Quinn and Curtis return to the John Carpenter watch series this week with the cult classic THEY LIVE! (1988), starring Roddy Piper and Keith David. They discuss the film's politics, allegories, favourite scenes, fun facts, and more. At the beginning of the episode, the boys also chat about what they watched this week and their latest watchlist additions. Curtis also talks about the WORST film he's ever seen! Fun fact: this is the team's shortest episode week!

Tune in next week as the lads take on the VIDEO NASTIES, a collection of films that were controversial and/or banned for obscenity in the UK in the 1980s. They will look at CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, THE EVIL DEAD, POSSESSION, as well as a few buried treasures including Lucio Fulci's ZOMBI 2, THE BEYOND, and more!

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:25 What We Watched This Week

00:10:13 Watchlist Additions

00:15:20 THEY LIVE! Discussion (favourite scenes, fun facts, hot takes, tasty bits)

00:35:52 Our Ratings

00:38:25 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

QUINN: Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)

CURTIS: Beast in Heat; The Witch who Came from the Sea; August Underground; August Underground’s Mordum

WATCHLIST ADDITIONS

QUINN: Fandango; Bunny Lake is Missing; To Have and Have Not

JOHN: The Wailing (2016); Intruder (1989); The Burning (1981)

CURTIS: The Sadness; Deathwatch; Treasure Island (1990)

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: Excerpts from THEY LIVE! (1988), THEY LIVE! Official Trailer

Outro: Excerpt from DUKE NUKEM 3D

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes on Letterboxd

Check out John and Tom's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

"...and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game."

Tune in next week for the latest John Carpenter watch series installment: THEY LIVE!

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:15 Watchlist Additions 

00:08:01 What We Watched This Week

00:19:40 Hockey Movies Discussion (favourite movies, weird ones, hot takes, tasty bits)

00:56:45 Coming Up Next!

HOCKEY MOVIES DISCUSSED

THE MIGHTY DUCKS TRILOGY (1992-96); SLAPSHOT (1977); THE ROCKET (2005); GOON; MIRACLE (2004); YOUNGBLOOD; SCORE! A HOCKEY MUSICAL; RED ARMY; ICE GUARDIANS; MVP: MOST VALUABLE PRIMATE; INDIAN HORSE; THE SWEATER (1981); 30 FOR 30: KING'S RANSOM

MOVIES WE WATCHED

JOHN: Game of Thrones (Season 5); Spider Baby; Inland Empire;

CURTIS: The Northman; Hatching (2022); Better Call Saul (Season 2); The Innocents (2022)

WATCHLIST ADDITIONS 

JOHN: Madeline’s Madeline (2018), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2010), The Americanization of Emily (1964)

CURTIS: Waco: Rules of Engagement; The Church (1989); Let Sleeping Corpses Lie; Dead Ringers

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: "The Hockey Song" by Stompin' Tom Connors; excerpts from MIRACLE (2004), SLAP SHOT (1977), and THE MIGHTY DUCKS (1992)

Outro: "Big League" by Tom Cochrane & Red Rider 

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes on Letterboxd

Check out John and Tom's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

"You will not be saved by the holy ghost. You will not be saved by the god Plutonium. In fact, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED!"

This week on The Seat Struck Movie Podcast, John, Quinn and Curtis recap their week (and briefly discuss kung fu/Brucesploitation films) before diving into what we watched this week. Going forward, we will be starting off all our pods with the 'what we watched' before diving into the main topic. 

In the second half, we discuss the second entry in the 'apocalypse' trilogy, the Lovecraftian-styled 'PRINCE OF DARKNESS' We discuss the film and give our review and ratings.

Our next entry in the Carpenter watch series will be the much-anticipated 'THEY LIVE". Next week, as we are in the thick of the NHL playoffs, we will discuss hockey movies. Stay tuned!

TIME STAMPS

00:01:55 Introduction

What We Watched This Week

00:06:25 Friday (Quinn)

00:09:13 Antropophagus: The Grim Reaper (Curtis)

00:12:00 Evilspeak (Curtis)

00:14:08 Game of Thrones Season Four (John)

00:16:48 Four Flies on Grey Velvet

00:20:54 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter [and briefly, the 1978 short film 'Panic'] (John)

00:25:36 PRINCE OF DARKNESS Discussion

00:48:58 Our Ratings

00:54:56 Wrap up

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: Prince of Darkness Theme - John Carpenter

Middle: Final dream sequence speech - Prince of Darkness (spoken by John Carpenter)

Outro: End Credits theme - Quartermass and the Pit

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes91 on Letterboxd

Check out John's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

John, Curtis, and Quinn return (with a vengeance) to take on Mike Judge's (BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD, KING OF THE HILL) corporate office satire OFFICE SPACE with special DOMESTIC PINTS ONLY guest star Tom Dore. Hang onto your butts for some good laughs, good beers, and great times as the John McCrae Secondary School alumni discuss their favourite scenes, the mystery of TPS reports ("test procedure specification"), printer destruction, and how much they can't stand Lumbergh! After the chat, the lads talk about the movies they watched this week. Mmkay?

