Another Pass Podcast

The world's most popular table top role playing game has had a meteoric rise in the past decade, so it's hard to imagine just how hard the 2000 attempt to adapt the property to film rolled a critical failure! To talk about the infamous flop, Sam and Case are joined by Katie DeMatteis and Ben MartinMooney from Amateurish Productions!

Case and Sam are looking back at the earliest episodes of the show! Check out their thoughts on the third episode when Case sat down with Paul Sieber and chatted about the 2009 Star Trek reboot!

Tom Hanks is known as a talented actor and producer, but once he wrote and directed a well received period piece about a very archetypal band with a number one single. So to talk about That Thing You Do, Case and Sam are joined by Jukebox Vertigo's Keith Lehtinen for a conversation that spans both a theatrical and director's cut and revels in the class rock and pop homages of the film!

Case and Sam are looking back at the earliest episodes of the show! Check out their thoughts on the second episode when Case sat down with Geoff Moonen and chatted about Mallrats!

Father! Father! Why is there pain? Why is there the pain that is The Island of Dr. Moreau? Micah McCaw asks this of Case and Sam when they reflect on the troubled adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel.

Case and Sam are looking back at the earliest episodes of the show! Check out their thoughts on the pilot episode when Case first sat down with Ben and Addy and chatted about Return of the Jedi!

Can a bunch of millennials look past their rose tinted nostalgia glasses when discussing a milestone from their childhood like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze"? Mike Urban joins us for the more kid friendly second entry in the franchise.

With complicated make up, expensive sets, a tight schedule, little support, and brutal weather, it's a miracle that the original Planet of the Apes was made at all! The fact that it spawned such a vast (if mixed) franchise is just as impressive! Paul Kaminski is back to help Sam and Case conclude their retrospective on the Planet of the Apes franchise!

Living up to the incredible original Planet of the Apes film was a Gorilla-ian task that no lower budget sequel was up to, let alone the one that was still working out the kinks. Sam Perez joins Case and Sam for a look Beneath The Planet of The Apes!

The original Planet of the Apes was a landmark film that has remained entrenched in the zeitgeist to this day. The immediate follow up was... not. So how do you course correct the franchise? Flip the script and ask audiences to question how we would handle it if the roles were reversed! Case and Sam are joined by Maynard Bangs from the Reels of Justice podcast to discuss the closest the Planet of...

In the far future of the 1990s, ape will serve man, but humanity is humane, sowing the seeds of uprising. Case and Sam continue their journey backwards (and forwards and then upwards… all the while twirling) through the Planet of the Apes franchise with Conquest of the Planet of the Apes! We're joined by Kale Ryder to light the fires and illuminate this dark entry in the franchise.

As we approach our 150th episode, we're taking a look back at the original Planet of the Apes series, and what better way to handle a series rich with time travel shenanigans than to take them in reverse order? That's right! We're starting with the oft dismissed and forgotten: Battle For The Planet Of The Apes! Seth Decker from the Film Rescue podcast joins us to combine our editorial voices to pr...

When one of your leads dies suddenly in the middle of filming, it takes a lot of creativity to make a finished product, as was the case with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus! Kelsey Lynn Stokes joins Case and Sam to look back at Terry Gilliam's fever dream that almost didn't happen!

The original King Kong was a milestone of special effects and film making tricks, and each generation has tried since to surpass the influential film, including a middling effort in the 70s with an all star cast, a robot gorilla, and a terrible script! Derek Van Dyke and Charlotte Landale from Castle Bravo join Case and Sam to talk about the attempted update at the original kaiju film!

When it comes to a movie that has pervaded the zeitgeist and become shorthand for a type of story, do you dare roll the dice when trying to improve upon it? Kieran Bennett joins us for a conversation about the 1995 film, Jumanji!

From starting as a consolation prize when the studio couldn't get Annie, Popeye was a troubled production every step of the way. Angela "Bones" Bullock joins Case and Sam to see if they can crack a can of spinach open and force feed it to this movie! It am what it am, but could it be more!

The 2017 adaptation of the sprawling French Space Opera, Valérian and Laureline , was not particularly well received, despite incredible world building and stunning visuals, making it perfect for our show. However, this is a pretty big undertaking, so Case and Sam called in Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions to help traverse the Space Oddity that is Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets .

Many movies are made under difficult circumstances, but the horror genre infamously has a ton of entries, but the original "Halloween" is one for the books! Case and Sam are joined by Entrepeneur, Author, Public Speaker, and Grande Dame of Queens Comedy, Kambri Crews, to wipe away the fog of history on this classic!

Correspondence courses can teach you many things! It's like magic and sometimes IT IS magic! Such is the case with Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the less successful follow up to Mary Poppins. To review the syllabus, Case and Sam are joined by Robin and Nicole from the "Books That Burn" podcast. Will they mail in for their degree?

In order to go the distance with Disney's uneven adaptation of Hercules, Case and Sam are joined by Gloria and Rose from the Circling Circe podcast, but will the task prove too laborious?

We're joined by Vin Macri to take a look at the sequel to the pop culture juggernaut that was Ghostbusters! Can the trio crack open the river of slime without drowning in negativity?

Is there a secret to crafting a good Kenneth Branagh movie? To tackle this mystery, Case and Sam are joined by Melissa Meli from the Amateur Detective Club podcast . Will they get to the bottom of the "Murder on the Orient Express"?

"I'll get you, my pretty", said the producer to the… everyone. To discuss the ur-example of Hollywood's contempt for human life and why we need safety regulations, Case and Sam are joined by Ashley Griffin to talk about The Wizard of Oz!

We're throwing a party at Z-Man's, so why don't you join Case, Sam, and actor/comedian/writer Sean Lynch.  We're going to have a lot of fun talking about this Roger Ebert penned psychedelic cautionary tale/softcore porn/musical, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". Come when you can! When does any party start? "When ya' get there!"

Goo goo g'joob! Paul Kaminski joins Case and Sam to look at the wild Beatles movie "Magical Mystery Tour"! Can the Terrific Trio work wonders on the Fab Four's mediocre movie? Are they the egg man? Are they the walrus?