Midnight Video

Show 37 is ready for action! Get set for breadcrumbs in the sheets with Deathbed- The Bed That Eats. Our Takeshi Kitano listeners' choice poll winner mixes haunted cops and art therapy in Hana-Bi (AKA Fireworks). Finally Steven Berkoff, Kristen Scott Thomas and Prince find themselves Under the Cherry Moon.

Show 36 opens with The Rebel starring Tony Hancock escaping his hum drum existence in London and hotfooting it to Paris to realise his dream of being an artist. But is the topsy turvy, shallow world of art ready for Hancock's infantile school? Or is it Hancock who should be ready?

Fausto 5.0 is another twist in the tale of a man's pact with the devil. Set against the background of an unfamiliar Barcelona our protagonist's world becomes a hallucinatory nightmare as obsessions become real.

We round things off with the winner of our Polanski listener's vote: Bitter Moon, which has Peter Coyote regale his sexual escapades as a wannabe writer to Hugh Grant, but believe us, there's soooooo much more to this eye-winking romp.

Sandwiched between two distinctly British films, the winner of the last listener's vote was John Carpenter's In The Mouth of Madness, a meta-fictional romp that sees insurance scam snoop Sam Neill come face to face with Lovecraftian nightmares from the mind of Jurgen Prochnow.
Forming the British bread for this week's show is 1934's Death At Broadcasting House, an adaptation of Val Gielgud's (brother of John) novel which also stars the author. A murder takes place live on air and the titular broadcasting house becomes a den of suspicion as everyone under it's roof becomes a suspect.
Then we round things off with the Peter O'Toole starring in the criminally under-seen satire The Ruling Class, which sees paranoid schizophrenic O'Toole assume the mantle of Lord Gurney much to the chagrin of his scheming relatives. Mayhem and hilarity ensues.

Show 34 sees us return to the old format after our birthday shenanigans, which we sincerely hope you lovely listeners enjoyed.
Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout features Alan Bates, John Hurt and Susannah Yorke in a singularly surreal take on the home invasion genre, taking in aboriginal folklore, cricket and experimental music.
The listener's Herzog vote saw Woyzeck triumph. Just what did we make of Kinski's pea diet and shaving skills?
Rounding things off is 1995's Powder featuring the talents of Seth Brundel and Young Indiana Jones directed by Victor Salva, yeh, that guy.

As promised our 1/3 part of the 33rd Birthday Special is here.
David Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone was the listener's choice of Cronenberg films for us to review. Christopher Walken finds himself awakening from a five year snooze with the ability to see future events, but what kind of effect will this power have on him and those around him?

Well folks, it's been one year now since we started Midnight Video and by Jove we're still here. It's been great to see the download numbers rise steadily and we just wanted to say a big thank you indeed for letting us into your ears and the darker recesses of you subconscious. Hopefully we've planted some cinematic seeds in there that will germinate and force you to search unceasingly for more movie oddities that need to be seen, heard and digested.

Anyway as it's our Birthday and being the type of people we are, we though we'd do something a little different, dare I say special, for our Birthday show. So shunning the medium which got us here in the first place, tonight we'll be delving into literature, comic books and music.

First up, Roger Moore's diary written during the making of his debut Bond, Live And Let Die. We take a look at Roger Moore as James Bond.

Sticking with the written word we add some pictures and dissect Norwegian cartoonist Jason's comic book Why Are You Doing This?

And then we finish things off by avoiding invaders from Mars and a religious turn from Thin Lizzy's lead singer in Jeff Wayne's Musical Of The War Of The Worlds.

Show 32 sees us saddle up and polish our revolvers as we enter the Wild West - Czech style in oddball Western Lemonade Joe.
Once again the listeners voted and the outcome was Brian De Palma's Body Double. What did we make of the voyeuristic misadventures of a young out of work actor and impromptu music videos?
Finally we round off with a little seen straight to (Dutch!) TV gem featuring one of Holland's finest exports (Hauer not Heineken) and leading Python Graham Chapman in the factory-bound psychedelic adventures of Smallcreep's Day.

Chronopolis from the vintage film year 1982, is a Polish animation that employs claymation, stop-motion and early CGI, but it's a million miles away, thankfully, from the likes of Avatar.
Paul Schrader's directorial debut, Blue Collar features the unlikely trio of Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel and the reasonably straight Richard Pryor as co-workers and buddies in the automobile industry, but their live are about to turn upside down after a heist backfires.
And our new feature where we offer the listeners a chance to vote for one film from a director's filmography kicks off with Dario Argento's insect insanity, Phenomena.

Show 30! Gadzooks - who woulda thunk it? Well even if you didn't, we've done it now and it's in keeping with the spirit of Midnight Video that we offer up to you precious listeners, three very enticing slices of overlooked gems from the ocean of cult cinema.
Before he developed a penchant for Pabst Blue Ribbon and winding up Sicilians, Dennis Hopper played a wide-eyed sailor in search of love on shore leave who falls under the spell of young lady who may or may not be a mermaid, in the dream-like Night Tide.
Post Burton, Elizabeth Taylor starred in an Italian produced adaptation of Muriel Spark's Booker nominated The Driver's Seat. Taylor's existential angst, wardrobe and choice of companions are something to behold in this little seen film that is essential viewing if you listen to this show.
And wrapping up proceedings, the final film in our British Rock Stars in the Movies sees The Police's Sting come toe-to-toe with cinematic stalwarts Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright in Dennis Potter's Brimstone And Treacle.

It's another month in 2012 and here is another instalment of Midnight Video boldly going where (probably) not many podcasts have been before. Show 29 brings the boobs, Bowie and (eye) balls to your delicate auditory systems.

Andy Sidaris was a purveyor of of the kind of films that Albert Brooks claimed to have produced in Drive and we thought it was high time to appraise one of his 'guns, girls and g-strings' adventures. Expect big hair, skimpy swimsuits and a surprising turn from Daniel-san's sensei as an international bad guy and shiatsu master in Do Or Die.

We then come to the penultimate film in our 'British rock stars in the movies' season and who better to finish it off than the man who fell to earth and landed in a New York bar trying to get a green card. Yep, that's right, tonight we see David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette embroiled in The Linguini Incident.

And we round things off with the tale of a tortured artist whose penchant for eyeballs and perspex make for an interesting shop display. Exploitation and art house collide in the unique and intriguing The Headless Eyes.