The Butcher Shop

Iris and Gary are back with the beef and we’re headed into your frontal lobes for two films where people literally get into each others heads. Subconsciously of course. We cover 1984’s Dreamscape featuring Dennis Quaid, Max Von Sydow and Christopher Plummer. We chase that with J-Lo invading the mind of a tortured killer in The Cell from 2000. The audio is a little wonky on this so bear with us. Ke...

Gary and Suzanne are blessed to be joined by special guests Cort Psyops, Derek Bourgeois, Ricky Morgan and Jeffery Martin to close out the last show of the our trio of shows celebrating our 9th year of podcasting. Join us for the last two Christopher Guest reviews, a crippled theater featuring a lame robot and gang violence and X’s and my evaluation of flawed men and the folly of early 90s alt ban...

The boys are back to liven up your weekend when we travel to Mills Basin with the Black Roses. When a small town is graced with the presence of an up and coming band, all the kids in town start to get horny and a little big homicidal. They are under the influence of rock and roll and some gnarly demons. It’s up to one teacher to save the kids with some poetry, sweater logic and good old fashioned...

Lee Russell is back on the beef to bring you our long awaited and half-assed attempt to follow-up our tribute to fine character actor Michael J. Pollard.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The two drink crew is back from a long hiatus with one we recorded a while ago. This one is hard to explain. Watch it for psychics, telekinetic tykes, wild birds, space Jesus and more! You get all this and more with The Visitor. Watch along with us and maybe you can tell us what the plot is. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The beef crew is back and it’s gonna get uncomfortable. We are covering two films where ghosts do unsavory things to women with The Legend of Hell House and The Entity. We are glad to be back for sure. Thanks for your support.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Torchy’s boys are back and they are hitting Chicago but doing it the Solviet way. We join Arnold Schwarzenegger who is thrust from his homeland and into the windy city to get the psycho who killed his partner and is threatening to take his drug ring to both shores. Did I mention he has to team up with a meatball Chicago cop played by Jim Belushi. Join us as we discuss this delightful culture c...

Cinema Beef is back to give you a morsel of the chicken persuasion. Cameron and Gary discuss Monte Hellman’s controversial tale of one man’s passion for the fowl in Cockfighter from 1974. Warren Oates stars as Frank who is a mute who’s only motivation is his next hustle and this brutal sport that pits rooster vs. rooster. We will discuss this great character study with an unfortunate penchant for...

The Torchy’s boys are going south of the border to find a good woman and possibly walk away rich. In this edition, Nick Nolte plays a Texas Ranger torn between the woman he loves and a ruthless drug dealer and old friend who has eyes for her as well. In the meantime, a group of mercenaries are after the drug loot and possibly saving American freedoms. Maybe. This has a stacked cast that also inclu...

The boys are back and we are traveling with just our suitcases and guitars to learn some Delta blues the hard way. When bright eyed musician Eugene Martone gets the hankering for looking for last tune of Robert Johnson, he enlists an aging blues man and they hit the road to find it. Lessons are learned and motives are shown that have connections to old scratch himself. Ralph Macchio, Jon Seneca an...

It’s Kyle’s pick this time around and he picked a real winner. Just think if you took the movie within a movie in Demons and mixed it with The Goonies. That’s Lamberto Bava’s Graveyard Disturbance in a nutshell. Join these crazy kids as they search for hidden treasure whilst meeting all kinds of wild beings along the way. Watch with us with the link provided. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Beefaverasry is back with 3 reviews that include two more entries in the Christopher Guest universe. We are joined by special guests Mr. Venom and Bo Ransdell for Best in Show and Smokeshow Scott Crawford joins us for A Mighty Wind. Also, look for a new Crippled Theater featuring Ricky Morgan and Mr. No Legs.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Two Drink crew round on back to the planet Gor for a second time to talk through Outlaw Of Gor from 1987. When our hero is summoned back to Gor, his unassuming friend and him are framed for murder and this only leads them on uneventful adventures. It is fortified with at least 40 percent Jack Palance so there’s that. Join us next time for the Hong Kong robocop rip off Robotrix. ★ Support this...

