It's time for a round-up of fifteen films that, like the episode title says, focus on the act of revenge, the intensity of war and, um, summertime. Josh gives his take on Oscar shoo-in 1917, Chris weighs in on most nominated Oscar contender JOKER, Oliver Reed goes for sweet sweet busting out of jail revenge in SITTING TARGET, Chris takes trips to both camp and school, Josh somehow manages to watch three(!) sequels including the ninth HELLRAISER flick, we get a documentary on Satanism, a look a J...
Feb 01, 2020•2 hr 49 min
This time on GBW we're talking about sixteen films of varied quality and what a batch of weirdness, mainstream and outright junk it is! Josh took multiple trips to the theater (the theater!) to give his takes on the latest STAR WARS and UNDERWATER, Kevin Bacon is a bullying jerk, a body jumping monster causes havoc on a train, there's a female version of the EXPENDABLES courtesy of The Asylum, river rafting goes sex comedy, Christian Slater proves he isn't much of an action hero, we take another...
Jan 17, 2020•3 hr 35 min
It's the end of a decade and for our first episode of 2020 we're doing our annual recap of the previous year. We both pick our five favourites of 2019, list some honourable mentions and tell you all the movies we're looking forward to in the coming twelve months. Did any of your choices make our lists? Is Josh sure to choose something totally obscure? Will we have any of the same titles? Just how many genre films made the cut? You'll have to tune in to find out but, first up, we'll fill you in o...
Jan 02, 2020•4 hr
It's time for us to dive back into franchise territory and this time instead of Chuck, ninjas and robotic cops we've decided to tackle a series that was a surprise hit when it began in 1987 and only continued to be more and more popular. But does it deserve such mainstream love? This is a question that needs an answer and we sat through all four films (in a compressed space of time) to try and figure out why this buddy cop series pairing Mel Gibson and Danny Glover with Richard Donner at the hel...
Dec 14, 2019•4 hr 4 min
After doing episodes on such favourites as John Carpenter, John Landis, Tom Savini, Tobe Hooper and others we realized that we were missing one of horror's luminaries: Wes Craven. From his early beginnings working with Sean S. Cunningham, his days in the XXX film industry, his reinvention of the horror landscape not once but twice, directing Meryl Streep to an Oscar nomination, and everything in-between we take a look at the man and his films going over our favourites and why we feel his movies ...
Nov 23, 2019•3 hr 28 min
Because we love delivering episodes that seem super weird coming from a podcast focused mostly on cult, horror and exploitation film we've decided to revisit our youth. Specifically our under ten years. Being kids of the 70's/80's we grew up through a crazy time where a lot of the things considered children's entertainment would probably not fly these days - as witnessed by a few movies on our lists! We've each picked five films we grew up on that made a lasting impact on us and it's quite an as...
Nov 08, 2019•3 hr 32 min
All Hallow's Eve is nearly upon us and during this time of tricks, treats and ghouls in the night we've decided to each come up with a list of five movies that would make perfect viewing for any Halloween get together you and your friends might be planning. Our only restrictions were that they had to be of the horror-comedy ilk and that they had to play well to a crowd. The results? A whole lot of zombies causing havoc, a late night TV hostess, an adaptation of a cartoon strip, a loving homage o...
Oct 26, 2019•4 hr 1 min
Formed in 1988 from the ashes of Empire Pictures, Charles Band's FULL MOON has been delivering all sorts of b-movie madness in their thirty-plus year existence. It's a ride that includes killer puppets, demonic toys, freaks, shrunken heads, miniature humans and even evil bongs(?!). We welcome back past guest, Vince D'Amato, to talk about what Full Moon means to us and have each chosen five of their releases we think you should check out if you want to know just what a Full Moon experience truly ...
Oct 12, 2019•3 hr 15 min
If you're looking to fatten up your physical media collection and/or are curious about the wild, wild world of cult and exploitation films, it's easy to fall in love with Mill Creek Entertainment. When they're not releasing multi-film sets or complete TV series, they are giving us blu-rays of various cult oddities. This why we've decided to shine the light on this budget label with both of us each picking five of their releases we believe you should pick up to get an idea of just what Mill Creek...
Sep 28, 2019•3 hr 2 min
We're back from hiatus and do we have a batch of films for you! In the month we've been off we've taken a lot of trips to the theatre, watched some questionable entertainment and built up a lot of resentment towards Disney (warning: rant within). We both doubled up on two bonafide classics about hitting the open road and pagan rituals, Chris lets you know if READY OR NOT is worth your time, Josh watches a western-lite with one of the best pairings in 70's cinema, there's a whole lot of mediocre ...
