Episodes
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Episode #314 Of Unknown Origin (1983)
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
This week for our final Spooktober episode we check out 1983's Of Unknown Origin
Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and child leave for a vacation, Bart inadvertently destroys the house while in pursuit of a rat.
Release date: November 24, 1983 (USA)
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Based on: The Visitor; by Chauncey G. Parker III
Box office: $1.1 million (U.S.)
Budget: CAD$4 million
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Episode #313 Re-Animator (1985)
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
This week we cover an all time banger in 1985's Re-Animator.
At the University of Zurich, Herbert West brings his dead professor back to life. Following the horrific side-effects involved in the procedure, West moves to the USA to further his studies.
Release date: October 18, 1985 (USA)
Director: Stuart Gordon
Story by: H. P. Lovecraft
Distributed by: Empire International Pictures
Adapted from: Herbert West–Reanimator
Budget: $900,000-$1.3 million
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Episode #312 Slugs (1988)
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
We kickoff Spooktober with this delightfully gory movie about killer Slugs taking over a small town. A health inspector (Michael Garfield) and two helpers hunt mutant killer slugs that call the sewer home.
Release date: February 5, 1988 (USA)
Director: Juan Piquer Simón
Distributed by: New World Pictures
Adapted from: Slugs
Music by: Tim Souster
Production company: Dister Films
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Episode #311 Kill (2024)
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
A train to New Delhi becomes a combat battleground as a pair of commandos faces off against an army of invading bandits.
Release date: July 4, 2024 (USA)
Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
Distributed by: AA Films
Box office: est. ₹47.12 crore
Cinematography: Rafey Mehmood
Music by: Score: Ketan Sodha; Songs:: Vikram Montrose; Shashwat Sachdev; Haroon-Gavin
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Episode #310 Midnight Run (1988)
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
This week we cover 1988's Midnight Run
When Eddie Moscone (Joe Pantoliano) hires tight-lipped bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) to locate a mob accountant named "The Duke" (Charles Grodin) and bring him to L.A., Eddie tells Jack that the job will be simple, or a "midnight run." But when Jack finds The Duke, the FBI and the mob are anxious to get their hands on him. In a cross-country chase, Jack must evade the authorities, hide from the mob and prevent The Duke's erratic personality from driving him mad.
Release date: July 20, 1988 (USA)
Director: Martin Brest
Box office: 81.6 million USD
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Cinematography: Donald E. Thorin
Edited by: Chris Lebenzon; Michael Tronick; Billy Weber
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Episode #309 Best of The Best (1989)
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
This week we take a trip back to Dustin's childhood and watch "Best of The Best"
Martial arts drama in which a misfit team of American kickboxers must undergo rigorous training for an all-important contest against a ruthless Korean team. Along the way, the hardened fighters learn to lay their personal ghosts to rest.
Release date: November 10, 1989 (USA)
Director: Robert Radler
Sequel: Best of the Best II
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Taurus Entertainment
Box office: $1.7 million (US)
Music by: Paul Gilman
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Episode #308 Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
I can't believe we haven't covered this movie yet! So this week we get on it and cover 1984's Beverly Hills Cop.
After his childhood buddy is murdered while visiting Detroit, rebellious cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) follows the leads to Beverly Hills, Calif., under the auspices of a vacation. He checks in with old friend Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher) and starts to believe her boss, art dealer Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff), might somehow be involved in the murder. However, Lt. Bogomil (Ronny Cox) of the Beverly Hills Police Department does not trust Foley, and hinders his search for evidence.
Release date: December 5, 1984 (USA)
Director: Martin Brest
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Box office: $234 million
Music by: Harold Faltermeyer
Produced by: Don Simpson; Jerry Bruckheimer
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Episode#307 Tiger on the Beat (1988)
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
A drug dealer (Nina Li Chi) joins forces with two mismatched cops (Yun-Fat Chow, Conan Lee) to crack a band of heroin dealers.
Release date: March 19, 1988 (Hong Kong)
Director: Lau Kar-leung
Box office: 27.87 million HKD
Nominations: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography
Distributed by: Cinema City Enterprises
Language: Cantonese
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Episode #306 Monkey Man (2024)
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
This week we check out the directorial debut of Dev Patel with Monkey Man (2024)
A young man ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he's beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, he discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city's sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Release date: April 5, 2024 (Canada)
Director: Dev Patel
Budget: 10 million USD
Producers: Dev Patel, Jordan Peele, Samarth Sahni, Basil Iwanyk, MORE
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Box office: $34.7 million
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Episode #305 Just Some Bullshit
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
We are back! Dustin and James catch up on what they have been watching.