Movie Meltdown

Movie Meltdown - Episode 182 A year in the making... we present you - the Paris, Texas episode! With a “live” intro from the Kentucky Theater during Harry Dean Stanton Fest... we feature our interview with Hunter Carson co-star of this week's movie. We sit down and talk with Hunter about the very first time he met Harry Dean Stanton. Plus playing the original Bud Bundy! All that plus weird Facebook connections and the magic of Harry Dean Stanton, before we roll into our full group discussion of our Sofa Theater feature: "Paris, Texas". Directed by Wim Wenders and written by Sam Shepard (with Kit Carson), this movie is considered a classic by many. But how will it stand up when the Meltdown Gang revisits it?? And as our show represents the diversity of life on Earth, we also discuss... absurdist tick, Alexander Payne, being fascinated with the boom guy, an experienced character actor in a pivotal role, couples trying to set each other on fire, going down in a hail of bullets for The Kentucky, Peter Sellers, ro

Movie Meltdown - Episode 181 This week we come to you “live” from Flyover Film Festival, and we are joined by special guest co-host director Martha Stephens! First we talk to Martha about getting into filmmaking and discuss her recent film “Pilgrim Song”. Then she joins us for this week’s Sofa Theater feature: “Coal Miner’s Daughter”. There we discuss Sissy Spacek’s Academy Award winning performance and the snapshot of Americana that is Michael Apted’s early life story of singer Loretta Lynn. And before we’re done we also end up discussing baseball, Bruce Springsteen, the film fest circuit, unmade biopics, weird roadside attractions and having your own private Wigwam.   Plus somewhere in the mix, we also mention... a love song to Kentucky, Patsy Cline, the projects of England, The 13th Floor Elevators, Barry Lyndon, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it’s a Jeep thing, the company store, Kirstie Alley, not getting “the talk”, tender but troubled, Mishima, apple pie, wearing some pretty amazing dresses, a fan

Movie Meltdown - Episode 180 This week we talk with director Amy Seimetz and actors Kentucker Audley and Kate Lyn Sheil about not only their movie "Sun Don't Shine" but also about working and producing films in the indie scene. And in addition to discussing odd upholstery techniques, we also mention... having a recurring nightmare, Silver Bullets, John Waters, the MTV Movie Awards, what is means to be an indie film veteran, being a conduit, a pilgrimage to meet Wes Anderson, it just hits a tone, having dreams about ripping apart cows, cooking baking and sewing, now I’m retired, making as much as Steven Spielberg, actors holding a boom, the scene where Dawn gets fingered, achievement is so embarrassing, dance movies, Empire Builder, Open Five, it’s not cheese Jess, this very focused mathematical thing, Saturday Night Fever, I’m Still Here, The Comedy, Key Lime Pie, accomplishable tasks, Flick for Mathlete President, Gregory's Girl, the work for an actor never ends, Kris Swanberg, ‘cause I think you do have to

Movie Meltdown - Episode 179 Again this week we come to you “live” from WonderFest. And things continue to get more awesome as we check in with Beau to hear the real story about what goes on behind the scenes at the show. One of the stories involves - well, we’ll just say these three things: naked woman... dogs blowing up... and Korean tacos. For the rest, you’ll just have to listen to the whole story. Then we join forces with one of our new favorite geeks... Eric Chu. Eric is the artist and concept designer responsible for the re-imagining of the Battlestar Galactica series. Including working on the concept designs of the Cylons, Raiders, Vipers and Galactica herself! In our running series The Art of Being a Movie Geek, we talk to Eric about his early artistic ventures as well as his work on Battlestar. Plus of course, our host has to ask him about his work on the Beetlejuice animated series! Then Eric sticks around for this week’s Out on the Town feature: Dark Shadows. We sit down and try to have a level-he

