Fly By Films

Blamison have completed their fourth annual Halloween series! On this episode they finish up the final two Vincent Price films, Scream and Scream Again (1970) and The Comedy of Terrors (1963). We talk about the absolute battiness of the former narrative and the enjoyment of watching Price stretch himself in the latter (even though the film itself was not, on the whole enjoyable). Join us for this...

Blamison are back with our fourth installment of our Price Halloween series! On this episode we discuss the 1961 Roger Corman joint The Pit and the Pendulum and 1972's Dr. Phibes Rises Again . We talk about Price playing a little against type in the first film and just going full Mandy on the second film. We dig into what makes Poe scary and why Phibes might be a precursor to Saw . Also discus...

Blamison are back for the third Halloween of the month! This time we take on 1974's Madhouse and 1953's House of Wax . We talk about everything from what it means to choose a resolution in the film that makes no logical sense but is pure, distilled cinema nonetheless. We also talk about scores and why they do and don't work for specific movies. Oh yeah and we, of course, discuss WRATH...

Blamison are back with their first true installment of "Sins Come at a Price" with our discussion of two films for the sin of Lust: 1965's spy-comedy Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and 1959's spooky mansion film House on Haunted Hill . We discuss all of the sexy and lusty elements of these films (or not). We also dig into the penchant for making lust always about sex and que...

Blamison discuss their theme for this year's October series and select their films on the air. This year we are looking at the seven deadly sins through the films of Vincent Price. So join us as we dig into what you can come to expect from us this month! Also discussed: Jamison murdering his skin tag. Clip: Vincent Price on the Joan Rivers Show.

Blamison are back with a special episode. By "special," we mean a regular episode but with more doubly more guests! The Harrington Brothers (so Thadd and Luke say) join us to talk about 2023's highly enjoyable Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves . We talk about Thadd's addiction to D&D and his wife's distain for it. We also talk about how Luke is too cool (and too...

Blamison are back and we have back up one this episode! We do some exploring into Cecil B. Demille's 1940 film North West Mounted Police starring Gary Cooper. Our guest Aren Bergstrom is our resident Canadian film and history buff and schools us on Louis Riel and all of the things that went into the Battle of Batoche which this film attempts to depict and fails in ways only DeMille could pull...

Blamison are back! We are digging in to a lesser known Hitchcock film 1944's Lifeboat and, well, let's just say it wasn't what we were expecting. Jamison does a free-form opening for the episode and Blake waxes philosophical about why Hitchcock is revered and Shyamalan is not. Oh, and we talk about John Steinbeck's misgivings about being attributed to the writing of this movie. Oth...

Blamison get together once again to explore Jamison's pick of forgotten films. Raw 's director Robert Townsend takes a tonal shift in his 1993 superhero film, The Meteor Man . We talk, of course, about the film's weirder elements and those parts that have not aged as well, but we end up defending it from its naysayers as it provided substance that is not often present in contemporary s...

Blamison are back with a totally unchill discussion of 1991's John Hughes-written Target ad Career Opportunities starring Jennifer Connelly (be still Jamison's heart) and Frank Whaley. There are several aspects of the film that would have made for a great film, but, alas, it all comes to, well, not much. Meet-cute beats out capitalist satire by the end of the film. Other things discussed:...

Blamison are back with another terrible and justifiably forgotten film with 2003's Christian film Quigley starring Gary Busey in a dog collar, Oz Perkins as the most unmotivated Guardian angel, and Booger as an inept boss. Yes, Jamison found this film and we had to watch it since this is an Oz Perkins Parenting podcast...and not a essentially a forgotten film podcast. The stars have aligned ho...

Blamison are back with a regular episode about a movie that know one fucking knows! We dig into the first of three feature films by Mark Romanek who is most known for doing the multi-million dollar budget music video for Michael Jackson's "Scream." The name of the movie is Static from 1985. We talk about the weird tonal shift in the final act of the film, hanging out with slackers, a...

Blamison remain consistent in their inability to remain consistent as they take a break from forgotten films to talk about a show that is IN THE ZEITGEIST. This show is season two of The Rehearsal with Nathan Fielder. We dig into the true meta nature of Fielder and all of his shows--because they all feed back into this season--and what it is about this show that makes us giddy. Join us! We spoil e...

