Fly By Films

Blamison are back with the final installment in their October spooky series. This year we are jumping in our car, pressing the pedal down and seeing what kind of ngrained modern rage we can release on the open road. That’s right we are talking about road rage films! Next up is the 1986 coked-up Stephen King self-adaptation of his short story “Trucks” MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE as well as the made-for-TV ad...

Blamison are back with their 100th EPISODE!! That’s right. These dinguses have made it through 100 episodes which leaves the rest of Blake’s podcasts in the dust. So we had to do something special and what better way than to do it LIVE in OKC but like covert at a brewery that didn’t know we were coming or recording. Good times had by all. Enjoy the background music, barking dogs, and the wait staf...

Blamison are back with the penultimate installment in their October spooky series. This year we are jumping in our car, pressing the pedal down and seeing what kind ingrained modern rage we can release on the open road. That’s right we are talking about road rage films! Next up is the 2001 Paul Walker-vehicle (pun intended) JOY RIDE. We talk about what works, how effective a good vocal performance...

Blamison are back with the third installment in their October spooky series. This year we are jumping in our car, pressing the pedal down and seeing what kind ingrained modern rage we can release on the open road. That’s right we are talking about road rage films! Next up is the hard to find 1996 David Cronenberg-helmed auto-erotic thriller Crash . We talk about what works, what makes this film pr...

Blamison are back with the second installment in their October spooky series. This year we are jumping in our car, pressing the pedal down and seeing what kind ingrained modern rage we can release on the open road. That’s right we are talking about road rage films! Next up is what of Blake’s favorite horror films Robert Harmon’s 1986 feature film The Hitcher . We talk about what works, why it is s...

Blamison are back with the first installment in their October spooky series. This year we are jumping in our car, pressing the pedal down and seeing what kind ingrained modern rage we can release on the open road. That’s right we are talking about road rage films! First up is Steven Spielberg’s first feature film 1971’s Duel . We talk about what works, what doesn’t and why so many of these films r...

Blamison are back with a new episode and the first in a two-part series on the films of Na Hong-Jin starting with a discussion of his first two features, 2008’s THE CHASER and 2010’s THE YELLOW SEA. We talk about Jin’s penchant for chase scenes, how bleak his films can be and the religious imagery that are littered throughout his oeuvre. It’s a great beginning and we hope you’ll watch the films an...

Blamison are back for our newly annual episode with our correspondent from the North Aren Bergstrom of 3 Brothers Film & 3 Brothers Filmcast . This year he brought us what is considered THE classic Canadian film, 1970’s Goin’ Down the Road . In this episode, Aren helps us dissect the problem of Canadian identity and what is considered Canadian cinema through this tale of two low class men tryi...

Blamison is back with a new episode and boy do we have a treat for you on this episode! The boys talk about CINEMA with 1969’s Army of Shadows which was Blake’s pick. This film went largely forgotten for years in America because it wasn’t released here until 2006. Jamison and Blake end up talking themselves into really loving this film and stay tuned for how Jamison ties it in with 1997’s The Game...

Blamison are back with a new regular episode where we cover 1987’s Prison starring Lane Smith and Viggo Mortensen. We talk about Mortensen’s dialect choice for the film, some of the background behind the making of the film and how this film is kind of a low-key favorite of ours. The boys go down to the execution chair to get haunted on this episode. Join us if you dare! Other topics discussed: cam...

Blamison are back with our first normie episode in a while! Blake picked 1980’s Hangar 18 for the fellas to discuss. While the film is largely enjoyable, it doesn’t quite transcend the expectations of its age. Nonetheless, the guys celebrate the best parts of the film including astronauts with dad bods and the prefiguring of 2016’s Arrival . We get back to basics on this episode and we hope you en...

Blamison have really been racking up the podcast cameos lately and this episode is no different as they welcome onto the pod author Matt Ruff of Lovecraft Country and 88 Names fame ! On this episode we discuss one of Matt’s long-standing film blindspots from the 1970s The Super Cops ! The film is based on a “true story” about two Bed-Stuy cops that were nicknamed “Batman & Robin.” We switch up...