Movie Meltdown - Episode 178 This episode we are coming to you “live” from WonderFest! And if that wasn’t exciting enough, this week is also the much anticipated return of Misty and Jay!! And we find out what they’ve been up to lately (oddly enough involving a serial killer and a squirrel)! All that plus we talk to two terrific actresses... Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner) and Julie Adams (Creature from the Black Lagoon). Both amazingly accomplished women with impressive careers, and we sit down and reminisce about some of their more interesting movie memories.Plus somewhere along the way we mention... being a mentor, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The 12 Musketeers, being a bit of a loner, working with Elvis, Black Roses, insulting Corey, watching British television, Joss Whedon fan fiction, being a touchstone, getting shot with an arrow, guts on your lawn mower, James Coburn, art and sculpture, nobody wants to pet a Jawa, mommy, Fades, Milla, Jeremy Renner’s face, working with Robert Zemeckis, Body of Proof, m

Movie Meltdown - Episode 177 This week we sit down with special guest co-host Orlando Jones! The man was basically an entertainment prodigy. I mean how many other people do you know started their own production company in high school only to then be writing for a top ten network sitcom within a few years?? This is all BEFORE his years of acting on TV and in the movies even began. He is a fascinating guy and this turned out to be a terrific conversation! Listen as we touch on such nerdy tendencies as... Tony Hawk on a skateboard, Roc, Ivan Reitman,The Avengers, law school, bat-shit crazy in the early days, W.C. Fields, A Different World, creating a character, Monty Python, Hatfields and McCoys, Office Space, Arvell Jones, Battleship, you can’t parody a parody, Lars Von Trier, writing jokes for Jay Leno, Kim Kardashian, Shirley Maclaine, The Time Machine, Homeboy's Productions, Peter Sellers, Liberty Heights, H.G. Wells, Men in Black, paralegal work, MadTV, Henry Miller, Bulgaria, Harold not Kumar, Jon Bogdanov

Movie Meltdown - Episode 176 This week, we are coming to you “Live” from Harry Dean Stanton Fest!! Where we find out why, “It is blood red... like the city is bleeding!” Plus we talk to singer, songwriter and actor Donnie Fritts. Who tells us about playing in Kris Kristofferson’s band and making movies with Sam Peckinpah!! Plus he’s friends with Harry Dean Stanton, and THAT is the goal to which we should all aspire. Plus while we model our awesome new Harry Dean Stanton Fest t-shirts, we also mention... time-loop movies, Bernie, Moon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Pretty in Pink, Dark Shadows, playing music in Japan, Jack Black being Jack Black... and not, prank war, The Cockfighters, changes in the music business, investing way too much time into S. Darko, Straight Time, Willie Nelson, Source Code, Cisco Pike, Repo Man, The Rolling Stones, meta cinematic, It was like my 13-year-old girl dream came true last night!, the Muscle Shoals music scene, and the best way to indulge your intern

Movie Meltdown - Episode 175 Inspired by the recent demise of John Carter of Mars, this week’s topic for The Grind is simply... “Movies That Never Had A Chance”. And somewhere during the mix, we bring up... Sumatran Rat Monkey, star power, Gangs of New York, Donnie Darko, Michael Cimino, you know... the guy that plays Pee Wee, Videodrome, Super 8, Phone Booth, Andrew Stanton, the Summer of ‘77,  Eddie Murphy, the need for PG-13, Matinee, Exorcist 3, Roland Emmerich, Master and Commander, 13 Assassins, Pixar, The Machinist, Shakespeare, Attack the Block, Spider-Man, Swept Away, Heaven’s Gate, The Virgin Suicides, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, letting a kid into an R-rated movie, The Iron Giant, Disney Studios, Session 9, Rhys Evans,  David Cronenberg, Collateral Damage, Captain Nemo, The Whole Wide World, Apocalypse Now, Ender's Game, Gremlins 1 and 2, VHS box art, The Loved One, Richard Ross is an idiot, The Player, Blade Runner, Bad Lieutenant, Felicia's Journey, killer cars, Tom Cruise, eXistenZ, Topsy Turv

