Drive-In Garage

Relax!  Franz and Paul are keeping the plants watered while talking about the 1984 Brian De Palma peep show driller thriller BODY DOUBLE, starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith!  How far will a guy go to have a witness-alibi?  How easy is it to get an acting gig in a porn movie?  How late is the video store open?  Live those dreams, scheme those schemes, at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveing...

Kegger at the Marsten House!  Franz and Paul keep their feelings in hand as they explore the finale of the 1979 Tobe Hooper miniseries SALEM'S LOT!  Be sure to grab the TV Guide and an ungodly supply of tongue depressors.  There'll be others. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Barlow & Straker Antiques is open for business! And real estate prices will never be the same. Franz and Paul take a look at Tobe Hooper's 1979 two-part miniseries SALEM'S LOT, starring David Soul, James Mason, Bonnie Bedelia, and a town full of consummate character actors! People wil find Mr. Barlow well worth the wait. Ciao, Constable! (Also, when a vampire comes a-knockin', just say "occupied"....

Franz and Paul return to Tucson (and may never leave) for some on-the-job training with Martin Scorsese's 1974 drama ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, starring Ellen Burstyn and Kris Kristofferson! After the death of her husband, Alice Hyatt and her son, Tommy, begin a new chapter in their lives in a new town. It's a journey by turns touching, scary, heartbreaking, and hilarious. Plus, Alice asks t...

Franz and Paul discover who is the bigger man as they discuss Jack Arnold's 1957 classic of diminishing stature THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN! The everyday becomes monstrous when a cruel twist of fate forces Scott Carey to lose inches and feet, as well as authority and any sense of normality, at an alarming rate. Even on a molecular level, you can't have your cake and eat it, too. The unbelievably...

Cinema is on trial at the Drive-In Garage!  Witness Franz and Paul overrule their own existence while looking at Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 fictitious fact finding mission CLOSE-UP!   When a man named Hossein Sabzian pretends to be Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, his lies proliferate until exposure brings him before a judge, and Kiarostami's camera.  What results is a film guilty of soul and inv...

Franz and Paul make it from Vegas to Phoenix without getting killed.  (And EVERYONE is trying to kill them!)   This week at the Garage: Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the 1977 mad dash screwball chase-o-matic THE GAUNTLET!  Gus Malley (Sondra Locke) is a nothing witness for a nothing trial.  Ben Shockley (Eastwood) is the cop who has to get her back in one piece.  Fortunately, there are a gaz...

Franz and Paul are sorry they had to miss your birthday party…but they weren't invited.  This week: Arthur Hiller's 1984 pillow talk madness THE LONELY GUY, starring Steve Martin and Charles Grodin!  Returning guest Jason stops by, as does Franz's sister Autumn!  The nights are long at the Drive-In Garage, so keep watering the ferns and mingling with the cardboard. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

A horse!  As black as night to day.  A beast, a god, with whom he did stay.  They slept on the sand, and played in the ocean.  And rode over the island in a singular motion!  Franz and Paul won't let the Garage out break them as they discuss Carroll Ballard's gorgeous 1979 film THE BLACK STALLION!  Told from the perspective of young Alec Ramsay, it's an intimate post-war adventure of exquisite col...

This week: Franz and Paul have wormsign the likes of which even god has never seen when they talk about the 1984 David Lynch guild-a-whirl DUNE!  Adding to the melange is Franz's brother Jason.  So set your mind in motion, walk without rhythm, and bring plenty of water.  The Drive-In Garage can kill with a word! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul are lookin' at eight years in the brig and a dishonorable discharge while talking about the 1973 Hal Ashby film THE LAST DETAIL, starring Jack Nicholson!  Two petty officers take their prisoner up the east coast to Portsmouth Naval Prison.  Along the way, they manage to drink a LOT of beer and desperately attempt to have a good time.  It's a classic '70s road trip to nowhere as temp...

Franz and Paul never earned a nickel from another man's work!  This week: fire and ice and the ecstasy of gold in Nicolas Roeg's 1983 film EUREKA, starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, and Rutger Hauer!  A mystical tale of fortunes made, passions lost, petulant wealth, mercenary greed, and the spell of the Yukon.  Be careful what you wish for at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.co...

