The Schlock and Awe Podcast

By Lindsay WilkinsTV & Film

The Schlock and Awe Podcast episodes

September 29, 2025 S&A Kills & Giggles Hillbilly Holiday House: Wrong Turn (2003) & Tucker and Dale vs Evil W/ Mike & Andy
And Schlocktober begins! Kills & Giggles where we look at Slashers we love and the Horror Comedy's that show case why we keep going back.
To kick off Kills & Giggles Lindsay, Mike Scott & Andy Gorham turn down that dirt road in Hillbilly Country. With a Double of Rob Schimdt's Wrong Turn (2003) & Eli Craig's Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
This is a Double of the troupe of deranged Redneck Hillbillies - or just the sweetest guy who just wanted to make you pancakes. But it's about the Other and how we react to it.
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King
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1 hr 54 min
September 25, 2025 S&A Quickie Review High and Low & Highest 2 Lowest
On this Quickie Review Lindsay takes a look at a true Masterpiece and it's reinterpretation: Akira Kurosawa's High and Low (1963 & Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
If you go for the King you only have one shot.
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King
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19 min
September 22, 2025 S&A 219 Ribbit The Frogs & Magnolia W/ Brian Keiper
This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Brian Keiper take a look at nature. It's revenge and it's randomness. With George McCown's The Frogs (1972) & Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.
Sometimes Frogs are load and will plot your murder, other times they fall from the sky. Strange things happen all the time.
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King
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2 hr 31 min
September 15, 2025 S&A 218 Prettier When you Die: Ghost & Starman W/ Justin
This week on S&A Lindsay and Justine watch a Double of Romanized Grieving, with a Double of Jerry Zucker's Ghost (1990) & John Carpenter's Starman (1984). This is a Double of Supernatural Love and Loss. Of how a director gets you to a place where you are weeping on your couch and your cat is looking at you like a weirdo.
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King

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1 hr 22 min
September 12, 2025 S&A Quickie Review: Shawshank Redemption & The Long Walk
On this Quickie Review Lindsay (with her Partner Dan butting in) takes a look at Stephen King Sentimentality with a Double of Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994) & Francis Lawrence's The Long Walk (2025)
It's all about hope and that you have Get Busy and Keep Walking
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King

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23 min
September 08, 2025 S&A 217 You’ll do it for Val Kilmer: Blazing Saddles & Tombstone W/ Andrew Shaw
This week on S&A Lindsay & Andrew Shaw head out to the wild west and quote every single line. It's a Double of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974) & Tombstone (1993). Not only can you quote these movies endlessly but also both movies are looking at two very different types of Mythology.
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King

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1 hr 43 min
September 04, 2025 S&A MIFF Re-Cap: Melbourne International Film Festival Part 2 / Kahn
On this S&A bonus episode Lindsay & film critic Kahn Duncan finish their conversation on the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). And there are still so many movies to talk about. This was the busiest MIFF since 2019.
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King

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1 hr 1 min
September 01, 2025 S&A 216 Grey Hair and a Gun Vibe: Point Blank (1967) & The Limey W/ Preston Mitchell
This week on S&A Lindsay & Preston Mitchell walk with purpose through LAX. It's a Double of John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) & Steven Soderbergh's The Limey (1999). The Silver Fox's are looking for revenge.
This is a Double of a specific style, vibe and experimentation. But more importantly they are a look at tough guy cinema. Everyone loves a tough guy.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King

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3 hr 11 min
August 27, 2025 S&A MIFF Re-Cap: Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Part One W/ Kahn
On this bonus episode Lindsay and Film Critic Kahn Duncan go into the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). They go onto a busy experience trying to see as many of the over 200 movies shown over to weeks.
And since we talked over 20 movies I split the conversation into two parts.
Original Graphics Nadine Whitney
Original Music Anthony King
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51 min
August 25, 2025 S&A 215 Down the River to El Dorado: Paddington in Peru & Aguirre Wrath of God W/ Brian Keiper
This week on S&A Lindsay & Brian Keiper head down the Amazon in search of El Dorado in a Double of Dougal Wilson's Paddington in Peru (2024) & Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). One will give you the hard stare the other is Klaus Kinski.
This is a double of colonialism and the very notion of what is wealth. With some Marmalade Sandwiches.
Original Graphics by Nadine Whitney
Original Music by Anthony King

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2 hr 43 min