Movie Meltdown - Episode 64.1 This week features random discussions on: Night at the Museum , Jack Ketchum , Elektra , Percy Jackson , Superman returns again , Judge Dredd , Lucky McKee , re-booting Burt and Dolly , Batman Begins , Nuclear Man , Offspring , hell big time , fighting the sequel slump , Chappelle in Superman 3 , Dante’s Inferno, selling the funny drunk in this day and age , more Percy Jackson , Christopher Nolan, Vin Diesel, Universal Soldier: Regeneration , Angela Bettis , The Bla...
Feb 16, 2010•41 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 63.2 Who Can Resist Shatner in Tight Pants?? Oh god, spiders! Spiders everywhere!! That's what you'll find in this week's Sofa Theater feature: KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS! You'll hear about a sexy entomologist, milking the cow, DDT, shooting your finger off, a girly-screaming bi-plane pilot, F-PETA, taking out your glass eye, terrorizing kids on a Sunday afternoon and spirit gumming a live spider to your face! "I love every flavor of Shatner." Warning: Lots of arachnid-spoil...
Feb 12, 2010•1 hr 6 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 63.1 This week our rambling entails... Serenity, The Razzies , House of the Dead Overkill , “get me a picture of Thor !”, Mimic , The Wolfman , Capt. America , Zachary Quinto, Severance , an ageing Karate Kid , Warcraft geekery, a Sci-fi Spartacus with the Hulk in it, a secret message from Fairytopia, George Gershwin, Keith Richards, does that make Paul Walker the Dom DeLuise?, Planet Hulk , Joe Johnston, DynoMutt ?, The Vin Diesel Update, Smallville: Absolute Justice , ...
Feb 10, 2010•48 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 62 Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Movie Meltdown's Golden Raspberry Awards Special !! In preparation for our own Oscar special - Oscar Meltdown , we present this special episode. This time we talk to John Wilson, founder of The Golden Raspberry Awards . Listen as John tells us how he came to love bad movies and just how you go from hosting a party in your living room to getting Oscar -winner Halle Berry to attend your event. So listen and then go to: www.razzies.com an...
Feb 06, 2010•27 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 61.2 Cyborgs in the Attic!! This week we settle into the Sofa Theater to watch the forgotten Wes Craven flick - DEADLY FRIEND. If you love 80's movies, wacky robots, exploding heads and Kristy Swanson - look no further. Plus feedback from our listeners on their Deadly Friend memories. Were you scarred by BeeBee (or Anne Ramsey)? "If you knew ANYTHING about this movie, you knew the basketball scene" Warning: Lots of robo-spoilers!...
Feb 06, 2010•1 hr 7 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 61.1 This week discuss: Dracula: Year One , Altered , Blood on Satan’s Claw , Sam Worthington, Resident Evil , Noir , Mel Gibson, what the hell is up with John Travolta’s new movie?, Shooting aliens (or Jay), Wii-related injuries, The Red Baron , 3D porn, Re-starting Dexter , The Machinist , Mansquito, Burn After Reading, Lawman’s spooky sixth sense, Lack of friends, George Lucas’s fairies, Mega-shark vs. Giant Octopus , Method Man, Johnny Quest , The Jason slugs, full-f...
Feb 03, 2010•1 hr
Movie Meltdown - Episode 60.2 It's time for hard-core angel-on-angel battle action!! This week we head Out on the Town to see the new release LEGION. Is this a kick-ass, fun popcorn movie or just a rip-off pieced together from other movies?? Plus feedback on Battle Royale and news of our upcoming Sofa Theater features. "Thumb-less Handprints." Warning: In this divine episode - Lots of spoilers!...
Jan 28, 2010•1 hr 10 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 60.1 This week's buzz and activities include American Werewolf in London, Carriers, The Dragonball Z movie, Chris Pine, an alternate Marvel universe, Gamer, Rocket Robin Hood, Kate Beckinsale taking a shower, Rik Mayall, emo-Spider-Man, The Invention Of Hugo Cabret, Whiteout, bitching about George Lucas, House of Bones, The Mist, Sympathy for the Devil, Corin Nemec, giving Canada some props, Star Trek Shrinky Dinks, family friendly Martin Scorsese and the ever-changing C...
