This week, Justin & Ryan get under the skin of a psychopathic gold-digger in "Cast a Dark Shadow" (1955), and they'll analyze...

• "Teddy's" mental state

• A twist that caught us off guard

• Two really awesome leading lady roles

• Nice complementary antagonisim

• Justin learns about "Criminal Minds" and psychopaths

• Wanting more of a good thing

• An alternate-universe version of this concept

• Justin's nostalgia for dark-light 

• Our Verdict

• Next Week's Film: "The Apartment" (1955)

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This week, Justin & Ryan will not try to beat the filibuster record as they talk about "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), but they will discuss...

• The optimism of a long speech changing a vote

• A recent real-life example of a record-breaking, traditional filibuster 

• Levels of patriotism vs. propaganda

• That state whose name we do not speak...

• Justin's problems with the stakes, and the public expectations in 1939

• What a remake could look like, and why we could use one

• Our Verdict

• Next Week's Film: "Cast a Dark Shadow" (1955)

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This week, Justin and Ryan sit in the operating theater to watch Boris Karloff work in the "Corridors of Blood" (1958), and ask questions about...

• Karloff title / poster curse striking again

• when the story you don't expect is still good

• Jekyll and Hyde as a grounded, real-life metaphor for addiction

• Irrational behavior ensuring main character is pushed to limit

• Underutilized string characters

• Two horror icons from two different generations meeting on screen

• The similarities with Karloff's "The Body Snatcher"

• Was "Pain and the Knife" a real bias against the idea of anesthesia?

• Our Verdict

• Next week's film: "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)

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This week, Justin & Ryan wonder about the wisdom of trying to re-take the Alamo as they watch "Viva Max" (1969) and talk about...

• the second movie Ryan's seen that flushed itself from memory

• when improv can't make up for the apparent lack of script

• playing with ideas of how this could have worked

• a theory as to how the movie found its way to Tubi

• our verdict

• Next week's film: "Corridors of Blood" (1958)

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This week, Justin & Ryan talk about the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives... and Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957), and on their way to a verdict, they talk about...

• Ryan gives his review right at the beginning.

• The most sincere pumpkin patch of bad movies

• Filmmakers actually thinking this would go into wide distribution

• When test footage becomes the footage

• Recounting the myriad random glorious moments that got us

• Tor Johnson speaks!

• "Stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"

• What could have been...

• Our verdict

• Next week's movie: "Viva Max" (1969)

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This week, Justin & Ryan will not try to beat the filibuster record as they talk about "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), but they will discuss...

• The optimism of a long speech changing a vote

• A recent real-life example of a record-breaking, traditional fillibuster 

• Levels of patriotism vs. propaganda

• That state whose name we do not speak...

• Justin's problems with the stakes, and the public expectations in 1939

• What a remake could look like, and why we could use one

• Our Verdict

• Next Week's Film: "Cast a Dark Shadow" (1955)

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This week, Justin & Ryan take a trip to New Orleans and ride "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), and on their way to a verdict, they talk about...

• Brando's acting chops - ON FIRE!  And the rest of the cast too!

• The density and complexity of characters - love and hate

• Superficial appearances of normality being disrupted by introducing a wild card

• How can fictional characters feel *this* real?

• That ending.

• Our verdict

• Next week's movie: "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (1959)

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This week, Ryan & Justin dodge sunlight while watching "The Hideous Sun Demon" (1958), and pick apart...

• Driving while mutating = Fun

• Was sunscreen never an option?

• Open question: does a man keep his mind after turning into a Sun Demon?

• ACTING!!!

• Glorious ineptitudes

• But the makeup was decent!

• How to trigger your easily-avoidable mutation

• Attention to detail: they made a splat!

• Our verdict

• Next week's film: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)

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This week, Justin & Ryan set a course "North by Northwest" (1959), and talk about...

• Justin's conflicted feelings about Cary Grant

• the film as a predicessor to James Bond

• love or hate: convoluted villain plan number 8,057

• Ryan's affinity for world-vs-protagonist stories

• Justin's issues on sexually motivated credulity

• Our Verdict

• Next week's film: "The Hideous Sun Demon" (1958)

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Justin and Ryan have questions they'd like to ask "The Third Man" (1949), some of which may involved...

• A surprise Spongebob reference...

• ...that triggers disjointed feelings in Ryan

• where the motivations for the characters are

• spoiling plot elements with your opening credits

• the awards and attention it's gotten

• our verdict

• Next week's film: "North By Northwest" (1959)

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