It's every sucker for himself at the the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul, along with special guest Jason, discuss George Roy Hill's 1977 goon squad sports comedy SLAP SHOT, starring Paul Newman!  The Charlestown Chiefs are history, but there's still room for a little old-time podcasting.  So keep the foil handy and the high-sticking to a minimum.  Buy you a soda after the episode? Email: drivein...

The Drive-In Garage always makes Franz, Paul, and Katie think of Rome.  The way the sun hits the buildings in the afternoon.  This week: the 1993 Harold Ramis loop-de-loop GROUNDHOG DAY — A comedy about coming face-to-face with your own existence!  What would you do if you were stuck in one place?  Every day was exactly the same….and nothing you did mattered?  Would pants be required?   Email: dri...

The old cow's loaded, so Paul fully intends to bump her off and let Franz take the blame.  This week: Alain Corneau's 1979 French crime drama SERIE NOIRE, starring Patrick Dewaere and Marie Trintignant!  Based on Jim Thompson's novel, A Hell Of A Woman, the film follows salesman sociopath Franck Poupart's life and mind as it sinks further and further into jeopardy.  All it takes is a suitcase full...

Franz and Paul is like people — feel the mornin' sun on them and make 'em forget all the hurt they got.  This week at the Drive-In Garage: Budd Boetticher's 1959 no-fuss rock 'n' ride Western RIDE LONESOME, starring Randolph Scott!  A man needs a reason to ride this country.  You got a reason? Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's a daze of future past for Franz and Paul as they welcome in the New Year, continually give their word as gentlemen, and look through Nicholas Meyer's 1979 London-by-the-Bay sci-fi terror romance TIME AFTER TIME, starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen!  Shall we gain yesterdays or accumulate tomorrows?  Only time will tell. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

If Franz and Paul have any surprises for each other, I don't think they're in much shape to do anything about it.  Tonight at the Drive-In Garage: John Carpenter's 1982 alien madness knockout THE THING!  Joining in, a special guest -- Franz's brother Jason!  So close your doors and lock your windows, cuz it is coooooolllld outside!  And one of 'em isn't who he claims to be.  Why don't we just wait...

'Tis the season at the Drive-In Garage as Franz, Paul, and Katie talk about Christmas Movies!  So pour a mug o' nog and set a bunch of painful death-defying booby traps throughout the house.  It's going to be a bumpy night…of holiday cheer! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's a shadow world of zones and zithers at the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul cover the 1949 Carol Reed post-war noir classic THE THIRD MAN!  Written by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Vali, Trevor Howard, and Orson Welles.  Ahh, Vienna!  The Ferris Wheel!  The Black Market!  And that rascal Harry Lime!  How many dots can you afford to spare?  Free of income tax, old man. Email: d...

Franz and Paul find their domestic bliss under pressure while talking about the 1964 Bengali chamber drama CHARULATA!  Directed by Satyajit Ray, and starring the magnificent Madhabi Mukherjee as the lonesome longing Charu, whose life within household walls is turned inside out with the arrival of her cousin-in-law Amal.  Set in 1870s Kolkata, Ray continues to explore the rhythms of life — cultural...

It's a wintry wonderland at the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul take a trip through Werner Herzog's 1977 sad chairlift-to-nowhere drama STROSZEK, starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, and Plainfield Wisconsin as Railroad Flats!   Fleeing Berlin for the American Dream, Bruno & Co. get a taste of domestic life, of prefab homes and animal magnetism, as well as the financial burden required to maintain it...

Franz and Paul don't care what they're talking about.  All they want is a nice fat recording while covering Francis Coppola's 1974 art house thriller THE CONVERSATION!  Gene Hackman plays surveillance expert Harry Caul, who has taken an assignment that he soon fears could inadvertently get people killed.  What unfolds is a paranoiac's hootenanny of eyes and ears and empty spaces.  Don't get involv...

Franz and Paul have third helpings of mashed potatoes as they discuss Steven Spielberg's 1977 saucerful of secrets spectacular CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THIRD KIND!  So throw the family in the station wagon and let's go chase some Frenchmen.  This means something! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's dueling monocles at the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul cover the 1937 version of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA!  Directed by John Cromwell, starring Ronald Coleman AND Ronald Coleman as Rudolph and Rudolf.  There's treachery and deceit (and swashbuckling) in the Court of Streslaw, and those loyal to the newly crowned king must keep the throne occupied lest it fall into enemy hands!  Long live the...