The Seat Struck Movie Podcast

"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:

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/570940/

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.

"Let me tell you a little something about love Dennis. It has a voracious appetite. It eats everything-- friendship, family. It kills me how much it eats. But I'll tell you something else. You feed it right, and it can be a beautiful thing, and that's what we have. You know when someone believes in you man, you can do any FUCKING THING in the ENTIRE universe...and when you believe RIGHT BACK at that someone...THEN WATCH OUT WORLD, 'cause nobody could stop you then, NOBODY! EVER"

Strap in, shitters! On this week of The Seat Struck Movie Podcast, John and Quinn tackle the next entry in our John Carpenter Watch Series, the Stephen King-adaptation CHRISTINE! We spend some discussing the film and give our ratings.

In the second half, we chat what we watched this week. Next week we will be back with another John Carpenter film, see you soon!

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 Introduction and CHRISTINE discussion.

00:40:22 Our Ratings

What We Watched This Week

00:45:23 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (Quinn)

00:48:30 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Good Luck Chuck (John)

00:51:45 Park Row (John)

00:53:47 The Twentieth Century (John)

00:57:00 Mare of Easttown [TV] (John)

01:00:05 Wrap up

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Outro: Christine Theme - John Carpenter

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.

"Whoa"

On this week of The Seat Struck Movie Podcast, John and Quinn are joined by special guest Steve (you might know him as 'stout' Steve from John's other podcast, Domestic Pints ONLY) to talk about the late 90s cyberpunk goth action classic - THE MATRIX. We spend some discussing the film (with occasional light mentions of the sequels). We also lament that despite talking for nearly an hour we still have lots of stuff to chat about. Will we return for future Matrix discussion? Stay tuned!

In the second half, they chat what they watched this week.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 Introduction and THE MATRIX discussion.

00:50:10 Our Ratings

What We Watched This Week

00:55:34 Winter on Fire (Curtis)

00:56:13 Hard Target (Curtis)

00:57:04 Last Exit: Space (Curtis) and some extended Werner Herzog talk.

01:00:17 Licorice Pizza (Quinn)

01:03:07 The Batman (Quinn)

01:06:00 NYC Epicenters: 9/11 to 2021 1/2 (Quinn)

01:07:15 Dark Days [2000] (Quinn)

01:08:13 Strike [1925] (John)

01:10:13 Death Becomes Her (John)

01:12:30 The Empty Man (John)

01:15:29 Predestination (John)

01:17:15 Crocodile Dundee 1 and 2 (Steve)

01:18:34 Moneyball and The Wolf Of Wall Street (Steve)

01:18:50 Still Life [TV] (Steve)

01:19:20 Yellowstone (Steve)

01:19:37 The Great (Steve)

01:20:37 Wrap up

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: The Matrix Theme by Don Davis

Outro: Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine

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.

“Give the guy a gun and he’s Superman. Give him two and he’s God.” John, Curtis, and special guest Dr David Lo bring the action with this week's coverage of John Woo's 1992 Hong Kong gun fu classic HARD BOILED. The team discuss their favourite scenes, the symbolism, gender and performance, and those epic action sequences, including the epic 30 minute hospital shootout. Tune in for the best action movie you may have never seen! After the chat, the lads talk about the movies they watched this week. "Better than a dozen Die Hards!"

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:03 HARD BOILED (1992) Discussion (favourite scenes, symbolism, hot takes, tasty bits)

00:38:48 Our Ratings

00:42:57 What We Watched This Week

01:06:08 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

JOHN: Back to the Future; Mothra vs. Godzilla; Godzilla (1998); Chosen (YouTube); Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster; Nightmare Alley (2022);

CURTIS: Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America (1.3); Euphoria (Season 2); Get on the Bus; Stone Cold (1991);

DAVID LO: The Tinder Swindler (2022), I am Jonas (2018), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Mulholland Drive (2001)

CREDITS AND PLUGS

Intro: Excerpts from HARD BOILED (1992); "Hard Boiled (Main Theme)" by Michael Gibbs

Outro: "Porcelain" by Moby

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.

"Why don't we just wait here for a little while, see what happens?" The John Carpenter watch series returns this week with his horror classic THE THING (1982) and a (definitely unassimilated) special guest Owen Franklin, the director of the Bristol Film Festival. The usual suspects John and Curtis are sadly Quinnless this week, but he is off saving the world (and also not assimilated). The crew discuss the characters, favourite moments, the film's influence and legacy, and what makes it special. Following this discussion, they run down what they watched this week. Keep your flamethrowers ready as we turn up the heat for the latest SEAT STRUCK MOVIE PODCAST offering! Stay tuned for next week's episode (and Curtis's second canon pick) on John Woo's Hong Kong gun fu masterpiece HARD BOILED!

00:00:00 Introduction to THE THING (1982)

00:07:07 THE THING (1982) Discussion (characters, influences, romance, tasty bits, hot takes)

00:56:24 Our Ratings

01:01:55 What We Watched This Week

01:37:24 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

JOHN: Groundhog Day; My Bloody Valentine (1981); Me, Myself, and Irene; Billions (Season 4); The Green Hornet (2011); A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984; Drunken Cinema showing at the Bytowne Cinema)

CURTIS: Yellowjackets (Season 1); Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America; The Book of Boba Fett (Season 1); Beasts of No Nation; Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022); Forgive Us Our Trespasses; Perfect Blue

OWEN: X Files (Season 1), Nobody (2021), John Wick 3: Parabellum (2018), WALL•E (2009), Interstellar (2016)

Intro: "Humanity (Pt. 2)" by Ennio Morricone (THE THING OST); Excerpts from THE THING (1982), THE THING (1982) VHS Trailer

Outro: "Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples" by David Sylvian

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.

https://www.bristolfilmfestival.com/

"Maybe this fool's such a bad motherfucker, he don't got to worry about nuthin, he just sit down, eat my Chinese, watch my TV." Welcome lovers all for THE SEAT STRUCK MOVIE PODCAST's Valentine's Day special, in which we discuss Tony Scott's (and Tarantino-scripted) masterpiece TRUE ROMANCE (1993). We talk about the spicy romance (and Clarence's love for Elvis), the movie's impact and influences, Tarantinoisms, the infamous Sicilian scene, and more. John also provides a brief synopsis of the film. Afterwards, we chat about what we watched this week.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 Introduction to TRUE ROMANCE (1993)

00:14:45 TRUE ROMANCE (1993) Discussion (characters, influences, romance, tasty bits, hot takes)

00:56:35 Our Ratings

01:01:18 What We Watched This Week

01:25:45 Coming Up Next!

MOVIES WE WATCHED

QUINN: Paulie (1998)

JOHN: Signs; The Last Duel; Men In Black (1997)

CURTIS: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988); A Creepshow Holiday Special; Without Warning (1980); Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood; Boys from County Hell

Intro: "You're So Cool" by Hans Zimmer (TRUE ROMANCE OST); Excerpts from TRUE ROMANCE (1993)

Outro: "I Want Your Body (Instrumental)" by Nymphomania

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.