Hasn't this year been great? Haven't you just had a lot of fun paying attention to the news? Aren't you so happy about the election results? We just want to go dance in the streets! ... Actually, no, we don't.

We don't know about you, but things aren't looking so good in the world right now, however you think about the Presidential election results. So we aren't here tonight at the Wages of Cinema to talk about that. Instead of this, somehow, to help Jack out most of all, we picked out a list of movies to try to get your mind off of the election. This is a crop of films from the silent era to the 21st century, full of action, comedy, music, a little horror, but mostly it's all about that wonderful world of distraction - and we tried our best, dear listeners, to pick movies that would NOT remind you of a certain orange leader...

movies:

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT

HELP!

YELLOW SUBMARINE

THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR

THE GOLD RUSH

CRANK

CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER (various movies)

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN

RIFIFI

AFTER HOURS

Clips from various movies and soundtracks. Podcast owned by Wages of Cinema.

Now time for the usual question:

WILL ANDREW SURVIVE, AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF HIM?

He got into the Tank to check out Tobe Hooper's iconoclastic, horror-tastic, hard-to-watch-still-today classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. So come on in for some head cheese and what may be the most efficiently told horror movie of all time.

(score from the movie, this podcast owned by Wages of Cinema)

On this episode 68:

HEAR! Andrew bring up an issue that's bugged him in the weeks since recording the episode (Dr. Jack & Dr. Andrew's Case Files #3) on Heaven's Gate, and then he also brings up to Jack what it means that Marvel is into this 'origin story' formula and what it means for their movies (also expanding on their review, ep 66)

HEAR! Jack catching up with a little more old-school Godzilla, a notoriously WTF horror sequel (among other hit or miss horror movies, mostly miss sadly), the new Denis Villeneuve/Amy Adams science fiction film, and Rebecca Hall in the (not John Carpenter) Christine.

HEAR! Andrew gets into the very weird and deliriously styled with the 1977 cult classic HAUSU (or: "HOUSE")

This and more on this week's THE WAGES OF CINEMA! (and also we coin a new term - our audience as 'The Wagers'!)

Movies:

1) HEAVEN'S GATE (1980)

2) DR. STRANGE, Marvel etc (2008-2016)

Starting at 31 mins in:

3) EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (1977)

4) HAUSU (1977)

5) OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016)

6) SHUT IN (2016)

7) THE RETURN OF GODZILLA (1984)

8) GODZILLA VS THE SEA MONSTER (1966)

9) ARRIVAL (2016)

10) CHRISTINE (2016)

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Music from Duke Ellington and David Mansfield

Hey, anybody want this bowl of Garmonbozia we just cooked up? Oh, wait, doesn't that translate to 'Pain and Anguish'? Oh, correct, yeah. nevermind.

Not one to back away from a (self-imposed) challenge, Jack checked out Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the feature film spin-off/prequel for the iconic television show that made everyone want coffee, pie and a dancing Man from Another Place (or at least a Log Lady or singing Norweigans), and one that, truth be told, he didn't care for too much on a first viewing nine years ago. But David Lynch, co-creator of the series and mastermind behind this attempt to make something of the world created in the Northwest about mystery. murder, and what lies beneath the subconscious and in the world of dreams (and nightmares), went back in time. And he found... something not unlike the experience of another franchise. The point is: what the hell happens when one sees this FIVE TIMES in a week?

We probably won't talk about Judy, either.

Oh, and SPOILERS of course for the show.

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(clips featured from the film and soundtrack to TP: FWWM, from CBS Entertainment and Angelo Badalamenti)

So what do you get when you take Marvel, Benedict Cumberbatch, magic, and the director of Sinister (not to mention the co-writer formerly known as CARLYLE on Spill.com, remember that, maybe, possibly), and a whole load of magic and psychedelic sorcery and trippy visuals? Somehow, Doctor Strange comes together.

But did it for the hosts of Wages of Cinema? Jack and Andrew saw the movie and, as with other tentpole comic book movies, they're joined by Guest Star Matt (Catania, https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com), and maybe a cameo too by a very special part of the Wages of Cinema family. Is it just another ho-hum origin story? Or do the visuals distinguish it as one of THE major Marvel releases? And what about that thing called... white privilege(?) Yes, that may come up as well.

