John Wesley Norton's BOOMCAST

It's FRIDAY THE 13! Again! Welcome to the the final chapter of our FRIDAY THE 13th retrospective!  Once again, Ben Lewandowski, Jonathan Schiffly and myself take a peak at the second half of the slasher classic series featuring everyone's favorite undead killer, JASON VOORHEES! If you are still alive after part 1, refill your the popcorn, turn it up, and try to survive! Please subscribe...

Lock the doors, lock the widows, check the calendar. It's FRIDAY THE 13! Welcome to the first episode of a new show on the BOOMCAST that I proudly call FRANCHISE FEVER!  On this show we will tackle some of cinemas most beloved franchises and try to figure out what makes them so popular.  On tonight's show, Ben Lewandowski, Jonathan Schiffly and myself take a peak at the first half of sla...

Long time reader and comic book expert SCOTT GRENKE joins me once again to discuss comic book characters from the DC Universe. On this show the six topics we discuss are: BAT GIRL, HEAT WAVE, THE DOOM PATROL, GIGANTA, THE SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER VILLAINS and VIGILANTE! This is a wild one, so check it out! Please subscribe to the show wherever you find your favorite podcasts and leave a review! Ema...

It's COMIC BOOKS time! Scott Grenke sits down with me once again to tackle and discuss six more marvel characters given to us randomly by the Virtual Comics Intelligence. On this episode we discuss: GHOST RIDER, BLOB, THE MICRONAUTS, HERCULES,  D'SPAYRE and WOOD GOD! Check it out! Please subscribe to the show wherever you find your favorite podcasts and leave a review! Email the show wit...

This is it! We have reached the end of our 5 part series with the 2010's! The "50 YEARS OF HORROR!" shows were a tremendous amount of fun. My guests, Ben Lewandowski and Jonathan Schiffley join me once again to continue our mission of choosing the most influential horror films of the last 5 decades.   We hope you will enjoy listening to this show as much as we enjoyed the research a...

We've reached the 2000's! This is the fourth in a five part series titled "50 YEARS OF HORROR!" My guests, Ben Lewandowski and Jonathan Schiffley, will once again be examining the cinematic horror offerings of each decade. If you haven't already, check out the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's episodes! We are picking one film from each year that we feel was the mos...

Welcome to the '90s! This is the third in a five part series titled "50 YEARS OF HORROR!" My guests, Ben Lewandowski and Jonathan Schiffley, will once again be examining the cinematic horror offerings of each decade. If you haven't already, check out the 1970's and 1980's episodes! We are picking one film from each year that we feel was the most important and most inf...

Welcome to the 1980's! This is the second in a five part series titled "50 YEARS OF HORROR!" My guests, Ben Lewandowski and Jonathan Schiffley, will by examining the cinematic horror offerings of each decade, starting with the 1970's, then the '80's, the 90's etc, and we will be picking one film from each year that we feel was the most important and most influent...

Welcome to the first in a five part series titled "50 YEARS OF HORROR!" My guests, Ben Lewandowski and Jonathan Schiffley, will by examining the cinematic horror offerings of each decade, starting with the 1970's, then the '80's, the 90's etc, and we will be picking one film from each year that we feel was the most important and most influential movie in the the horro...

Gear up! It's action time! On this episode of Remakes and Reboots Ben Lewandowski and I sort out the differences and similarities of the Sylvester Stallone film JUDGE DREDD directed by Danny Cannon in 1995 and the Karl Urban led remake in 2012 directed by Pete Travis. Judge Dredd is a long running comic book character who brings justice to a futuristic dystopian world filled with violent crim...

Once again, another Halloween-themed show!  This time Cinema Saviors have been called upon by our government, who have developed technology that can bring deceased actors back from the past, but the tech is very expensive. To offset those costs we will be rebooting the '78 classic horror film HALLOWEEN in order to help fund the program with the box office proceeds! Join us for this special ep...

Today my friend SCOTT GRENKE and I sit down once again to discuss one of our favorite topics of conversation, COMIC BOOKS! On this show we are discussing six more DC Characters which are: GREEN ARROW, FIRESTORM, KING SHARK, DEADMAN, POWER GIRL and WONDER GIRL! If you are a fan of DC or comic books in general, check it out! Please subscribe to the show wherever you find your favorite podcasts and l...

