Small Screeners

We missed Halloween, but we’re still spotlighting ol’ Scratch with a look at the 1973 made-for-TV movie Satan’s School For Girls! AJ & Chris break it down before dishing their Top 3 Satanic Panic flicks (22:30), and discussing some recent watches like Azrael, Fight or Flight, Witness, and Deadwood: The Movie (31:30)!

AJ & Chris are looking at a two Michael Jai White flicks this month with the 2009 martial arts thriller Blood & Bone, and the 2024 Tubi original action/comedy Don’t Mess With Grandma (27:50)! They also reveal their Top 3 movie fights (43:45), and talk up some recent watches (54:13), including The Monkey, She Rides Shotgun, Superman, and Fantastic Four: First Steps!

AJ & Chris are back in Direct-To-DVD action with this look at Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning! Plus they discuss their top 3 flicks from the first half of 2025 (35:19), and some recent watches (45:33)!

AJ & Chris are talking the year 1999 in film on this bonus episode, and reveal their top 10 from that pivotal year!

AJ & Chris welcome Sean back for a discussion on the 1998 rock and roll action oddity Six-String Samurai! The fellas chop up Lance Mungia and Jeffery Falcon’s low budget flick, before dishing their Top 3 Vegas movies, and choosing between some mid-90’s Nic Cage actioners (32:57)!

(This episode was originally released on the “Because Movies” podcast feed.) To celebrate Halloween this year, AJ & Chris decided to go big by putting together the inaugural class of the Because Movies Horror Hall of Fame! They couldn’t do it alone, so they welcome horror aficionado Lando in to help put it together. Each of them nominate 10 films, 5 Directors, 5 Actors, and 5 Actresses before coll...

For our annual spooky season episode, AJ & Chris welcome fellow horror fanatic Lando for a discussion on Direct-To-Video flick The Boneyard ! Inspired by Phylis Diller’s Boneyard role, they also dish their Top 3 surprise horror performances, before turning their attention to recent watches Salem’s Lot, Strange Darling, and V/H/S/Beyond (31:26)!

On this bonus episode AJ & Chris are looking at Jeremy Saulnier’s new Netflix action movie Rebel Ridge, starring Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, and Annasophia Robb. Also discussed: Bikeriders, Longlegs, The Killer, Speak No Evil, Hellhole, and more!

AJ & Chris are joined by fellow movie fanatic Sean for a look at the Showtime flick Fear! Written and directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon, this thriller stars Ally Sheedy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Lauren Hutton and Stan Shaw! They also give their Top 3 flicks of 1990 (29:08), and discuss some recent watches, including Brats, The Fall Guy, and American Movie (51:10)!

AJ & Chris are back on the road with Steven Spielberg's directorial debut, the made-for-TV road rage classic, Duel! They also discuss their Top 3 Spielberg movies (28:25), Spielberg's post-2000 run (41:30), and some recent watches, including Megan, Boy Kills World, & Six-String Samurai (48:41)!

AJ & Chris are once again looking at a Dolph Lundgren actioner, this time it’s the 1994 flick Men of War! Also starring BD Wong, Charlotte Lewis, “Tiny” Lister, and Catherine Bell, among others. They also discuss their Top 3 movies from 1994 (34:10), and several recent watches, including American Fiction, Love Lies Bleeding, Alien: Covenant, & Late Night With The Devil (51:00)!

AJ & Chris are finally back with a look at John Carpenter’s first collaboration with Kurt Russell, the 1979 ABC biopic Elvis! They also discuss their Top 3 Kurt Russell performances (1:06:03), and recent watches Thanksgiving, The Marvels, Hannibal, and The Corrupter (1:25:02)!

AJ & Chris are taking flight to chat The Night Flier, starring Miguel Ferrer, directed by Mark Pavia, and based on a short story by Stephen King! They also reveal their Top 3 cinematic vampires (38:41) and discuss some recent watches, including Enemy Mine, Bottoms, Miguel Wants To Fight, and more (48:40)!

