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  • Ep 70 - Tom Atkins Horror feat. Adam Maffei

    The Fog (1980), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), & Night of the Creeps (1986)

    ALL MOVIES SPOILED

    In this film block, Adam Maffei joins Jeremy and Brian to put on some masks and tune in to some 80’s horror classics starring the 80’s horror king, Tom Atkins.

    Follow Adam here:

    • Instagram

      • Where to watch:

      • The Fog (4K Blu-Ray)
      • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (4K Blu-Ray)
      • Night of the Creeps (Blu-Ray)

        • Other films referenced:

        • The Detective (1968) 
        • Dark Star 
        • Back to the Future 
        • Jurassic Park
        • Psycho (1960)
        • Halloween (1978) 
        • Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 
        • Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
        • Escape from New York 
        • The Thing 
        • ET
        • Niagara 
        • Westworld 
        • Firestarter (1984) 
        • Halloween II (1981) 
        • Christmas Vacation 
        • Midsommar 
        • Crash (1996) 
        • Revenge of the Nerds 
        • Porky’s 
        • Weird Science 
        • The Blob (1958)
        • Slither
        • Alien 
        • Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie 
        • Night of the Creeps 2 (aka Zombie Town)
        • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
        • Zombi 2
        • The Monster Squad 
          • 1 hr 14 min
        • Ep 69 - The Omega Man

          The Omega Man (1971)

          ALL MOVIES SPOILED

          In this Midnight Movie Jeremy and Brian stay up all night fighting off heavy metal, druid, ghouls with laser-scoped machine guns, a groovy apartment and enough 3M stage blood to fill a fountain.

          Where to watch:

          • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena) 
          • Cinefile (Santa Monica) 
          • The Omega Man (Blu-Ray)

            • Further reading:

            • I Am Legend: And Other Stories by Richard Matheson 

              • Other films referenced:

              • The Last Man on Earth
              • I Am Legend
              • I Am Omega
              • Firestarter (2022)
              • Planet of the Apes (1968)
              • Soylent Green
              • The Stand (1994)
              • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
              • Papillon (1973)
              • Wayne’s World 2
              • The Wicker Man (1973)
              • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
              • Day of the Dead (1985)
              • White Zombie
              • Batman (1989)
              • Batman (1966)
              • The Ten Commandments (1956)
              • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
              • Ghostbusters
                • 50 min
              • Ep 68 - Time Is Luck feat. Daniel Ross & Andy Buigues
                Thief (1981), Manhunter (1986), & Heat (1995)
                ALL MOVIES SPOILED
                In this episode, Andy Buigues and Daniel Ross luck into some time with Jeremy and Brian to explore the philosophy, poetry and realistic expressionism of the cinema of Michael Mann.
                Follow Daniel’s hot movie takes here:
                Letterboxd
                Where to watch:
                Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                Thief (Blu-Ray)
                Manhunter (Blu-Ray)
                Heat (Blu-Ray)
                Other films referenced: 
                Miami Vice
                Collateral
                Straight Time
                The Jericho Mile
                The Terminator
                Risky Business
                Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
                The Keep
                The Insider
                Ali
                The Last of the Mohicans
                Gremlins 2
                Eyes Wide Shut
                The Silence of the Lambs
                Seven (1995)
                Dawn of the Dead (1978)
                Reservoir Dogs
                Avatar
                The Yakuza
                Terminator 2
                Mrs. Doubtfire
                No Country for Old Men
                Memento
                Fight Club
                1 hr 40 min
              • Ep 67 - Hot Summer Noir II feat. Alex Vlahov from OnlyFilmNoir

                Niagara (1953), Purple Noon (1960), & Dead Calm (1989)

                ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                In this film block, Alex Vlahov, the curator of OnlyFilmNoir, joins Jeremy and Brian to crank up the heat on a sequel to their hot, steamy, sultry, film noir episode. This time it’s hotter and on the water.


