Movie Meltdown - Episode 406 This week we welcome special guest - director Tyler MacIntyre to talk to us about his latest feature Tragedy Girls . Plus we discuss his first film Patchwork , the finer points of being an editor in addition to being a director... and just what draws fans to the horror genre. And along the way, we also discuss this week's Sofa Theater feature: Memoirs of an Invisible Man the sometimes forgotten film directed by John Carpenter. And while we reminisce about some of our...
Aug 21, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 9Ep. 29
Movie Meltdown - Episode 405 This week we return to the Flyover Film Fest for their Taste of Flyover festivities. Plus we sit down with Ana Asensio the writer, director and star of Most Beautiful Island (winner of Grand Jury Award at South by Southwest this year). We also recap the night where we ate food from Chef Edward Lee's recipes as well as saw Peter Byck's One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts and Fermented directed by Jonathan Cianfrani. Plus our thoughts on recent viewings of War for the ...
Aug 14, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 9Ep. 28
Movie Meltdown - Episode 404 This week we kick-off our coverage of the Flyover Film Festival as we sit out on the veranda and talk with director Vincent Grashaw. Vincent's latest feature And Then I Go just made its worldwide premiere at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival before coming to Flyover . We discuss the challenges of getting his latest drama made and the way he tries to approach its sensitive subject matter. We also address his early films as well as his previous feature Coldwater and a...
Aug 06, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Season 9Ep. 27
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 45 This week we are coming to you "live" from Forecastle music festival. Where we hang out and build a soundtrack from the great line-up of bands on hand. Plus we sit down with our special guests *repeat repeat. They are an amazing band from Nashville who deliver spooky, surf-tinged pop with undeniable punk rock roots. We discuss not just their musical origins, but also what movies they loved growing up as well as some of their favorite songs featured on...
Aug 01, 2017•1 hr 24 min•Season 9Ep. 45
Movie Meltdown - Episode 403 This week we are coming to you "live" from Indy PopCon ... where we experience lots of different aspects of our geek pop culture. But most importantly, we make a date... to sit down and talk with Phil Lamarr. You probably know Phil from his ill-fated appearance in Pulp Fiction , or his years of working on MadTV , or his numerous characters on shows like Futurama, Justice League, Samurai Jack, Static Shock, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and so many others. Join us as we t...
Jul 22, 2017•2 hr 9 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 402 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week the Meltdown Gang gathers together for another installment in the Super Series as we discuss the latest Marvel movie... Spider-Man: Homecoming . And we talk smack about the people in the suits, we also bring up... The Founder, the Iron Spider, sad-boy and old, The Gifted, Snowpiercer, M. Night Shyamalan, being a good dad, legit just got trolled, things affect you in different ways, film noir Batman, The Inhumans, stick the land...
Jul 18, 2017•6 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 401 This week we continue our coverage from WonderFest as we sit down and talk with artist Mark Maddox. Mark is a multiple "Artist of the Year " Rondo Award winner , a nd his artwork has been featured on the covers of The Art of Doctor Who Special , Screem Magazine (including the Star Wars: The Force Awakens , Universal Monsters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and American Horror Story covers), HorrorHound Magazine, Moonstone Comics (including Kolchak: The Night Stalker Fi...
Jul 10, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 400 This week we continue our coverage from WonderFest as we sit down with Kim Smith and John Goodson. Both are technical masters who spent years working at LucasFilm's Industrial Light and Magic , and they have logged in many years building physical models as well as transitioning into digital effects as the industry began to change around them. And while we try to make sense of this vortex of time and mysterious things, we also discuss... Assassin's Creed, Riverdale, f...
Jul 01, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 399 This week we are coming to you "live" from WonderFest where we are joined by this week's special guest... actor Brian Howe. One of the hardest working and most impressive actors in the business, Brian's been featured in Westworld, Catch Me If You Can, The Pursuit of Happyness, American Horror Story, Gran Torino, Annabelle, K-PAX, The Majestic, Déjà Vu, Evan Almighty, Lie to Me, Criminal Minds, Masters of Sex, House of Lies, The Newsroom, Nikita, Justified - and of co...
Jun 24, 2017•1 hr 24 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 398 This week we kick-off our coverage of WonderFest with the return of a certain cast member who has tales of an epic road trip. Plus we sit down and talk with our special guest... William Stout. Renowned as a master illustrator & paleo-artist, he has also spent a good portion of his life working in the film industry. As production designer for movies like "Return of the Living Dead" and "Masters of the Universe" to designing movie posters, drawing storyboards and c...
