Drive-In Garage

Franz and Paul make it from Vegas to Phoenix without getting killed.  (And EVERYONE is trying to kill them!)   This week at the Garage: Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the 1977 mad dash screwball chase-o-matic THE GAUNTLET!  Gus Malley (Sondra Locke) is a nothing witness for a nothing trial.  Ben Shockley (Eastwood) is the cop who has to get her back in one piece.  Fortunately, there are a gaz...

Franz and Paul are sorry they had to miss your birthday party…but they weren't invited.  This week: Arthur Hiller's 1984 pillow talk madness THE LONELY GUY, starring Steve Martin and Charles Grodin!  Returning guest Jason stops by, as does Franz's sister Autumn!  The nights are long at the Drive-In Garage, so keep watering the ferns and mingling with the cardboard. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

A horse!  As black as night to day.  A beast, a god, with whom he did stay.  They slept on the sand, and played in the ocean.  And rode over the island in a singular motion!  Franz and Paul won't let the Garage out break them as they discuss Carroll Ballard's gorgeous 1979 film THE BLACK STALLION!  Told from the perspective of young Alec Ramsay, it's an intimate post-war adventure of exquisite col...

This week: Franz and Paul have wormsign the likes of which even god has never seen when they talk about the 1984 David Lynch guild-a-whirl DUNE!  Adding to the melange is Franz's brother Jason.  So set your mind in motion, walk without rhythm, and bring plenty of water.  The Drive-In Garage can kill with a word! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul are lookin' at eight years in the brig and a dishonorable discharge while talking about the 1973 Hal Ashby film THE LAST DETAIL, starring Jack Nicholson!  Two petty officers take their prisoner up the east coast to Portsmouth Naval Prison.  Along the way, they manage to drink a LOT of beer and desperately attempt to have a good time.  It's a classic '70s road trip to nowhere as temp...

Franz and Paul never earned a nickel from another man's work!  This week: fire and ice and the ecstasy of gold in Nicolas Roeg's 1983 film EUREKA, starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, and Rutger Hauer!  A mystical tale of fortunes made, passions lost, petulant wealth, mercenary greed, and the spell of the Yukon.  Be careful what you wish for at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.co...

It's every sucker for himself at the the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul, along with special guest Jason, discuss George Roy Hill's 1977 goon squad sports comedy SLAP SHOT, starring Paul Newman!  The Charlestown Chiefs are history, but there's still room for a little old-time podcasting.  So keep the foil handy and the high-sticking to a minimum.  Buy you a soda after the episode? Email: drivein...

The Drive-In Garage always makes Franz, Paul, and Katie think of Rome.  The way the sun hits the buildings in the afternoon.  This week: the 1993 Harold Ramis loop-de-loop GROUNDHOG DAY — A comedy about coming face-to-face with your own existence!  What would you do if you were stuck in one place?  Every day was exactly the same….and nothing you did mattered?  Would pants be required?   Email: dri...

The old cow's loaded, so Paul fully intends to bump her off and let Franz take the blame.  This week: Alain Corneau's 1979 French crime drama SERIE NOIRE, starring Patrick Dewaere and Marie Trintignant!  Based on Jim Thompson's novel, A Hell Of A Woman, the film follows salesman sociopath Franck Poupart's life and mind as it sinks further and further into jeopardy.  All it takes is a suitcase full...

Franz and Paul is like people — feel the mornin' sun on them and make 'em forget all the hurt they got.  This week at the Drive-In Garage: Budd Boetticher's 1959 no-fuss rock 'n' ride Western RIDE LONESOME, starring Randolph Scott!  A man needs a reason to ride this country.  You got a reason? Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's a daze of future past for Franz and Paul as they welcome in the New Year, continually give their word as gentlemen, and look through Nicholas Meyer's 1979 London-by-the-Bay sci-fi terror romance TIME AFTER TIME, starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen!  Shall we gain yesterdays or accumulate tomorrows?  Only time will tell. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

If Franz and Paul have any surprises for each other, I don't think they're in much shape to do anything about it.  Tonight at the Drive-In Garage: John Carpenter's 1982 alien madness knockout THE THING!  Joining in, a special guest -- Franz's brother Jason!  So close your doors and lock your windows, cuz it is coooooolllld outside!  And one of 'em isn't who he claims to be.  Why don't we just wait...