                Follow Alex here:

                • Instagram
                • Medium


                  • Where to watch:

                  • Niagara (Blu-Ray)
                  • Purple Noon (Blu-Ray)
                  • Dead Calm (Blu-Ray)


                    • Other films referenced: 

                    • Vertigo 
                    • Don’t Bother to Knock
                    • The Asphalt Jungle
                    • Pickup on South Street
                    • Shadow of a Doubt
                    • How to Marry a Millionaire
                    • Titanic (1997)
                    • Zoolander
                    • Demon Knight
                    • Psycho (1960)
                    • Halloween (1978)
                    • The Seven Year Itch
                    • Some Like It Hot
                    • The Dark Corner
                    • Kiss of Death
                    • Call Northside 777
                    • Strangers on a Train
                    • The Talented Mr. Ripley
                    • Ripley’s Game
                    • Repulsion
                    • Young Frankenstein
                    • Weekend at Bernie’s
                    • BMX Bandits
                    • Days of Thunder
                    • Thief
                    • Heat
                    • Le Samouraï
                    • The Godfather
                    • Carol (2015)
                    • Deep Water (2022)
                    • Body Heat
                    • F for Fake
                    • The Deep (1977)
                    • Ed Wood
                    • Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
                    • Event Horizon
                    • The Thing (1981)
                    • Ad Astra
                    • Prince of Darkness
                    • Das Boot
                    • The NeverEnding Story
                    • Big Trouble in Little China
                    • Jurassic Park
                    • Night of the Living Dead
                    • Cape Fear (1991)
                    • Scream 3
                      • 1 hr 13 min
                    • Ep 66 - Barrymore a la King feat. Lucé Tomlin-Brenner from It's Always Halloween

                      Firestarter (1984), & Cat’s Eye (1985)

                      ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                      In this film block, Lucé Tomlin-Brenner of It's Always Halloween Podcast joins Jeremy and Brian to explore back-to-back Stephen King and Drew Barrymore movies, get deep into the weeds on Stephen King and read some of Lucé’s listener mail. It’s always fun to do a crossover episode, but it’s even better when its a crossover with It’s Always Halloween.

                      Follow Lucé here:

                      • Twitter
                      • Instagram
                      • Letterboxd

                        • Where to watch:

                        • Vidéothèque
                        • Firestarter (Blu-Ray)
                        • Cat’s Eye (Blu-Ray)

                          • Further Reading:

                          • Night Shift by Stephen King
                          • Firestarter by Stephen King 
                          • Revival by Stephen King 

                            • Other films referenced:

                            The Shining

                            Creepshow

                            I Married a Witch

                            Bell, Book and Candle

                            Ju-on

                            Torso

                            Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

                            All the Colors of the Dark

                            The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

                            The Red Queen Kills Seven Times

                            The Evil Dead (1981)

                            Carrie (1976)

                            Needful Things

                            The Dead Zone (1983)

                            Firestarter: Rekindled

                            Firestarter (2022)

                            Apocalypse Now

                            The Changeling (1980)

                            The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

                            The Thing (1982)

                            Christine

                            Executive Action

                            The Outsider

                            Doctor Sleep

                            Midnight Mass

                            The Haunting of Bly Manor (aka The Turn of the Screw)

                            The Haunting of Hill House

                            Tales from the Crypt (1972)

                            Trick ’r Treat

                            Cujo

                            Gerald’s Game

                            Airplane!

                            Dune (1984)

                            Goodfellas

                            Casino

                            Tales from the Darkside

                            RoboCop (1987)

                            The Stand (1994)

                            Maximum Overdrive

                            It (1990)

                            One for the Road (2010)

                            and more...

                            1 hr 49 min
                          • Ep 65 - Straight Time feat. Patrick Cady

                            Straight Time (1978)

                            ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                            In this Midnight Movie, Patrick Cady takes Jeremy and Brian out on parole designed to keep them from going straight, so they'll just have to make the best of it with the time they have. This movie influenced all kinds of crime films, but it had a real strong impact on Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino, and you can see its reverberations throughout a lot of their work.

