Invasion of the Podcast!

This week we continue our journey into the Year of The Knock Off by looking at Richard Donner's 1978 Superman and why that film still works and how it is still considered one of the high water marks of superhero/comic book films. Then we look at at a series of poor creative decisions made by a then desperate and floundering Disney company and how that lead to 1981's hybrid super hero/spy/comedy, C...

This week Nic Cage gets to be Superman kind of, a local comic shop lands a legend for Free Comic Book Day, you can now watch The Last Jedi without all that pesky talking and bleeps and bloops, we take a look at Duncan Jones's Mute (kind of spoilerish just a heads up) and talk about our thoughts on the film and if it being released directly on Netflix helped or hurt it, and Steve challengs Paul to...

This week we catch up on what we did during our two week hiatus, talk about trying the McDonald's Szechuan sauce, Black Panther making all the money in the world, Rian Johnson throwing out JJ's plan for Episode VIII, Jason is hiding in wait at the bottom of a lake, and we take a look back at this year's Wizard World Cleveland and dicuss what parts work and what parts don't and the perils of dressi...

This week we head away to summer camp as they compare and contrast 1980's Friday The 13th with 1981's The Burning. We talk about what still works and holds up with the counselor carnage of Camp Crystal Lake and the off putting sexual politics of of Camp Stonewater and how Jason Alexander and Fisher Stevens fits into all of it. 

This week Ready Player One put out a new poster that aims for nostalgia but misses the mark, Kung Fury is getting a full length sequel and a Magneto, another well established actor has signed on to play the Joker, we take a look at who Black Panther is as we get ready for his standalone film, and Steve challenges Paul to a game of Jeopardy involving comic book films. 

This week young Solo has a long way to golo, we hope Terry Crews is playing Terry Crews in Deadpool 2, Netflix suprised the world with a new Cloverfiled film, we talk about the disgusting amount of fun we had with Ash Vs. Evil Dead Season 2 and what it means for something to feel like 'Evil Dead', and we try to figure out which pop culture characters are looking for love this Valetine's Day.  

This week we talk about fun leaving town, Capcom paying a lot of real money for proof of fake animals, Mel Gibson is making a sequel to The Passion of The Christ, we take a look back at the first big comics event series from Marvel and DC and how they shaped their approach to story telling, and Steve quizes Paul on his random comic book knowledge. 

This week we wonder if we would survive a 24 hour Groundhog Day marathon, talk about the Oscar and Razzie nominations, Superman finding his underwear, and we take a look at Godzilla and part one of his new anime film trilogy, Planet of Monsters, and discuss how he still has a place in our world while destroying it, and Steve tries to figure what songs the Floppotron is playing.

This week after a 35 year ban on theaters, Saudia Arabia pick a crappy first film to watch, a man angry at/scared by women makes an unwatchable cut of The Last Jedi, North Carolina's new state bird is a pterosaurs, we dicuss the Hulu documentary 'Too Funny To Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show' and the 8 episodes of the series itself and how its failure 22 years ago is still affecting...

This week Steve got to see a sexy fish man, Paul was harassed by real people wanting not real things in a video game, some films are becoming TV series, turkeys are taking over a part of Cleveland, we talk about the Netflix series The Toys The Made Us and how the often accidental decisions of grown ups shaped our childhoods and what we love, and we bust out the Nacho Hat to determine which toy rul...

This week Marvel lets you make comics with some very specific guidelines, Gillian Anderson says that season 11 of X-Files will be her last, we talk sports (briefly, and not what you think), we welcome friend of the show, Jeff, back on as we dig into the divisive nature of Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and talk about what fans want versus what they get, and we make some predictions about 20...

This week we break away from the usual format to do a wrap up show for Invasion's Year Of The Western (Actually it was just under 3 months, but don't tell anyone). Friend of the show, Kevin from the Strange Highways Podcast, comes on to discuss the list of westerns he suggested at the start of 2017 for Paul to watch and how they can vary in tone, quality, and direction. So put on your 10 gallon ha...

