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Stop everything! It is time for a Criterion Break!!!

We all have movie lists: what movies do we want to see on the big screen — for us, preferably at The State? What “classics” have we missed? What movies would we like to own? On this episode, the trio of hosts share one of our lists, our Criterion Wishlists. This episode showcases the first five titles from each  of our lists of movies that we think deserve the Criterion treatment. And let me tell you… there are definitely some surprises within, so you won’t want to miss it!


Andy can be found across social media at:
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Blake (therealjohng) AND Derrick (dervdude) can both be found online as a part of:
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www.BackLot605.com
Letterboxd profiles noted in parentheses.

Blake also moonlights on the SLASHLOT podcast, wherever your catch your pods.

Watch for Derrick on Back Lot’s social media on Monday’s for the Box Office Round-Up.

Subscribe to this podcast and the Back Lot 605 podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts. Run a search and click on that subscribe button. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it! Remember, subscribing to The Criterion Break with Andy and Blake also gets you the Let’s Taco ‘Bout podcast, also hosted by Andy, The Fat Dude. Let’s Taco ‘Bout features a conversation with a special guest where we discuss their lives, and a movie that has had an impact on it.

If you’d like to contact us for any recommendations, questions, comments, or concerns, you can email us at [email protected]. If by some small chance you’d like to donate anything to offset the cost of movie tickets (or streaming costs during this GLOBAL pandemic) and this podcast, be it via a gift card to pay for a digital rental, you can also send that to the aforementioned email. Any recommendation and donation will be mentioned in a future episode! If you can’t spare the dime, no worries: please leave a rating and/or a review, and spread the word about this podcast.

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This week on a brand new episode of Let’s Taco ‘Bout, The Fat Dude is joined by local award-winning filmmaker, Max Hofer. Max talks about growing up as a fan of movies, his improv career, and what motivated him to become a filmmaker. We also discuss Max’s award-winning short film, Kitman, before chatting about the featured movie of the week, 2013’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. 

Check out Max’s short, Kitman, currently streaming on YouTube. Also, follow Max on Instagram at: macsofer

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Criterion Break. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it!

If you’d like to contact me for any recommendations, questions, comments, concerns, or to be a future guest, you can email me at [email protected].

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Help protect, defend, and support the transgender community (as well as our LGBTQ+ brothers, sisters, and non-binary spiritual siblings) by checking out:

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National Center For Transgender Equality
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The need for the #BlackLivesMatter movement continues across the country. Keep giving as much support to these organizations as you can:

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Please help do your part to  stop Asian hate. If you see something, say something. Look into the following charities, organizations, and foundations:

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On this week’s episode, I am extending the Halloween season one more week to talk horror movies one more time! I am joined by longtime friend and local actress, Lena Howe, to chat about her love of the horror genre. We also discuss her stage outings in the Sioux Falls area and how she was able to move into local film work. We also chat about our featured movie of the week, Clive Barker’s dark, disturbing, incredible Hellraiser.


You can find Lena on Instagram at sleepylena13

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Criterion Break. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it!

If you’d like to contact me for any recommendations, questions, comments, concerns, or to be a future guest, you can email me at [email protected].

And now the call to action:

Help protect, defend, and support the transgender community (as well as our LGBTQ+ brothers, sisters, and non-binary spiritual siblings) by checking out:

Trans Lifeline
The Trevor Project
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
Gender Diversity
The Transgender Law Center
FORGE
GLSEN
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
Trans Women of Color Collective
Trans Youth Equality Foundation
National Center For Transgender Equality
GLAAD
The Trans Culture District

The need for the #BlackLivesMatter movement continues across the country. Keep giving as much support to these organizations as you can:

The American Civil Liberties Union
The Bail Project
Black Lives Matter
Black Trans Travel Fund
COVID Bail Out NYC
Color of Change
George Floyd Memorial Fund
The Innocence Project
Justice For Breonna
Justice For Elijah
Justice Frontline Aid
Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Fund
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Bail Fund Network
National Police Accountability Project
Run With Maud
Unicorn Riot

Please help do your part to  stop Asian hate. If you see something, say something. Look into the following charities, organizations, and foundations:

Stop AAPI Hate
AAPI Community Fund
CAAAV
APIENC
Asian Mental Health Collective
South Asian Workers’ Center
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development 
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
#HATEISAVIRUS
Korean American Community Foundation
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
SEARAC
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Red Canary Song
Butterfly
SWAN Vancouver
AAPI Women Lead

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🎃Two more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. Two more days to Halloween. BONUS TACO!!!🎃

On a Halloween weekend bonus episode, The Fat Dude is joined by the Tom Hanks/Steve Martin of the podcast, regular guest Jameson Pfeifle of SDFilmThoughts and Back Lot 605 to talk about the gloriousness that is Halloween III: Season of the Witch. We talk about the joy of Halloween, jingles, ancient rituals, and Tom Atkins.

