Movie Meltdown

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack #12 - Attack of Richard Band! This week we return to build another killer soundtrack with none other then special guest co-host - composer Richard Band! Richard has composed more then 70 film scores including... Re-Animator, the Puppet Master series, The Pit & The Pendulum, Ghoulies, The Arrival, Castle Freak, The House on Sorority Row, Shrunken Heads, The Day Time Ended, Laserblast and so many more. He comes from a family of filmmakers and we discuss his upbringing as well as his decision to veer off into the music world - and then make it his career. All the while, assembling our own amazing soundtrack!  And while explaining that he didn't actually build the puppets in Puppetmaster, we also discuss... living in Paris, air conducting, rock 'n roll, this big rock out in the ocean, a Flamenco show, a visual band, I was on a location shoot, toured around Italy, the London symphony, sitting on the beach in Monte Carlo, it really sort of did something to me, Beethoven's 9th Sym

Movie Meltdown - Episode 270  After a horrendous winter, the weather finally gets nice, so to celebrate Fred builds a fire in his backyard and we hang out, make s'mores and talk about movies... amongst other things.  And as we congratulate one of the gang for conquering their Peep problem, we also discuss… the great debates, Hang your Hat on the Wind, a backup plan, Oldboy, J.K. Rowling, Ballad of the Sad Café, Hermione and Ron, I have a funny story about monkeys…, bombarded with pecan pies, you know I’m just a ramblin’ gamblin’ man, Grudge Match, Peep sober, A Day No Pigs Would Die, I would know… my insides would tell me, it’s tone deaf and it’s amusing… but I don’t really hold a grudge, The Day After, Harry Potter, Midnight Run, somebody named Kiki Dee, a good universal humanoid, there will be s’mores , it’s bad when you feel like you can’t live up to your vice commitments, Where the Red Fern Grows, this guy we know died under the house, Bobcat Goldthwait, the viciousness of children, Gwyneth Paltrow, Peanu

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack #11 - Attack of Ookla the Mok!  This week we are coming to you “live” from ConGlomeration, where we hang out with Rand and Adam, otherwise known as the band: Ookla the Mok! They are a musical duo with an interesting history in the business as well as mass amounts of geek knowledge that make them fit right in on our show. So we not only discuss pop culture references in music and movies, but along the way… we also build a terrific soundtrack. And as we all attempt to keep from getting Garfunkel-ized, we also mention… Fillmore!, sci fi and comic book conventions, The Police, Gym Class Heroes, my father imposing his taste on us, Medieval Evil Knievel, James Gunn, Bite Me Fanboy, The Big Bang Theory, two frontmen, an action figure of the guys that wrote the theme song, The Toy Collector, finding your tribe, oh Sting where is thy death, working with Disney, when they cut the song... they cut the whole scene, pretentious progressive bands, Marillion, my fingers don't stretch wide en

Movie Meltdown - Episode 269 This week we welcome filmmaker Michael Fitzer into the group as we sit down to tackle The Grind topic ‘o the week: Hollywood Dynasties. We address the families that continue to work in the entertainment industry. And somewhere along the way, we mention… Gattaca, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Pursuit of Happyness, what the hell happened to Chris Makepeace?, Happy Accidents, Hitler’s painting career, rays of light coming from your head, Martin Mull, Noah, Lost in Translation, Gary Oldman, The Shawshank Redemption, 70’s snap zoom techniques, The Notebook, Her, La Femme Nikita, So I guess the moral of the story is… if you want your kid to be successful in Hollywood – just make Steven Speilberg the Godfather, Darren Aronofsky, Alpha Dog, Dracula, Monster-in-Law, Connor Cruise, Luc Besson is a God, I can’t get over his veins, Rhea Perlman, My Bodyguard, the bearded prophet, Uma Thurman, Jack Huston, Wild at Heart, Most other kids were dating… and I was following Roger Deakins

Movie Meltdown - Episode 268 This week we are coming to you "Live" from Wizard World: Louisville. Featuring our discussions with Robert Hays and Scott Wilson! Plus our coverage of other convention-related moments. And as we dodge Michael Rooker we also mention... a Pinkie Pie person, the number of Lokis, raising awareness about Parkinson's Disease, bouncing a quarter off that ass, I've never seen a Simon before, the reptilians, free mints, Jason Momoa, super excite, Power of Love 487 times, see a handful of Banes roaming about, Sidney Poitier, They Live, Man of Steel, the insectoids, Divergent, Guillermo del Toro, Jon Bernthal loves My Little Pony, Pam Dawber, The Long Voyage Home, stealing pizza, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Noah, sickly, The LEGO Movie, your imagination gets carried away, the joke is the joke, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Robert Pralgo, Charles Bronson, The Importance of Being Earnest, the bro hand grasp, twisting the mythology, Lew Temple, American Hustle, Darren Aronofsky, Airplane, I

