The Schlock and Awe Podcast

This week on S&A Lindsay and critic Jake Wilson discuss the BBBC Film Society in Brunswick Melbourne & Bud Boetticher with a Double of Boetticher's Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) & Buchanan Rides Alone (1958).

This is a Double of different ways of making a Western and also mentoring, so much mentoring.

Bullfighter and the Lady is playing at the BBBC on 6th of July

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Nadine Whitney compare DTV to a stone cold classic. With Richard Grays Unholy Trinity (2025) & John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). A Double that looks at treasure hunting, greed revenge in a society. And poses the question, why is Pierce Brosnan's hair still stood luscious?Original Graphics by Nadine Whitney

Original Music by Anthony King

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On this Quickie Review Lindsay takes a look at Sean Byrne's Dangerous Animals (2025) & Katheryn Bigalow's Point Break (1991)

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This week on S&A Lindsay and critic Travis Johnson take a trip North to Canada where Monsters dwell. A Double of David Hayter's Wolves (2014) & Clive Barker's Nightbreed (1990). This is a Double of Monster town whether under a cemetery or off a Canadian road, it's a community of it's own rules and history.

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This week on S&A we are ranking the Mission Impossible Movies. Lindsay, Andy Gorham, Matt Bledsloe, Mark Wanner, James Coddington and Mike Scott team up and attempt the impossible.

The Mission Impossible is the Movie Fan's Action Franchise. A series where the score is just as important as the stunts as important as the characters.

More Importantly Tom Will Run.

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This week on S&A we are again celebrating Gene Hackman and his place in Hollywood History. Lindsay and We Love Dad Movies Host Ewan Paterson take a look at the Hollywood New Wave with Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) & Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992).

This is a Double of American Mythology and how it uses violence.

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This week on S&A Lindsay, Ryan from The New World Podcast & Andy from the Imperial Scum Podcast talk about the Magnificent Gene Hackman and two of his more lighter modes. In Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty (1995) & Richard Donner's Superman The Movie (1978).

Both of these movies are about the cinema experience in different ways, while Gene is playing a man trying to get one last big score.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & James Coddington head to New York for a rumble with Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002) & Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (2021). Two Titans tackling one of the greatest Cities of Earth.

Bring your hatchets or snapping fingers.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Carmelita Valdez McKoy spend a debauched weekend soaked in liquor, with a Double of Mike Figgis' Leaving Las Vegas (1995) & Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright (1971). This is a Double of the desert and alcoholism - because both are never ending. And everyone loves the Yabba.

Original Graphics by Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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On this S&A Lindsay & Nadine Whitney head in the Cornfield to see if they can find a Clown. Spoilers they do. They are looking at Eli Craig's Clown in a Cornfield (2025)

Fucking Teenagers - or is it Gen X?

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music by Anthony King

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