Cinema Chop Shop

The gang ushers in Noirvember with a French classic, Louis Malle's "Elevator to the Gallows". Sync up your video player of choice and watch along.

Shawn, Joey, Todd, and Lee gather one last time to close out spooky month and discuss the best horror movies from 1984-1993.

Shawn, Travis, and Lee gather in the Chop Shop Garage to hack through another 10 years of horror movies to determine the best of 1994-2003.

Shawn, Joey, Todd, and Lee reconvene to slash their way through the best horror movies of 2004-2013.  Did yours make the cut?

It's spooky season, so Shawn, Travis, Todd, and Lee are discussing the best horror movies of 2014-2024! 

Shawn, Travis, Todd, and special guest, Lee, gather under the cloak of darkness and contrive a complex plot to discuss Giallo. Blades in hand, the gang takes a stab at explaining what makes this Italian genre so amazing.

Calling all shutterbugs! Join Shawn, Travis, and Todd as they discuss the 1960 film, Peeping Tom, and three other movies inspired by Criterion Channel's "The Photographer's Gaze" collection.

Shawn somehow convinces Travis, Todd, Joey, and Alley to sit down and watch this Kickboxing/VR relic from 1995. Sync us up and watch along!

A special tiebreaker guest joins Shawn, Travis, Joey, and Todd and gets into a lively discussion to determine the best ensemble movie of all time.

Shawn, Travis, and Joey get together to discuss perfect castings.  Whether the roles are based on actual people, cartoons, comics, or characters written specifically for the screen, these roles simply couldn't be played by anyone else. 

Shawn, Travis, and Todd gather to pay homage to the late Donald Sutherland by discussing 16 of his best roles to determine the greatest movie of the bunch.

In observance of his recent passing, the gang discusses Roger Corman's highs and lows, resulting in a lean episode that is on time and under budget.

It's a full house as the gang gathers in the Shop to discuss the phenomenon of Twin Movies, films that are remarkably similar and are released in close proximity to each other.

Travis and Joey stop by the shop and Shawn surprises them with a surprise watch party of 1991's Robotrix.  Will the boys enjoy this action/comedy/sci-fi/erotic thriller from Hong Kong?  Listen and find out!

Shawn, Travis, and Todd revisit the topic of Samurai Movies and discuss the feature film, Lady Snowblood (1973), and some of their other favorite samurai films.

Directing tandems is the topic of the day.  Whether they be siblings, friends, lovers, or enemies, the gang discusses what makes these particular directors excel when working in pairs.

It's a full house as the gang gathers to discuss The Golden Raspberry Awards, its deserving recipients, and a few recipients who were possibly too harshly judged at the time.

For one reason or another, we all skip a movie that we probably should have watched by now. To remedy that, the gang watches the movies missing from their respective filmographies and reports their experiences.

Joey and Todd stop by the Shop to watch the 2024 release, "Wanted Man", written, directed, and starring Dolph Lundgren. With Kelsey Grammer riding shotgun, how can we possibly go wrong?

Join the gang as we bare all and discuss surprising nudity in film.  From iconic scenes to actors looking to change perceptions of their images, skin is the theme of the day.

It's a full house as the gang dukes it out to determine the top movie in arguably the best year for film, 1999.

We're celebrating our 300th Episode by discussing the movie, 300, and other films where numbers figure heavily in the titles. So, grab your sword and shield and join the fray.

With Travis stuck at home with Covid, we're gonna remotely party like it's 2020 and dive into our lists of the Top 23 Movies of 2023! Special thanks to Cleanfeed.net for supplying a free option for remote recording.

Travis and Shawn have the dirt on this episode!  Since the early days of film, blackmail has been a useful plot device.  Join us as we discuss some devious flicks driven by the dirty deed.

Shawn, Joey, and Todd discuss the brief, tragic film career of Laird Cregar. With an imposing frame, Cregar delivered nuanced performances that explored the depths of creepiness.