Drive-In Garage

Franz and Paul are staying right here…in hell.  This week: Joel & Ethan Coen's 1984 dead n' buried neo noir BLOOD SIMPLE, starring Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh!  Nothin' comes with a guarantee.  And somethin' can all go wrong at the Drive-In Garage. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

During their costume fitting Franz and Paul seemed to get into it.  Joined by special guest Brandon, they venture into Olivier Assayas' 1996 Super 16 film-within-a-film IRMA VEP, starring Maggie Cheung!   Attempts to remake a classic French film go haywire as cast and crew try to keep the rudderless production afloat.  It's a '90s conflux-collision of dream and reality, art and commerce, latex and...

The four-part series on Stanley Kubrick comes to its cosmic conclusion as Franz and Paul go 100% failure in 72 hours.  Until then, they, along with returning guest Becki, are a go to explore the 1968 Cinerama human vivarium that is 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY!  Deliberately buried some four million years ago, the Drive-In Garage can only be attributable to human error.   Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Naughty Naughty Stan the Man meets Lovely Lovely Ludwig Van.  The four-part Kubrick series rolls on as Franz and Paul look at the 1971 tolchock to the system A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, starring Malcolm McDowell!  Katie pops by later to govoreet about the Anthony Burgess novel.  So slooshy well, my little sophistos!  And please...TRYYY THE WIIINE!! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Snow Day!  Franz and Paul got the fever.  Cabin fever, that is.  Continuing with the four-part series on Stanley Kubrick, and joined by returning guest Amber, they tackle the 1980 haunted family fun fest THE SHINING, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall!  Come and play with us…! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Killarney!  Franz, Paul, and Katie have all come to claim satisfaction as they kick off a four-part series on the films of Stanley Kubrick.  First up, the 1975 eighteenth century boy BARRY LYNDON, starring Ryan O'Neal!  Based on the picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, it's a three-hour tour of human folly and painterly landscapes.  Now, will you join and take the bounty, sir, or will...

Attention passengers - Franz and Paul, along with returning guest Jason, are now leaving Nun Central on their journey to hell and beyond!  With a brief pit stop at the Neal Israel 1984 sex comedy blowout BACHELOR PARTY, starring Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, and Adrian Zmed!  So, get the hookers in a circle, we're gonna put Cochise outta business.  Banzai! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul are all hat and no cattle as they dig up the past and have a peek at John Sayles' 1996 Tex-Mex drama LONE STAR, starring Chris Cooper, Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, Matthew McConaughy, and Kris Kristofferson!  Generations and cultures clash in the small border town of Frontera.  Made worse by the discovery of a long-buried corpse!  The truth will out as this stretch of road runs betwe...

By George, I think they've got it!  Franz and Paul feel a slight stiffness coming on…due to the altitude, no doubt, and their return to Bond Country as they look at the 1969 Peter Hunt one-off ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, and Telly Savalas!  We have all the time in the Drive-In Garage. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's Vietnam all over again as Franz and Paul re-enter the Cimino-verse and take on all of the 1985 raving rampage cop thriller YEAR OF THE DRAGON, starring Mickey Rourke and John Lone!  There's a new marshal in Chinatown.  And the streets are gonna run red with blood.  You'll soon be missing the peaceful days of Jackie Wong — when earth was earth, and heaven was heaven! Email: driveingarage@yahoo...

Together, Franz and Paul ARE the Most Fabulous Object in the World!  The year closes with the return of Franz's brother Jason, and a leap into Terry Gillian's 1981 temporal fantasy freak out TIME BANDITS!  Adjust your clocks, load the Polaroid, and return what you have stolen!  History comes alive at the Drive-In Garage! Email:driveingarage@yahoo.com

Beef Jerky Time, everyone!  Franz and Paul discover both the value of a dollar AND the true meaning of Christmas as they roll around the 1983 John Landis dark commodity TRADING PLACES, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy!  It's a classic role reversal with a startlingly short learning curve.  Yet what lessons are actually learned?  It's either kill or be killed at the Drive-In Garage! Email: dri...

