https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP087.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Infused with an irreverent, chaotic energy, reminiscent of Monkey Punch’s original manga, director Soji Yoshikawa’s completely madcap Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo (1978) sees Lupin and the gang, in their first animated theatrical outing, face off against a mysterious villain plotting to takeover the world while seeking to ...
May 09, 2023
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP086.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter In Korean director Jae-hoon Choi’s period action film, The Swordsman (2020), a retired master swordsman (Jang Hyuk) is forced into action when his daughter (Hyeon-soon Kim) is placed in mortal danger by Qing invaders, lead by the merciless Gurutai (Joe Taslim) relative of the Qing emperor, who seek to complete their subjugation of...
Apr 15, 2023
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP085.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000), an intimate, heartbreaking, and emotionally simmering peek into the lives of two forlorn souls (actor Tony Leung and actress Maggie Cheung) who seek companionship with one another after discovering that their spouses are having an affair together. Timestamps: [00:00] Intro, Dem...
Mar 22, 2023
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP084.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the 2001 anime TV series Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi , a zany coming of age comedy from famed anime studio Gainax and director / writer Hiroyuki Yamaga, about two young teenage friends, Sasshi and Arumi, on a slapstick filled series of misadventures through parallel worlds, dished out as hilarious spoofs of young ...
Feb 14, 2023
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE014.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Armed with the strength of the black tiger, the courage of the eagle, and the cunning of the ferret, the Team B crew sit down to watch Don Coscarelli’s sword and sorcery adventure, The Beastmaster (1982) . If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a comment below. Thanks for ...
Jan 24, 2023
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP083.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the 2003 Thai martial arts film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior featuring action star Tony Jaa in his break-out role. Timestamps: [00:00] Intro, Goblin Slayer Tabletop RPG , Ultraman Trigger [27:40] Review of Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior [1:44:12] Twitter Questions If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel f...
Jan 04, 2023
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP082.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Just in time for Halloween, the Thieves are back with a review of Tsui Hark and Ching Sui-tung’s spooky romantic comedy, A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), a genre defying tale of star crossed lovers, filled with slapstick comedy, exciting martial arts sorcery, and enough ghouls, ghosts, and zombies to fill your night with frights! Tim...
Oct 30, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP081.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter On today’s episode of the Blade Licking Thieves , we talk about our hopes for the recently announced continuation of the Berserk manga (sans its creator) and the potential pitfalls facing the creative team; discuss the long awaited and finally realized North American Macross licensing deal; briefly touch on the recent anime series...
Sep 01, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP080.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the Daniels’ latest film, Everything Everywhere All at Once , a wild, weird, and wonderfully irreverent journey through the multiverse that’s equal parts exhilarating action film, laugh-out-loud absurdist comedy, poignant family drama, and meaningful commentary on the fractal like nature of the Asian American experience....
Aug 11, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP079.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter In Takeshi Kitano’s summer road movie , Kikujiro , a young boy searching for his estranged mother sets out from Tokyo into rural Japan with an unruly former Yakuza as his guide, begetting a series of misadventures, felonious incidents, comedic interludes, surreal vignettes, and tender moments, as bonds of affection form between th...
Jul 22, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE013.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review Brian De Palma’s rock opera musical Phantom of the Paradise (1974): a strange and twisted horror / comedy cult-classic about a disfigured song writer who haunts the concert hall of the producer that betrayed him and stole his love, in a plot heavily inspired by both Phantom of the Opera and Faust . If you have q...
Jun 15, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP078.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, and Corey Yuen star in this hyper-kinetic supernatural comedy, Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain , a special effects laden wuxia film from Hong Kong director Tsui Hark about an ordinary Chinese solider who, after stumbling into a world of fantastical supernatural battles between the forces of good and evil...
May 20, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP077.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s class-conscious thriller Parasite, a black comedy about the Kims, a scrappy lower class family living on the edge of subsistence in Seoul, who through luck and by hook or crook manage to gain employment as help in the household of their incredibly wealthy city neighbors, the Parks, only to ...
Apr 23, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP076.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We chat about the Ip Man franchise, discuss the influences and merits of the original Mobile Suit Gundam , and lastly review one of the premiere anime titles of the 1990s : Macross Plus Movie Edition , an explosive work, by Macross series creator Shoji Kawamori and the core creative talent later responsible for a little known titl...
Mar 30, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE012.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review Stuart Gordon’s 1986 body horror film, From Beyond. Like Gordon’s prior film, Re-Animator , also starring Jeffrey Combs, From Beyond is based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story – this one involving inter dimensional creatures brought into our reality through a science experiment gone awry with, as you might imagin...
Feb 07, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP075.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the 2017 Hong Kong gangster film, Chasing the Dragon , the story of the rise and fall of Hong Kong’s most notorious gangster “Crippled Ho” (Donnie Yen) and his unlikely partnership with Police Detective Lee Rock (Andy Lau) during the cities’ most turbulent and lawless decades, the 1960s and 1970s, during the height of th...
