Somewhere on the Screen

Well golly it's been fun but all good things come to an end. It's been a great time making this show and I hope you've all had a good time listening. Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.s Our music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

I hope you all enjoyed a fun filled holiday season of mystery and intrigue. We're getting back to more of our usual schedule...sorta. We're doing a condensed first cycle of the new year as we build up to 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. For today's episode we'll be covering...all the other ones? That's 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, and 28 Years Later. It's a packed episode so let's get straight t...

It's time! Let's find out who dunnit with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery! Nick brings his entire Catholic upbringing to analyze the ins and outs of this mystery. Chris rants about an incredibly meta prediction he had early on in the film that may have ruined the entire experience for him. So...it's an episode. Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can f...

We're almost there! Wake Up Deadman: A Knives Out Mystery is almost upon us! Before we dive into the new film we should go back and talk about the origins! Come hear us talk about how these films are phenomenal scams as we break wide open the case of why nobody can ever solve the case ahead of time! Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows...

We're building up to discussing Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and this week Nick's suggested we take a look at Rian Johnson's first film, I think it's the first film(?), Brick . How can I describe Brick? Have you ever thought about being a teenager...but then been like, "Yo...what if everything was black and white and I was a detective and I had to solve a murder and the Vice Principle wa...

We're starting our next cycle with a classic! It's time for Sidney Lumet's classic take on Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express . Chris took a wild guess in trying to find an early version of a detective mystery (definitely not early) which he hoped might inform about Rian Johnson's thoughts on the upcoming Knives Out film (nailed it here). Nick said he'd seen this movie a million times...

We're back with another planning episode! This time around we're going to be looking into one of those awesome murder mysteries with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Man these movies are good! I can't wait to see it. We'll be waiting to discuss it until the film is out on Netflix on December 12th so we'll have some time to get prepped. Listen in for more about why we're picking them but for...

It's out and we've watched it! Netflix has finally launched our long awaited Frankenstein film, directed by Guillermo del Toro so we're gonna talk about it! With out this week is a special guest! We're joined by film maker Eriq Ortiz, noted fan of the director and our "person who actually did the homework" by reading the book. He's an amazing addition for this episode as we look at the beautiful t...

We're talking about the original Frankenstein this week! del Toro has been out talking about this was his big inspiration for...everything! With this, at the very least, being the inspiration for his new Frankenstein movie we figured we'd take a look and see what all the hub bub was about. Oh! Also...Chris is tired of spooky crap so he demanded we watch Young Frankenstein. Funny! Comedy! Happiness...

This week we're taking a deep dive into Nick's childhood with a viewing of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! This is a film Nick saw on TNT when he was young that stuck with him and was clearly formative in his views on monster movies and horror. Will it hold up? More importantly, what does it tell us about cinema views the pitfalls of literary horror? Also...did Chris watch this thing? I'm not sure he...

It's on to our first episode for Cycle 3! As we build up to discussing Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Frankenstien we thought we'd discuss his previous monster movie... The Shape of Water . I'm not even going to hide my enthusiasm for this film -- it's great. We both thought so. But why? Find out on this week's episode! Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can...

We're back with a planning episode! If you've never heard one of these before, we've always gated this behind the paywall of our Patreon (patreon.com/somewhereonthescreen) but with our new plans moving forward, these will be up for everyone! Hooray! On this bonus episode we talk about the new cycle and what we're going to cover with a bit of "why" involved. If you're one of those "I don't know wan...

Hey! We finally figured it out! Thank you so much for bearing with us as we worked to figure out exactly how we wanted to move forward and whether we wanted to move forward. Having Joe leave us was sad...wait, like "leave us" as in the show -- he's still alive. We talk. He just isn't recording at 1am with us any more. Point is, it was sad but we've found a way I think we can still continue and mak...

