Movie Meltdown - Episode 121 This week our general movie geek talk ascends to a new level. And we spend our time discussing this and so much more… Trying to find the redeeming parts of Ernest Goes to Jail, bringing back Bill and Ted, a complicated mechanism to perform a simple task, the Pee Wee dance song, getting hit on by Elvis, everything in Australia wants to kill you, The Walking Dead, Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, the dire situations of infomercials, Jan Hooks, P...
May 06, 2011•1 hr 41 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 120 This week we return to the coffee shop for another edition of The Caffeinated Movie Geek and to one of our most popular segments - The Grind . This episode a listener asks: Does a celebrity's personal life (and occasionally, terrible actions) effect how you view them as an artist? An interesting question. So we address the overall idea and try to decide what is the dividing line and how far is too far? And while inventing new and horrifying blends of coffee we bring ...
Apr 29, 2011•2 hr 17 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 119 This week we head Out on the Town to see the new movie - Scream 4 . And a full-on Scream discussion follows. Plus along the way…Peeping Tom, Neve Campbell, Adrien Brody, Wes Craven, The Jacket, Paul McCartney IS Tupac, Hayden Panettiere, George Harrison’s Last Testament, Kevin Williamson, Halloween, David Arquette, Paul is Dead, Courtney Cox, The Last House on the Left, Kristen Bell, A Nightmare on Elm Street, there was so much blood, Emma Roberts and not faking that...
Apr 20, 2011•2 hr 10 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 118 Our third annual Easter Egggstravaganza kicks off with dyeing eggs and geek activities. Then we head into this week's Sofa Theater feature: Harvey. And somewhere in the haze of vinegar we mention…Hanna, a Sean Patrick Flanery marathon, Burlesque, That’s So Raven, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Kaw, Mermaids, Cate Blanchett, trying to suffocate and squash bunny rabbits, Savage Planet, egg and onion sandwiches, wearing a pillowcase over your head, The Damned Thing...
Apr 15, 2011•1 hr 54 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 117 Our coverage continues from HorrorHound in Indianapolis...as we hang out with our extended podcasting family…Randy, Lisa and T.L. Bugg. Plus we talk to Joe Bob Briggs about how to get YOUR movie made. We bother Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects) until he curses. We discuss a different role for Andrew Robinson (Hellraiser, Dirty Harry). And we sit down with actress Diane Franklin (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Better Off Dead) and try to find ...
Apr 08, 2011•1 hr 3 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 116 This week we hit the road to bring you coverage from HorrorHound in Indianapolis. Plus a discussion of our Out on the Town feature: Sucker Punch . And Jay presents Randy with his handcrafted, heavy duty, zombie-killing battle mace. (Keep that in mind if you’re considering giving any of us negative feedback.) Plus as we dodge security we discuss…Jeremy Sisto, Red Dwarf, the presentation of the mace, hanging out with Metal Mikey, I jingle, the adorable and ass-kicking ...
Mar 31, 2011•1 hr 19 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 115 This week we return to a bygone era - way back in the early 90’s. Back when sci fi “classics” like Alien Intruder were released straight to a format called VHS. So we sit down to watch this week’s Sofa Theater feature which stars Maxwell Caulfield, Tracy Scoggins and Billy Dee Williams. Plus a hilarious One from the Vaults memory from Billy Dee that involves pigs. Yes, that’s right - pigs. And we inflict “Little Red Riding Hood” on another member of the cast. All tha...
Mar 24, 2011•1 hr 53 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 114 This week is a Little Red Double Feature as we watch a Sofa Theater short film… Little Red Riding Hood starring Christina Ricci. Followed by a Parking Lot Review of the new film Red Riding Hood starring Amanda Seyfried. And aside from repeatedly attempting to gouge out our eyes, we also mention…Building implements of doom, Gorn, Inception, Alex Winter, overwhelmingly Feldmany, The Lost offending lizards, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Feldman is Sasquatch, spoken clichés, cur...
Mar 18, 2011•2 hr 15 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 113.2 The third annual Oscar Meltdown party continues...as we discuss this week's Sofa Theater feature: Dementia 13 from director Francis Ford Coppola. An early ax murder flick from the winner of this year’s Thalberg Award . Plus we continue to stuff ourselves with bacon popcorn as Jay continually tries to identify Anne Hathaway (sometimes unsuccessfully.) Plus droopy old man ear lobes, flower-shaped nipples, pastry crack, and just when you think the Meltdown gang can't ...
Mar 12, 2011•1 hr 41 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 113.1 Join us for for the third annual Movie Meltdown Oscar Mayer party! In our usual tradition, we load up on pork and make snarky comments about celebrities. As we partake in the hors d'oeuvres, bacon caramel, and bacon cookies - we also discuss... Dead Island, Betel nut, home wrecker, anna paquin, Burning Bright, hating the Pillsbury Doughboy, Doghouse, touching Sean Patrick Flanery’s face, homeless scruff, nobody does it like Sheryl Lee, the most awesome video game t...
