Best Fantástica Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 218 – You Don’t Know Dick – The Student Teachers (1973) (/w Scott Drebit) 1:06:40

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the full You Don’t Know Dick archive right here On a brand new episode of YOU DON’T KNOW DICK (the world’s finest Dick Miller-themed podcast) we’re joined by A CUT BELOW: A CELEBRATION OF B HORROR MOVIES, 1950s-1980s author Scott Drebit to discuss the sexploitation comedy/thriller THE STUDENT TEACHERS from 1973, with Su…

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Episode 217 – Wild in the Streets – Caliber 9 (1972) 59:44

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here WILD IN THE STREETS returns with the first entry in Fernando Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy: the hard hitting 1972 classic CALIBER 9 (aka MILANO CALIBRO 9)! Featuring Gastone Moschin as Ugo Piazza, a small time gangster fresh out of jail being hunted down by his former associates…

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Episode 216 – Praising Kane – Racing with the Moon (1984) 56:52

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the Praising Kane archive right here. PRAISING KANE returns with 1984’s RACING WITH THE MOON, a pretty darn good World War II-era coming of age film starring Sean Penn & Nicolas Cage as close friends who experience a whole lot of life’s trials and tribulations in the days before they are shipped off to the war. Directed…

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Episode 215 – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 58:33

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? (the world’s finest Steve Buscemi-themed podcast) returns with an episode all about a film celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024: the Coen brothers’ Capraesque classic THE HUDSUCKER PROXY! Starring Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer J…

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Episode 214 – Whatever Happened to Vic Diaz? – Death Force (1978) 1:02:16

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the full WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ? archive right here On a brand new WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ?, James Iglehart is out for some samurai sword-based revenge in Cirio H. Santiago’s 1978 martial arts exploitation film DEATH FORCE (aka FIGHTING MAD)! Featuring plenty of decapitations, some problematic sword trainin…

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Episode 213 – Cinema Smorgasbord Sells Out – Dune: Part Two (2024) 1:05:32

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out all the episodes of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT right here. We’re back and we’re still SELLING OUT with a rare chat about a current blockbuster: the Denis Villeneuve-directed sequel DUNE: PART TWO. Following the continuing adventures of Paul Atreides and his pals on the sand-covered planet Arrakis (aka DUNE). We chat a…

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Episode 212 – Eric Roberts is the Man – Master! (2021) 1:20:59

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out our Eric Roberts is the Man archive right here. We’re doctorin’ the TARDIS on this episode of ERIC ROBERTS IS THE MAN with a first for the podcast: an audio drama box-set produced by Big Finish featuring Eric Roberts (naturally) as beloved Doctor Who villain THE MASTER! Helping us maneuver through (relative) time and di…

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Episode 211 – We Do Our Own Stunts – Dragon Lord (1982) 1:01:39

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the full We Do Our Own Stunts archive right here After a less-then-fruitful experience in the US (filming THE BIG BRAWL and THE CANNONBALL RUN), Jackie returned to Hong Kong with a blank check from Golden Harvest and a chip on his shoulder. The result was plenty of bumps, bruises and 1982’s DRAGON LORD, which serves as …

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Episode 210 – Wild in the Streets – Le Marginal (1983) 52:56

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here We’re getting WILD IN THE STREETS with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the 1983 action film LE MARGINAL (aka THE OUTSIDER)! Featuring Belmondo as Commissioner Philippe Jordan, a tough as nails cop who – wait for it – plays by his own rules, and those rules involve running through tr…

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Episode 209 – George Kennedy is My Copilot – The Gambler (2014) 56:36

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Find the entire George Kennedy is my Copilot archive right here On this episode of GEORGE KENNEDY IS MY COPILOT we’re checking out a rare mid-80s George Kennedy commercial for York Heating and Cooling as well as Rupert Wyatt’s 2014 remake of the James Toback-written THE GAMBLER, which features the final role of George Kennedy! We…

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Episode 208 – JodoWOWsky Part 14 – The Technopriests (1998-2006) 1:51:23

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It's the long awaited return of JodoWOWsky and on this episode we're headed back to the comic book Jodoverse with the eight-volume Incal spin-off THE TECHNOPRIESTS, originally published from 1998 until 2006. Written by Jodorowsky with art from the immortal Zoran Janjetov, with color from Fred Beltran it follows the journey of Albino, the Supreme Te…

