Karate in the Garage

With just two Dark Castle episodes left, we have the one that EASILY has the best opening out of the four we're covering. (It may even be Top 10 All-Time Horror Openings EVER.)   IT'S 2002'S GHOST SHIP!   Hot off his feature debut with Thirteen Ghosts , Steve Beck returns to deal the nastiest seas ghosts this side of The Fog .   A salvage crew is brought to a remote region of the Bering Sea to tra...

BOOM! We're 19 days into D a r k C a s t l e M o n t h ! We hope you all enjoyed THIRTEEN GHOSTS last week!   This week's show will premiere on Thursday, but our faithful Patreon supporters will get in on Tuesday! Thank you, Patrons!   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more NOW than ever before: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surr...

Dark Castle Month keeps on coming with their soph follow-up to 1999's The House on Haunted Hill , Thir13en Ghosts!   Thir13en Ghosts comes from director Steve Beck, bringing along all of his VFX expertise into his feature film debut.   The cast for this one is GREAT! Tony Shaloub. Matthew Lillard. Shannon Elizabeth. F. MURRAY ABRAHAM , FOR CRAP'S SAKE!   So sit back, as we focus our special ghost-...

BOOM! We're twelve days into Dark Castle Month ! We hope you all enjoyed The House on Haunted Hill! This week's show will premiere on Thursday, but our faithful Patreon supporters will get in on Tuesday! Thank you, Patrons!   For Blood or Justice Graphic Novel!     For Blood or Justice Radio Dramas!     Noir City on Instagram!     Kyra Gardner's GoFundMe for her My Life with Chucky documentary!  ...

We start Dark Castle Month with their freshman release The House on Haunted Hill , the 1999 remake of William Castle's 1959 classic of the same name.   This time around, we have "real life" WIlliam Castle in Steven Price played impeccably by the always amazing Geoffrey Rush . Along with Rush, is Taye Diggs , Ali Larter , Bridgette Wilson , Chris Kattan , and Peter Gallagher .   Also part of this g...

It's July, and it's Dark Castle Month starting this Thursday!   But for now, here is your first Kickstart of July recorded the morning of the 4th of July talking Criterion sales, Fear Street ,  MORE Bosch , beautiful opening title credits, and Jaws 2. Criterion Collection Sale at Barnes and Noble! Fear Street Part 1: 1994 on Netflix! Bosch Season 1 on Amazon Prime! The Art of the Title!     ENJOY!...

Roy Schieder returns as Chief Martin Brody, Sheriff of Amity Island for another go-round with Carcharodon carcharias in JAWS 2!   That's it. Nothing more to say other than "DIVE IN!"   Even though we don't say it in this episode, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surroundings.   Karate in the Garage Linkages              

It's the last Kickstart for June! 2021 will be half over by Wednesday. (Yeah, we know.)   MVD SALE!   Burn Notice in Prime!   Bosch Season 7!   Night of the Hunter on Prime!   Night of the Hunter on Criterion Blu-ray!     ENJOY!   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more NOW than ever before: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surroundi...

You KNOW we weren't getting out of I've Always Liked a Good #2 without giving you the SUPERIOR movie in the Grease franchise: GREASE 2 !   No Greaser hiding his summer love from the other students at Rydell High. No, this time we have bookworm Maxwell Caulfield as Michael Carrington in pursuit of Michelle Pfeiffer as Stephanie Zinone the leader of the Pink Ladys, who relucatanly lives by the T-Bir...

Sorry, Mario. It's one of THOSE episodes. (You'll know what that means soon enough.)   ENJOY!   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more NOW than ever before: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surroundings.   Karate in the Garage Linkages

The I've Always Liked a Good #2 train continues with a #2 many don't even know it's a Number 2: Stuart Baird's sophomore effort U.S. Marshals , the follow-up to 1993's The Fugitive .   Tommy Lee Jones is back again as Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard, as well all most of his support staff from teh first movie including Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood, and LaTanya Richardson Jackson...

