Fly By Films

Blamison are back with our first normie episode in a while! Blake picked 1980’s Hangar 18 for the fellas to discuss. While the film is largely enjoyable, it doesn’t quite transcend the expectations of its age. Nonetheless, the guys celebrate the best parts of the film including astronauts with dad bods and the prefiguring of 2016’s Arrival . We get back to basics on this episode and we hope you en...

Blamison have really been racking up the podcast cameos lately and this episode is no different as they welcome onto the pod author Matt Ruff of Lovecraft Country and 88 Names fame ! On this episode we discuss one of Matt’s long-standing film blindspots from the 1970s The Super Cops ! The film is based on a “true story” about two Bed-Stuy cops that were nicknamed “Batman & Robin.” We switch up...

Blamison are back and better than ever! On this episode we welcome Brian Rose the filmmaker behind the reconstruction of Orson Welles’ second film The Magnificent Ambersons which has been in the news a lot lately including this terrific write-up by The New Yorker . In this episode we discuss what led to his work on this reconstruction and its controversial use of AI. Then we dig into the film he c...

Blamison is back for a new episode that kind of morphed into a monster. Jamison picked Joel Potrykus’ 2018 film Relaxer and Blake doubled-down numerous times until we decided to watch Potrykus’ whole feature filmography for this episode. We cover Ape , Buzzard , The Alchemist Cookbook , Relaxer and Vulcanizadora . This episode is PACKED with Michigan goodness! Also talked about: how this episode c...

Blamison is back with another spectacular episode! We welcome friend of the podcast Brad Kelly, host of Method and Madness podcast and author of the new book, The Earthen Dark , to the show! In this episode we discuss the classic 1955 film The Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum and Lilian Gish. We discuss how one-time director Charles Laughton took some risks in his cinematography and how...

Blamison are back for a duo episode once again! Jamison and Blake talk about 2016's Holidays the anthology horror film and how deeply inconsistent the movie is while a couple of the segments are terrific and others are conceptually good if not executed well. We zone in specifically on "Father's Day" and "Easter" since we were recording on Easter evening. Really this was...

Blamison is back and this time we get LITERARY. On this episode we have special guest Seth Wieck who just released his debut collection of poetry Call Out Coyote through Wiseblood Books. We talk about his poetry and what it means to be a poet of place. We then turn our attention to the classic Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke . We discuss the nature of prison films, the all-seeing eye of the state,...

Blamison are back with a new episode! Blake’s pick this episode is 1975’s Breakout with Charles Bronson and Robert Duvall. We discuss the minor parts of the film that do work (mainly Bronson) and the large parts of the film that are heavy in their cringe factor. We also discuss that there really is no main character in this movie as no one really has a character arc.  Also discussed: tornadoes, ro...

Blamison are back with a new episode! On this episode we cover the debut feature from John Hillcoat Ghosts…of the Civil Dead (1988). We discuss the experimental nature of the film and how it achieves is commentary about prison life effectively by way of its pacing, its seeming banality and its indifference to temporal setting. It’s a fun discussion about a pretty inaccessible film.  Other items di...

Blamison are back to discuss Blake’s pick! We dig into the little known (sort of) sci-fi 90s film Wedlock from 1991 starring Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen and Mimi Rogers. We talk about the utter ridiculousness of the setup to this film and the moments it still gets right nonetheless. Plus, we get to see Rutger Hauer in full dad bod mode! Also discussed: getting fat from not running and *not* being vega...

Blamison is back with a regular episode! Jamison picked the movie for this episode due to living high on the hog as a teen when he purchased a DVD copy of the 2001 German film Das Experiment from a dying Hollywood Video in Paradise, CA. Blake has to settle for a shiny, ripped and AI-translated German language YouTube version of the movie which he found to be oft confusing. Turns out from our discu...

Jamison and Blake are back with our year-end game and ranking of our podcast film selections! Jamison came up with a most excellent game to achieve our final ranking on the year. It is called Fantasy Celebrity. Here are the rules: We each come with a list of 10 favorite movies from FBF 2025. Flip a coin to see who chooses first. Alternate choosing celebrities untill each person has a team of ten....

