Movie Time Machine : A Retro Movie Review Podcast

Episode 50!!!!! Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1988, we need a little help from Beetlejuice. Casey and James had an unfortunate incident in their car, and now they need a little help from Beetlejuice to get their tacky new homeowners, Chad and Jamie, to come back down to earth. Grab your handbook of the dead, crank that dial up to “peak Burton”, and settle in for Beet...WHOAH, t...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1988, your hosts are on the case. Marvin Acme has been murdered, the “badly drawn” wife of a cartoon rabbit is the prime suspect, and it’s up to your hosts to crack the case. Join us!   Music: Cliff Side by Silent Partner Space Navigator by Sarah the Instrumentalist  Find us on: Twitter Facebook YouTube

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1975, your hosts are on a quest. Host Chad is after the Holy Grail, while host Casey is trying to remember the Ancient capital of Assyria. Host James is crashing a wedding, while host Jamie is waylayed at Castle Anthrax. There’s plenty of adventure to go around. Join us! Music: Cliff Side by Silent Partner Space Navigator by Sarah the Instrumentali...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, Monster Closet Edition! This week in 1981, your hosts Chad and Jamie are releasing the Krakken! We break down the classic Greek Mythological epic Clash of the Titans, while diving into the career and legacy of legendary Hollywood creature creator, Ray Harryhausen. If you dig movie monsters and mythological beasts, this is the show for you. Join us!   Music: Cliff Sid...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1989, it’s that time: Christmas time is here! And your MTM hosts are so glad that it’s Christmas Vacation. We join the Griswold’s for a good old fashioned family Christmas, and discuss all things from the Vacation film franchise to our love for Cousin Eddie. We cap off the episode by sharing our favorite films we watched in 2019, as our retrospecti...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1987, you’re under arrest! That’s right, your Time Machine hosts are diving into Chad’s pick: Paul Verhoeven’s futuristic sci-fi classic, RoboCop. We break down the anatomical likelihood of withstanding the amount of firepower unleashed by Clarence Boddicker, and all things cyborg police. Would you buy THAT for a dollar?! Join us!   Music: Cliff Si...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1998, your hosts abide. That’s right, we’re just kinda in the mood to relax, man. We discuss our favorite Lebowski moments, and struggle to pick between The Dude and Walter Sobchak as our favorite character. So mix yourself a White Russian, light up a fat one, turn up your Creedence, and join us! Music: Cliff Side by Silent Partner Space Navigator...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1980, your Time Machine hosts are on a mission from God. The gang travels to Chicago to add new Time Machine host James to the band, fresh off of his stay in Joliet. Join us as we revel in classic musical numbers by James Brown, Ray Charles, and the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin. We each break down our 3 favorite Blues Brothers quotes, whi...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in the year 2004, we revisit the iconic horror film Saw. Celebrating its 15th Anniversary, Saw has aged gracefully, keeping its goreish figure intact. That’s more than can be said for your hosts: Kris and Casey awoke chained to a pipe, with Jamie lying in the middle of the room in a pool of his own blood. Chad watches it all from a camera hidden in th...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2014, your hosts are leaving Earth. Jamie has been sending signals from a distant planet in a far off galaxy, beckoning his fellow hosts to join him. James, Casey and Kris are all dealing with the effects of the relativity of time, while Chad is stubbornly homesteading his dusty farm on Earth. Through it all they take a journey across space and tim...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, Monster Closet edition! This week, the schooner dropped your two hosts Chad and Jamie on this godforsaken rock, where they must podcast until the ship returns in six weeks. They cover mermaids, madness, and tentacles. See how long they make it into the episode before their sanities start to slip…(Apologies on the audio quality on this episode)   Music: (Intro) Cliff...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2002, your hosts need some help with their sleep. Host Jamie disappeared in a remote northern town, and it’s up to Chad, James, Casey and Kris to figure out his fate. Or, they’ll probably just discuss the movie Insomnia and wait to see if he turns up later. Join us! Jamie’s Thoughts: Apart from being a compelling thriller, I love Insomnia because i...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1986 your four favorite hosts play a game we like to call “Three Verns and a Gordie”. Join us as we revisit Stephen King’s classic coming-of-age tale and see if you can figure out which host is who before the big reveal. Odds are great that you’ll guess 3 out of 4!

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in the year 2,000 we revisit a Best Picture Winning Classic. Polish your helm, lace up your sandals and secure your leather jock strap as we step into the arena for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. We break down our favorite scenes while trying not to let our excitement for Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as Commodus get the better of us. Join us for some fun...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2003, your hosts are grateful to be alive, and away from high threat urban metro areas crawling with the infected. Which crisis am I talking about? Why, the rage virus that ravaged London in 2003, of course! Your Time Machine hosts Chad and Jamie turn to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s modern horror classic film to try and piece out some slivers of...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1982 your hosts try to stay alive, and remember who’s who. John Carpenter’s re-make of the 1951 classic is the best horror movie you’ve probably never seen, so we’re cutting into the Antarctic ice with Kurt Russell, and unthawing all kinds of shape-shifting horrors. Lock up the huskies, and join us as we try to make it out of this one with the skin...

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Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2014, we are at your service. Host James has already brought your luggage to your room, and Host Casey will be arriving shortly with fresh towels and the hand-rolled cigarettes you requested. Host Kris has just finished piping the frosting on a fresh batch of Mendl’s Courtesan au Chocolat, to be served approximately fifteen minutes after your meal....

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2004, we are going deep. Your hosts have donned their red beanies and joined team Zissou aboard the Belafonte on a quest to capture and kill the mythical jaguar shark. Pleasantries are exchanged and opinions are shot like harpoons, but fear not: no harm came to any sharks in the making of this episode. Join us! Send messages to: movietimemachinepod...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2020, your hosts are on vacation. But don’t worry, we’ve left something for you to chew on while we are away. This week’s episode consists of your five favorite film lovers recounting their most embarrassing grilling stories. There’s fire, flames, burned body hair and charred brats. Use this episode as a cautionary tale, and may your summer cooking...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2001, it’s Family Time. Host Jamie is training falcons, Chad has taken a fancy to red track suits, James is driving his car recklessly down the road at full speed while Casey narrates from above. If everyone has been assigned an odd random task, it must be a clue that we are watching our second Wes Anderson film! We banter about everything from Gen...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1996, your hosts have their first unanimous “meh”. We dig deep into the start of our journey with Wes Anderson by exploring his freshman film, “Bottle Rocket.” We say “Dignan” a lot, and by the time we wrap, we all managed to find a way to like this movie. So flick your Bic, and come light up a Bottle Rocket with us! Music: (Intro) Cliff Side by Si...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, Monster Closet Edition. This week in 2016, we recount the tale of a charming New England family who sets off into the woods to begin a new life, learning to exist in peace and harmony with nature and each other. SIKE! They’re totally haunted by an evil witch, and a goat named “Black Phillip.” (Seriously, if my daughters ever named their pet something so sinister, we...

  Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2002, we are chiming in with a “haven’t you people ever heard of closing the goddamn panic room door?!” Our last stop on our four film tour of David Fincher brings us to the Jodi Foster thriller, full of questionable cell phone choices, lethal gas lines and many feelings about blue fire. We end the episode with a Dwight Yoakam/Jared Leto singalon...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1997, your hosts are part of a corporate conspiracy. Kris signed his co-hosts up for an opportunity to watch David Fincher’s The Game, and reality has become fractured. James trapped Jamie in a cab, rolling out of the driver seat before the car plunged into the bay. A paranoid Casey is forced to confront his brother Chad on the roof of a San Franci...