Ribbon of Memes: Latest posts

An open and shut case, the victim raped the man's wife and then the man shot him. But is it legally murder? Nick and Roger take a look at 1959's Anatomy of a Murder . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

We've previously talked about Knives Out and Glass Onion , and now Roger and Nick return for the third Benoit Blanc film, 2025's Wake Up Dead Man . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

The dame is lovely, and very dead. But that's just another day in the big city as Nick and Roger take a look at 1944's Laura . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

A forgotten classic, overrated, or (as usual) something in between? Roger and Nick go from surgery to jet car to concert stage in 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger take another dip into the barrel of Hammer with Christopher Lee in Wheatley's terribly serious tale of satanism, 1968's The Devil Rides Out . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick approach a horror classic from different angles as we take a look at 1980's The Shining . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger take a look at famed cinematic turkey Ishtar (1987), and at another film inspired by the Hope/Crosby Road To series, Spies Like Us (1985). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick blend cinematic apocalypse with cinematic disaster as we go back to what was at the time the most expensive film ever made, 1995's Waterworld . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger conclude our look into 1950s visions of nuclear apocalypse (for now) with World Without End (1956), Panic in Year Zero! (1962, but it feels very 1950s so we kept it in) and On the Beach (1959). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick haul on our lead BVDs and revisit several 1950s visions of nuclear apocalypse and its aftermath. This episode, Five](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043539) (1951) and The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger aren't going to face 1984's The Ice Pirates sober. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a lovable bumbler? Roger and Nick visit one of the films that turned Disney back towards animation, 1981's Condorman . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger sew our limbs back on for 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick consider another candidate for "the first Talkie", the first feature-length all-talking film: 1928's Lights of New York . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger strangely fail to don blackface as we visit the "first talkie" (I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that), 1927's The Jazz Singer . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick continue not to touch E. T. as we view 1984's Starman . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger look at the three films that made Hammer's reputation as a horror studio: The Curse of Frankenstein , Dracula , and The Mummy . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick become miracles of modern science in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger obsess over past wrongs and set up baroque murders with a glamorous assistant in The Abominable Dr. Phibes , Dr. Phibes Rises Again , and Theatre of Blood . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick get terribly macho and sweary (we're role-players, we can handle it) with Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger are old war buddies in the casino-robbing business in Ocean's Eleven ( 1960 and 2001 ), Twelve and Thirteen . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick return to the John Carpenter well, with the low-budget action piece Escape from New York (1981) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger strap jet engines to our naughty bits and take a dangerous look at Top Gun (1986) and its rather belated sequel Top Gun: Maverick (2022) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick conclude our werewolf mini-season (for now) by jumping forward another twenty years, to Ginger Snaps (200) and Dog Soldoers (2002) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger continue our highly selective werewolf season with two films from 1981 noted for their transformation sequences: The Howling and An American Werewolf in London . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download