Staff Picks

Moneyball

Sportswriter and podcaster Jack Vita joins me to discuss a movie that shouldn't have worked at all, yet somehow turned out to be amazing. It's 2011's baseball masterpiece, Moneyball.

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Screenwriter and George Romero fan Brian Scully joins me to discuss one of the greatest horror films of all time, the original 1978 classic, Dawn of the Dead

Vacancy

People Magazine writer and TV host Steve Helling joins me to discuss one of my favorite suspense/horror movies of the 2000s, 2007's Vacancy

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Donnie McHenry, from Psychotronica: A Podcast for Forgotten Film, joins me to discuss an unfairly forgotten horror film. We're talking about the 1990 anthology Tales from the Darkside: The Movie.

Sinister

My daughter, fellow horror fan Vanessa Lanza, joins me to discuss the movie that has been scientifically proven to be the scariest film of all time, 2012's Sinister

Someone’s Watching Me!

Horror fan and John Carpenter expert Christopher Chardi joins me to discuss "the lost Carpenter film," 1978's made-for-TV-suspense-fest Someone's Watching Me!

Demonwarp

The creator of Bonkers Ass Cinema, Matt Rotman, joins me to discuss a movie that is indeed, uh, very bonkers ass. It's 1988's all-over-the-place kinda-sorta-a-Bigfoot-movie Demonwarp.

Creep

Horror author Matt Carter joins me to discuss one of the creepiest low budget movies you are ever going to see, 2014's very fittingly titled Creep

The Blair Witch Project

Horror fan and podcaster Kacie Rahm joins me to discuss one of the biggest and most important horror movies that has ever been made, 1999's amazing (yes, it's still amazing) The Blair Witch Project

Trilogy of Terror

Horror Month 2022 begins as artist and fellow 70's child Robin Punsalan joins me to discuss one of the most infamous TV movies of all time, 1975's Trilogy of Terror.

Toy Soldiers

Podcaster and pop culture fan Jeremy Zehr joins me to discuss the greatest Astin/Wheaton action film of them all, 1991's Toy Soldiers

Frequency

Baseball fan and father-having George Hanns joins me to discuss one of the greatest father/son baseball movies of all time, 2000's Frequency

Spider-Man

Superhero fan Joe Jennings joins me to discuss the movie that started the modern superhero wave, and helped bring America out of 9/11, and really should be talked about more than it is, Sam Raimi's original 2002 Spider-Man

Perfect Blue

Anime fan and creepy movie fan Andrew Koerner joins me to discuss the king of all creepy anime movies, 1997's Perfect Blue. Because who ARE you, deep down, really?

Very Bad Things

Writer and fellow dark comedy fan Jericho McCune joins me to discuss maybe the darkest dark comedy that has ever been made, 1998's incredibly polarizing Very Bad Things

Used Cars

Movie expert and historian Johnny Pomatto joins to me to discuss why one of the funniest movies of all time never became a big hit. We're talking about Kurt Russell's 1980 masterpiece, Used Cars.

Exam (2009)

Staff Picks regular/invigilator David Holdsworth joins me to discuss one of my favorite psychological suspense movies of all time, 2009's highly underrated Exam

Major League

Former baseball great Albert Destrade joins me to discuss the greatest baseball movie of all time, 1989's Major League

Pumping Iron

Bodybuilding fan Lizzie Swanson joins me to discuss one of the greatest documentaries of all time, 1977's Pumping Iron

Dreamscape

Teacher and movie fan Jason Rasmussen joins me to discuss one of those great little 80s movies that nobody seems to talk about anymore, which also happened to be one of the first PG-13 films of all time, 1984's Dreamscape

Blue Chips

Sportswriter and college professor Paul Oren joins me to discuss a great time capsule of 90s college basketball, not to mention an interesting tale of morality and ethics, 1994's Blue Chips

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

History teacher Steve Williams joins me to discuss one of the greatest theater movies of all time, one of the funniest non-comedies of all time, and I'd argue clearly the best of the Indiana Jones movies, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Burn After Reading

Podcaster and Coen Brothers fan Jonathan Haueter ("Jon Ha") joins me to discuss "the lesser Coen Brothers Movie" that we think is just as funny as any of the bigger ones, 2008's hilariously pointless Burn After Reading

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Pop culture fan Christine Giver joins me to discuss a movie that was easily one of the top twenty event movies of my lifetime, yet hardly anyone ever talks about today. We delve into the legacy of 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Ed TV

Fellow reality TV historian Jessica Liese joins me to discuss the great early reality TV movie that no one ever talks about, 1999's EdTV

Jingle All The Way

Jake Lloyd fangirl Katie Banks joins me to discuss one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time, 1996's woefully underappreciated Jingle All The Way

Cube (1997)

Canadian film fan Mark Kalzer joins me to discuss a fun little sci-fi/math/dystopian independent horror movie, 1997's Cube

Shakespeare in Love

Theater kid Will Olsen joins me to discuss the Best Picture Winner that has always unfairly been crapped on, the charming 1998 comedy Shakespeare in Love