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Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: WITHOUT WARNING (1980) - Feb. 27th @ 10:00 PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of Greydon Clark's WITHOUT WARNING (1980) on Thursday, Feb. 27th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Feb. 27th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Feb. 27th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running la...

369 - THE MCPHERSON TAPE (1989) + COMMUNION (1989) ft. Esther Rosenfield

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Esther Rosenfield (of Get Cynical and The Lost Broadcasts) discuss 1980s grey alien/UFO abduction films with a double feature of what's broadly considered to be the first found footage horror film Dean Alioto's THE MCPHERSON TAPE (1989) + the adaptation of best-selling horror novelist Whitley's Strieber's "non-fiction" account of his own alleged ...

Bonus Transmission 59 - NOSFERATU, DEN OF THIEVES 2, WOLF MAN, + FLIGHT RISK (Spoilers)

Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.

NOSFERATU // 05:39-43:14
WOLF MAN // 43:14-1:05:15
FLIGHT RISK // 1:05:15-1:23:38
DEN OF THIEVES 2 // 1:23:38-1:52:47

368 - THE DARK HALF (1993) + THE MANGLER (1995)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss two 1990s Stephen King B-side adaptations by aging horror legends with a double feature of George A. Romero's adaptation of King's metatextual novel about an author who enters a supernatural gothic-horror with his own alter ego/pen name THE DARK HALF (1993) and Tobe Hooper's adaptation of one of the more comically bizarre King short stories about a haunted industria...

Interview - Christian Gudegast (DEN OF THIEVES, DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA)

Hosts Josh and Jamie are joined by writer and director Christian Gudegast (DEN OF THIEVES, DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA) to discuss his journey to developing the new cult heist franchise including: his time spent directing music videos and polishing Hollywood action screenplays, the amount of research he does in order to craft a show-stopping heist/chase/gunfight sequence, his all-time favorite cr...

367 - RELATIVITY (1966) + SPIDER (2002) ft. Violet Lucca

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest critic and author Violet Lucca discuss a double feature inspired by her new book "David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials" with one of his earliest inspirations in sci-fi paperback cover artist turned experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller's RELATIVITY (1966) and one of Cronenberg's more unloved and forgotten passion projects, the psychological drama SPI...

366 - RIFIFI (1955) + LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss stylish and tragic French jewelry store heist-noirs featuring 30-minute long wordless Bressonian process-based heist sequences that have influenced the genre for decades now in Jules Dassin's RIFIFI (1955) and Jean-Pierre Melville's LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970).

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back over on the main feed with a special guest talking REL...

Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: THE ROOKIE (1990) - Jan. 30th @ 9:30 PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of Clint Eastwood's THE ROOKIE (1990) on Thursday, Jan. 30th @ 9:30 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Jan. 30thh to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Jan. 30th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a...

365 - WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART (1990) + A PERFECT WORLD (1993) ft. Eddie Averill

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Eddie Averill (of Extended Clip) discuss the non-UNFORGIVEN entries in Clint Eastwood's self-reflective and self-implicating deconstructionist “too old for this shit” run of 1990s masterpieces: WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART (1990) his personal, psychological and metafictional biographical portrait starring himself as John Huston during his time ap...

364 - THE WOLF MAN (1941) + WOLF GUY (1975)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss men turning into hairy, feral beasts in one of the earliest and most influential cinematic depictions of the werewolf in Universal's tragic gothic horror melodrama classic THE WOLF MAN (1941) starring Lon Chaney Jr., and in one of the most bizarre exploitation variations on the werewolf genre in Kazuhiko Yamaguchi's WOLF GUY (1975) starring Sonny Chiba as werew...

Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Voting Poll

These were the 5 most upvoted double features as selected by you guys, now it's time to officially vote on what our Patron-selected episode for March is going to be! GO!

363 - The Best Genre Movies Of 2024

Hosts Josh and Jamie put 2024 to bed by counting down their official top 15 genre movies of the year. Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE WOLF MAN (1941) and WOLF GUY (1975), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier.

Intro // 00:00-25:23
Honorable Mentions // 25:23-2:35:54
15 // 2:35:54-2:51:05...

Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Nominations - March 2025

I'm sure most of you know the drill at this point but one episode every other month around these parts is a special episode where you folks nominate and vote for that week's double feature! Democracy!

Your last vote was for BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) + LAST OF THE MOHICANS (19922) which we just dropped. The next episode you're voting on will ...

362 - BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) + LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss white guys getting involved in cultural and geopolitical conflicts they probably shouldn't be in John Carpenter's comical merging of All-American trucker cowboys and surreal Hong Kong martial arts fantasy BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) and Michael Mann's merging of old-fashioned frontier American historical epic mythmaking with his tragic, impressionistic romant...

361 - NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) + SOLE SURVIVOR (1984)

Hosts Josh and Jamie celebrate the holidays by discussing the 1984 California Christmas genre-bending cult cinema of Thom Eberhardt with a double feature of his pop-rock B-movie mix of post-apocalyptic science-fiction, zombie survival action-horror, and 80s consumerism satire/new wave teen girl hangout movie in NIGHT OF THE COMET and his moody high-concept slow-burn sci-fi horror film SOLE SURV...

Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS (1984) - Dec. 27th @ 10:00 PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS (1984) on Friday Dec. 27th @ 10:00PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Dec. 27th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Dec. 27th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chanc...