Tune in next week as John and Quinn dive further into the John Carpenter canon series with PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987). Not to be missed!

00:00:00 Introduction

00:10:40 OFFICE SPACE (1999) Discussion (favourite scenes, symbolism, hot takes, tasty bits)

00:51:03 Our Ratings

00:56:30 What We Watched This Week

01:27:43 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

QUINN: Joe Dirt; The Tender Bar; The Northman

JOHN: The Godfather; The Northman; Game of Thrones (Season 3); Blood Conscious

CURTIS: Disco Elysium (Video Game); Silicon Dreams (Video Game); Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (Video Game)

TOM; The Batman; Queen of the South (Netflix TV Series); Sonic the Hedgehog 2

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: Excerpts from OFFICE SPACE (1999); "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta" by Geto Boys

Outro: "You Know How We Do It" by Ice Cube

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes on Letterboxd

Check out John and Tom's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

"We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn't we, Wang?"

This week on The Seat Struck Movie Podcast, John and Curtis dive into the next episode of the John Carpenter Watch Series, talking the action-adventure fantasy, hard to define by genre film BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. In the first half we discuss the film and give our review and rating.

In the second half, we chat what we watched this week. We will return next week (with a special guest) for the 90s comedy classic: OFFICE SPACE.

TIME STAMPS

00:01:55 Introduction and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA discussion

00:33:00 Our Ratings

What We Watched This Week

00:35:36 Ratuz [Video Game] (Curtis)

00:36:54 A Candle for the Devil (Curtis)

00:37:59 The Bombardment (Curtis)

00:40:20 Crawlspace [1986] (Curtis)

00:41:18 Please Kill Mr. Kinski (Curtis)

00:41:42 Better Call Saul [TV] (Curtis)

00:42:57 The Rocker [2008] (John)

00:45:00 Game of Thrones Season One and Two *SEASON ONE SPOILERS* (John)

00:52:41 Wrap up

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: Pork Chop Express - John Carpenter

Outro: Big Trouble in Little China - Coup De Ville

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes91 on Letterboxd

Check out John's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

"Upon the heath / There to meet with Macbeth. [...] Fair is foul and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air." Quinn, Curtis, and John team up with two special guests (Dr Geoff Rodoreda and Leo Kirchhoff) for the final Shakespeare adaptation episode (for now) as part of THE SEAT STRUCK MOVIE PODCAST's Shakespeare month. The episode is a double bill featuring Roman Polanski's 1971 MACBETH as well as Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021). The team discusses the similarities, the differences, favourite scenes, the casting, controversial artists vs their art, the director's vision of Macbeth, and more.

00:00:00 Introduction to the MACBETH double bill

00:02:12 MACBETH (1971) Discussion (characters, themes, tasty bits, hot takes)

00:24:24 THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021) Discussion

00:41:55 Our Ratings

00:48:45 What We Watched This Week

01:06:14 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

QUINN: White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch; Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (Netflix Docuseries)

JOHN: Cry of the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann; We’re All Going to the World’s Fair; Milk (1998), Dog (2001); Wasp (2003)

CURTIS: X (2022); Belfast; Better Call Saul (Season 6)

LEO: Promising Young Woman

GEOFF: The Birthday Party (1968)

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: "Fair is Foul" by Carter Burwell (THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH 2021 OST); Excerpt from MACBETH (1971) Original Trailer

Outro: "Birnam Wood" by Carter Burwell (THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH 2021 OST)

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes91 on Letterboxd

Check out John's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

"Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama." This week on THE SEAT STRUCK MOVIE PODCAST, John and Curtis take on the OG Disney classic THE LION KING (1994) as the latest installment for Shakespeare Month (it is a Hamlet adaptation) and touch on its very underrated sequel THE LION KING II: SIMBA'S PRIDE (1998) (a Romeo and Juliet adaptation!). The boys also discuss their favourite scenes, the wonders of Rafiki, the film's positive eco-message for children and adults alike, what makes it a Disney masterpiece, its faithfulness to Shakespeare's source material, and much more. After the film, they talk about what they watched this week, and touch on themes such as race in America, incel culture and online misogyny, and confronting the legacies of controversial celebrities, such as Jimmy Savile and Michael Jackson. Learn some Zulu and hang along for the ride!

