The Schlock and Awe Podcast

Welcome to a new Schlock & Awe Series. Murderers We Have Known. Lindsay & Nadine will focus on a famous murder or series of murders and look at how a Double Feature treats changes and portrays the crime.

To start things off we are looking at Leopold & Leob and the Crime of the Century with a Double of Tom Kalin's Swoon (1992) & Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948). This is a Double that looks at queerness, intellectualism, the Übermensch and how there is no such thing as the perfect murder.

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Imperial Scum Podcast Co-Host Andy go back to 1985 with two directors entering the Hollywood scene. Andrew Davis' Code of Silence (1985) & Peter Weir's Witness (1985). Two comparable directors with two distinct styles. Both taking on corrupt cops both dealing with an outside influence. Gang Warfare and the Amish. Both these seemingly typical 1985 action movies have a certain flare.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Film Critic Kahn Duncan try to untangle the strings of fate with a Double of David Lynch's Dune (1984) & William Fredkin's Sorcerer (1977). This is not just a Double about Fate, it is also about the environment that each world inhabits but also about a certain Space Opera hanging over both as each of these auteurs try to define their era. 

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Rachel tap dance on the town in Paris with a Gene Kelly Double of Stanley Donan's On the Town (1949) & Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris (1951). Gene Kelly was an important figure not just in the Movie Musical but in Movies in General. They way he developed dance and abstract moved through film history.

Plus these movies are just fun

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Michele hit the road in this 1970s Dystopia feeling Double Feature. Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000 (1975) & Francis Lawrence's The Long Walk (2025). This is a Double of performing for Dictators, Bread and Circus where the prize is road kill. Murder for our entertainment and inspiration.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay & film critic Nadine Whitney know you should never underestimate a seemingly awkward woman. We are looking at the story of Catherine Sloper of Henry James' novel Washington Square. A double of William Wyler's The Heiress (1949) & Agnieszka Holland's Washington Square (1997). This is a Double of what makes an accomplished woman.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Tim from It Didn't Go Platinum Podcast wonder what it would be like to grow up in the apocalypse. It's a Double of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men (2006) & Dr. George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). This is a Double that not only looks at gaining power or resources in a dystopia - whether it be children or a bullet farm. But more importantly the attitudes of countries like Britain and Australia and their attitudes toward dictatorships. Are we closer than we think heading toward 2027 (the answer is yes by the way) or is all about putting on a show.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Bede vs The Living Dead - Bede create their own Vanity Project with a Double of Craig Denny's The Astrologer (1976) & John De Hart's Champagne and Problems (1993). Do you want a film maker who doesn't know what they are doing? A film guided by numerology, no context for scenes, grotesque sex scenes and a very drunk Wings Hauser? We have that and more. These men had a dream and too much money and we are thankful for it.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Preston Mitchell go the way of Revenge in a Double of  Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) & Park Chan-wook's Olddog (2003). This is a Double of many things. The rules and philosophy behind it - the Japanese & Southern Korean Rules. What does it mean to be a warrior and using spirits of the past, whether as tutors or to fuel vengeance. There is a lot going on.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Action 4 Everyone's Mike & Max look into the different seasons of Sam Raimi with his Send Help (2026) & A Simple Plan (1998). These are Sam Raimi stretching his legs when it comes to power and capitalism in the only way Sam Raimi knows how to direct. Punishment and Americana

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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