360 - NOSFERATU (1922) + NOSFERATU (1979)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss their pale, clawed, horny, and dirt/real estate enthusiast buddy Count Orlok with a double feature of German Expressionist silent filmmaker F.W. Murnau's influential unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula featuring some of the most iconic early horror film imagery of all time as well as one of the most iconic physical movie monster performances by Max Shreck...

359 - MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971) + PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (1973) ft. Jokermen

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guests Evan Laffer and Ian Grant (of the Jokermen podcast) discuss depressed 70s revisionist westerns about friendship being corroded by American capitalism that are serenaded by legendary 1960s folk singer-songwriters: Robert Altman's MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971) featuring songs by Leonard Cohen and Sam Peckinpah's PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID with a soundtra...

Bonus Transmission 58 - JUROR #2, GLADIATOR II, RED ROOMS + HERETIC (Spoilers)

Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.

RED ROOMS // 09:00-30:45
HERETIC // 30:45-48:28
GLADIATOR II // 48:28-1:23:10
JUROR #2 // 2:16:20-2:17:38

358 - BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999) + THE AMBULANCE (1990)

Hosts Josh and Jamie resume regular scheduled programming and discuss two gods of New York City filmmaking ripping around the grimy streets of 90s NYC in ambulances being driven by wonderfully weird and paranoid protagonists with a double feature of Martin Scorsese's spiritual, existential and manic junkie-horror depiction of what working the graveyard shift as a Hell's Kitchen paramedic is lik...

357 - SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950) + PANIC IN THE STREETS (1950) ft. Meg Shields

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Meg Shields conclude Noirvember by discussing the rare subgenre of black plague pandemic noirs via Terence Fisher's gothic disappearing hotel room gaslighting thriller (with an infectious twist!) SO LONG AT THE FAIR and Elia Kazan's merging of manhunt procedural with epidemic-thriller PANIC IN THE STREETS.

Next week's episode is a patron-ex...

Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: RAW DEAL (1948) - Nov. 28th @ 10:00 PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of Anthony Mann's RAW DEAL (1948) on Thursday Nov. 28th @ 10:00PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Nov. 28th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Nov. 28th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chanc...

356 - CHINATOWN (1974) + THE CONVERSATION (1974)

Hosts Josh and Jamie continue Noirvember with a discussion of two iconic 1974 neo-noir conspiracy thriller masterpieces celebrating their 50th anniversaries: Roman Polanski’s gorgeous and upsetting New Hollywood pastiche of a Raymond Chandler-esque 1930s LA noir in CHINATOWN (1974) and Francis Ford Coppola’s character study of obsession and loneliness as an anxious Hitchcockian espionage vo...

Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Voting Poll

These were the 4 most upvoted double features as selected by you guys, now it's time to officially vote on what our Patron-selected episode for the first episode of 2025 is going to be! GO!

355 - GUN CRAZY (1950) + THE BIG COMBO (1955)

Hosts Josh and Jamie continue Noirvember by discussing one of their favorite Hollywood B-noir visual technicians Joseph H. Lewis with a double feature of his horny, violent and tragic proto-Bonnie & Clyde doomed lovers-on-the-run armed robbery thriller GUN CRAZY (1950) and his sadistic and visually poetic/abstract approach to a hard-boiled gangster B-noir procedural in THE BIG COMBO (1955)....

Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Nominations - January 2025

I'm sure most of you know the drill at this point but one episode every other month around these parts is a special episode where you folks nominate and vote for that week's double feature! Democracy!

Your last vote was for LOST HIGHWAY (1997) + FEMME FATALE (2002) which we just dropped. The next episode you're voting on will be for our very first ep...

354 - LOST HIGHWAY (1997) + FEMME FATALE (2002)

Hosts Josh and Jamie continue Noirvember with a discussion of two legendary auteurs repurposing the storytelling conventions and iconography of classic Hollywood noirs into extremely stylish, horny, and dreamy postmodern meta identity-crisis thrillers: David Lynch's hostile and repressed psychological horror deconstruction of the anxious, obsessive male noir protagonist in LOST HIGHWAY and Bria...

353 - CAST A DEADLY SPELL (1991) + LORD OF ILLUSIONS (1995) ft. Tivoli Cinema

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guests Walker McDonald and Phillip Homburg (of the new upcoming independent Tivoli Cinema in Charlottetown, PEI) help us bring Spooktober to an end and kick off Noirvember at the same time with a double feature of 40s-noir-meets-90s-supernatural-horror paranormal detectives in Martin Cambell's Lovecraftian LA Noir HBO movie CAST A DEADLY SPELL (1991) and Clive B...

FREE SPOOKTOBER WATCH PARTY LINK - HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II (1987) - Tonight at 7:00 PM EST!

Tonight @ 7:00 PM EST!! Free to everyone, invite your friends. Pre-show starts right at 7pm, feature closer to 7:30pm. Join us for some goofy 80s slasher fun. Sign in at this link: https://www.cya.live/event/5Z_9z-vQFZgciEQQuHPC-

And don't forget we do these once a month every month for patrons at our...

352 - CAT PEOPLE (1942) + I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss the gothic supernatural B-horror melodrama collaborations of Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton with a double feature of their tragic, lonely and psychosexual creature feature CAT PEOPLE (1942) and their Haitian voodoo/plantation slavery version of Jane Eyre I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943).

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back over on the main feed with...