You can find Jameson on Instagram at SDFilmThoughts. You can also check out his contribution to the Back Lot at BackLot605.com.

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Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Search for Fat Dude Digs Flicks and click on that subscribe button. Subscribing to this podcast also gets you episodes of The
Criterion Break. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it!

If you’d like to contact me for any recommendations, questions, comments, concerns, or to be a future guest, you can email me at [email protected].

And now the call to action:

Help protect, defend, and support the transgender community (as well as our LGBTQ+ brothers, sisters, and non-binary spiritual siblings) by checking out:

Trans Lifeline
The Trevor Project
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
Gender Diversity
The Transgender Law Center
FORGE
GLSEN
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
Trans Women of Color Collective
Trans Youth Equality Foundation
National Center For Transgender Equality
GLAAD
The Trans Culture District

The need for the #BlackLivesMatter movement continues across the country. Keep giving as much support to these organizations as you can:

The American Civil Liberties Union
The Bail Project
Black Lives Matter
Black Trans Travel Fund
COVID Bail Out NYC
Color of Change
George Floyd Memorial Fund
The Innocence Project
Justice For Breonna
Justice For Elijah
Justice Frontline Aid
Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Fund
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Bail Fund Network
National Police Accountability Project
Run With Maud
Unicorn Riot

Please help do your part to  stop Asian hate. If you see something, say something. Look into the following charities, organizations, and foundations:

Stop AAPI Hate
AAPI Community Fund
CAAAV
APIENC
Asian Mental Health Collective
South Asian Workers’ Center
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development 
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
#HATEISAVIRUS
Korean American Community Foundation
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
SEARAC
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Red Canary Song
Butterfly
SWAN Vancouver
AAPI Women Lead

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It’s another scary Taco Tuesday here on the podcast, with an all new Let’s Taco ‘Bout ready for your ears. This episode is hotly anticipated, as the Fat Dude was finally able to sit down for a chat with Instagram horror author and fan, FullTimeHorrorJunkie herself, Judith Sonnet. Judith and The Fat Dude discuss how she came to love horror and what it is like being a fan of under the radar horror in the Midwest. We also discuss her books, We Have Summoned and Cabin Possessions, and her experience being a trans woman in the online horror community. From there, the two dive into Judith’s film of choice for the week, the 1989 Italian horror film from Michele Soavi, The Church. 

Check out Judith online on her:
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Also, her books, We Have Summoned and Cabin Possessions, are available in paperback and digital form on Amazon.com.

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Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Search for Fat Dude Digs Flicks and click on that subscribe button. Subscribing to this podcast also gets you episodes of The
Criterion Break. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it!

If you’d like to contact me for any recommendations, questions, comments, concerns, or to be a future guest, you can email me at [email protected].

And now the call to action:

Help protect, defend, and support the transgender community (as well as our LGBTQ+ brothers, sisters, and non-binary spiritual siblings) by checking out:

Trans Lifeline
The Trevor Project
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
Gender Diversity
The Transgender Law Center
FORGE
GLSEN
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
Trans Women of Color Collective
Trans Youth Equality Foundation
National Center For Transgender Equality
GLAAD
The Trans Culture District

The need for the #BlackLivesMatter movement continues across the country. Keep giving as much support to these organizations as you can:

The American Civil Liberties Union
The Bail Project
Black Lives Matter
Black Trans Travel Fund
COVID Bail Out NYC
Color of Change
George Floyd Memorial Fund
The Innocence Project
Justice For Breonna
Justice For Elijah
Justice Frontline Aid
Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Fund
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Bail Fund Network
National Police Accountability Project
Run With Maud
Unicorn Riot

Please help do your part to  stop Asian hate. If you see something, say something. Look into the following charities, organizations, and foundations:

Stop AAPI Hate
AAPI Community Fund
CAAAV
APIENC
Asian Mental Health Collective
South Asian Workers’ Center
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development 
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
#HATEISAVIRUS
Korean American Community Foundation
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
SEARAC
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Red Canary Song
Butterfly
SWAN Vancouver
AAPI Women Lead

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THE SCARY HALLOWEEN SEASON ROLLS ALONG!

