Clamshell Case Files

Quintin is sorry. He’s so very sorry. But in his defense, he needed to share the insanity. So put on your red jacket, jump on the LA subway and get ready to go to Di-No-Saaaaaur World, because it’s Clifford time! Martin Short stars as a 10-year old boy hellbent on two things: seeing Larry the Scary Rex and marrying his uncle’s fiancee Miss Sarah Davis (Mary Steenbergen), who...seems down for it, really. Charles Grodin tries his damndest to save the movie as Clifford’s long-suffering uncle, Martin. Does he succeed? Oh my, no. But it really needs to be seen to be believed. Actually, maybe just save yourself…

We’re sticking in 1987 this week to take a look at Joe Dante’s Innerspace. Join us as we talk about our most scientifically unbelievable cinematic universe yet! Marvel as Dennis Quaid’s alcoholic pilot is miniaturized and rips and tears through a man’s body! Be amazed as everyone roams San Francisco in a spatially impossible way! Recoil at the notion that this is a universe where everyone, including Meg Ryan, is ready to drop their pants for Martin Short. Also, keep an eye out for a Clamshell Hall of Famer!

This week, Matt presents a tale about a culturally appropriating, emotionally unstable boys’ tour guide Vic (Kevin Bacon) as he tries to mold a young boy genius Alan (Sean Astin) into the man he believes he can be. Are you ready for a White Water Summer!? Will Alan leave his precious Mets behind? Will Vic get to show the boys some wolves up north? Will any of this not seem any less creepy once you’ve seen the film? Listen to the show and find out!

Next week: Innerspace, the 1987 Joe Dante scifi comedy where everyone (including Meg Ryan) is thirsty for Martin Short! Gross!

To prep, you can watch it right here:

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/23724/White-Water-Summer

This week, we crack open the case on Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, a movie Quintin thought was so frightening, he was scared of the trailer as a child. Stephen King and George A. Romero bring us some campy tales of mummy revenge, sexy(?) gargoyle oaths and murderous hero cats. Oh, and a bonkers cast that includes Debbie Harry, Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi, Juilanne Moore and David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter).

This week it’s a very special Clamshell Case Files, where special guest Jarrod Staples gives a harrowing story of survival in the face of an uncaring world...and that’s before we get to the attempted robot murder. It’s Short Circuit 2! Join a still problematic Fisher Stevens and Michael McKean as they provide the Johnny V adventure you actually remember!

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Our very first special guest Jarrod Staples opens the file on a movie about a sentient, reformed killing machine and the woman who loves him (until tests audience demanded otherwise): the 1986 Steve Guttenberg, Ally Sheady, Fisher Stevens-in-brown-face classic that everyone thinks they love but they really just love the sequel, Short Circuit 2. Join the crew as they learn what it is that really makes us “alive”: unabashed horniness.

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Next week: Jarrod joins us again for Short Circuit 2, the sequel that actually contains all the scenes you thought you remembered from Short Circuit (unless you’re Matt). Get ready for more root hijinx, an almost entirely new cast, Toronto cast as New York, and slightly less racism!
To prep, you can watch it right here:
http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/22216/Short-Circuit-2

This week we have it all: toys trying to kill your aunt, a questionable understanding of voodoo, serial killer getaway drivers, blood-smeared secondhand birthday gifts, and the crew fixated on many open windows in a frigid Chicago winter. You guessed it! This week we’re talking about Child’s Play. What better way to get ready for this week’s reboot than to revisit the reason why nobody has fond memories of My Buddy dolls!

We’ve got a special treat for all you videoheads in honor of gaming’s biggest week, e3: the Electronic Entertainment Expo. 1989’s The Wizard, starring Fred Savage and the star you really wanted to see, gameplay of Super Mario Bros. 3! Listen along to a dystopian world hostile to all children and filled with product placement. But can the crew put the horror aside and enjoy a strangely affecting family drama? Ladies, gentlemen, children, siblings...ANIMALS! Prepare to have your hosts really brain you o

This week, we’re transported into Barry Levinson’s waking nightmare, Toys! Robin Williams stars as Leslie Zevo, an emotionally stunted middle-aged man whose father wants him to grow up. So naturally, before dear old daddy’s beanie propeller makes its last rotation, sending him to that great toybox in the sky, he (let us check our notes) hires Robin Wright to be his son’s lover? Did we mention it’s also an anti-war movie? Like a Christmas morning, there’s a lot to unwrap in this extra long episod

This week, the crew is working a case in the Pacific Northwest, where John Lithgow learns that fur is murder, ritual burial is the proper way to dispose of pot roast, and his daughter may be falling in love with a sasquatch. That’s right, it’s time to talk about Harry and the Hendersons. So get your really, really big gun and really, really big ammo, and get ready to skulk around downtown Seattle with the hopes of murdering an endangered, highly intelligent, peaceful creature!