AJ & Chris put a cap on 2023 with their respective Top 10 Movies of the Year, and also talk on some of their other pop culture favorites and hot topics from last year. “Super Hero Fatigue”? (18:06) Streaming Vs. Theater (25:47) Movies 10-6 (37:53) 2023 TV (1:05:10) 2023 Music (1:11:46) 2023 Books (1:19:12) 2023 Podcasts (1:24:59) Movies 5-1 (1:32:20)

AJ & Chris are looking at the HBO original flick The Late Shift, starring Daniel Roebuck, John Michael Higgins, & Kathy Bates, based on Bill Carter’s book chronicling the contentious succession of The Tonight Show following Johnny Carson’s retirement in 1992! They also dish their Top 3 Kathy Bates performances (48:09), and chat on some recent watches, including The Holdovers, Wes Craven’s New Nigh...

AJ & Chris close out season 2 of Small Screeners with a look at a very early Marvel Comics adaptation in The Punisher, starring Dolph Lundgren & Louis Gossett Jr.! They then rank the live-action Punisher’s to date (30:14), before talking about some recent watches including Suitable Flesh, Cobweb, No One Will Save You, Witness, Drug War, and more (45:53)!

AJ & Chris take a look at the 1994 Made-For-TV crime-thriller Night of the Running Man, starring Scott Glenn and Andrew McCarthy! They also pick their Top 3 Mark A. Lester flicks (25:30), before discussing some recent watches like Blood In Blood Out, Marty, The Marvels, Thanksgiving, & Invincible (41:52). They finish things off with a chat about the new Mike Flanagan horror series, The Fall of the...

AJ & Chris celebrate Halloween a little late this year with this look at 5 classic Horror Anthology flicks! First they discuss some movies that didn’t make the cut, before shifting to Tales From The Crypt (22:05), Creepshow (42:48), Body Bags (1:20:14), Trick R’ Treat (1:54:50), and V/H/S 2 (2:17:26)! Spoilers galore in this one folks, so use those time stamps as needed…

AJ & Chris celebrate Horror Movie Month with the Direct-To-Video sequels from Don Coscarelli’s classic Phantasm series! They also rank the Phantasm flicks (1:11:21), and chat about several recent watches, including The Faculty, Fear Is The Key, The Pope’s Exorcist, The Sacrament, and more (1:26:38)!

AJ & Chris are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ultimate Slasher Showdown in Freddy Vs. Jason with a running audio commentary track! After a quick intro the commentary starts up at the (1:57) mark!

AJ and Chris are joined by Jesse Starcher for Part Two of this special comic book crossover! Chris and Jesse have already discussed Darwyn Cooke’s epic graphic novel DC: The New Frontier on The Source Material Comics Podcast, and now AJ joins the fray as they chat about the animated adaptation in the form of Justice League: The New Frontier! Also discussed: Top 3 Live Action DC flicks (52:20), and...

AJ & Chris are talking brutal action this time around with a look at The Tournament, starring Kelly Hu, Robert Carlyle, and Ving Rhames! They also discuss their Top 3 Ving Rhames performances (40:15), and finish up with some recent watches including Mad Love, Freebie and the Bean, & Regarding Henry, among others (48:15)!

AJ & Chris saddle up for a talk about the John Carpenter scripted Western/Comedy El Diablo, starring Anthony Edwards and Louis Gossett Jr.! Then they throw some praise on the films of 25 years back with their Top 3 movies from 1998 (41:40), and discuss some recent watches, including the most recent MCU flicks, They Cloned Tyrone, The Arrival, Insidious: The Red Door, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Mission I...

AJ & Chris talk all things Indiana Jones with a review of Dial Of Destiny, their Top 3 Indy allies, their Top 3 Indy villains, and their rankings of all 5 movies in the classic franchise!

No AJ this time, but Chris welcomes his friends Bill & David for a talk about their trip to this years Chattanooga Film Festival! They took in several flicks, a few special presentations, and even visited a haunted hotel room!