Videodrome | Ep #88

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Which format would you like your podcast in? Open up your stomach VHS and insert the latest installment in our movie retrospectacular series. Long live the new flesh!     

 

Show Notes: 

02:20 Videodrome trailer
05:50 See also: BMX Bandits | Ep #65
08:10 Home video formats
09:50 Videohound's Guide to Cult Flicks and Trash Pics
12:20 David Cronenberg
13:30 Scanners head explosion
14:35 Interlude: VHS or BETA: "Night on Fire"
16:05 James Woods
17:20 Deborah Harry
19:40 Forever Knight
24:30 Brian O'Blivion
28:15 Interlude: Blondie: "Double Take"
38:20 Body horror
44:10 Interlude: Neon Trees: "1983"
49:20 Rick Baker
49:50 American Werewolf in London transformation scene
50:50 Howard Shore


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Videodrome | Ep #88

Movie Theaters | Ep #48

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Let's all go to the lobby, because we've got some stuff to discuss about movie theaters, and only jerks talk during the movie. But are those jerks the key to saving the cinema? Please silence your cell phones as our big-screen tribute takes an unexpected turn. 

 

Show Notes: 

01:58 St. Louis movie theaters

02:12 A crash course in theater history
02:50 United States vs. Paramount Pictures, Inc. 
03:25 Movie palaces (The Fox / Grauman's Chinese / The Egyptian)
07:40 Gimmicks (3-D / Cinemascope)
08:26 See also: Summer Blockbusters
09:02 The "New Hollywood"
10:20 Home theaters
12:05 The quality plateau
17:35 Interlude: The Drifters: "Saturday Night at the Movies"
18:27 Saving movie theaters
23:20 Simulcasts (This American Life / Rifftrax)
24:20 The teenage refuge
28:39 Interlude: "Intermission Time"
29:15 The wrong people
39:45 Interlude: Wehrenberg Theaters Theme
40:41 The experience argument
46:10 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
47:40 The Chase-Park Plaza Cinema 
48:20 Ronnie's 20 Cine
52:45 Projection notes
57:05 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
59:48 The Hi-Pointe Theatre

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Movie Theaters | Ep #48

Blade Runner | Ep #40

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We've seen things you people wouldn't believe... For the third installment of our retrospectacle on the films of 1982, we chastise nerds for over-analyzing Ridley Scott's masterpiece Blade Runner, and then over-analyze Ridley Scott's masterpiece Blade Runner. Do you like our owl?   

Show Notes: 

03:01 Blade Runner: have it your way
03:40 Original ending w/Deckard's voice-over
05:45 The Final Cut
06:57 Ridley Scott: A likeable weirdo
07:50 Video Hound's Complete Guide to Cult Flicks & Trash Pics
10:01 Putting the cult in cult
12:10 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
16:00 The Deckard/Batty dance
16:23 Interlude: Vangelis: "Blade Runner End Titles"
17:50 Vangelis' score: "just gross"
24:28 So much style
25:30 The deal with Deckard
32:45 Interlude: "Tears in Rain"
35:10 Prometheus: Blade Runner in space
36:45 The Jesus Engineer 
41:55 An awkward, drowsy love scene
45:20 Interlude: White Zombie: "More Human Than Human"
46:05 The value of repeat viewings
49:35 The Ulysses effect
52:01 Another Runner?
56:35 Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

 

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Blade Runner | #40

Adolescence | Ep #18

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Drew's nephew Josh joins us in the Hourchive this week to school us on his favorite stuff (and even teaches us a thing or two about our favorite stuff).   

Show Notes: 

00:00 Drew's vindication
01:55  80s Child World Commercial
04:45  Can you relate to a fifth grader?

Josh's quiz: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 | #11 | #12

19:06  Can you name the Pac-Man ghosts? 
20:50  Interlude: Pac-Man arcade play

21:30  Gaming is fun

23:53  Turtle Beach

26:33 "Waiting" (Josh's favorite Green Day song)

27:27  "Wishing Well" (Josh's favorite Blink 182 song)

28:40  Pocket God

30:03  Interlude: "The Double Rainbow Song"

31:00  What is the Internet?

31:44  Path of the Saiyans

38:22  Garfield Minus Garfield 

40:18  The Maze Runner Series

45:07  Interlude: Code Lyoko Theme (English Version)

46:30  Code Lyoko

48:03  Josh's drawing

54:10  Those boards don't work on water (unless you've got power) 

56:19  Quotin' comics

58:08  What's so great about physics?

1:00:36  Sci-Fi Science

1:02:10 The future -- where everything hovers

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Adolescence | Ep #18