Jun 17, 2017•1 hr 32 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 397 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week the gang breaks new ground in our Super Series as we discuss Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman . And while we restore our faith in humanity, we also address... Zack Snyder, the 36th chamber, full-on into DC multi-verse now, Chris Evans, the old school cut-away, Fast and Furious, being hard and being soft, Joss Whedon, Birds of Prey, fighting things from other worlds, Watchmen with the Justice League, a great three days, going out int...
Jun 10, 2017•3 min
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 44 This week the Meltdown Gang gets together for a listening party of songs from semi-recent movies. And while we examine anatomical specimens from a long time ago, we also discuss... going to Eastern Europe, The Creeper, the bone church, The Elephant Man, the soundtrack birth of a new sub-genre of music, drift into death with Wonder Woman, crazy eyes, girls in jeans and a T-shirt, it's a very strange thing she's got going on there, cloth hall, Chelsea W...
Jun 03, 2017•1 hr 54 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 396 This week the Meltdown Gang gets together to have a large scale discussion about Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant . How it works as an individual movie as well as how it fits into and essentially changes the entire franchise. And as we break down this lovely parallel for the futility of life, we also mention... Noomi Rapace, the susceptibility of humans and pugs, big wheat, the lost episode of Heavy Metal, an overwhelming sense of mystery, Michael Fassbender, kind of t...
May 27, 2017•1 hr 50 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 395 This week the Meltdown Gang decides to go see Guy Ritchie's new movie King Arthur: Legend of the Sword . Was that a good decision? Well... let's talk about it. And while we search the listings for more German opera at the movies, we also bring up... the problems with network television shows, I'd be happy to get the fruit salad, Fargo, talk about towers, things are now... vehicles for the items that are attached to it, stab the eyes of the editor, A Knight's Tale, it...
May 20, 2017•1 hr 32 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 394 This week we return to our running series for another Marvel Super Special ! We kick things off with a little response to Iron Fist on Netflix , then we share some thoughts on the trailer for Thor: Ragnarok . All before launching into our full discussion of this week's movie: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 . And of course along the way, we find a way for the conversation to spill over into the Star Wars universe. And as we all concurrently get our Wormtongue on, we h...
May 13, 2017•2 hr 10 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 393 This week we bust out a new game or maybe more of just a mechanism designed to trigger amazing ideas. Join us as we discuss properties that should be remade... or maybe shouldn't? As we try to decide what's the best new direction we could take the story... and the worst? And what's the most interesting new casting for classic roles... and what's potentially the most ridiculous casting choices ever? And while we set up our apple boxes and perspective shots, we also me...
May 06, 2017•1 hr 56 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 392 This week we try to tackle the notorious modern "classic" - Birdemic: Shock and Terror . At first we start to crack from the initial "shock", but as we make our way through the so-called "terror", we eventually come around to a pretty amazing resolution. And while we revel in a land of lawlessness and sweet bird justice, we also bring up... spider monkeys, robotin', more Indiana Jones, time-lapse filmmaking, just as smarmy but with guns, Samurai Cop, the rotary hot d...
Apr 30, 2017•2 hr 22 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 391 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week... we talk about movies. Zombie movies and rage viruses... and high school melodrama... and slasher movies... and the Leatherface family reunion... and Stephen King stories... and one of our favorite, if not one of the most perplexing directors. All that, among many other things. And while we specifically clarify that we don't eat flesh... we eat brains, we also mention... Chicken Little, Vincent Price, hand-held action scenes,...
Apr 24, 2017•5 min
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 43 This week we welcome our special guest E.G. Daily! You may know her from Pee Wee's Big Adventure or Valley Girl or tons of other movies. Or maybe you know her from all of her music performances over the years. Or maybe her recent appearance on The Voice . Or maybe you just know her voice from Rugrats or The Powerpuff Girls or countless other animated characters. However you know Elizabeth Daily... you know she's talented. This week we sit down with he...
Apr 16, 2017•1 hr 59 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 390 This week we talk with the one, the only - John Waters. Now is he intrinsically evil ? Well, we'd say no. But the Censor Board may have a different answer. Or The Baltimore Police Department. Or certain Canadian film distributors. Or... well, there's probably a lot of people. Listen as we revisit stories of his early days of shooting films in his hometown, specifically, the newly restored and rereleased Multiple Maniacs . And just how this kid from Baltimore got toge...
