Sequelcast 2 and Friends

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher, Jersey Jason discuss The Re-Animator. A modern day adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novella Herbert West-Reanimator, this dark take on Frankenstein involves medical student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) wanting to reanimate the dead.  More horror than comedy, Re-Animator features great gore special effects despite its modest budget. Stuart Gordon directs...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. A T-850 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a T-X (Kristanna Loken) travel to 2004 to either protect or destroy John Connor (Nick Stahl).  Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines leans hard onto a comedic tone that never completely works. There are moments of darkness, not the least of which is the downer of the ending....

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher discuss Coby and the Starhunters, the ninth episode of Star Wars: Droids. This is also the only episode of the series without an official home video release. The droids have to escort Coby to the Academy, but his pet Ingey is stolen by Captain Stroon and Slarm. Our heroes follow them to a planet in the Dandelo system. All the cute pet and wild bea...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher, and special guest Cliff Broadway (Writer for TheOneRing. Net) discuss The Return of the King. Continuing the style of their cartoon of The Hobbit, this one skips past the first two Lord of the Rings books with alarming brevity and wraps up the story with more Glenn Yarbrough ditties along the way.  Frodo Baggins (Orson Bean) and Samwise (Roddy McDowall...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Terminator 2: Judgment Day. A T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a T-1000 (Robert Patrick) travel back in time to assassinate a 10-year-old John Connor (Edward Furlong).  Terminator 2: Judgment Day brightens up the plot and the scenery in this groundbreaking special effects sequel. The story runs a bit long, but the cast is decent and the acti...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher discuss The Revenge of Kybo Ren, the eighth episode of Star Wars: Droids. Space Kybo Ren-Cha escapes from jail with the help of his cronies. Can Mon Julpa patch up diplomatic relations with Lord Toda while stopping the titular baddie? Using the classic formula of a jail break and the revenge of a well-known villain, this is another decent episode....

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Jersey Jason, and William Thrasher discuss The Lord of the Rings, a theatrical cartoon directed by Ralph Bakshi. Meant to be the first of a two film series, United Artists chose not to fund a proper sequel making this an odd outlier J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation. A ring with magical powers gets gifted from Bilbo Baggins (Norman Bird) to Frodo Baggins (Christopher Guard), bu...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Terminator. An early flick from James Cameron, The Terminator spins a yarn about a man (Michael Biehn) and a cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) traveling back in time to deal with a woman (Linda Hamilton) in their own way.   The Terminator is a lean science-fiction action movie that plays more like a horror movie with the T-800 as the slasher...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher discuss The Pirates of Tarnoonga, the seventh episode of Star Wars: Droids. Our heroes are in the middle of an escort mission to protect a fuel delivery to Tammuz-an when they are captured by the pirate Kybo Ren-Cha. Can they survive a sea serpent and a cadre of armed pirates?  A more straightforward episode, this one balances comedic nonsense and...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Jersey Jason, and William Thrasher discuss The Hobbit, a Rankin Bass made for TV animated movie from 1977. Featuring original songs from Glenn Yarbrough, this tells the tale of Bilbo Baggins (Orson Bean) being hired by Gandalf (John Huston) to take a gaggle of dwarves on a quest to reclaim their treasure guarded by the dragon Smaug. A brisk adaptation of the novel by J....