Movie Meltdown - Episode 174 This week we have the mandatory discussion every movie geek has to have about... The Avengers. Once we’ve fulfilled the Marvel/Joss conversation quota, we move into this week’s installment of The Grind. There we address the topic "Disappointments", and what happens when you get your hopes up about a movie, and it doesn’t deliver.  And for one reason or another we get around to... The Hunger Games, Wes Anderson, Congo, Rubber, Twilight, singing for bears, Spun, The Wolfman, Jarhead, Pete Postlethwaite, mission-based movie, Meatloaf on a saxaphone, media and relationships, the Mission: Impossible series, Charles Dance, James Bond, Jim Carrey, Sucker Punch, loved 35mm prints, darker superheroes, Indiana Jones, The Blair Witch Project, War of the Worlds, Melancholia, Super Mario Bros., Revolutionary Road, the Alien series, movie fever-dreams, Men in Black, Werewolf Lawyers, Series 7, Steven Spielberg, Beginners, Superman Returns, ape movies, Spider-man, The Bread My Sweet, Frankenstei

Movie Meltdown - Episode 173 It's a Super CreepFest including... flying babies, they keep finding interesting ways to keep beating that dead horse, Carnage, putting your head in an oven, Valhalla Rising, evil kids, Ninja Turtles with zombies, not your typical bigfoot movie, Christoph Waltz, The Anniversary Party, Hostel, Tilda Swinton, Thunderstruck!, cartoon blood, Kermit hosting The Tonight Show, children are evil, claustrophobic and tedious, Crab Man, Hard Eight, Norway comedians, Becoming Elmo, rooting for the War Horse, Philip Baker Hall, Orphen, if you like to pretend like you’re in New York, John C. Reilly, Ving Rhames, Picasso's Guernica, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jay Leno, My Boyfriend's Back, Troll Hunter, Portlandia, Roman Polanski, Phoebe Cates, We Need to Talk About Kevin, George W. and Bigfoot, the Forrest Gump of horses, Joshua, zombie Easter bunny, a bigfoot hunter’s convention, more on Bugsy Malone and Roxanne... you don’t have to wear that dress tonight!“All you have to be is undead... and you

Movie Meltdown - Episode 172 Well... there's not much else to say... except - ZARDOZ!!! So start listening... But amongst all of the insanity, we also bring up... Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the tabernacle scene, floating heads, half the audience was high, The Exorcist 2, Mulholland Drive, what will the afterlife be like?, a brilliant Monty Python sketch, Star Trek, Titus, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Planet of the Apes, nude photographs of Burt Reynolds, everything but the kitchen sink, James Bond, green bread, Kenneth Branagh, man diaper, Aladdin, religion, The Man with the Golden Gun, Men in Black, a Zardoz hot air balloon, sci fi themes, The Lady from Shanghai, wrestling grandma, inflatables by..., Darby O'Gill, Deliverance, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Doomsday, George Lucas, The Time Machine, Wild Wild West, killed by The Full Monty, Enter the Dragon, Wizard of Oz, hairy Connery, a movie having legs, an unnecessary wedding dress, Jack Kirby, Electric Zardoz, Princess Leia, riding horses, Krypton, The Avenger

Movie Meltdown - Episode 171 This week we welcome special guest co-host comedian Alysia Wood. Listen as we discuss comedy, movies, and lots of other amazing tangents including... a brain is a noodle, genetically Texan, shark infested waters, Louisiana, do we have to be nice to people?, draining all your spinal fluid, on Codine for three weeks, Magnolia, and now there’s mice, Seattle, collecting all the phones, potato soup with rubber chunks, bargain dental work, Louisville, explaining how jokes work, doing meth with a medical background?, Los Angeles, wearing a bulletproof vest, drinking eight glasses of water, Hot for Teacher, making fun of mom, jumping qualities of education, there’s a lot of ellipsis, fat ugly or gay, Lewis and Clark, Jaws, ballet, Verizon suits, love comedy... hate jokes, laughing at the poet, a TSA training video, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, vibrating and punching you in the crotch, dying of lung cancer, spoofing bad 70’s action flicks, Bar-B-Q, a women’s health care provider, Arachnophobi