Jan 27, 2010•41 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 59.2 Together I will rule the internet!! ...with this awesome episode about the VHS classic EXTERMINATOR 2. This entry in our series "Video Boxes That Warped My Brain", does in fact warp the brains of most of the crew. Join us as we relive all the gritty realism of ripped off-the-shoulder shirts, break dancing and roller skates of - the streets. (As I am. The streets, that is. Curse you Mario Van Peebles.) "I haven't seen this many torches outside of a Frankenstein movie...
Jan 24, 2010•1 hr 9 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 59.1 This week's buzz and activities include Green Lantern, G.I. Joe, Grace, Cowboys and Aliens, Jackie Earle Haley, J Cobb, Blake Lively, Marc Forster, Jack Daniel Stanley, Peter Sarsgaard, Daniel "Zeke" Craig, Ray Parks, H2 Director's Cut, Mark Strong, Robert Ludlum, movies based upon non-fiction self help books and the death of video rental chains. Plus a pair of entries in the Movie Fan Freakshow known as: The Deliverance Duo. "Zipper Lips"...
Jan 20, 20100
Movie Meltdown - Episode 58.2 Welcome to BATTLE ROYALE (aka - The Worst-Case Scenario)... This week's Sofa Theater feature is Kinji Fukasaku's BATTLE ROYALE. What would your strategy be? Would you be able to kill your friends? And who really wins in this insane game? Plus feedback that entails lightning balloons, Corey Haim, Porkins and George C. Scott. "There's something about Japanese schoolgirls shooting each other - that's awesome!" (Lots of dead Japanese kids and spoilers!)...
Jan 15, 2010•1 hr 15 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 58.1 Geek activities and movie buzz including The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus , Bill Paxton, Daybreakers , Stanley Kubrick, Zoltar , James Bond, the Dune glossary, writing a zomedy, surviving nuclear blasts, virtual actors and punching Wrong Turn 3 in the face! "Can you fire somebody from a podcast?"
Jan 13, 2010•59 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 57.2 Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA (I think the description from the DVD says it all ...) General spoilers (from 1940) as per usual...
Jan 09, 2010•1 hr 36 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 57.1 This week we get to know ourselves (via centerfolds), plus geek activities and all the movie buzz you love to complain about. "My turn-ons are...small animals?"
Jan 06, 2010•1 hr 1 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 56 On the trail of BIGFOOT... Join Bryan and his special co-host Rick (a.k.a. Samurai) from the Gentlemen's Guide to Midnight Cinema for our new cross-over feature The Bigfoot Files. In this first installment we watch "The Legend of Boggy Creek". This docu-drama kicked off the wave of Bigfoot movies (and sightings) that took the country by storm. But does the movie itself live up to it's cinematic impact? God Bless America (and Bigfoot) !!...
Dec 31, 2009•1 hr 3 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 54.2 The 2nd Annual Movie Meltdown Holiday "Special" continues... Join us for more festive holiday tunes, plus not one but two Sofa Theater features with BLACK SANTA'S REVENGE and HARDWARE. Plus an awesome voicemail that makes a certain cast member's head grow three sizes that day. And we round out the show with quite possibly the best and most uplifting holiday song ever.
Dec 17, 2009•1 hr 29 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 54.1 Grab some hot chocolate and cookies and join us for The 2nd Annual Movie Meltdown Holiday "Special" . Bah F-ing Humbug.
Dec 15, 2009•42 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 53.2 This week's Sofa Theater feature is the 1981 film The Howling. Plus comments on the movie from Dee Wallace herself and instructions on how to make a bad hamburger. "They turn into ' wolfs ' while they are doing it. Do they do it doggie style?"
Dec 12, 2009•1 hr 12 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 53.1 This week we discuss our own levels of geekiness, and talk about one of the greatest movie pitches ever - exorcising the ghost of Bruce the shark from your house. Plus we feature a snippet of our interview with actress - Dee Wallace. All that plus… hanging around a store looking at movies, reading Lovecraft, being obsessed with Air Bud , Kingpin , Shinobi - Heart Under Blade , Rankin Bass officially licensed chocolate, Johnny Depp - Poncho Villa vs. Tonto, Adam Gree...
Dec 09, 2009•52 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 52.2 This week's Sofa Theater feature is the 1980 film The Changeling with George C. Scott. Including a discussion of the changes ghost stories have taken over the years. Plus a mysterious phone call and other random geekery. "Why am I getting scared? I'm watching a cone?"