Sep 14, 2019•3 hr 53 min
In the first of what we're planning to be an annual series we've decided to look back at movies that have crossed over from the "teens" to adulthood by turning twenty years old this year. First up is the last year of the 90's. A year where Y2K freaked everyone out, Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture at the Oscars (and made us collectively groan) and many films helped kick off a new influx of copycats - here's looking at you, The Blair Witch Project. For this episode we've both chosen five film...
Aug 09, 2019•2 hr 32 min
There ain't no cure for the summertime blues... except movies. We've watched a whole slew of films in the last few weeks and want to tell you all about them as we tackle 18 movies as Josh checked out Alexandre Aja's CRAWL, a bear has a picnic with humans, a duo of slasher flicks of suspect quality, two vacations courtesy of National Lampoon, some Jess Franco nunspoloitation, an Albert Pyun action movie that looks like Die Hard but isn't, and Chris insisting on watching not one but three Lifetime...
Jul 28, 2019•3 hr 6 min
For the last thirty-plus years we've been witness to many inventive, creative and groundbreaking music videos but now we here at GBW have decided that there can also be a disturbing and/or horrific side to them. Which is why we've each decided to pick our five favourite horror-related music videos. Covering various genres and with such things as murderous kids, doom-laden movie clips and dark industrial sounds these videos are ones we think do the genre proud. However, you're not going to find M...
Jul 10, 2019•2 hr 14 min
We're addicts just looking for that next fix. We want it all the time. We'd do almost anything to have it. It's a problem. We're talking about movies. For this episode of GBW we're talking 16 films of varying quality including art deco horror revenge by way of Vincent Price, a couple of made-for-TV movies from the 70's that just don't deliver, Chris continuing to search for a truly great 2019 horror film, Josh heading to prison for one of his favourite discoveries of the year and lots lots more!...
Jun 29, 2019•2 hr 31 min
Because "physical media is dead" (yeah, okay) we've decided to tackle another boutique label that's been delivering the goods since 2009 in the U.K. before coming over to the North American shores in 2014. If the movie is off-beat, cult, horror or something you won't find outside of a Vinegar Syndrome release then chances are Arrow Video has put it out. From unleashing oodles of 80's slashers on the unsuspecting public, giving older Italian and Japanese cinema the kind of respect it deserves and...
Jun 15, 2019•2 hr 52 min
After a three week gap your co-hosts Chris and Josh have returned with a plethora of films they've watched in the in-between time. In fact, we've got 19 movies to talk about to deliver you three hours of talk about action, horror and... syphilis? In preparation for his upcoming New York trip Josh gives TAXI DRIVER a re-visit, we gave each other "homework" with two films involving bank robbers and prison, Chris gets even closer to his goal of never having to watch a CHILDREN OF THE CORN sequel ev...
Jun 01, 2019•3 hr 9 min
As two guys who have loved movies for as long as we can remember we recently decided to try and pinpoint the exact moment that films went from being just something you would watch on television or go see with friends on the weekend to an outright obsession, What year made the biggest impact on us and threw us over the edge and what movies were involved in fueling this lifelong love of all things cinema? For part two, your co-host Chris takes a look at the year that defined him: 1986. From viewin...
May 13, 2019•3 hr 36 min
As two guys who have loved movies for as long as we can remember we recently decided to try and pinpoint the exact moment that films went from being just something you would watch on television or go see with friends on the weekend to an outright obsession, What year made the biggest impact on us and threw us over the edge and what movies were involved in fueling this lifelong love of all things cinema? For this, the first of two back-to-back episodes, your co-host Josh takes a look at the year ...
Apr 27, 2019•3 hr 51 min
Why is that that even guys like us who don't follow it, watch it on TV, or participate in sports tend to love watching the endless amount of movies about them that have come out? Is it the second-hand adrenaline? The triumph of the underdog? Our attempts to seem macho by saying, "Dude, Friday Night Lights is rad!"? We'll never know. However, what we do know is, we dig sports movies and we've both picked five of them that we think you should check out. We've got some washed-up athletes, body chec...
Apr 13, 2019•3 hr 24 min
Because we like taking chances and have a desire to be more niche than we already are it's time, just like the last episode about Las Vegas, to try something new by focusing on a specific film company. TriStar Pictures and their iconic flying pegasus logo has ushered us through many an entertaining movie and usually guaranteed fun genre-like movies with the slightest of Hollywood sheen on them. Which is why we're each picking our five favourite films to be released by the company. However, to ge...