Movie Meltdown - Episode 267 This week we head back to one of those conventions we always go to, and we loiter around with two of our favorite people - Andy and Ken! Then we hang out with this week's special guest co-hosts - L.C. Holt  and Lane Hughes! They are two actors who have been in quite a few films including Pop Skull, VHS and VHS 2... but these days they are better known as the lamb mask and the fox mask from You're Next! So we take this opportunity to sit down and not only talk about their introduction to the film world, but also their love of horror and more specifically - the state of horror movies today.  And as we scatter through the air - like bugs, we also discuss... Godzilla, Oldboy, Matthew McConaughey, tearing your hand off, taking an AZT break, Noel Coward, Jack Nicholson, roofing nails everywhere in Alabama, A Nightmare on Elm Street, killing Randy, Dexter, old wrestling, Trigger Man, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, wolves, glitter, a slow burn, watching trailers, the ghost that terrorized,

Movie Meltdown - Episode 266 It's the 6th annual "Oscar Meltdown"! And this year, we were caught in an ice storm on Oscar night, and very quickly OSCAR MADNESS sets in! Pure insanity caused by the coverage. Or maybe it was all the pork products? Either way, ridiculousness ensues. So listen... if you dare! (A note from your host: I've said it before, and I'll say it again this year - This is NOT a good "starter episode". These episodes are for hardcore veterans of "Movie Meltdown", specifically those who are familiar with how "Oscar Meltdown" usually goes. So if you are not prepared for this nonsense, e-mail: bryan@moviemeltdown.com and I'll point you toward a much better introduction to the show. You have been warned.) "...this is just the Karen show at this point."

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack #10 - Attack of Wes Anderson! This week Movie Meltdown's Attack of the Killer Soundtrack is coming to you "live" from Wes Fest! Which was a large scale Wes Anderson theme party at The New Vintage. And this is a very special Attack episode, because it's the first time we've ever featured musicians actually performing their favorite songs from a soundtrack - LIVE right here on the show! It was an amazing line-up of bands and we captured our own version of the event and put together a terrific collection of songs featured in Wes Anderson's films. With music performed by Quiet Hollers, The Fervor, Billy Petot, Jolly Hammurabi, Dane Waters, Nick Peay and The Pass aka Hinckley Cold Storage.  All right... enough with the words, just start listing to the songs!

Movie Meltdown - Episode 265 This week we head to "The River City Festival of Films" where we hang out with the organizers of the event, have a "Marlena Moment" update and then round things out with our own Peter Weller moment, so to speak, as we talk to the man himself.  And as we come to the realization that we are just a magnet for strange and hilarious occurences, we also discuss... RoboCop, Owensboro, Adam Ant... Elia Kazan... and Jacques Cousteau, The Spectacular Now, Sherlock, trailers for sale or rent, basically Facebook is just the refrigerators of the internet, Munchie, accurate accects, House: The Second Story, Marlena is Tyler Durden, Paul Verhoeven, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Hugh Laurie, a Garbage Pail Kid kind of puppet, The Minister, The Grudge, having a cat burglar, Moni Yakim, Naked Lunch, Police, Justified, Gerard Butler does not take his shirt off, a low-rent Ghostbuster, Problem Child, David Cronenberg, a lot of really touchy subjects, nowhere left to go b

Movie Meltdown - Episode 264 This week we are coming to you "Live" from "The Old Spaghetti Factory" with the return of "The Yeti Spaghetti Show"!! We had pasta, a live Yeti wandering around, as well as our own signature drink. But the real trouble begins when we let the audience vote on how bad a film they would like to see. They bring about their own doom as they pick - the epic bad option. Yes, it's a little movie known as: "To Catch a Yeti", starring the one and only Meat Loaf. Once everyone has suffered through this week’s feature, the cool kids loiter around afterwards and have a full discussion about the movie, it’s star and other frightening concepts. All that and more in the latest installment of…  "The Yeti Spaghetti Show"!! And as everyone completely forgets about the Pure Prairie League, we also mention… going back up the roller coaster, shut up Wesley, Fight Club, Gremlins, E.T., Short Circuit, Frosty the Snowman, Jack Frost, Problem Child, Home Alone, Veruca Salt, Troll 2, Critters, Home Alone 2:

