Podcast Episodes

You know how sometimes you go see the same Shakespeare play, but it's different actors, and they updated the setting to a 20th century dictatorship or Chicago gangsters or something? This is a lot like that.

It's the OG time travel story. A man invents a machine that allows him to witness humanity's past and future. Perhaps because time travel has been done to death ever since, adaptations of The Time Machine struggle to find something new to hook audiences. Does one of these movies get it right?

Two classic rom-coms go head. Special guest Mick joins the podcast for the first time, and the fireworks start almost immediately. But will we perhaps reach agreement by the end of the fisticuffs?

You've got the classic Bogie/Bacall sexual tension in 1946, and a 1978 remake that attempts to hew a little closer to Chandler's inscrutable story. Chandler himself couldn't follow the story he'd written well enough to explain it to Hawks, so just try to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Have you ever wished you could switch places with someone, maybe just for a day? Directors Gary Nelson and Mark Waters, both blessed with phenomenal sets of actresses, set up different series of disasters as well as very different sets of lessons to be learned. You've simply got to watch.

The Thing from Another World poses an important question. As special guest Grant puts it, "Is Science Bad?" Later adaptation The Thing poses an entirely different question: "Does Kurt Russell kick so much ass that he can kick an invulnerable shapeshifting alien's ass?"