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Episode 207 – Bartel Me Something Good – Scenes From The Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) 55:29

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This is more like it! Bartel Me Something Good returns with Paul Bartel's end-of-the-80s satirical sex comedy triumph SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS, featuring an all-star cast witnessing - and participating in - all sorts of bad taste fun. Jacqueline Bisset, Mary Woronov, Ray Sharkey, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn a…

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Episode 206 – Praising Kane – Over The Brooklyn Bridge (1984) 1:09:50

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For our first episode of Praising Kane (the world's finest Carol Kane-related podcast) of 2024 we're DOUBLING UP, first with an episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre from 1984 adapting SLEEPING BEAUTY with an all-star cast including Christopher Reeve, Beverly D'Angelo, Bernadette Peters and - of course - Carol Kane! We then get into our f…

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Episode 205 – Cinema Smorgasbord Sells Out – Barbie (2023) 57:57

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On this INAUGURAL episode of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT we're getting mainstream as HELL as we dig into the most zeitgeisty film of 2023, Greta Gerwig's colorful box office smash BARBIE! No more obscure Filipino exploitation movies or Jodorowsky rarities, we're talking about something everyone has seen for once and - damn it - we're gonna enjoy i…

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Episode 204 – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – Vibes (1988) 1:06:18

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HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? (the world's finest Steve Buscemi-themed podcast) returns with its first episode of 2024 with a surprising early Buscemi role in the 1988 psychic-themed comedic adventure film VIBES starring Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum and Peter Falk! It's weird as hell! We also chat about Steve Buscemi's recent birthday, listening to te…

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Episode 203 – Further Reeding – The System (1964) 1:07:21

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New year, new episode of FURTHER REEDING, a podcast all about the life and career of actor Oliver Reed! On this episode we're joining Reed and all his seaside buddies as they take in (and take out) the tourist trade in 1964's THE SYSTEM (also known by the confusingly titled THE GIRL-GETTERS in the US). Directed by regular Reed collaborator (and not…

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Episode 202 – The Cinema Smorgasbord Holiday Special – Tokyo Godfathers (2003) & The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) 1:29:26

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It's the Cinema Smorgasbord HOLIDAY SPECIAL (with a touch of Cinema Fantastica) where we're once again traveling to the 2021 edition of the Weihnachtsfilmfestival (Christmas Film Festival) in Berlin, Germany where we're checking out 2003's TOKYO GODFATHERS and THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW from 2020. Enjoy and we'll be back in the new year, jerks! The po…

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Episode 201 – Wild in the Streets – Killer Cop (1975) 53:34

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On this episode of WILD IN THE STREETS, oddball cop Rolandi (Claudio Cassinelli) is trying to track down those responsible for a fatal hotel bombing but finds himself in the midst of a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top. It's the politically charged poliziottesco-crime film KILLER COP from 1975, directed by Luciano Ercoli (best known for h…

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Episode 200 – 200th Episode Celebration – Real Genius (1985) & Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) 1:19:11

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It's the 200th episode of Cinema Smorgasbord, a podcast devoted to obsessively examining the careers of underloved and underappreciated actors and directors. Since we started in 2020 we've created over a dozen sub-podcasts devoted to such diverse topics as the careers of Paul Bartel (Bartel Me Something Good), Dick Miller (You Don't Know Dick), Ste…

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Episode 199 – Praising Kane – Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983) 1:11:48

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This is a Cinema Smorgasbord first! An episode of Praising Kane where one host NEVER FOUND HER in the film! Admittedly, tracking down Carol Kane in CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE? is a bit of a feat, especially when she's competing with the talents of Karen Black and Michael Emil at the core of Henry Jaglom's odd 1983 romantic comedy. Somehow she's in i…

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Episode 198 – We Do Our Own Stunts – The Cannonball Run (1981) 1:03:35

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Jackie Chan ends his first American excursion on this episode of WE DO OUR OWN STUNTS with Hal Needham's star-studded 1981 cross country race movie THE CANNONBALL RUN, where he plays a Japanese (?) race car driver who watches porn in his futuristic vehicle and also kicks the hell out of Peter Fonda for some reason. He's racing against a who's who o…

