Genre Grinder

IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN. CURL UP WITH YOUR FAVORITE LOG AND ENJOY THIS BONUS EPISODE.

You can't talk about the legacy of legacy sequels without talking about the legacy of a legacy sequel that skirts the lines between the legacies of film, television, and even David Lynch's as a filmmaker. I (Gabe) am not exactly a Twin Peaks novice, but this was my first time watching anything other than the original series (i.e., Fire Walk with Me and The Return), so, Tyler Foster, who is well-versed in all things Lynch, was there to tell me behind-the-scenes tales, as well as walk me through a litany of fan theories. I offer up a few theories of my own, which will hopefully become series canon, because I'm quite clever, you see. Do note that we recorded this using Zoom, so there are a handful of brief lag and echo effects. I mitigated the issue as much as possible, but, sometimes, it wasn't possible to remove errors from the mix.

00:00 – Twin Peaks seasons one and two 08:52 – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) 17:34 – Twin Peaks: The Return (aka: season three) 55:39 – Wrap up and final thoughts.

Check out Tyler's DVDTalk.com reviews here: https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/bio.php?ID=262&reviewID=74403

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Legacy sequel. What does it mean? Well, the simplest way to put it is "a sequel is made a considerable amount of time after its predecessor," but it's also more than that. Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster try to suss out the precise meaning of this particularly enigmatic subgenre – and there's a lot to cover in only a couple of hours. First, they talk about early and popular examples, like J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Ryan Coogler's Creed (2015). Then, they ramble about studios' failed attempts at recapturing the cult audiences of the '80s. Then, they go on and on about that weird subset of legacy sequels that change the timeline of long-running franchises, before finally getting down to business and talking about a couple of personal favorites, Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting (2017) and Walter Murch's Return to Oz (1985).

00:00 – Intro and early examples of legacy prequels

03:55 – The Hits: The Force Awakens, Creed, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Jurassic World (all released in 2015)

22:55 – The Bombs: Tron Legacy (2010), The Thing (2011, very briefly), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

46:49 – Alternate Timelines and Legacy Rebootquels: Star Trek (2009), X-Men Days of Future Past (2017), The Terminator series, and more

1:01:10 – T2 Trainspotting

1:18:13 – Return to Oz

1:42:13 – Everything else and outro

Here's the letterboxd list we were working from: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/legacy-sequels-prequels/

Check out Tyler's DVDTalk.com reviews here: https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/bio.php?ID=262&reviewID=74403

In case you hadn't noticed, the world is still a rough place. If you are in a position to help people in need at this time, please consider the following fundraisers:

National Bail Fund Network Directory: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory

Homeless Black Trans Women Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund

Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition: https://www.givemn.org/organization/mntransgenderhealt

American Nurses Foundation's Coronavirus Response Fund: https://www.nursingworld.org/foundation/programs/coronavirus-response-fund/

WELCOME! YOU'VE GOT MAIL! AND A SPECIAL DELIVERY OF E-FEAR!

Enter the Matrix! Or, rather, what early '90s Hollywood thought virtual reality would look like, before movies like The Matrix offered a more nuanced alternative. Gabe and special guest, Now Playing Network head honcho Jim Laczkowski, take a look at Techno Horror. More specifically, Techno Horror movies about haunted and evil computers, video games, and internets. They begin with Michael Fischa's filmed in the early '80s, released in the late '80s possessed electronic gym classic, Death Spa. Then, the discussion moves on to a, um, unique 1993 double-feature in Albert Pyun's Arcade and Rachel Talalay's Ghost in the Machine. Things end on a more somber and serious note with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's fantastically melancholic Pulse (Japanese: Kairo, 2001) and a quick wrap-up of some other Techno Horror titles.

