Movie Meltdown - Episode 150

This week we continue to loiter around a hotel room as we discuss ‘Geek Activities’ and reminisce about the details and interactions of the day. The most exciting of which is our Sofa Theater session of the week, the lush and sweeping Somewhere in Time, which features special guest co-host actor Doug Jones!! Star of Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy 1 and 2, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Guild, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the man who is bringing us the coffee table portfolio entitled - Mime Very Own Book.

And somewhere, possibly sitting in the middle of the hallway, we mention… The Ward, Wonder Falls, getting your wisdom teeth taken out, Anthony Michael Hall, Devour, Channel 1, Felicia Day, Peep World, the son of the devil… or a witch… or a satanic beast???, Sarah’s Key, Amber Heard runs, forging a magnificent blade, the Steve Guttenberg appeal, Supernatural, The Annual Jones Family Vacation, Cave Dwellers, beating up Scary Spice, Joss Whedon… genius, Happy Accidents, scary Stormtroopers, Randy and Lisa’s kiwis, The Grand Hotel, Max Headroom, In Time, being a ‘Steampunk Dandy‘, Psycho, kind of an orc sword, sneaking through the horse door, I love Anderson Cooper!, Dragon Age: Redemption, baby in a backpack, Christopher Plummer, stuck in an elevator with Sean Patrick Flannery and Michael Rooker, eating peeps, leaving Corey out, Police Academy on Loritabs, Jensen Ackles, Sarah Silverman, being excited to see Alex Winter, Ricky Gervais, those painter-ly moments, Michael C. Hall, No iCarly for you!!, Norman Reedus on The Walking Dead, Rainn Wilson, Noah Hathaway winked at me and being a face wrangler.

Spoiler Alert: Quit dragging your feet and watch “Somewhere in Time”. It’s been like thirty years already.

“Two perfect people going at it with each other, of course you’re going to watch that. Who wouldn't watch that?!"

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Movie Meltdown - Episode 149

This week we head to some random convention and crash Randy and Lisa's hotel room. Plus we talk to legendary actor JOHN SAXON!! All that in addition to movie news as well as our usual witty and/or ridiculous banter.

And while we decide whether or not werewolves like kiwis, we also discuss… Star Trek 2, Frozen, Elijah Wood, Winchester at GraceLand, P2, Family Circus, Shark Night 3D, Tai Chi, I hate pencils - I just want you to know, Benicio Del Toro, Heavy D, Where’s Waldo, Hatchet, downy face is Snow White, learning Judo, Khan!!!, Killer Pizza, Bil Keane, The Reluctant Debutante, Corin Nemec, Wim Wenders directing “The Avengers”, if he threatens to flip Chris Pine for real…, Ali Larter, Adam Green, Charlize Theron, acting classes at Carnegie Hall, Sands Sharks… that all that should need to be said, Traffic, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? David Tennant, a monster hunting enterprise, did I just make up an Aerosmith video in my brain?, Excess Baggage and I don’t need a hobby - I’ve got my hatred.

“I’m totally in bed with a werewolf.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 148

This week, after a round of Geek Activities, we sit down and talk with comedian and sound effects master Michael Winslow! Then we revisit the 80's comedy stylings of "Police Academy". But how does it hold up to our modern mindset?

And though it may feel like we are caught in Joe Dante‘s Inferno, while we are there we still manage to discuss… Dexter, Tree of Life, The Walking Dead, the world’s largest comedy festival, oh there’s Sean Penn… hey Sean, a polar bear wandering by, That’s Kung Fu, Michael Myers, Friction, Flip Wilson, a reasonably likable doofus, Andre Braugher, The Palomino Riders, Jennifer Lawrence, Cheech and Chong, John Goodman, The Gong Show, how come they give Sandra Bullock half a size to small to wear?, Mother Teresa’s plane skidding into a crowd, Halloween 4 and 5, Tom Green, A Boy’s Life, Count Basie, Mos Def, Miranda July, cutting edge Soviet theater, Monty Python, was he crushed by a ton of Hallmark cards someone was trying to make into a fucking movie?, Jack Benny, $100 budget, Water Max, Gremlins, Stallone, baby Kim Cattrall, Homicide, Storytelling, Red Skelton, Mel Brooks, Pretty Little Liars, mobile homeless, X-Men: First Class, Nets and Traps, Benny Hill, The More then average White Band, finding a big box of DVD’s, National Lampoon Magazine, decent little filmmaking… wrapped in an enigma… just slathered with pretentious bullshit, let’s play dress-up and do crafts, Desperate Housewives, floating heads, Waterworld, Maria Bello, you don’t mess with no Brooklyn rabbit and $516.32.

Spoiler Alert: In most ways you can spoil “Police Academy”, we probably do.

“I still have people telling me that what I’m doing is annoying.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 147

This week features special guest co-host Emma Caulfield. Star of the web series “Bandwagon“, the feature film “Darkness Falls” and a little show you might have heard of called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer“.

In honor of this week’s movie, we start off swapping movie scars from our childhood. And we forgo most standard “professional” questions and go straight for the geeky essentials. And Emma does not disappoint.

Then we discuss this week’s Sofa Theater feature: JAWS! The Spielberg blockbuster that changed the movie industry, left a definitive mark on pop culture for generations… and probably killed a lot of beach activity for several years.

And while basking in the appreciation of our applause app, we also mention… Poltergeist, Tarantino, Laura, Flash Gordon, dynamic and interesting female characters, Aliens, Take Shelter, being an actress in previous years versus today, Moby Dick, the Toht melting scene, remakes, Hitchcock, the creatures in the cantina, Kubrick, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Inception, being a drama queen, Jesus Christ Superstar, Empire of the Sun, I slept in my parent’s bed for a week, Rebecca, Super 8, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Birds and being deathly afraid of sharks. (Hmmm, I wonder what brought that on?)

Spoiler Alert: Hopefully they pulled you aside in school and sat you down for your government-sponsored viewing of “Jaws”. If not, write to your congressman. Oh yeah, and go watch the movie!

“I just think it mastered character and suspense and action - in a way that no other film really has done.”

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