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Episode 197 – You Don’t Know Dick – I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) (/w Luke Higginson) 1:16:57

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On a brand new episode of YOU DON'T KNOW DICK (the world's finest Dick Miller-themed podcast) we're joined by director/writer/editor Luke Higginson (director of the Rhys Darby-starring sci-fi comedy RELAX, I'M FROM THE FUTURE!) to discuss the fab four (aka THE BEATLES), Eddie Deezen, the career of Robert Zemeckis and the 1978 rock 'n roll comedy I …

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Episode 196 – Whatever Happened to Vic Diaz? – Project: Kill (1976) 55:20

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Leslie Nielsen is leading a group of brainwashed, drugged up SUPER SOLDIERS in the Philippines but after taking a break from his daily dose of super soldier serum he starts to grow a conscience and goes on the run, with his first-in-command Gary Lockwood hot on his trail in William Girdler's conspiracy action film PROJECT: KILL from 1976. If you li…

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Episode 195 – JodoWOWsky Part 13 – Jodorowsky Hodge-Podge (/w Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)) 1:38:28

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JodoWOWsky returns with a hodge-podge of Alejandro Jodorowsky projects, including some acting roles from the early 2000s, a television adaptation of one his Métal hurlant comics, and a somewhat bizarre credit for the 2003 French computer animated feature KAENA: THE PROPHECY! We investigate what all of this could mean, while digging deep on all the …

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Episode 194 – Eric Roberts is the Man – Night of the Caregiver (2023) 1:18:13

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It's the spookiest time of the year, and that means the return of the beloved ERIC ROBERTS IS THE MAN podcast with a special HALLOWEEN-themed horror episode, featuring Atomic Elbow's Robert Newsome as our VERY SPECIAL GUEST! Our guest is treated to the spine-chilling 2023 horror film NIGHT OF THE CAREGIVER from western director/actor Joe Cornet, an…

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Episode 193 – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – The Dead Don’t Die (2019) 1:10:42

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The world's finest Steve Buscemi-themed podcast returns earlier than usual so we can celebrate SPOOKY SEASON with Jim Jarmusch's bizarre zombie horror comedy THE DEAD DON'T DIE from 2019! With a bonkers all-star cast (including Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Iggy Pop, Carol Kane, RZA, Danny Glov…

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Episode 192 – Halloween Horror Special – No One Will Save You (2023) & Cobweb (2023) 1:04:12

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The tradition lives with another super SPOOOoooOKY Cinema Smorgasbord Halloween Special! As per usual, we're BREAKING FORMAT and taking a look at two recently-released horror films, starting with Liam's choice of the dialogue-free sci-fi horror of Brian Duffield's NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU, followed by the creepy mystery of Samuel Bodin's intensely Hall…

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Episode 191 – Bartel Me Something Good – The Longshot (1986) 51:22

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On this episode of BARTEL ME SOMETHING GOOD we're off to the races with the Tim Conway-penned and Mike Nichols-produced gambling comedy THE LONGSHOT, starring Conway, Harvey Korman, Jack Weston and Ted Waas! A passion project for Tim Conway (and a work-for-hire gig for Paul Bartel) it's.. a bit of an odd duck, but it DOES have a theme song rapped b…

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Episode 190 – Further Reeding – Castaway (1986) 1:20:32

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On this episode of FURTHER REEDING, Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe have only gone and got themselves stranded on a desert island and have to survive, but - GET THIS - they did it on purpose in Nicolas Roeg's CASTAWAY from 1986. Based on a bizarre true story, it involves a whole lot of nudity and Oliver Reed acting like a maniac so you know we had t…

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Episode 189 – George Kennedy is My Copilot – Tick, Tick, Tick (1970) 1:12:16

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On this episode of GEORGE KENNEDY IS MY CO-PILOT our merry trio is diving into the fiery drama TICK, TICK, TICK from 1970 starring Jim Brown, Fredric March, Clifton James and - of course - George Kennedy! Brown stars as the newly elected Sheriff of a very, very racist southern county, while Kennedy is the now ex-Sheriff who is semi-committed to kee…

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Episode 188 – Praising Kane – An Invasion of Privacy (1983) 1:11:21

