Movie Meltdown - Episode 486 This week we kick off a new running series where we focus on sci-fi movies. Listen as discuss the 1960 Italian feature Atom Age Vampire . The poster is awesome, the trailer is amazing... but does the movie itself hold up as a science fiction classic? And while we realize we're still just geeks digging through our uncle's video closet, we also address… FunFlicks, The Orville, Larry Cohen, Veronica Lake, dressed up in a trench coat like she's a spy, Ursula K. Le Guin, ...
May 13, 2019•2 hr 14 min•Season 11Ep. 19
Movie Meltdown - Episode 485 This week the Super Series wraps up a huge chapter in the Marvel cinematic universe. Join us as we try to talk through coming down off the Endgame high as well as what all of this has meant to us over the course of these last 22 movies. And while we realize we're bringing in our own real-world anxieties, we also cover… satisfying bows, the reluctant hero, you've been tricked through movies, doesn't interact much with people, you took that to the face, like a literatu...
May 06, 2019•2 hr 18 min•Season 11Ep. 18
Movie Meltdown - Episode 484 This week we welcome artist Winona Nelson. Winona studied classical realism and art for the entertainment industry at the Safehouse Atelier in San Francisco, then worked as a concept artist at Flagship Studios and Planet Moon Studios . She now works as a freelance in illustration, concept art, comics and fine art. Her work has been seen in gallery exhibitions in Connecticut, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York City. As usual, the Meltdown perspective look...
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 11Ep. 17
Movie Meltdown - Episode 483 This week we discuss sci-fi storytelling from it's early appearances and ideals to it's grander, overarching themes. And as we realize the life we are living is a cautionary tale, we also address… Sputnik, Rod Serling, Black Mirror, blast proof doors, there's always a dystopian element, THX 1138, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Fifth Element, find a way to do this fake version of what I'm so obsessed with, Fellini in outer space, Star Trek, George Clinton, Project Blue Bo...
Apr 22, 2019•1 hr 41 min•Season 11Ep. 16
Movie Meltdown - Episode 482 This week we talk with Dick Starr, an artist whose work has been featured in numerous galleries, horror and tattoo magazines, books, album covers and comics around the world. But if you look at Dick's work, it's very obvious that he's a fan of movies… specifically horror. So listen as we discuss trying to make a name for yourself in the ever-changing art scene, watching gory horror movies from a very young age and - jerky. Which if you don't know Dick, might seem lik...
Apr 15, 2019•2 hr 3 min•Season 11Ep. 15
Movie Meltdown - Episode 481 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") This week the Bastion Chapter of the Horror Club meets to watch a lesser-known werewolf movie. But little do they know that they've been duped by the old Wolf Girl bait and switch. Instead they are exposed to Tim Curry, sideshow performers, little people stripping, Grace Jones, a work-at-home scientist, Iceman and some disturbing nether regions. And as we realize there is no method to this madness, we also cover… Ash vs Evil Dead, Sant...
Apr 08, 2019•5 min•Season 11Ep. 14
Movie Meltdown - Episode 480 This week some previously absent members of the gang are reunited to go on adventures at The Lexington Comic & Toy Convention ! So listen as we discuss seeing celebrities, buying cool stuff and just what is the right criteria for being a supervillain. And as we obviously prove that we are not infected by a smart amoeba, we also bring up… Val Kilmer, Stan against Evil, the entire Scream movie franchise, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Fightworld, The Umbr...
Apr 01, 2019•1 hr 49 min•Season 11Ep. 13
Movie Meltdown - Episode 479 This week we are joined by semi-regular cast member... and at this point, a member of the Meltdown family - DOUG JONES!! And this week Doug joins us for our Sofa Theater discussion of Waking Ned Devine . And while we realize both the guest and the cast seem to crash through people's boundaries, we also address… Count Orlok, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Better Things, What We Do in the Shadows, the AFI awards, Guillermo del Toro, Star Trek: Discovery, Mira and Paul So...
Mar 25, 2019•1 hr 27 min•Season 11Ep. 12
Movie Meltdown - Episode 478 The "Super Series" is back as we come out of our post-snap hiatus to discuss Captain Marvel . And as we begin to wonder if ever we were somehow involved in "the Budapest thing", we also mention… Grendel's insatiable, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Aquaman, Spider-Man: Far from Home, SHAZAM!, Venom, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Legion, Kingpin, Idris Elba, Street Fighter 2, the Tesseract Cube, Guardians of the Galaxy, Samuel L. Jackson, all those Kir...
Mar 18, 2019•2 hr 6 min•Season 11Ep. 11
Movie Meltdown - Episode 477 This week we ask the question - can you turn any "property" into a theme park attraction? And as we realize that this is all an interesting psychological experiment - being conducted on us, we also cover... Newt Scamander, Idiocracy, The Wire, The Warriors, James Cameron, hey look it's a wild Gabor, Back to the Future: Part 2, a symbol of corrupt pseudo justice, Bring 'em Back Alive and Tales of the Gold Monkey, The Journey: Absolution, they are transported to anothe...
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 42 min•Season 11Ep. 10
Movie Meltdown - Episode 476 It's the annual award ceremony of The Meltdown Awards ! Listen as we discuss all the nominees and announce the winners from the 2018 films and performances voted on by our listeners! And as we make use of our dollhouse sensibility, we also bring up… unnecessary creepy smiles, it hits the nail on just so many heads, it's very hermetically sealed, this is one of those times… when everybody meets in the same spot, they're still kind of unpacking whatever kind of weirdne...
Mar 04, 2019•1 hr 50 min•Season 11Ep. 9
Movie Meltdown - Episode 475 This week we start off talking about the current convention culture and how artists fit into that situation - or don't... and eventually, we end up discussing the differences in the generations and how that all affects the future of the world. This conversation runs the gamut! And as we start to realize that fandom is all relative, we also address… The Commuter, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a convincing Irish accent, Tonks from Harry Potter, Ron Howard, we have so much...
Feb 25, 2019•1 hr 35 min•Season 11Ep. 8
Movie Meltdown - Episode 474 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") This week the horror club reconvenes to discuss André Øvredal's 2016 film The Autopsy of Jane Doe starring Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch and Olwen Kelly. And as we realize we are all living in a shared horror universe, we also mention… Blumhouse Productions, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Jimsonweed, The Shining, I get that that's a weird thing to find in somebody's basement, an old-timey narrator telling us about an animal's adventure, ...
Feb 18, 2019•4 min•Season 11Ep. 7
Movie Meltdown - Episode 473 This week the Meltdown Gang decides to hang out and discusses some of the things they've watched lately. And while we plan our upcoming puppet musical, we also cover… Bad Times at the El Royale, Russian Doll, Green Room, Revenge, Labyrinth, Hail, Caesar!, Another Day, Another Time, John Cusack, picking apart old horror tropes, King Arthur and the knights of the round table, Catherine O'Hara, it's very seamless the way they Incorporated all together, Patrick Stewart, ...
Feb 11, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 11Ep. 6
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack 55 This week we are joined once again by composer Erich Stem as we play and discuss all the 2018 Oscar nominees for Best Original Song and Best Original Score . And while we try to decide how many tracks feature stand-alone-ish-ness, we also bring up… Wynton Marsalis, grooves, chord progressions and sound effects, a different artistic purpose, Hans Zimmer is actually the kind of person that he studied, reminiscent of past songwriting styles, the background music t...
Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 51 min•Season 11Ep. 5
Movie Meltdown - Episode 472 This week we return to our annual series The People Who Died … as we pay tribute to just some of the celebrities we lost in 2018. Including some personal stories of our own interactions with a few of the dearly departed. And while we wonder if we'll be considered a phenomenon had the lasting effect on generations of people, we also address… the wheelchair in Forrest Gump, Eighth Grade, The Henson Studios, Anjelica Huston, they recreated that corner of the street from...
Jan 28, 2019•1 hr 48 min•Season 11Ep. 4
Movie Meltdown - Episode 471 This week we kick things off with special guest J. Todd Anderson, the man who has been drawing storyboards for EVERY Coen Brothers movie since Raising Arizona ! Then the Meltdown Gang sits down to discuss the most recent outing from the Coen Brothers - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs . While we ourselves realize we might be as eloquent and well-spoken as an Elizabethan backwoods guy, we also mention… the Cleveland Browns, wedding cakes, Tom Waits, Superman with George R...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 41 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Movie Meltdown - Episode 470 This week the Meltdown Gang gets together to create an audio culinary dish made of stacked layers of movie geekdom. Listen as we add layer after layer of geeky content... like a good lasagna. And eventually, we'll discuss a very specific - "bad lasagna". And while we fight off nazis and vampires, we also cover… The Predator, Derry Girls, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Leave No Trace, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Clue, Red Eye, The Drive-in Movie Channel, The Howl...
Jan 14, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Movie Meltdown - Episode 469 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") This week the Meltketeer Horror Club reconvenes to discuss the 2018 psychological horror film Delirium starring Topher Grace, Patricia Clarkson and Genesis Rodriguez. And while we realize all we really want is Fruity Pebbles delivered to our doorstep, we also bring up… Shutter Island, Sunset Boulevard, bringing in outside contractors, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, such an obtuse bad guy, It's a Wonderful Life, a tongue in a jar, the Home A...
Jan 08, 2019•6 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Movie Meltdown - Episode 468 This week we return to our epic sci-fi conversation that started in last week's episode. And as we realize we are immersed in a 70's cinematic, futuristic nightmare, we also address... Nomi Sunrider, Battlestar Galactica, people vanishing all around the ship, The City & the City, The Avengers movies, Ewan Mcgregor, this creature that lives in a desert, classical understanding of what penance is, an inability of people to communicate with each other, Paul Bettany,...
