Special Report: Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Mike speaks with author Steve Matteo about his latest book, Act Naturally: The Beatles On Film, which examines the handful of films starring the fab four along with what shaped them. Buy the book at h...

9 Nov 202339min

Rob St. Mary joins Mike to look at the 1992 Belgian film Man Bites Dog. Directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde, the film is a mockumentary about a serial killer, Ben, played by ...

8 Nov 20231h 15min

Friend of the show AJ Black returns to talk with Mike about his latest book, Lost Federations: The Unofficial Unmade History of Star Trek. Tony goes deep into Trek lore to look at unmade projects, alt...

6 Nov 202353min

Ian Brownell and Tim Luz join Mike to kick off spooktacular coverage with Erie C. Kenton’s 1932 adaptation of H.G. Wells’s 1896 book, The Island of Doctor Moreau. Here it’s called Island of Lost Souls...

3 Nov 20232h 13min

Mike talks with filmmaker Steven Summers about his ambitious five-part docu-series, War Movie: The American Battle in Cinema (2023). It's a fascinating look at how the presentation of war in American ...

2 Nov 202342min

A request from Patreon donor Vaughn Collmyer, we're discussing Robert Downey’s 1970 film Pound, an ensemble piece wherein a group of 18 actors play different breeds of dog... and one lonely, lost peng...

1 Nov 20231h 7min

On this special Czechtember episode we’re looking at Oldrich Lipsky’s 1981 film The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians. Based on the novel by Jules Verne from 1892, the film tells the story of Count...

31 Okt 20232h 10min

Mike talks with director Brett Smith about his feature film debut, Freedom's Path (2022). The film tells the tale of an AWOL Union Soldier who meets a man running part of the Underground Railroad. The...

30 Okt 202325min