Cinemondo Insider Movie Reviews Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Ghosts Series BBC Comedy - Horrible Histories Go Haunting! Imagine The Haunting of Bly Manor as a joyous comedy. Now you have Ghosts. The ghosts are played by Horrible Histories veterans who also wrote this project. Charlotte Richie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe play a couple who inherit a stately English mansion in disrepair - that is also haunted by a lovely group of apparitions. Music...

Send us Fan Mail Must See Iconic 80s Movies! Even if you missed our Live YouTube Broadcast about Must See Iconic 80s Movies you can hear it here now! Some of the most iconic films ever made came out in the 80s. Don't believe us? Listen in as we start this new series of reviews based on some of the best though not always best-known films of the 80s because that's how good it was. We each...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy, Mark, and Burk discuss Spanish filmmaker, Oriol Paulo’s, The Invisible Guest. It's a film you might have missed, but it’s something you really need to see if you like the kind of twisty, mysterious, moody yarns that put you on the edge of your seat from the very beginning and pull you through some harrowing suspense that you can’t always see coming. There are plenty of...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo Lawgivers gather on Planet Backlot to discuss a strange episode called THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS and all hell breaks loose.  Many ideas are presented, and many questions remain. It’s the one where the people on planet Beta III in the C-111 system have a strange system of government overseen by a mysterious religious figure named Landru. They all seem like peaceful an...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy, Mark and Burk dig into another true crime documentary series and discuss the details, so make sure you watch this fascinating 3-part series before listening to the podcast. It’s a case filled with twists and unexpected reveals, so it’s a good idea to watch it first without knowing anything. But once you’ve seen it, you’ll definitely want to join us for a deep dive into this...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo gang takes aim at a true classic of film noir. It’s a movie that’s so sharp and shockingly alive, it’s almost timeless. Peggy Cummins and John Dall are the perfect deadly duo who meet cute shooting guns in a state fair sideshow and things only get worse from there. It’s one fantastically staged crime spree after another and it raises relevant questions and addresses...

Send us Fan Mail Special guest Mark Maddox ( Monster Attack! Podcast )  joins the Cinemondo Red Shirts for a look at another beloved episode of the Original Series. COURT MARTIAL , as the episode title suggests, is a courtroom drama where Kirk is the defendant, doing his best to prove that he’s innocent of murdering an old rival. The evidence looks bad, but there has to be some kind of explanation...

Send us Fan Mail Documentary filmmaker JOE BERLINGER  joins Kathy, Mark and Burk for a deeper look into his Netflix documentary series CRIME SCENE: THE VANISHING AT THE CECIL HOTEL. It’s a fascinating look into how we see and understand films and series about true crime. What leads us to make our conclusions about the cases we follow and how important are our opinions and our speculation? Joe take...

Send us Fan Mail TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY: Another beloved first, classic season episode. It starts off a little confusing in the 1960s version of “present day” and then suddenly the Enterprise is flying through a blue sky and being detected on an Air Force base’s radar… and then sling-shotted into a time travel trip with all the uncertainties and paradoxes and past-changing dilemmas we love about su...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo Excavators and their special guest, Lisa Fancher , dig deep into a lovely true story, THE DIG, based on the infamous Sutton Hoo excavation. It was one of the greatest archaeological finds in British history, and changed historians’ view of the Dark Ages. It takes place in 1939 on a picturesque estate where more than just ancient relics are uncovered. A great cast and...

Send us Fan Mail ARENA is one of those episodes of the original Star Trek series that everyone remembers. Kirk fighting the Gorn on the asteroid with the cool angular rock formations. It’s the one where he cleverly identifies some various elements and minerals and builds a radio out of coconuts… no wait… wrong 60s TV series. Kirk does his best when what he can find lying around, but there’s so muc...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy, Mark and Burk take a look at another True Crime documentary miniseries about a serial killer. This one’s about the Yorkshire Ripper who attacked and killed women between 1975 and 1980 between West Yorkshire and Manchester. The series takes a carefully detailed look at not just the facts of the case, but the economic environment and the general sense of hopelessness in the a...

