Films(trips)

Andrew and Dave travel through time and space (in as much as we all do) to take a look at the 1996 television movie, Doctor Who! What do Dave, a long time Whovian, and Andrew, a non-fan, make of the film? Why didn't this film result in the hoped for revival of the famed television program? And just how Canadian is this British-American coproduction? Tune in and find out!

Next episode: "Hi, Microsoft text support? This is Tim Robbins. DON'T HANG UP!"

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

With their episode looking at the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie coming next week, Dave decides to get Andrew (and unfamiliar listeners) up to speed with just what the long running science fiction television program is all about! What's a Dalek? What does regeneration refer to? Is it as complex as it seems, or far, far simpler than it looks? Tune in and find out!

Next Episode: I always dress for the occasion!  

All music by Andrew Kannigiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Having loved pretty much every minute of Hail, Caesar! in the last episode, Andrew and Dave follow Josh Brolin to the far more frustrating Inherent Vice from director Paul Thomas Anderson. Does this adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon capture the feeling of the famed writer's work? If it does succeed in that regard, does that mean that it even works as a film? And just what is up with Dave's audio in this episode? Tune in to find out!

Next Episode: THESE SHOES! They fit perfectly!

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Leaving yet another Highlander film behind them, Andrew and David return once again to the land of Joel and Ethan Coen with Hail, Caesar!, the 2016 comedy which looks at Hollywood in 1951. Just how well does a more recent Coen brothers film work when compared to their classic work of the 1990s? What scene is works so well that it could be a short film itself? Would that it were so simple? Tune in and find out!

Next Episode: A down and out private detective has to navigate the changing times of 1970s L.A.. No, we're not looking at The Long Goodbye a second time.

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Despite having numerous options after Con Air to watch some good films, Andrew and Dave instead dive for the third time into the ongoing train wreck of a franchise that is Highlander with Highlander: Endgame! Once again joined by James Hrivnak, the hosts try to make sense of all the ways in which Endgame goes wrong in its effort to transition the films from star Christopher Lambert to Adrian Paul, the star of Highlander: The Series.

Next Episode: Just because you're a Hollywood fixer doesn't mean you can't be a family man!

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Having had their fill of wax museums, Andrew and Dave turn their attention to airplanes! To be more specific, they turn their attention to prisoner transport planes by taking a look at the high concept action film Con Air, starring Nicolas Cage and an army of noted character actors. What do the duo make of producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first post-Don Simpson film? Is Simon West a more tolerable director than Michael Bay? And how freaking great is Colm Meany? Tune in and find out!

Next Episode: Oh God, a Highlander film.

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Having been kicked out of Dragonwyck, Andrew and Dave head to New York in the early 1900s to vist a house of wax! Actually, the duo are just watching and discussing 1953's House of Wax, the second of three film adaptations of an unpublished short story. Unlike the other two versions, the 1953 version has Vincent Price and Charles Bronson! Does the film, which marks Price's rise into being a horror icon, hold up? Why on Earth is there an intermission in a film that is less than ninety minutes in length? Just what can that carnival barker do with three paddle balls? Tune in and find out!

Next Episode: Convicts and high concept action plots take to the skies!

Music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Having survived the inconsequential 1933 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Andrew and Dave turn their attention to writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1946 melodrama Dragonwyck, starring Gene "Not Lawrence" Tierney and Vincent Price! Just what do the podcasting duo make of the film and Walter Huston's sideburns? Does the film foreshadow Price's later horror film roles? Where can we get these placebos? Tune in and find out!

Next Episode: This wax museum is pretty great. Aside from the murders, of course.

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Leaving Hitchcock (and Montreal) behind them, Andrew and Dave head to 1933 to take a look at the often overlooked Paramount adaptation of Alice in Wonderland! What do the duo make of the star filled bomb? Why didn't the film connect with audiences in 1933? And is the source material really meaty enough to sustain the various forms of analysis that it has undergone over time? Tune in and find out!

Next Episode: The name's Price. Vincent Price.

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Once upon a time, Andrew and Dave promised Photo-Flo: Terror In the Smiles host Eric Jones they would make sure to have him on when they next covered a Hitchcock film. Now is the time they make good on that promise!

This time out, the trio are taking a look at the 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film, I Confess, starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. Not familiar with this one? There might just be a reason for that.

Tune in as the hosts debate the film's failings and strengths, outline the particularly troubled development phase of the film, and try and remember which song by The Clash references Mr. Clift by name!

Next Episode: Have you ever wanted to see a film with Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, and W.C. Fields where they are buried in makeup and costumes? No? Too bad.

All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt