Clearing The Queue

Send us Fan Mail we're finishing out a month of Animated Films with an episode all about René Laloux and Roland Topor's 1973 Animated Feature: Fantastic Planet.  Join Mike and Zak on a journey to a strange and terrifying alien world, full of Blue Giants that keep Humans as pets, and commit the odd genocide ever few years or so. Is it a French Surrealist science fiction cartoon, or the pl...

Send us Fan Mail Mike and Zak return, albeit a little behind schedule, to kick off the new year with a new of the Clearing the Q podcast. Starting this year each month the boys will be selecting movies that fit a theme or rule depending on the month, and the first month will feature Animated Films. This week, we watched Ralph Bakshi's 1977 animated feature Wizards. If you're a fan of fan...

Send us Fan Mail Although we've only been releasing content for the latter third of the year, we here at Clearing the Q feel a strong sense of satisfactions for what we've accomplished, and by that we mean sitting on our butts, watching movies, and then talking about them. 2021 was a hell of a ride, and 2022 is looking like it might not be much better, but we've enjoyed the inflight...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing on with the spirit of the season, Mike shows Zak Ben Wheatley's 2016 tale of an arms deal gone awry: Free Fire. Two ranking members of the IRA have traveled to Boston to purchase some Firearms, but unfortunately the merchandise is no what they'd ordered. Tensions run high before it all deteriorates into the longest gunfight in cinematic history.  If you'r...

Send us Fan Mail In the Spirit of Giving, Mike and Zak have decided to share their eclectic tastes in cinema with each other by selecting movies the other has not seen. This week, Zak chose to watch  Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Lure. A Polish Musical about two honest to goodness mermaids who learn the hard way show business ain't all glitz and glamour. This dark modernization of Hans Chri...

Send us Fan Mail Sterlin Harjo's Mekko is not quite what the log line sells, but if you buy the ticket, you gotta take the ride. One part Documentary, one par Narrative Film, Mekko follows the journey of an ex-con into the homeless community of Tulsa OK. The immersive visuals of this film are as stimulating as they are, at times, unsettling, inviting the audience to tag along with Mekko as th...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever brought your significant other home to meet your parents? If the results were ANYTHING even remotely resembling the events of Charlie Kaufman's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" you have our deepest and most sincere apologies, because we are about to Trigger the FUCK out of you! #sorrynotsorry This film, unlike the other films we have reviewed to da...

Send us Fan Mail Mike and Zak are joined by their friends from the Camp Nightmare Podcast, Jordan and JB for an ooky spooky Halloween Episode, wherein the boys discuss Sam Raimi's "Army of Darkness" the final installment of the Evil Dead Trilogy. So Slap on your Chainsaws and Grab your Boomsticks folks, this wacky flick provides the perfect tinder for a bonfire of comedic revelry, n...

Send us Fan Mail Mike and Zak get lost in cyberspace talking about Robert Longo's Johnny Mnemonic. Adapted from one of William Gibson's short stories featured in the Cyber Punk classic Neuromancer, this 1995 film is an insane romp through a dystopian future that no one saw coming. If you liked the Matrix, but felt like it needed more Cyborg dolphins, this flick is not one to be missed!

Send us Fan Mail Mike and Zak get into the details of Nicholas Winding Refn's 2009 off color cinematic adaptation of the incarceration of England's most Expensive Prisoner: Bronson. This might not be Winding Refn's best film, but it holds a special place in our hearts. If you like watching Tom Hardy get naked, grease himself up, and fight some prison guards, then this is the movie f...

Send us Fan Mail Join Hosts Mike and Zak for the inaugural episode of the Clearing the Q podcast! Today we're talking about Kinka Usher's Mystery Men which first graced the silver screen in the summer of 1999. We talk about what we like and what we don't, and maybe even a little bit of what we would change.