This week’s Criterion Break finds the gang diving into two recent films that played The State Theater in Sioux Falls. First up, Jacques Tourneur’s devilish Cat People blends noir stylings with the supernatural to create a film that our panel respected more than they enjoyed. But those chase scenes! After that, the trio chat about the granddaddy of all zombie flicks, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Does Romero’s classic live up to its reputation after all these years?

Andy can be found across social media at:
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Blake (therealjohng) AND Derrick (dervdude) can both be found online as a part of:
Facebook - Back Lot 605
Instagram - BackLot605
Twitter - BackLot605
www.BackLot605.com
Letterboxd profiles noted in parentheses.

Blake also moonlights on the SLASHLOT podcast, wherever your catch your pods.

Watch for Derrick on Back Lot’s social media on Monday’s for the Box Office Round-Up.

Subscribe to this podcast and the Back Lot 605 podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts. Run a search and click on that subscribe button. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it! Remember, subscribing to The Criterion Break with Andy and Blake also gets you the Let’s Taco ‘Bout podcast, also hosted by Andy, The Fat Dude. Let’s Taco ‘Bout features a conversation with a special guest where we discuss their lives, and a movie that has had an impact on it.

If you’d like to contact us for any recommendations, questions, comments, or concerns, you can email us at [email protected]. If by some small chance you’d like to donate anything to offset the cost of movie tickets (or streaming costs during this GLOBAL pandemic) and this podcast, be it via a gift card to pay for a digital rental, you can also send that to the aforementioned email. Any recommendation and donation will be mentioned in a future episode! If you can’t spare the dime, no worries: please leave a rating and/or a review, and spread the word about this podcast.

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Welcome the SEASON PREMIERE of Let’s Taco ‘Bout! After a long summer hiatus, it’s time to get back in the swing of things. This episode was recorded LIVE at Back Lot 605’s SiouxperCon Film Festival!  I am joined by NUR-D, Matt Allen, a rapper from the Twin Cities who loves “geek” culture. We chatted about finding our “in” with pop culture, his love for music, and how the murder of George Floyd inspired him to action and creative release.  We then dove into the 1999 action comedy, Mystery Men.

Follow NUR-D across social media under the username NurdRocks for concert dates, music release info, and more! Check out nurdrocks.comand Spotify to stream his work. You can also donate time, money, and energy to Justice Frontline Aid. Check out the website at justicefrontlineaid.org.  Make a difference, be good to people, and show your support,


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Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Search for Fat Dude Digs Flicks and click on that subscribe button. Subscribing to this podcast also gets you episodes of The
Criterion Break. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it!

If you’d like to contact me for any recommendations, questions, comments, concerns, or to be a future guest, you can email me at [email protected].


The need for the #BlackLivesMatter movement continues across the country. Keep giving as much support to these organizations as you can:

The American Civil Liberties Union
The Bail Project
Black Lives Matter
Black Trans Travel Fund
COVID Bail Out NYC
Color of Change
George Floyd Memorial Fund
The Innocence Project
Justice For Breonna
Justice For Elijah
Justice Frontline Aid
Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Fund
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Bail Fund Network
National Police Accountability Project
Run With Maud
Unicorn Riot

Please help do your part to  stop Asian hate. If you see something, say something. Look into the following charities, organizations, and foundations:

Stop AAPI Hate
AAPI Community Fund
CAAAV
APIENC
Asian Mental Health Collective
South Asian Workers’ Center
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
#HATEISAVIRUS
Korean American Community Foundation
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
SEARAC
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Red Canary Song
Butterfly
SWAN Vancouver
AAPI Women Lead

Help protect, defend, and support the transgender community (as well as our LGBTQ+ brothers, sisters, and non-binary spiritual siblings) by checking out:

Trans Lifeline
The Trevor Project
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
Gender Diversity
The Transgender Law Center
FORGE
GLSEN
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
Trans Women of Color Collective
Trans Youth Equality Foundation
National Center For Transgender Equality
GLAAD
The Trans Culture District

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All hands on deck!

For this double feature, we need everyone we can get! The whole team is here for this week’s Criterion Break, as they all had the opportunity to take in two vastly different, but both very “different,” movies that screen at The Sioux Falls State Theatre. While Neon’s latest release is not actually in the Criterion Collection (yet) it seemed right to cover Julia Ducournau’s Titane. This year’s Palm D’Or winner has the pedigree and the potential to be a future entry into the Collection. The second half of the double feature is the 1977 cult classic, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (Hausu). We cover Titane in depth, still reeling from the nee release days later, and then wrap it up with our reaction to the madness that is House.

SPOILER ALERT: we dive deep into the new release Titane with full spoilers from 30:00 all the way to 1:17:48.

