Drive-In Garage

Franz and Paul, and special guest Amber, exhaust the somatic possibilities first (and that first step is a doozy!), while taking a two-part looksee at William Friedkin's 1973 tubularnatural classic THE EXORCIST!  So strap yourself down tightly and let the devil have his due. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul are loaded like a freight train, flyin' like an aeroplane as they talk about the Martin Brest 1988 cross country comedy MIDNIGHT RUN, starring Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin!  With the Feds, the Mob, and the competition all along for the ride, you best pack light.  See you in L.A., Jack! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul, with special guest Dan, find the marble in the oatmeal and drink from the fire hose while they take on the 1989 broadcast band carnival of mayhem UHF, directed by Jay Levey and starring "Weird Al" Yankovic!  So, get that overactive imagination of yours to work for you instead of against you.  We've got it all at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

This week: Franz questions his own complacency while Paul questions his own mustache.  Neither likes what he sees.  Yet they can still focus on Ivan Passer's 1981 embittered embattled hero sandwich (including drink) CUTTER'S WAY, starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn!  Someone has to pay.  But you know what you finally say?  What everybody finally says, no matter what? — I'm hungry....

Beware the moors, lads!  Franz and Paul, along with special guest Becky, get all the violence out of their system for Sam Peckinpah's 1971 messy marital lullaby STRAW DOGS!  Hoping to begin a new phase of their lives together, away from the States, David (Dustin Hoffman) and Amy (Susan George) move to a small town in Cornwall.  What awaits, though, is plenty of anguish and unarticulated rage. You...

Franz, Paul, and Katie look a bit stricken as they talk about Kelly Reichardt's 2008 drama WENDY AND LUCY, starring Michelle Williams!  Moving through a dying town, with no phone and no permanent address, Wendy loses her car and her beloved companion.  Still, there are folks around to help, and freight trains to jump.  You can crash all night at the Drive-In Garage. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's a simple concept: if it bleeds, it leads.  Franz and Paul, and a garrulous Meatball, make their way through the 2016 biopic-drama CHRISTINE, directed by Antonio Campos.  Set in 1974, Rebecca Hall plays 29-year-old Sarasota newscaster Christine Chubbuck.  When the strain and tension of her work and personal life become too overwhelming, distress leads to drastic action.  And we don't know how...

Did I hear someone say "deal"?  Franz is the magnet, and Paul is steel.  Which can only mean the final leg of a two-part peep at P.T. Anderson's 1997 showzie epic BOOGIE NIGHTS!  We're open!  We're ready!  All you need to do is walk over, get down, and come inside the Drive-In Garage!  Word. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz has a brand new pair of roller skates, Paul has a brand new key.  This week: the first in a two-part look at P.T. Anderson's 1997 imported Italian nylon skin circus BOOGIE NIGHTS, starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, and Burt Reynolds!  You'll just have to sit in it until you find out how the story ends. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Nobody goes home.  Nobody else comes through.  It's just Franz and Paul talking 'bout James Cameron's 1984 hyperalloy combat chassis microprocessor-controlled classic THE TERMINATOR, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn!  It's very important that you live…and listen. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz, Paul, and returning guest Jason sober up for a good five minutes in order to talk about Bobcat Goldthwait's 1991 juggling pin hoochenanny SHAKES THE CLOWN!  Part redemption story in clown suits.  Part extended joke about comedians and showbiz.  All intervention.  Silent clap, people! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

All we are is dust in the wind.  Franz and Paul take the flashlight and walk the house for the Midnight Comet Show while they, along with special guest Scott, take a look at the 1984 end of days Yuletide adventure NIGHT OF THE COMET, directed by Thom Eberhardt, starring Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney!  The core purpose is to survive.  And the stores are open! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.c...

Walking disasters Franz and Paul are in constant contact with the tower and are clear for takeoff as they talk about the 1974 one-way ticket to ride AIRPORT 1975!  Directed by Jack Smight, starring Karen Black and Charleton Heston, it's the second in the Airport series and the only one to include a text on epicurean sexual delights.  So fasten your seatbelts and please observe the 'No Screaming' s...

