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Flopcast episode 754! Just to be ridiculous, we’re creeping into Halloween season with a look at two different movies about witches starring Fairuza Balk. And we’re calling it… Fairuzapalooza. Up first is the odd 1986 cable TV movie The Worst Witch, with young Fairuza at a school for witches, also starring Tim Curry, Diana Rigg, and our beloved Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life...

Jim reflects on his first viewing of a classic 1972 Sci-Fi – “Slaughterhouse-Five,” based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, directed by George Roy Hill and starring Michael Sacks, Valerie Perrine, Rob Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, Perry Ling, Kevin Conway, Sorrell Brooke, and John Dehner. Billy Pilgrim is a mild-mannered man who is “unstuck in time” and...

This week we’re traveling Beyond Trek once again! Get your cereal bowl, pour the milk, put on your jammies, and relive the classic era of Saturday Morning Cartoons! We’ll be talking about our faves and we can’t wait to hear what yours are! Have a question, comment, or observation you’d like us to respond to on the show? You can now dial 307-387-1701 to be connected to the E...

This week we’re MONKEESPLAINING The Monkees to our friends at the EnterpriseSplaining podcast! Maria and Jamie have never seen The Monkees! We will borrow their podcast format for a week to MonkeeSplain “Royal Flush” and the Monkees phenomenon to them! Monkeeing Around is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber. #monkees #monkeesplaining #enterprisesplain...

Cigar Nerds Podcast this week we’re going way back and talking the 40th Anniversary of Labyrinth. We need more puppet movies. In science we talk chatbots being snitches, robot hands, walking rumbas, and origami wheels. In Nerd News talk Visionquest, V for Vendetta returns to theaters, The Exorcist The Martyrs, The Family Disappears, and Mario Cart in real life. This week I’m smoking th...

What does it take to make one of the greatest comedy movies in Hollywood history ? This week on Tales From Hollywoodland , the crew welcomes acclaimed author and film historian James Curtis to discuss his new book, Comedy Is a Grim Business: The Making of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , an inside look at the creation of one of cinema’s most beloved comedy classics. Directed by legend...

Actress Hannah Fierman (“V/H/S,” “Siren”) joins Jim for a look at a unique Itallian Horror Film Genre that began back in the 1960’s -“Giallo.” Hannah talks about her favorite director, Dario Argento (“Opera,” “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,”Suspiria”) while Jim reflects back on his experiences with Mario Bava (Black Sabbat...

Flopcast episode 753! We’re reviewing another old Dynamite magazine, compliments of our pal Chris from Sci-Fi Explosion! This is a 1977 issue, and the cover features ill-fated sitcom couple Pinky Tuscadero and Fonzie. (Yes, we’re talking about Happy Days again. Yes, we have a problem.) Also in this issue: A superhero named Jive Turkey! Skateboarding! She-Monsters! Disgusting pancakes!...

This week on The Legends of the DCU Podcast! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs feel like outcasts as they continue to review Lanterns. Haunted by his troubled past, Wally West teams up with Linda Park to uncover the mysteries of Project Olympus, leading them into a dangerous new dimension filled with secrets and unexpected threats in Absolute Flash #13 & 14. Poison Ivy’s journey to reshape t...

This week we are joined by Matt and Elaine Sweatman, who have just finished watching Deep Space Nine Season 2 (this is Elaine’s first time seeing the season). How does the season stack up as a whole? What are some of the highlights? Were there any clunkers? How did the characters’ development progress? What about the overall series arc? Have a question, comment, or observation you&#821...

We’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 10 “Similitude,” now that Bill, Jamie, and our guest Bethany Brookshire have watched it. A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to&nbsp...

This week we’re PUNKEEING AROUND with Rob Allen to discuss his new album, Meet The Punkees! Rob is a Gen X Monkees fan who has realized his dream of combining his love for the music of The Monkees with punk rock! We will dive into Rob’s fandom and this new project! Meet the Punkees is available on streaming services and at the following links: https://thepunkeez.hearnow.com/ and ...

