Saturday Night Freak Show

This week, Colin takes us to the Forbidden Planet (1956) where we encounter Robby the Robot, the voluptuous Anne Francis, monsters from the Id, and a very young Leslie Nielsen, who stars as the commander of a starship sent to investigate why Earth has lost contact with a distant colony. Listen as we explore one of sci-fi's most borrowed from classics on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acas...

The 2015 Year of Time Travel Movies continues with Brent's selection of Twelve Monkeys (1995), which sees Bruce Willis sent from a post-apocalyptic future back to the modern day to find a pathogen, responsible for wiping out the human race, in its pure form. Along the way he encounters a sympathetic psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) and a charismatic schizophrenic (Brad Pitt) in Terry Gilliam's tripp...

This week we evaluate Jenny's selection of 1998's The Big Lebowski by subjecting ourselves to a barrage of trivia questions about the Dude (Jeff Bridges), Walter (John Goodman), Maude (Julliane Moore) and the other assorted odball characters of Joel and Ethan Cohen's slacker ode to film-noir detective mysteries. So get the White Russian mix handy and play along with our Big Lebowski drinking game...

This week, we take a trip back through 80's nostalgia via Colin's pick of Kung Fury (2015), a Kickstarter-funded short film that sees a Miami cop become a martial arts master, thanks to a simultaneous cobra bite and lightning strike, who travels back in time to defeat Adolph Hitler. Listen as we talk about crowdfunded Internet short films, the logistics of using a Nintendo Power Glove as a time ma...

This week, Brent continues the 2015: Year of Time Travel series with the 2010 comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine. John Cusack leads a cadre of his pals back to 1986 via a magical hot tub, where they are afforded the opportunity to right the wrongs of their youth. Shenanigans ensue. Listen as we talk 80's nostalgia, movies that aren't really movies, and generally clown around on this week's exciting epis...

This week, Travis plumbs the dark recesses behind superhero fantasies with James Gunn's Super (2010). Rainn Wilson stars as a short order cook who becomes a costumed crimefighter in order to rescue his wife (Liv Tyler) from a smarmy drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). Listen as we deconstruct the modern superhero myth on this week's exciting podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

This week, Colin answers Brent's 'year of time-travel movies' challenge with Shane Carruth's Primer (2004), a low-budget mindbender about two engineers who accidentally invent a time machine in their garage, and the complications that ensue once they begin to use it. Find out how little we know about actual science as we talk causality paradoxes, space, time and perception on this week's epic epis...

This week, Brent takes us on Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), in which two lovable losers (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) embark on a quest to abduct famous figures from history (courtesy of a time machine) in order to pass their high school history exam. Join us at the bar as we continue the Summer of Time-Travel with one of the 80's best known comedy duos on this week's exciting episode...

This week marks the Freak Show's first foray into J-horror with Travis' pick of Black Rat (2010). Set in a high school, a killer in a rat mask begins murdering her classmates for revenge for a tragic death which they were all a part of. Join as as we talk J-horror tropes, karate fights, sullen teenagers, breaking-and-entering, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

This week, we yap about Colin's pick, I Come In Peace (aka Dark Angel, 1990). Muscleman Dolph Lundgren stars as a rule-breaking cop investigating a series of murders committed by an extraterrestrial drug-dealer. Join us as we talk about the practicality of using compact discs as a murder weapon, handguns that shoots fireballs, the drug empire run by a group of suited up corporate executives, and t...

This week, Brent takes us on a voyage through time to the 1960's to watch The Time Machine, in which an inventor and scientist George Wells (Rod Taylor) travels to a distant future where humanity is divided into two groups - the apathetic Eloi and the mutant Morlocks. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells. Listen as we talk time travel, 1960's era special effects and more on this week's exciting episod...

This week, Travis hopes to transform into The Guyver (1991), a suit of bio-boosted space armor from this adaptation of a popular Japanese manga. A kickboxer (Jack Armstrong) discovers an alien artifact (aka "The Unit") which attaches itself to him in the form of a wearable superhero suit, allowing him to fight against the insectoid creatures (led by Michael Berryman of The Hills Have Eyes and Davi...

This week, we howl at Colin's pick of WolfCop (2014), a tongue-in-cheek monster/comedy that finds an alcoholic policeman finding new ways to battle crime once he's transformed into the world's first werewolf cop! Pull up a seat at the bar and listen in as we talk the modern trend of insta-cult movies and discover whether or not this wolfman's got nards on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Ac...

