THE BIG 4-0

This week THE HUNGER, Tony Scott's debut film about erotic vampire types starring a young Susan Sarandon, and VALLEY GIRL about (semi)erotic valley girls staring a young Nic Cage, celebrate their BIG 4-0's. Listen to see how we felt about these, er, "classics", 40 years later; and please remember to subscribe, like, rate, tell your friends, shout from the mountain tops, etc. Next...

This week on THE BIG 4-0 we're taking a look at two 1983 classics; one a bonafide (THE EVIL DEAD), one a surprise (LONE WOLF McQUADE), both awesome! And we welcome our second guest to the podcast; our good buddy Romero, who absolutely kills it and gives us our longest episode yet. Recording this one was a blast! Unfortunately, Romero's audio dropped out, unbeknownst to any of us at the tim...

This week we're doing a theme episode. That theme: Drunken, washed-up, underestimated, expendable cops getting a witness from one destination to another while under siege by crooked cops in their own force. Clint Eastwood has to get Sandra Locke from Las Vegas to a Phoenix courthouse past THE GAUNTLET of the entire Phoenix PD, and Bruce Willis has to get Mos Def through 16 BLOCKS in NYC to tes...

THIS WEEK we wish a happy BIG 4-0 to Sean Penn in BAD BOYS and the all-star, Tiger Beat-Heartthrob cast of THE OUTSIDERS. Ron gets on his soap box about the prison system and Peter reveals his love for Matt Dylan and crying during movies... So, yeah, don't forget to rate and subscribe! In two weeks, we'll be back with a bonus, theme episode on THE GAUNTLET (1977) and 16 BLOCKS (2006), and...

This week Peter joins us from somewhere in the fourth dimension...  Just kidding; he has a weird echo effect on his mic that wasn't present during recording, and we could not fix in editing despite calling in tech-support for help (hence the delay in getting this episode out).  BUT because we're talking about the Charles Bronson/Golan-Globus March of 1983 banger 10 TO MIDNIGHT, as well a...

This week on THE BIG 4-0 we talk THE STING II and THE KING OF COMEDY, both released this week, 40 years ago. We're trying out a new hosting service so please bear with any audio issues... we'll get there.  Please remember to rate, like, subscribe, etc.  Next time we'll be back with 10 TO MIDNIGHT and LAST MAN STANDING (1996 - yeah, yeah; not 40 years old, but someone here has never seen...

Here's another BONUS EPISODE recorded on Halloween of 2022, before we started posting shows.  We're way more muted and professional on this one (the probable reason why is revealed towards the end of the episode) looking at the surprising box office smash and cultural phenomenon, TOOTSIE; and the surprising box office failure and inability to capture the cultural zeitgeist (especially looking...

This week we wish a happy BIG 4-0 to David Cronenberg's February 1983 mindfuck, VIDEODROME, as we dig deep into it('s stomach) and welcome our first guest, our movie-buff buddy Casey, to help us unpack it all. As always please like, rate, subscribe, review, etc...  We'll post a bonus episode next week and return the following week with THE KING OF COMEDY.   

Happy Weekend, Everybody! To celebrate the beginning of a couple days of movie watching and throwing a few back, here's another one of our earlier episodes we recorded while we were still getting the hang of this whole podcasting thing.  I relentlessly step on poor Peter, and it's another one where I get, shall we say, looser as the episode goes along; but since we discussed THE HOUSE ON SORO...

And we were doing so well up to this point... This week we spiral completely out of control reviewing THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW, THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, and once again also dipping our feet into the '90s with the Sylvester Stallone/Sharon Stone/James Woods/Eric Roberts/Rod Steiger "bomb", THE SPECIALIST.  We had a "blast" doing this episode, but things got so goofy we had to chop out...

We recorded this one in September 2022 while we were still figuring out how to do this whole podcast thing (apologies for the sound quality!); but since we discussed JOYSTICKS on this past week's episode, and we couldn't review that film without touching on its obvious inspiration - the surprise mega-hit from the previous year, PORKY'S - we decided this was as good a time as any to unleash one of...

Happy New Year to all you 40 HEADS out there!!!  It is now 2023, which means it's 1983 here on THE BIG 4-0.  We ring in the new year with the college video game/sex romp, JOYSTICKS.  We also discover that Peter has never seen the 1995 Sylvester Stallone/Antonio Bandaras/Richard Donner/Joel Silver hidden gem, ASSASSINS; so, we discuss this underrated thriller as well.  Please re...

This week on THE BIG 4-0, it's our flagship episode!!!  We take a look at two movies that opened over the holiday season, 40 years ago this week in 1982:  Paul Newman in Sidney Lumet's "The Verdict" and Clint Eastwood in, well, Clint Eastwood's "Honkytonk Man".  Peter and I each also countdown our Top-10 Favorite ("Favorite", not "Best") Christmas Movies of All-Time.  This is a...

Listen to a preview of THE BIG 4-0, a new movie podcast in which two life-long friends and movie buffs take a look at a new movie every week that came out this same week, 40 years ago!