After Lunch

Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about the third  Planet of the Apes  movie in which the series keeps going in spite of the planet's literal destruction at the end on the previous film. How convincing is the continuity? How well does the bold, new direction work? And what do Victor Newman and Khan Noonien Singh have to do with it?

Michael, Rob, and Karen discuss fun houses, slide whistles, kung fu nieces, and Mary Goodnight's espionage skills in this comprehensive conversation about Roger Moore's second Bond film. It's  The Man with the Golden Gun , starring Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, Britt Ekland, and Hervé Villechaize.

After spending a lot of time talking about the  Conjuring  and  Amityville Horror  movies, Michael and Jess finally get around to discussing the three Universal Frankenstein movies starring Boris Karloff as the Monster:  Frankenstein  (1931),  The Bride of Frankenstein  (1935), and  Son of Frankenstein  (1939).

This month's After Dinner Lounge concludes with Michael, Rob, and Pax talking about video game encyclopaedias, the new  Birds of Prey  comic, Jughead, books and comics by Charles Soule, Greg Rucka, Ryan North, and Kieron Gillen,  Harry Potter , '80s Spider-Man comics,  The Pope's Exorcist , more Elvis movies,  Batman  '66, the cancelation of  Winning Time , breakfast preferences,  Blue Beetle  and...

Michael, Rob, and Pax gather again in the lounge to discuss what they've been listening to, thinking about, reading, and watching. And Evan Hanson stops in for a bit! In this episode, they dig into their favourite video games and Autumn traditions, various podcasts (including the impressive, new  Remember That Show? ), Jimmy Buffett, the second seasons of  Foundation  and  Good Omens ,  Justified...

In preparation for an upcoming episode of  After Lunch After Midnight  in which Michael and Jessica Hickman discuss the first three Universal Frankenstein movies, here's a rerun of a 2019 episode of the  Filthy Horrors  podcast where they and Darla Ecklund talked about the Mary Shelley novel and several adaptations of it.

Following up on Episode 132 from last year when we determined the Ultimate Literary Villain of All Time, Michael and Rob welcome Ben Graham and Paxton Holley to do the same with TV villains. Each panelists nominates four favorite boob tube baddies, then we put them into tournament brackets to discuss and vote. Will you agree with our choices? Did we leave off a favorite of yours? Listen and let us...

Michael, Rob, and Pax return to the Planet of the Apes and dig deep into its subterranean (and substandard) sequel. 

Michael, Rob, and Karen discuss Roger Moore's first go as Bond and the mixing of British spy adventure with the blaxploitation and hicksploitation genres. It's a messy film with plenty to talk about in terms of what works and what doesn't.

Inspired by last episode's Dracula discussion, we're rerunning another episode of the old  Filthy Horrors  podcast. Michael, Jess, and Darla talk about all things Dracula: from the original novel to their favorite movies, comics, games, and more.

Michael and guest Becky Tyler take a bat-driven carriage through an overview of Dracula movies from 1922's  Nosteratu  to this year's  The Last Voyage of the Demeter .

As mentioned in Episode 199,  After Lunch  is starting a new series of horror-themed episodes that we're calling "After Midnight". Jessica Hickman joins Michael to kick off with a discussion of Universal's trilogy of Creature from the Black Lagoon   films:  Creature from the Black Lagoon  (1954),  Revenge of the Creature  (1955), and  The Creature Walks Among Us  (1956).

Michael, Rob, and Pax wrap up this month's Lounge talking about  Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning , playlists for running, the Wham! documentary,  Barbie ,  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , video games we've been playing, the  Jungle Cruise  movie,  Justified ,  Secret Invasion ,  They Cloned Tyrone , and Classic  Doctor Who .

Michael, Rob, and Pax chat about how reading goals affect reading enjoyment, death and funerals, life as a cartoon animal, Matthew Reilly's YA book ( The Secret Runners of New York ),  Old Habits  (a  Die Hard  spec script turned novel),  Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent , Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comics,  The Plot  by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Raymond Chandler's  Farewell, My Lovely , current ...

Michael, Rob, and Pax visit the Planet of the Apes! Kicking off a bunch of discussions about the simian series, we start with a quick conversation about Pierre Boulle's novel before exploring the 1968 movie that started a phenomenon. 

Michael, Rob, and Karen Flieger close out the Sean Connery era of the Bond films with  Diamonds Are Forever . They talk about the return of Connery, whether it's a worthy follow-up to  On Her Majesty's Secret Service , and the wisdom of hiring a jazz musician and Crispin Glover's dad to play assassins. The movie's directed by  Goldfinger 's Guy Hamilton and also stars Jill St John, Charles Gray, L...

We're soon going to start a new horror-focused series of episodes called  After Lunch After Midnight  featuring Michael and his pal Jessica Hickman. It's sort of a spin-off of another podcast called  Filthy Horrors  that they did together with their mutual pal Darla Ecklund. So to introduce  After Midnight , we thought it might be good to rerun the first episode of  Filthy Horrors  in which Jess,...

Michael and Rob wrap their  Mission: Impossible  movies watch-through (for now) with the new entry in the series:  Dead Reckoning, Part One . They talk about all the spoilers and whether second viewings changed their perspective on anything. Well, one thing in particular, but sure, everything else, too.

Michael, Rob, and Pax finish this months Lounge with discussion about their personal movie rating systems, Sherry Thomas' Lady Sherlock series, Daniel Pemberton movie scores,  The Haunting of Bly Manor , the second season of  Schmigadoon! , more about  Ted Lasso , Kate Beckinsale in  Love & Friendship ,  Nimona , modern Luddites,  The Flash ,  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , Alamo Drafthou...

Michael, Rob, and Pax chat about farting soulmates, '90s revamped superheroes, Pax's idea for a  Batman  '66 Season 4 crossover, Philip Marlowe in  The Little Sister , Hammer Frankenstein and the  Hammer House of Podcast , Men both Gray and Thin, weekly comics reading, crappy Spider-Man novels, the darkening of the Harry Potter books, and lots of other things.

Michael, Rob, and Delaney Graham continue their  Star Trek  Trek with season 4 of  Discovery . Find out what we thought of the butterfly people, the new Federation President, all that jargon (The DMA! Species 10-C! The Orb! The Hyperfield!), and the most contentious element of the season: Zora. 

As Hasbro begins building its cinematic universe in real life, Michael and Rob welcome Jeeg and David May to talk about how  they  would do it. Following the MCU model, each person has picked a Hasbro game or toy to adapt into a movie that then connects somehow into the other movies, all leading to an  Avengers -style crossover blockbuster. Madness or genius? You decide!

While Michael and Rob wait for  Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One  to come out, they follow up Henry Cavill's performance in  Fallout  with another Cavill spy movie, Guy Ritchie's  The Man from UNCLE .

Since we just talked about  On Her Majesty's Secret Service  last episode, now seems like a good time to revisit this conversation from Michael's old  Sleigh Bell Cinema  podcast in which he talks with Carlin Trammel about the movie and how (or if) it functions as a Christmas movie.

After some  Goldfinger  and  Thunderball  trivia that you can play along with, Michael, Rob, and Karen Flieger talk about George Lazenby's grounded and human James Bond, Diana Riggs' lovely and kickass Tracy di Vicenzo, and Telly Savalas' tough and brutish Ernst Stavro Blofeld. It's an unusual entry in the series, but is it also good? Once they settle that, the panel wraps with some  On Her Majest...