The Beer & B Movies Podcast

Episode 104 comes out this Saturday, and it's a special one. I want to celebrate the great B-Movie actor Tom Atkins, and I'm pairing it with River to River German Pilsner, provided by my friends at @singlespeedbrewingco. Tom has had a singularly wonderful career, and had been a big part of my movie viewing life, from The Fog, to Creepshow, Escape From New York, and all time classic Night of the Cr...

Episode 103: The Big Heat, with Ruekeller Helles, provided by Placentia's The Bruery. This is one tight, vicious little picture about a good cop pushed to the edge when gangsters blow up his life. Big thanks to The Bruery for giving me their Helles, a light, full flavored beer that pairs great with this intense, fantastic picture starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin.🍻

Episode 102 drops today, and it's a blast. Repo Man, with Shivaya Dry Hopped wild ale, from @cellador_ales . Emilio Estevez gives one of my favorite performances as Otto, a nihilistic punk in mid 80s Los Angeles, who gets tangled up with salty repo man Bud, played by legend Harry Dean Stanton. Oh, and there's a '64 Chevy Malibu with highly radioactive aliens in the trunk. And one of the best sound...

  Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, with R&D Vintage 2023, from New Glarus Brewing . Guest host Jane picked this 1982 picture starring Diane Lane as a young woman dealt a series of devastating, life altering blows in a short amount of time. She takes her sister and cousin on the road with a couple bands and creates a movement. There's some great music from punk legends, who also play...

Beer and B-Movies reaches its 100th episode. I'll be covering a number of topics from the first 99 episodes, from favorite movies to forgettable, awful, and dumb movies. But I have to shout out all the breweries that have contributed their products to episodes. And for this one, I have the Big Chef, a barrel aged Barleywine, provided by the great folks at Court Avenue Brewing. Thank you for the su...

Sam Raimi detonated onto the horror scene in 1981 with this grueling, wild picture, starring the man himself, Bruce Campbell. The premise is simple: five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods to "party down," and happen upon the Necronomicon and a tape recorder. They unwittingly call forth all sorts of nastiness, and all hell breaks loose, literally. It's independent filmmaking at its finest....

Prophecy, John Frankenheimer's 1979 eco-horror about pollution from a logging company in Maine creating mutant plant and wildlife, and an ornery EPA doctor investigating. There's a giant, lumbering mutant bear named Katahdin causing all sorts of trouble, and unintentional comedy. I paired it with Czech Dark Dark Lager, provided by the wonderful people at @fielddaybeer. It's a smooth, roasty, easy...

The Beer & B-Movies Podcast returns with 1991's I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, and four beers generously provided by my good friends at @threeweavers . This British comedy horror picture was picked by guest host Jon, and it's something else. A satanic cult is ambushed by some cross bow toting bikers, and in the ensuing melee a motorcycle is possessed by a vampiric demon. Say no more, I'm in. T...

In celebration of the season we're covering Bob Clark's 1974  #slasher  Black Christmas. Before Halloween, this terrifying picture laid out the blueprint for the modern slasher (if slasher movies are your bag, check out episode 34 of our podcast, a slasher special). A sick, sick individual is prank calling a sorority, and murdering the inhabitants. It's atmospheric, with a bit of dark humor, and s...

Episode 95 wraps up  #noirvember . The Big Combo, paired up with Radiant Beauty West Coast IPA, which was given to us by the wonderful people at  @greencheekbeer . Joseph Lewis directed this gritty picture, with legendary Cinematographer John Alton providing some classic  #filmnoir  shots. But is it a pure film noir? That's debatable, and debate we do. The new episode drops this Saturday, so mark...

We're starting  #noirvember  with episode 94, The Shanghai Gesture, Josef Von Sternberg's dreamlike tale of revenge from 1941. Known for its fantastic costumes, camerawork and performances, this was Sternberg's last directing job for a decade, until he made Macao (covered in episode 53). What are we pairing it with? East L.A. IPA, a crisp, sharp, pine laden  #ipa  given to us by the good people of...

Episode 93 is a special episode to close our a special month. We're chatting all about Possession Movies! From The Exorcist to Christine, to all sorts of other types of possessions, it's a circuitous conversation, and we have a great beer for the episode. Vice Black Currant Berliner Weisse, from the generous folks at  @wildbarrelbrewing . Thanks for listening! Check out our  website SUBSCRIBE: to...

This Saturday! 1965's Die, Monster, Die!, with The Fog Knows Your Name Hazy IPA, given to us by Placentia's @junipermorganbrewing. Another adaptation of The Colour Out of Space, this finds Boris Karloff as the loony patriarch of a family cursed by a stone from outer space. The setting is changed from New England to England, and they slip a love interest in there, because that's what they do. The f...