Jan 17, 2022
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP074.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We review the ingenious horror / comedy One Cut of the Dead from Japanese filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda. Timestamps: [00:00] Dragon Quest Dai and Cowboy Bebop Live Action [58:27] One Cut of the Dead Review [2:02:30] Twitter Questions If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a com...
Dec 28, 2021
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE011.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review British filmmaker Ken Russell’s horror / comedy cult classic, The Lair of the White Worm (1988), starring a young Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi of Dr. Who , and the provocatively bewitching Amanda Donohue. If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a comment belo...
Sep 18, 2021
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP073.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter After the hell year that was 2020, the Thieves are at long last back on the couch together! We catch up by chatting about the zaniness that is Record of Ragnarok and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5, discuss Heat’s ongoing mission to ruin movies watch a new movie every day and how that’s been going, bum ourselves out with a double ...
Jul 31, 2021
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE010.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review animator Don Bluth’s directorial debut, the cult-classic, animated feature film: The Secret of NIMH (1982). If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a comment below. Thanks for listening!...
May 31, 2021
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP072.mp3 Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Special guest David Bednar ( @ykarps ) joins us on the show to chat about two of his favorite ’90s Tokusatsu films, the action filled, science fiction cult classics, Zeiram and Zeiram 2, from the creative mind of artist / director Keita Amemiya. Timestamps: [00:00] Intro + What We’ve Been Watching: Violet Evergarden , Alita , Cybe...
Apr 03, 2021
Download (right click and save as) | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Classic Tatsunoko super heroes return in this cross dimensional, team up film follow up to the 2017 CG animated Infini-T Force series by Tatsunoko and Digital Frontier studios. Tune in for the full review of Infini-T Force: Farewell, Friend ! Review (54:50) If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a comment below. Thanks for listening!...
Feb 20, 2021
Download ( right click and save as ) Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Not satisfied with reviewing just one Jack Frost movie this season — oh no, not this Christmas buster! — the Team B crew had to go and review two of them. For your listening pleasure, here’s Jack Frost (1997) a.k.a. the snowman slasher film. If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a comment below. Thanks for listening!...
Dec 25, 2020
Download ( right click and save as ) Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Team B review Jack Frost (1998): the Michael Keaton film in which he plays a neglectful father and musician who, after dying in a fatal automobile accident, is given one last chance to make things right when his son summons him back to life (using a magical harmonica he gifted him on the eve of his death) as a wisecracking, fun-loving snowman – Oh Joy! If you have questions or comments about the s...
Dec 19, 2020
Download ( right click and save as ) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming this evening to bring you a scream filled night of ghouls, ghosts, vampires, and kung fu. *Record Scratch* You heard me! On tonight’s Blade Licking Thieves spooktacular we’re watching the 1974 Hammer Films and Shaw Brothers co-production, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires , in which Hammer Films regular, Peter Cushing (a.k.a. Grand Moff Tarkin), reprisi...
Oct 31, 2020
Download ( right click and save as ) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Team B are back at it once again: enduring the pain, so we don’t have to. This episode they’re taking a bite out of director Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers (2002). It’s an action / horror film about a group of soldiers on a rescue mission that’s about to go horribly wrong — when werewolves attack! If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a comment be...
Oct 19, 2020
Download ( right click and save as ) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Our series of donation funded listener requests continues with a Blade Licking Thieves ‘ Double Feature! First, we have a review of Tatsuo Sato and Masaaki Yuasa’s short, surreal and slightly twisted 2001 OVA, Cat Soup , based on the manga by the late Nekojiro. And, lastly, we review One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island , the sixth film in the long running shonen action series by Eiichiro Oda...
Oct 04, 2020
http://traffic.libsyn.com/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE006.mp3 Download ( right click and save as ) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter Ultra cool grouch and Hideo Kojima love interest Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has twenty four hours to rescue the President of the United States from the world’s largest maximum security prison, New York City. Tune in to find out whether Snake is a bad enough dude to save the president as BLT Team B check out John Carpenter’s cult classic Esc...
Aug 19, 2020
http://traffic.libsyn.com/bladelickingthieves/BLT-EP068.mp3 Download ( right click and save as ) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter We’re kicking off our series of listener requests with Guillermo Del Toro’s love letter to the Kaiju and Mecha genres: Pacific Rim – so, tune in, enter the drift with us, and let’s cancel the apocalypse! Review (17:14) Twitter Questions (1:42:05 ) If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a...
Aug 03, 2020
http://traffic.libsyn.com/bladelickingthieves/BLT-TBE005.mp3 Download ( right click and save as ) iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher | E-mail | Twitter BLT Team B review Color Out of Space , writer-director Richard Stanley’s new film adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft horror short story, featuring the latest and greatest advancements in CAGE RAGE technology. If you have questions or comments about the show, please feel free to shoot us an Email or leave a comment below. Thanks for liste...
Jul 23, 2020
