Retro Movie Club

We are finally back with the next movie for season 2, Under Siege, starring Steven Seagal. As ever, we'll take a deep dive into the film itself, as well as the stellar cast, during which we'll discuss whether Gary Busey enjoyed dressing as a woman a little too much, take a look at Tommy Lee Jones' acting skills and we'll probably press pause around the 43-minute mark!! We also...

A massive UFO has emerged right over the Retro Movie Club and we’re gonna need some help with this one!! Join us, as we enlist the help of Mark “Kitt” Bylund to get us all through the extra-terrestrial threat without getting probed, while we discuss the 1993 movie, Fire in the Sky! During the episode, we discuss our thoughts on whether there are really aliens out there, we get almost annoyed by Da...

Blake and Rich are locked in a battle to save humanity by utilising all the different skills of our multiversal selves to discuss the absolutely bonkers 2022, Oscar winning movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Listen as Rich attempts to make sense of this film for a scene-by-scene breakdown and we have a very tenuous linked game for this episode. We also try a rather strange coffee-flavoured...

Join Blake and Rich as they enlist the help of Retro Asylum’s own Mads Kristensen and Jim Middleton as we delve deep inside The Hive to find answers as to why The Red Queen has gone mad and started killing everybody! As we find ourselves embroiled in Umbrella Corp’s conspiracies, we talk about Milla Jovovich (a lot!), Red Dwarf and Twin Peaks, as well as the  possibility of having our very own Ret...

The year is 2025 and Blake & Rich are locked in a centuries old battle for ‘the prize’. Knowledge and power comes with the prize and in the end we must battle till the end and become, The Midlander!!  Aside from all this, we also travel back to 1986 to watch another battle for the ages, in Highlander. Along the way, we delve into dodgy accents, a killer Queen soundtrack and 80s films in genera...

Oh no!! I've just answered a pay phone outside and some shaky sounding guy says we only have 1 hour 50 mins until the missiles hit!! What shall we do? Spend time with loved ones? Drink until oblivion? Loot a Kwik Save? The only thing to do is…do a podcast of course! Join Blake and Rich as we discuss cinema etiquette with the Minecraft movie, we talk about the thriving high score challenge and...

We're back baby!! Finally… Rich and Blake have come back to the Retro Movie Club!! It's time for us to talk crepe once again, and we have brought out all the talky toppings! This time around, we talk about our trip to Retro Realm in Walsall as well as an outing for some good time rock n roll with The Wildhearts. We look back on a year of the movie club (who'd have thought it?!) to d...

Come to Mighty Mick’s Gym, where if you’re not prepared to eat lightning and crap thunder, you ain’t gonna make it! You’re gonna “get hoyt…poymanent!!” Join Blake and Rich as we journey to Philly to join The Italian Stallion, Rocky Balboa on the road to the Spectrum Arena, where destiny awaits in this first sequel to the hit movie, Rocky! Along the way, we talk about Ebay sellers, a terrifying Chr...

Welcome to Warren Valley for The Retro Movie Club's Halloween extravaganza!! You'd better follow the rules though, don't blow out your jack o’ lantern before midnight, always give candy to trick or treaters and never take your decorations down before November 1st - otherwise Sam will get you!!  As well as discussing the movie, we listen to Blake's tales of going bin diving, Ric...

In episode 12, the Movie Club boys are off-grid and broadcasting from an undisclosed location to avoid detection from the security services! Being careful not to use any of the keywords that will trigger government interception, we talk about Enemy of the State, starring Gene Hackman and Will Smith. We discuss how the film holds up 26 years later, lingerie shop customer service and we try a new be...

After seemingly being taken by aliens and dumped in the desert, Blake and Rich have found their way back to civilisation, after a long break, to talk about Speilberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Along the way, we talk dirt through the kitchen window, the presence of other people at the cinema, cricket legend Freddie Flintoff and get all nostalgic about ‘The Spectrum’. Strap in and start p...

Blake and Rich head straight outta Movie Club for episode 10 where we discover a Lep in the hood, come to do no good!! Along the way we talk apes on horses, garden grave digging, and strange dreams. We also celebrate the Retro Asylum Game Club and discuss some of our favourite Game Club moments. Join us, with our zombie fly girls, to find the Leprechaun’s amulet before he starts killings for his s...

Rich and Blake enlist the help of Retro Asylum hosts Mads and Mark to embark on a journey to the centre of the Labyrinth to defeat the evil, yet alluring, Jareth! Along the way we discuss Jim Henson puppets, Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie’s perv pants! Thanks to that pesky worm, sending us the wrong way, we also take a detour into Arcade Club, camping in America and Mads favourite movie, Jaws!...

Under the surveillance of Chief Judge Hyde, Street Judge Brett takes to his Lawmaker bike to pay a visit to Peach Trees to delve into the 2012 movie, Dredd. On the way, Mega City One's newest Judge makes a stop off to tell us about Revival 2024. He describes what it took to set up, the day spent there with his family and the amount of Amigas at the event. We also talk more Alien, Black Sabbat...

Blake and Rich take on a Hitchcock classic in episode 7 with Strangers on a Train. We talk plotting the perfect murder, horn-rimmed glasses and playing tennis without a ball! Join us as we discuss our preconceptions of 1950s society and whether it is acceptable to simulate a strangling at a dinner party. We also examine the unexpected importance of a carousel to this movie and we see how this clas...

Rich and Blake take on The Big Lebowski in this episode of the Retro Movie Club. The Cohen brothers 1998 film is placed under the spotlight where we try to give our views of the film, and some of those of our listeners also. We also talk crêpe, a lot of crêpe. Sorry about that 🙂

Join us for our first Talking Crêpe episode where Blake and Rich waffle, NO! I mean talk crêpe for 85 minutes about life in general, Blake tries to remember the simplest of things and fails, and we also pick out the next 6 films we will be working through for the film club in the next couple of months. Feel free to discuss our choices over in the Retro Asylum Movie Club Discord channel and let us...

In this episode we discuss what we think of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes. Blake and Rich discuss monkeys, guns and token good looking women placed within films. What did Rich think of the ending having not watched the film before? What are Blake's opinions on watching it through for the second time? What are some of the opinions of the Discord channel members? Listen to find out.

This film discussion, the second of 2024 in the Retro Movie Club is Alien 3 (1992), and in particular the Assembly Cut. Join Rich and Blake as they discuss what they thought about the film and discuss some of the differences between this and the theatrical version. Plus Rich picks the next film for the film club watch and discussion.

The first film discussion of 2024 in the Retro Movie Club is The Final Countdown (1980). Rich and Blake get together for another chat. How does Blake get on with forcing his kids to watch Star Wars? What do we think about the time travel elements of the film? Did the Jolly Roger crew ever get to speak to Katharine Ross? Who knows.

Rich and Blake get together for another relaunch of the Movie Club. Will it last more than a few months this time? Will Blake pull his finger out and actually upload some material? Listen to find out.