Ribbon of Memes: Latest posts

Nick and Roger continue our efforts to become a John Carpenter podcast with a look at his second film, 1976's Assault on Precinct 13 . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick don our trenchcoats and explore the sewers with The Third Man (1949) . We also commend to your attention the Orson Welles Findus outtakes . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger take on our first banned film (not certified in the UK until 1954, "X"/"18" certificate until 1987) with 1925's Battleship Potemkin . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick continue our exploration of the world of finance with The Big Short (2015) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger take on our first documentary (arguably, not a film at all) with 2011's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace) . If you haven't watched it, we recommend the Wikipedia summary of the subject matter. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick try not to worry our pretty little heads about the Gaslight (1940) and Gaslight (1944) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger are heading back to the pig farm as we discuss A Simple Plan (1998) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick are living in faded glory as we invite you to visit us in Sunset Boulevard (1950) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger hide in the lighthouse and try to stay safe from zombie pirates (or is it ghost pirates?) in The Fog (1980) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

It's a dinosaur movie. We know this. Roger and Nick take a trip to Jurassic Park (1993) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger strap on our pairs of pistols and embrace each other in a brotherly (and manly) manner as we consider John Woo's breakout film A Better Tomorrow (1986) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick have twenty seconds to comply with RoboCop (1987) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger discuss Halloween (1978) : another Carpenter masterpiece, or the opening of the floodgates of cheap spam-in-a-can slasher horror? Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick grunt in a manly and honourable way as we look back at The Seven Samurai (1954) , The Magnificent Seven (1970) and Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick discuss The Craft . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick don our tights and feathered hats to consider Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Robin Hood (1973), Robin and Marian (1976), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger discuss Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick pick two foreign-language fruits from the zombie tree, with [•REC] and Train to Busan . Featuring Roger's Railway Corner! Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger get distorted with our earliest film yet, 1920's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick confront questions of their own identity in Moon (2009) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger get into cool crime and smooth jazz with The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and its remake The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick attempt to avoid time paradoxes as we look at 1962's La Jetée and the film it inspired, 1995's 12 Monkeys Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger practice their truck drivin' songs for 1953's The Wages of Fear . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

By request of listener Aqi Draco, Roger and Nick get all Dark Ages, and ask: was 1999's The 13th Warrior John McTiernan's last great film? Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

By request of listener Gus, Nick and Roger dive back into noir and come out dirty, in 1957's Sweet Smell of Success . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download