This week we talk about putting the R in Star Trek, the WB walking back their DC Cinematic Universe talk, the Ready Player One trailer and how it makes Paul's soul bleed,(news runs till about 1 hour in... we love our news!) we then look forward to Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi and our new hopes for it while reflecting on how we feel about The Force Awakens two years later, and then Steve challenge...

This week Steve talks about his goings on at the Gengis Con while Paul went through a gambit of weird movies over the holiday weekend, the Infinity War trailer dropped and it makes us want more, MST3K gets a second sason on Netflix, Steve's favorite Christmas film is coming back to theaters soon, we compare and contrast DC's Justice League film to its animated counter part (starts at the 40 minute...

This week the masked man of mystery, El Goro from the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast, drops in from the top rope to be our guest as we talk about Amazon announcing a Lord Of The Rings TV series, Star Wars blurting out about yet another trilogy of films before the current trilogy is finished, if and when to separate art from the artist in a time when it is getting harder to do so, a dicussion about fa...

This week we talk about one of the biggest Marvel writers signing with DC, Disney thinking about buying Fox, and Disney trying to punish a news outlet for doing their job (basically we are just conflicted about Disney), we give a mini review of Thor: Ragnarok, we talk about Stranger Things 2 and whether it was a 10 or 11, and we find out if Steve can correctly identify real fake monsters.    

This week the new Predator film gets a motion poster (aka video), Rob Zombie can't leave well enough alone, pirates are killing Ash, and guest James doesn't get his head snipped off while helping finish our look at underated horror sequels with The Exorcist III: Legion, and we have a monster mash bash to determine who the top monster is.

This week Star Wars picks the most obvious name for their new film, Neilsen thinks they know Netflix's streaming numbers but not really, the writer of Se7en has been tapped for the remake of Lone Wolf and Cub, we continue our spoOOooOoOoky October of underated horror sequels with specical guest Kevin of the Strange Highways podcast as we dig into the very, very, different Halloween III: The Season...

This week we talk about the new Star Porgs trailer, Blade Runner 2049 not performing as well as people hoped, the Halloween sequel ignorning the rest of the sequels, Steve King stops by with some really good tasting chili as we continue our look at underated horror sequels with the truly bizarre Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and we round things out with a game of 'Would Your Rather?'

This week the Belcher family is going to Hollywood, Valve dumps a lot of shovelware, Stranger Things gets a surprise free (and suprisingly good looking) mobile game, we kick off our spooky month of underated horror sequels by looking at 1988's Return of the Living Dead Part II, and we try and find out what will be the hot new candy this Halloween. 

This week we wonder if James Cameron can go back in time and save the Terminator franchise, wonder why one video game compay is calling out another video game company for making a game similar to the one they copied from yet another video game company, the 100 'hardest' boss fights, we take a look back at the aftermath of the video game market crash of 1983 and how that shaped the landscape of gam...

This week we talk about JJ Lensflare directing Star Wars IX, IT making a lot of money for an R-Rated Horror film and Paul's spoiler free take on the film (news runs till about 45 minutes in, just a heads up), we talk about Netflix and Marvel's series The Defenders and if it was worth 5 seasons of TV to get through for this street level hero team up, and then we ask a Magic 8-Ball questions about t...

This week we mourn the passing of Spider-Man, do not mourn the removal of Mutt Williams from Indy 5, talk about yet another Star Wars film losing its director, discuss whether or not the Marvel comics event series Secret Empire was successful, and in honor of the year the IT mini-series came out, we run the box office barometer for 1990. 

This week we say goodbye to another horror icon, we appreciate Terry Pratchett's final wish, the business of clowing is not booming, we discuss the nature of identifying with/personalizing with video game characters, and we celebrate National Dog Day (late) with our top 10 Good Dogs and Bad Dogs. ...also, we pull additional raffle tickets to find out who are the future owners of cool prizes. 

This week we talk about the fun time we had at NEO Comic Con, how Warner Brothers is making a Joker origin film no one asked for, we grapple with the first season of the Netflix series GLOW, and we find out what our pop culture class schedule looks like this year.  ...oh, and we announce the names and ticket numbers of who won what for our raffle.