The People Who Own the Dark, with Tip the Cow Cocoa Espresso Stout from  @singlespeedbrewingco . Episode 90s picture starts like it's going to be some Pier Paolo Pasolini picture. Various government agents, scientists and an adventurer and drug smuggler (played by Paul Naschy). They love their pleasures extreme, and use the Marquis de Sade as their guide. The disturbing masks are never fully expla...

The Killing, Stanley Kubrick's tight, amazing film noir, is paired with beer the great folks at  @hopsaintbrewingco  gave us. Sterling Hayden plays Johnny Clay, fresh out of a five year stay in prison, and he's planning a new caper. Robbing a horse track of 2 million bucks. This picture set a new standard for crime movies that resonates today. To pair with it, we have four different, and delicious...

Episode 88 is a special one, folks. Escape From New York, with Rye So Dark Black IPA, kindly provided by  @naughtypinebrewing . It's 1997, and due to an increase in crime, Manhattan has been walled off and turned into the country's largest prison. The president's plane has been hijacked and crashed into the prison. There's only one man who can get him out: Snake Plissken. This one's bad ass all ar...

This Saturday is episode 87, The Caller, with Double Hopnosis Imperial IPA the good people at  @firestonewalker_propagator  provided. This Charles Band production sports a cast of two. No extras, nothing, just two people. It's a quirky little picture that's part murder mystery, part scifi. There's nothing quirky about the beer, though, it's straight ahead fruity deliciousness. We have Malcolm Mcdo...

Episode 86 is a doozy, folks. This Saturday it's Hard Ticket to Hawaii, with Blonde Fatale Belgian Style Blonde Ale kindly provided by the good people of  @peacetreebrewing . Director Andy Sidaris was a B-Movie kingpin from the mid 80s to late 90s, with a stock company of actors pulled from Playboy and Penthouse. He also liked guns and ridiculous deaths. We chose what many consider his finest work...

This Saturday it's 1954's Johnny Guitar, with three beers from  @bhbc , procured by Jayson's dad. Joan Crawford is Vienna, a tough business woman with some advance knowledge about the railroad, so she sets up a casino in anticipation of cashing in in a year. Only problem is, the local ranchers, lead by Emma Small, don't want her kind around. It's a classic western trope, with one important differe...

The Living Skeleton, comes out this Saturday. This Japanese tokusatsu horror picture is a true mystery to us. Pirates slaughter an entire ship of passengers for gold, only to be hunted down by a ghost three years later. Or is it a ghost? The twin sister of one of the victims might be the killer, but is she even alive? There's a real dreamlike quality to this one that draws you in, and we're thrill...

It's summer, so for episode 83 we're going with 1963s Beach Party, with Suburban Foam Blonde Ale, a unique collaboration between  @hermosabrewingco  and  @descendents . When summer break arrives, Frankie and Dee Dee head to the beach for sun, surfing and, in Frankie's case, a little something more. What they and their friends don't know is Professor Sutwell, an anthropologist, is spying on them. T...

 Let's Scare Jessica to Death, paired with Bohemian Rapids Czech Pilsner, which the good people at @iowabrewingco gave us. A dreamlike horror tale from 1971, this picture is about a woman, recently hospitalized for an unexplained mental situation, who moves to a country farm with her husband and their friend. They encounter a free spirited hippie who may not be what she pretends to be. He'll, ther...

Episode 81 is stealthily creeping up on us. This Saturday, we're bringing the 1980s ninja sub genre to the podcast, with 1981s Enter the Ninja, paired up with Mediator Doppelbock, which the good people at @heaterallenbeer were kind enough to provide. Franco Nero stars as Cole, a white dude trained in the arts of the ninja, who helps his friends defend their farm from some bad dudes. Don't let the...

This Saturday we're returning to the world of Lovecraft in episode 80, The Curse. Based on the classic story The Colour Out of Space, this picture tells the tale of a struggling family farm that is rocked when a strange object from space lands in a field one night. What at first seems like a godsend quickly turns into a living nightmare. To pair with this, we found Look Into the Air Hazy Pale Ale...

Folks, episode 79 comes out this Saturday! 1983s Deathstalker, with Candor Pastry Stout, generously provided by @courtavebrew. Check out Boris Vallejo's cover art. It's so cool. Back in the 80s, pre internet, this was click bait. You saw this at the video rental store and thought, Wow, this must be awesome. Then you rent it, watch it, and that scene never happens. This Conan wannabe built a follow...