00:00 – Intro 05:01 – Death Spa

24:25 – Arcade

42:00 – Ghost in the Machine

1:08:23 – Pulse 1:36:10 – Outros

Okay, this one is a little hard to explain: Gabe and Patrick are looking at films featuring rock, hip-hop, R&B, and reggae artists. Not concert movies or movies where a pop star plays someone else, but movies in which they essentially appear either as themselves or a slightly fictionalized version of themselves. Obvious examples include The Beatles in Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night (1964) or Prince in Albert Magnoli's Purple Rain (1984). But we're also not talking about those two very popular films – we're talking about some slightly less popular titles with strong cult followings, including Bob Rafelson's Head (1968), starring The Monkees, Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1972), starring Jimmy Cliff, Allan Arkush's Rock 'n Roll High School (1979), starring The Ramones, and Reginald Hudlin's House Party (1990), starring Kid 'n Play. The fellas wrap things up with shorter discussions of Prince's movies, Bob Spiers' Spiceworld (1997), Tetsuro Takeuchi's Wild Zero (1999), and a few others. 00:00 – Intro 07:07 – Head 31:21 – The Harder They Come 51:32 – Rock 'n Roll High School 1:19:36 – House Party 1:45:09 – Wrap up

DUH DUN DUH DUN DUNDUNDUNDUN (duh nanaaa) DUNDUNDUNDUN

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.... Genre Grinder is back and focusing on actual genres, following the three part best of 2010s. Well, sort of. This month, Gabe and first-time guest Anne-Marie Taylor chat about shark movies or, more precisely, BAD shark movies. Honestly, it was just easier this way. Not only does Anne-Marie pride herself on knowing all the best in shitty selachimorpha flicks, but the subgenre has become its own little cottage industry on home video and television over the last two decades.

The discussion begins with arguably the quintessential Italian Jaws rip-off, Enzo G. Castellari's The Last Shark (Italian: L'ultimo squalo; aka: Great White, 1981), then moves on to the silliest official entry in the Jaws canon, Joe Alves' Jaws 3-D (1983), an early entry in the modern STV shark lottery, David Worth's meme-tastic Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002), and end things with a perfect sampling of the Syfy network's Z-grade output, Keith Shaw's Avalanche Sharks (2014). We accidentally watched different versions of that last one.

00:00 – Intro

08:00 – The Last Shark

29:17 – Jaws 3-D and shark facts

53:20 – Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

1:16:21 – Avalanche Sharks

1:45:40 – Wrap up and Anne-Marie's top four

ARE WE STILL DOING THIS? WE ARE STILL DOING THIS!! THERE'S SO MUCH MORE CONTENT FOR THE MACHINE!!

Gabe and Tracks of the Damned's Patrick Ripoll are back ...again and running down more of Patrick's favorite horror movies of the previous ten years ...again. When they're done, it's up to Your Favorite Monsters' Betsy Jorgensen to tell us what she thinks made the last decade in horror great. Then, when all is said and done, Gabe and Patrick talk about a few more of Gabe's faves. I know I originally promised a complete list from myself, my girlfriend Kristine, and Tyler Foster, but Patrick, Jim, Luana, and Betsy gave me so much to work with that I've decided to cut my own list down to a few items and save Kristine and Tyler's lists for the next time we record. If you're curious, however, here is a letterboxd.com list of my top 50: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/the-50-best-horror-movies-of-the-2010s-wip/ 00:00 – Intro and more from Patrick's list

51:05 – Betsy's top 10

1:27:34 – A bit of Gabe's list

Hear Patrick's complete commentary for Lake Mungo, which came out a little too early to make anyone's lists: http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/tracksofthedamned/s1e5

Hear Betsy's latest episode of Your Favorite Monsters: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-favorite-monsters-52-come-undone/id1294117203?i=1000455964503

THERE WAS TOO MUCH GOOD STUFF FOR ONE PODCAST! OR EVEN TWO!! THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER ONE AFTER THIS ONE, GUYS!!!

Gabe and Tracks of the Damned's Patrick Ripoll are back and running down more of Patrick's favorite horror movies of the previous ten years. Right smack-dab in the middle, Gabe is also joined by Monster Island Commentaries/Movie Lobby Commentaries' own Luana Saitta (recorded separately) for a look at her top 10 horror picks – some of which may surprise you!

