopping in the Primer box and heading into a City Under Siege. Yes, it’s Police Academy 6: City Under Siege directed by… Peter Bonerz. Listen in to find out if that name is the funniest thing about the film, or if it’s an under-appreciated sequel. Then, continuing in the theme of adolescent and juvenile things, ALL‘s album Allroy’s Revenge gets the Time Bandits treatment – can the band break free of the shadow of the almighty Descendents, or are they doomed to be spoken of only as a footnote? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/time-bandits/message

Well, something was bound to go wrong sometime. It is time travel, after all! This week the time machine breaks down and we find ourselves hurled back even farther to the year 1985. What else is there to do but check out the bonkers Berry Gordy produced kung-fu action/comedy The Last Dragon? Then we get night rocked (read: aurally violated) by David Hasselhoff when we check out his album Night Rocker. Spoiler Alerit: it sucks!

It’s time for another trip back to 1989, and this time we’re driving the Delorean right on down to Hinkley Hills, where Tom Hanks is having a few problems dealing with his new neighbors in Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs. A box-office success but a critical failure, how does it hold up? While we’re there, why not visit Corey Feldman and see what he’s got in his compact disc player? Mayhaps it’s the self-titled debut album from Skid Row? Point your big-ear-guns to Episode 38 for all that, and more. Our guest on this episode is Kurt Halfyard of Row Three, Twitch, and the Cinecast. Be sure to check out his series Kids Talk Film on Twitch, where his kids view films like Alien, Road Warrior, Godzillaand more and weigh in with their post-viewing thoughts.

Episode 37 finds the guys dreaming a little nightmare when they attempt to make sense of the hopelessly idiotic Dream a Little Dream. Then they use Bleach (Nirvana’s crushing debut album) to remove the stains left on their souls by having to watch such a garbage movie. Our guests on this episode are: Erik Tokar and Jimmy Cain (resident Two Coreys expert) from the band CHAMPION LOVER.

This week we cast a spell of confusion over the ‘classic’ Teen Witch. Then we pile into the love shack for a discussion about The B-52’s big comeback album Cosmic Thing. Now who would ever really wanna go and top that? Our special guest this week is the lovely Alia Miller of the excellent podcast What She’s Having. Check it out!

This week we’ll be travelling back to revisit Tango and Cash, a couple of tough, wisecracking cops who kick ass, take names and rarely make any sense. This movie has everything: action, comedy (?), and great smelling mice. Plus, we’ll be getting two scoops of Vanilli when we discuss Girl You Know It’s True by Milli Vanilli! Our co-pilot on this armoured super-truck into madness is actor Gavin Fox (Alphas, Flashpoint, Nikita). Come with us!

The boys of Time Bandits board a slow boat bound for the shores of New York City. There they face the danger of getting their heads punched off, or worse yet, having to sit through Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan. While there, they drop in on Lou Reed as he teaches them the ins and outs of New York (and verbosity) with his aptly titled album, New York.  Their first mate on the voyage is the delightful Ariel Fisher (Row Three, Rue Morgue Magazine). Follow her on Twitter!

This week Greg, Dan and Casey travel back in time to experience Jean-Claude Van Damme’s eye-popping classic,Cyborg. Watch as JCVD kind of fights his way to Atlanta to briefly meet a cyborg who doesn’t need his help. It’s insane! Then we find complexity in Simply Saucer‘s Cyborg Revisited, one of rock history’s most tragically under-appreciated bands and albums. Joining us on the journey back is one half of Modern Superior’s own DrinkAlong Podcast, David Followes.

This week we travel back to bear witness to what is arguably Wes Craven’s least cohesive and silliest film, the crapfest that is Shocker. Then we all geek out on the genius that is Paul’s Boutique, the Beastie Boys’ mind blowing follow up their debut rap album, Licensed To Ill. Jeremy Schultz of Modern Superior’s own DrinkAlong Podcast is our esteemed guest this week. You won’t want to miss it!

This week’s episode is a very special one as we dive deep to uncover the mysteries of underwater aliens in not one but three classic (alright, one classic, one underrated and one suck-fest) films from 1989: The Abyss ,Leviathan and DeepStar Six. Then we head up to the surface to weather Billy Joel’s Storm Front, an album most notable for it’s inclusion of the hit song We Didn’t Start The Fire. Such a huge undertaking requires a very special guest, which we have found in fellow Toronto podcaster Matt Price (MAMO! Podcast). Well-versed in the nerdery of shitty sci-fi, his input here is invaluable. Check it out!

Episode 30 finds the boys being excellent to each other while at the same time partying on with 1989’s Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Then they painstakingly dissect the seminal album Stone Roses (Self Titled) and maybe geek out a little over the role production played in making the album a classic. They are joined this week by a real life Bill & Ted: Bill and Ted Masuda of the brilliant Toronto band CHAMPION LOVER. They will share with us the pain of spending their formative years with the same name as two cinematic idiots. It’s a good time, you don’t want to miss out.

Episode 29 finds us in Portugal for the 1989 release of Italian masterpiece/Predator rip-off Robowar. Find out if the film’s “star” Reb Brown does one of his patented screams-while-shooting-an-assault-rifle (spoiler: he sure does). This movie is not to be missed. Then we try to pump some life into Aerosmith‘s 1989 effort Pump by talking about how generic and terrible it is and how much Casey loves it. Our guest this week is Modern Superior‘s own Bruce Douglas (of Lonely Nights with Bruce Douglas). Bruce has a breadth of knowledge about terrible movies and he uses it to help us make sense of this senseless Robowar.

The dudes at Time Bandits are going back in time alone this week, as a scheduling conflict has left them to check out the 1989 piece of horror-filmmaking garbage Hellgate all by their lonesome selves. This movie is up there with Troll II, Deadly Prey, and more in terms of how bad it is – so you want to hear this one. Then, they let their backbone slide and check out Maestro Fresh Wes’ smash album Symphony in Effect. Does this Canadian classic hold up, or does it just sound like watered down maple syrup? Find out on Episode 28!

Time Bandits continues to trek through the year 1989, celebrating the 25th anniversary of both a film and album. This week, we set our sights on the blockbuster action sequel Lethal Weapon 2 – one of the most successful movies of the year. Then, we go from bluesy guitar and saxophone to… neutered rock guitar, ballad bombast and saxophones with Richard Marx‘s slow-dance ready album Repeat Offender. This week, it’s a meeting of the podcast minds as our good friend Matt Brown joins us on our trip around the sun. If you don’t already know, Matt is the co-host of Toronto’s own Mamo! podcast, writer of the always on-the-nose column Destroy All Monsters! and blogger extraordinaire via Tederick. Plus, you can also follow him on Twitter!

Time Bandits returns for a whole new year of movies and albums – that’s right, from now on we’ll be travelling back to 1989 and celebrating the 25th anniversary of a movie and album. This week, on Episode 26 we are talking about the hotly contested big-budget sequel Ghostbusters II, and then we’ll try to figure out exactly what a Buffalo Stance is by listening to Neneh Cherry’s album Raw Like Sushi. Joining us on our journey this week is the hilarious Rhiannon Archer! You can find her fantastic videos, stand-up dates, and more at her official website, as well as follow her super funny Twitter feed.