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Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Sabrina Miller discuss the original RoboCop 2. After a drug dealer turns into RoboCop 2, RoboCop is up for a battle in New Detroit.  Elements of dark comedy are here, but the corporate satire is missing. RoboCop 2 keeps the R rating to good gory effect. The plot is nothing to write home about, but if you saw the original, you might as well watch this one. Follow the...

Mat interviews Marc with a C on his new two disc compilation Maybe It'll Be Good: The Best of Marc with a C and his memoir of the same name. Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the 1931 Dracula film. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) goes to London to acquire some land.  Dracula is based on the stage play and not the novel. It often feels a bit stiff and has a hard time improving on...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Sabrina Miller discuss the original RoboCop. After being transmogrified into a part machine elite titular RoboCop, Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) fights crime in Detroit. A slick satire feature director Paul Verhoeven's penchant for violence, RoboCop might be the best 1980s movie ever made.  Follow the show on Twitter @Sequelcast2 Like our Sequelcast 2 Facebook Page Sequ...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Sabrina Miller discuss Basic Instinct 2. Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) is assigned to the wily Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) after she is implicated in the murder of popular footballer Kevin Franks (Stan Collymore). A slow sequel and a vanity project, Basic Instinct 2 is hampered by its mostly boring cast. Sharon Stone is having a blast reprising her most fa...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Young Guns II. Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) tries to flee to Mexico as he is pursued by former friend Pat Garrett (William Petersen). Young Guns II benefits from a better pacing than the original, but it's also a bit more rote. Things are a little too slick this time around, but the chemistry between the main cast remains strong.  Mat finds...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Mystery House, the first adventure game released by Sierra. The publisher's original name was On-Line Systems. A revolutionary graphic adventure with a text parser interface, Mystery House weaves a half-assed story inspired by Agatha Christie's novel Ten Little Indians with a few oddball puzzles to boot. The words the parser understands are p...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Sabrina Miller discuss Basic Instinct. Detective Curran (Michael Douglas) investigates the murder of rock star Johnny Boz (Bill Cable). Could mystery author Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) have done it? A sharp modern film noir, Basic Instinct embraces its trashy instincts to the hilt. Jerry Goldsmith's slippery score classes up the joint. One of the best erotic thr...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Young Guns. Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) leads a bunch of hooligans into battle against the crooked Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance). Tiger Beat heartthrobs in cowboy duds is the name of the game in Young Guns. Loosely inspired by exploits of Billy the Kid and company, this flick has a traditional story marred by a dated butt rock meets synth...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Sabrina Miller discuss Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Mad Max (Mel Gibson) tries to escape Bartertown. A somewhat gentler film then the prior two in the series, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome starts off inspired and ends up tired. After a marvelous initial series of sequences in Bartertown, the plot slams on the brakes for a cheesy subplot about a load of orphaned children....

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Sabrina Miller discuss The Road Warrior. Mad Max (Mel Gibson) makes deals to get gasoline for his V-8 Pursuit Special. Released in some countries as Mad Max 2, this is the movie where Mad Max really becomes the character audiences learned to know and love. A masterpiece of both the action and the post-apocalyptic genres, The Road Warrior has less of a plot than Mad M...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss why they are launching Sierra Quest: To Adventure Game is Human, a new monthly podcast looking at adventure games from Sierra Online under the leadership of Ken Williams in chronological order from Hi-Res Adventure # 1: Mystery House all the way to Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. Follow the show on Twitter @Sequelc...

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Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Porky's Revenge. The titular strip club owner is trying to fix high school basketball games. Only Pee Wee (Dan Monahan) and his friends can stop him!  A return to form to the raunchy escapades of Porky's, Porky's Revenge is both a better and more predictable sequel than Porky's 2: The Next Day. At long last, Ms. Balbricker (Nancy Parsons) get...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Eric Windsor, Tony Minsent, and Sean Christopher Franson host a live podcast panel about Ready Player One Top 10 Hidden References at the 2019 Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Follow the show on Twitter @Sequelcast2 Like our Sequelcast 2 Facebook Page Sequelcast 2 is delighted to be a member of The Batman Podcast Network. Hear more great podcasts here! Watch Thrasher's table...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Porky's 2: The Next Day. A group of guys sneak a snake into a toilet and battle against the KKK. This lackluster sequel dicks around with a plot focused on Shakespeare, the KKK, and the plight of a local Native American tribe. Wendy Williams (Kaki Hunter) gets a fun sequence late in the film where she takes the piss out of Commissioner Gebhar...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Sabrina Miller discuss Mad Max. Cop Max Rockantansky (Mel Gibson) fights against punks led by the sadistic Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne). One of Mel Gibson's earliest films, Mad Max is a far cry from the later better known flicks in the series. There is cheesy saxophone music and a heaping plop of melodrama, but the back half of this film feels more like the Mad Max w...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Porky's. A group of guys try to get into the Porky's strip club and commit a casual sex crime. Inspired by writer-director Bob Clark's high school hijinks, Porky's has a real heart in the midst of all the mischief. The fellas often get embarrassed as much as the dames with more male nudity than you might remember.  Mat is blown away by Dan Ay...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and special guest Mitch Hallock of The IndyCast discuss the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV series. Originally airing on ABC then later popping up on The Family Channel, this series didn't get a complete airing of all its episodes until a trio of boxsets on DVD packed to the gills with a zillion educational documentaries. Originally aired with wraparound seg...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, BJ, and special guest Mitch Hallock of The IndyCast discuss Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Indiana Jones discovers a UFO. In the works for well over a decade, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull injects pulp elements of 1950s creature features into an overloaded tale of the fabled extraterrestrial crystal skulls. Although it...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, Jersey Jason, and special guest Mitch Hallock of The IndyCast discuss Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indiana Jones tries to get to the Holy Grail before the Nazis do. The Indiana Jones family grows with the addition of Indy's father Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery). Closer in tone to Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ups the humor...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and special guest Mitch Hallock of The IndyCast discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Indiana Jones rescues children and the Sankara Stones from the Thuggees. The darkest Indiana Jones feature to date, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ventures to China and India. Gross-out gags is the name of the game as key sequences focus on monkey brains, bugs,...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and special guest Mitch Hallock of The IndyCast discuss Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana Jones tries to get to the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do. Quite possibly Steven Spielberg's most entertaining film, Raiders of the Lost Ark combines action, globetrotting, romance, and the supernatural into one great movie! Harrison Ford, notably more engaged here...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the Death Wish remake from 2018. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) gets revenge of the baddies who killed his wife. Directed by modern master of horror Eli Roth, this take on Death Wish lacks any satire or wit. Bruce Willis is a boring lead, but Vincent D'Onofrio is excellent in a supporting role as the brother. Mat is thrown for a loop by Wired, th...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss The Two Jakes. Detective Jake Gittes gets sucked into a twisted real estate conspiracy. One of the few movies directed by Jack Nicholson, The Two Jakes is another neo noir that fails to live up to the lofty heights of its predecessor Chinatown. Originally, this was meant to be the second of a Jake Gittes trilogy. For whatever reason, the third film w...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and special guest Dennis McDougal (author of  Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times) discuss Chinatown. Detective Jake Gittes investigates an infidelity case that reveals secrets best left hidden.  A legendary detective movie from director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne, Chinatown is a perennial film school...