In this latest episode of the Deep Dive spinoff, Gaius is joined by Jeremy Kibler, movie blogger and writer for Guy At The Movies , to discuss the 2013 film, You’re Next. Directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, the film follows an estranged family under attack by a group of masked assailants during a family reunion. Other: Where To Watch You’re Next Links For Guest: Jeremy Kibler ( The Artful Critic ), Jeremy Kibler Twitter/X...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 29 min
The team is back breaking down some of the biggest news of the week but first Gaius details his attendance at the Astra Awards as a member of The Hollywood Creative Alliance! The news then kicks off with Francis Ford Coppola giving an update on the long-gestating Megalopolis, Steven Knight announcing news about the also long-gestating Peaky Blinders spinoff, and Yorgos Lanthimos revealing new tidbits about his next film Kinds of Kindness. Also hitting the weekly news recap is Steven Yeun exiting...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 24 min
The team is going over all of the winners from the 81st Golden Globe Awards and giving their reactions to the results from the show. From winners that include Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan and their film Oppenheimer, to Emma Stone and her film Poor Things, to Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph taking it home for The Holdovers, the duo has you all covered on all of the major wins. In addition to the winners, the team also discusses Jo Koy’s mixed reviews from critics as a host and reveal ...
Jan 10, 2024•42 min
The team is back with its first episode of 2024 and it’s all about some of the biggest movie industry stories of 2023. The duo goes over some of the stories that made the year a memorable one, including the Barbenheimer phenomenon, the discourse over Skinamarink, the official end of the DCEU, Marvel taking its share of critical and financial hits, the rise and fall of Jonathan Majors, the WGA and SAG strikes, the upheaval of the Scream franchise and much more!
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 57 min
The Back To The Blockbuster team is celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Faculty, directed and edited by Robert Rodriguez with a screenplay by Kevin Williamson. Starring Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher Raymond, Jon Stewart, and Elijah Wood, the film follows the students at Harrinton High and they have always believed that the principal and her posse of teachers have always been a little...
Dec 25, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Our December limited series Merry Bingemas concludes with a look at 1974’s Black Christmas. Directed by Bob Clark and written by A. Roy Moore, the film stars Oliva Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Lynne Griffin, and John Saxon. The story follows a group of sorority sisters who receive threatening phone calls and are eventually stalked and murdered by a deranged killer during the Christmas season. This one is a first time watch for Jacksons! Will it become an unconventional Chri...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 43 min
The Back To The Blockbuster team reveals their reactions to the 81st annual Golden Globe nominations in this special mini-episode. From Barbie, To Oppenheimer, To Killers of the Flower Moon, so many films made the cut and the team talking all the surprises, snubs, and usual suspects of this year’s nominations!
Dec 20, 2023•39 min
Our December Merry Bingemas continues with a chat about 1990’s Home Alone, directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. Starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O’Hara, the film follows Kevin McCallister, a boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from a home invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris.
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 25 min
The Back To The Blockbuster team is looking back at John Carpenter’s Christine for its 40th anniversary! Based on Stephen King’s 1983 novel of the same name, the stars Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, and Harry Dean Stanton, and it follows the changes in the lives of Arnie Cunningham, his friends, his family, and his teenage enemies after he buys a classic red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine, a car that seems to have a mind of its own and a jealous, posse...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 59 min
Merry Bingemas continues with the Back To The Blockbuster team talking 1984’s Gremlins, directed by Joe Dante and written by Chris Columbus. Starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, and Frances Lee McCain, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo. The story follows a young man who receives a strange creature as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, mischievous monsters that all wreak havoc on a whole town on Christmas Eve....
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 35 min
In this latest episode of the Deep Dive spinoff, Gaius is joined by Dustin Rybka of the Sex Party podcast to discuss the 2004 film, Collateral. Directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie, the film follows Max Duroucher (Jamie Foxx), a Los Angeles cab driver, and his customer, Vincent (Tom Cruise). When offered a high fare for driving to several locations, Max agrees but soon finds himself taken hostage by Vincent who turns out to be a hitman on a contract killing spree. The film also...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 46 min
Back To The Blockbuster kicks off our new limited series, “Merry Bingemas”, in honor of the holiday season. The first film being covered is The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson. Starring Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa, the film is set in 1970 and follows a curmudgeonly history teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone the handful of students with nowhere to go over Christmas break. In addition to discussing th...
Dec 07, 2023•2 hr 15 min
It’s an all news show with the team covering the latest drama with Scream VII, including Melissa Barrera being let go and Jenna Ortega not returning for the sequel. The duo also dives in with their reactions to Saltburn, Napoleon, The Killer and May December. In addition to this, the pair discusses box office, including there being only one movie released this year that carried a $200 million+ budget that actually turned a profit and things get wrapped up with news of Cape Fear being turned into...
Nov 30, 2023•2 hr 3 min
The Back To The Blockbuster teams is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Dallas Buyers Club, the film that details the real life story of Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both etiology and the treatment of HIV/AIDS are poorly understood and its sufferers subject to stigmatization. Written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack and directed by Jean-Marc Valle, the story continues with Woodroff smuggling unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas to treat his sy...