Mar 04, 2011•1 hr 29 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 112 This new session of The Caffeinated Movie Geek also features a return to our documentary series... The Really Real World . This week we discuss in-depth the Oscar-nominated film, Exit Through The Gift Shop . And along the way, we question the very nature of art, film, hype, money and reality itself. Pretty deep thoughts for a few geeks drinking coffee. Plus while trying to figure out who Banksy is we discuss…size and placement, the sane way to celebrate the new year,...
Feb 25, 2011•2 hr 55 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 111 This week's Sofa Theater feature is Tatia Rosenthal's animated film " $9.99 ". What kind of movie works in cookies, a pet piggy bank, smoking a stick of gum, talking bean bag chairs, missing mothers, naked clay-animation people, physical manifestations of the voices in your head, shaving all your hair off, a magician, swimming like a dolphin and an angel...all in the name of discovering the meaning of life? The answer is, an unusual and visually impressive project ca...
Feb 20, 2011•1 hr 48 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 107 Like school in the summertime, what do you get when you cross Movie Meltdown and Showshow - no class!! It's here!! The long planned, much anticipated and massively labored over SUMMER SCHOOL episode! The first awesome thing about it...ok, well we're talking about " Summer School ". The second awesome thing about the episode is it's hosted by the lovely KATIE from SHOWSHOW!!! And the third awesome thing about this episode is it features a One from the Vaults session f...
Feb 15, 2011•1 hr 46 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 110.2 Part 2 of The Caffeinated Movie Geek continues with The Buzz and the first installment of our new segment - The Grind . Which poses the question: Can you have a smart slasher movie?? That of course leads to quite an interesting discussion. As we're sure it will with you as well. So let us know what you think on the subject… All that plus…Viggo Mortensen, Sacha Gervasi, making your kids watch Boogie Nights, Charlize Theron, insensitive biopics, Clint Howard, Kristen...
Feb 09, 2011•1 hr 33 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 110.1 Our first entry in the new series... The Caffeinated Movie Geek . Here we get hopped up on coffee, talk movies and lose all track of time. Like you do. Among our coffee-induced diatribes…The Orphan, Jared Leto, an ugly-fest, Malkovich as Humbert Humbert, Girl boners?, Dwight Yoakum just doesn’t care, Blood Simple, sub-titles switching languages back and forth, Jesse Eisenberg, digging to China, visual impressions on the podcast, Peter Sarsgaard, Monster, Lolita - T...
Feb 04, 2011•1 hr 38 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 109 Ok nerds, tape up your glasses and join us as we watch this week's Sofa Theater feature...the horribly mis-marketed SPLICE . Plus book-ended geek activities, that wraps up with a full recap of Mega Piranha and a massive rant about Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull . All that plus somewhere in this episode's genetic code we discover... live-Tweeting award ceremonies, chick hips, The British Office, Frozen, editing profanity for TV, Jackson Rathbone, They CGI’ed her ...
Jan 28, 2011•2 hr 5 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 108.2 Rejoin us in The Bastion of Awesomeness for this week's Sofa Theater feature: George Romero's MARTIN . What makes a vampire? And who is to blame when people are driven crazy? Delve into vampirism lore, religious zealots, a misunderstood teen and a deteriorating small town in Philadelphia. Plus One from the Vaults memories from the star of Martin himself - John Amplas!! All that and hatin’ on magicians, phantom ponytail, answering random questions, early movie memor...
Jan 22, 2011•2 hr 7 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 108.1 We're back!!! And we return with a full-on group show coming to you from The Bastion Of Awesomeness!! Plus while NOT touching Misty’s stuff we discuss… Darkon, Dr. Strangelove, Misty and Jay’s cool stuff, ugly cry face, Marshmallows, 9, Children of Men, The Monster of Florence, It’s just like Yentl!, cultural video games refrences, Quija, the new Godzilla, Iggy Pop is a vampire, Madden Football - The Movie, Olivia Wilde is gorgeous , shut your gob, girl bass player...
Jan 16, 2011•1 hr 31 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 106.2 Gather around the electric heater kids as we continue part 2 of Movie Meltdown's FUCK ME SANTA HOLIDAY SPECIAL! In our usual cheery holiday spirits we discuss this week's Sofa Theater feature: Terry Zwigoff's BAD SANTA! It's loaded with all the boozing, sex and obscenities that you can cram into a heartwarming Christmas tale. But we find if you hose off some of the filth, you find an somber character study. An unconventional movie, from an unconventional director. ...
Dec 23, 2010•1 hr 23 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 106.1 Get your chestnuts a’roasting and join us for part one of Movie Meltdown's FUCK ME SANTA HOLIDAY SPECIAL! Delve into our tidings of winter complaints, trying to record while freezing to death, new holiday music, geeky activities, a “Marlena Moment“ triple feature, a discussion of the short film “Treevenge” plus we wrap up with a special audio gift for you!! Hope you enjoy it… All that plus holiday cookies, candy and goofy Winter hats, Holy Mountain, East Bound and ...