Blamison are back and better than ever! On this episode we welcome Brian Rose the filmmaker behind the reconstruction of Orson Welles’ second film The Magnificent Ambersons which has been in the news a lot lately including this terrific write-up by The New Yorker . In this episode we discuss what led to his work on this reconstruction and its controversial use of AI. Then we dig into the film he c...

Blamison is back for a new episode that kind of morphed into a monster. Jamison picked Joel Potrykus’ 2018 film Relaxer and Blake doubled-down numerous times until we decided to watch Potrykus’ whole feature filmography for this episode. We cover Ape , Buzzard , The Alchemist Cookbook , Relaxer and Vulcanizadora . This episode is PACKED with Michigan goodness! Also talked about: how this episode c...

Blamison is back with another spectacular episode! We welcome friend of the podcast Brad Kelly, host of Method and Madness podcast and author of the new book, The Earthen Dark , to the show! In this episode we discuss the classic 1955 film The Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum and Lilian Gish. We discuss how one-time director Charles Laughton took some risks in his cinematography and how...

Blamison are back for a duo episode once again! Jamison and Blake talk about 2016's Holidays the anthology horror film and how deeply inconsistent the movie is while a couple of the segments are terrific and others are conceptually good if not executed well. We zone in specifically on "Father's Day" and "Easter" since we were recording on Easter evening. Really this was...

Blamison is back and this time we get LITERARY. On this episode we have special guest Seth Wieck who just released his debut collection of poetry Call Out Coyote through Wiseblood Books. We talk about his poetry and what it means to be a poet of place. We then turn our attention to the classic Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke . We discuss the nature of prison films, the all-seeing eye of the state,...

Blamison are back with a new episode! Blake’s pick this episode is 1975’s Breakout with Charles Bronson and Robert Duvall. We discuss the minor parts of the film that do work (mainly Bronson) and the large parts of the film that are heavy in their cringe factor. We also discuss that there really is no main character in this movie as no one really has a character arc.  Also discussed: tornadoes, ro...

Blamison are back with a new episode! On this episode we cover the debut feature from John Hillcoat Ghosts…of the Civil Dead (1988). We discuss the experimental nature of the film and how it achieves is commentary about prison life effectively by way of its pacing, its seeming banality and its indifference to temporal setting. It’s a fun discussion about a pretty inaccessible film.  Other items di...

Blamison are back to discuss Blake’s pick! We dig into the little known (sort of) sci-fi 90s film Wedlock from 1991 starring Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen and Mimi Rogers. We talk about the utter ridiculousness of the setup to this film and the moments it still gets right nonetheless. Plus, we get to see Rutger Hauer in full dad bod mode! Also discussed: getting fat from not running and *not* being vega...

Blamison is back with a regular episode! Jamison picked the movie for this episode due to living high on the hog as a teen when he purchased a DVD copy of the 2001 German film Das Experiment from a dying Hollywood Video in Paradise, CA. Blake has to settle for a shiny, ripped and AI-translated German language YouTube version of the movie which he found to be oft confusing. Turns out from our discu...

Jamison and Blake are back with our year-end game and ranking of our podcast film selections! Jamison came up with a most excellent game to achieve our final ranking on the year. It is called Fantasy Celebrity. Here are the rules: We each come with a list of 10 favorite movies from FBF 2025. Flip a coin to see who chooses first. Alternate choosing celebrities untill each person has a team of ten....

Blamison are back just in time to then quit for the year! Jamison did not know it during our last Christmas episode, but he started a trend of subjecting each other to the shittiest films from our past. Blake decided to make him watch the 1995 Disney stunner Man of the House starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Chevy Chase. We try to figure out how this film got made and what kind of audience energ...

Blamison are made to be contrite for our cinematic sins when Demetrius Sanders comes back on the show to talk 1987's Hollywood Shuffle which was the filmic statement by Robert Townsend--who we covered one of his other films, The Meteor Man , earlier in the year. We talk about the anger seething underneath the satire of the film and the various traps of stereotypes in cinema. Don't worry, w...

Blamison are back with a regular episode...sort of! We have a special returning guest--and probably has the award for the shortest turnaround as well!--Luke T. Harrington. On this episode, we talk about Joker: Folie à Deux and why it flubbed at the box office after the hugely successful Joker . We also dig into the controversies and dIsCoUrSe™ surrounding both films when they came out. It's a...