Tune in to find out! (also, SPOILERS 45:27)

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(Clips featured from trailer on youtube and part of the score by Michael Giacchino)

Though this was actually, technically, talked about this waaay back at episode 8.4 of the podcast (correction: Jack said episode 4 or 5 in the recording), it's always worth going back again to one of those notorious films that shook up the industry despite the fact that, as irony would have it, at the time not too many people saw Michael Cimino's doomed follow-up to The Deer Hunter: HEAVEN'S GATE. Starring Kris Kristofferson, (then relatively unknown) Isabelle Huppert, and recent Oscar winner Christopher Walken, and written and directed by Cimino fresh off his triumphs for 'Hunter', what started as a mid-level production, about 10 million, ballooned to 44 million, a film that gained the reputation of taking down United Artists with it in 1981 (this is arguable of course, though it was sold to MGM in that same year).

But what about the movie itself? How does this 219 spectacle about a horrible historical event - the Johnson County murders of the 1890's - come off under Cimino? Jack and Andrew (the latter having never seen it until for this podcast) take out their stethoscopes and find what the heartbeat is, if at all, for this monumental, romantic, ultra-violent western.

(music featured from the score of the movie)

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So in the most important news you'll see all week: Jack finally watched a bunch of Godzilla monster movies (plus Rodan)! Meanwhile, Andrew watched Captain America: Civil War again and has some new nitpicks; Jack goes to a horror movie marathon; arthouse audit with Herzog and one of the best new independent films in years.

1) GODZILLATHON:

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)

Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964)

Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)

Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla (1974)

2) CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)

3) THE GATE (1987)

4) DEAD OF NIGHT (1974)

5) DEATH SPA (1989)

6) EVENT HORIZON (1997)

7) INTO THE INFERNO (2016)

8) MOONLIGHT (2016)

This week in our main topic, we at the Wages of Cinema decided to do two things for this Halloween movie season: first, discuss the many horror tropes and concepts, things that we sometimes take for granted (too for granted, or just have come to accept as givens like jump scares and creepy children and so on); second, Jack and Andrew do something a little different: they each pitch some original ideas for horror movies. Take note, Hollywood, we're coming for you!

Some of the movies and types we talk about include Romero Zombies, 28 Days Later, Guillermo del Toro and the Devil's Backbone, The Babadook, Jphn Carpenter's Halloween (Carpenter opens this episode explaining the two 'types' of horror), Psycho, Phantasm, and children in danger, plus much, much more.

Email us with any of your own ideas or comments to [email protected] or to our Facebook and Twitter pages (just search for Wages of Cinema)

(audio at end is Goblin's "The Witch" from the Suspiria score)

The Italian director Dario Argento, behind such films as The Bird with Crystal Plumage, Deep Red, Tenebre, Inferno and Phenomena among many others, including the film under discussion in the Cinema Immersion Tank today, SUSPIRIA, once said, " Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination."

How, then, does Suspiria hold up as a dream, or even as a story? What does this (once) heralded master of the Italian "Giallo" film have to do to get his audiences entranced and frightened? And, most importantly, did our intrepid co-host Andrew get there? Find out on this 20th installment of the Cinema Immersion Tank.

(score excerpts by Goblin from the Soundtrack to Suspiria)

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And now let's talk MOVIES! Jack kind of dominates this one - Andrew talks about Grand Hotel, though he's seen a couple other films Jack has so he chimes in - and it's the wide variety we like to bring to Wages of Cinema, from Japanese monster movie to resistance war movie to broad parody to Patrick Swayze kicking everyone's ass and the latest from Tim Burton, Mark Wahlberg, and that guy who stirred up that little dust over at Sundance about that movie named after that other movie but it's not a remake, gee what was it called....

1) GODZILLA VS MEGALON (1973)

2) THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - TOURING YEARS (2016)

3) GRAND HOTEL (1937)

4) TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016)

5) THE AGE OF SHADOWS (2016)

6) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

7) DEEPWATER HORIZON (2016)

8) ROADHOUSE (1989)

9) THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2016)

10) MRS. PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (2016)

11) HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT

Clips:

Duke Ellington's "Jubilee Stomp" (public domain)

Train to Busan trailer excerpt (for fair use)