I'm sure most of you know the drill at this point but one episode every other month around these parts is a special episode where you folks nominate and vote for that week's double feature! Democracy!
Your last vote was for THE SEARCHERS (1956) + HARDCORE (1979) which we just dropped. The next episode you're voting on will be for one of our episodes in NOIRVEMBER! (Which yes, means we will only be accepting noir, neo-noir and crime film nominations!...
2023-10-01 19:31:06 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss outdated, conservative American men who are compelled to undergo arduous odysseys for the safety/soul of their family and are instead forced to reckon with their own questionable motives and worldviews in John Ford’s classic western THE SEARCHERS (1956) starring John Wayne as a brutal, racist cowboy trying to "save" his niece from a Native tribe and Paul Schrader's neo-noir variation HARDCORE (1979) in which he updates and imagines his own Midwest, Calvinist fat...
2023-09-30 21:06:00 +0000 UTC
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Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976) on Wednesday, Sep. 27th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Sep. 27th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Sep. 27th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.
We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webca...
2023-09-24 23:02:18 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Trevor Henderson discuss two visually surreal/imaginative, ostensibly "kid-friendly" Japanese body-horror creature features with a double feature of Shinya Tsukamoto's HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) and Hideyuki Hirayama's HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995). Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE SEARCHERS (1956) and HARDCORE (1979), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier.
2023-09-24 21:33:20 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss underrated Old Hollywood B-movie director Joseph H. Lewis with a double feature of his merging of gothic horror and identity/gaslight thriller in MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) and his goofy harpoon vs. six shooter McCarthy-era left-wing B-western TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back talking about HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) and HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995). Keep it sleazy!
Intro // 00:00-10:56
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS //...
2023-09-18 02:36:32 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie go solo to discuss two films that played the Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness in 1993 (the section of the fest dedicated to genre and midnight movies): Alex Winter and Tom Stern's FREAKED, a vulgar, comedic punk-rock body horror update on Tod Browning's FREAKS for demented 90s weirdo kids + Stephen Elliot's FRAUDS, a diabolical, strange, and energetic funhouse insurance claims investigator thriller starring Phil Collins. Next week's episode is a patron...
2023-09-09 23:36:41 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss more process-based, biographical prison break thrillers with a double feature of Robert Bresson's minimalist, abstract, and spiritual approach in A MAN ESCAPED (1956) and Don Siegal and Clint Eastwood's gritty, American tough guy version/borderline remake of it ESCAPE OF ALCATRAZ (1979).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back talking about FREAKED (1993) and FRAUDS (1993). Keep it sleazy!
Intro // 00:00-11:24
A MAN ESCAPED // 11:24-1...
2023-09-02 15:41:11 +0000 UTC
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Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of FRAUDS starring Phil Collins (?!) on Thursday, Aug. 31st @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Aug. 31st to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Aug. 31st. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.
We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webcams a...
2023-08-28 23:16:58 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Spencer Rider (of Those Good Old Fashioned Values + Get Cynical) discuss two impeccably crafted, process-based French thriller classics with a double feature of Henri-Georges Clouzot's white knuckle depiction of precarious, expendable labor in THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) and Jacques Becker's authentic, biographical prison break movie LE TROU (1960).
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on more prison escape films: A ...
2023-08-28 03:25:14 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss cheap, independently made early-60s psychological horror films with carnival-beach movie aesthetics and supernatural expressionist atmospheres with a double feature of Curtis Harrington's spooky, mermaid-romance/horror-noir fable NIGHT TIDE (1961) and Herk Harvey's surreal, purgatorial ghost story CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking about THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) and LE TROU (1960). Ke...
2023-08-19 19:47:48 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Branson Reese discuss the barrier between animation/live-action with a violent, horny, slapstick double feature of Robert Zemeckis' masterful ToonNoir technical achievement of merging the Golden Age of Animation and the history of Hollywood noir films in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) and Ralph Bakshi's blatant, flawed and compromised knockoff of it in COOL WORLD (1992).
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on NIGHT TIDE (1961) a...
2023-08-13 01:19:02 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss the notoriously crude, fetishistic, and political exploitation cartoons of independent filmmaker/adult animator Ralph Bakshi with a double feature of his X-rated adaptation of Robert Crumb's horny, vulgar, counter-cultural satire FRITZ THE CAT (1972) and his attempt (keyword here) at a more traditional PG sword-and-sorcery fantasy/sci-fi apocalypse-style film WIZARDS (1977).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking about ...
2023-08-05 22:14:55 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guests Brendan James and Noah Kulwin (of Blowback) discuss 80s Red Scare anti-communist action trash made by legitimate right-wing psychos with a double feature of John Milius' RED DAWN (1984) + Joseph Zito's RED SCORPION (1988). Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on Ralph Bakshi's FRITZ THE CAT (1972) and WIZARDS (1977), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier.
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2023-07-28 20:19:33 +0000 UTC
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Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.
DIAL OF DESTINY // 08:14-44:24
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7.5 // 44:24-1:42:35
OPPENHEIMER // 1:42:35-3:20:59
2023-07-24 13:17:07 +0000 UTC
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These were the 4 (5 this time, since we had a tie for the 4th spot) most upvoted double features as selected by you guys, now it's time to officially vote on what our Patron-selected episode for September is going to be! GO!
