It’s a natural, natural, natural desire to listen to the actual, actual, actual Video Archives After Show! This week, guest film expert Marc Heuck returns to chat with Gala about the ultimate sci-fi disco musical/Garden Of Eden allegory The Apple. Quentin also tells us a story about director Menahem Golan’s experience at the film’s ill-fated premiere, and even Franklin Brauner shares how ...
2023-05-02 07:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Gala and Expert du Jour Marc Heuck discuss Menahem Golan’s sci-fi musical opus The Apple! They learn about Marc’s unique history with the film, share their favorite songs from the disco soundtrack, and even discover Franklin Brauner was involved in the production. Plus: Quentin shares a story from The Apple’s infamous premiere.
2023-05-02 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dr. Quentin and Dr. Roger report to Arthur Hiller’s The Hospital, where madness, murder and malpractice are running rampant! George C. Scott is the chief of medicine at a hospital in Manhattan, suicidal from his personal life collapsing and suspicious a murderer is on the loose in his facility. Quentin and Roger discuss writer Paddy Chayefsky’s masterful storytelling, Scott’s volcanic per...
2023-04-25 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
When the world declared peace, the Video Archives After Show’s battle began! Today we’re clearing out the Video Vault with not one, but two unheard movie chats with Quentin, Roger & Gala - John Frankenheimer’s The Fourth War, and Sergio Corbucci’s The Con Artists. We’ll also go through Quentin’s old wallet and learn about some of the most rented titles at the original Video Arch...
2023-04-18 07:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Quentin, Roger & Gala break down 1990’s political drama The Fourth War on the After Show! They discuss director John Frankenheimer’s take on Cold War politics, and praise a showstopping appearance from Harry Dean Stanton. The gang also talk about the most popular Video Archives titles and what’s in Quentin’s wallet, before digging even furth...
2023-04-18 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Video Archives Podcast should have been a love story… This week Quentin, Roger and Gala take a trip to the rural South of the 1940s for a classic 70s tearjerker, Buster and Billie. Later they must contend with Baxter, the dog that thinks in Jérôme Boivin’s merciless French comedy, before running and gunning through the lean-and-mean exploitation thriller The Fast Kill. It’s another ...
2023-04-11 07:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It should have been a love story…Quentin and Roger travel back in time to the rural South for Buster and Billie! Jan-Michael Vincent’s Buster wants to get laid; his friends suggest he get it on with the ‘easy’ girl in school, Billie. Expecting only sex, the two fall into an unlikely romance destined to end in Southern fried tragedy. The Video Archives crew discuss the history of 70s tea...
2023-04-11 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Gala and guest film expert Marc Heuck (Beat The Geeks) break down the Italo-horror cult classic The Visitor on today’s Video Archives After Show! They talk about the film’s surprising cameos and religious overtones, and even unearth a review from Franklin Brauner. Plus: Quentin and Roger explain the difference between a movie and a film
2023-04-04 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
High above the clouds flies the second greatest pilot who ever lived…The Great Waldo Pepper! A biplane pilot who missed his chance at glory in World War I takes up barnstorming in George Roy Hill’s third collaboration with Robert Redford. Quentin and Roger discuss Hill as a great thematic filmmaker, the powerful use of music and silence, the crazy real-life plane stunts, and a scene so hear...
2023-03-28 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Video Archives 2023-03-21 07:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On today’s After Show, Gala has discovered more information on the origins of The Jet Benny Show! She shares these new revelations, along with more excerpts from Quentin and Roger’s discussions of The Last Run and Rustlers’ Rhapsody. Plus: the next part of Gala’s one-on-one interview with Roger, all about how he approaches adaptation.
2023-03-21 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Roger & Quentin pull off one last job in The Last Run! On our very first bootleg tape of the show, George C. Scott returns to the screen as a former mob getaway driver who returns to his old life to see if he still has it. All he has to do is complete one last job. Quentin and Roger discuss the legendary director who planned to make the film before Richard Fleischer was ...
2023-03-14 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Quentin, Roger and Gala share more background on last week’s films The Choirboys, Hennessy and Amphibian Man! Topics include: the creation of Aldrich Studios, how The Choirboys compares to Busting, what makes Hennessy a ‘corker,’ and what Pussy Riot thought of Amphibian Man. Plus: The time Quentin spent the...
2023-03-07 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Quentin and Roger take a trip with the LAPD as the boys in blue blow off steam in The Choirboys, directed by Robert Aldrich and based on the outrageous best-selling novel. The Video Archives crew take a second look at the film, discussing Aldrich and his Associates, the big ensemble cast, and the scenes that work.
Next up: the most intensive manhunt ever mounted. Hennessy 2023-02-28 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Quentin, Roger and Gala crack open the Video Vault for a discussion of 1983’s dueling old men high-concept comedy Better Late Than Never! After unwinding the film’s absurd plot, the crew discuss the hotness of septuagenarian David Niven and which beloved children’s character Kimberley Partridge sounds just like. Plus: Gala interviews Roger about the movies that...
2023-02-21 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Video Archives Podcast will not allow violence against this house! Today’s 2023-02-14 08:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes, a man is forced to defend his honor; Quentin and Roger defend theirs in their discussion of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 Straw Dogs. Based on the book “The Siege Of Trencher’s Farm,” your hosts take a look at Peckinpah’s intentions and where this sits in his filmography. Then, they’ll discuss the film itself, covering Dustin Hoffman and Susan George’s performa...
2023-02-14 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe’ve got more listener mail on today’s 2023-02-07 08:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Quentin, Roger, and Gala answer more listener questions this week on the After Show! Topics include: the best films about food, the most popular rental titles from Video Archives, the greatest movie tie-in board games, and an unsolved movie mystery. Plus: Quentin shares a story about a former Video Archives customer.
2023-02-07 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAn incredible customer comes to the 2023-01-31 08:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Piranha, and The Movies That Made Me podcast) joins the Video Archives crew on a journey to find Servando González’s The Fool Killer! Taking place shortly after the Civil War, a young Southern boy wanders the countryside, meeting various odd characters along the way. One of them tells him the story of the vengeful Fool Ki...
2023-01-31 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Quentin, Roger & Gala bring much more insight on Sonny & Jed, Mister Scarface and American Nitro to this week’s After Show! Tune in to hear why Sonny & Jed is a literal spaghetti Western, stories from Roger’s time in Brasil, more about the fascinating characters in American Nitro, what Peter Hyams and Sergio Corbucci have in com...
2023-01-24 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
