Cinemondo Insider Movie Reviews Podcast

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo gang and guest Lisa Fancher take a dark turn down the dark alley of Religious Horror and try our best to make sense of a couple of strangely hypnotic and horrific films about devils and possessions and religious horror… Is it all imaginary? Surreal symbolic mythology, or is there really a tentacled monster in the bedroom? We lean into Ken Russell's The Devils an...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo Podcast switches to black and white to talk about a couple of classics that aren’t as we’ll-known as they should be. We defend the old stuff by talking about some greats like NIGHTMARE ALLEY with Tyrone Power and FORCE OF EVIL, with John Garfield. Films that are just as engaging and compelling as they were when they were made. Come with us back to the 1940s, and trus...

Send us Fan Mail You can’t always get what you pay for, but if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you deserve. Kathy, Mark and Burk take a look at a matched pair of documentaries about an exclusive and alarmingly expensive music festival that failed spectacularly. Take an unflinching look at a distinctly modern scam and follow a team of entrepreneurs on their spiral into epic failu...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the podcast we have Los Angeles-based painter Chad Robertson helping us to analyze and deconstruct the film VELVET BUZZSAW. It’s a rare episode where we’re being somewhat harsh art critics much like the character in the film. Is this one a satire or a horror film? A dark comedy or an attempt to make something deep and moving? Listen in and find out what our verd...

Send us Fan Mail The gang discusses the value of Awards Shows, and decides that they’re not winners. Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys, Emmys… Who cares? How can you rate works of art? Anyway… we also do a Mystery Date episode.. The Cinemondo gang drops three surprise films on each other and they decide on a winner. No they don’t. There are no winners or losers! Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thou...

Send us Fan Mail Revisit the disturbing phenomenon named Ted Bundy, one of the most enigmatic serial killers of all time. Joe Berlinger’s 4 part documentary series on Netflix takes you through the years and into the mind of a genuine psychopath and brings new insight into this nightmarishly dark case. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their messa...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy brings up a bad movie, RED SPARROW. before the discussion turns to Robert Mitchum films including NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and CAPE FEAR. Tangents: Old Hollywood and encounters with old timers from the classic era of film. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Sign up here to get your podcast started!...

Send us Fan Mail The Cinemondo Podcast cabal welcomes Brooke and Randal from the Married AF Podcast to the show. We interrogate them relentlessly about their favorite movies and TV shows and we uncover what scares them and what movies they love. Big thanks to the two of them for joining us for a fun and wildly varied chat. Subscribe to Married AF on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id13527...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy, Mark and Burk take a look at the Cohen Brothers filmography and zero in on their newest film on Netflix THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS. It’s a western film that you might like even if you don’t like westerns. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Sign up here to get your podcast started! We'r...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you’re deprived of one of your senses… and then monsters are attacking you? How do you keep safe from creatures who attack when you make even a tiny sound? Or monsters that can kill you when look at them? Sensory deprivation and some of the problems we had with a few recent examples. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of the Cinemondo Podcast! We managed to avoid being cancelled... but new, better-looking actors will be playing us this season. The Season 1 actors who played Kathy, Mark and Burk were asking for way too much money, and we had to let them go. Okay, that's not 100% true, but anyway, welcome to Season 2! We haven’t seen every movie or TV...

Send us Fan Mail Join the Cinemondo Science Patrol as they travel to Japan to talk about Kaiju - those lovable, but horrendously destructive giant monsters we all enjoy watching knock over miniature buildings and fight with each other. Our Giant Japanese Monster episode goes from Ultraman, to the present day when we discuss the most recent Japanese Godzilla film, SHIN GODZILLA. Join Cinemondo and...

Send us Fan Mail How come the Holly Jolly Christmastime cheer and joy translates so well into horror movies? Why do we simultaneously have happy memories of Santa along with memories of the sheer terror of being compelled to sit in his lap in the mall? The Cinemondo heralds of holiday happiness discuss the sometimes traumatically terrifying genre of Holiday Horror…. along with some other holiday f...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest Lisa Fancher is back to help us take a closer look at filmmaker David Fincher’s work. We focus on his television production MINDHUNTER as well as ZODIAC and SE7EN, despite having problems with Kevin Spacey. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Sign up here to get your podcast started! We&apo...

Send us Fan Mail A Deep Dive look into the Netflix series THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. The gang discusses what makes a movie genuinely scary, and why anyone would want to watch something that scares them in the first place. Mike Flanagan’s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE seems to have a serious respect for the genre. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get t...

Send us Fan Mail We talk about the importance of not ignoring black and white films - and black and white films with subtitles even! We discuss WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE and the French film DIABOLIQUE. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Sign up here to get your podcast started! We're also on Patreon! Becom...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy, Mark, Burk and special guest, Lisa Fancher, talk about a couple of Dinner Party films… You know the kind of strange, creepy, horrific thrillers that take place in one location with a groups of friends who face increasingly odd circumstances. THE INVITATION and COHERENCE… they might make you hesitate the next time your close, trusted friends ask you over for dinner. Join Cin...

Send us Fan Mail Low Budget films with good ideas. We talk about filmmakers making their own films, and bring up Mark’s short film BREATHE. Mark talks about the production and his experiences. We talk about CALIBRE, and bring up other films where characters face a life-changing choice. We bring up things like A SIMPLE PLAN, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, DOUBLE INDEMNITY and the idea that aspirin...

Send us Fan Mail Take a trip with us... back in time... to the days of virtuous street gangs and kind-hearted bullies. We’re talking about the Augmented Fantasies of nostalgia, and how movies present the past and the present in ways that might not be entirely truthful. We get all gritty in the streets of the Big City with THE WARRIORS and THE WANDERERS. Two films that romanticize street gangs, but...

Send us Fan Mail David Cronenberg. And Stephen King again. We talk about two Cronenberg films: The Dead Zone and Dead Ringers. We also discuss Stephen King adaptations… best and worst. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Sign up here to get your podcast started! We're also on Patreon! Become a Patron on Patreon...

Send us Fan Mail  It's almost Halloween and that deserves a special movie. Let's all go to Paimon's treehouse! Did Hereditary live up to all the hype? Is this a movie worthy of being spoken of in the same breath as the classics? There’s a lot to discuss, so we’ve given this disturbing, unusual film its own episode. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using...

Send us Fan Mail Did the intrepid trio get in over their heads with this episode about Time Travel movies? Did they create wonky timeline-polluting paradoxes with their discussion of Primer and Predestination? Kathy, Mark and Burk try their best to explain the almost unexplainable weirdness of some classic time travel films, and beg listeners to help them understand how it all works. Join Cinemond...

Send us Fan Mail Guest Lisa Fancher joins the Cinemondo Podcast family and we discuss the critically panned but beloved by us film, Darren Aronosfsky's,MOTHER! We get into the biblical allegory, religious symbolism and we laugh right in the apocalypse's face. Take a Deep Dive with us into a film that we feel was unfairly slammed by the critics and try our best to get folks to reconsider...

Send us Fan Mail We discuss underappreciated gems RESOLUTION and the sequel THE ENDLESS. Films with “time loop” concepts. The ideas inside these two films and the sometimes meta ideas of film characters. We also talk about actors and acting… actors, the unsung heroes of film. Join Cinemondo and over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Sign...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Artist Devon Whitehead returns to join us for a special Mystery Date episode. Each of us brings a surprise film to the table, and the responses can be anything from, “I love that one!” to “I’ve never even heard of that one!!” but you can be sure that the Mystery Date episodes won’t let you down if you’re looking for something obscure that you probably haven’t seen. We talk...