Episodes

Thursday Oct 31, 2019
46: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven)
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
For our Halloween episode this year, we're looking back at a classic 1980's horror movie, featuring one of the iconic modern movie monsters: the cheery, Christmas-colored Fred Krueger. Yes, it's Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street.
We begin with a quick, glowing, non-spoiler review of Bong Joon Ho's Parasite from Cesar, while C.J. talks a bit about Lethal Weapon.
During the show, we mention our friend and former guest, Jason Swoboda, who has started his own podcast called Heroic Nonsense. Give it a listen.
Real-time fact checking isn't our strongest suit, so here are a few notes related to our discussion:
(1) The Thomas Jane Netflix movie based on a story by Stephen King is 1922.
(2) New Line Cinema was actually founded in 1967. The studio was in the midst of a "devastating financial slump" (from Wikipedia) when A Nightmare on Elm Street was released. The resulting success from Craven's film and its sequels earned New Line the nickname "the house that Freddy built."
(3) Yes, it was Patricia Arquette who co-starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
(4) While incredibly successful for New Line, the film was number 40 at the box office in 1984, bringing in a domestic gross of $25.5 million. In comparison, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter made $32.9 million the same year.
Thank you for listening, and have a happy and safe Halloween!!!
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Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
45: The Blob (1958, Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.)
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
It creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor... It's our episode on The Blob, the original cult classic starring a young Steve McQueen! We begin with Cesar's take on Takashi Miike's most recent film, First Love (Hatsukoi); and C.J. briefly discusses two recent rewatches from 1985: House and Clue. Following our main discussion, we've included a quick bonus conversation about Todd Phillips' Joker.
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Thursday Oct 03, 2019
44: The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
This week's topic is Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT, a movie that manages to be both hilarious and heartbreaking, often times in the same scene. Cesar begins with brief recommendations of the current run of X-Men comics and Tazza: One-Eyed Jack, while C.J. talks about recent rewatches of both Stardust and Upstream Color.
As usual, this is a spoiler-filled discussion. If you haven't seen The Apartment, seek it out and enjoy it before hitting play on this episode.
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Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
43: Stand By Me (1986, Rob Reiner)
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
With IT: CHAPTER TWO leading the box office this Labor Day, Cesar chose another Stephen King adaptation, Rob Reiner's 1986 ensemble kids movie classic, STAND BY ME. The conversation begins with a few recommendations; Cesar talks about finding great award-winning shorts on Kanopy, and C.J. talks briefly about Blake Edwards' EXPERIMENT IN TERROR. We also touch on Disney's decision to release episodes for their new streaming service weekly, instead of in season blocks.
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Monday Aug 26, 2019
42: The Matrix (1999, The Wachowskis)
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
This episode covers THE MATRIX, a genre mash-up of science fiction, martial arts, comic books, and Japanese Animé, from the Wachowskis. Cesar chose this title before the news broke that Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne Moss, and Lana Wachowski would be returning for a fourth Matrix movie, which is set to begin production sometime next year. So, while this may seem timely on our part, it is unintentionally so.
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Monday Aug 19, 2019
41: The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Returning from a nine-month haitus, C.J. Talbott and Cesar Alejandro are back to discuss Shane Black's seventies-set comedy, THE NICE GUYS.
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Friday Nov 23, 2018
40: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987, John Hughes)
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Just in time to kick off the holidays, we're joined by another former co-worker, Jason Swoboda, to talk about PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES. Shockingly, this happens to be a first-time watch for both C.J. and Cesar.
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Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
39: The Wailing (2016, Hong-jin Na)
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
For Halloween this year, we chose THE WAILING, a terrifying South Korean thriller from director Hong-jin Na. Being a first-time watch for both of us, much of the discussion is spent trying to work out our own feelings on this ambiguous story of a mysterious disease plaguing a small village, the cause of which may be supernatural.
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Monday Oct 29, 2018
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Sticking in the eighties after our last episode, this week's movie is the 1984 cult classic, THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION.
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Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
37: Predator (1987, John McTiernan)
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
We're looking forward to Shane Black's THE PREDATOR, so we decided to go back to the 1987 original for Episode 37. Our love of this film shines through with every minute of discussion, including a few terrible Schwarzenegger impressions.
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