'Tis the season at the Drive-In Garage as Franz, Paul, and Katie talk about Christmas Movies!  So pour a mug o' nog and set a bunch of painful death-defying booby traps throughout the house.  It's going to be a bumpy night…of holiday cheer! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's a shadow world of zones and zithers at the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul cover the 1949 Carol Reed post-war noir classic THE THIRD MAN!  Written by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Vali, Trevor Howard, and Orson Welles.  Ahh, Vienna!  The Ferris Wheel!  The Black Market!  And that rascal Harry Lime!  How many dots can you afford to spare?  Free of income tax, old man. Email: d...

Franz and Paul find their domestic bliss under pressure while talking about the 1964 Bengali chamber drama CHARULATA!  Directed by Satyajit Ray, and starring the magnificent Madhabi Mukherjee as the lonesome longing Charu, whose life within household walls is turned inside out with the arrival of her cousin-in-law Amal.  Set in 1870s Kolkata, Ray continues to explore the rhythms of life — cultural...

It's a wintry wonderland at the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul take a trip through Werner Herzog's 1977 sad chairlift-to-nowhere drama STROSZEK, starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, and Plainfield Wisconsin as Railroad Flats!   Fleeing Berlin for the American Dream, Bruno & Co. get a taste of domestic life, of prefab homes and animal magnetism, as well as the financial burden required to maintain it...

Franz and Paul don't care what they're talking about.  All they want is a nice fat recording while covering Francis Coppola's 1974 art house thriller THE CONVERSATION!  Gene Hackman plays surveillance expert Harry Caul, who has taken an assignment that he soon fears could inadvertently get people killed.  What unfolds is a paranoiac's hootenanny of eyes and ears and empty spaces.  Don't get involv...

Franz and Paul have third helpings of mashed potatoes as they discuss Steven Spielberg's 1977 saucerful of secrets spectacular CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THIRD KIND!  So throw the family in the station wagon and let's go chase some Frenchmen.  This means something! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's dueling monocles at the Drive-In Garage as Franz and Paul cover the 1937 version of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA!  Directed by John Cromwell, starring Ronald Coleman AND Ronald Coleman as Rudolph and Rudolf.  There's treachery and deceit (and swashbuckling) in the Court of Streslaw, and those loyal to the newly crowned king must keep the throne occupied lest it fall into enemy hands!  Long live the...

Together, Franz and Paul are the king of thieves - the Jupiter of thieves! - as they head on down the rabbit hole of the '70s paranoid thriller subgenre with William Richert's 1979 political conspiracy-a-go-go WINTER KILLS, starring Jeff Bridges and John Huston!  It's a comic-surreal riff on the nutty league of shadows surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy — depicting a world with enoug...

Franz and Paul get the 'Cuda out of storage and go for a joyride while talking about Don Coscarelli's 1979 waking anxiety dream PHANTASM!  Morningside mortuary is open for business — feral Jawas included.  Graveyard sex optional.   Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

It's Racktoberfest at the Drive-In Garage when Franz and Paul cover the 1977 creepy crawler KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS, starring William Shatner as Dr. Rack Hansen!  When a small Arizona town is overrun by a legion of venomous spiders, everyone and everything is in big big trouble — cows, dogs, rats, Rack, reason.  Its legs firmly planted in the when-nature-attacks subgenre of movies that invaded the...

Room to rent, ocean view, free laundry, freaky landlord, (let me finish) — $75 a month!  Franz and Paul are the perfect flatmates while discussing the 1979 gothic slasher SILENT SCREAM!  Directed by Denny Harris, starring Rebecca Balding and Barbara Steele.  A house full of secrets and lies is a perfect setting for your semester studies, so keep the bag of Doritos nearby and enjoy the midnight man...

Attention all shoppers!  If you have a sweet tooth, we have a special treat for you!  Franz and Paul are the biggest mall rats when talking about George Romero's 1978 zombie consumerist nightmare classic DAWN OF THE DEAD!  It's a land of flannel plaid and gray and candy apple red, so grab those creature comforts and hold 'em close. We'll be here for a while. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz and Paul give Sam Stanley the glad hand, park themselves in the Black Lodge, and talk about David Lynch's 1992 garmonboziarama TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME!  When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out.  The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy.  And who is Judy?! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com