With a cast of many, we celebrate the 8th year of the Beef with extra large helpings of Christopher Guest and some tasty extras. Part one includes guests Mr. Venom, Jeffrey X Martin and Ricky Morgan.   https://youtu.be/-PhvpGuycaE   https://youtu.be/doMVmLpbJec  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Torchy’s boys fall into some money and tackle this Richard Pryor jam. The skinny is a minor league pitcher falls into a bunch of money but there is a catch involved. He has to spend it all in 30 days with nothing left. John Candy, Pat Hingle and a whole slew of faces you know show up in this. Up next, we go on the road with Lightning Boy with Crossroads.  cast series Cinema Beef and Last Call...

The return of Two Drink brings you a tale of high adventure. Well. Less adventure with more hairy men. When a college professor gets ahold of an artifact, it transports him to the planet Gor. A land where shoulder pads are everywhere and the headgear is bonkers. The prof is tasked to become one of the brave warriors so they can recover a glowing rock that was stolen by Ollie Reed and his crew. Gen...

Last Call At Torchy’s #7 : Streets Of Fire The Torchy’s boys are back to discuss a favorite of Gary’s but a first time watch for one of us with the motor-driven, leather clad, two-fisted rock and roll fable from Streets Of Fire from 1984. This tells the tale of Tom Cody (Michael Pare) who is an ex-soldier who is called back home to rescue his ex-girlfriend (Diane Lane) when she is kidnapped by The...

Welcome to the world of Yor. Where massive lizards bite, the men are extra hairy and laser blasts are a thing because aliens………This is just the thing to bring Two Drink back to form. Gary is joined by Cameron Scott and Willis Wheeler to watch Reb Brown slay beasts and neanderthals alike in this strange but enjoyable epic. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We are a literal chain of fools on the latest edition. Iris and Gary are joined by Jerry Cortez aka Mr. Venom to discuss two films where prisoners are on the run and chained together. When two inmates escape from a prison transport, they are forced to fight opposition and their own racial tensions. Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis star in The Defiant Ones. Then, Pam Grier and Margaret Markov make a...

The Torchy’s boys head to California for this installment when we cover the flick that boomed the buddy cop genre into high gear with 48 Hours. Nick Nolte is a hard nosed cop who’s dealing with two escaped baddies. He needs the help of Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) to find these cop killers and have some animosity and laughs along the way. This film brings back Walter Hill alums James Remar, Sonny...

Gary and special guests Lee Russell, Leah Hardy and Cameron Scott discuss two homage films…..call em ripoffs of the most popular possesion film that most people love but a majority of the panel hates. They are aping The Exorcist as we cover Abby and Beyond The Door both from the great year of 1974.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Beefers are back and are gonna make a withdrawal from the bank of paranoia and deception with these two features. Iris and Gary are joined by Mike White of The Projection Booth to discuss two films about finding large sums of dirty money and the consequences of taking it. In A Simple Plan, two brothers and their buddy find a duffle bag full of loot whilst on a hunt. Mistrust, desperation and d...

Join Gary and Iris for some stale nog or possibly an Irish coffee while we discuss two films in which two delinquents become unlikely stars in their respective or disrespectful forms of media only to fall from mediocrity.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Change out of your civies and load up your blanks. The Torchy’s boys are hitting the swamps of Louisiana with Jamie Sammons of Horror In The House Of Sammons to discuss Southern Comfort from 1981. When a group of National Guardsmen go on some tactical maneuvers in the backwoods of Louisiana, they start to mess with the natural order of things and piss off some locals. They start getting picked off...

We are back in the fires of the boiler room once again with two installments of this hit anthology series. In Missing Persons, a girl with a heavy past is forced to babysit two brats while fighting the urge to eat everything in the house including the brats. This leads to a story about the brats’ father wanting a brand new life following an auto wreck. In The Light At The End Of The Tunnel, a lose...