The Schlock and Awe Podcast

This week on S&A Lindsay, Matt, Mark & Hayden celebrate the year in movies that was 2025. They create a 25 hour 2025 Movie Marathon. Technically it's more like 28 hours, but who is counting. We love movies. The good, the bad and the bombastic.

Come join us. There will be free pop corn.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Didn't Go Platinum Host Tim explore the world of -symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war metal. With a Double of Juuso Laatio & Jukka Vidgren's Heavy Trip (2018) & Jason Lei Howden's Deathgasm (2015) . Get your corpse paint and demon on. It's time to rock and roll.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Preston Mitchell celebrate the new year with melodrama. A Double of Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread & Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019). Both movies draped in yards and yards of fabric, but also use not only in a textural way. But also to define characters. Both of these movies are about the passage of time, whether we sit still to take in the moment or rush forward impatient to get to the future.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A a place where we give out hand made presents from Santa. Lindsay & Patrick Vicious dive into the minds of Henry Selick's Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) & Damien Leone's Terrifer 3 (2024). This turns into a discussion on not only the practical elements of these movies, but also on adaption vs full authorial control.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A - tis the Season. Lindsay and Bede bow to the Christmas Exploitation Queen Lacey Chabert. With a Double of Jerry Ciccoritti's Hot Frosty (2024) & Glen Morgan (2006). This is a Christian and Pagan Double. To how we celebrate to what what lies beneath. Or what is hiding in the attic.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Rachel Marie swoon over the chemistry. It's a Double of George Cukor's The Philadelphia (1940) & Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail (1998).

This is not only a Double of some Romantic Comedy with some of the most charismatic actors to grace the silver screen. Honestly we mainly thirst over Cary Grant.

But also about the rules of engagment. How the rules of dating, relationships and society often meld into one. Becasuse remember the caviar is a garnish.

Original Graphics Nadine Whtiney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay, Gabe Bergmoser & Justin Anderson play around with history. With a Double of Gregor Jordon's Ned Kelly (2003) & Justin Kurzel's The True History of the Kell Gang (2019). Who was Ned Kelly and how has been portrayed in film since his death in 1880. He is either one of the great villains or heroes in Australian Colonial History. Also really inventive with putting a quick amour together in a pinch.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Nadine Whitney take a look at a story of two different film makers. The Journey Man and the Auteur and how they tell the same story. J. Lee Thompson's Cape Fear (1962) & Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). Two very different versions of the cigar chomping Max Caddy.

And not as many Simpson's references as you think.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Blind Spots Host Dan Grima Dream about Cage. With a Nicolas Cage Double of Lorcan Finnegans' The Surfer (2024) & Kristoffer Borglis' Dream Scenario (2023)

This a a Double of later era Cage in a weirdo phase. Deconstructing personalities and types of masculinity you would absolutely give side eye to. The desire to be cool and to belong. But doing it all the wrong way.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Nadine Whitney travel to the land of Guillermo del Toro and his Gothic Castle for a Double of his Devil's Backbone (2001) & Frankenstein (2025). Here we look at a career that loves the gothic, fairy tales, natural vs unnatural and insects - more insects than you think.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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