This is the second of THREE podcasts on the subject, so stay tuned in two weeks for more with Patrick and lists by Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters, my girlfriend Kristine Fisher, and maybe even Tyler Foster.

00:00 – Intro and more from Patrick's list

25:25 – Luana's top 10

1:26:28 – Even more with Patrick (plus a bit of Gabe's list)

Check out a preview clip of Luana and Monster Island co-host Travis Kirkland's new series, Movie Lobby Commentaries, in which they discuss Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1992) right here: http://monstercommentaries.libsyn.com/movie-lobby-commentaries-terminator-2-judgment-day-preview-clip Hear Patrick's complete commentary for Mike Flanagan's Oculus (2013): http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/tracksofthedamned/s1e4

IT'S THE END OF AN ERA! JOIN US AS WE LOOK BACK ON THE BEST HORROR MOVIES OF THE 2010S WITH...20/20 VISION! BET YOU HADN'T HEARD THAT JOKE YET!

It was a heck of a decade and Gabe has gathered all of his friends (and co-hosts) together to discuss the very best horror movies released between 2010 and 2019. In part one, he is joined by Tracks of the Damned's Patrick Ripoll and Voices + Visions' Jim Laczkowski (recorded separately) to decide what defined 2010s horror and what made each of these films so great. This is the first of THREE podcasts on the subject, so stay tuned in two weeks for more with Patrick and lists by Luana Saitta of Monster Island Commentaries, Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters, my girlfriend Kristine Fisher, and maybe even Tyler Foster.

00:00 – Intro: What characterized 2010 horror with Patrick 23:17 – Jim's top 301:26:45 – Part 1 of Patrick's top 25 Hear Patrick talk exclusively about Scream 4 on Tracks of the Damned: http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/tracksofthedamned/s1e17

FILL UP YOUR TRAPPER KEEPER AND RELIVE ALL THE ANGST, RAPTURE, HORMONES, AND HEARTBREAK OF HIGH SCHOOL!

Last month, Gabe was visited by special guest Tyler Foster (formerly of DVDTalk.com) and the two of them decided to take a look at the wide world of high school comedies – or at least the ones that were released after 1980. The original plan was to focus on Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Steve Rash's Can't Buy Me Love (1987), and Joseph Kahn's Detention (2011, a film Tyler has been trying to force Gabe to watch forever), but their conversation grew beyond those borders, to include important films, unimportant films, the genre's history, evolving traditions and clichés, important filmmakers, connections to other genres (horror in particular), and more. Because the discussion is so broad, there aren't any good places to stick trailer clips this time.

If you'd like, you can follow along with this list, which is the exact one Tyler and Gabe were working from while recording: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/high-school-comedies-post-1980/

And check out Tyler's old DVDTalk reviews right here: https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/bio.php?ID=262

IN A CASTLE, UPON A HILL, BESTREWN WITH COBWEBS...JOIN US ON A JOURNEY INTO SELF-DISCOVERY… Welcome to the crossroads of spooky and romantic as Gabe and his significant other, Kristine Fisher, talk about some Gothic Romance movies. This time, your Byronic heroes are covering three films in particular – Robert Stevenson's Jane Eyre (1943), Joseph L. Mankiewicz' Dragonwyck (1946), and Mario Bava's The Whip and the Body (Italian: La frusta e il corpo, 1963). This will be the first of (hopefully) a couple discussions on the subject, so we stuck to an earlier era. We don't have a specific plan on when to record a second part, so stay tuned!

00:00 – Intro

16:53 – Jane Eyre

42:21 – Dragonwyck

1:10:32 – The Whip and the Body

1:28:28 – Other movies and farewells

For the record, we're basing our definition of Gothic Romance partially on a description found on the Toledo Lucas County Public Library website (credited to Claire F.): https://www.toledolibrary.org/blog/a-glimpse-of-genre-the-gothic-romance

And here's a relatively complete Letterboxd list of pertinent movies, including some we may be covering next time: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/gothic-romance/