Dec 18, 2010•1 hr 48 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 105 Sit in with this week's special guest co-host Joe Bob Briggs as we discuss our Sofa Theater feature: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . All that plus…a Chattanooga boy, where’s Osama hiding?, being attacked by feminists, The Bone Room, trying to collect every movie ever made, the French like weird things, Tobe Hooper, the scary family in the woods, left-wing hippy movies, horrifying and funny simultaneously, nobody over 30 is to be trusted, Hansel and Gretel, making a Fel...
Dec 03, 2010•1 hr 3 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 104 Join us for our Thanksgiving "Special" which includes unleashing the Thanksgiving dinner known as...TURKZILLA! Plus this week's Sofa Theater feature: ThanksKilling . Eventually our minds begin to get groggy…maybe it was all the tryptophan? But before we nod off in front of the television, we mention…trying to track down the Sta-Puf pin-up girl, The Wild Angels, another threat towards Gwyneth Paltrow, the Feldman look-a-like legend continues, another rant about When H...
Nov 25, 2010•2 hr 26 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 103 Join us as we embark on another epic roadtrip as we head to HorrorHound in Cincinnati. Where we interview Dean Cameron ( Summer School 's CHAINSAW!) and we also feature a Sofa Theater segment which can only be titled: When Bryan Met Danielle . Quite possibly because it features our special guest co-host Danielle Harris sitting in to discuss a movie that may frighten many listeners more than any movie we've even discussed before. Be afraid, be very afraid. All that pl...
Nov 19, 2010•1 hr 49 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 102 Join us for our road trip to ScareFest as we discuss our usual array of geeky topics, as well as interviews with George Kosana, John Amplas, George "The Animal" Steele and co-creator of Night of the Living Dead - John Russo! Plus a special threatening message from Danny Trejo! Load up the car, here we go... And along the way… REC, Amy Sedaris, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, not taking Leslie Nielsen seriously, a beat up Chevy truck in Elizabeth Pennsylvania, the...
Nov 12, 2010•2 hr 26 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 101 This episode Bryan is joined by special guest comedian and movie fan Don Reese. Together they talk about comedy, monsters, Hammer babes and all the orange goo that comes with this week's Sofa Theater feature: Tremors. All that, plus they get sidetracked on…giving the gift of permanent disfigurement, a one-legged priest, Iron Man, Bill Cosby, avoiding adulthood, Bowfinger, ripping a guy’s stomach open, labor pains, the definition of “hip”, Candace Hilligoss, dad hatin...
Nov 04, 2010•1 hr 59 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 100.2 Our epic 100th episode/ I Got A Rock Halloween Special continues with this week's Sofa Theater feature: Halloween 3: Season of the Witch . Including a series explanation from Tom Atkins! Plus we try to figure out how many ways we can shove Halloween candy into our faces. Why pulpy orange juice and electronics don‘t mix. The secret joy of smelling your new Halloween costumes. All that plus the confusion that can only be brought on by microchips and rock dust. “Well ...
Oct 30, 2010•1 hr 55 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 100.1 Join us for this year's "I Got a Rock" Halloween special, where the tradition of getting hopped up on Halloween candy continues as well as discussions of awesome Ben Cooper costumes and actually seeing creepy Cryptids! All that, plus the HORROR of...Gwyneth Paltrow’s face, manbearpig, not dropping your favorite cousin, depressing a baby with Ziggy, sitting in traffic, directing Superman, Mike Myers, even more Top Gun, F-The Family Circus, tearing down out theaters,...
Oct 24, 2010•1 hr 32 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 99 With this week's Sofa Theater feature we delve into childish humor and childhood trauma as we take a look at DERRICK comedy's first feature film - Mystery Team . Not only do we discover a great movie with an infectious sense of humor, but along the way we find an impressive script, amazing performances and we may just stumble across a little more truth in this movie than we are comfortable with. Plus we also feature an interesting and informative interview with the fi...
Oct 19, 2010•2 hr 8 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 98.2 This episode Movie Meltdown asks the horrific question…what would you do if you found out your child was evil?? As we discuss " The Bad Seed", we look at the structure of the film itself, the style of the actors and address the homicidal maniac-isms that they are referenced in the script. So what creates a killer? Genetics or environment? WARNING: Triple spoiler warnings are thrown out in this episode, as we freely discuss the movie, the book and the super secret en...
Oct 13, 2010•1 hr 45 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 98.1 This week, in addition to our Geek Activities and The Buzz we also feature our interview with Amanda Bearse. Star of Fright Night , Married with Children and an established director in her own right! Plus along the way we ponder the questions of the universe that touch on...where is the third-dimension?, The Kid’s in the Hall, H2, Population 351, Alien, Raising Hope, hating your new job, Amen, searching for a unicorn, Nathan Fillion, 3D Star Wars, High School Musica...
Oct 08, 2010•1 hr 37 min