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Season 10Ep. 52
Movie Meltdown - Episode 467 This week we dive headfirst into a sci-fi conversation that geeks from any galaxy will appreciate. And as we realize we're changing the future... one rivet at a time, we also mention… crawling around the Jefferies tubes, watching the forums, Stone Mountain, Georgia, I'm surprised you got that sentence out before you were killed, Kurtzman Trek, dawn throws back the night, at the core of Hell Lucifer is the one enduring the most suffering, in the end, it had my first r...
Dec 24, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Season 10Ep. 51
Movie Meltdown - Episode 466 This week we break away from our regular coverage of Louisville Supercon for a "very special episode" with actor and filmmaker Andre Gower. Listen as Andre talks about growing up in the entertainment industry. How he ended up in Monster Squad ... with a role that should have changed his life (eventually- it did). And the amazing fan reaction and support over the years that lead him to direct his film Wolfman's Got Nards: A Documentary . And while we get into a heated...
Dec 16, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Season 10Ep. 50
Movie Meltdown - Episode 465 This week we are coming to you "live" from Louisville Supercon as we talk with a quartet of sci-fi legends. Join us as we talk with Sam Jones ( Flash Gordon ), Ricou Browning ( The Creature from the Black Lagoon ), Patricia Quinn ( The Rocky Horror Picture Show ) and John Wesley Shipp ( The Flash ). In this Meltdown-verse crossover event, we join forces with George Buehler (The WBKI FANatic), to discuss our other interactions with guests like… Kevin Conroy, Alice Coo...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Season 10Ep. 49
Movie Meltdown - Episode 464 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") On this week's exclusive episode, we kick off the new Meltketeer Horror Club with Olaf De Fleur's Netflix film Malevolent starring Florence Pugh. And as we realize, even if we sew our own mouths shut, we would still address… Buster Keaton, Dogs… the Series, The Birdcage, very clean torture aprons, what are your rules for ghost in this universe, Peter Bogdanovich, sickly and basement weird, hitting certain notes because it had to, if yo...
Dec 05, 2018•6 min•Season 10Ep. 48
Movie Meltdown - Episode 463 This week we welcome Dr. Ann Hall, Chair Comparative Humanities at University of Louisville, who not only teaches about film, but has also been a movie fan pretty much her whole life. So together we embark on our usual conversational trajectory as we bounce around from topics like… the old Hollywood publicity machine to favorite holiday movies. We also address the role of women in film in general to more specifically - the role of women in horror films. Plus a lot of...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Season 10Ep. 47
Movie Meltdown - Episode 462 This week we discuss the 2018 Netflix release Apostle , a period piece that is arguably a horror film about religion or at least religious cults. The film stars Dan Stevens, Lucy Boynton, Michael Sheen and was written and directed by Gareth Evans. And as we take turns poking each other with sticks, we also cover… Suspiria, Haunting of Hill House, Riverdale, Twig Head, an unexpected cave exposition, be prepared you guys… do some planning, they turned up the creepy and...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Season 10Ep. 46
Movie Meltdown - Episode 461 As theaters are continually flooded with familiar titles and on-going series, we discuss the way that audiences see this process and potentially some alternate perspectives on the subject. And while we set the bar a little higher for ourselves, we also bring up… A Star Is Born, Suspiria, Halloween, A Simple Favor, BoJack Horseman, Our Town, Blumhouse Productions, Pet Sematary, honor the original, Roger Corman, painters, American culture, Mark of the Vampire, and the ...
Nov 12, 2018•2 hr 1 min•Season 10Ep. 45
Movie Meltdown - Episode 460 This week we sit down for an extended discussion of David Gordon Green's Halloween . The latest in the series is sort of an attempt to be both a sequel and a reboot... but does it end up being successful at either? And while we try to decide if we ourselves are suffering from PTSD from watching so many horror movies over the years, we also address… Tales from the Hood 2, survivor guilt, Fright, Judy Greer, new Loomis, Rob Zombie, comments from the audience, creepy me...
Nov 04, 2018•2 hr 10 min•Season 10Ep. 44
Movie Meltdown - Episode 459 (For our Patreon supporters.) After rounding out our showcase of "bad movies" for a live event at the public library, Tracy and Bryan sit down to not only recap some of their choices but also to discuss what makes a bad movie "bad". And more importantly, the perspective that makes people want to watch movies that certain other people would consider to be terrible. And while we cover things that are both beautiful and hideous all at the same time, we also address… Joh...
Oct 28, 2018•11 min•Season 10Ep. 43
Movie Meltdown - Episode 458 Our Halloween madness fully sets in as we lower ourselves into the caves of insanity that are Neil Marshall's The Descent . And as we break down all the fun of being a wendigo, we also mention… Carrie, Pet Sematary, like weird but I'm into it, Flannery O'Connor, it all comes back to tuberculosis, The VVitch, The Shining, Mammoth Cave, rods through the face, they show him in his beast-personality, it's just darkness into darkness, boom… bam… Doug Jones, Game of Throne...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 48 min•Season 10Ep. 42