As we continue to discuss how to proceed, we wanted to take a moment to discuss a documentary that has sprung out of nowhere to take us into the shocking world of...BIRD WATCHING!!! We decided to talk about a new, documentary that's been making it's way across the internet called Listers . Is a facinating film about two brothers who, stoned out of their mind one day, decide to take up bird watchin...

Oof...y'all. It's been a week. First and foremost, we want to apologize for the brevity of this capstone episode for our Toxic Avenger cycle. If you've been with us through all of this, you've put a lot of time into waiting for our thoughts on this episode and we're coming up short for you. Between some technical issues and emotional issues stemming from the news at the top of the episode, it was...

Grab your notebook and a writing utensil, we're going back to school as it's a Chris episode this week! Chris is taking us through what many people likely think of when hearing about the toxic avenger...the Toxic Crusaders! If you don't know about the Toxic Cursaders, it's an early-90's children's cartoon about the Toxic Avenger. How does it play into the upcoming release of Toxic Avenger (2023)?...

Are you ready for a hideously deformed monster of superhuman size and strength! Well have I got good news for you! This week we're discussing The Toxic Avenger (1984) to see the origins of our choice for our second cycle! As we build toward the release of The Toxic Avenger (2023...yes, that's correct) we wanted to see where the series began and boy oh boy did we. This...this is a movie. Yup. It's...

And we're back at it! For our second cycle we're going to be prepping for upcoming release of The Toxic Avenger! It's a remake of the 1980's cult classic of the same name about -- and stop me if you've heard this before -- gets super-powers from toxic waste. I think? I haven't seen it yet. You'd think that maybe we'd start with the orignal film but what fun is that? Instead we're starting with......

Due to some personal things going on behind the scenes we weren't able to record our episode for this week. We're recording it tonight though and so we'll be back on track for our next episode! In the meantime, we thought we'd share a fun episode we did for our patrons! One of our Patreon tiers offers patrons the chance to choose a show for us to cover each cycle. During our first cycle they chose...

It's finally here! Superman has been released in theaters, we've studied, prepared, and watched the film while a bunch of teenagers kicked the back of our chairs! We are officially ready to discuss the official beginning of the DCCU! We open this week's discussion with a brief (20ish minute) spoiler-free discussion of our thoughts on the film so if you haven't seen it yet and are simply looking to...

Hey! It's a bonus episode! Sorta? Okay...it's a bonus regular episode! So somewhere along the line we realized our schedule meant we needed an extra episode before Superman (2025) comes out. After some discussion (and by that I mean Nick giving us a dissertation on James Gunn's influences for the upcoming film) we decided to watch All-Star Superman, the animated film based on the comic book of the...

As we continue to build up to the big release for James Gunn's Superman (2025) in July, we're talking about Superman (1978) in this episode! It's the gold standard of what a Superman film has been held against for decades. Between Christopher Reeves's iconic performance, John Williams's memorable score, and Margot Kidder's constant screaming this is the film James Gunn is trying to live up to...bu...

It's Nick's turn to choose our film for the cycle and he's going with Brightburn, James Gunn's original attempt at Superman through the lens of a horror film. Only...it's not James Gunn's attempt at Superman because he didn't direct it, only produced it...but it's still his? I don't know. It's all very confusing. Nick tries to explain his thoughts but mostly the guys just B.S. about the film. Some...

We're back with a bonus episode! Last week we launched the show with a live Bonus episode feature the godfather of the Somewhere Podcast Universe (SPU) himself, Ryan Sprague, where we discussed Andor! Usually, these bonus episodes will release exclusively on our Patreon member feed (Patreon.com/Somewhereonthescreen) but we wanted to celebrate the launch of the show by releasing this first special...

It's our first episode! Somewhere on the Screen is the latest podcast by friends and performing art people Joseph Reese, Nick Westemeyer, and Chris Moss where they'll take a deep dive into upcoming new releases in film and television with a two-month cycle examining the context of film's arrival. Every two-month cycle they'll take a deep dive into various works they think will be vital to understa...