The Schlock and Awe Podcast

On this S&A Twinning Titles. Lindsay and Bede are easing you into Schlocktober. With one part September and one part October with Tom McCarthy's The Visitor (2007) & Michael J. Paradise's The Visitor (1979)

There's no real connection expect a good time.

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On this S&A Quickie Review Lindsay takes a look two American Remakes of Bleak European Horror Movies. James Watkins' Speak No Evil (2024) which is out in theatres now & George Sluizer's The Vanishing (1993) a re-make of his orginal 1988 Spoorloos.

This is a review of how these remakes tend to want to soften the edges.

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This week on S&A Lindsay is joined by Chainsaw & Claws Co-Host Robb Antequera, as they get surprisingly close to an Alien. A Double Nick Castle's The Last Starfighter (1984) & Wolfgang Petersen's Enemy Mine. This is an Double of Manifest Destiney vs The Proletariat with some romance thrown in.

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On this S&A Lindsay is joined by Film Strip Podcast Co-Host Jay as they go through the ins and outs of making a Hollywood Studio Movie. James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari (2019) & Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010). Both movies love a metaphore.

Making a movie is not as easy as you think

Original Graphic Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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On this episode Lindsay went to the MIFF Godzilla Marathon. Seven Decades and Seven Movies all feature the big guy himself. Lindsay tracks her evening and the movies she watched. Such the Original OG 1954 to Shin Godzilla 2016

Godzilla has become such a symbol for Japan itself.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

Special Thanks for Zach Hepburn and the Astor Theatre

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On this S&A Quickie Review Lindsay finishes off her MIFF Round Up. It's MIFF Dark Universe. Lindsay takes a look at the likes of Joel's Potrykus' Vulcanizadora, Magnus von Horn's Girl With The Needle Damian Mc Carthy's Oddity & Coralie Fargeat's The Substance

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This week on S&A Lindsay is joined by Preston Mitchell as they go to Paris for a Heist with a Double of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve (2004) & Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rogue (1970). This a Double of heisting while looking cool.

Original Music by Anthony King

Original Graphics by Nadine Whitney

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This week on S&A Lindsay is joined by Dirk of VHUS as they go for a Double to explain why they don't do well outside. Mike Cheslik's Hundred's of Beavers (2022) & Trey Parker's Cannibal the Musical (1993).

A Double of Regional Film Makers taking on the Great Frontier.

Original Graphics by Nadine Whitney

Original Music by Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay is joined by Good Times Great Movies Co-Host Doug McCambridge. As they get uncomfortable realising in real time how dark this doouble Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game (2017) & John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence (1974).

This Double is a celebration of amazing and messy women. Especially the late great Gena Rowlands

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