The Schlock and Awe Podcast

This week on S&A Lindsay and Justin Anderson will take a martini shaken not steered. I'm Bond James Bond. A Double of Terence Young's From Russia From Love (1963) & Michael Bay's The Rock (1996). This is a double of how not only James Bond the character has developed and has influenced film history but also how action as a genre and Sean Connery's career has evolved. 

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Andrew Shaw look at Baby's First Body Horror Double. Steve Barron's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Movie (1990) & David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). A secret of the ooze double. But more than that - how a specific generation was brought up. There is a through line from Jim Henson - Steven King - David Cronenberg. And we are the way we are because of it. Warning Episode does contain - Back in my day .....

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Andrew Shaw look at Baby's First Body Horror Double. Steve Barron's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Movie (1990) & David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). A secret of the ooze double. But more than that - how a specific generation was brought up. There is a through line from Jim Henson - Steven King - David Cronenberg. And we are the way we are because of it. Warning Episode does contain - Back in my day .....

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On this Murderers We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take a look at another Crime of the Century. The murder of New York Architect Stanford White by Philadelphia Millionaire Harry Thaw. All seeming about The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Richard Fleischer's The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing (1955) & Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981).

These movies are set during a specific time of innovation and progress. Yet both movies go into how are human nature does not change.

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Carmelita Valdez McKoy go for a triple feature of epic proportions and sexual awakening. Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) & José Ramón Larraz's The Coming of Sin (1978) & Tony Richardson's The Taste of Honey (1961).

This Triple goes into so many directions, sex, exploitation, queerness, growing up. To grow into a women there is a lot going on

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This week we go to Springfield where they did story telling first. Lindsay & Bede Jermyn look at reference and story telling convention with a Double of The Simpsons Tree-house of Horror II (1991) & Curry Barker's Obsession (2026).

Not only was Lisa 's Nightmare The Monkey Paw one of Barkers inspiration for his Obsession but it also show how our stories are often change, manipulated and re-told into different formats.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Genevieve Radosti of Movie Jawn & CineFilth Podcast have to choose a Messiah but we change the channel. It's a Double of Hal Ashby's Being There (1979) & Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).

This is a double of a Jesus Figure who loves television. And more importantly a portrait of 1970s America and where they are heading to into the 1980s and well today.

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On this Murders We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take on another kill duo. This time Raymond Fernandez & Martha Beck - The Lonely Hearts Killers. The Double Todd Robinson's Lonely Hearts (2006) & Leonard Kastle The Honeymoon Killers (1970). One a period piece set in the time appropriate time of the late 1940s, the other set in contemporary America. And everything is just a bit shit, whether that is the over arching theme or just literal construction of the movie.

Just always beware of the toupee

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This week Lindsay & Bede on this S&A Twinning Titles Lindsay & Bede want One More Shot. James Nunn's One More Shot (2024) & Nicolas Clifford's One More Shot (2025). Two movies who used a gimmick structure - The Long Take or One Shot or the Time Loop Movie to contain their movies. Do these movies stretch out of the structure or work within it.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Age Film Critic Jake Wilson head into the world of Charles Walters. A Spectacular Spectacular Double of Walter's Dangerous When Wet (1953) & Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962). Two golden age musicals that are about movement, transformation and that something intangible thing about art.

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