Commentary Club

Once again we are going back to the 1980s for a classic movie! This time is the celebrated horror comedy Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder!

As a tribute to the late great Tim Brooke-Taylor, we celebrate his life and works with a rewatch of two of our favourite episodes of classic 1970s comedy series, The Goodies . The episodes we are watching are Lighthouse Keeping Loonies and the awarding winning Kitten Kong!

It's crap film time again, and we embark on our most gruelling challenge yet - Roland Emmerich's disaster (in every sense of the word)movie 2012 which confusing came out in 2009. Very strong language and pizza recipes ensue...

For a little Easter extra surprise, we couldn't resist going back to another movie from the late great Stuart Gordon. And we picked that dream teaming of Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, HP Lovecraft and two dozen gallons of blood - yes, it's the splatastic Reanimator (1985)!

We return to the world of glorious television for another episode of some vintage Blackadder! In the second ever episode of this classic comedy, the Black Adder finds himself betrothed to be married...

Our cult movie is From Beyond (1986) - a classic adaptation of a story by HP Lovecraft from the late great Stuart Gordon. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree, cult 1980s horror doesn't get any better than this! 

In the first of our staying in comedy shows, we look at the very first episode of The Black Adder - The Foretelling!

In this show we are revisiting one of the early classics of cinema, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920). Starring Conrad Veidt, this silent German Expressionist masterpiece is a genuine piece of movie history and has just celebrated its one hundredth birthday!

To celebrate that special day of the year when everyone pretends to Irish and drinks too much, we are watching cult classic Leprechaun starring the legendary Warwick Davis and a pre- Friends Jennifer Aniston!

It's the dreaded crap movie point of our podcast cycle, and in this episode we are delving into the murky world of 1980s slashers and one of the worst outings for Mr Jason Voorhees esq. Yes, it is the infamous Friday 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which the iconic killer visits New York in circumstances that beggar belief!

It's cult film time again, and this time we are back to the 1980s for a slice of dystopian sci-fi satire! Yes it's Brazil, the strange retro-future nightmare from the mind of Terry Gilliam

It's Valentine's Day and so we thought we'd go for something from the heart... Well, The Hellbound Heart at any rate! Yes, in this massively inappropriate special, we revisit classic British horror movie, Hellraiser , created by the great Clive Barker. Uncle Frank gets a puzzle box, Cenobites ensue...

Once again we return to Jim Henson's The Storyteller, this time for the final story from the fireside, the tale of The Heartless Giant

In this special podcast we pay tribute to the late great Terry Jones with a look back at Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

It's classic film time again, and in this show we set sail with one of the greatest heroes of them all! We accompany the legendary Sinbad on a fantastic adventure masterminded by of the true geniuses of cinema, Ray Harryhausen!

Once again we return to The Storyteller for another two tales beside the fire, although in a somewhat *ahem* more festive mood than usual... This time we are revisiting The Three Ravens and Sapsorrow

For our special festive podcast this year, we just couldn't resist Kurt Russell as Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018). 

We return once again to The Storyteller for another two tales beside the fire. This time we are revisiting The Soldier and Death and The True Bride

In this podcast we plumb the depths of festive film and look at the cat-astrophic Santa Claws from 2014. Can cute kittens save Christmas or will we end up looking for a brick, a sack and an icy canal?

We return once again to the best place by the fire and The Storyteller ! In this minisode we look at the episodes A Story Short and The Luck Child! Beware of the Griffin!

Films don't come much more cult that this - John Dies at the End (2012)! A highly surreal SF horror tale based on the book by David Wong, directed by Don Coscarelli, creator of the Phantasm and Beastmaster movies

It's classic film time again, and we heading back to the 1980s to revisit the fantastic world of The Dark Crystal , a dream collaboration between Jim Henson and Brian Froud.

In this podcast we head back to 1987 to revisit the first two episodes of the Jim Henson fantasy television series The Storyteller starring the late great John Hurt! 

This Halloween we are going back to 1982 to watch the classic collaboration between George Romero and Stephen King - Creepshow ! An anthology horror which pays tribute to the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s with an all-star cast including Ed Harris, Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, EG Marshall, Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver, and Adrienne Barbeau! 

To get us in the mood for some 1980s horror, we take a rambling trip back to November 1982 to sample the music in the charts the week Creepshow was released!