Once again it's time to talk COMIC BOOKS! This isn't sometime I get to do very often, and would not do at all if I were not joined once again by my friend and colleague SCOTT GRENKE who is a long time reader/collector of comic books and I think is an authority on the subject.  Today we are discussing six more iconic Marvel characters. In this episode we discuss: BLADE, THE PUNISHER, BLAC...

Welcome to the 3rd ACTION ICON episode! I am joined by Certified Van Damme Expert BEN LEWANDOWSKI and we take an exhaustive (3 hours!) look at the career and our favorite films starring the legendary action star Jean Claude Van Damme, whose career has spanned an incredible 40 years! If you are a Van Damme fan or an action film junkie you are in for a great time! Be sure to leave a review and subsc...

Calling all TREKKERS! Once again, The CINEMA SAVIORS, Clint Chaffer, Chad Weeks, and myself are on a mission! The Government had developed technology that can bring deceased actors back from the past, but the tech is very expensive. To offset those costs we will be rebooting STAR TREK and casting actors who have passed in order to help fund the program with the box office proceeds! Join us for thi...

Turn on the shower. Disrobe. Cue the music! Tonight, Ben Lewandowski and I consider the merits of the classic 1960 thriller PSYCHO, directed by the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. As well as the very curious remake in 1998 directed by Gus Van Zant.  This is an interesting one folks, since no other filmmaker has ever intentionally set out to copy a film to this degree. Ben and I had a great ti...

Episode #30! CINEMA SUBGENRE #2: SUBMERGED, where submarine film expert BEN LEWANDOWSKI and myself list off our top ten favorite SUBMARINE FILMS! We go deep on the subject and drill down on the facts! There are many great films set in underwater vessels and we discuss the best ones! Check it out and let us know what you think! Please subscribe to the show wherever you find your favorite podcasts a...

Sit in with John and long time reader and comic book expert Scott Grenke as they discuss six iconic DC characters. In this episode we discuss: WALLY WEST (THE FLASH), NIGHTWING, ZATANA, SUPERMAN, HAWKMAN, and JOHN CONSTANTINE. Great characters! Great conversation! ENJOY!  Please subscribe to the show wherever you find your favorite podcasts and leave a review! Email the show with comments or sugge...

Join John and long time reader and comic book expert Scott Grenke as they discuss six iconic Marvel characters. In this episode we discuss: DAREDEVIL, SUE STORM, THE RHINO, SCARLET WITCH, THE WATCHER and HAWKEYE.  Sit back and enjoy! Please subscribe to the show wherever you find your favorite podcasts and leave a review! Email the show with comments or suggestions HERE   Follow the Boomcast on so...

Here it is! Our second annual Halloween Episode, full of Horror Trivia and good times! I sit down with the over Cinema Saviors Chad Weeks and Clint Chaffer and have a bloody good time talking horror films. I hope you have as great a time listening to it as I did recording it. Remember to subscribe to the show wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Tell a friend, it all helps.  Please subscribe t...

My guests on Episode 26: actor, director, writer and all around great guy, JOE ESTEVEZ. Our conversation spans his impressive career as an actor and also his take on the craft of acting in general. I have always been a fan of practical makeup effects in film, so I also speak with someone who is rapidly making a name for himself in that arena, Rob Cobasky. Rob talks about how he got into the busine...

This is the 5th MOVIE VAULT PROJECT episode, and it's time for REDEMPTION for several of the films that were assigned to the cinema trash heap! I'm joined once again by the other Cinema Saviours CLINT CHAFFER and CHAD WEEKS. NASA and the MVP Project has allowed us to SAVE 10 of the films we did not choose to save in previous episodes.  So which films should be rescued?  PREDATOR 2, NEAR...

Once again, join John, Clint and Chad, THE CINEMA SAVIORS as they assign modern Directors to remakes of classic(?) films! Do you agree with our picks? Probably not! But that's half the fun! Please subscribe to the show wherever you find your favorite podcasts and leave a review! Email the show with comments or suggestions HERE   Follow the Boomcast on social media! FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM

Actor, writer and award-winning audiobook narrator SCOTT BRICK is my guest today and being the avid audiobook fanatic that I am, I enjoyed our far-ranging conversation immensely.  Scott is the narrator on over 1,100 popular books and counting over the span of his 25 year career.  If you enjoy audiobooks, the chances of you having heard Scott's voice bringing the story to life is fairly high....

Tonight it's CAPE FEAR night. Two great films, the 1962 version directed by J. Lee Thompson, led by Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, VS the 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis. Great discussion with my guest Ben Lewandowski where we look at the pros, the cons, the themes, and everything else these two solid films have t...