Death By Movies

Send a text One of the very last original American film exchanges exists in Oklahoma City, and after a century of being used as a movie theater it's now less than a month away from being discontinued. Luckily, the Oklahoma Film Exchange has been created to keep that from happening. Why should Oklahomans and non-Oklahomans alike care about preserving this piece of film history? Well, Dalton St...

Send a text Happy 2025! All things must end, and Death By Movies says farewell and rings in the new year with a mammoth, star-studded celebration of one of the most emotionally impactful movies of all time - Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - and why we need movies, both individually and culturally. Thank you all so much for listening to and supporting the show. Talk movies with...

Send a text Andrew McDonald ( andrewww.mp4 ) stops by to bid a final farewell to the podcast he helped build with the second to the last episode of the feed, and of course we're talking about Peter Jackson's J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . We dig into foundational things, like Tolkien's preference of applicability over allegory, what his background as a linguist did in...

Send a text The Sandman flies solo to yell at you for over three hours about James Cameron's pop culture phenomenon Titanic . Sync the movie up with this episode and listen along as the acting styles of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are examined, why Big Jim is a great storyteller and absolute maniac of a human being, the haunting nature of the real life wreck site, boobs, screenplay str...

Send a text Transcendental style in film! What is it? Can it actually use the mechanics of film grammar to give the viewer the feeling of the transcendent? And most importantly, what is it? Luckily Dustin Sells ( GoodTrash GenreCast !) is here to take our hands and explain it to us like we're five! We delve into madman Paul Schrader's book on the subject, discuss intention, film techniqu...

Send a text Sam Scovill (former stand up open micer with Nick Sanford, Jeopardy winner, and NASA expert) stops by to do a commentary on Ron Howard's 1995 classic and arguably greatest "dad movie" ever Apollo 13 -- you know, starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Sinise, and many other sTaRs ha ha ha hadhkdh -- and talk about why this movie ru...

Send a text Has it already been ten years of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar ? Where has the time gone? Time just keeps going forward, and we're all prisoners to its ceaseless march. David McEntire ( Objects In Space frontman!) orbital-slingshots back to the podcast to talk Christopher Nolan's silent film influences, visual poetry that harkens to directing giants like Andrei Tarkov...

Send a text The Sandman flies solo to talk what's ostensibly his favorite film ever - M. Night Shyamalan's Signs . It gets and stays kooky, as subjects such as spirituality, how normal Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix have turned out to be, miracles, synchronicity, processing disasters, the influence of Spielberg's Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind , and all sorts of other s...

Send a text DVD extras helped shape media literacy and pulled the curtain of filmmaking back for an entire generation -- and then the bubble popped and Hollywood had to change gears. But there are still a few freaks out there that appreciate physical media and the joys it can bring us. Jon Rhoads ( filmmaker !) and Kenny Madison (co-host of the Trek Wars Podcast !) stop by to stroll down memory la...

Send a text OKC comedy legend BradChad Porter stops by to discuss how much of a masterpiece the 1994 hit comedy  Dumb & Dumber actually is. Has the humor aged well, and what does it even mean for humor to "age"? Why is the snowball scene the most cinematic moment in a comedy ever? Is Jim Carrey's character a sociopath? Is Jeff Daniels' character actually a little more (rela...

Send a text In October of 2024 two dipshits disappeared in the woods near Shawnee, Oklahoma, while recording a podcast... A week later their episode was found. Nick on Instagram Nick on Letterboxd Elusive | Official Website Elusive | Stream Free on Tubi Elusive | Rent/Buy on Prime Video

Send a text M. Night Shyamalan is a normal director who everyone has normal opinions about, and when the man wants to, he can really construct a moment that makes you shit your pants. But what are his best six scares, and in what order? The American people demand to know. Luckily, the crew from the How I Met Your Monster podcast - Danny Salemme, Casey Brewer, and Zach Wincik - stop by to help put...

