Devin & James are sliding down the chimney of the DEN OF CIN to deliver their thoughts on a couple of Holiday perennials! This time we're taking on a couple of cynical satires, SCROOGED with Bill Murray and BAD SANTA with Billy Bob Thornton. These films are at once so rude and raunchy, yet filled to the brim with the Christmas Spirit. A delicate balance that has never quite been perfected as well as it is in these two yule classics by master directors Richard Donner & Terry Zwigoff. So t...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Devin & James are back in the Den with a doozy of a double feature! This time we're driving along the wrong side of the tracks with a couple of hard-nosed, highly-stylized neo-noir crime movies. THIEF (1981) and DRIVE (2011) feel like they share DNA (along with THE DRIVER (1978), which gets more than an honorable mention from us). With plots that seem deceptively simple on the surface, these films feature characters with a ton of rage brewing beneath what's visible up top. James Caan and Rya...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Happy Halloween, Cinemaniacs!! Devin & James are back in the DEN OF CIN, and they've brought along BFF of the show Casey O'Connor with them! In honor of our favorite holiday, we're discussing the film adaptations of STEPHEN KING!!!! Possibly the only American author to become his own sub-genre in the cinema canon, King adaptations have been a part of the celluloid landscape since 1976's CARRIE, and they are still coming fast and frequent! We try to hit all of our favorites, especially those ...
Oct 27, 2022•2 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 39
"Beware of The Blob! It creeps, and leaps, and glides, and slides across the floor. Right through the door, and all around the wall. A splotch, a blotch. Be careful of The Blob." So warns the catchiest pop tune ever to open a monster movie. Devin & James are celebrating the start of the Halloween Season with a look back at one of the most fun, and underrated, horror/sci-fi series of the 20th century. From the indie charm of the classic 1958 original (Steve McQueen as a teenager?) through its...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Devin & James are back in the Den of Cin just in time to finish out the summer of 2022 with a look back at the summer of 1982! And they've brought along special guest Casey O'Connor to share his memories of one of the most influential summers the box office has ever seen. E.T., The Thing, Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tron, Rocky III, The Road Warrior, Poltergeist, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High are but a sampling of what the summer of 1982 had to offer with a side of butt...
Sep 21, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Devin & James are back in the Den to analyze a sample of classic Plague Movies: Taiwan's brutal THE SADNESS from 2021, and vintage David Cronenberg with 1977's RABID! We also make a quick examination of the contagions and parasites unsealed in George A. Romero's THE CRAZIES and Cronenberg's own SHIVERS, and how these films all feed upon each other so nicely. Are these films as depraved as their reputations? What qualifies as a Plague Movie? Can experimental plastic surgery really cause someo...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Devin & James are back at Crystal Lake for the conclusion of our deep dive into the FRIDAY THE 13th SERIES! Love 'em or hate 'em, the back half of this iconic film series has given us plenty to talk about. From the start of the Zombie Jason era, to a lake trip to NYC, to Hell and back, to outer freakin' space, and then back to meet an old foe in need of a severe manicure, these films really take viewers all over the place. Plus, we finally realize the 2009 franchise reboot is maybe the best ...
May 24, 2022•2 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Devin & James bring you a Friggatriskaidekaphobic's nightmare. If you don't know your phobias, that's the fear of FRIDAY THE 13th!! In our first deep dive into a particular film franchise, we visit Pamela Voorhees and her son JASON deep in the forest (for now) to find out what makes these first movies in the series so influential. One of our favorite series of all time, we found so much to say about what happens at Crystal Lake that we'll have to come back for a sequel to finish it off. Enjo...
May 12, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Devin & James return to the DEN OF CIN to discuss action icon MICHAEL BIEHN. From his breakout one-two punch in THE TERMINATOR & ALIENS, through his bad guy turn in TOMBSTONE, to his current slate as writer/director/star of indie horror flicks, Biehn has always been one of the more interesting, and perhaps misunderstood, of 80's action stars. We get into a few of his early and mid-career highlights too, like 1981's THE FAN and 1993's gleefully insane DEADFALL. You don't wanna miss this o...
