https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP106.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter We review King Hu’s Dragon Inn (1967), a period tale about a cohort of heroic warriors fighting to protect the innocent from the shadowy forces of an evil Eunuch, that showcases a gra…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP105.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter Grab a ticket and join us for a wild and spooky ride aboard the Train to Busan, as we take a closer look at the original film in the popular South Korean zombie apocalypse franchise b…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP104.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter We review Venus Wars (1989), the lavishly produced, bubble era anime film from writer and director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko first introduced to many American anime fans due to heavy rotatio…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP103.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter Godzilla Minus One writer / director Takashi Yamazaki returns the venerable franchise to its roots with a dramatic period piece set in the immediate aftermath of world war 2 in which …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP102.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter We chat about Dune, Fist of the Northstar, Gokurakugai, and the new Sand Land game, before moving on to a review of our first Vietnamese film, Dreamy Eyes or Mat Biec, a 2019 Romance …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP101.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter The bionic superhero of science, Inframan, must save the planet from the evil Princess Dragon Mom and her gang of wicked monsters in Super Inframan (1975) Shaw Brothers Studio’s terri…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP100.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter The Blade Licking Thieves podcast has hit 100 episodes! Thanks to all the listeners out there that have taken the ride with us. Please keep sending us your comments, feedback, and sug…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE016.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B return with a review of the schlocky, horror movie Humanoids from the Deep (1980) in which a small fishing village is laid siege by mutated fish-men intent on rape and mur…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP099.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter We review Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), from acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola, a visually arresting, erotically charged, and boldly operatic retelling of Stoker’s classic gothi…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP098.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter Tragic space vampires, sabre tooth tigers with laser beams, terminator-esque death machines, enough F-bombs to pop your explosive cyber collar, and more delightful nonsense abounds in…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP097.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter We’re starting off the new year with a review of Shin Kamen Rider (2023), the third film in Hideaki Anno’s Shin series of remakes of classic Tokusatsu franchises. This latest entry, w…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP096.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter A hard boiled yakuza fresh out of prison and a beautiful and mysterious young woman seek out high stakes thrills in the illegal gambling dens of Tokyo in Masahiro Shinoda’s film noir …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP095.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter We review Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto’s A Thousand and One Nights (1969), the first film in Mushi Production’s Animerama trilogy, billed as the world’s first work of “adult anima…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP094.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter Join us as we celebrate Halloween with a review of a little known Golden Harvest cult horror film: The Seventh Curse (1986). Loosely based on the popular Dr. Yuen series of Chinese no…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP093.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter We review Stephen Chow’s 2013 action comedy, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, loosely based on the 16th century Chinese literary classic. The film stars actor Wen Zhang as …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE015.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | E-mail | Twitter Super agents, sleazy soft-core, skateboarding assassins, and one stupendous snake. BLT Team B are back with a review of director Andy Sidaris’ trashy 80’s action flick : Hard Ticket …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP092.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter The Thieves review our first Indian film, the insanely bombastic, international blockbuster, RRR! Plus, a brief chat about Naoki Urasawa’s ongoing Kaiju manga Asadora!, audio book li…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP091.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter When the world’s greatest athletes are infected by a deadly unknown virus, the mysterious, genius doctor for hire, Black Jack, is forced to find a cure, in this over the top, medical…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP090.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter The Thieves are back with another Shaw Brothers kung fu classic! On today’s show, we are reviewing director Lau Kar-Leung’s spectacular Eight Diagram Pole Fighter. Released at the ta…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP089.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review Masaaki Yuasa’s 2017 anime film, The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, a bold and breezy romantic comedy based on the light novel by Tomihiko Morimi about a young college stude…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP088.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review John Boorman’s classic fantasy film, Excalibur (1981). Tune in to hear us chat for admittedly way too long about the legends of King Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Pe…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP087.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Infused with an irreverent, chaotic energy, reminiscent of Monkey Punch’s original manga, director Soji Yoshikawa’s completely madcap Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo (1978) sees…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP086.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter In Korean director Jae-hoon Choi’s period action film, The Swordsman (2020), a retired master swordsman (Jang Hyuk) is forced into action when his daughter (Hyeon-soon Kim) is placed…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP085.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000), an intimate, heartbreaking, and emotionally simmering peek into the lives of two forlorn souls (actor Tony Leung and actress Mag…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP084.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the 2001 anime TV series Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, a zany coming of age comedy from famed anime studio Gainax and director / writer Hiroyuki Yamaga, about two you…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE014.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Armed with the strength of the black tiger, the courage of the eagle, and the cunning of the ferret, the Team B crew sit down to watch Don Coscarelli’s sword and sorcery adventure, …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP083.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the 2003 Thai martial arts film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior featuring action star Tony Jaa in his break-out role. Timestamps: [00:00] Intro, Goblin Slayer Tabletop RPG, Ultr…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP082.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Just in time for Halloween, the Thieves are back with a review of Tsui Hark and Ching Sui-tung’s spooky romantic comedy, A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), a genre defying tale of star cr…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP081.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter On today’s episode of the Blade Licking Thieves, we talk about our hopes for the recently announced continuation of the Berserk manga (sans its creator) and the potential pitfalls fa…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP080.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the Daniels’ latest film, Everything Everywhere All at Once, a wild, weird, and wonderfully irreverent journey through the multiverse that’s equal parts exhilarating action…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP079.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter In Takeshi Kitano’s summer road movie, Kikujiro, a young boy searching for his estranged mother sets out from Tokyo into rural Japan with an unruly former Yakuza as his guide, begett…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE013.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review Brian De Palma’s rock opera musical Phantom of the Paradise (1974): a strange and twisted horror / comedy cult-classic about a disfigured song writer who haunts th…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP078.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, and Corey Yuen star in this hyper-kinetic supernatural comedy, Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, a special effects laden wuxia film from Hong Kong director …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP077.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s class-conscious thriller Parasite, a black comedy about the Kims, a scrappy lower class family living on the edge of subsistence in Seoul, wh…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP076.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We chat about the Ip Man franchise, discuss the influences and merits of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, and lastly review one of the premiere anime titles of the 1990s: Macross Plu…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE012.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review Stuart Gordon’s 1986 body horror film, From Beyond. Like Gordon’s prior film, Re-Animator, also starring Jeffrey Combs, From Beyond is based on an H.P. Lovecraft s…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP075.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the 2017 Hong Kong gangster film, Chasing the Dragon, the story of the rise and fall of Hong Kong’s most notorious gangster “Crippled Ho” (Donnie Yen) and his unlikely part…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP074.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the ingenious horror / comedy One Cut of the Dead from Japanese filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda. Timestamps: [00:00] Dragon Quest Dai and Cowboy Bebop Live Action [58:27] One Cut…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE011.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review British filmmaker Ken Russell’s horror / comedy cult classic, The Lair of the White Worm (1988), starring a young Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi of Dr. Who, and the pro…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP073.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter After the hell year that was 2020, the Thieves are at long last back on the couch together! We catch up by chatting about the zaniness that is Record of Ragnarok and JoJo’s Bizarre A…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE010.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review animator Don Bluth’s directorial debut, the cult-classic, animated feature film: The Secret of NIMH (1982). If you have questions or comments about the show, pleas…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP072.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Special guest David Bednar (@ykarps) joins us on the show to chat about two of his favorite ’90s Tokusatsu films, the action filled, science fiction cult classics, Zeiram and Zeiram …

Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Classic Tatsunoko super heroes return in this cross dimensional, team up film follow up to the 2017 CG animated Infini-T Force series by Tatsunoko and Digital Frontier studios. Tune in for the full review of Infini-T Force: Farewell, Friend! Review (…

Download (right click and save as) Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Not satisfied with reviewing just one Jack Frost movie this season — oh no, not this Christmas buster! — the Team B crew had to go and review two of them. For your listening pleasure, here’s Jack Frost (1997) a.k.a. the snowman slasher film. If you hav…

Download (right click and save as) Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Team B review Jack Frost (1998): the Michael Keaton film in which he plays a neglectful father and musician who, after dying in a fatal automobile accident, is given one last chance to make things right when his son summons him back to life (using a ma…

Download (right click and save as) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming this evening to bring you a scream filled night of ghouls, ghosts, vampires, and kung fu. *Record Scratch* You heard me! On tonight’s Blade Licking Thieves spooktacular we’re watching the 1974 Hammer Films and…

Download (right click and save as) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Team B are back at it once again: enduring the pain, so we don’t have to. This episode they’re taking a bite out of director Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers (2002). It’s an action / horror film about a group of soldiers on a rescue mission that’s about to go ho…

Download (right click and save as) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Our series of donation funded listener requests continues with a Blade Licking Thieves‘ Double Feature! First, we have a review of Tatsuo Sato and Masaaki Yuasa’s short, surreal and slightly twisted 2001 OVA, Cat Soup, based on the manga by the late Nekojiro…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE006.mp3 Download (right click and save as) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Ultra cool grouch and Hideo Kojima love interest Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has twenty four hours to rescue the President of the United States from the world’s largest maximum security prison, N…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP068.mp3 Download (right click and save as) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We’re kicking off our series of listener requests with Guillermo Del Toro’s love letter to the Kaiju and Mecha genres: Pacific Rim – so, tune in, enter the drift with us, and let’s cancel the apocal…