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Waxwork 2: Lost in Time. A direct-to-video sequel to the original, this one has Mark (Zach Galligan) and Sarah (Monika Schnarre) venturing to alternate dimensions to battle the forces in evil. Despite the different setup, the story finds our duo venturing through different deadly film homages not unlike the original. Waxwork 2: Lost in Time i...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher discuss The New King, the sixth episode of Star Wars: Droids. C-3PO, R2-D2, Mon Julpa, Jann Tosh, and Jessica Meade return to Tammuz-an to restore the monarchy to its true ruler. In their way is the evil Vizier Ko Zatec-Cha and the beanpole bounty hunter IG-88.  An episode more rooted in Arabian Nights than Star Wars, this episode has a nice clima...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Caddyshack 2. New slobs face against new snobs including such comedy veterans as Jackie Mason and Jonathan Silverman. Caddyshack 2 was originally written as a lead vehicle for Rodney Dangerfield reprising his role as Al Czervik, but he turned it down because of the lame screenplay by Harold Ramis and PJ Torokvei. This covers a lot of the same...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Waxwork. The feature film debut of writer-director Anthony Hickox, this homage to horror films is bloody and funny in equal measure. A gaggle of high school students investigate a local waxwork run by the erudite David Lincoln (David Warner). The student body is about to run afoul of scarcity. Waxwork has a paper thin premise to hang a plot o...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher take a break discuss The Lost Prince, the fifth episode of Star Wars: Droids. Working a contract job at Doodnik's Cafe on Tyne's Horky, C-3PO and R2-D2 run into some trouble again before being purchased by their new master in Jann Tosh. A third purchased droid ends up being an amnesiac Tammuz-an who is worth a lot of credits. Packed with a bit too...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Jersey Jason discuss Caddyshack. The Snobs face off against the Slobs to see who reigns supreme on the golf course. Caddyshack is a stone cold comedy classic. Based off the exploits of the Murray brothers working as golf caddies in their youth, this is a National Lampoon movie in all but name with a screenplay by Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenny, and Harold Ramis. K...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Tony Minsent, Eric Windsor, and Sean Franson host a live panel where they rank all 20 Marvel Cinematic Universe films from Iron Man to Ant-Man and the Wasp at Wizard World Portland Comic Con 2019 at the Oregon Convention Center. The audience has tons of thoughts on the topic. Towards the end, we have to cram half the list in under 8 minutes, but manage to reign supreme....

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Jersey Jason discuss Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. The Snowman (Jerry Reed) is now the Bandit (Burt Reynolds) but he still has Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) on his tail.  The trivia behind the scenes of Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 is more interesting than the movie itself. Originally, this movie was shot with the premise that Jackie Gleason played both...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Jersey Jason, William Thrasher (in his first Sequelcast episode) and special guest Will Kiser (Writer for The Super 8 Society ) discuss Smokey and the Bandit II. The Snowman (Jerry Reed) and the Frog (Sally Field) have to sober up the Bandit (Burt Reynolds) to deliver a crate from Miami, Florida to Dallas, Texas. In many ways, this feels like a more family friendly rema...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Jersey Jason discuss Smokey and the Bandit. The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there's beer in Texarkana. The Bandit (Burt Reynolds), the Snowman (Jerry Reed), and the Frog (Sally Field) will get them back no matter what it takes. Director Hal Needham pushes his car crash cinema to the brink in this amiable romantic comedy. Co-star Jerry Reed performed several songs...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss U.S. Marshals, the sequel to The Fugitive. Released 5 years after the original, this spin-off follows U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired to track down yet another fugitive. This time around it's Mark Roberts (Wesley Snipes), a former Special Ops expert with an outstanding warrant for murdering two DSS agents. Helping Gerard...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Jersey Jason discuss Beverly Hills Cop 3. After his superior Inspector Todd (Gil Hill) gets murdered during a sting operation gone wrong, Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) follows the clues to pin down the killer at the Wonderworld amusement park.  A sleepy sequel if ever there was one, Beverly Hills Cop 3 tones down the violence and the comedy. The amusement park satire is...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Fugitive.  Based off the 1960s TV series, The Fugitive follows Dr. Kimble (Harrison Ford) as an escaped convict trying to track down the man who really killed his wife. On his trail is Deputy U.S. Marshal Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones). Solid acting and a smart screenplay from Jeb Stuart (Another 48 Hrs.) and David Twohy (Critters 2: The Main C...

Fresh off a discussion of the first story arc of Star Wars: Droids, hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher take a break and discuss Evil Plans, an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars focusing on R2-D2 and C-3PO. In order to tilt Senator Aang's vote on the Military Support Committee to favor the Republic, Senator Amidala requires fresh Jogan fruit for a cake. R2-D2 and C-3PO are up to...

Host Mat Bradley-Tschirgi discusses Beverly Hills Cop 2. Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) vows to track down the ABC Killer when they try to assassinate his friend Captain Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox). International arms dealing complicates the proceedings. Tony Scott (The Hunger, Top Gun) directs this slick flick resulting in a shinier more "Hollywood" look than the grittiness of the original. The stunts...