Cinematic Void Podcast

On this episode of the Cinematic Void Podcast, Jim and Nick celebrate the world premiere of Michele Soavi's CEMETERY MAN aka DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE at this year's Beyond Fest.

They talk about when they both first saw the film and their reaction to revisiting it nearly 20 years later.

In this episode of the Cinematic Void Podcast, Jim and Nick discuss the October 2023 lineup including two brand new 4K restorations of films by Michele Soavi and a few Halloween season comfort watches.

On this episode of the Cinematic Void Podcast, we continue our film programmer series with Bret Berg. Bret has worked on both sides of the repertory cinema coin as a programmer/exhibitor and now as a film distributor through the American Genre Film Archive aka AGFA. We get real insider baseball on the weird and wild world of film programming along with sidebars about the films of Clint Eastwood and not being able to screen the Rob Zombie version of THE MUNSTERS theatrically.

Bret also talks about his weekly streaming endeavor the highly entertaining MUSEUM OF HOME VIDEO and of course, looks back at some of his highlights from his early days as a film programmer.

You can find AGFA at https://www.americangenrefilm.com/

and Museum of Home Video at https://www.museumofhomevideo.com/

On this episode of the Cinematic Void Podcast, Jim talks with Theresa Mercado of the film series SCREAM SCREEN. Theresa hosts her monthly screenings at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver, Colorado which features live music, special guests, and outlandish cosplay before screenings of under-seen and classic genre films, on 35mm and 16mm film whenever possible.

Other topics Jim and Theresa also discuss include her working for Vinegar Syndrome at the Archive, their Colorado brick-and-mortar store, music, collecting physical media, and more.

We kick off our film programmer series on the Cinematic Void Podcast where Jim interviews some of his peers who host screenings at repertory and art house theaters across the country.

Joining us on this one is William Morris, co-host of the Oscarbate podcast, and who currently is part of the programming masterminds behind Highs & Lows and The Music Box of Horrors in Chicago.

William also talks about how he got into film programming and his enthusiastic love of all things cinema.

Things get hardcore on this episode of Cinematic Void Podcast as we look at the September screening lineup at the Los Feliz 3, THIS IS BOSTON, NOT L.A. guest programmed by Midnite Mark Anastasio from The Coolidge Corner Theatre. We also discuss a couple of individual screenings including THE BLOB at The Frida Cinema and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago with William Morris and Broken Hope's Jeremy Wagner and Jim's THIS IS, L.A. NOT BOSTON series at The Coolidge.

Other sidebars include a vacation at Universal Studios Hollywood, screening recaps, Nick's continued hatred of Dunkin Donuts, but professed love of Radiohead, and screening recaps.

In this episode of the Cinematic Void Podcast, Jim and Nick recap the reactions to the Blu-ray Burnout and Horror Clout episodes.

They then look to the future as they discuss Nick's forthcoming music release by his band Double Life, a new video series on the Void YouTube channel, and the Void hitting the road this September to Chicago and Boston.

Also there may be some hot takes on Dunkin Donuts, JAWS 2, and butter!

On this episode of the Cinematic Void podcast. Jim and Nick head to JCPenney for some new fall fits as we head back to school for our August in-theater lineup.

Doubling down on the hot takes from the previous episode, Jim and Nick look at the state of the horror genre and its fans. Some of the topics included in the discussion are the commodification of the genre, gatekeeping vs. easy access, and chasing the social media high.

In this episode of the Cinematic Void Podcast, Jim and Nick look at the current landscape of boutique Blu-ray labels, slipcovers, and collector mentality. They also discuss the importance of film restoration, archiving, and streaming vs. physical media.