This month, Nat, Cody, and Robert explore comedy in the Soviet world with 1986’s KIN-DZA-DZA!. KIN-DZA-DZA! is a 1986 science fiction / comedy directed by Georgiy Daneliya. Two Soviet men find themselves transported across the galaxy to a dystopian planet of mind-readers. And it happens to be one of the strangest films that’s ever been […]

This month, Robert, Nat, and Cody delve into Peter Cushing at his most cold and evil in 1969’s FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED. FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED was the fourth of five Frankenstein films directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing. And it may just be the best.  It’s certainly the nastiest. Frankenstein certainly earns […]

Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by returning guest Jim Laczkowski of Directors Club and Angela Fabbrini as we throw our eleventh annual Secret Santa party. Who gave what to whom is the mystery of the episode as we take turns discussing five movies especially chosen for their recipients by their secret Santas in our […]

This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss the perils of adaptation without a clear vision with 2005’s AEON FLUX. On paper AEON FLUX looks like it had a chance. Charlize Theron had recently won an Oscar for MONSTER. Frances McDormand was at the height of her popularity. Johnny Lee Miller had made a bit of […]

This spooky month, Nat, Cody, and Robert dust off their singing voices for Frank Oz’s adaptation of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Based on writer Howard Ashman’s and composer Alan Menken’s off-broadway musical (itself adapted from Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith’s 1960 cult flick THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS), LITTLE SHOP tells the story of perennial […]

Nat, Cody, and Robert are joined by Angela Fabbrini to take a look at four movies from the 80s that are both interesting to discuss and highlight Disney’s identity crisis in the post-Walt era with THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, THE BLACK CAULDRON, and RETURN TO OZ. First up is […]

Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by Paul Hermann of The Comic Binge to explore grief, memory, family, and identity in Kogonada’s AFTER YANG. Before A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY and after COLUMBUS, Kogonada directed a science fiction film essentially about the inner life of an artificial being, among other things. Following the breakdown of […]

Nat, Cody, and Robert take a trip to the sun and perhaps touch the face of God with Danny Boyle’s SUNSHINE. Following up on the success of 28 DAYS LATER, with the low budget MILLIONS in between, Alex Garland and Danny Boyle reteamed for a much more ambitious science fiction film in SUNSHINE. This one […]

Robert, Nat, and Cody take time off from our summer to bring you a special bonus episode. 50 years ago, JAWS swam into theaters and changed Hollywood. With that in mind, what better time to look at the ups and downs of the film and franchise that stated the summer movie season. Just to make […]

Nat, Cody, and Robert take a deep dive into James Cameron’s THE ABYSS. Riding high off the success of THE TERMINATOR and ALIENS, James Cameron took two of his main interests, undersea exploration and science fiction, and combined them in THE ABYSS. By all accounts a grueling shoot, THE ABYSS emerged in the Summer of […]