Movie Night Extravaganza is an irreverent, quick moving show about movies. Hosted by Forrest Miller, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes!
Live Episodes: youtube.com/movienightextravaganza
Crazy episode here: first we talk to Matthew Film Guy, Conan Neutron, and J. Hutch about Sunset Boulevard and then we debut our conversation with Joseph McBride and J.G. Michael about Joseph's new book "Billy Wilder Dancing on the Edge"
Forrest, J. Andrew World, Conan Neutron (Protonic Reversal) and Jeremy Salmon (Giving The Mic To The Wrong Person) talk about John Carpenter's 1986 action/adventure/comedy/kung fu/ghost story/monster movie "Big Trouble In Little China"
Forrest and J. Andrew World discuss Oliver Stone's JFK and the new "Revisiting JFK" documentary that's coming out soon with Deep State Kuba, J.G. Michael, and James DiEugenio who researched and wrote it with Oliver Stone.
In a cross-over episode with This is Revolution (the first of a monthly series) Forrest, Pascal Robert, Deep State Kuba, and JG Michael discuss Oliver Stone's JFK.
It's so metaphorical! We're finally discussing Bong Joon-ho's Parasite. A big chunk of this episode was dedicated to C. Derek Varn explaining the intricacies of South Korean society since he lived there for a while. However, we also did a pretty great Parasite meme ranking contest (I read the memes for the audio version)
Forrest and Andy are joined by Conan Neutron and Kira Roessler, former Black Flag bassist and Oscar and Emmy award-winning sound editor, to talk about Mad Max Fury Road, Kira's experience working with George Miller, ADR and dialogue editing, and many other things!
For this episode, we broke down Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2013) the anti-capitalist dystopic sci-fi classic.
We are joined by Natalie Smith and Maxx Seijo of Superstructure to talk about Sam Raimi's 1986 cult movie Evil Dead!
Episode 12!!! Another Alex Cox entry into the oeuvre.
Episode 11!! Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 film The Birds.
Episode 10!!! Andy and Forrest are joined by Majority Report's Matthew Film Guy, Mutations Host & Integral Theorist Jeremy Johnson, and Amy Bell and Amanda Feriante from "These Are Bad Movies" to discuss the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes.
Andy and Forrest are joined by Zer0 Books Publisher Doug Lain to talk about the 1983 Bill Forsyth movie "Local Hero"
Kenzo Shibata and C. Derek Varn join us to talk about TWO Alex Cox films: Straight To Hell and Walker (1987)
Andy and Forrest talk to Jacobin's Leigh Phillips about Ad Astra and the question "what if we're alone in the universe?"
It's finally here! Conan Neutron, Djene Bajalan, and Jeremy Salmon joined us to discuss David Lynch and Dino De Laurentiis's Dune (1984) in the wake of the 2021 Dune Trailer dropping.
We take a look at Stanley Kubrick's 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory with Djene Bajalan, C. Derek Varn, and Lorax from Left Flank Vets.
This week we discussed Repo Man (1984)
Catherine Liu, author of Virtue Hoarders and Film and Media Studies professor at UC Irvine, joined Forrest to discuss Taken, Wrath of Silence, and A Touch of Sin.
Forrest talked to Jason Myles and Conan Neutron about two movies: Sorry To Bother You and Blindspotting which were both filmed in Oakland at the same time and released in 2018. However, Blindspotting is more race-reductionist and Sorry To Bother You has a much more nuanced take on racial and class issues. Jason Myles co-hosts "This is Revolution" podcast: https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/@TIRShowOakland and has a band called Bitter Lake. Conan Neutron hosts the music interview podcast Con...
Forrest, J. Andrew World, and John Ross go through the plot of The Manchurian Candidate and then J.G. Michael of Parallax View joins us for a wide-ranging interview.
J.G. Michael talked to Forrest and John Ross about a variety of topics. Next week's episode is on "The Manchurian Candidate" so that's where the conversation begins.
Debut episode!! Forrest is joined by John Ross, J. Andrew World, and Karthik Purushothaman to discuss Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
