Media Obscura - Retro and Obscure TV/Movie Reviews

... Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. This is... Wow. This is... a thing? Team Obscura checks out the unnecessarily tone deaf 1986 teen comedy "Soul Man," a story about a student donning blackface in order to defraud Harvard out of a minority scholarship. It's... well, it's terrible. PodLink: https://pod.link/themediaobscura

Nick and Raekwon reunite with Sam and Jennette, two of their college friends and co-stars from a webseries they once created named Fishbowl! They reminisce about some of their pre-'rona escapades and also sit down to (re)discuss the late 90s watercooler hit series Ally McBeal! Email: mediaobscurapodcast@gmail.com Linktree: https://linktr.ee/themediaobscura Love the show and wanna contribute to hel...

It's time to talk about 1992's unauthorized Dragon Ball live-action adaption! Goku, Bulma, Oolong, Yamcha, Puar and Roshi have to team up to collect the seven mystical Dragon PEARLS before an evil king can use them for his own nefarious reasons.  Email: mediaobscurapodcast@gmail.com Linktree: https://linktr.ee/themediaobscura Love the show and wanna contribute to help us make more episodes? Feel f...

Team Obscura checks out the 2002 cult horror comedy "Bubba Ho-Tep," a movie about a retired/not dead Elvis Presley that has to team up with an also retired/not dead John F. Kennedy Jr. to fight a Mummy in a retirement home. Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themediaobscura/ Email: mediaobscurapodcas...

Team Obscura sits down and gets weird by checking out the 1982 film "Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam," better known around the world as "The Man Who Saved The World" and even better known as "Turkish Star Wars." Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themediaobscura/ Email: mediaobscurapodcast@gmail.com PodLink: p...

Another week of firsts for the show! Nick, Mike and Raekwon sit down (at the same time!) to talk about the 1980 Roger Corman sci-fi B-movie "Battle Beyond the Stars," a movie that reminds the gang of a certain movie that takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.fac...

A (much belated/year-and-a-half late) trailer for The Media Obscura Podcast!

Nick and Mike return... WITH VIDEO! On this weeks episode, they check out the 1987 movie "The Running Man," which was inspired by the Stephen King novel of the same name. The movie follows Arnold Schwarzenegger as he plays a contestant on a murderous game show that's hosted by Richard Dawson (of Family Feud fame). Oh, and this episode is also available on YouTube with full video!

Nick and Mike bring in the sixtieth episode of The Media Obscura Podcast by checking out the critically maligned Super Mario Bros movie! It's a movie about plumbers that... plumb. And also visit dystopian realities that are nothing like the source material from their iconic video game series!  It's... a thing.

Nick and Mike take a dive through time and check out 1933's cinema hallmark, King Kong on this weeks Media Obscura! They also share some trivia about Donkey Kong, stuff the episode with a bunch of fake ad-reads in a last-ditch effort to generate some revenue for the show, and plug The Media Obscura Redbubble page! Yep... Merch! Oh, they also weigh the logistics of a steak battle, and ponder Godzil...

Nick and Mike go back to the (Sega) Genesis of Sonic's cinematic overtures by checking out Pierrot's 90's Sonic OVA! EDIT: The episode mistakenly mentions Toei Animation as being behind this special... our bad! Love the show and wanna contribute to help us make more episodes? Feel free to buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/niche

Raekwon returns to The Media Obscura crew to help Nick watch and discuss the Jackie Chan, action/adventure/kung fu classic Operation Condor! Think of it as Indiana Jones with kung fu and what the movie's box calls "sexy sidekicks" which is like, I don't know, really reductive and glosses over the fact that the movies western artwork doesn't even bother to cast the same people as said sidekicks. I...

On this weeks Media Obscura podcast, Nick and Mike check out the animated version of Jim Hensons Muppet classic, Fraggle Rock!  Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themediaobscura/ Email: mediaobscurapodcast@gmail.com PodLink: pod.link/themediaobscura Feel free to @ us your episode requests, faithful...

Whoa... There's a cartoon version of Bill & Ted? Nick and Mike check out the inaugural episode of the short-lived, then re-tooled into another short-lived cartoon, that was then re-tooled a third time into a failed sitcom.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themediaobscura/ Email: mediaobscurapodcas...

Nick and Mike usher in the New Year by checking out an unreleased Wonder Woman pilot from 2011! Written and produced by David E. Kelly (Ally McBeal, The Practice, Little Big Lies), this version of Wonder Woman's story takes a few creative liberties that... don't work. At all. Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.fa...

Nick and Mike sit down and torture themselves with the infamous, terrifying, and genuinely un-cool 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. It's so bad that they find themselves unable to even comment on the thing... Go figure. Feel free to @ us your episode requests, faithful co-host prompts or just say hey!!! Love the show and wanna contribute to help us make more episodes? Feel free to buy us a coffee:...

Nick and Mike check out the classic 1964 rock and roll flick "A Hard Days Night" on this weeks Media Obscura Podcast! Mike also finds out that Nick... really likes The Beatles. Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themediaobscura/ Email: mediaobscurapodcast@gmail.com PodLink: pod.link/themediaobscura

Nick and Raekwon check out the Andy Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon" in this weeks Media Obscura! They also get really into exploring what Andy Kaufman was all about, share Nick's theory about an unofficial Jim Carrey trilogy and over-analyze Nick's relationship with creativity.

Nick and Mike celebrate 50 episodes of The Media Obscura Podcast by watching Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed, but often forgotten, gem: The Terminal.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themediaobscura/ Email: mediaobscurapodcast@gmail.com PodLink: pod.link/themediaobscura Feel free to @ us y...

Nick and Raekwon get experimental this week, by taking the podcast on the road! They also review/discuss Kevin Smiths 1995 movie Mallrats! Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMediaObscura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediaobscura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themediaobscura/ Email: mediaobscurapodcast@gmail.com PodLink: pod.link/themediaobscura Feel free to @ us your episode requests...

Nick and Mike bring things full circle for the one year anniversary of the podcast, but checking out Sam Raimi's classic superhero flick, Spider-Man. They also talk about how Peter Parker needs therapy, how Willem Dafoe steals every scene he's in and how Nick is Brooklyn personified.

To prep for a celebration of the one year anniversary of the podcast, we decided to re-run our very first episode!  Nick and Mike sit down for the very first episode of the Media Obscura podcast! On todays episode, they check out CBS' TV movie/backdoor pilot for their Spider-Man television series, starring Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker. The series ran for two seasons and, despite being a huge p...

Nick and Mike head back to Halloween themed media on this weeks episode by checking out the 2003 animated special Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular. They also talk about how insecure Nick is, how Mike does NOT want to only get red gushers in his candy packets, and how Nick and Mike have seriously got to get out more (implied)

Nick and Raekwon check out the 2000 action-comedy Shanghai Noon on this weeks Media Obscura podcast! It follows Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson as they go on an adventure across the American countryside in order to rescue a princess that's played by Lucy Liu. So... that's a thing! They also chat about how casually racist the movie is and how it's basically just a remake of Rush Hour.

Nick and his old-dog-lacking-any-tricks-to-begin-with Mike check out the 1985 horror comedy (emphasis on comedy) Transylvania 6-5000! It's a movie the follows Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. as they investigate reports of Frankenstein wandering around in Transylvania. They also investigate how Mike is suffering from middle child syndrome in the wake of Raekwon joining the show.