Mar 29, 2019•3 hr 10 min
What better way to deal with both of us feeling ill when recording by talking about a place where the party never stops: Las Vegas! That's right, Sin City itself. Where the drinks are cheap, the gambling is plentiful, the strippers are crazy and the neon is bright. To try something new we're taking on an entire city in film form by talking about what films either set in or that spends some time in the outrageous desert oasis that are worth checking out. We're talking De Niro, some Elvis imperson...
Mar 15, 2019•3 hr 18 min
At GBW we're big horror fans. In fact, it was horror that brought your hosts together in the first place all those years ago. It's only natural that when people find out you do a movie podcast, and that you've written many reviews, they want to know what the "scariest" horror films are. Looking at this from the angle of a) we've seen so many genre films it's impossible to be scared and b) if we were someone not at all familiar with horror what would scare us, we've each come up with five movies ...
Mar 01, 2019•3 hr 17 min
It's Winter and that means it's colder and everyone is all bundled up. Which is why here at GBW want to bring a little Summer to you early. We love sex comedies, especially those of the 80's, so we've decided to each list our five favourites of the sub-genre that involve either the beach or a multitude of bikinis. There's your typical lingering shots of the female anatomy, bikinis being used to save businesses, a surprising amount of name actors taking part in the somewhat sexist shenanigans and...
Feb 08, 2019•3 hr 18 min
Seeing as we have 19 movies to talk about we decided that a topic was totally unnecessary this time out and have delivered an almost three-hour roundhouse kick to your ears of what we've watched since last episode. And what a batch it is! We have two franchises both reaching their third (and final) installments, Vincent Price and Roger Corman re-teaming once more, some technology fueled vigilante action, a bizarre documentary about winning a car, a strange Steven Soderbergh "experiment", Chris p...
Jan 23, 2019•2 hr 43 min
It's 2019 and we're kicking off the year as we usually do by doing our annual recap of the just finished previous year. We've both picked our five favourite films of 2018, listed the ones that didn't quite make the cut but are still worth seeking out, and tell you about what films we're looking forward to in the next twelve months - while hoping a few might actually make our best of lists next time. What kind of films did we dig the most? Will we both have anything the same on our lists? Will th...
Jan 05, 2019•3 hr 37 min
Kurt Russell. Burt Reynolds. We here at GBW think these are the coolest actors to ever grace movie screens and have decided to dedicate an episode to them. From Kurt's beginnings in Disney films, to Snake Plissken and right to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 we talk all about one of the coolest cats around. But he has competition with the mighty Burt who is one hell of a shot with a bow and arrow, flexes his football skills and teams up with Hal Needham perhaps one time too many - we may also get...
Dec 15, 2018•2 hr 39 min
It's time to KETCHUP (or "Catch Up", if you will) on what we've been watching. Seeing as it has been a long-time since we last spoke about all the films we've been consuming in between episodes we decided this was the opportune time to discuss the 19(!!) movies that crossed our eyeballs since episode 100. And what a mix it is as we get a duo of found footage, a punk rock documentary, some Argento by way of Arrow Video, Mr. Rogers, Josh gets a DEATH WISH (2), a slew of top notch 2018 films, and w...
Dec 01, 2018•2 hr 56 min
If you were a horror geek like we were in the late 80's and early 90's chances are you discovered the glory of shot-on-video in your search for the latest, greatest scare flick. Something that your group of friends would rent on a Friday night and marvel at the low-budget shenanigans within. Movies that even you might be able to make in your own backyard. That's why we've brought on filmmaker/writer Richard Mogg to talk all about his just released book, Analog Nightmares: The Shot on Video Films...
Nov 13, 2018•3 hr 37 min
It's time to celebrate! Four years ago when we started this podcast we had absolutely no clue what we were doing (DON'T listen to episode one) and were doing it to get on the 'bandwagon' as it were. Now it's 100 episodes later and we're still here, still talking way too much and too long about movies, and we're still friends. We've delivered the goods with this 4+ hour show where we get the opportunity to talk about our favourite podcasting moments as well as deciding to have a little bit of fun...
Oct 27, 2018•4 hr 22 min
With all the talk of things being "meta" and breaking the fourth wall we decided to look at movies that contain, well, movies. We've compiled a list of films that involve actual filmmaking: a film-within-a-film as it were. With so much to chose from we mention some of the titles worth seeking out and it includes some Kevin Smith, Steve Buscemi and our man Burt. We also go on A LOT of tangents involving soap operas and bad Seinfeld impressions - don't say we didn't warn you! As usual we start by ...
Oct 13, 2018•3 hr 12 min
