The LAMBcast

In another act of self disclosure, our LAMBs this week reveal some of their blind spots and why they have missed out on those movies. Howard has a Hitchcock film on his list, and a modern horror film that most of the LAMB community has already seen. Todd simply feels guilty about buying VHS tapes and not having yet caught up on them, although one featuring Andy Griffin is going to make him happy in watching it and sad that he has missed it for so long. Amazingly, Richard has a swashbuckler featuring Errol Flynn on his list and a film featuring his favorite actor, which embarrasses him about having skipped. Come listen to our shame and joy as we travel down "Blind Spot Alley"

The Lambcast got blindsided by studio schedule shuffles, so instead of engaging in Mortal Kombat this weekend, our guests took a trip down a scary memory lane. Aaron Neuwirth, Jeanette Ward, Matt Poirier and Lisa Leaheey all agreed to a shift to a Halloween feature for the show. We talk about our first horror movie experiences in theaters, at home and with a special someone. Everyone brought their own questions to the show as well. If you enjoy our podcasts, come meet the podcasters on this week's show and learn what scares them.

Sometimes there is nothing you want to leave the house to see in a theater. After all, you already saw the newest Marvel movie three times, or it’s October and you don’t dig horror films, so what can you do? Well to take a phrase from fifteen years ago, and make you feel old with the reference, you can “Netflix and Chill”. That’s exactly what we are doing on this week's show, although with my guests this week, there are no romantic intentions to go along with the saying. We are simply going to talk about what films or limited series we have been checking out recently on the streamers. Netflix is not the only pit stop on the internet any more, and all the channels are creating original content for their subscribers. Dave Anderson and Howard Casner join the show with recommendations that you don't want to miss.

As always, the October MOTM is horror themed, but for a time, the horror was our communities indecision. Twice films tied for the selection, executive action resolved the dilemma and "Re-Animator" from 1985 is our film this week. A horror film filled with gore and comedy seems like a perfect choice, but a couple of the guests were less than enthusiastic, and it may surprise you as to who. If your favorite band of the 1980s is Talking Heads, you are going to love this movie. It may be classified as a zombie film, but it is closer to the mad scientist trope of horror, in spite of the large number of living dead. Bruce Abbot, Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton star in the film, but David Gale may be the antenna topper that makes it memorable. 

The new film from Paul Thomas Anderson does not get universal praise from our LAMB flock this week. One person sees brilliance, one sees a shining star in comparison to everything else this year, and one sees a film that they hated. Your opinions about the film may be challenged by any one of these perspectives, but you will only discover how if you come in and listen (or for you Illustrated Podcast viewers, watch). Howard Casner, Rishabh Vashishtha join the flock this week to discuss "One Battle After Another".  So "Masterpiece" or "Disasterpiece", you should find out here. 

This week, you get extra because you have been so good (and also because the guests can't wait for Halloween to talk about horror.  There is the final entry in a very solid horror franchise, a Stephen King Dystopia story that is basically a two hour walk and talk, and an original film presented under the banner of Jordan Peele, but one that he did not write or direct.  Lisa Leaheey and Damien Riley join Richard this week to take on a slew of late summer scares and thrills. There was unanimity on all three films, come listen and find out which one was awful, which one was awfully good, and which one meets expectations but does not exceed them. 

The legacy sequel to the 1984 classic is out this week. It may not be doing well at the box office, but it's a fine line between entertaining and profitable. Howard Casner and Damien Riley join the show this week to see if this one goes to eleven. We get some sidetrack discussion on movie theater attendance and spend some time assessing the likelihood of a mediocre band appearing at Wimbledon.  So get ready to improvise your own thoughts and see if you agree with our LAMBs this week. 

The MOTM has been a long tradition on the Lambcast, well before I came along and took the reins. We are starting some innovations on the practice and they commence this week. The MOTM will now be focused on a different genre or theme each month. My hope is that it will make it easier for people with films they want to talk about to remember to submit their choices. I will also submit a number of options so that the community will have a minimum number of movies to vote for. This new process has just started, and Biopics were the genre for September. This week's episode is the first product of the changes, the winner by just a couple of votes, so this month we are going to “Walk the Line”. Howard Casner, who has never been to Reno, Matthew Simpson, who is not named Sue and Tony Cogan, who is as far from Folsom Prison as you can get, join us for this show. 

The "Wayback Machine" is set for a short trip on this week's episode of the Lambcast, we are traveling back just a few years to talk about films from 2012. In the Cinema World, We finished off the Twilight Movies, and Started the Hobbit Slog Through Middle Earth. James Bond celebrated 50 years on the big screen, The Dark Knight Started with a truly Dark Day, The Avengers finally came together, as the Hunger Games Began and Universal Pictures celebrated a 100 year anniversary, Howard Casner, Dave Anderson, and The Vern tighten their seatbelts for this time traveling show and they bring you several films that they thought ought to be remembered. 

Whatever happened to teen sex comedies?  We immerse ourselves in one of a wave of such films that emerged in the late 90s and early 2000s but seem to have disappeared off the big screen these days (ok, there are occasional exceptions but not many). Bubbawheat nominated EuroTrip as MOTM and he hosts the discussion as well as using a number of quotes from the film. Todd Liebenow,and David Brook are along for the train ride, hitchhiking and air delivery trip we take through this 2004 film starring the late Michelle Trachtenberg and some guest stars who just happened to be in Prague when the film was shooting. Come have a listen.