2023-07-22 15:50:22 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss two starkly different approaches to apocalyptic, Cold War nuclear anxiety with a double feature of Stanley Kubrick's iconic DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) which took mutually assured destruction policies and realized them in tense thriller logic and slapstick farce simultaneously and Mick Jackson's THREADS (1984), a gruesome, procedurally-detailed docudrama and warning about what a nuclear holocaust might actually look and feel like on the ground level.
See yo...
2023-07-22 15:38:58 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Jayson Buford discuss ridiculous, high-concept and maximalist summer action blockbusters from June 1997 starring Nic Cage with a double feature of Simon West’s knockoff Michael Bay/Tony Scott airplane prison break movie CON AIR and John Woo’s glorious masterpiece of the most balletic destruction and MEGA-acting melodrama ever put on screen FACE/OFF.
Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on Nuclear holocau...
2023-07-15 21:45:44 +0000 UTC
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Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of RED ROCK WEST on Thursday, Jul. 13th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Jul. 13th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Jul. 13th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.
We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webcams and mics for Jamie an...
2023-07-09 22:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I'm sure most of you know the drill at this point but one episode every other month around these parts is a special episode where you folks nominate and vote for that week's double feature! Democracy!
Your last vote was for MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985) + NAKED LUNCH (1991) which we just dropped. The next episode you're voting on will be for one of our episodes in September.
This is our 17th time doing this so I'm sure, once again, that most of you know ...
2023-07-08 14:15:48 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss intensely expressive, surreal biographical dramas about troubled, self-destructive mid-20th century authors whose real lives became one with their art and vice versa with a double feature of Paul Schrader's graceful, dreamlike, transcendent MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985) and David Cronenberg's paranoid, counter-cultural, drug-addicted NAKED LUNCH (1991).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking about the maximali...
2023-07-08 13:35:30 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest horror author Emma Berquist discuss trashy, late-90s post-SCREAM teen horror/slashers with a double feature of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997) + URBAN LEGEND (1998). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on Paul Schrader's MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985) and David Cronenberg's NAKED LUNCH (1991), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier.
Intro // 0...
2023-07-02 19:46:18 +0000 UTC
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Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.
THE COVENANT // 11:27-33:28
HYPNOTIC // 33:28-55:33
EXTRACTION 2 // 55:33-1:20:56
MASTER GARDENER // 1:20:56-2:01:36
2023-06-28 03:15:23 +0000 UTC
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Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of DISTURBING BEHAVIOR on Thursday, June 29th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime June 29th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of June 29th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.
We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webcams and mics for Ja...
2023-06-26 23:18:04 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss 80s blockbuster throwbacks to an older era of pulpy colonialist fantasy adventure with Steven Spielberg's iconic, masterfully-constructed take on the Saturday morning serial of his childhood RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) and Robert Zemeckis' zanier, meta-comedic romance novel variation ROMANCING THE STONE (1984).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking about trashy SCREAM knockoffs: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997...
2023-06-24 15:05:58 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Wyatt Duncan discuss two very different approaches to the sad daily realities of American ex-cons with a double feature of Ulu Grosbard's methodical, tragic, and gritty depiction of the lifetime criminal mindset STRAIGHT TIME (1978) starring Dustin Hoffman and the Coen brothers' lighter, more absurdist, empathetic Looney Tune version in RAISING ARIZONA (1987) with Nic Cage and Holly Hunter.
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus epis...
2023-06-17 14:59:56 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss partially-autobiographical prison dramas about the cruel, dehumanizing conditions of chain gangs in the American South with a double feature of Mervyn LeRoy's bleak, pre-code, Depression-era crime saga I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932) starring Paul Muni and Stuart Rosenberg's New Hollywood character study/hangout movie COOL HAND LUKE (1967) starring Paul Newman.
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking about...
2023-06-11 00:27:41 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Will Sloan (of The Important Cinema Club and Michael and Us) discuss Ed Wood's drunken, depressed 70s softcore porno era with a double feature of his goofy sexploitation noir parody TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE (1970) and his bizarre, unfinished orgy-horror dream THE ONLY HOUSE IN TOWN (1971).
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932) and COOL HAND LUKE (1967) you can get access to that episod...
2023-06-03 21:00:38 +0000 UTC
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Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS // 13:11-29:12
RENFIELD // 29:12-45:30
THE ARTIFICE GIRL // 45:30-1:05:20
SISU // 1:05:20-1:17:43
HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE // 1:17:43-1:44:00
2023-05-29 01:18:39 +0000 UTC
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Hosts Josh and Jamie dive into the supposed "worst filmmaker of all time" Edward D. Wood Jr. with his surreal, autobiographical cross-dressing psychodrama/pseudo-documentary GLEN OR GLENDA (1953) and his strange, awkward, and notorious old-timey, charmingly lo-fi sci-fi horror pastiche PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1957).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking about Ed Wood's drunken, depressed 70s softcore porno era: TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE (1970) +...
2023-05-27 14:42:54 +0000 UTC
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Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of Ed Wood's NIGHT OF THE GHOULS (1959) on Thursday, May 25th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime May 25th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of May 25th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.
We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webcams a...
2023-05-23 02:50:32 +0000 UTC
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