Video Junkyard Podcast

On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast we venture into floating space forests, poker with plucky robots, and Bruce Dern dressed as Noah. Yes, its the 1972 science-fiction classic "Silent Running". Directed by special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull, Silent Running tells the story of a bleak future where nature is virtually extinct on earth and forests are kept in the outer reaches of our solar system (for reasons). Does Silent Running still bloom or should it just be jettisoned into space? Check out the latest episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast to find out!

This week we continue the Cage classics with a recent entry into the actor's vast filmography. "Willy's Wonderland" is a movie about Nicolas Cage fighting giant animatronic mascots. That's all you need to know because that's all that matters! Join us for a lively discussion and don't forget to share your thoughts about "Willy's Wonderland" with us at [email protected].

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On this very super excellent awesome radical episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast we celebrate our 200th EPISODE (it's all about quantity not quality, folks!) we check out what may be the ultimate VJP movie. It's got it all: Bruckheimer, Cage, Cusak, Malkovich, Buscemi, Rhames, Chappelle, Trejo, Williamson, Potter... We are talking about the 1997 action film "Con Air"!

An innocent hero on his way to meet his daughter, an airplane full of the worst convicts imaginable, Cage with flowing locks.

Check out the 200th episode where we lose our minds over this one, and discuss whether one really should put the bunny back in the box.

They just don't make um like they used to... and maybe that's a good thing. This week we're looking at the 1994 comedy "PCU" starring Jeremy Piven and David Spade. Join in all the laughs, or lack thereof, as we discuss if this one has any redeeming qualities or if we're kicking it off campus for good.

On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, we look at the 1998 comedy film "Dirty Work" directed by Bob Saget and staring Norm Macdonald, Artie Lang, and Christopher McDonald plus a number of featured performances by Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, Don Rickles, and Jack Warden. Macdonald and Lang play two best friends who start a revenge-for-hire business to raise money for heart surgery for Lang's father. While the film was universally slammed by critics upon its release, it has since developed a significant cult following. So does Dirty Work get its revenge on the critics 24 years later? Check out "Dirty Work" on PlutoTV for free, then join us for the latest episode to find out!

Come along with us as we shrink ourselves for a ride through Martin Short's body.  That's right it's the 1987 sci-fi comedy "InnerSpace" starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan.  Remember this one where Quaid spends most of the movie drinking and sawing tiny holes in Short's internal organs.  That's not a great synopsis but neither was the one on the back of the DVD box, so there.

On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, we take a look through time and space at the 1985 sci-fi comedy "My Science Project" written and directed by Jonathan R. Betuel and starring John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, and Dennis Hopper. When high school senior and gearhead Michael Harlan needs a science project to graduate, he sneaks into a junkyard at a military base (you know, like ya do...) and discovers an extraterrestrial engine that can manipulate time (and space). When the device starts opening portals around town, Michael and his friends must race against time (and space) to stop the onslaught of creatures out of time (and space)...you get the idea.

Released against other sci-fi films like Back to the Future, does this one hold up well, or does it belong back in the junkyard? Check out this weeks episde of the Video Junkyard Podcast to find out!

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This week we pay tribute to the late William Hurt by watching Ken Russell's 1980 psyche-thiller "Altered States", which also happens to be Hurt's debut feature.

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Are we really reviewing this movie or is this some kind of sick joke? Turns out it's both. Join us for our review of the classic slasher/mystery thriller "April Fool's Day". That is very appropriate, isn't it? About time we nailed one of these holiday episodes. Have a listen.

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