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On this jam-packed episode of Praising Kane, our chronological look at the career of Carol Kane continues, starting with brief discussions about a mid-70s Dr. Pepper commercial, as well an early 80s adaptation of Irwin Shaw's The Girls in Their Summer Dresses featuring both Carol Kane and Jeff Bridges! After the break we turn our attention to the s…

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Episode 187 – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – Animal Factory (2000) 1:11:57

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We're back on HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? with the Steve Buscemi-directed prison drama (based on the Edward Bunker book) ANIMAL FACTORY from 2000, starring Edward Furlong & Willem Dafoe, along with a killer supporting cast. Starring Buscemi-verse regulars like Seymour Cassel, Mark Boone Junior, and Rockets Redglare, you also get memorable supportin…

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Episode 186 – Wild in the Streets – Syndicate Sadists (1975) 55:48

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On this episode of WILD IN THE STREETS, Tomas Milian is RAMBO in Umberto Lenzi's spaghetti-western influenced SYNDICATE SADISTS from 1975! After Rambo's friend is brutally murdered, he takes it upon himself to go up against two criminal gangs (one led by Joseph Cotton's Paternò), while also rescuing a young boy who has been kidnapped. Does he manag…

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Episode 185 – You Don’t Know Dick – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Past Tense” (/w Adrianna Gober) 1:37:11

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On this episode of YOU DON'T KNOW DICK we're boldly going where no podcast has gone before with Dick Miller in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-parter 'Past Tense'. Wildly considered one of the best (and most prescient) episodes of the series, it looks at the state of cities in the far off future of 2024 and how struggling people are carted off t…

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Episode 184 – We Do Our Own Stunts – The Big Brawl (1980) 1:14:28

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Jackie Chan in AMERICA! On this episode of WE DO OUR OWN STUNTS Jackie makes his first American excursion to star in the Robert Clouse directed comedy-action vehicle THE BIG BRAWL (aka BATTLE CREEK BRAWL). Despite Jackie knowing very little English (and having to promote the film on American television) and working a very different style than he wa…

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Episode 183 – Whatever Happened to Vic Diaz? – Equalizer 2000 (1987) 51:23

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They took his girl. Now he's talking them STRAIGHT TO HELL! On this episode of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ we're getting properly post-apocalyptic with Cirio H. Santiago's Mad Max-"inspired", giant gun classic EQUALIZER 2000 starring Richard Norton (/w frosted tips), Corinne Wahl and a VERY young Robert Patrick in only his second ever role! There…

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Episode 182 – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) 58:00

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We tried. We tried our best to find some small piece of enjoyment in Dennis Dugan's bafflingly misguided I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY, a film about two straight firefighters (played by Adam Sandler & Kevin James) who decide to get married in order to deal with some uncomfortable pension-related paperwork. Overstuffed with pitiful racist, sexis…

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Episode 181 – Bartel Me Something Good – Lust in the Dust (1984) 1:02:25

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Yee-haw! We're going back to the wild west on this episode of Bartel Me Something good with Paul Bartel's 1984 comedy western LUST IN THE DUST starring Tab Hunter, Lainie Kazan and the legendary Divine! Originally envisioned as a John Waters project, Bartel ruffled against making a Waters-style film and instead brings his own wild and unpredictable…

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Episode 180 – Eric Roberts is the Man – Royal Kill (2009) 1:24:40

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Retired pro-wrestler Gail Kim, Pat Morita and Eric Roberts (and Eric Roberts' hair!) star in the bizarre 2009 action fantasy ROYAL KILL, which features a totally bonkers twist and.. not a lot else! Alexander Wraith plays Adam Arthavan, a royal guard sent to protect a young girl - unknowingly the daughter of his king - from Gail Kim's silent assassi…

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Episode 179 – Further Reeding – The Three Musketeers (1973) 1:16:48

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On this swashbuckling episode of FURTHER REEDING we're diving into Richard Lester's incredibly entertaining 1973 action comedy THE THREE MUSKETEERS, starring Michael York, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Charlton Heston and - of course - Oliver Reed as Athos. Playing a character who is a heavy drinker and fighter m…

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Episode 178 – JodoWOWsky Part 12 – Moon Face (1992), Angel Claws (1994), Son of the Gun (1995) 2:09:53