                            Follow Patrick here:

                            • Twitter
                            • Instagram
                            • IMDb
                            • Bosch:Legacy

                              • Where to watch:

                              • Straight Time (Blu-Ray)

                                • Further reading:

                                • No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker 

                                  • Other films referenced:

                                  • Three Days of the Condor
                                  • The Addams Family
                                  • Dog Day Afternoon
                                  • Heat
                                  • Reservoir Dogs
                                  • Pulp Fiction
                                  • Jackie Brown
                                  • The Graduate
                                  • Marathon Man
                                  • Spartacus
                                  • Out of Africa 
                                  • Krull 
                                  • On Golden Pond 
                                  • Urban Cowboy 
                                  • Midnight Cowboy 
                                  • Blade Runner 
                                  • Thief 
                                  • The Third Man 
                                  • City on Fire 
                                  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) 
                                  • Point Break (1991) 
                                  • Destroyer 
                                  • Killing Them Softly 
                                  • The Terminator 
                                  • Daniel 
                                  • Duel 
                                  • The Matrix 
                                  • The Shawshank Redemption 
                                  • Limbo (1999)
                                  • Two-Lane Blacktop
                                  • Inland Empire 
                                  • The Parallax View 
                                  • All the President’s Men 
                                  • Klute 
                                  • The Godfather 
                                  • Mars Attacks! 
                                  • Batman Returns 
                                    • 57 min
                                  • Ep 64 - I Love Lucy Noir feat. Alex Vlahov from OnlyFilmNoir

                                    The Big Street (1942), The Dark Corner (1946), & Lured (1947)

                                    ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                    In this film block, Alex Vlahov, the curator of OnlyFilmNoir, joins Jeremy and Brian to explore some film noirs starring a wise-cracking, tough-talking, hard-boiled Lucille Ball. Before she was everyone’s favorite comedian or green lighting Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, Lucy was a studio contract player that the studio didn’t know what to do with, so they cast her in all kinds of roles in all kinds of pictures, including a few film noirs.


                                    Follow OnlyFilmNoir here:

                                    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/onlyfilmnoir


                                    Where to watch:

                                    • The Big Street (DVD)
                                    • The Dark Corner (DVD)
                                    • Lured (Blu-Ray)


                                      • Other films referenced:

                                      • Midnight Cowboy
                                      • Guys and Dolls
                                      • Some Like It Hot
                                      • Weekend at Bernie’s
                                      • Once Upon a Time in the West
                                      • The Lady Eve
                                      • My Man Godfrey
                                      • Citizen Kane
                                      • Lucy and Desi
                                      • Arsenic and Old Lace
                                      • Park Row
                                      • Stand By Me
                                      • Licorice Pizza
                                      • Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
                                      • The Dark Knight
                                      • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
                                      • Saboteur
                                      • The Lineup
                                      • Vertigo
                                      • Cover Up
                                      • Small Time Crooks
                                      • Confidentially Yours
                                      • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
                                      • Office Space
                                      • Laura (1944)
                                      • The Best Years of Our Lives
                                      • Police Academy
                                      • The Bedroom Window
                                      • Short Circuit
                                      • All About Eve
                                      • Fear in the Night
                                      • The King of Comedy
                                      • The Omega Man
                                      • Seven (1995)
                                      • Zodiac
                                      • Hangover Square
                                      • The Tarnished Angels
                                      • Imitation of Life
                                      • Far from Heaven
                                      • All That Heaven Allows
                                      • Star Wars: Episode III
                                      • Baby Face
                                      • Night Nurse (1931)
                                      • King Kong (1933)
                                      • Blood Money (1933)
                                      • The Artist (2011)
                                        • 1 hr 9 min
                                      • Ep 63 - Nightmare Alley (2021) feat. Alex Vlahov from OnlyFilmNoir

                                        Nightmare Alley (2021)

                                        ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                        In this Midnight Movie, Alex Vlahov, the curator of OnlyFilmNoir, leads Jeremy and Brian down an alley to discover Guillermo Del Toro’s latest nightmare and to sample some of his artisanal pickles. This discussion is a sequel of sorts to Ep 54 - Horror Noir. 