Destiny has brought Franz and Paul this lamb chop!  For the 100th Episode: Ridley Scott's 2023 conquest-happy historical epic NAPOLEON, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby!  Joining in the festivities are returning guests Becki and Katie!  So, on with the funny hats…and off with their heads! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul have always had meanness in them.  And Jacy's the kind of girl that brings out the meanness in men.  This week: it's a long sad pan across Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 wistful Texas town drama THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Eileen Brennan, and Ben Johnson!  We will always be true!  Anarene High School, we l...

Franz and Paul wanna put down five dollars (each) for the blue shirt in the window.  In the meantime they, along with returning guest Katie, will quasi-strut through John Badham's 1977 Brooklyn inferno SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, starring John Travolta!  All you need is a salad bowl and a potato masher.  So don't worry about nuttin'! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

The money doesn't know where it comes from, but Franz and Paul do.  This week: Bill Duke's 1992 L.A. crime drama DEEP COVER, starring Lawrence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum!  Do not blow your cover, or blow your top.  'Cause it's 1-8-7 on an undercover cop! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Productivity comes to a halt as Franz and Paul talk about Peter Hyams' 1981 sneakers 'n' shotgun sci-fi western OUTLAND, starring Sean Connery!  Can one man clean up the corruption on one of Jupiter's moons?  Why are so many heads exploding?  What's the connection between titanium ore and smart turtlenecks?  It's a pure dose of polydichloriceuthimal at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveingarage@yah...

La-di da-di, free Aunt Lotte!  This is the way Franz and Paul eat in America — They got their meat, they got their potatoes, they got their vegetables.  And they don't even have to do the dishes.  This week: the 1984 Jim Jarmusch New York-Ohio-Florida-Hungarian rhapsody STRANGER THAN PARADISE, starring John Lurie, Eszter Balint, and Richard Edson!  It's funny, you come to someplace new and everyth...

Franz and Paul taste the salt air of Utah and feel the muddy waters of Kansas as they talk about Herk Harvey's 1962 phantasmagoria classic CARNIVAL OF SOULS!  Starring Candace Hilligoss as Mary Henry, a woman trapped within a threatening frosty twilight — out of sync and out of time.  The lights are on and the danse macabre has begun! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Ahoy, Mateys!  Franz and Paul know which way the wind is blowing and are definitely weird for John Carpenter's 1980 ghost by the coast story THE FOG, starring Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, and Janet Leigh!  From on top of the world — fabulous 1340 K.A.B. Antonio Bay is about to feel the hundred year curse.  Don't touch that dial. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul have the entire school grounds to themselves as they talk about Osgood Perkins' 2015 unholy tale of mourning THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER, starring Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, and Emma Roberts!   Alone at Bramford Academy, in the dead of winter, a sinister urge come a-calling.  Light the furnace.  Barricade your door.  Smell pretty. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul test the waters while looking at John Frankenheimer's 1979 methylmercurial mutagen frightmare PROPHECY, starring Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire, Armand Assante, and one mad ginormous man-pig-bear!  It'll be a hike so bring your sleeping bag.  Every rock, every tree has a story at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

If the piano doesn't keep Franz and Paul off the streets, maybe the clarinet will.  For now, they'll keep talking about Terrence Malick's 1973 killers-on-the-run debut feature BADLANDS, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek!  Filmed in Colorado.  Set in South Dakota and Montana.  Inspired by the story of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.  Well, somebody might dig 'em up 1000 years from n...

Franz and Paul are both tickled pink and lemon satin when they, along with special guest Becki, dive into Robert Altman's 1977 personality crisis purgatory 3 WOMEN, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule!  Enter into a desert netherworld of lost souls, empty vessels, monstrous murals, therapy pools, purple sage singles, magazine recipes, and Dirty Gertie.  Pull her bow and she'll s...

Just answer the question, Father Paranoia!  Quod nomen mihi est?  Franz and Paul, and special guest Amber, finish up their soup to nuts two-parter on William Friedkin's THE EXORCIST!  It's all flickering lights and missed phone calls and much too vulgar displays of power at the Drive-In Garage!  Ego te absolvo.   Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com