QT8: The First Eight
Jon Cross looks at the new documentary about the first eight films by Quentin Tarantino.
Episode 300 - Pray For Death/Shadow Killers Tiger Force
Old friend of the show, Doug Frye from The Schlock Treatment Podcast joins us for our 300th episode to talk Ninjas in Shadow Killers Tiger Force and Pray For Death! There’s also a SURPRISE and VERY SPECIAL guest, new comedy, music and more!
At Twenty Five: Heavenly Creatures
After making three underrated, surreal, splatter classics, filmmaker Peter Jackson turned to some true life horror for his fourth feature film in the Director’s chair. Heavenly Creatures launched the careers of Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey and it turns 25 years old this year. T F Parent, takes a look back…
Episode 299 - Revenge of the Ninja
Jon Cross is joined by living, freedom loving, real-life American Ninja, Jay Mayo to talk the first 80s ninja film to star Sho Kosugi in a lead role, Revenge of the Ninja.
Episode 298 - A Silent Night, Deadly Night Bonanza
Host Jon Cross and guest Axl Kay dissect, discuss and ask questions of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise from part 2 through to the 2012 remake. It’s a fascinatingly weird and sometimes wonderful franchise which rattles off into some mad places. Altogether now… GARBAGE DAY!
Episode 297 - Zombieland Double Tap
Jon Cross and Jim Wallace hang out at Paul’s Da Burger Joint where they don’t serve tea but the server does seem surprisingly up on new technology - there, our intrepid duo talk about the inevitable despair of modern times and the 10 year reunion sequel, Zombieland Double Tap.
At Twenty Five: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
In the month of its 25th Anniversary, contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the meta horror film that started 90s meta horror, revitalised a franchise and allowed an original filmmaker to respond to the sequels that were out of his control, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.
Episode 296 - John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire joins Jon Cross to discuss John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness from 1987
Episode 295 - Rambo: Last Blood
On this episode, the grumpy old men of podcasting, Jon Cross and Jim Wallace, talk about the grumpy old man of action movies, Sylvester Stallone and his new film as one of his most iconic characters, Rambo: Last Blood.
Fantastic Fest Review: Thai Film The Pool is About a Guy Stuck in a Pool. What More Do You Need?
In her latest Fantastic Fest review, Lisa Gullickson contemplates being stuck in an empty pool for days, what kind of premise that is for a movie and how we’re all just one mistake away from having one of those “you’ll never believe this but…” stories. Read her review for Ping Lumpraploeng’s independent horror, The Pool.
Nurse 3D
Michael Campochiaro, the appreciator of the underappreciated, the excavator of the discounted and the curator of cult takes a look at what some consider the worst film ever made, the controversial, relatively new cult classic - Nurse 3D starring Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden and Judd Nelson.
Episode 294 - The Urban Legend Trilogy
Jon Cross sits down with Matt Farley of moternmedia.com and they do the important work of movie podcasters and talk the forgotten trilogy of late era slasher films: The Urban Legend movies.
Fantastic Fest Review: Takashi Miike’s First Love Proves the Yakuza Genre is Worth Fighting For
Lisa Gullickson sends back another review from Fantastic Fest 2019. This time it’s the blood soaked and violent, romantic, drama First Love from filmmaker Takashi Miike.
Fantastic Fest Review: Joe Begos’ VFW is a Bloody Good Time for Genre Film Fanatics
Our roving reviewer down at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Tx. Lisa Gullickson had the luck and privilege to see the premiere of one of our hotly anticipated fall titles, Joe Begos’ VFW starring William Sadler, Fred Williamson, Stephen Lang and George Wendt.
Fantastic Fest Review: VHYes – A Nostalgic Romp Through Being a Child of the 80s with Director Jack Henry Robbins
Lisa Gullickson, reporting from Austin, TX, sends her first Fantastic Fest 2019 review of 80s nostalgia fest, family comedy and TV parody, Jack Henry Robbins’ VHYes.
Episode 293 - The Poltergeist Trilogy
Old friend of the show, fellow podcast, film journalist extraordinaire and all round groovy chap, Brad Gullickson from In the Mouth of Dorkness and Film School Rejects joins Jon Cross to talk ghosts, 80s politics, gross out effects, curses, Spielberg and Tobe Hooper rumours and much more when they take on The Poltergeist trilogy!
At Twenty Five: The Shawshank Redemption
In the month of its 25th Anniversary, new contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the relevance and endurance of perennial favourite and topper of best-of film lists everywhere, The Shawshank Redemption.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
Michael Campochiaro is back extolling the virtues of and waxing rhapsodic about those cult and B-Movie corners of the film universe. This time he is casting his gaze towards the stars and the excellently titled Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity starring genre icon Elizabeth Kaitan.
Episode 292 - Ready or Not
We talk Ready or Not, the new horror comedy starring Samara Weaving, Adam Brody and Andie MacDowell and all the great indie, genre films of 2019, in the Hollywood Diner, Chelsea New York.