On this one-off episode of Will Blake Get Cancelled?, Jamison and Blake explain the curse that has been brought upon them by the likes of Ian Olson (of the upcoming Book of Common Terror podcast). We talk about 1992's Michael "MFumay" Mfume's Ax'Em and how nothing could save this film from its own incompetence. This is probably the hardest film we have watched to this point....

Blamison made it back just in the nick of time to maintain the efficacy of their typical intro of "once or twice a month"! On this episode we play thought games with the 1996 comedic fable Multiplicity starring Michael Keaton and Andie McDowell and directed by Harold Ramis. But let's be honest, we hadn't talked in about a month, so most of this episode is just babbling. Other thi...

Blamison return to our regular length of blabbering on with this episode on the obscure and FORGOTTEN 1983 film Eureka starring none other than the man, the myth, and the legend: Rutger Hauer....and also Gene Hackman. We don't know quite what to do with this movie even though our review of it is nothing less than glowing. So, sit back and relax as we dig for gold and exploit the native populations...

Blamison are back in the march towards the Ides with a banger of a film starring Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly (1970). And, get this!, Micky Boy only sings one song on this film and it is all the better for it. We talk about film, yes, but mostly about how fucking incredible this soundtrack is and why it makes the movie so much better than it actually is. Other things talked about: throwing Demetrius S...

Blamison are back with a great episode on one hell of a film! 1972's Horror Express with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Telly Savalas is what would happen if Hammer tried to make John Carpenter's The Thing ten years earlier. Plus if you want to talk about representation on screen, then one of the under-represented great Christian denominations (which sounds suspiciously Protestant) is...

Blamison are back with a thrilling discussion about Jules Dassin's great and forgotten prison epic, Brute Force (1947). We dig into the types of prison movies that are made in Hollywood, the distinction between classic and modern acting, and how efficient filmmaking can deliver the goods over and over again. Also talked about: decentralized social media, home labs, and why Hershey's is shi...

Blamison have wrested control of the AI that took over last week and are getting into the nitty gritty of FORGOTTEN films. Per our rules, Blake picked out the 1988 whimsically nostalgic class warfare picture, Matewan . We talk about why the cinematography got nominated for an Oscar when it clearly sucks and also how good of a guy Chris Cooper is. Oh, and James Earl Jones. It's our first true e...

The year’s come to an end, and the world of film is as wild and unpredictable as ever. Welcome to Fly By Films, where the conversation isn’t about what’s hot or what’s trendy — it’s about the films that matter, the ones that’ve burned themselves into our memories and won’t let go. No fancy lists here, just honest talk about the movies that made us laugh, cry, think, or sometimes just scratch our h...

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Blamison are back for your Christmas pleasure. We are bringing all the goodies for the little boys and girls who listen to us. We talk (mostly tangentially) about the 1977 film The Crater Lake Monster , but more importantly we plan on going back to our roots for Season 4. Actual films that have been forgotten. We even set down rules for our picks. Other things talked about: The Ch...

Blamison are BACK! On this episode we end off our Alien series with the most recent entry, Alien: Romulus . We talk about what works and what doesn't work in this Fede Alvarez film. We also briefly suggest deeper discussion of CGI ethics and then do nothing with it. Then we end off the episode with our final ranking and what is next for the podcast. Also talked about: the recent election and scary...

Blamison dig into the Psycho franchise to uncover the actual heart of the whole series: Anthony Perkins. We analyze the original film, 2-4 and the 1998 remake by Gus van Sant in order to breakdown what makes this story so intriguing and how the trajectory of the series actually parallels David Gordon Green's Halloween trilogy. Also talked about: what horror we have seen recently, what we are doing...

Blamison talk with the man, the myth, the legend, Demetrius Sanders, about Oz Perkins' most recent offering, Longlegs (2024). We dig into how the film is set up as a crime procedural and subverts it in just about every way imaginable. We dig into the "brain" of the dolls and its links to Phantasm because why not? All in all, we dissect all of the ways that Longlegs works thematically and technical...