Cult Classics Podcast

A troubled high school student becomes convinced he is living next door to a wanted serial killer. Struggling to come to terms with the death of his father, the teen lands himself in hot water after a fight with a teacher and is put under house arrest. During his domestic confinement, he begins to spy on his mysterious neighbor, believing him to be a murderous psychopath on the run from the authorities.

Director: D.J. Caruso

Host: Cameron Jones, Jordan Jones, Mark Nussle

The circumstances surrounding the death of crime novelist Harlan Thrombey are mysterious, but there's one thing that renowned Detective Benoit Blanc knows for sure -- everyone in the wildly dysfunctional Thrombey family is a suspect. Now, Blanc must sift through a web of lies and red herrings to uncover the truth.

Director: Rian Johnson

Cast: Ana De Armas, chris Evans, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Katherine Langford, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, LaKeith Stanford

Hosts: Mark Nussle, Cameron Jones, Jordan Jones

Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts 5-year-old Julian (Dylan Sprouse), (Cole Sprouse) to impress her. She's not impressed ... and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny!

Director: Dennis Dugan

Casts: Adam Sandler, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Joey Lauren Adams, Leslie Mann

Hosts: Mark Nussle, Cameron Jones, Jordan Jones

A widowed farmer, with a brave but brutal military past, decides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776. However, when his son enlists and is later captured by the enemy, the former soldier must abandon his new-found pacifist principles in order to rescue his oldest child, and forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Cast: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs

Host: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle

After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) into a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), he heads to New York City and gets a low-level job at MacMillen Toy Company. A chance encounter with the owner (Robert Loggia) of the company leads to a promotion testing new toys. Soon a fellow employee, Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins), takes a romantic interest in Josh. However, the pressure of living as an adult begins to overwhelm him, and he longs to return to his simple, former life as a boy.

Director: Penny Marshall

Cast: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton

Hosts: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle

This week, the Cult Classics Podcast talks about the 1989 Tom Hanks hidden gem, “The Burbs”. 

Settling in for some time off in his suburban home, Ray Peterson's (Tom Hanks) vacation becomes a horror when the Klopeks, a suspiciously odd family, move in down the block. Enlisting the aid of his paranoid buddy, Art (Rick Ducommun), and his militia-man neighbor, Rumsfield (Bruce Dern), Ray sends his son and wife (Carrie Fisher) away on a trip while he investigates the Klopeks. When a neighbor disappears, Ray and his cohorts risk their lives to save their cul-de-sac from the clutches of evil.

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell co-star as two of the sisters' teammates.

Director: Penny Marshall

Casts: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks< Madonna, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, John Lovitz, Garry Marshall

Hosts: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle

Tim Burton made a movie about Martians! 

Director: Tim Burton

Casts: Jack Nicholson, Glen Close, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown

Hosts: Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle, Jordan Jones

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison dram film directed starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. The film, set in the early 1950s, is based on Don Pearce's 1965 Cool Hand Luke.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy

Host: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle

After a run-in with the law, Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is forced to return to the world from which she fled some years ago. Enrolled in an elite gymnastics program run by the legendary Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges), Haley's rebellious attitude gives way to something that just might be called team spirit.

Director: Jessica Bendinger

Cast: Missy Peregrym, Jeff Bridges

Hosts: Makr Nussle, Cameron Jones, Jordan Jones