00:00:00 Introduction to THE LION KING (1994)

00:07:52 THE LION KING Discussion (characters, themes, tasty bits, hot takes)

00:41:50 Our Ratings

00:45:38 What We Watched This Week

01:10:10 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

JOHN: White Like Me (2013); The Bird with the Crystal Plumage; The Cat O’ Nine Tails;

CURTIS: TFW NO GF; The Convenience Store (Video Game); Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story; Fears to Fathom: Norwood Hitchhike (Video Game)

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: "Circle of Life" by Lebo M. and Carmen Twillie (THE LION KING 1994 OST)

Outro: "Hakuna Matata" by Elton John and Tim Rice (THE LION KING 1994 OST)

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes91 on Letterboxd

Check out John's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763050/Fears_to_Fathom__Norwood_Hitchhike

The boys are back with Round 2 of Shakespeare Month, featuring 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999), the '90s rom-com take on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (with a few modern twists). It stars the immortal Heath Ledger, badass Julia Stiles, and a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt! Join THE SEAT STRUCK MOVIE PODCAST as they take on their favourite scenes, the actors, the source material, and engage in some bonus videogame banter!

Shakespeare Month will continue next week with the OG THE LION KING (1994), Disney's hot take on Shakespeare's Hamlet. And stay tuned for a special MACBETH double bill at the end of the month!

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 Introduction to 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999)

00:01:00 Video Game Banter (Dark Souls, The Closing Shift, Cooking Companions, Yuppie Psycho, Murder House)

00:04:45 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU Discussion (characters, themes, tasty bits, hot takes)

00:27:08 Our Ratings

00:32:02 What We Watched This Week

00:51:35 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

JOHN: The Final Girls; The Worst Person in the World; X (2022)

CURTIS: 1883 (TV Miniseries); Siege (1983); The French Dispatch

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: "Cruel to Be Kind" by Nick Lowe

Outro: "I Want You to Want Me" by Cheap Trick

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes91 on Letterboxd

Check out John's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

You can support Puppet Combo and Chilla's Art video games here (and Puppet Combo has an Easter sale at the moment!):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1064460/Murder_House/

https://puppetcombo.itch.io/

https://www.patreon.com/puppetcombo/posts

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12139/Chillas_Art_Complete_Pack/

https://chillas-art.itch.io/

https://www.patreon.com/chillasart

Additional games:

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1263230/Cooking_Companions/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/597760/Yuppie_Psycho_Executive_Edition/

Welcome to the first episode of 'Shakespeare Month!'. This week on The Seat Struck Movie Podcast, John, Curtis, and special guest Robin discuss the Baz Luhrmann classic: ROMEO + JULIET! In the first half we discuss the film, going over our experiences with Romeo and Juliet, the performances and visual style of the film, and whether this works well as an introductory text to Shakespeare. 

In the second half, we chat what we watched this week. We will return next week with another 90s Shakespeare adaptation: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 Introduction and ROMEO + JULIET discussion.

00:40:51 Our Ratings

What We Watched This Week

00:44:33 Against the Ice (Curtis)

00:45:31 The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption (Curtis)

00:46:50 Death on the Nile [2022] (Curtis)

00:48:11 Eaten Alive (Curtis)

00:49:36 The Pool [2018] (Curtis)

00:50:58 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (Curtis)

00:52:00 The Night of the Hunter [1955] (John)

00:55:30 Inglourious Basterds (John)

00:58:42 Vibes (John)

01:00:48 Apocalypse Now Redux (Robin)

01:03:22 The Wire Season Five [TV] (Robin)

01:07:22 Bridgerton Season Two [TV] (Robin)

01:11:37 Wrap up

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: I'm Kissing You - Des'ree

Outro: When Doves Cry - Quindon Tarver

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes91 on Letterboxd

Check out John's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

"There's a starman waiting in the sky..." John, Quinn, and Curtis return to the next entry of their John Carpenter watch series, 1984's STARMAN. The boys chat about themes, characters, Carpenter's other sci-fi take, and more. Following the discussion, they run down through what they watched this week.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 Introduction to STARMAN (1984)

00:01:57 STARMAN Discussion (characters, themes, tasty bits, hot takes)

00:40:30 Our Ratings

00:45:30 What We Watched This Week

01:04:50 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

QUINN: The Vineyard; Videodrome

JOHN: Free Willy

CURTIS: The Witch; Putin’s Road to War (PBS); The Batman; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas; The Shawshank Redemption; P2

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: "Starman" by David Bowie

Outro: "All I Have to Do is Dream" by The Everly Brothers

Quinn: @seatstruckreviews

Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'

John: johnnycakes.substack.com

@johnnycakes on Letterboxd

Check out John's other podcast Domestic Pints ONLY! @domesticpintsonly on IG; find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.