Send us Fan Mail Hip-hip hoorah! The all-powerful Cinemondo beings venture down to the planet of General Trelane (retired), the Squire of Gothos for an unexpectedly unsettling episode where the Enterprise crew encounters a malevolent being they can’t beat! They’re stumped! What do you do when you’re up against someone who seems to have unlimited super-powers and a certain type of derangement that...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo gang discusses a cool sci-fi film that somehow got past us when it was released in 2019, but we’re going to make up for it with this episode. Rupert Wyatt's, CAPTIVE STATE, is a hard science-fiction film that takes the well-worn trope of alien invasion and gives us another perspective on how such a thing might actually feel if the aliens won and actually DID tak...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo furry giants take a trip into Murasaki 312 with the Galileo Seven for a look at another fun, exciting and clever episode. Kirk sends his three best friends and some expendables into an unexplored “quasar-like” nebula in a shuttlecraft where they’re pulled down into a rough landing on a planet overrun by mysterious giant, spear-wielding humanoids. Unable to communicat...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy, Mark and Burk take another dark trip into True Crime with a new Netflix documentary series directed by Tiller Russell called, NIGHT STALKER: THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER. Richard Ramirez terrorized the city of Los Angeles in the 1980s, and anyone who lived here at the time has very distinct and scary memories of those days. A seemingly random and brutal series of murders, c...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo Away Team explore the strange, mysterious planet of fantasies and dreams featured in the episode “Shore Leave.” Slightly reminiscent of Solaris and a few other science fiction scenarios that manifest our wildest fantasies and fears. This one takes place mostly on location and seems to have a wider landscape than most of the planets they visit. Written by the great Th...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo aquanauts take a really deep and watery look at director William Eubank's, UNDERWATER, a film that you should probably see in a theater, once we get theaters back. It’s an epic underwater (duh) science-fiction thriller, that starts with a bang and never lets up. We’re way, way, way down there in a deep sea base near an oil drill, and something is smashing up the...

Send us Fan Mail The Romulan spies at Cinemondo Headquarters welcome special guest Mark Maddox to discuss another outstanding episode of Star Trek, “The Balance of Terror,” where we get to meet the Romulans for the first time and experience some suspenseful submarine-style military tactics, some personal tragedies and some interstellar bigotry. It’s a fantastic episode with so much going on, we do...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first episode of Season 4! Kathy, Mark and Burk take a look at MIDNIGHT SKY, a Netflix sci-fi original feature directed and starting George Clooney. It’s like a couple of different movies rolled into one. You get an adventure across the frozen polar wasteland and a thrilling space adventure with meteor showers and a desperate planetary exploration. It’s a look at wh...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo troupe of Shakespearian thespians take a close look at the Star Trek episode “The Conscience of the King” and decide whether it was meant to be or not to be in their list of favorite episodes. There’s a few classic scenes, and few of Kathy’s favorite “Cranky Spock” moments, and a few “first and onlys” but does it live up to the quality of other Trek episodes? The epi...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo gang takes a long, deep dive into the year 2020 and what we’ve been watching, with our special guest Jeff McCarty. Definitely a very different year for cinema and a year full of home-bound binging and really missing going out to the theater. There’s been some good releases, though, despite the obstacles. We talk about film releases and various series and we even get...

Send us Fan Mail Join the Cinemondo commodores and their special guest Mark Maddox for this concluding 2 part episode about The Menagerie Part 2 where we get into the intricacies and details of this very fascinating story. There’s intrigue and adventure and a good deal of courtroom drama, but there’s also a fistfight and the lovely Susan Oliver as a princess and a green dancing Orion slave girl. A...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo gang takes a recommendation from a listener named Nick who insisted that we watch THE BEAST, a war movie from 1988 directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Steven Bauer, Jason Patric and Stephen Baldwin. He claims it’s great. An overlooked gem. An underrated and forgotten classic. Sounds like Cinemondo material, for sure. And guess what? Nick was right. This is a film...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo background crew members - and special guest Mark Maddox , examine a two-part and very thrillingly intricate courtroom drama episode of Star Trek. The Menagerie Part 1 famously features footage that was repurposed from the original pilot episode of the show in a way that’s so cleverly constructed and perfectly presented, we were finding it difficult to come up with an...