After Lunch

Michael, Rob, and Pax welcome very special guest, Tyler Mane ( X-Men , Rob Zombie's  Halloween ) to resurrect an old topic from  After Lunch 's early days. We each nominate fighters, locations, and complications and discuss Who Would Win? Of course Sabretooth vs Michael Myers comes up, but there are many more epic battles to talk about and argue over.  Be sure to check out Tyler's new graphic nove...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker started as a couple of TV movies, but when it became a TV series it struggled and only lasted 20 episodes, finally becoming a cult classic thanks to late night reruns. Michael, Rob, and guests DeAndre and Sophie discuss how they would tweak the series to be even better than it was. And also about what they love and wouldn't want to change.

This is the part of the show where Michael and Jess talk about horror, including this month the graphic novels  Heathentown  by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman and  Plunge by Joe Hill and Stuart Immonen.

For this month's Sherlock Holmes movie, Michael, Rob, Pax, and Jacob go way back to the silent era for  Sherlock Holmes starring John Barrymore as Holmes, Roland Young as Watson, and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty. It's also William Powell's first movie and features Reginald Denny in a small, but important role.

Finishing this month's Lounge, Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about the novel that inspired  Gymkata , amusement parks vs theme parks, cozy video games, work spaces, the new  Ultimate Spider-Man , and meeting Oscar Goldman.

In this month's Lounge (last month's Lounge, actually, but Summer travelling slowed us down a bit and we're behind), Pax, Rob, and Michael dig deeper into the Superman and Fantastic Four movies than we were able to last time, plus J urassic Park,   Star Wars ,  Gymkata , and  Fantastic Four  podcasts,  Appaloosa by Robert B Parker, Bono's memoirs, and more.

Returning to a classic  Nerd Lunch  topic, Michael, Rob, Becky Tyler, and Ben Graham each pick a single element from a movie or TV show that we want the rights to. And we of course explain what we would do if we had those rights.

Michael and Jess talk about horrific things they've been watching and reading, including the comedically bloody  Grizzlyshark  comics and the vampire Western graphic novel  West of Sundown .

Michael, Rob, and Pax grab their gas guns and hop back into the buzzing car to watch  The Green Hornet Strikes Again . Even though it was released in the same year as the serial it's a sequel to, there's a new actor playing Green Hornet (Warren Hull this time, instead of Gordon Jones). But Keye Luke is back as Kato, Anne Nagel as the awesome Case, and perhaps less excitingly, Wade Boteler as the b...

Jacob, Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about the TV movie  Sherlock , aka  Sherlock: Case of Evil starring James D'Arcy as the sexiest Holmes at the beginning of his detective career. Vincent D'Onofrio plays Moriarty, Richard E Grant is Mycroft, and Gabrielle Anwar shows up with some crucial information.

Michael, Pax, and Rob finish this 50th Lounge episode talking about celebrities who represent us, I nterior Chinatown , X-Men/Star Trek crossovers,  Jurassic World Rebirth , the  Beastie Boys Book  audiobook, and  Stinker Lets Loose! by Mike Sacks (aka James Taylor Johnson).

On this 50th Lounge episode, Michael, Pax, Rob - and introducing PJ Holley! - talk about history podcasts, unproduced Superman movies,  Sharks Of The Corn , Indiana Jones,  The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, and how to invade an ensemble TV show.

Carlin Trammel brings a special episode presenting a recent panel he moderated at  Infinity Con Tallahassee , talking with monster makers Christopher Burdett and Mark Maddox about their approaches to crafting compelling creatures in art.

Michael, Rob, and Pax start a new series of episodes in which we'll sporadically visit all of the Predator and Alien movies. In chronological order. So first up is Dan Trachtenberg's  Prey , starring Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, and Coco as Sarii the Wonder Dog.

Michael and Jess talk about some horror movies they've been watching, then a classic collection of Charles Addams comics and Junji Ito's  Gyo, Volume 1 .

Returning to the classic  Nerd Lunch  topic, Michael and Rob are joined by guests Dan Taylor ( Catacombs & Comedians ) and Ron Ankeny to talk about actors we'd like to see in something again. First we play casting agents, each bringing an actor who hasn't had enough work lately for our tastes. We discuss each one and the kinds of roles they play, or that we would  like to see them play. Then we en...

Our Sherlock Holmes panel Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's second outing as Holmes and Watson. They'd appeared together in  The Hound of the Baskervilles earlier that same year, but this one's an original story (loosely based on a play by William Gillette). It's still a Victorian adventure before the series changed studios and went modern with the next film....

Rob, Michael, and Pax finish up this month's Lounge talking about retirement, the  After Lunch  lounge schedule, Guy Ritchie's  Fountain of Youth , the fall of the Jedi, the  Lilo and Stitch remake, and our experiences as young nerds.

Michael and Jess talk about the comics anthology  The Dark Horse Book of the Dead  and  Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera. Among other horrory things.

Rob, Michael, and Pax sit around talking about  Ballerina ,  You Rang: An Addams Family Podcast , more  Final Reckoning ,  Star Trek: Open a Channel - A Woman's Trek  by Nana Visitor,  Pride and Prejudice ,  Redshirts by John Scalzi, and whatever else comes up.

Following up on a topic from  Nerd Lunch  Episode 181 (which was also the first appearance of Wolverine), Michael, Rob, Pax, and David May create more cinematic universes around movies (but not  just  movies) that don't already have them. Tune in and check out our ideas for series built on  WarGames , Capcom,  Anchorman , and  The Last Voyage of the Demeter .

Michael, Rob, and Pax cover Paul Walker's emotional, final ride with his Fast and Furious family in  Furious 7 . The movie also features Jason Statham back as Deckard Shaw after his brief appearance in the previous one, a couple of other cameos from earlier films, and the introductions of Kurt Russell and Nathalie Emmanuel to the series.

Michael and Rob watch the latest (and last?)  Mission: Impossible movie starring the whole gang from the last movie plus Angela Bassett, Tramell Tillman, Hannah Waddingham, Katy O'Brian, and Nick Offerman. Spoilers abound of course, but considering that the movie is generally getting positive reviews, it seems right to provide an additional warning that neither of us loved the film. We loved some...

Our James Bond project is complete, now let our Sherlock Holmes project begin. Rob and Michael are joined by Pax and Jacob Bean-Watson in order to explore the Great Detective as portrayed on Film and TV. We're not taking a methodical approach, but just taking turns picking whatever adaptation strikes our fancies. Rob is up first and chose the 1976 TV movie,  Sherlock Holmes in New York  starring R...

Pax, Rob, and Michael continue this month's lounge talking about  Cobra Kai ,  A Stitch in Time  by Andrew J Robinson, Golden Age Wonder Woman,  All Our Wrong Todays  by Elan Mastai, pop culture Mount Rushmores, and the Agatha Christie mini-series  Towards Zero .