Halfway through June, and we have more music talk, as well as some fun oldies for to revisit on Netflix!   ENJOY!   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more NOW than ever before: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surroundings.   Karate in the Garage Linkages

I've Always Liked a Good #2 continues with the BEST of Scary Movie franchise , Scary Movie 2 !   Most of the cast from the first movie have returned along with some hysterical additions. If you've never seen it before because you heard it wasn't good, we're here to tell you why we think that's untrue.   If you're a fan of horror movies, you'll get a chance to see some deep cut references to older...

It took 7 days, but we finally got our first Monday of June! It's summertime! Things are starting to open up and we're (seemingly) on the path to normalcy. This Kickstart is short but hopefully you will enjoy it!   Bosch Season 7 on Prime! Or start at the beginning with Bosch Season 1 on Prime! We Are Lady Parts on Peacock!   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more N O W than ever before...

It's June, and it's time for I've Always Liked a Good #2 !   We kick it off with Nicholas Meyer's 1982 classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ! All of the original cast members are back for another voyage into space. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols .   Also returning to his classic Star Trek television role as Khan...

It's the last day of May! We have a bunch of music recs, as well as a tease of what's to come in June!       Even though we don't say it in this episode, more N O W than ever before: P L E A S E P L E A S E P L E A S E take care of yourselves and those around you.   B e m i n d f u l o f y o u r s u r r o u n d i n g s .   Karate in the Garage Linkages

And MAY GO BOOM...OR NOT comes to a close with the Chris Columbus -penned and Barry Levinson -helmed Young Sherlock Holmes from 1985!   With characters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, we follow teenage Sherlock Holmes and his right hand man-to-be John Watson as they fight to stay alive, while trying to solve a string of murders that become more and more personal.     Even though we don't say...

Here is the DisenCaged due from April that was troubled with tech issues, and then forgotten. It's being resurrected, ironically, due to the need to fill in for the tech-riddled delay of Young Sherlock Holmes .   It's Neil LaBute's 2006 remake of The Wicker Man ! This was chosen by Patreon supporter Tom Ellacott, so he's who you get to thank today for this episode.   Enjoy!   Even though we don't...

It's still MAY! One last episode of BOOM... this Thursday with Young Sherlock Holmes !   The Insiders Intro I Can Dream About You - The Sorels Version I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman Version Timothy Olyphant's Mom Can't Tell Him and Josh Duhamel Apart   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more N O W than ever before: P L E A S E P L E A S E P L E A S E take care of yourselves and thos...

MAY GO BOOM...OR NOT digging allll the wya back to 1997 for Peter Hewitt's The Borrowers based on the children's book series from Author Mary Norton.    The Borrowers is the story of a secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save their home from an evil real estate developer starring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark WIlliams, Hugh Laurie, Bradley Pierce, and Tom...

It's still MAY! But, please, pardon our mess today.   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more NOW than ever before: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surroundings.   Karate in the Garage Linkages

MAY GO BOOM...OR NOT continues with another movie overlooked often: the master Joe Dante's Small Soldiers starring Kirsten Dunst and the voice talents of Tommy Lee Jones , Frank Langella , Spinal Tap , and most of The Dirty Dozen !   Even though we don't say it in this episode, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surroundings.   Karate in the Gar...

It's MAY!   Even though we don't say it in this episode, more NOW than ever before: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.   Be mindful of your surroundings.   Karate in the Garage Linkages

It's May and we've got a new series for you!   May...Go BOOM...Or Not.   We start the series off with Joe Johnston's The Rocketeer with Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connolly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, and Paul Sorvino.   Even though we don't say it in this episode, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you.     Be mindful of your surroundings.     Karate in the Garage Linkage...

It's April, which means it's Listeners' Choice Month with movies chosen by our Patreon listeners!   Our 4th and FINAL movie this month chosen by Patreon supporter Andrew Pink is Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Sean Pertwee, and Jason Issacs.   We do something new, and we dig deep into the newly released collector's edition Blu-ray from S...