We conclude the week with a fun focus on a series of disaster action movies starring, your's truly, Ice-T:

Which of these are a solid use of the rapper/rock star's talent?

And which of these are just campy fun filled with other B-movie actors, bizarre DIE HARD/TOWERING INFERNO type plots and stock footage from other movies?

FILMS REVIEWED:

Judgment Day, Stealth Fighter, Final Voyage, Sonic Impact, Air Rage, Ticker, Ablaze & Black Horizon/Stranded

AUDIO CLIPS USED:

FINAL VOYAGE DVD Commentary Track by Jim Wynorski and Claudia Christian

MUSIC USED:

Soundscrate Free-to-Use Music

Enjoy this part new episode, part re-edit:

Cam Sully, Jon Mark & James Alex Krueger (Composers: The Movie Score Podcast) look at the overall Grunge Rock music cliches, trends, marketing and actual sound with the group Saliva being the partial focus.

Why do record studios not let originality breathe?

Why do so many groups have to make everything sound like the 5 other groups already in existence?

And why can't we just let every new subgenre be its own thing instead of endless comparisons?

Enjoy this remastered episode from our crossover with CINEMA RECALL Podcast:

The Vern and Ashley Jirak help Cam sum up Roger Corman's produced Rock N' Roll High School movies in this lively, daring and hysterical double feature review!

I get to dig into the mega-hit Hong Kong gangster franchise YOUNG AND DANGEROUS:

Starring Cantopop singer-turned-actors Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang & Nicholas Tse and directed/shot by Andrew Lau & Alan Mak (INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy), it blends what feels like a typical gangster drama with a rap music video-style turf war, dark comedy & stylish fight scenes!

SONGS USED:

"Noise Attack," "Overcast" and "Harmful or Hatal" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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We present to you a Music Stars themed week which allows for more deep cuts on some cult favorite movies:

Join me for a minisode on the BELLY films starring DMX, Nas, The Game & Michael K. Williams (A.K.A. Omar from HBO's The Wire).

Where does the first film rank in terms of some of the many other CARLITO'S WAY/GOODFELLAS inspired films?

Why did they do this in-name-only sequel and did it entertain or fail completely?

Why didn't Hype Williams have a bigger cinematic career outside of MTV music videos?

And how is the soundtrack utilized for the narratives in these films?

Armor up, speed away to your crib & join the Ruff Ryders for this engaging deep cut!

FREE TO USE MUSIC BY SOUNDSCRATE.

To conclude the flesh-eaters themed week, we note Zack Snyder's Zombie themed trilogy (Dawn of the Dead remake, Army of the Dead & Army of Thieves):

Is the 2004 version of Dawn the rare example of how to make a remake its own thing without having to draw needless comparisons to the original yet completely different film?

And that and why the Netflix follow-ups cause a divisive reaction!

(Plus, why The Crazies is also a rare kind of remake that stands on its own two feet.)

GUESTS INCLUDE:

The Vern (Cinema Recall)

Ryan McGann (Offtopic Podcast)

Oreo Brewer

Richard Glenn Schmidt (Hello! This is the Doomed Show)

Matthew Soto

Gabriel Jewett

Steve Unger Jr.

Mack Lambert (Mack & the Movies)

Allen Adams & Kevin Edwards (Deadnotes Podcast)

Jeff Kerr,

Gil Palmer,

Crystal Hairston, 

Cameron Scott (Cinema Degeneration)

&

Jon Mark.

SONG INTRO:

"Viva Las Vengeance" by Panic! at the Disco

Want more gory fun? Listen in for a mini-review on both 28 DAYS LATER comic book tie-ins to calm your zombie craving needs!

Which one of these comics has some stunning artwork and reasonable ideas?

And which one left more to be desired given the talents involved with this spin-off?

Run for the hills and listen in!

SONGS USED:

"John Abandons Alice" by John Murphy (from the movie OSTs)

&

"Cool Rock" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Genre critic/blogger Meredith Borders (Fangoria Magazine) joins for one of inevtiably more characters in fiction lists.

This time, we decided to sum up various evil doctors and mad scientists (some who are surprisingly heroes) in movies and television.

How many times will we make some of the same selections? And which deep cuts will one or the other mention that will blow your mind? 

Want food for thought, listen to these two brains geek out for an hour of fun!

If you want the best dissection of George Romero (and sometimes John A. Russo)'s social commentary mixed in with the titular monsters, criminal protagonists & post-apocalyptic scifi settings, then we've got plenty of fun for your ears to listen to:

Why wasn't The Amusement Park, Knightriders or The Crazies part of his Zombie saga?

We also note how some of the villains have similarly gruesome plot arcs much like Damien in The Omen trilogy and Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now!

GUESTS INCLUDE:

The Vern (Cinema Recall)

Ryan McGann (Offtopic Podcast)

Oreo Brewer

Richard Glenn Schmidt (Hello! This is the Doomed Show)

Matthew Soto

Gabriel Jewett

Steve Unger Jr.

Mack Lambert (Mack & the Movies)

Allen Adams & Kevin Edwards (Deadnotes Podcast)

Jeff Kerr,

Gil Palmer,

Cameron Scott (Cinema Degeneration)

&

Jon Mark.

VOICEMAILS BY:

Jim Evans (Film Rage) & The Western Wonder (Pic-A-Flic)

It's yet another zombie themed week so before we discuss the winners, let's get the losers out of the way first:

SONG USED: 

"Cool Rock" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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