Nov 27, 2023•2 hr 14 min
In this latest episode of the Deep Dive spinoff, Gaius is joined by JC of @mercwiththemovies of Instagram to discuss 1998’s American History X. Directed by Tony Kaye and written by David McKenna, the film stars Edward Norton and Edward Furlong as two brothers from Los Angeles who are involved in the white power skinhead and neo-Nazi movements. The older brother (Norton) serves three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, is rehabilitated during this time, and then tries to prevent his broth...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 47 min
It’s time to get hooked again with the Back To The Blockbuster team as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer! Directed by Danny Cannon and written by Trey Callaway, the film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, Matthew Settle, and Muse Watson. The murderous fisherman with a hook is back to once again stalk the two surviving teens, Julie and Ray, who had left him for dead, as well as cause even more murder and mayhem for some o...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 58 min
The Back To The Blockbuster team is celebrating the 35th anniversary of Child’s Play, directed by Tom Holland from a screenplay he co-wrote with Don Mancini and John Lafia. Starring Catherine Hicks, Alex Vincent, Chris Sarandon and Brad Dourif as Chucky, the plot follows a widowed mother who gives a doll to her son, unaware that the doll is possessed by the soul of a serial killer. In addition to the anniversary, the duo also discusses the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike after 118 days, film delays ...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 46 min
Back To The Blockbuster is celebrating its two year anniversary and the team is ringing in the milestone by revisiting two films that each of the co-hosts once disliked. In one corner, Gaius didn’t care for the 2017 film Mother!, when he first saw the film in theaters. Directed and written by Darren Aronofsky, the film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kirsten Wiig. In the film, a young woman finds her tranquil life with he...
Nov 10, 2023•2 hr 23 min
Deep Dives continues and while Owen is sitting this one out, Ty Ippolito joins Gaius to talk about the sub-genre of horror in space and highlight different films that take place “where no one can hear you scream.” From Alien, to Event Horrizon, to Sunshine, the conversation shines a light on why this setting works and why it has led to some truly terrifying films that continue to resonate today. Links For Guests: Ty Ippolito Instagram...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 33 min
Our Tales of Horror limited series with a chat about 1978’s Halloween, directed and scored by John Carpenter and co-written with producer Debra Hill. Starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis, the film is set in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, and centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers (Nick Castle), who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween night when he was a child. Fifteen years later, having escaped and re...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Deep Dives continues and while Owen is sitting this one out, this is a very special anniversary chosen by Gaius and Jackson! Kill Bill: Vol.1 just recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and the duo is looking back at the film 20 years later. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the film stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a former assassin who swears revenge on a group of assassins called The Deadly Vipers (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their boss, Bill (Davi...
Oct 29, 2023•2 hr 4 min
Our Tales of Horror series continues with the 35th anniversary of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Directed by Dwight H. Little and written by Alan B. McElroy, the film stars Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur, Beau Starr, Kathleen Kinmont, and Sasha Jenson. In the film, after awakening froma ten year coma, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill his seven-year-old niece, Jamie Lloyd, with Dr. Loomis pursuing him once again. Joining us for...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 39 min
Tales of Horror continues with the team tackling 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the 2003 remake, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary! Directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written by Hooper and Kim Henkel, the 1974 film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Pertain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, and follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. The 2003 remake is directed by Marcus N...
Oct 18, 2023•2 hr
Deep Dives returns! While Owen is sitting this one out, Jackson comes over from the main show with his pick of Lake Mungo, a 2008 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Joel Anderson. Starring Talia Zucker and Martin Sharpe, the film employs mockumentary-style storytelling with found footage and docufiction elements, using actor “interviewees” to present the narrative of a family trying to come to terms with the drowning death of their daughter, and the potentially supernat...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 39 min
Tales of Horror continues with Hellraiser, written and directed by Clive Barker and based on Barker’s 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. The film marks Barker’s directorial debut and the plot involves a woman who discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her love/brother-in-law. Soon she starts killing for him to revitalize his body so he can escape the demonic beings known as the Cenobites that are pursuing him after he escaped their sadistic underworld. Tales of Horror is also ...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 40 min
Tales of Horror continues with The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel of the same name. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, the story follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests. In addition to talking this horror classic, the team catches up on new spooky season watches, updates on Halloween franchise news,...
Oct 04, 2023•2 hr 27 min
Tales of Horror changes things up this week with discussion about the Halloween franchise and it being shopped around in a bidding war around Hollywood. The team also discusses who their favorite horror directors are, if the horror genre is masochistic against women and, in none horror news, we celebrate the end of the writers strike after 146 days! The team then wraps things up with box office predictions for Saw X.
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 39 min
Tales of Horror continues with the directorial debut of Eli Roth, Cabin Fever, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary. Starring Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, and Giuseppe Andrews, the film follows a group of college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a flesh-eating virus. Helping us out with this latest Tale of Horror is Redfox of the Super Slash Bros podcast and he’s more than ready to go all in on this flesh-eating...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Tales of Horror continues with the late 90s fan-favorite slasher film, Urban Legend, which is also celebrating its 25th anniversary! Directed by Jamie Blanks and written by Silvio Horta, the film stars Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Robert Englund, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, John Neville, and Brad Dourif, and it focuses on a series of murders on the campus of a private New England university, all of which appear to be modeled after popular urban leg...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 52 min
Jackson and Gaius continue spooky season with another Tale of Horror courtesy of the 2016 Korean horror film, The Wailing. Written and directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, the film centers on a policeman who investigates a series of mysterious killings and illnesses in a remote Korean village called Gokseong in order to save his daughter. Tales of Horror not only showcases horror films but it also highlights other horror podcasts and the pair is thrille...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 59 min
