Movie Night Extravaganza

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk to Linus O'Brien, Director of 'Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror', about Rocky Horror Picture Show!! Linus O'Brien is a Multi-Media Artist, Director, Writer, and also the son of the writer of Rocky Horror Picture Show Richard O'Brien!!! Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, and Meat...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise Starring Paul Williams, William Finley, Gerrit Graham, Jessica Harper and George Memmoli Written at the same time as De Palma's 1972 psychological horror film Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise is a Rock Musical based on Phantom of the Opera, Faust, and the Picture of Dorian Grey Misunderstood for a long t...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Olivia Wilde's the Invite Starring Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penelope Cruz Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen play a married couple who have lost their passion for each other whose night with their upstairs neighbors (Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz) ends up with a proposal that could save or destroy their marriage. #theinvite #oliv...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Mike Nichols 1966 directorial debut Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis, and George Segal Adapted by Ernest Lehman and based on Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name. After years, first doing Nichols and May and then directing plays, Mike Nichols was given his first foray into film by Warn...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Howard Hawk's 1953 musical comedy 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' Based on a 1925 Anita Loos comic novel and the 1949 Broadway Musical of the same name, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was Howard Hawks last film with Fox Starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell as two showgirls on a boat to Paris who get into various misadventures involving men. Howard Haw...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and film critic Eileen Jones talk about Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot!! Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy follows two musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) in 1929 before the big crash who witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and go into hiding as two female musicians Josephine and Daphne on tour with Sweet Sue's Society Synchopators. They both f...

Forrest, Kristina, and Conan Neutron talk about Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012) The third in our trilogy, of Christopher Nolan Batman Movies and also episodes on them Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, and Joseph Gordon Leavitt Batman takes on Bane, a terrorist hidden underneath Gotham wh...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and FreddyG discuss Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Last week, we did the 2005 Batman origin story.. Batman Begins. Christopher Nolan's first entry in a grittier, realier, darker Batman series after decades of more campy and cartoonish portrayals. However, it was the Dark Knight in 2008 that really was the gem in the Batman crown for Nolan's trilogy. Comi...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Renee Ruin discuss Andrzej Żuławski's On The Silver Globe Based on "The Lunar Trilogy" a science fiction series written by Żuławski's Great Uncle. Żuławski worked from 1975-1977, On the Silver Globe would have been one of the biggest European Films ever made, as it would have come out right before Star Wars. However, the Polish Authorities shut down the filming because...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron and Gus begin our Christopher Nolan Batman episodes with Batman Begins Starring Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, and Rutger Hauer We are talking about the Batman Trilogy that Christopher Nolan made in the 2000s. Batman Begins tells the origin story of Bruce Wayne.. turning into Batman.....

Forrest and Kristina Oakes have both watched Titanic a million times but Conan Neutron has never seen it!! We discuss James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster triumph Titanic. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Gloria Staurt, Frances Fisher, Billy Zane #jamescameron #titanic #leonardodicaprio #katewinslet #kathybates #titanicship #boat #ships #...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Zach Marsh talk about Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey!! Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Travis Scott, and Jon Bernthal It's been 3 years since Oppenheimer came out and Christopher Nolan has been working on an adaptation of The Odyssey. #chr...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Renee Ruin discuss Kane Parson's Backrooms Renee Ruin is the cohost of the Night Shift Podcast and a writer, DJ, and model. Backrooms comes from a 4Chan CreepyPasta/Ongoing Meme of pictures of Liminal Spaces. Kane Parsons began doing a "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" YouTube series in 2022 at the age of 16. At age 21, he is the youngest director to ever o...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Terminator 2: Judgement Day with Sean McGrath of Unkind Rewind and CineQuote Last week, we covered The Terminator, James Cameron's 1984 science fiction slasher classic. This week, we are talking about Terminator 2!!! Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, and Joe Morton. #terminator #arnoldschwarzenegger...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes discuss James Cameron's 1984 sci-fi action film The Terminator! Beginning an entire franchise, the Terminator was James Cameron's first film idea after Piranha II: The Spawning, his directorial debut. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Bess Motta, Paul Winfield A human and a Hunter-Killer robot called a Terminator go back to th...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron discuss Supergirl with Alex!!! Directed by Craig Gillespie.. I, Tonya, Cruella, Dumb Money... and written by Ana Nogueira Starring Millie Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, David Corenswet, Jason Momoa The second DC film from James Gunn's new DC Expanded Universe. #dc #dceu #supergirl #superman #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #movie #li...

Forrest and Kristina Oakes are joined by @Filmsuck-t9u and @JacobinMag film critic Eileen Jones to talk about Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) A remake of the original 1962 Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum film. Scorsese's remake stars Robert De Niro as Max Cady, an ex-con who blames a lawyer Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) for his incarceration and begins to stalk and terrorize his family. Starring Jess...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about the new Steven Spielberg summer blockbuster Disclosure Day!!! Starring Collin Firth, Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson, and McKenna Bridger. Two weeks ago, we did an episode on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now, we are reviewing Spielberg's latest Summer Blockbuster about aliens inspired by the NYT investigative report from 2017 and...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron are joined by Kira Roessler formerly of BLACK FLAG but now a sound designer of such films as Mad Max Fury Road and this year.. PROJECT HAIL MARY!!! Starring Ryan Gosling as Dr. Ryland Grace, a former Micro-Biologist turned High School Science teacher who wakes up on an interstellar starship and can't remember how he got there. Also starring Sandra Huller,...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind with J.G. Michael. On June 12th, the latest Spielberg movie "Disclosure Day" is coming out. We are going to be covering it, but before that, we thought we'd go back and look at Spielberg's first alien movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind!! Released in 1977, right after Jaws became the hi...

It's a CREW Episode!! Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron discuss Boots Riley's new movie I Love Boosters!! We covered Sorry To Bother You in the 3rd episode, so it's only natural we cover I Love Boosters Starring Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Taylour Paige, Will Poulter, Naomi Ackie, Demi Moore, Eiza Gonzalez, Don Cheadle. #BootsRiley #Iloveboosters #sorrytobotheryou #kekepalmer #lakeith...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and joining us once again is ADAM MCKAY!! We are talking about Jonathan Kaplan's 1979 coming of age film Over The Edge!!! Set in the semi-fictional New Grenada, CO which is a stand-in for Foster City, CA.. Over the Edge shows a planned community where 25% of the residents are 18 or under. With nobody thinking of activities for kids, besides hanging around a R...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes are joined once again by Josh Olson to talk about Charley Varrick! Josh Olson is the Oscar Nominated screenwriter of "A History of Violence" and the co-host of Movies That Made Me with Joe Dante as well as the former co-host of West Wing Thing. Don Siegel's follow up to Dirty Harry just two years later Walter Matthau, of all people, stars as Charley Varri...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Eileen Jones talk about Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo! Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Tom Helmore Vertigo tells the story of Scottie, a former San Francisco Police Department Detective, who is battling with a bad case of Acrophobia after seeing a Police Officer fall off a building. He becomes romantically obsessed by his college f...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Marta Djordjevic AKA Marta McFly @mcflysmoviehouse discuss Wim Wenders Perfect Days After a long period of mostly doing documentaries, Wim Wenders returns to narrative feature filmmaking with a film originally envisioned to help the Tokyo Toilet Project showcase their 15 internationally designed public bathrooms. Kōji Yakusho stars as Hirayama, a public...