Apr 07, 2017•52 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 389 This week we are joined by director Rob Spera. He's not only been directing film and television for the past thirty years, but he's also currently teaching filmmaking at The American Film Institute . We talk about his early days working with Roger Corman and shooting low-budget horror and thriller movies. And then we'll find out just how that led him to direct the genre favorite Leprechaun in the Hood . And we'll cover how he moved into directing high-profile network...
Apr 01, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 388 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week we hang out in a parking lot and reminisce about our time spent at the Lexington Comic and Toy Convention . Plus we discuss some of the movies and shows we've seen lately. And as we try to decide just how inappropriately color-coded the Power Rangers were, we also mention... John Wick, The Girl on the Train, loitering Deadpool, Major Lilywhite, 3-gun competition, Mystery Science Theater 3000, are you on Top Model, a T-Rex stumb...
Mar 25, 2017•3 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 387 This week our host is reunited with Bryan Johnson from the podcast Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! as well as the AMC series Comic Book Men . Join us as we discuss recent and not-so-recent movie viewings, meeting people who used to have very interesting jobs in the business and eventually we round things out with this week's Sofa Theater feature the 1979 horror movie Don't Go in the House . Which just happened to be filmed right around the corner from where Bryan grew up. Memor...
Mar 17, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 386 This week we hang out with artist Dirty Donny as we discuss, among other things - designing the artwork for pinball machines, working with Metallica and our movie o' the week Heavy Metal. And as we assure ourselves that we aren't just watching the movie to see naked cartoon girls, we also bring up... laserdiscs, Eddie the Head, Hernandez Brothers, BMX bikes, skateboarding, Sean Penn, guitars and cars, The Hellacopters, I can't believe I'm allowed to buy this, Ivan Re...
Mar 11, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 385 It's time for the most prestigious of all award shows - The Meltdown Awards ! Yes, join us as we gather together to ignore the Oscars and instead hand out our own awards... The Foilers . Plus we eat a lot of pork, recap our reactions to the films of 2016 and even read some of the comments made by our voters. And as we are hippin' up the Pepto audience a little bit, we also mention... a social faux pas, Janelle Monáe, skinsuit, I'm kind of like the Michael Jordan of d...
Mar 05, 2017•2 hr 8 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 384 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week we return to our on-going "Super Series" as we discuss the latest super hero entry: The Lego Batman Movie . So join us as The Meltdown Gang settles in to talk about Batman, the DC universe, multiple villains and just how the Lego empire ties them all together. So as we pick out the new Lego sets we're going to need to buy, we also discuss... Riverdale, being needed in your life, organic things like water and fire, Roger Rabbit,...
Feb 25, 2017•4 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 383 This week, in response to a recent online list, the gang gets together to come up with their own top ten list of best and/or underrated villains. And as we contemplate that maybe making a snuff film is the way to go, we also mention... the Dick Tracy museum, gets drunk on blood, stares the boy down, Robocop, in the middle of the bloodbath, AFI, it was incredibly dark for it's time, gross wheezing jokes, David Lynch, smashes a bottle, a cool... calm... snake-like vill...
Feb 18, 2017•2 hr 8 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 382 This week we welcome our special guest co-host comedian Bert Kreischer. Join us as we talk about getting into comedy, becoming part of the podcast world, being the inspiration for the movie Van Wilder and the Rolling Stone interview that started it all. Then we change gears to this week's Sofa Theater feature... Fletch . Where we discuss whether this Chevy Chase comedy holds up today... and just how it has influenced Bert's life overall. And as we repeatedly put on r...
Feb 11, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 42 This week we play and discuss all of the nominees for both original song and original score for the 89th Annual Academy Awards . So join us in knocking out all of your musical Oscar homework in one shot! And as we embrace the a nice dreamy quality, we also discuss... melancholy, deep-fried pig tails, Eminem, I won't do it, cello and bass, it's like a robot making a sad song, key changes, The Tooth Fairy, weirdness around, Arrival, the thought of it ac...
Feb 04, 2017•1 hr 37 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 381 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week we gather at the Bastion to peer into the grim future that is: Death Race 2050 . And as we play a rousing round of guess the celebrity's age, we also mention... Crazyhead, I impressed a small child, Chad Radwell, Sherlock, a nuclear blast, Resident Evil out of order, Eddie Steeples, a Tuesday at Malcolm's house, Nothing in the Dark, The Selection, still no flying cars, quarter-assed, corn ninjas, Black Mirror, Lewis Reeves, Hom...
Jan 28, 2017•5 min