The road ends here. The Carters just did not know it yet. Tea and Karen dive deep into Wes Craven’s 1977 survival horror masterpiece – The Hills Have Eyes – the raw, uncompromising desert nightmare that pitted a suburban American family against a cannibal clan in the Nevada hills and asked which family was really more savage by the end. They cover the Sawney Bean legend that insp...

Batman ’66 S3 Ep20 – Penguin’s Clean Sweep Penguin is back in circulation with a bad bird bamboozle to contaminate currency with rare germs. As citizens toss their cash in the streets, Batman, Robin and Batgirl must make Penguin’s wads worthless. Episode aired Thursday, January 25, 1968 Director : Oscar Rudolph Writer: Stanford Sherman Cast: Adam West – Batman/Bruce Wayne B...

The Cosmic Pizza Podcast brings you Episode 112: The Instascammer.   Our very own Cosmic Pizza Podcast host, Kacey is a cult expert and two years ago she came across a Reddit post, citing the alleged harm that a woman in Hawaii, called Liana Shanti, had caused some of the members of her online community. Former members alleged that she was ‘inducing’ memories of sexual abuse from their...

Flopcast episode 752! At last, it’s the end of our Dragon Con coverage, just in time for us to start working on our zombie steampunk Mrs. Roper costumes for next year. Our look back at the last two days of the convention includes: Panels about witchcraft in fiction, comedy in science fiction, Superman meeting Spider-Man, and Justice League Unlimited! A dramatic reading of a Manimal script! M...

Burning Man Left to their own devices, Rob and Alan take a trip to the Nevada desert for BURNING MAN ! Well, we watched the new documentary about it, anyway! The Man Will Burn is a new docuseries from HBO Films that came out in July. The film series explores the origins and development of the festival as well as the art, the music, the philosophy, and the challenges that it faced from COVID, extre...

Five college friends. A remote cabin. Something terrible in the basement. You think you know exactly how this goes. You do not. Spilled Tea & Karen plus our friend Jake are entering Cabin in the Woods. 2012’s meta horror masterpiece that dismantled every horror trope it lovingly deployed, making Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford two of the scariest people in any horror film that year, and e...

This week on  Have Coffee Will Travel , Shawn is back from a weekend filled with horror, celebrities, road trips, and plenty of strange encounters! Shawn heads out on a road trip to Creature Kon, where he meets some of the horror movie stars he grew up watching. One of the biggest hig...

Jim reflects on the movie that launched a popular 1979 television series -“Buck Rogers In The 25th Century,” starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O’ConnorPamela Hensley, Henry Silva, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc, HB Haggerty, Joseph Wiseman, and Howard F Flynn. Based on classic Sci-Fi novel, an astronaut is frozen in space for 500 years and awakes to find Earth a much different place th...

Since it coincided with a new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, we never really got the opportunity to celebrate Star Trek’s 60th. That’s our topic tonight! Specifically, it’s the 30th Anniversary of the 30th Anniversary! We’ll look back at some of our favorite Trek memories but also where the franchise was 30 years ago and the journey its taken since then. #startrek...

We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 10 “Similitude,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. An accident while testing the warp core puts Trip in a coma and the only way Phlox can save him is to grow a clone of him and harvest its brain matter. And that’s just the first of a series of ethical conundrums that the crew has to deal with. Of course, Archer has a thoug...

Imagine this: it’s 1986. During the height of the new Monkeemania, the record company releases a “lost” Monkees album of unreleased 60s tracks? What tracks would you choose? This week we’re MONKEEING AROUND with Tim Reuter to tackle this “What If?” What would be on YOUR ideal album of material that was unreleased during the 1960’s? #monkees #monkeesalbum #...

Toni and Joe are joined by Matt Golden to discuss Big Dad Energy & relationship squabbles in the Doctor Who episode Midnight. If you’re interested in being a Friend of Rassilon,  click here. Download  •  YouTube  •  RSS  •  Patreon  •  iTunes  •  Google Play  •  ESO Network The post The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon: Episode 201...

Hollywood has never been shy about sex—although what filmmakers could show, suggest, or even talk about has changed dramatically over the decades! This week on Tales From Hollywoodland, the crew turns up the heat as they discuss some of the best, steamiest, and most provocative movies about sex, romance, desire, and relationships in Hollywood history. From the suggestive sophistication of classic...