Cult Classics Podcast

The circumstances surrounding the death of crime novelist Harlan Thrombey are mysterious, but there's one thing that renowned Detective Benoit Blanc knows for sure -- everyone in the wildly dysfunctional Thrombey family is a suspect. Now, Blanc must sift through a web of lies and red herrings to uncover the truth.   Director: Rian Johnson   Cast: Ana De Armas, chris Evans, Daniel Craig, Christophe...

Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts 5-year-old Julian (Dylan Sprouse), (Cole Sprouse) to impress her. She's not impressed ... and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny!   Director:...

A widowed farmer, with a brave but brutal military past, decides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776. However, when his son enlists and is later captured by the enemy, the former soldier must abandon his new-found pacifist principles in order to rescue his oldest child, and forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort.   Director: Rol...

After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) into a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), he heads to New York City and gets a low-level job at MacMillen Toy Company. A chance encounter with the owner (Robert Loggia) of the company leads to a promotion testing new toys. Soon a fellow employee, Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins), takes a romantic interest in Josh. However, the pressure of livin...

This week, the Cult Classics Podcast talks about the 1989 Tom Hanks hidden gem, “The Burbs”.    Settling in for some time off in his suburban home, Ray Peterson's (Tom Hanks) vacation becomes a horror when the Klopeks, a suspiciously odd family, move in down the block. Enlisting the aid of his paranoid buddy, Art (Rick Ducommun), and his militia-man neighbor, Rumsfield (Bruce Dern), Ray sends his...

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on t...

Tim Burton made a movie about Martians!  Director: Tim Burton Casts: Jack Nicholson, Glen Close, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown   Hosts: Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle, Jordan Jones

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison dram film directed starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a  Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. The film, set in the early 1950s, is based on Don Pearce's 1965 Cool Hand Luke.   Director: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy...

After a run-in with the law, Haley Graham ( Missy Peregrym ) is forced to return to the world from which she fled some years ago. Enrolled in an elite gymnastics program run by the legendary Burt Vickerman ( Jeff Bridges ), Haley's rebellious attitude gives way to something that just might be called team spirit.   Director: Jessica Bendinger Cast: Missy Peregrym, Jeff Bridges   Hosts: Makr Nussle,...

A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.   Director: Jan de Bont Cast:  Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Dennis Hopper   Hosts: Mark Nussle, Cameron Jones, Jordan Jones

Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, an ordinary man who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve. When he and his young son, Charlie, finish St. Nick's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole where Scott learns that he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed Santa Claus. Director: John Pasquin Cast: Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Wendy Crewson, J...

The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.   Director: Brian Henson   Cast: Michael Cain, Kermit The Frog, Gonzo, Rizzo the Rat, Miss Piggy   Host: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle

An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.    Directed by John McTiernan   Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson   Host: Mark Nussle, Cameron Jones, Jordan Jones

While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with -- a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.   Director: Roger Kumble Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein Host: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle

A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.   Director:  Shawn Levy   Cast: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Carla Gugino, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd   Host: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, Mark Nussle

Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian and amateur cryptologist searching for a lost treasure of precious metals, jewelry, artwork, and other artifacts that was accumulated into a huge stockpile and eventually hidden by American Freemasons during the American Revolutionary War. A coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence points to the location of the "national treasure", bu...

During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone (Robert De Niro) and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.   Director: Brian De Palma   Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro   Host: Jordan Jones, Cameron Jones, M...

We end out our Halloween schedule with one of the most popular Disney Original Movies off all time. in Halloweentown a young girl living with her good-witch grandmother (Debbie Reynolds) learns she too is a witch, she must help her grandmother save Halloweentown from evil forces. Stay to the end for our must watch movies/tv shows to watch in October.    Director: Duwayne Dunham Cast: Debbie Reynol...

It's October, so we rolled out the red carpet to discuss one of the most iconic horror characters of all time. The monstrous spirit of a slain child murderer seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.  Director: West Craven Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Ronne Blakley Host: Mark Nussle, Camer...

In this week's spooky episode we discuss Laika Studios stop motion animated film Paranorman. Norman is a misunderstood boy who takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.  This movie sets itself apart from other children's movies, not only because of its stunning animation, but also in the way it handles it's more mature themes. Stay till the end and hear us...

This week we discuss an overlooked stoner comedy horror movies to kick off our Halloween schedule. Seventeen year old slacker Anton Tobias (Devon Sawa) wakes up one Halloween morning to discover that both of his parents have been turned into two headless Halloween decorations. After speaking to his equally irresponsible friends, Mick (Seth Green) and Pnub (Elden Henson), he discovers that his righ...

This week we are discussing a movie that is set in Chicago. Starring John Cusack as Rob Gordon, a music-loving man with a poor understanding of women. After being dumped by his long-term girlfriend, Laura, he tries to understand how he failed in his relationships by seeking out his old partners. By day, he works at his record store, Championship Vinyl, where customers drift through. He and his emp...

This week we discuss a nostalgia film for the cult.  In comparison to classics like The Goonies, and The Sandlot Little Giants is in the second tier of rag tag coming of age movies from the late 80s to mid 90s. Rick Moranis  stars as the younger brother who lived in the shadow of his Heisman Trophy winning older brother, played by Ed O'Neil. and wackiness ensues. Stay till the end of the episode f...

This week we delve into Carpenter’s politically charged sci-fi/action film that not-so-subtly critiques the dangerous effects of blind consumerism during the the 80s era of Reaganomics. Starring WWF superstar Rowdy Roddy Piper as “Nada”, a vagabond who discovers a pair of sunglasses that allows him to see the human race is subservient to a ruling class of blue aliens hiding in plain sight. Combine...

This week the cult dips our toes back into the John Carpenter pool which is vast and deep with a plethora of cult classics. Carpenter teams up once again with Kurt Russel in the 1981 sci-fi dystopian classic. It's 1997 and Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the United States president crash lands into the city after fleeing a hijacked plane, a ruthless prison warden bri...