The Big Apple was pretty rotten in this classic 1981 John Carpenter/Kurt Russell landmark.   It's set in the future (which by now is actually the distant past of 1997, but let's not ruin everything already!) and our anti-hero Snake Plissken is tasked with rescuing the President from an urban warzone with the clock ticking and the fate of the world in the balance!  There's a very important cassette tape (again, futuristic!) and a cast of strange characters and character actors he encounters along the way.  Kurt at his coolest, and even with just one good eye he still manages to patch things up!  After 40 years, this movie is still a favorite of mine.  Dave Chan likes it, too!  He's to blame for me picking this particular flick, so he's been recruited to blab about it with me on this exciting and hilarious episode.  You wanna meet the Duke?  Listen now!

You've heard of a "bad penny"?  Well there's no badder penny than Pennywise, the malevolent and not very amusing clown spawned from the imagination of Stephen King.  His 1986 novel, IT, was an instant classic and one of his crowning achievements.  (King pun!  Ha ha!  No?)  Both a 1990 TV miniseries and a pair of big-budget theatrical releases in 2017/2019 brought this epic story to the screen.  Now, I'm bringing it to the earphones and all your favorite audio outputs!  Follow me down the drain to a funhouse of horrors and jokes.  You'll be amazed at how I manage to squeeze 8 hours of movie into just over 1 hour of babble.  Come on and float!