Movie Meltdown - Episode 170 This week we tackle a juggernaut of the film world... TAXI DRIVER. A movie that has massively worked it’s way into the pop culture. But in re-watching it, we realize the bad-ass and cool associations it has today, may be misguided. So we try to dig in and see what’s really going on with the film and the character of Travis Bickle. And while planning our trip to Harry Dean Stanton Fest, we also mention... Emma Stone, the guy from The Strokes selling you guns, ...and we got stuck with Molly Ringwald, Scorsese from above, Lexington Film League, Ally Sheedy, The Last Picture Show, How I Met Your Mother, for every generation there is a redhead, Keitel super powers, morbid self attention, The Madison Dance, sleeping with Elvis, a mix between The Wire and Sesame Street, subconsciously sabotaging yourself, studying the movements of a crab, Super, a man OF the system, Bugsy Malone, A Band Apart, Moonlighting, closer to Britney Spears then Sid Vicious, the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen,

Movie Meltdown - Episode 169 This week, the gloves (and the earrings) come off as we prepare to do battle with The Thing! In this, The Thing Super Special, we address things all Thing-related including our Sofa Theater feature: The Thing (2011) as well as how it relates to The Thing (1982), The Thing from Another World and the novella “Who Goes There?”. Including comments on...the clothes question, selective memory, Tom Woodruff Jr., the darkness of The Thing, Howard Hawks, “Who Can it be Now?”, blowtorches in the Antarctic, the Brad Pitt of Norway, a super-nice military, traffic in the Antarctic, fighting the cycle of remakes... and the REAL reason you can’t trust The Thing. (P.S. - Just a note... let the credits play on The 2011 Thing.) And while we cover several new and better ways to watch the Star Wars prequels, we also discuss... Inserts, a thinner Bob Hoskins, klaus kinski as a condiment, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the right time to introduce your kids to your favorite movies, Jessica Harper, Berk

Movie Meltdown - Episode 168 This episode... The Hunger Games, rooms full of giggling Eskimos, Bill Moseley, Jaws, what’s up with rich kung-fu knowing vampires, erotic cartoons, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Police Capt. Hook, David Lynch tells you about dental hygiene, the 30th anniversary of the Summer of ‘82, Salvador Dali, Alice in Wonderland: The Adult Musical, non-mutant Huck Finn, Home Improvment in a wilderness store, Troll Hunter, Creature Comforts, Jennifer Lawrence, Pan, Adrien Brody, Rango, Flesh Gordon, Shut Up Little Man, soccer moms, Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles, laughter canneries, The Big Sleep, maybe too intense for some viewers, my favorite thing Nicolas Cage ever said..., covert anti-feminist propaganda, you don’t mess with Ashley Judd!, making the sports noises, Barbie is like Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, porn talk, caller number four you’re on the air, drunken history videos, my life’s goal... to steal a pizza, The Pillow Book, I’m pro-popcorn!, the Groundhog Day factor, Barbie’s actin

Movie Meltdown - Episode 167 This week we return to Green Room Coffee and Espresso and we’ll need all the caffeine to help us focus on figuring out this week’s movie. By special request, we were asked to try to decide exactly what was happening in the 2011 film “Kill List”. It is...well-made, disturbing, confusing and will more then likely bring about an initial WTF reaction. But with more thought and discussion, can we in fact decide what the hell we just watched?? And while we try to decide if we are discussing the movie OR helping finish write the movie, we also mention... True Grit, a picture of a world, Kurosawa, The Atheist Channel, Curse of the Demon, The Apartment Trilogy, The Crusades, the Cohen Brothers, Diane Ladd, a demon interior decorator, the stereotypical dark side of a librarian, Spaced, what the fuck was that polar bear about?, The Devil’s Daughter, can we just say the filmmaker is wrong?, House of the Devil, Shelly Winters, Rosemary’s Baby, the actress’s Twitter page, cultural mania, naked