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JodoWOWsky returns with a trifecta of Alejandro Jodorowsky-penned comic work from the 1990s, starting with the fantastical (and very odd) MOON FACE from 1992 (illustrated by François Boucq), then moving into the playfully erotic Angel Claws from 1994 (with explicit illustrations by Jean "Moebius" Giraud), and finishing with the western-tinged actio…

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Episode 177 – George Kennedy is my Copilot – Wacko (1982) 58:36

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We're getting silly on a brand new episode of George Kennedy is my Copilot with Greydon Clark's Airplane-inspired horror spoof WACKO from 1982 featuring Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, Julia Duffy, Andrew "not yet Dice" Clay and - of course - George Kennedy as the kinda creepy Mr. Doctor Graves! It's full of sight gags, puns, Hitchcock references an…

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Episode 176 – Cinema Fantastica – Watchers (1988) & Leviathan (1989) 1:21:16

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On this episode of Cinema Fantastica we travel all the way to Molins de Rei, near Barcelona, Spain to attend the 1990 edition of the Molins Horror Film Festival. Or, more accurately, we're attending the Dotze hores de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei, a ten hour marathon of recent horror movies that was initially established way back in 1973! The 19…

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Episode 175 – Wild in the Streets – The Italian Connection (1972) 1:06:42

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We're getting WILD IN THE STREETS with Henry Silva and Woody Strode in Fernando Di Leo's THE ITALIAN CONNECTION from 1972! Starring Mario Adorf as a Milanese pimp wanted by the mob for a crime he didn't commit, it takes its time getting going, but eventually turns into a story of violent revenge, including one of the finest chase sequences you're l…

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Episode 174 – Whatever Happened to Vic Diaz? – Raw Force (1981) 1:03:10

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On this high kicking episode of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ? we're setting off with a nudity-filled sexploitation comedy mixed with a martial arts action film featuring a dash of the living dead, cannibalism, Nazis, explosions and a heck of a lot more with the wild 1981 mashup RAW FORCE from director Edward D. Murphy! Starring Cameron Mitchell, G…

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Episode 173 – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – Reservoir Dogs (1992) 1:23:11

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We've waited a long time to get into it, but on this episode of HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we're finally checking out Quentin Tarantino's breakthrough 1992 crime drama RESERVOIR DOGS, starring Harvey Keitel, Michael, Madsen, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, and - of course - Steve Buscemi as Mr. Pink. We discuss its triumphs and controversies, as well as how…

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Episode 172 – Praising Kane – Norman Loves Rose (1982) 1:14:58

11M ago1:14:58

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On a very uncomfortable new episode of PRAISING KANE - the world's finest chronological Carol Kane podcast - we look at the incredibly bad taste Australian comedy NORMAN LOVES ROSE from 1982, featuring a young boy's fascination with his sister-in-law evolving into a sexual relationship that ends up with her pregnant. Yeah, it's bad. We also chat ab…

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Episode 171 – We Do Our Own Stunts – The Young Master (1980) 1:15:31

11M ago1:15:31

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On a landmark episode of WE DO OUR OWN STUNTS, Jackie Chan has signed a huge contract with Golden Harvest which promises creative and financial freedom, and he kicks things off with the 1980 kung-fu comedy THE YOUNG MASTER! While at the same time his old boss Lo Wei wants his now-bankable star back and is willing to work with Triads to make it happ…

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Episode 170 – Eric Roberts is the Man – Babylon (2022) 1:21:56

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On this episode of ERIC ROBERTS IS THE MAN we're going all in on Damien Chazelle's overstuffed ode to the silent era BABYLON, which stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Tobey Maguire and - of course - the man himself Eric Roberts! Filled with spewing bodily fluids, orgies, murder, rat eating and snake wrestling, it's both an ode to the end …

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Episode 169 – You Don’t Know Dick – Chopping Mall (1986) (/w Christine Makepeace) 1:11:44

12M ago1:11:44

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On this episode of YOU DON'T KNOW DICK (the world's finest Dick Miller-related podcast) we're joined by writer/editor Christine Makepeace to discuss John Mellencamp's cover of Van Morrison's "Wild Night" (/w Me'Shell Ndegeocello), music videos, mallrats, late stage capitalism and Jim Wynorski's CHOPPING MALL from 1986 featuring Kelli Maroney, Barba…

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