Vidiots Video Store Show

New century. New Crew. New ill-defined roaming space-ribbon/cloud/barrier. We have a lot to say in this super-sized episode about GENERATIONS, the first film featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Mr. Tricorder and the Next Generation crew (and last 1/6th of a film featuring Captain James Kirk and the TOS crew).

We take a break from superheroes and treks in the stars to make a stab at respectability, talking about Anthony Minghella's epic Oscar-magnet THE ENGLISH PATIENT and Frank Sinatra's gritty turn in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM. But first, we talk about superheroes for awhile.

Crewmember Ryan Marker joins Clay and Darren to discuss the final voyage of the Enterprise 1701-A and the Original Series crew, in Nicholas Meyer's excellent film THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.

Recorded at Vidiots in Santa Monica

William Shatner got his turn at the helm of the Star Trek franchise for THE FINAL FRONTIER, a wild (west) mish-mash of concepts both ideological and visual that gets an A for effort, and maybe that's good enough! At the very least it is a lot of fun to talk about.

Recorded at Vidiots in Santa Monica

With X-MEN: APOCALYPSE coming out this weekend we decided it is the perfect time to once and for all the question that has been plaguing this podcast for months: which is the superior X-film, X2: X-MEN UNITED or X-MEN: FIRST CLASS? The answer may surprise you! ALSO: Clay and Darren review X-MEN: APOCALYPSE! (spoiler-filled review begins at 1:02:00)

Recorded at Vidiots in Santa Monica.

Darren and Clay slingshot around the sun with Marc Bernardin (Los Angeles Times, "Fatman on Batman") back to the year 1986 to discuss transparent aluminum, Italian dinners and "stone age" medical practices.

Oh. And whales, obviously.

Vidiots Foundation's new Executive Director Maggie Mackay joins Clay and Darren to take a "taste test" and swap stories of video stores and VHS adventures.

Recorded at Vidiots in Santa Monica

The guys stage a dramatic reading of a lengthy text conversation about CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR.

Our 12-film mission continues with THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, Leonard Nimoy's directorial debut that is fifty percent "Kirk's Eleven," fifty percent Khan redux and one hundred percent perplexing.

Titanic. Aliens. The Terminator. Avatar. Etc. James Cameron has made some of the biggest movies of all time, and we break them down one by one in this week's SPECIAL FEATURE episode: #AllJamesCameronMovies.

Recorded at Vidiots in Santa Monica.