Movie Meltdown - Episode 166 This week, we do in fact... talk about movies. And, at a coffee shop. That’s right The Caffeinated Movie Geeks mix things up a little this week, as we convene for our first caffeinated session at Green Room Coffee & Espresso Bar. There we meet our host Allen and continue with our usual level of movie geekery.   And while we figure out our individual orgin stories, we also mention... a traumatic head injury and a Hillary Duff concert, Alphaville, motorcycle gang movies, John Carter, Dwayne “Not the Rock” Johnson, hipsters laughing at you, Anonymous, Russian Ark, David Lynch public service announcements, Wrath of the Titans, Hugo, narrated by a ghost, meet the man who runs the Nicolas Cage costume, Mr. Popper's Penguins, heroin chic, Tom Hardy, Jules Verne spinning in his grave, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Karenina, Jonathan Rhys Meyers vs. Jonathan Rhys-Davies, Sterotype Estates, the future of Back to the Future 2, hipsters moving in... there goes the neighborhood, Gnomeo and Juliet 2,

Movie Meltdown - Episode 165 (aka: "Greg Makes Sex Sound Disgusting") The fourth annual Oscar Meltdown party rages on as we enjoy crack... which leads to sex talk. Weird... but then again, maybe those go together just fine. And by the time we get to the “love ewe” discussion... well, after four years of this, you’d think there would be no way we could push the envelope further into the realm of bad taste. And yet... midway into that segment, even I thought... “I can’t believe we are having THIS conversation.” These are the things that crack leads to. Just say no kids...just say no.   We also discuss the Oscar-caliber film “Creature” starring (extended cameo) Klaus Kinski as a lovable space perv. The movie also feature thunderstorms in space, Ferris Bueller’s dad, Simone from “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” and a cosmic creature that studied with Sanford Meisner. Plus we continue awarding The Foilers for the finest cinematic moments of 2011.  And while we discuss the special ways we care about Rosario Dawson, we als

Movie Meltdown - Episode 164 Join us as we kick off Oscar Meltdown 4! With our mascot Babe by our side, we dive into the h'orderves and pizza (Now Vegan Friendly!!) as we launch our own brand of coveted trophy...The Foilers - in this, the first annual Meltdown Awards.Between eating loads of pork and discussing who has the most hideous dress, we also mention... Sailor Moon: anti-girl power, George Takei, Drive, Ryan Reynolds, Mila Kunis, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, fear of aging in Hollywood, The Lie, Neil Patrick Harris, The New Girl, Hank Azaria, Super, getting a patent... in a courtroom?, the Mayflower was made of pork rinds, Emily Browning, Brad Pitt, space puppies, K-stew, Jeffery Rush’s bare ass, being back on the market via advertising, Mr. Poppers Penguins, Wes Craven, Natalie Portman, Albert Brooks, Green Lantern, Aimee Mann’s toe... in a blanket, Purina Kid’s Chow, Sucker Punch, Adam Sandler, The Rum Diaries, Linda Hamilton beating Steve, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, X-Men: First Class, a nun on w

Movie Meltdown - Episode 163 This week we welcome director Scooter Downey and actors Sean Elliot and Rose Sirna to sit-in with us and tell us about their movie "It's in the Blood". (Which also stars show favorite Lance Henriksen.) Oh... and they just happen to fall right in line with our usual geeky conversations. It's an amazing thing when geeks find each other. Come experience the movie bonding session!And as we find the classiest way to use the phase ear pussy, we also discuss... The Lord of the Rings, Against the Dark, Yellow Brick Road, Blow Up, accents, Jaws, Troll 2, Mario Puzo's Monopoly, putting action stars in tutus, a performance video nutjob, They, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Michael, Albert Brooks, farm machinery show, The Virgin Springs, The Alamo Draft House, Shia LaBeouf, the gatekeepers are going to become the marketplace, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, is 3D revolutionary?, Bergman movies, The Vow, watching Fast Five with your Grandma, Sam Worthington, Jurassic Park, The Quest, film is an expres