Movie Meltdown

Movie Meltdown - Episode 410 This week we are coming to you "live" from Days of the Dead: Louisville as we discuss some run-ins with the guests plus a few of our recent viewings... all before settling into this week's Sofa Theater feature: The Blackcoat's Daughter . The long-awaited first feature directed by Osgood Perkins and starring our beloved crazy-head Emma Roberts and Lucy Boynton. And whil...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 409 This week we welcome our special guests - director Harris Doran and actress Catherine Curtin ( Orange is the New Black ) to discuss the making of their film Beauty Mark . Plus we reminisce about a recent visit to Hollywood Forever Cemetary and remember a few films that have been shot in our neighborhood over the years. And while we address the ups and downs of shooting...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 408 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week we continue with our Super Series  exclusively for our Meltdown Club members, as we discuss Logan - the grim finale to the Wolverine story arc. And with such a radically different approach to comic book movies, we look at how this film affects all the previous movies featuring Wolverine? And in general... are we ok with heroes th...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 407 This week we are coming to you "live" from Fandomfest as we sit down with our special guest... Sean Gunn ! These days he's playing Kraglin, as well as the on-set Rocket Raccoon, in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, but we also discuss growing up in his family full of (what turned out to be) writers and performers. We delve into his early film roles working in the Tro...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 406 This week we welcome special guest - director Tyler MacIntyre to talk to us about his latest feature Tragedy Girls . Plus we discuss his first film Patchwork , the finer points of being an editor in addition to being a director... and just what draws fans to the horror genre. And along the way, we also discuss this week's Sofa Theater feature: Memoirs of an Invisible M...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 405 This week we return to the Flyover Film Fest for their Taste of Flyover festivities. Plus we sit down with Ana Asensio the writer, director and star of Most Beautiful Island (winner of Grand Jury Award at South by Southwest this year). We also recap the night where we ate food from Chef Edward Lee's recipes as well as saw Peter Byck's One Hundred Thousand Beating Heart...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 404 This week we kick-off our coverage of the Flyover Film Festival as we sit out on the veranda and talk with director Vincent Grashaw . Vincent's latest feature And Then I Go just made its worldwide premiere at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival before coming to Flyover . We discuss the challenges of getting his latest drama made and the way he tries to approach its  sen...

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 45 This week we are coming to you "live" from Forecastle music festival. Where we hang out and build a soundtrack from the great line-up of bands on hand. Plus we sit down with our special guests *repeat repeat . They are an amazing band from Nashville who deliver spooky, surf-tinged pop with undeniable punk rock roots. We discuss not just their musical or...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 403 This week we are coming to you "live" from Indy PopCon ... where we experience lots of different aspects of our geek pop culture. But most importantly, we make a date... to sit down and talk with Phil Lamarr . You probably know Phil from his ill-fated appearance in Pulp Fiction , or his years of working on MadTV , or his numerous characters on shows like Futurama, Just...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 402 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week the Meltdown Gang gathers together for another installment in the Super Series as we discuss the latest Marvel movie... Spider-Man: Homecoming . And we talk smack about the people in the suits, we also bring up... The Founder, the Iron Spider, sad-boy and old, The Gifted, Snowpiercer, M. Night Shyamalan, being a good dad, legit j...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 401 This week we continue our coverage from WonderFest as we sit down and talk with artist Mark Maddox . Mark is a multiple "Artist of the Year "  Rondo Award winner , a nd his artwork has been featured on the covers of The Art of Doctor Who Special , Screem Magazine (including the Star Wars: The Force Awakens , Universal Monsters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and American...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 400 This week we continue our coverage from WonderFest as we sit down with Kim Smith and John Goodson . Both are technical masters who spent years working at LucasFilm's Industrial Light and Magic , and they have logged in many years building physical models as well as transitioning into digital effects as the industry began to change around them. And while we try to make...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 399 This week we are coming to you "live" from WonderFest where we are joined by this week's special guest... actor Brian Howe . One of the hardest working and most impressive actors in the business, Brian's been featured in Westworld, Catch Me If You Can, The Pursuit of Happyness, American Horror Story, Gran Torino, Annabelle, K-PAX, The Majestic, Déjà Vu, Evan Almighty,...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 398 This week we kick-off our coverage of WonderFest with the return of a certain cast member who has tales of an epic road trip. Plus we sit down and talk with our special guest... William Stout . Renowned as a master illustrator & paleo-artist, he has also spent a good portion of his life working in the film industry. As production designer for movies like "Return of the...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 397 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week the gang breaks new ground in our Super Series as we discuss Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman . And while we restore our faith in humanity, we also address... Zack Snyder, the 36th chamber, full-on into DC multi-verse now, Chris Evans, the old school cut-away, Fast and Furious, being hard and being soft, Joss Whedon, Birds of Prey, fi...

