Movie Time Machine : A Retro Movie Review Podcast

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2010, your Time Machine hosts are updating their Facebook status to “it’s complicated.” What to do when a movie like The Social Network is as brilliant as its subject is scummy? How to contrast the idealistic young Zuckerberg old to the Zuckerbot he is today? Facebook changed the way the world communicates, and often not for the best. Mark Zuckerbe...

This week in 2007, the hosts are again divided on the legacy of David Fincher’s period piece, Zodiac.  Join us as we follow the fractured account of Robert Graysmith and Paul Avery’s attempts to crack the code of one of America’s most infamous serial killers. Theories are posited about CGI, the general acting in the film, and the importance of the printed word. We have fewer answers, and only more...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1987, your hosts are having a little trouble sleeping. For the first time ever, MTM hosts Chad and Jamie bring you a new kind of episode, which we have dubbed the “Monster Closet.” These are special episodes where we will focus exclusively on horror films, and discuss what makes them great, and what freaks us out. Freddy Krueger is haunting our dre...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1999, we’ve got some rules. The first rule of Movie Time Machine is: we will not talk about the film Fight Club. The second rule of Movie Time Machine is: we’re here to break the rules. Join us as we break down this seminal work of David Fincher, while trying to keep our anarchic urges in check. We are Jack’s collective film discussion. Join us!  ...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1987, and from now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir”. Do you maggots understand that?! Your hosts unpack Stanley Kubrick’s reflection on the American experience in Vietnam, whiloe trying to remain positive. R. Lee Ermy and Vincent D’Onofrio are very helpful in this regard. S...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1980, your hosts are all social distancing. In fact, for this episode, we are breaking down the actions of the Torrance Family, who might have been the model example for quarantine best practices if not for that haunted hotel. Danny talks to ghosts, Jack talks to himself, and Wendy tries to keep it all together. You know, like a family vacation. Jo...

  Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1988, your hosts have come to chew bubblegum and kick ass…,and we’re all out of bubblegum. That’s right, Jamie and Chad cap off our John Carpenter series with his alien invasion classic They Live. Grab your special sunglasses and your best buddy, because we are here to keep you sane and calm as we neutralize this extraterrestrial threat as a team...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1981, New York ain’t lookin’ so hot. The criminals and scum own the island of Manhattan, and the President’s plane has been shot down over this dystopian penitentiary. Only one man can bring him back: Snake. Er, I mean, “Plissken.” Join your hosts Chad and Jamie for this part two episode on John Carpenter as they break down all things Kurt Russell...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1986, we’re going to Chinatown. Your Time Machine hosts are taking a brief Kubrick intermission in the form of another of our favorite directors: John Carpenter. Join hosts Jamie and Chad as they guide you through the curving alleys and underground tunnels of San Francisco’s Chinatown, while comparing video game references and notes from their real...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1968, we go to infinity, and beyond. I mean, WAY out there into the widest reaches of the galaxy.  That’s right, your hosts have each mounted their intellectual high horses in order to ride alongside Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. We blast off to Jupiter and wrestle with all of the great questions presented before humanity, like “are prac...

Welcome Back to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2020, it’s time for season 2! We thought we would try something new for 2020, so come and experiment with us.  For the new year, our theme is “Directors”! Each host will pick a director, and then the gang will review 3-4 of their films; one per episode.  Jamie picked first, selecting director Stanley Kubrick, and his classic Cold War farce, Dr...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1984, we have some rules for your hosts. Keep James out of the light; he hates bright light. Don’t get Casey wet. And perhaps the most important rule of all: no matter how much he begs, don’t ever, EVER feed Kris after midnight. We discuss all things Gremlins, including Casey’s extensive list of things that Gremlins can instinctively do. We wrap th...

Welcome to Movie Time machine! This week we travel back to 1994 and rewatch Natural Born Killers. We also travel back to the spring of 2019 when Movie Time Machine was just a twinkle in your mothers eye.... this is the very first recording session for MTM. We had no outline or script, by the seat of our pants. Enjoy this bonus episode!

Welcome to Movie Time Machine! This week we discuss The Empire Strikes Back and do our best to predict what will happen in The Rise of Skywalker. Don't fight about Star Wars over Thanksgiving Dinner, feast on this. Enjoy!   Find us on: Twitter Facebook YouTube  

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in the year 1977, your hosts revisit perhaps the most influential film of the modern era: Star Wars. EVER HEARD OF IT? Chad and James are your Han Solo and Chewbacca for this episode, piloting you across the Alderaan asteroid field of the imagination. They discuss the film’s legacy, all things John Williams, and the importance of 1970’s hair styles. T...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1992, your Time Machine hosts have a job to do. Our drunk uncle insists on spending a five star weekend in the Big Apple, and it’s up to Chad and James (the only two hosts who watched the entire film) to bring him home safely. We cap off the show by sharing our top 5 Al Pacino films, and uncover a shocking revelation about exactly who has and has n...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 2000, your Time Machine hosts are taking a trip through the mighty Mississip. Time Machine host Casey heard a siren’s song by the river, and was turned into a toad. It’s up to Chad, James, Kris and Jamie to wander in his stead. Along their journey, two hosts stray from the path while the other pair goes down to the River Coen to pray. Which hosts g...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in 1932, we are taking our time machine back. I mean WAY back. I mean, back to “ancient film history.” Before the MCU, before the franchises of Halloween and Friday the 13th, there was but a single cinematic shared universe: The Universal Monsters. Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster and yes, The Mummy, ruled Hollywood. Boris Karloff is the...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine, where this week in the year 2000, we’re off to London. You know: fish, chips, cup o’ tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary Fucking Poppins…LONDON. Join your four hosts Chad, Kris, Casey and Jamie as they revisit Guy Ritchie’s semi-modern classic, Snatch. We try our hardest to keep up with cockney slang, while shopping for a caravan in periwinkle blue. Finishing off with...

Welcome to Movie Time Machine where this week in the year 1990, we revisit the third greatest mob movie of all time: Goodfellas.. As far back as we can remember, your hosts Chad, Kris and Jamie wanted to be gangsters. Join them as they break down the intricacies of Tommy DeVito’s anger issues, Jimmy Conway’s emotional phone booth experience, and Ray Liotta in general. So grab your shine box, and s...

We try to decipher just what exactly Disney might be building with this final film of the trilogy: will it be a highly specialized R2 unit, or something more like a Gonk Droid? Does JJ Abrams value your feelings more than good storytelling? Is Rey a Skywalker? Speculations abound. Join us!