Movie Meltdown - Episode 263 This week we talk about movies, music and life in general with punk icon and actor... John Doe! John stars in the new independent film "Pleased to Meet Me", so we discuss his chemistry with co-star Aimee Mann, shooting movies in smaller cities, and playing someone in the music business vs. actually being in the music business. Plus of course we discuss his early days, his love of music, his decision to move to L.A., and the musical scene that formed the legendary band X. Then we round things out with Archie Borders, the director of "Pleased to Meet Me", as we find out about how this film came together and the challenges of directing indie films. Plus as we ponder the significance of the "O" in the Hollywood sign, we also mention… CBGB's, Wayne Wang, Illinois, doing accents, John Entwistle, Baltimore, The Screamers, Patrick Swayze, Katie O’Brien, California is epic, The Talking Heads, the East coast, Harry Dean Stanton, ex-NAVY SEAL, outlawing lead bullets, Max's Kansas City, Blond

Movie Meltdown - Episode 262 The trio of terror returns for a tangent-filled hang out session that culminates in watching what is arguably an epic bad movie. Some will say it's terrible. Some will say it's genius. Maybe it's both? Either way we bust out some specialized beverages and settle in to try to make sense of "The FP".   And while we contemplate just what are the darkest days of Movie Meltdown, we also mention... massages were six dollars, Lost, Snake Plissken, 100 degrees warmer, an island in the South Pacific, Freeway, Pepakura, a Frank Oz backpack, it's like Whiteboys meets Breakin'... producer by Troma, The Hobbit 2, looking like Matt Damon, finding immortality, just say ninja, Jennifer Beals, 187 mode, The Fifth Element, Post apocalyptic 80's, three layers of socks, The Last Samarai, Felicity, Dance Dance Revolution, looking cool at a geek convention, is it 3rd wall or 4th wall??, this whole movie is based on racism, kick boards, forever 80's thug life, ballet-like movie theaters, J.J. Abrams, br

Movie Meltdown - Episode 261 In continuing our "People Who Died.. Died" series that we started last year, we take a look at the actors and performers who passed away in 2013. And along the way we realize not only how much we learn about people after they pass away, but also how quickly extremly famous people tend to be forgotten with the passage of time.  And as celebrity death completely saturates mainstream media, we also mention... James Dean, Get Shory, Joyride, It Started With Eve, the desert makes you orange, Easy Rider, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, growing a sense of humor, Bottle Rocket, Olivia de Havilland, C.H.U.D., Smokey and the Bandit, My Boyfriend's Back, Giant, David Carradine, Five Easy Pieces, The Man Who Wasn't There, aquamusicals, The Sting, 3:10 to Yuma, David Mamet, Billy Jack, East of Eden, Smoke, The Sound of Music, Lawrence of Arabia, Where the Wild Things Are, Clue, Out of Sight, Synecdoche, New York, The Hunger Games, Enter the Dragon, Intolerable Cruelty, beach movies, Johnny Weiss

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack #9 - Technobabble Edition This episode of "Attack of the Killer Soundtrack" features Ben and Dave from “Tower of Technobabble”, and a double barrel blast of "The Killer Five" which takes us on quite a musical journey through cinema! And as we try to unlock the secret of what makes a band, a good band, we also mention… flowery over the top music, violent jazz, old lady singing, essentially you are watching a very slow model backing up at two miles per hour, being all about love and stuff, playing with toys and puppets, watching their hands, that’s neither R nor B, galactic nebula, typing with purpose and action, analyzing your feelings, recording your TV with your tape recorder, visceral… that’s a good word for it, talking about little puppets drinking beer and goats doin’ it, weird Irish guys, the trench on the Death Star, a simple bass line, you got the touch, you’ve got the power, punctuating the action and that same piece of music gets shoved into two different machines. “I

Movie Meltdown - Episode 260 This episode we continue our discussion of graphic novels turned into movies that we began in episode 259. But this time we branch out with questions like, ‘Do we always NEED an origin story’? And some of us come clean about just when we decided to stop hiding that comic geek inside of us. Which makes us wonder if it’s easier being geeky in school today vs. years ago? So many dorky topics… and yet we address them all! Plus along the way we also discuss… killing off villains, The Raid: Redemption, Underoos, Zack Snyder, Battle Royale, Sleepy Hollow, Byronic vampires, North Korea, Guardians of the Galaxy, Loki, 30 Days of Night, Nerdcore music, Persepolis, Cat Sh*t One, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Let the Right One In, Oldboy, 300, The Rocketeer, the mutant/human struggle,The Crow, Tokyopop, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hellboy, Akira, The Craft, horror manga, Grave of the Fireflies, Evangelion, Dredd vs. Judge Dredd, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Vietnam, Gilgamesh... with ninjas,