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 44 This week the Meltdown Gang gets together for a listening party of songs from semi-recent movies. And while we examine anatomical specimens from a long time ago, we also discuss... going to Eastern Europe, The Creeper, the bone church, The Elephant Man, the soundtrack birth of a new sub-genre of music, drift into death with Wonder Woman, crazy eyes, gir...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 396 This week the Meltdown Gang gets together to have a large scale discussion about Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant . How it works as an individual movie as well as how it fits into and essentially changes the entire franchise. And as we break down this lovely parallel for the futility of life, we also mention... Noomi Rapace, the susceptibility of humans and pugs, big whe...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 395 This week the Meltdown Gang decides to go see Guy Ritchie's new movie King Arthur: Legend of the Sword . Was that a good decision? Well... let's talk about it. And while we search the listings for more German opera at the movies, we also bring up... the problems with network television shows, I'd be happy to get the fruit salad, Fargo, talk about towers, things are now...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 394 This week we return to our running series for another Marvel Super Special ! We kick things off with a little response to Iron Fist on Netflix , then we share some thoughts on the trailer for Thor: Ragnarok . All before launching into our full discussion of this week's movie: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 . And of course along the way, we find a way for the conversati...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 393  This week we bust out a new game or maybe more of just a mechanism designed to trigger amazing ideas. Join us as we discuss properties that should be remade... or maybe shouldn't? As we try to decide what's the best new direction we could take the story... and the worst? And what's the most interesting new casting for classic roles... and what's potentially the most r...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 392  This week we try to tackle the notorious modern "classic" - Birdemic: Shock and Terror . At first  we   start to crack from the initial "shock", but as we make our way through the so-called "terror", we eventually come around to a pretty amazing resolution. And while we revel in a land of lawlessness and sweet bird justice, we also bring up... spider monkeys, robotin'...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 391 (For our Patreon supporters.) This week... we talk about movies. Zombie movies and rage viruses... and high school melodrama... and slasher movies... and the Leatherface family reunion... and Stephen King stories... and one of our favorite, if not one of the most perplexing directors. All that, among many other things. And while we specifically clarify that we don't ea...

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 43 This week we welcome our special guest E.G. Daily ! You may know her from Pee Wee's Big Adventure or Valley Girl or tons of other movies. Or maybe you know her from all of her music performances over the years. Or maybe her recent appearance on The Voice . Or maybe you just know her voice from Rugrats or The Powerpuff Girls or countless other animated c...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 390 This week we talk with the one, the only - John Waters . Now is he   intrinsically evil ? Well, we'd say no. But the Censor Board may have a different answer. Or The Baltimore Police Department. Or certain Canadian film distributors. Or... well, there's probably a lot of people. Listen as we revisit stories of his early days of shooting films in his hometown, specifica...

Movie Meltdown - Episode 389 This week we are joined by director Rob Spera . He's not only been directing film and television for the past thirty years, but he's also currently teaching filmmaking at The American Film Institute . We talk about his early days working with Roger Corman and shooting low-budget horror and thriller movies. And then we'll find out just how that led him to direct the gen...