Dec 04, 2009•50 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 52.1 Join us for brownies plus geek activities, What's the Buzz - plus the greatest game show ever - NAME THAT PORN! With special guest contestant Andy from Night Of The Living Podcast!! And if that wasn't enough, we also address… Dolph Lundgren, ZombieLand 2, U.F.O., Splatter, Nicholas Cage, The Queen vs. Ice Cube, a makeshift pod casting conference, Dream A Little Dream, SHADO, Conan, Thankskilling, snowed in watching The Thing, Hemp Twinkies, for the love of Jodie Fos...
Dec 03, 2009•1 hr 5 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 51.2 In this episode that may have "crossed the line." We sit down to discuss - SAVAGE DAWN". First we listen to actor William Forsythe's memories of making this movie. Then we attempt to comprehend the film we just saw. Which leads to random thoughts that include… "Colossally bad, that's the only way to describe this." "They have a Sheriff and a deputy, a redneck, drunk deputy - and a midget" "Who the hell did they make this movie for?" "The final blow is a titty twiste...
Nov 28, 2009•50 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 51.1 This week the whole gang returns to discuss... Hanging out at HorrorHound , meeting our listeners, what happened at Rue Morgue ?, I saw the Bad - where's the Super?, Courtney Gains, Shellac , My Boyfriend's Back , The Prisoner , The Black Waters at Echo's Pond , what exactly is The Legend of Orin ?, Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D , getting the ultimate geek tattoo!!, Brad Pitt in a video game movie?, acting rap stars, New Moon cleans up at the box office, Uma ...
Nov 26, 2009•1 hr 2 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 50.2 In this sprawling cross-country edition of "Sofa Theater", Bryan and special guest Miles (from Showshow) discuss Red Rock West . A Santa Fe style thriller with murder, betrayal, lots of denim and a slightly younger Nicholas Cage. "He's like a Southwestern Job."
Nov 20, 2009•1 hr 10 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 50.1 This week Bryan is joined by a special guest co-host - MILES from SHOWSHOW !!! Join us as we yammer on about movies and what we like or dislike, which is really all that's important. Some of which include... Night of the Creeps , Death Race: Frankenstein Lives , Fright Night , Californication , Paul WS Anderson, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud , dwarf casting in The Hobbit, Quentin discussing movies, Edward Woodward, Return to Me , Not Quite Hollywood , Marti Noxon...
Nov 19, 2009•1 hr 4 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 49.2 We found out this fact as we watched this week's Sofa Theater feature: Dark Country . Hopefully (or maybe not?) you've already seen this movie, because we have to spoil the so-called twist just to discuss this movie on any level. And so we do, as we delve into this wanna-be film noir, with impressive visuals and lots of problems. But can director and star Thomas Jane save this movie?? "The movie in itself wouldn't work if people were intelligent and made smart moves...
Nov 13, 2009•50 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 48.2 This week in the Sofa Theater: BAD RONALD. A weird, classic bit o' TV movie about a freaky guy that hides in your walls. (And yes, there are lots of spoilers. So, you have been warned...) Speaking of freaks, this episode also unveils a new session of MOVIE FAN FREAKSHOW, featuring: The Master of the Force!!! "That's where I always bury my old ladies..."
Nov 08, 2009•1 hr 3 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 47 Movie Meltdown's rockin' ukulele special!! - In this, our new running feature on documentaries, we take a look at Rock that Uke, directed by Sean Anderson and William Preston Robertson. This film takes a look at the interesting characters that feel compelled to play the ukelele. And the new music revolution that begins as they find ways to amplify their music and create - punk rock ukulele!! Between songs by Uke til you Puke, we sit down and talk to director Sean Ande...
Nov 02, 2009•42 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 46.2 - In this week's Sofa Theater feature we discuss BLOOD - The Last Vampire. And Rodger and Bryan attempt to decide if this bloody CGI action flick falls on the side of fun or lame. I mean, how expensive are squibs??
Oct 30, 2009•39 min
Movie Meltdown – Episode 45.2 In part two of our Halloween Extravaganza we discuss the new DVD release - Trick 'r Treat. Plus a Trendy Movie Geeks find that involves gut splitting and displayed entrails. Plus other random Halloween related (and non-related stories). Remember to check your candy kids… It'll be like It's a Wonderful Life for Halloween
Oct 24, 2009•55 min