                                        Follow OnlyFilmNoir here:

                                        • Instagram


                                          • Where to watch:

                                          • Nightmare Alley (Blu-Ray)


                                            • Further reading:

                                            • Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
                                            • The Art of Horror Movies by Stephen Jones


                                              • Other films referenced:

                                              • Nightmare Alley (1947)
                                              • Total Recall (1990)
                                              • Twin Peaks
                                              • Circus of Horrors
                                              • Nightmare Circus
                                              • The Elephant Man
                                              • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
                                              • The Princess and the Frog
                                              • Something Wicked This Way Comes
                                              • The Sacrifice
                                              • Fight Club
                                              • The Mule (2018)
                                              • Jumanji
                                              • The Shape of Water
                                              • Crash (2004)
                                              • Green Book
                                              • Detour
                                              • Freaks
                                              • Catch Me If You Can
                                              • Nude on the Moon


                                                • 1 hr 5 min
                                              • Ep 62 - The Mayor of Gotham feat. Evan Kyle Berger
                                                Batman (1989), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), & Daniel (1983)
                                                ALL MOVIES SPOILED
                                                In this film block, Evan Kyle Berger of the Dumb Dad Podcast joins Jeremy and Brian to complete the circuit on a trio of movies where Lee Wallace is typecast as the buffoonish, unpopular mayor of NYC.
                                                Follow Evan here:
                                                YouTube
                                                Tiktok
                                                Instagram
                                                Twitter
                                                Where to watch:
                                                Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                                                Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                                                The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Blu-Ray)
                                                Daniel (DVD)
                                                Batman (4K Blu-Ray)
                                                Further Reading:
                                                Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
                                                The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
                                                Other films referenced:
                                                A Hard Problem
                                                Dune (1984)
                                                The Verdict 
                                                Serpico
                                                12 Angry Men
                                                Network
                                                Dog Day Afternoon
                                                So I Married an Axe Murderer
                                                The Ice Storm
                                                Pulp Fiction
                                                Weird Science
                                                Dracula (1931)
                                                Ghostbusters
                                                Austin Powers
                                                Speed
                                                The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
                                                The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
                                                Reservoir Dogs
                                                Jaws
                                                Heat
                                                Psycho (1960)
                                                The King of Comedy
                                                Die Hard
                                                It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
                                                The Dark Knight Rises
                                                Hairspray (2007)
                                                The Wizard of Oz
                                                The Batman
                                                X-Men
                                                Superman
                                                Batman & Robin
                                                City Slickers
                                                Escape from LA
                                                Raiders of the Lost Ark
                                                The Lego Batman Movie
                                                The Dark Knight
                                                1 hr 41 min
                                              • Ep 61 - Stuntin’ on John Wick feat. Kevin Arnold

                                                John Wick (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), & John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)

                                                ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                                In this film block, Jeremy and Brian are joined by Kevin Arnold to avenge a puppy, yeet 500 dudes and pull off some killer stunts. Kevin takes the Grindhouse Gang behind the scenes on the stunt world and gives insight into this exciting part of the business.


                                                Follow Kevin here:

                                                https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5275248/

                                                https://instagram.com/kevinarnold

                                                https://www.tiktok.com/@itskevinarnold


                                                Where to watch:

                                                • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                                                • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                                                • John Wick (Blu-Ray)
                                                • John Wick 2 (Blu-Ray)
                                                • John Wick 3 (Blu-Ray)


                                                  • Other films referenced:

                                                  • The Matrix
                                                  • Taken
                                                  • The Bourne Supremacy
                                                  • No Sudden Move (not No Good Deed)
                                                  • Star Wars
                                                  • Return of the Jedi
                                                  • Zombi 2
                                                  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout
                                                  • True Lies
                                                  • Horrible Bosses 2
                                                  • Dunkirk (2017)
                                                  • Tenet
                                                  • The Dark Knight
                                                  • Rust
                                                  • The Warriors
                                                  • Romeo Must Die
                                                  • The One
                                                  • The Matrix Reloaded
                                                  • Enter the Dragon
                                                  • Ronin
                                                  • John Wick: Chapter 4
                                                  • Game of Death
                                                  • Commando
                                                  • Predator
                                                  • Die Hard
                                                  • Jack Reacher
                                                  • The French Connection
                                                  • Speed
                                                    • 1 hr 29 min

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                                                  A cinema geek podcast by Jeremy Floyd and Brian Foster. Each episode we program a triple feature movie night and explore how the films connect.