Apr 25, 2022•2 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Devin & James are serving up a treat in the DEN OF CIN. It's an unlikely and weird double feature of CANNIBAL FILMS! First we get into Paul Bartel's 1982 cult comedy EATING RAOUL, starring Bartel, his longtime collaborator Mary Woronov, and Robert Beltran in the title dish... er, we mean role. Then we dive into a very recent film for a change, the 2022 Hulu "meat cute", FRESH. Directed by Mimi Cave, starring the excellent Daisy Edgar-Jones, as well as Sebastian Stan in a role sure to make yo...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Devin & James have brought their ol' buddy Casey O'Connor back to the Den of Cin to pay tribute to yet another legend we have recently lost, Ivan Reitman. Reitman was prolific as a writer/director/producer, and to try listing all his accomplishments in this space would be an exercise in futility. We do our best to jam in as much as we can, from his trashy exploitation roots through some of the most incredible and important mainstream work the art form has ever seen. For the director whose fi...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Devin & James are back in the Den for another tribute. 2022 has already been a rough year for all entertainment lovers, with the loss of so many heavies in their respective genres and mediums. In this episode, we discuss film historian/writer/director/actor PETER BOGDANOVICH, who passed away on January 6, 2022. From his start with Roger Corman, into his meteoric rise from "The Last Picture Show" through "Paper Moon," into some of his very famous friendships with the very famous, and on to hi...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Devin & James are back in the DEN OF CIN with another damn, dirty podcast! To ring in 2022, we're going on a casual Apocalypse Safari with Charlton Heston, through his strangely beautiful, and highly influential unofficial trilogy dealing with man's own self-destruction. With PLANET OF THE APES, THE OMEGA MAN, and SOYLENT GREEN (set in the futuristic hellscape of 2022), Chuck dropped a pop culture bomb that rippled through the American psyche, forever influenced sci-fi, sparked philosophical...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Devin & James are back in the Den of Cin, just in time to deck the halls with perhaps our oddest double feature yet! So many Holiday movies, so little time. We debate what it is that makes a Christmas movie a CHRISTMAS MOVIE (Yippi-ki-yay). Then we take a closer look at a couple of more obscure holiday perennials around our own homes. James takes on the melancholy cuteness of Jim Henson's "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas," while Devin digs into why the yuletide thriller "Christmas Evil (a.k...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Devin & James promised you more shows in October, and here we are in the DEN OF CIN for our second HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Special guest CASEY O'CONNOR trick or treats us again for a general geek-out over our favorite holiday, and we've all come equipped with "fun size" grab bag lists and memories to make suggestions for your own Halloween Watch Lists. So grab your popcorn and Snickers, turn down the lights, and start searching Roku for these titles guaranteed to tingle all the right nerves. HAPP...
Oct 28, 2021•2 hr
Halloween is so close, we can already taste the candy (mostly 'cause we've already dipped into our trick or treat supply). To celebrate, Devin & James are opening up the DEN OF CIN to their first CELEB GUESTS! We are honored to have as our first guest Horror Host Hall-of-Famer COUNT GORE DE VOL! www.countgore.com The Count flies in to talk to us about his 1970's-80's Washington D.C. show CREATURE FEATURE, and his even longer-running online show. He even brought his own Grab Bag of COUNT GORE...
Oct 20, 2021•2 hr 37 min
Devin & James are back in the Den of Cin with a new DOUBLE FEATURE episode featuring the one, the only (thank goodness) NICOLAS CAGE! First we take on his now iconic 2009 turn in BAD LIEUTENANT - PORT OF CALL: NEW ORLEANS, a movie containing so much crazy, it seems impossible that director Werner Herzog caught it all in one film. We follow that up with a discussion on his latest film, PIG, which brilliantly spins the Nicolas Cage persona through a bizarre Portland underworld of chefs and wai...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 49 min
Devin & James are back in the DEN OF CIN with more lists! This time they've each come with their own lists of five actors who have all played the same character. Devin examines the dark alleys and seedy nightclubs of DETECTIVE PHILIP MARLOWE, and James explores the open crypts and damp castles of COUNT DRACULA! A lot of fine (and not so fine) performers have played these iconic roles, and we lay out the ones we find most important, or just damn weird. Will your favorites make the list?...
Aug 24, 2021•2 hr 17 min
Devin & James are back in the DEN OF CIN with something new! This is our first of what we hope are many DOUBLE FEATURE episodes, where we will discuss one newer film along with an older one that shares themes or artists with the other. And boy do we have a doozy for our first double... 2021's spin on a vampire awakening, JAKOB'S WIFE, and the underrated straight-to-video gore classic CASTLE FREAK from 1995, both featuring a stellar performance by BARBARA CRAMPTON! Getting her start in the '8...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 47 min
Devin & James are back in the DEN OF CIN! In our new PODCAST, we celebrate one of the most admired filmmakers of our lifetime, RICHARD DONNER , who the world lost on July 5th. From THE OMEN to SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, and THE GOONIES to LETHAL WEAPON, and everything in between and beyond... Richard Donner's attention to (his and my favorite word) VERISIMILITUDE in his movies made him one of the most influential storytellers to ever call "ACTION!" From his start in the pioneering days of Televisi...