Movie Meltdown - Episode 259 This week we are coming to you "live" from "The Destination" as we discuss graphic novels that have been turned into movies.  And as we celebrate the banality of existence, we also discuss... Her, Will Eisner, a pop culture oasis, Titanic, Star Wars, Jill Thompson, Harvey Pekar, Viggo Mortensen, Frank Miller, validating the art form, The Big Bang Theory, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, graphic novels seen as literature, Guy Fawkes day, Ghost World, The Sandman, He-Man, Marvel Zombies, Daria, Robert Crumb, Death Note, David Cronenberg, Belgium comic book fans, Edgar Wright, Thanos, a tour guide to Toronto, Black Science, Y: The Last Man, rebels vs terrorists, my patron saint of anxiety, A History of Violence, The Shadow, ...and then Pokémon happened, The World's End, Michael Cera, The Preacher, Dolph Lundgren, The Walking Dead, straying from the source material, Sin City, independent comics, punching Micheal Bay, Paul Giamatti, Bakamon!, Spider, Ant-Man, Sheltered, Patch Adams: The Co

Movie Meltdown - Episode 258 This week we return to the infamous Bastion of Awesomeness to discuss several movies culminating in this week’s Sofa Theater feature - the killer croc movie "Primeval". And somewhere along the way a couple of us also become guinea pigs and taste test our recently acquired wasabi candy canes. And as we think about the original way of shooting spider webs, we also bring up… The Wolverine, The World's End, Orlando Jones, The Hobbit, Tom Hiddleston, Michael Fassbender, Amber Heard, Prometheus, bone claws, jugglers, Steve Irwin, point your windshield wipers up in the air, Kenneth Branagh, Shark Night, The Necromancer, 300, awed by that level of dexterity, The Hills Have Eyes, Carmen Electra, sucking out his essence, Martin Freeman, he works for the tastiest bidder, Wallander, a cultured skink, run zig zag, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Wolf Creek, nightmares with legs, Sharknado, stripper names, pissing off your girlfriend disorder, I saw my cousin eat a bug, broken Bruce, setting your co

Movie Meltdown - Episode 257 This week features a random review of some of the movies we've watched in 2013. And somewhere along the way we mention... Europa Report, Trance, Kick-Ass 2, A Band Called Death, Oblivion, Pacific Rim, Elysium, The Way Way Back, Monsters University, Super, Zac Efron, Berberian Sound Studio, Searching for Sugarman, Seth MacFarlane, Jesus of Montreal, drinking your own Kool-Aid, The House on Haunted Hill, Tim Burton, it was a downer moment for the family, Sunshine, Man of Steel, Michael Caine, Geoffrey Rush, Wake in Fright, Repo Men, depressing documentaries, Outland, the demise of Pixar, a highly derivative but entertaining movie, movies that the public just didn't get, Mark Wahlberg, Chloë Grace Moretz, that's not how hypnosis works, Ghost Ship, Transformers 3, Marvel super hero movies, The Nightmare Before Christmas, American Movie, Road Games, Moon, Dark Knight Rises, Ernest goes to Jail, Dressed to Kill, the Johnny Depp show, Mystery Men, long movies, The Hulk, good review line.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 256 This week, we'll be talking about the documentary "Blackfish"... and all the questions and controversy that surround it. The 2013 film follows the story of Tilikum, a whale captured and eventually sent to perform at Sea World. The massive creature is responsible for several deaths over the years and we examine just who is to blame... the whale, his trainers or the corporation that runs the whole operation. The film touches on a lot of different issues and leads to some pretty interesting conversations.   And as we return to the coffee shop for another one of our traumatizing underwater adventures, we also discuss… L. Ron Hubbard, Humphrey Bogart, Man of Steel, how we deal with the homeless, banal and tedious, animals eating junk food, emitting a sound that had never been heard before, corporate corruption, animal incest, panda bears, Stockholm syndrome, Gentleman Broncos, a profound instinct for vengeance, cheesy 70's animal attack films, Jack Hanna, nature's arms race, preserving

Movie Meltdown - Episode 255 As we finish up our 6th annual holiday "special" we discuss, among other things, Richard Donner's Christmas classic "Scrooged" starring Bill Murray. In this episode so powerful - it could tear a family apart, some of the things we mention are… A New York Doll, impressions take on a life of their own, Bernie Taupin, E.T. porn, glitter, right now… Kelly’s doing it with Patrick Swayze!!, Tina Fey, cartoon moments, a spare best friend, Karen Allen, looking ahead to zombies, Lincoln lip, Mean Girls, Santa’s sensitivity training, I feel like I should be a mean husband, eating salt dough ornaments, GQ Magazine, if you had that hair… you were the bad guy, Chevy Chase, Magnolia, somebody stealing your spot, what makes a man sexy, being a celebrity impersonator, Normal, well-adjusted people don’t just make awesome things usually, Michael J. Pollard, Iron Man 3, having cache, Alfre Woodard, theme songs, Misery, This was some F-ing Looney Tunes, Stockholm Syndrome sh*t… get out of my house!!,