Andy can be found across social media at:
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Blake (therealjohng) AND Derrick (dervdude) can both be found online as a part of:
Facebook - Back Lot 605
Instagram - BackLot605
Twitter - BackLot605
www.BackLot605.com
Letterboxd profiles noted in parentheses.

Blake also moonlights on the SLASHLOT podcast, wherever your catch your pods.

Watch for Derrick on Back Lot’s social media on Monday’s for the Box Office Round-Up.

Subscribe to this podcast and the Back Lot 605 podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts. Run a search and click on that subscribe button. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it! Remember, subscribing to The Criterion Break with Andy and Blake also gets you the Let’s Taco ‘Bout podcast, also hosted by Andy, The Fat Dude. Let’s Taco ‘Bout features a conversation with a special guest where we discuss their lives, and a movie that has had an impact on it.

If you’d like to contact us for any recommendations, questions, comments, or concerns, you can email us at [email protected]. If by some small chance you’d like to donate anything to offset the cost of movie tickets (or streaming costs during this GLOBAL pandemic) and this podcast, be it via a gift card to pay for a digital rental, you can also send that to the aforementioned email. Any recommendation and donation will be mentioned in a future episode! If you can’t spare the dime, no worries: please leave a rating and/or a review, and spread the word about this podcast.

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On this week’s episode, Derrick is again playing co-host as he and Andy welcome a special guest into the fold. Cory Jacobsen of SomewhatRandomMovieCollection stops by to talk about Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 French sci-fi noir classic, Alphaville. A first-time watch for both of our hosts, Cory, a fan of the film since childhood, talks about why the film resonates so strongly with him and discusses the influences this unique film had on the future of science fiction cinema.

Andy can be found across social media at:
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Blake AND Derrick can both be found online as a part of:
Facebook - Back Lot 605
Instagram - BackLot605
Twitter - BackLot605
www.BackLot605.com
And Blake also moonlights on the SLASHLOT podcast, wherever your catch your pods.

Subscribe to this podcast and the Back Lot 605 podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts. Run a search and click on that subscribe button. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it! Remember, subscribing to The Criterion Break with Andy and Blake also gets you the Let’s Taco ‘Bout podcast, also hosted by Andy, The Fat Dude. Let’s Taco ‘Bout features a conversation with a special guest where we discuss their lives, and a movie that has had an impact on it.

If you’d like to contact us for any recommendations, questions, comments, or concerns, you can email us at [email protected]. If by some small chance you’d like to donate anything to offset the cost of movie tickets (or streaming costs during this GLOBAL pandemic) and this podcast, be it via a gift card to pay for a digital rental, you can also send that to the aforementioned email. Any recommendation and donation will be mentioned in a future episode! If you can’t spare the dime, no worries: please leave a rating and/or a review, and spread the word about this podcast.

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We wanted to sing out, so we sang out!

The Criterion Break is back with an all new episode! This week, Derrick is back as co-pilot as he and Andy dives into the New York Stories feature on the Criterion Channel. Hear them marvel at Margot Kidder, wince at the pretentiousness of the New York theatre crowd, shriek at an overbearing mother, and bless all of Mr. Green’s sneezes, while recommending that you choose some of your own NYC cinema adventures. The two then discuss all of the charming weirdness Harold and Maude has to offer. This week’s featured film played the Sioux Falls State Theatre and both hosts have a lot to say about this delightful cult classic.

Andy can be found across social media at:
Facebook - Fat Dude Digs Flicks
Instagram - FatDudeDigsFlicks
Twitter - FatDudeFlicks

Blake AND Derrick can both be found online as a part of:
Facebook - Back Lot 605
Instagram - BackLot605
Twitter - BackLot605
www.BackLot605.com
And Blake also moonlights on the SLASHLOT podcast, wherever your catch your pods.

Subscribe to this podcast and the Back Lot 605 podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts. Run a search and click on that subscribe button. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you’re at it! Remember, subscribing to The Criterion Break with Andy and Blake also gets you the Let’s Taco ‘Bout podcast, also hosted by Andy, The Fat Dude. Let’s Taco ‘Bout features a conversation with a special guest where we discuss their lives, and a movie that has had an impact on it.

If you’d like to contact us for any recommendations, questions, comments, or concerns, you can email us at [email protected]. If by some small chance you’d like to donate anything to offset the cost of movie tickets (or streaming costs during this GLOBAL pandemic) and this podcast, be it via a gift card to pay for a digital rental, you can also send that to the aforementioned email. Any recommendation and donation will be mentioned in a future episode! If you can’t spare the dime, no worries: please leave a rating and/or a review, and spread the word about this podcast.

Support the show