Jul 13, 2021•2 hr 9 min
Devin & James are back in the DEN OF CIN, this time with something new! If there's one thing Hollywood loves, it's Hollywood. So we've each brought to the table our own lists of movies about films and filmmakers! Devin has brought 5 fictional films about movies that don't really exist, and James has brought 5 true stories about the making of some of the most popular films of all time. We'll be back to our regular deep dives into all things cinema soon, but from time to time we'll be coming b...
Jun 01, 2021•2 hr 13 min
Devin & James are back to wrap up their deep dive into 1989 with the year's Comedy & Drama entries! Be ready to swing wide, as some of the most important dramas ever made came out in 1989, along with some of the wildest and most absurd comedies we love. All the major players from Spike Lee to "Weird Al" Yankovic are discussed as we put a cap on the crazy year that put a cap on the craziest decade for filmmaking. The creative shifts of 1989 would provide us with classic films representing...
May 09, 2021•1 hr 33 min
ROADHOUSE. For some of you, that's all we have to say to get you to listen to the new DEN OF CIN about the Action & Thrillers of 1989. But it wasn't just Swayze and Sam Elliott's facial hair kicking butt in '89. Devin & James also rant about TANGO & CASH, BLIND FURY, Burton's BATMAN, Indy's LAST CRUSADE, ACTION U.S.A., and so many more. You'll also find out about Don Johnson vomiting on his suspect, The Hulkster vs. a limousine, Gary Busey hiding in your house, and John Woo's white d...
Mar 24, 2021•2 hr 25 min
Devin & James are back for another exploration of a year in film! This time we take a deep dive into the year 1989. In this first of a three-part series, we begin with the horror and science fiction entries of '89. So many major horror titles came to life this year, including deep-sea adventures The Abyss and Leviathan, bizarre foreign entries like The Church, Santa Sangre, and Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and American oddities like Society and Parents. Plus Stephen King took us on our first cinema...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 58 min
Devin & James are back in their time-traveling phone booth to discuss the TIME TRAVEL films they couldn't catch in the first installment. This must be one of our favorite topics because this is the longest episode yet. Join in to hear our take on an essential H. G. Wells classic, time-spanning romances, budget-bending indies, the future via the 1990s, and major actors stuck in the "time loop" conundrum. Bill & Ted meet Socrates. Captain Kirk meets the whales. Plus Terry Gilliam takes us ...
Jan 13, 2021•2 hr 5 min
Devin & James take a cue from Huey Lewis and go "Back in Time" to escape 2020 and investigate the best films about Time Travel. In Part One, we visit with Doc & Marty, Peggy Sue, Jack the Ripper, Lyle Swan, the T-800, The Unmarried Mother, and face the Army of Darkness (and more!). But time takes its toll on those who travel it, and your exhausted hosts will have to refuel their Mr. Fusion and take another trip in our next episode.
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Just like one of the best examples of the genre itself, it took Devin & James two volumes to explore the seedy underbelly of REVENGE FILMS. In our new episode, we take on Tarantino, Revenge Westerns, Nicolas Cage at his most unhinged (if that's possible), and a few other surprises we missed on our first go-round. Please join us as we take a fun look at some rough freakin' movies.
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Devin & James are back in THE DEN OF CIN!! In our new episode, we take on our most challenging topic yet with REVENGE FILMS! This sub-genre is chock full of cruelty and brutality, but it can also be full of style, thoughtfulness, and even elegance. We get into the (sometimes unimaginable) humanity found in these films and discuss the reasons they are worthy of examination. Devin & James always have fun talking about movies, but to be fair, this episode (and all the films discussed) shoul...
Dec 13, 2020•1 hr 31 min
In lucky number Episode 13, Devin & James continue trick or treating through John Carpenter's career with their old buddy Casey. Unlike our other two-parters, which were recorded on separate days, this became a chat that lasted nearly 4 hours about 1 filmmaker who we could have gone even longer on if we weren't getting sleepy and slaphappy! But like sugar-high kids at a Halloween sleepover, we never lose our energy as we get through invisible men and body mutilation on Mars before a real dee...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 41 min
It's our first Halloween in the Den of Cin, and there's no better topic for the season than brilliant writer/director/composer John Carpenter! Along with special guest and long time friend Casey O'Connor, Devin & James pick apart the tricks and the treats in this subversive auteur's filmography. Our conversation went so long that we had to separate it into two packed episodes! Again! Many of Carpenter's best films are here in our first installment, including a few with collaborator Kurt Russ...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 27 min
