Raiders of the Podcast

     This week- a pair of psychodramas about mentally unwell women and how they navigate societies determined to restrict and limit them.      It's summer and Florence is determined to make the best one ever and begins experiencing inexplicable blackouts. As the endless summer drags on, she begins to suspect that she might just be the serial killer that has been targe...

     This week we pack a toolbox with overlooked titles from The Studio That Dripped Blood.      Simon, an aged American tourist, picks up Joan, a young local, after Joan had previously lured him into a mugging. This rages her biker gang leading brother, King, who chases them around the coast. Eventually the pair take refuge in a very curious cave full of well mannere...

     This week- two films about people pushed to desperate measures for love and socioeconomic security.      After an emergency landing, a young boy must spend a week with his estranged uncle. Fortunately, the uncle is desperate to manipulate his girlfriend into believing he wants children and jumps at the opportunity. When a promise is broken, dire consequences for...

     This week- two films about people confronting their worlds changing.      Lorenz Hart slips away from his creative partner's first work without him to hold court before the opening night celebration begins. As the night goes on, Hart's insecurities, jealousy, and self-destructive tendencies simmer. Richard Linklater's 23rd film boasts incredible central performan...

     This week- two films featuring explosions of wildly different natures.      When Jean, a middle age writer living in Paris, reconnects with Claire, an old friend, at a party. Claire introduces him to her beautiful new toy and draws him into a sadomasochistic triangle. Based on Catherine Robbe-Grillet's Lacanian exploration of abjection and desire, directed by por...

     This week a pair of films about people reluctantly stepping into roles they never wanted but have to for the greater social good.      After her sister and nephew are murdered, a psychologist with multiple black belts gets psychic powers. Using her new found powers for justice, she begins to investigate the crime ring that is responsible for her sister's murder....

     This week- four films about full service sex workers and how dominant social groups view them, from the dawn of the 20th century to Nazi era Germany to modern day Atlanta and Mashhad.       A new girl joins an upscale maison close, regulated and licensed legal brothels in France from 1804 to 1946, where a horrific event happened the year before. As she learn...

     This week- two films about alternative family structures.      One night Veronica meets Abel, a freelance music journalist, at a concert and sparks fly. That same night she meets Zed, a drummer, and sparks fly. She begins dating both men and eventually brings them together in a polyamorous cohabitation. Despite some simmering tension between Zed and Abel, Veronic...

     This week- two movies about new families and arguable amounts of crime.      Just as Charlie Babbitt, a grey-market collectible car dealer, hits a snag in his biggest deal, he learns about his estranged father's death. After looking into the will, Charlie finds he has an extremely regimented, autistic savant, older brother, Raymond, living in an institution. Char...

     This week- two movies about relationships... with ourselves and with others.       Nicky, a small time gangster, stole from his boss. With nowhere else to go, he calls his old friend Mikey, also employed by the same local crime boss. Together the two drift through the city at night with a hitman not far behind. An anxiety inducing melodrama about male friend...

     This week a four film tribute to an actor whose career spanned seven decades, the legendary Tatsuya Nakadai.      A penniless samurai leaves his wife for improved social status and the daughter of wealthy family. A young woodcutter, taking refuge from a blizzard, confronts a yuki-onna. A blind musician performs for a dead Emperor, who plans to keep him playing in...

     This week we arrive late as a party and finally close the on Hawkins Lab Sourcebook Unusual Contrivances Adventure Inverted Corporeal Supplement 5e.      Anna rolls a nat20 saving throw, Kevin rethinks his Orc Wizard, Tyler misuses his Seduce Everything strategy, Dave gets his hand stuck in the dice tower... again... and the dice finally put an end to the tyranni...

     This week- two films about men with great destines.      After attempting suicide, former court composer of Joseph II, Antonio Salieri confesses to having murdered Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 49 years earlier, learning that Mozart was a childishly obscene reprobate with divine musical inspiration lead Salieri to renounce God and swear to take his revenge by destroyi...

     This week- a pair of films about men driven to extremes.      Two Vietnam Vets begin having similar ultrarealistic dreams about a member of their fireteam who died in a POW camp. Soon they start waking up with actual injuries they received in their dreams. In a desperate effort to save their buddy and stop a sadistic traitor they gear up for one final nocturnal c...

     This week- we spread peace on Earth and good will towards all humanity through painful cinematic suppositories specially chosen to mentally and emotionally break each other.      Jack is an aging football hooligan. After a fight, Jack is arrested for possession of cocaine and gets sentenced to six weeks of couples' therapy. Jack's wife, Dani, is emotionally isola...

     This week we learn a lessons on loneliness and self-improvement.       Sonya runs her family funeral parlor. She lives an isolated and routine life, above the parlor, with her distant father. The business is slowly going under and she is under a crushing amount of debt owed to a psychotic landlord. Sonya finds an unlikely companion in the unclaimed cadaver o...

     This week we sneak through a military check point for the penultimate trip to a small Indiana town.      A year after the ground split open life had found a new rhythm in Hawkins, Indiana. The military, being the fine upstanding and not at all suspicious or questionable industrial-complex it is, has slapped metal adhesive medical strips on the gaping pandimension...

     This week a pair of films about people forced by circumstances to face the harshness of reality with flights of fancy.      Lera is a sociology student who has been tasked with doing a door to door survey. She spends her nights caring for her sick and sleepwalking mother, supporting them both by dancing at a seedy gentleman's club, and trying to avoid her estrang...

     This week we celebrate the warriors of post classic Hollywood B films who celebrated and reveled in their chosen field just in time for Americans to glut themselves on turkey and gravy.      Park Plaza Mall has just installed the newest high tech in security, a trio of security robots designed to subdue and apprehend thieves and trespassers, and impenetrable stee...

     This week- two films about damaged psychologically manipulative men and the women entangled with them.      In 1996 a virus wiped out the majority of humanity and forced the survivors underground. Now in a desperate attempt to salvage some future, volunteers are sent back in time in the hopes to trace the virus origin and obtain a sample of it in its purist form....

     This week- a pair of films with strong female characters and their lovers being caught up in another man's violence.       Driving home from a club, Amy and Jordan pick up magnetic drifter X. Soon they find themselves on the run through a deadpan pastiche of early 90s America. The 2023 director's cut of a totally heterosexual film by Gregg Araki that already...

     This week the inmates try to run the asylum to varying degrees of success.      Randle McMurphy is moved from a hard labor prison farm for a psychological evaluation. Nurse Ratched maintains strict control, through fear and intimidation, over the ward he is placed. McMurphy's lively and rebellious nature immediately put them at odd to dire consequences. Winner of...

      This week we bring October to a close with four slashers that did not spawn franchises.      When students at experimental athletic drug enhancement focused Falcon Academy begin to disappear, no one seems to really think that much of it. They are too focused on Regionals, then Nationals, and finally their shot at the Olympics. Assuming all those drugs are ignore...

     This week- Four(ish) tales of terrible men doing terrible things and a tiny little mix-up.      The lavish Collinswood estate's handyman accidentally unleashes a 175-year-old vampire. The newly freed nocturnal predator takes up residence in an abandoned building on the grounds, insinuates himself back into the family, and begins to target the governess, who bares...

     This week- four tales of shivering fright to carry you through a chilly autumn night.      Kayako Saeki, with her son Toshio and cat Mar, is murdered by her jealous husband. Her anger and sorrow turn them all as onryo and place an insatiable curse on the house. Soon Toshio's teacher Kobayashi, the Murakami family, and all others who venture in will find noth...