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On today's episode, Awesome Action August rolls on with David A. Prior's The Final Sanction. In the first two minutes, nuclear bombs are launched and tens of thousands of people die and no one seems that concerned... so not that different from today. We also get bad computer voices, prison brawls, and killer garden tools. It's a little slow-going but we're hoping for some collusion between America...

On today's mini episode (recorded yesterday!), we reveal the next film in our Action August line-up. Also, one of us reveals his love of some of the director's prior work, the other pushes a button that changes the fabric of reality, and we both get tongue-tied. Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us...

In this clip from our latest episode on Pup Academy, we look ahead to the rest of the season and prepare ourselves for what's coming. Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast Web: predictoca...

We welcome back friend of the show Kip Reed to discuss the rest of 1993's Firepower! Hey, it's weird for a movie to set up a fake AIDS vaccine but actually just be about cage-fighting, right? Yeah, super weird. We also talk videos games, knock-off ninja weapons, impressive male physiques, the Lovely Lisa, and how this movie is definitely not copying RoboCop. Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of...

We kick off Action August with Part 1 of our discussion on 1993's absolutely wild Firepower. We get SO MUCH information on this not-so-distant future in the first 10 minutes: there's a joint U.S.-Japanese manned mission to Mars, AIDS was cured but is back due a fake vaccine, and there are lawless zones around the country where all crime is legal. But we're mostly tickled by the wild driving. Part...

On today's mini episode, we reveal the awesomely action-packed month we have planned for August! Things are gonna get real dumb around here. Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast Check ou...

In this clip from our Patreon-exclusive episode on Joel Schumacher and Larry Cohen's taut single-location thriller Phone Booth, we discuss how long it took this particular idea to come to fruition.  To hear the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/predictocast .  Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: ht...

We close out Larry Cohen Month with the rest of our discussion on the less-than-stellar Special Effects. It's a movie that wallows in sleaze and wears its love of Hitchcock and DePalma on its sleeves. It's a bit too meta for its own good in ways that don't totally make sense, and it also wants us to care about Keefe, the dumbest man on the planet (this might be the film's biggest crime). Still, it...

We're closing out Larry Cohen Month this week with 1984's Special Effects, a movie that is sure to be an exercise in film commentary and sleaziness. In the first ten minutes, we find ourselves in a niche peep show, meet a woman whose voice is dubbed by Rue McClanahan, and see a cowbaby (a cowboy baby). Also: Josh is consumed by the notion of J.J.'s Apricot Lot, which sends him down an interesting...

As part of Larry Cohen Month, we're unlocking our Patreon episode on the Larry Cohen-directed Eric Roberts-starring The Ambulance. This movie is an absolute blast! Things we love: James Earl Jones's simmering hatred of Eric Roberts. Red Buttons's over-the-top newspaperman. Stan Lee as himself. Random street toughs. Bulletproof ambulance. Seriously, this movie is everything we wanted. This episode...

Larry Cohen Month continues in this mini episode, where we reveal the next possibly movie-centric movie we're covering on the show, plus we come up with a great, not-at-all-hard to say name for your garage band.  Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram...

On today's episode, we finally unravel the mystery at the center of Deadly Illusion, and folks... it makes no sense at all. It's one of the most unnecessarily convoluted plots in cinema history, but honestly it doesn't matter because there's a scythe fight, a helicopter opening fire on a posh restaurant, and two men fighting inside a Christmas tree. Plus Billy Dee Williams strutting around in a bl...

We kick off Larry Cohen Month by bringing along Billy Dee Williams to explore a Deadly Illusion. Hamberger (don't make fun of his name, okay?) is a crack-shot private investigator who is hired to kill a man's wife. Since things aren't always as they seem in a Larry Cohen movie, what's really going on? Do the rich folks live on Plum Island? Will they solve the JFK Assassination in this movie? Will...

On this week's mini episode, we launch our newest theme month, celebrating a filmmaker we love around these parts: Larry Cohen!  Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast Web: predictocast.co...

In this clip from our Patreon-exclusive trip to Pup Academy, we talk a lot more about toilet travel because of course we do.  Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast Web: predictocast.com E...

We're taking the week off to but we didn't want to leave you without an episode so we're opening up the Patreon vault and releasing our episode on the oddity that is Dangerous Men, originally released on December 26, 2018. We'll be back next week with a mini episode setting up an exciting theme month for July. See you then! Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predicto...

In this clip from our Patreon-exclusive episode on the Brian Bosworth biker gang action classic Stone Cold, we discuss the racist biker gang's plan and how even if they are successful (they are), they'll be dead by the end of the day (they are).  We recorded a commentary track for the opening scene of Stone Cold! Check it out on our YouTube channel ! To hear the full episode, sign up at patreon.co...

This week on the show, we're joined by Dan McCoy, cohost of the Maximum Fun podcast The Flop House, to discuss 1973's Lady Ice!  Dan is back to discuss the rest of the film, and we are just unexplainably laughing uproariously. Along the way we discuss the somewhat convoluted plot, George Lucas's almost involvement in the film, and some of Donald Sutherland's intimidation tactics.  Listen to Dan's...

Please enjoy this full episode of Hot Diggity Dog - now available on its own podcast feed! Find us wherever you get podcasts or listen to the show at hotdogpod.libsyn.com !   Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www....

In this clip from our brand-new Patreon-exclusive show Hot Dog University, we explore the wild world of acronyms, toilet travel, and predict who's going to die in this kid's show.  Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https:...

This week on the show, we're joined by Dan McCoy, cohost of the Maximum Fun podcast The Flop House, to discuss 1973's Lady Ice!  On this prediction episode, we discuss the first 10 minutes of the film, which Donald Sutherland ASMR, a man in a coat three sizes too small, and The Cigarette Motel. We then predict what happens next, which could include twin Donald Sutherlands, a trip to the Cuban diam...

We're back with a new mini episode to reveal next week's film AND to reveal the special, Flop-tastic guest who will be joining us for both episodes!  Sign up for Patreon to unlock hours of bonus content! patreon.com/predictocast Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast...

We're back to finally hang up The Telephone and rip it right out of the wall and throw it out the window. This is truly one of the most perplexing movies we've ever covered and as such, this isn't a usual episode of our show. Why? Well, it's not all that funny. We spend most of the episode just sort of puzzling out HOW and WHY this is a thing that exists. We discuss the making and distribution of...

This week on the show we're answering the call and talking about little-known Whoopi Goldberg oddity The Telephone. We get Whoopi dressed like she's attending Hogwarts (complete with tiny owl!) and her almost killing a goldfish for no reason. Not too much happens in these first 10 minutes, which sets up the possibility of a really dire rest of the film. We'll find out either way in Part 2 dropping...

We do what you'd normally expect from a mini episode, setting up the next film we'll be talking about on the show, but first we want to make it explicitly clear where we stand on everything that is happening around the country right now: Black Lives Matter. We stand with the protestors against police violence against Black men, women, and children.  Links below on places that could use whatever yo...