Blamison are back just in time to then quit for the year! Jamison did not know it during our last Christmas episode, but he started a trend of subjecting each other to the shittiest films from our past. Blake decided to make him watch the 1995 Disney stunner Man of the House starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Chevy Chase. We try to figure out how this film got made and what kind of audience energ...

Blamison are made to be contrite for our cinematic sins when Demetrius Sanders comes back on the show to talk 1987's Hollywood Shuffle which was the filmic statement by Robert Townsend--who we covered one of his other films, The Meteor Man , earlier in the year. We talk about the anger seething underneath the satire of the film and the various traps of stereotypes in cinema. Don't worry, w...

Blamison are back with a regular episode...sort of! We have a special returning guest--and probably has the award for the shortest turnaround as well!--Luke T. Harrington. On this episode, we talk about Joker: Folie à Deux and why it flubbed at the box office after the hugely successful Joker . We also dig into the controversies and dIsCoUrSe™ surrounding both films when they came out. It's a...

Blamison have completed their fourth annual Halloween series! On this episode they finish up the final two Vincent Price films, Scream and Scream Again (1970) and The Comedy of Terrors (1963). We talk about the absolute battiness of the former narrative and the enjoyment of watching Price stretch himself in the latter (even though the film itself was not, on the whole enjoyable). Join us for this...

Blamison are back with our fourth installment of our Price Halloween series! On this episode we discuss the 1961 Roger Corman joint The Pit and the Pendulum and 1972's Dr. Phibes Rises Again . We talk about Price playing a little against type in the first film and just going full Mandy on the second film. We dig into what makes Poe scary and why Phibes might be a precursor to Saw . Also discus...

Blamison are back for the third Halloween of the month! This time we take on 1974's Madhouse and 1953's House of Wax . We talk about everything from what it means to choose a resolution in the film that makes no logical sense but is pure, distilled cinema nonetheless. We also talk about scores and why they do and don't work for specific movies. Oh yeah and we, of course, discuss WRATH...

Blamison are back with their first true installment of "Sins Come at a Price" with our discussion of two films for the sin of Lust: 1965's spy-comedy Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and 1959's spooky mansion film House on Haunted Hill . We discuss all of the sexy and lusty elements of these films (or not). We also dig into the penchant for making lust always about sex and que...

Blamison discuss their theme for this year's October series and select their films on the air. This year we are looking at the seven deadly sins through the films of Vincent Price. So join us as we dig into what you can come to expect from us this month! Also discussed: Jamison murdering his skin tag. Clip: Vincent Price on the Joan Rivers Show.

Blamison are back with a special episode. By "special," we mean a regular episode but with more doubly more guests! The Harrington Brothers (so Thadd and Luke say) join us to talk about 2023's highly enjoyable Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves . We talk about Thadd's addiction to D&D and his wife's distain for it. We also talk about how Luke is too cool (and too...

Blamison are back and we have back up one this episode! We do some exploring into Cecil B. Demille's 1940 film North West Mounted Police starring Gary Cooper. Our guest Aren Bergstrom is our resident Canadian film and history buff and schools us on Louis Riel and all of the things that went into the Battle of Batoche which this film attempts to depict and fails in ways only DeMille could pull...

Blamison are back! We are digging in to a lesser known Hitchcock film 1944's Lifeboat and, well, let's just say it wasn't what we were expecting. Jamison does a free-form opening for the episode and Blake waxes philosophical about why Hitchcock is revered and Shyamalan is not. Oh, and we talk about John Steinbeck's misgivings about being attributed to the writing of this movie. Oth...

Blamison get together once again to explore Jamison's pick of forgotten films. Raw 's director Robert Townsend takes a tonal shift in his 1993 superhero film, The Meteor Man . We talk, of course, about the film's weirder elements and those parts that have not aged as well, but we end up defending it from its naysayers as it provided substance that is not often present in contemporary s...

Blamison are back with a totally unchill discussion of 1991's John Hughes-written Target ad Career Opportunities starring Jennifer Connelly (be still Jamison's heart) and Frank Whaley. There are several aspects of the film that would have made for a great film, but, alas, it all comes to, well, not much. Meet-cute beats out capitalist satire by the end of the film. Other things discussed:...