Send a text Andrew McDonald ( andrewww.mp4 !) helps celebrate spooky season by stopping by to talk about Mel Brooks' minor classic Young Frankenstein and the vastly superior Ernest Scared Stupid ! What do these movies have in common? How are they different? How is the character of Ernest P. Worrell a little like Donald Trump? Did Ernest Scared Stupid go too far with its scariness, or are kids...

Send a text Keegan Parrish ( Monsterful Media ) stops by to talk the "big eight" Universal Monster movies -- Dracula Frankenstein The Invisible Man The Mummy Bride of Frankenstein The Wolf Man Phantom of the Opera Creature From the Black Lagoon -- to dissect how they hold up scare-wise compared to each other, ruminate on how they show us how cinema has changed in the near century since t...

Send a text Spooky season rolls right along with the Unholy Trinity - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho , Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , and John Carpenter's Halloween ! Raygun Busch (frontman of Chat Pile !) stops by to dive into three stabbing movies that are all in conversation with each other. Psycho hit theaters in 1960, scaring the shit out of audiences across America, s...

Send a text Zombie freaks! We're kicking off spooky season right by talking about George A. Romero's first three zombie motion pictures - Night of the Living Dead , Dawn of the Dead , and Day of the Dead ! Dalton Stuart ( GoodTrash Media !) and Luther Manhole (guitarist for Chat Pile !) stop by to compare and contrast the first three Romero films, dive into the social issues, sick gore e...

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Send a text The Sandman flies solo this episode. It's late at night, he's sleepy, and he simply must tell you about two great westerns he watched back to back: John Ford's The Searchers and Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo ! But what makes these two John Wayne starring classics great? How are they different and sort of similar? One is a definitive Dudes Suck movie and the other is one o...

Send a text OKC's bad boy/cool uncle/resident little stinker Dalton Stuart ( GoodTrash Media ) stops by to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's normal new movie Megalopolis ! And since Lionsgate had that whole marketing snafu based around "Hey guys, don't judge this thing too quickly," we recorded this in the car of the theater parking lot immediately after walking out! We&ap...

Send a text Steven Spielberg is one of the most ubiquitous filmmakers to ever emerge out of Hollywood, and he changed the game forever because he's just so damn good at what he does. And one of the things he does best are set pieces, when Papa Steve really gets to flex his muscles and make a meal out of an important moment, such as the introduction of the T-rex in Jurassic Park , or the inter...

Send a text Raygun Busch, frontman of Chat Pile and lover of all things Jason Voorhees, stops by to celebrate and interrogate the Friday the 13th franchise and tell the world and God WHY IT RULES. Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th doesn't exist without John Carpenter's Halloween , but what did the saga of Jason Voorhees and his vengeful mother actually help codify for mainstream...

Send a text Superhero summer comes to an end with M. Night Shyamalan's Eastrail 177 trilogy - Unbreakable , Split , and Glass , the very normal trilogy that had very normal audience reactions! And who better to dive into Shyamalan's attempt to deconstruct superhero mythology than with actual comic book shop owner ( Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman, Oklahoma!) Matthew Price? The origins o...

Send a text Podcast listeners, assem--*falls down an elevator shaft* Superhero summer nears its end with its penultimate episode, looking at the legacy of the mega-blockbuster Avengers films. Caleb Masters ( The Cinemetropolis ) makes his debut on this very podcast, alongside Dalton Stuart ( GoodTrash Media ) who makes his fifth appearance and is newly-anointed as Death By Movies ' Resident L...

Send a text Andrew McDonald ( fixer of Madame Web !) swings by to visit the podcast he helped build to keep our superhero summer rolling along by talking about our friendly neighborhood Spider-Movies! We deep-dive into all ten theatrically released films dealing with The Human Spider, starting with Sam Raimi's 2002 paradigm-shifting Spider-Man all the way through 2023's paradigm-shifting...

Send a text Bat-freaks! An extra-stuffed episode awaits you as legendary comedian BradChad Porter grapple-guns by to try and unpack why Batman seems tailor made for the big screen! Important questions are raised, such as: what does Batman have in common with Zorro and Davy Crockett? Has any actor had as much fun as Jack Nicholson did while making Tim Burton's Batman ? Why does the character s...