Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers

The lads have their hands full in this brand-spanking new installment of Saturday Night Movie Sleepover, and desperately try to fit it all into the confines of a humble podcast. This week, Dion Baia and J. Blake take on the 1982 horror classic, John Carpenter’s The Thing. The boy’s knowledge and expertise are put to task, disseminating all […]

In this brand-spanking new edition of Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, Dion Baia and J. Blake take on the monumental opus, something that not only influenced these two boys in their formative years, but also was a huge influence on cinema, sci-fi, action (and maybe even horror) as well as technology- we are of course talking about James Camerson’s breakout masterpiece, The […]

Straight out of Hasbro, toy’s with attitude, Dion Baia and J.Blake are back for a spontaneous Part 2 of their momentous Podcast to ring in the 2015 New Year, deciding to take on the supremely unrated G.I.Joe the Movie, from 1987. Following up Part 1 where they went head to head with the super-iconic 1986 favorite Transformers the Movie, J. […]

Dion and J. Blake usher in 2015 with an absolute cult-classic from their childhood, the 1986 feature film Transformers the Movie. This fact-filled podcast sizes up the 1986 adaptation of a beloved daily TV show’s journey from the small to the silver screen, taking on the HUGE elephant in the room- the ramifications on the toy industry, children’s psyches, and future cartoon properties regarding th...

This week, in part 2 of our Special Christmas Edition of Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, J. Blake and Dion Baia take on an Oldie-put-Goodie Christmas Classic, Jim Varney’s Ernest Saves Christmas, from 1988. The boys lay out the history of Ernest P. Worrell, how the zany character even came about and explore the world he […]

In a very exciting Christmas Edition of Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, Dion Baia and J. Blake explore the highly underrated and highly influential Bob Clark film- no, not the uber-iconic A Christmas Story- but his other Christmas movie from 10 years prior, his brilliant horror, Black Christmas from 1974.   What cinema secrets does this lesser-known gem hold that now have become cliched? […]

In this week’s Thanksgiving edition of Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, Dion Baia & J. Blake pick the iconic comedy classic Planes Trains and Automobiles, released on Thanksgiving Eve, 1987. The boys reminisce about their memories connected with the film, discuss the legendary careers and lasting legacies of writer/producer/director John Hughes and actor John Candy, and the imprint the film […]

The boys really searched through the proverbial video store racks for this week’s pick, the little known and probably even less-seldom seen sci-fi treat,  Mindwrap  from 1992, starring  Bruce Campbell  and  Phantasm ‘s   Angus Scrimm . This underrated, low-budget post-apocalyptic/technological/CHUD-style tale explores themes probed 7 years later in the highly popular 1999 film  The Matrix  (though...

Why did this sequel tank so badly? Was it  Season of the Witch’s  own fault? Is it indeed a  good  film in the  Halloween  film franchise?  Is   Tom Akins  really leading-man material? (we here at  Saturday Sleepovers  do admit this last question is a bit moot at this point…) And multi-colored  Tootsie Rolls –  Really?! A ll these tantalizing questions will be answered on this all NEW installment...

With the recent premiere in the fall of  2014  of yet another beloved  DC Comics  property  The Flash , the boys had the idea of instead going back in time and giving another shot to the  original series ,  1990 ‘s  The Flash  pilot, starring the great  John Wesley Shipp . So… are they crazy?  Or  are they onto something? How big of an influence did  Tim Burton ‘s 1989 epic  Batman  film and  Warr...

In the 2nd episode of the smash hit  Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers ,  J. Blake  and  Dion Baia  tackle a film near and dear to their hearts from a filmmaker they absolutely adore,  John Carpenter  and his 1986 feature,  Big Trouble in Little China. The boys discuss the cult status the iconic film has achieved and the history behind getting it onto the silver screen. Is  Big Trouble  still just a...

In the inaugural edition of  J. Blake  and  Dion Baia ‘s new podcast  Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers ,  the boys fittingly pick the forgotten, some may even call   lost   and dark Marvel Comics classic, Mark Goldblatt’s  The Punisher   from 1989, starring  Dolph Lundrgen  and  Lou Gossett Jr . They go in depth about the film, discuss the era and climate it came out in, and perhaps why it was so q...