Movie Meltdown

Movie Meltdown - Episode 58.2 Welcome to BATTLE ROYALE (aka - The Worst-Case Scenario)... This week's Sofa Theater feature is Kinji Fukasaku's BATTLE ROYALE. What would your strategy be? Would you be able to kill your friends? And who really wins in this insane game? Plus feedback that entails lightning balloons, Corey Haim, Porkins and George C. Scott. "There's something about Japanese schoolgirls shooting each other - that's awesome!" (Lots of dead Japanese kids and spoilers!)  

Movie Meltdown - Episode 58.1  Geek activities and movie buzz including The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Bill Paxton, Daybreakers, Stanley Kubrick, Zoltar, James Bond, the Dune glossary, writing a zomedy, surviving nuclear blasts, virtual actors and punching Wrong Turn 3 in the face! "Can you fire somebody from a podcast?"

Movie Meltdown - Episode 57.2 Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA (I think the description from the DVD says it all...) General spoilers (from 1940) as per usual... 

 Movie Meltdown - Episode 57.1 This week we get to know ourselves (via centerfolds), plus geek activities and all the movie buzz you love to complain about. "My turn-ons are...small animals?"

Movie Meltdown - Episode 56 On the trail of BIGFOOT... Join Bryan and his special co-host Rick (a.k.a. Samurai) from the Gentlemen's Guide to Midnight Cinema for our new cross-over feature The Bigfoot Files. In this first installment we watch "The Legend of Boggy Creek". This docu-drama kicked off the wave of Bigfoot movies (and sightings) that took the country by storm. But does the movie itself live up to it's cinematic impact? God Bless America (and Bigfoot) !! 

Movie Meltdown - Episode 54.2 The 2nd Annual Movie Meltdown Holiday "Special" continues... Join us for more festive holiday tunes, plus not one but two Sofa Theater features with BLACK SANTA'S REVENGE and HARDWARE. Plus an awesome voicemail that makes a certain cast member's head grow three sizes that day. And we round out the show with quite possibly the best and most uplifting holiday song ever.  

 Movie Meltdown - Episode 54.1 Grab some hot chocolate and cookies and join us for The 2nd Annual Movie Meltdown Holiday "Special". Bah F-ing Humbug.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 53.2 This week's Sofa Theater feature is the 1981 film The Howling. Plus comments on the movie from Dee Wallace herself and instructions on how to make a bad hamburger. “They turn into 'wolfs' while they are doing it. Do they do it doggie style?”

 Movie Meltdown - Episode 53.1This week we discuss our own levels of geekiness, and talk about one of the greatest movie pitches ever - exorcising the ghost of Bruce the shark from your house. Plus we feature a snippet of our interview with actress - Dee Wallace. All that plus… hanging around a store looking at movies, reading Lovecraft, being obsessed with Air Bud, Kingpin, Shinobi - Heart Under Blade, Rankin Bass officially licensed chocolate, Johnny Depp - Poncho Villa vs. Tonto, Adam Green, our beloved Danielle Harris, The Black Hole, reliving Mr. Boogedy, vintage TV commercials, I Sell the Dead, Pepto shooters, Hatchet 2, the Max Steel line sucked, Tron Legacy, Rob Bottin in Ecuador, the Farrelly Brothers, Steven Seagal Lawman, re-Amityville Horror-ing, Angus Scrimm - fake grandpa, an awesome Tony Todd cameo and Twilight bunnies, “If you can insight mayhem, that’s a good toy.”  

Movie Meltdown - Episode 52.2 This week's Sofa Theater feature is the 1980 film The Changeling with George C. Scott. Including a discussion of the changes ghost stories have taken over the years. Plus a mysterious phone call and other random geekery. “Why am I getting scared? I’m watching a cone?”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 52.1 Join us for brownies plus geek activities, What's the Buzz - plus the greatest game show ever - NAME THAT PORN! With special guest contestant Andy from Night Of The Living Podcast!! And if that wasn’t enough, we also address… Dolph Lundgren, ZombieLand 2, U.F.O., Splatter, Nicholas Cage, The Queen vs. Ice Cube, a makeshift pod casting conference, Dream A Little Dream, SHADO, Conan, Thankskilling, snowed in watching The Thing, Hemp Twinkies, for the love of Jodie Foster, Solomon Kane, a young Kristy Swanson, Atari 2600, Ghosts of Mars, Jonathan Lipnicki, Obama the Barbarian, Goth Overlord John Candy, Mr. Boogedy, Blood Freak, Corey Feldman shooting himself, Return to the Haunted House, Knowing, Showdown in Little Toyko and Goth Riverdancing. “You never go full retard.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 51.2 In this episode that may have "crossed the line." We sit down to discuss - SAVAGE DAWN". First we listen to actor William Forsythe's memories of making this movie. Then we attempt to comprehend the film we just saw. Which leads to random thoughts that include… "Colossally bad, that's the only way to describe this." “They have a Sheriff and a deputy, a redneck, drunk deputy - and a midget” “Who the hell did they make this movie for?” “The final blow is a titty twister.” “This is the pinnacle.” “Even the movie was tired of itself.” “This is epic bad!” “There’s a lot of street fist-fights going on, like this is some sort of Clint Eastwood orangutan picture” “Lance did a bunch of jumping around” “I’m surprised half the actors in here didn’t break something” “This is like a monster mash of bad movie actors” “This was pretty fun!” “There’s a lot of weird not-so-underlying homo-eroticism” “I think they were making it up as they went along…” “Nothing they do makes one lick of sense” “Pe