It was way more than just having a good time.  Franz and Paul are different people now.  They see things differently — more colors, more love, more understanding.  This week: Harmony Korine's 2012 neon-soaked, candy brit large pool party SPRING BREAKERS, starring Selena Gomez, Venessa Hudgens, and James Franco!  Later on, guests Wayne, Amy, and Katie join in for some post-screening talk inside the...

Franz and Paul meet once more on the battlefield of life!  Someone's honor is on the line, and they can't even remember whose.  But they will talk about Ridley Scott's 1977 debut feature THE DUELLISTS, starring Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine!  Based on the Joseph Conrad short story, set during the Napoleonic Wars, it's a good example of trying to kill the messenger whilst evading the actual mes...

Franz and Paul have been going to this high school for seven-and-a-half years.  They're no dummies.  C'mon and…mellow off as they, along with special guest Jackie, talk about Savage Steve Holland's 1985 absurdist comedy BETTER OFF DEAD, starring John Cusack!  Love hurts.  So does navigating your stretch as a teenager.  But hopefully you'll have friends to root for you, and a giant mountain of pure...

It happened.  They sent us a hippie.  Franz and Paul are bucking for promotion as they cover the 1975 New York cop drama REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER, directed by Milton Katselas, starring Michael Moriarty and Susan Blakely!  A tale of two departments, two detectives, and the destruction caused by people doing the wrong thing.  The lesson is this: Nothing is ever what it looks like.  Always know who...

A little vino would be kino!  Franz, Paul, Katie, and the connoisseur's connoisseur Meatball, journey into wine country (and the 21st Century) when they explore Alexander Payne's 2004 comedy SIDEWAYS!  So just try to be your normal humorous self, okay.  The guy you were before the tailspin. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

On stage, one night only: Franz and Paul set an example for the rest of America as to how one can behave in large gatherings.  They also talk about the 1970 rock 'n' rage documentary GIMME SHELTER, starring Mick, Keith, Charlie, the Hell's Angels, some 300,000 concertgoers, and the Gorgon of Torts -- Melvin Belli!  Directed by David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, what began as a concert...

Relax!  Franz and Paul are keeping the plants watered while talking about the 1984 Brian De Palma peep show driller thriller BODY DOUBLE, starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith!  How far will a guy go to have a witness-alibi?  How easy is it to get an acting gig in a porn movie?  How late is the video store open?  Live those dreams, scheme those schemes, at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveing...

Kegger at the Marsten House!  Franz and Paul keep their feelings in hand as they explore the finale of the 1979 Tobe Hooper miniseries SALEM'S LOT!  Be sure to grab the TV Guide and an ungodly supply of tongue depressors.  There'll be others. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Barlow & Straker Antiques is open for business! And real estate prices will never be the same. Franz and Paul take a look at Tobe Hooper's 1979 two-part miniseries SALEM'S LOT, starring David Soul, James Mason, Bonnie Bedelia, and a town full of consummate character actors! People wil find Mr. Barlow well worth the wait. Ciao, Constable! (Also, when a vampire comes a-knockin', just say "occupied"....

Franz and Paul return to Tucson (and may never leave) for some on-the-job training with Martin Scorsese's 1974 drama ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, starring Ellen Burstyn and Kris Kristofferson! After the death of her husband, Alice Hyatt and her son, Tommy, begin a new chapter in their lives in a new town. It's a journey by turns touching, scary, heartbreaking, and hilarious. Plus, Alice asks t...

Franz and Paul discover who is the bigger man as they discuss Jack Arnold's 1957 classic of diminishing stature THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN! The everyday becomes monstrous when a cruel twist of fate forces Scott Carey to lose inches and feet, as well as authority and any sense of normality, at an alarming rate. Even on a molecular level, you can't have your cake and eat it, too. The unbelievably...

Cinema is on trial at the Drive-In Garage!  Witness Franz and Paul overrule their own existence while looking at Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 fictitious fact finding mission CLOSE-UP!   When a man named Hossein Sabzian pretends to be Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, his lies proliferate until exposure brings him before a judge, and Kiarostami's camera.  What results is a film guilty of soul and inv...