The Vincent Charles Projekt

Vincent Charles and the Thunderbirds trade James Bond for swords, sorcery, and enough green lighting and fog machines to supply an entire medieval kingdom! This week, the crew revisits John Boorman's 1981 fantasy epic Excalibur, celebrating Nicol Williamson's unforgettable Merlin, Helen Mirren's Morgana, Patrick Stewart's early appearance, and an impressive collection of shiny armor. From the swor...

James Bond goes to space, Jaws finds love, and somehow Moonraker manages to make the ridiculous look magnificent. This week on The Vincent Charles Projekt, Vincent and the crew tackle Roger Moore's outrageous 1979 Bond adventure. From stolen space shuttles and laser battles to Hugo Drax's spectacularly insane master plan, the gang breaks down the action, absurdity, memorable performances, and surp...

Roger Moore gets the tuxedo. Janelle brings the cross-examination. Vincent, Ordy, Jeff, and Janelle take on Live and Let Die, with voodoo, tarot cards, crocodile-hopping, and a speedboat chase that refuses to quit. Does Moore measure up to Connery? Is Sheriff Pepper comedy gold or a man who should have gone home? And how many times can Paul McCartney’s theme turn up before Janelle wants it gone? T...

Five bandmates. Motorcycle ninjas. One nightclub gig worth starting a gang war over. Welcome to Miami Connection, where most of the connection happens in Orlando, and everybody seems to know taekwondo. Vincent Charles, Ordy, and Janelle welcome special guest Brad Slager for an extended celebration of a gloriously strange cult movie. They revisit Dragon Sound's performances, the opening drug deal,...

The Three Musketeers gave us sword fights and chaos. The Four Musketeers keep the jokes coming, then let the consequences catch up with everyone. Vincent Charles, Ordy, and Janelle dive into Richard Lester's swashbuckling sequel: the breakfast at La Rochelle, Athos and Milady's history, Cardinal Richelieu's schemes, Michael York's D'Artagnan, and a cast that makes every bad decision look magnifice...

What do you get when radioactive waste, sea monsters, surf rock, biker gangs, beach parties, and an indestructible housekeeper collide in 1964? You get ‘The Horror of Party Beach’—a movie advertised as the first horror musical despite being only intermittently interested in either category. Vincent Charles, Ordy Packard, Jeff, and Janelle examine this gloriously confused drive-in production, from...

What happens when Bruce Willis follows ‘Die Hard’ with a live-action cartoon involving Vatican espionage, singing cat burglars, Leonardo da Vinci, a machine that manufactures gold, and villains who appear to have escaped from an entirely different movie? Vincent Charles, Ordy Packard, Jeff, and Janelle revisit ‘Hudson Hawk,’ the spectacular 1991 critical and commercial failure that eventually foun...

The Vincent Charles Projekt travels to filthy, heavily armed, and extremely hungover 17th-century France for Richard Lester’s 1973 adaptation of ‘The Three Musketeers.’ Vincent Charles, Ordinance Packard, Jeff, and Janelle Waz discuss Michael York’s D’Artagnan, Oliver Reed’s magnificently disreputable Athos, Richard Chamberlain’s Aramis, and the spectacular cast surrounding them—including Raquel W...

What if a mild-mannered corporate executive discovered that murder solved considerably more problems than updating his résumé? Vincent Charles, Ordy Packard, Jeff, and Janelle Laws revisit ‘A Shock to the System,’ the severely underappreciated 1990 black comedy starring Michael Caine. Caine plays Graham Marshall, an overlooked middle manager trapped between a miserable home life, an insufferable b...

A flying saucer crashes near an Arctic research station, its frozen pilot returns to life, and humanity discovers that its first extraterrestrial visitor is an intelligent, blood-drinking vegetable with the general disposition of a very angry carrot. Vincent Charles, Ordy Packard, and Janelle Woz revisit the influential 1951 creature feature ‘The Thing From Another World.’ Jeff may be absent from...

In the 23rd century, everyone lives inside a dazzling domed city; nobody worries about growing old, and life is an endless parade of pleasure, color, and questionable shower-curtain fashion. There’s only one catch: when your crystal starts blinking, you report to Carousel and explode in front of a cheering crowd. Vincent Charles, Ordy Packard, Jeff, and Janelle Woz revisit the 1976 dystopian scien...

Vincent Charles and Janelle boldly venture into the gloriously chaotic universe of 1978’s Message from Space, a Japanese science-fiction spectacle directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Sonny Chiba and Vic Morrow. What follows is part movie review, part nostalgic reckoning, as Vincent revisits a childhood favorite filled with interstellar battles, questionable special effects, sentient space waln...

The Vincent Charles Projekt ventures into the bargain-bin fantasy kingdom of Hawk the Slayer, where magic swords fly through the air, automatic crossbows never seem to need reloading, and Jack Palance devours every available piece of scenery. VC, Ordy, Jeff, and Janelle celebrate the gloriously low-budget 1980 adventure while dissecting its wooden hero, questionable fight choreography, foam weapon...

The Vincent Charles Projekt straps on the roller skates and dives headfirst into the neon-soaked fever dream that is Xanadu. Vincent, Ordy, Jeff, and Janelle revisit the 1980 musical’s strange collision of Greek mythology, disco, classic Hollywood, punk aesthetics, and one undeniably fantastic soundtrack. The crew debates whether Xanadu is a misunderstood good movie, a collection of music videos h...

This week on The Vincent Charles Projekt, Vincent is joined by Ordis Packard, Jeff, and Gary Ambrosia for a gloriously unhinged dive into Richard Elfman’s cult fever dream Forbidden Zone. The panel breaks down the film’s bizarre plot, black-and-white origins, later colorization, vaudeville roots, Oingo Boingo connections, Danny Elfman’s devilish musical fingerprints, and the strange-but-real artis...