Casting The Net

Taking it back to 2008, we take a look at the Clive Barker adaptation starring Bradley Cooper and Vinnie Jones, The Midnight Meat Train! When a struggling photographer ventures out into the city after dark for inspiration, he encounters a mysterious figure he suspects is at the center of countless disappearances of individuals who ride the subway after midnight.

On this week's episode, we check out a movie sure to inspire a black twitter hashtag theme bingo game, Boy Bye. Veronica Love (Wendy Raquel Robinson) seems to have it, a great career, a successful relationship book, and a seemingly endless supply of disposable boy toys. But all that changes when she meets the charming and debonair Lance (Ross Flemming). But will his secrets get in the way of true love?

Welcome to the first installment in our "Spoiler Surpreme" semi-spinoff series! Once every couple of episodes, we'll be having more in-depth discussions about certain films . . . and spoiling the mess out of them in the process, so listeners beware! . . . Still with us? GREAT!!!! For our first Spoiler Supreme episode, we'll be talking about 2015's Adulterers, written and directed by H.M. Coakley, and starring Sean Farris, Mechad Brooks, and Danielle Savre. Apparently, a lot of folks who have seen this have been beating themselves senseless over its bizarre plot and ending, and we definitely try our best to dissect this southern fried tale of marital infidelity, as Sam (Sean Farris) comes home to find his wife (Danielle Savre) having sex with another man (Mechad Brooks).

This week, we finally talk about that Train to Busan!!! When a hedge fund manager agrees to take his daughter to see his estranged wife, he's pushed to the extremes to protect her as a fast spreading plague turns the passengers on their commuter train into rabid zombies.

On this week's episode, we're talking about another Netflix Original, this time in the form of the British sci-fi crime drama, iBoy. When young Tom tries to evade a group of thugs, he's shot in the head while calling the police, resulting in pieces of his phone becoming embedded in his brain. Eventually realizing that the incident has given him the ability to telepathically control electronics, Tom sets out to take revenge.

Looking to shine a spotlight on female filmmakers in the horror genre, XX brings together four talented ladies to direct their own killer short films, including Roxanna Benjamin, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), Jovanka Vuckovic, and Karyn Kusama.

On this week's episode, we talk about the absurd revenge comedy, I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore, starring Melanie Lynksey and Elijah Wood, and directed by Macon Blair. When Ruth is pushed to her breaking point after her home is burglarized, she teams up with her neighbor Tony for some good old fashioned payback, and get more than they bargained for.

The Curse of Sleeping Beauty puts its own spin on the classic fairy tale, focusing on a young man named Thomas, a named plagued by a dreams about a "sleeping princess", and ultimately inherits a quaint little manor from an uncle he never knew, only to discover its dark secrets.This week's movies was "Whiskey's Choice", and it has made for one of our more interesting episodes.

This week's episode, we get it in discussing the tense, delightfully unnerving action thriller, The Guest, courtesy of the filmmakers behind You're Next. Dan Stevens stars as David Collins, a recently discharged soldier who seeks out the family of his fallen compatriot Caleb, and ever so casually inserts himself into their lives. Eventually, it becomes abundantly clear that there's more to David than meets the eye. . .

On this week's episode, we discuss the aptly titled horror film, The Monster, where a mother and daughter struggle to survive an attack from a vicious creature on a rainy, secluded highway.