This week, Brent steals about 2 hours from the Saturday Night Freak Show irregulars with his pick of Time Bandits (1981), a whimsical British fantasy directed by one-time Monty Python regular, Terry Gilliam. A cadre of dwarf time-travelers abscond with a young boy on an adventure throughout a variety of historical scenarios, putting them in the midst of an ongoing battle between Evil (David Warner...

This week, Travis asks us to slam evil along with his movie pick, The Phantom (1996). Set in the 1930's, Billy Zane plays a costumed (and possibly immortal) crimefighter who defends a south Asian jungle from a greedy industrialist (Treat Williams) seeking a supernatural doomsday device. One time movie Buffy, Kristy Swanson, and Catherine Zeta-Jones co-star. Join us as we talk about the character's...

This week, Colin fulfills the prophecy of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985), a rarely-seen cartoon space opera from the 80's era of 3-D movies which finds a teenager named Orin who must find a magical sword in order to free the galaxy from an tyrannical overlord named Zygon. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of deep space adventure, dashing space rouges, buxom fembots, fey computer sidekicks...

This week, Brent summons Jean-Claude Van Damme from the future in Timecop (1994), which finds the action star bouncing back and forth in time to thwart an evil politician (Ron Silver) from altering the future. Listen in as we talk about the shaky mechanics of time travel, revel in the heydays of sweet mullets, and contemplate doing the splits on a kitchen sink on this week's exciting show! Hosted...

This week, Travis welcomes you to Tromaville, home of the Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986), in which toxic waste transforms honor students into splatterpunks. Listen as we talk mutant babies, radioactive pre-marital sex, futuristic fashions, and the enduring legacy of Troma movies on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Colin takes us on a trip into the bizarre land of Zardoz (1974), a futuristic science fiction tale. A ridiculously-outfitted Sean Connery stars as a barbaric executioner who travels - via a giant floating stone head - into an enclave of psychic hippies who wish to examine his primitive DNA. Listen as we explore the mysteries of the universe (and this movie in particular) on this week's...

Let's play a drinking game! Whenever you hear one of us say "eh?" or "hoser" or "take off" on this week's Strange Brew (1983) episode (courtesy: Brent), you take a drink! We promise you'll be flat wasted within the hour as we entertain you with stories and anecdotes while drinking and watching Bob and Doug MacKenzie stumble through a plot (borrowed from Shakespeare!) in their quest to stop an evil...

It's comedy-arthouse week as Travis brings us Play It Again Sam (1972), starring Woody Allen (who also wrote the screenplay and Broadway play upon which it is based) as a nebbish with relationship troubles who dreams of being cool like his screen idol, Humphrey Bogart. Listen is as we gather round the bar for a scintillating dissection of one of Hollywood's hardest working filmmakers on this week'...

This week, Colin brings the Freak back to the Freak Show with Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988), a goofy post-apocalyptic sci-fi fable in which the last virile man on earth, Sam Hell ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper), must venture into a forbidden wasteland ruled by mutant frogmen to impregnate six fertile women and save the human race. Pull up a seat at the bar and join us as we wax rhapsodic about explosive cha...

This week, Brent celebrates 2015 with a look back at Back to the Future Part II (1989), in which 1985 era Marty and Doc travel to 2015 (and an alternate 1985, and 1955 - again!) and we get a glimpse of what the future looked like from the lens of 1989 (when the movie was made). Where are the flying cars? Join us as we plow through motion picture sci-fi history with our breakdown of Back to the Fut...

This week, Gary bids us adieu with his exit pick of Moon 44 (1990), a sci-fi thriller from Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich, which stars Michael (Streets of Fire) Pare as an internal affairs officer sent to investigate corruption on a deep-space mining colony. Join us as we talk about copycat filmmakers, under-emoting actors (Pare), over-emoting actors (Malcolm McDowell), Blackhawks in space, an...

This week, Travis takes us to South Korea with his pick of Save the Green Planet (2003), about a man who, believing that aliens from the planet Andromeda are plotting to invade the Earth, kidnaps a pharmaceutical executive (whom he believes to be an alien) and tortures him in his subterranean lair. Meanwhile, a rumpled detective closes in. Listen as we talk about a movie that mixes comedy, horror,...