Ribbon of Memes: Latest posts

Werewolf films arguably began with 1935's Werewolf of London , but Roger and Nick choose to begin our werewolf mini-season a little later, with The Wolf Man (1941) and Cat People (1942) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

It was intended as a tax write-off, but ended up winning four Academy Awards and the first ever Palme d'Or . Nick and Rger look at Ernest Borgnine's big break in Marty (1955) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Time to don our red-silk-lined capes and listen to the creatures of the night ("meow") as Roger and Nick take a look at the 1980s vampire boom, in particular The Lost Boys (1987) and Near Dark (1987) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

In part two of this double episode, Nick and Rger look at more parodies of Hitler on film, with Look Who's Back (2015) and Jojo Rabbit (2019) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

In part one of a double episode, Roger and Nick look at parodies of Hitler on film, with The Great Dictator (1940) and The Producers (1967) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger are glad to be out, er, back, as we drive headlong into The Italian Job (1963) with a brief mention of its not-as-bad-as-expected remake The Italian Job (20033) Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick look at the state of the art in big-budget SF in the years just before Star Wars , with the serious doom-mongering of Silent Running (1972) Soylent Green (1973) and Logan's Run (1976). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger fire up the old ukuleles and wonder if this will finally be the comedy Roger likes, with 1959's Some Like It Hot . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick watch that classic of misdirection Rashomon … or do we? Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger get our leather and spikes back on to look at the latest Mad Max film, 2024's Furiosa . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick preen our beards to indulge in Scandi Disaster with The Wave ( Bølgen ) and The Quake ( Skjelvet ). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger look at some earlier Hitchcock, with 1951's Strangers on a Train and 1948's Rope . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick are joined by Michael Cule to consider what Orson Welles did to Shakespeare in 1965's Chimes at Midnight . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger, with special guest MaryAnn Johanson , ask whether 2019's Midsommar is the "smart horror" we've been waiting for. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick are invited to get all male-gazey again, in 1960's Psycho and 1954's Rear Window . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger cross off the boxes on the family tree as we consider 1949's Kind Hearts and Coronets . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick put on the sunglasses and drink the Flavor Aid, in 1989's They Live . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger, joined once again by special guest MaryAnn Johanson , look at Kieslowski's final and most successful work: Three Colours Blue , Three Colours White and Three Colours Red . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick know enough to follow the stream downhill, in 1999's The Blair Witch Project . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger get wet and steamy as we consider 1972's The Poseidon Adventure . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick celebrate our third anniversary doing this podcast. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger look at the sort of Epic! film that just doesn't get made any more, 1962's Lawrence of Arabia . (Actual historica accuracy can wait by the back door in case we need you.) Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick won't last long enough on the streets to starve, in 2002's Cidade de Deus . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

This Orson Welles guy may be fine on the radio, but can he make a movie? Nick and Roger look at his directorial debut, 1941's Citizen Kane . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick get hot in the dust once more in 2007's No Country For Old Men (2007) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download