Movie Meltdown - Episode 51.1 This week the whole gang returns to discuss... Hanging out at HorrorHound, meeting our listeners, what happened at Rue Morgue?, I saw the Bad - where’s the Super?, Courtney Gains, Shellac, My Boyfriend’s Back, The Prisoner, The Black Waters at Echo’s Pond, what exactly is The Legend of Orin?, Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D, getting the ultimate geek tattoo!!, Brad Pitt in a video game movie?, acting rap stars, New Moon cleans up at the box office, Uma Thurman, David Fincher messing with his fans, comedic robots, License to Drive, stunt packaging, Tom Savini is on a “roll“, Todd is an alien, Sixteen Candles, Team LavaGirl and we continually talk smack about Robert Pattinson. Plus we sit down and talk to actor William Forsythe. He discusses being blackmailed into acting, meeting Sergio Leone, becoming John Wayne Gacy, having lunch with Jake LaMotta, and making comedies to save his sanity. William’s an awesome actor and a great guy to share his stories with us. "I you can't fi

Movie Meltdown - Episode 50.2 In this sprawling cross-country edition of "Sofa Theater", Bryan and special guest Miles (from Showshow) discuss Red Rock West. A Santa Fe style thriller with murder, betrayal, lots of denim and a slightly younger Nicholas Cage. “He's like a Southwestern Job.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 50.1 This week Bryan is joined by a special guest co-host - MILES from SHOWSHOW!!! Join us as we yammer on about movies and what we like or dislike, which is really all that's important. Some of which include... Night of the Creeps, Death Race: Frankenstein Lives, Fright Night, Californication, Paul WS Anderson, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, dwarf casting in The Hobbit, Quentin discussing movies, Edward Woodward, Return to Me, Not Quite Hollywood, Marti Noxon, we are NOT discussing 2012, a giant octopus, Mark Dacascos on the side of the road, Crap-stlevania, David Fincher, King Kong vs. Godzilla, William Peter Blatty, the on-going Resident Evil series and making Casper van Dien happy.  "Clap you hands if you care about dead people..."

Movie Meltdown - Episode 49.2 We found out this fact as we watched this week’s Sofa Theater feature: Dark Country. Hopefully (or maybe not?) you’ve already seen this movie, because we have to spoil the so-called twist just to discuss this movie on any level. And so we do, as we delve into this wanna-be film noir, with impressive visuals and lots of problems. But can director and star Thomas Jane save this movie?? “The movie in itself wouldn’t work if people were intelligent and made smart moves.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 48.2 This week in the Sofa Theater: BAD RONALD. A weird, classic bit o' TV movie about a freaky guy that hides in your walls. (And yes, there are lots of spoilers. So, you have been warned...) Speaking of freaks, this episode also unveils a new session of MOVIE FAN FREAKSHOW, featuring: The Master of the Force!!! "That's where I always bury my old ladies..."

Movie Meltdown - Episode 47 Movie Meltdown's rockin' ukulele special!! - In this, our new running feature on documentaries, we take a look at Rock that Uke, directed by Sean Anderson and William Preston Robertson. This film takes a look at the interesting characters that feel compelled to play the ukelele. And the new music revolution that begins as they find ways to amplify their music and create - punk rock ukulele!! Between songs by Uke til you Puke, we sit down and talk to director Sean Anderson about his path into film, meeting some unsual ukuleleist, and getting to work with Holly Hunter (sort of). Just playing the ukulele for a lot of people was an act of strange kind of defiance!

Movie Meltdown - Episode 46.2- In this week's Sofa Theater feature we discuss BLOOD - The Last Vampire. And Rodger and Bryan attempt to decide if this bloody CGI action flick falls on the side of fun or lame.   I mean, how expensive are squibs??

Movie Meltdown – Episode 45.2 In part two of our Halloween Extravaganza we discuss the new DVD release - Trick 'r Treat. Plus a Trendy Movie Geeks find that involves gut splitting and displayed entrails. Plus other random Halloween related (and non-related stories). Remember to check your candy kids… It’ll be like It’s a Wonderful Life for Halloween