The Cinema Craptaculus Podcast Network

It’s BABE, KIDNAPPED IN THE CITY with Nicholas Cage – Adam, Dave and Tara are talking about PIG! Here’s how IMDB describes the movie A truffle hunter (Nicholas Cage) who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. Joining him on this journey is Amir (Alex Wolff) an up and coming Truffle Supplier trying to...

DOUG McDONALD From the podcast MY VIEWS ARE MY OWN, joins the Reel Debate for one of the most important topics of the New Year! Who was the 80’s action hero GOAT! Stallone! Schwarzenegger! Doug deems Arnold the biggest, baddest action star of all time! Adam doesn’t pull in punches as he defends Sly as the one and true action hero of the 80’s! JDH moderates and Tara and Dave sit in the judges’ seat...

It’s the most Cratpaculus time of the year! Join the whole Cinema Craptaculus Crew with Dave, John, Tara, Adam, Doc, Smoore JDH and special call-ins from Stephanie as they look at the Craptaculus year and a peek into what’s coming next year. It’s the Holiday Craptacular!! Intro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://cre...

It's a Classic Craptaculus! A Christmas Horror Story! ‘Tis the season to jingle your jangle as the Cinema Craptaculus Crew decks the halls with four twisted tales of merry morality in A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY! Intro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Follow us on: Instagram - @Ci...

Santa has come early this year and he’s gotta sack full of mayhem for a small town called Hell – It’s SANTA’S SLAY! Here’s how IMDB describes the movie: It’s Christmas Eve – 2005 and Santa Claus (Bill Goldberg) arrives in to a small town aptly named Hell to check on the naughty and the nice. A deli working teenager Nicholas Yuleson (Douglas Smith) finds that his grandfather (Robert Culp) is actual...

It's a Classic Craptaculus! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! You think you know the story from the song, but you really don’t. Bullied and ostracized by his reindeer brethren, Rudolph meets up with Hermey one of Santa’s Elves and a wannabe dentist, who was bullied and ostracized by the other elves. Fed up with North Pole politics, they run away to find a happier life as misfits. Instead they find t...

Happy Holidays and the only way to celebrate on the Reel Debate is to decide is NATIONAL LAMPOONS CHRISTMAS VACATION the best Christmas movie ever?!? Tara says, “Ho-Ho-hells YES!” But Dave says, “Bah! Humbug!” JDH moderates and Adam judges in this instant holiday classic – IS NATIONAL LAMPOONS’ CHRISTMAS VACATION THE BEST XMAS MOVIE EVER? Join the debate and let us know what you think! The Reel De...

Who’s the biggest bully? The scariest slasher? Or just the evilest of evil? Find out in Part Two of the great bad buy roundup, as the geeks vote on the BEST FILM VILLAIN OF ALL TIME and decide who takes, or rather, steals the crown. The Expanded Universe debates Scum and Villainy: The Best Film Villains! iTunes https://apple.co/34WS22m Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6JkObSg6o3RdKcSmJ5zeZ3?s...

Film villains! We love to hate them and yeah, maybe we just plain love them a little too much. John, Doc, and Smoore take a whack at mining the best of film villainy as they debate and vote on categories including The Henchman, The Beast, The Mastermind and many other favorites. Do your favorite villains make ‘the cut’? Find out as Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe “Scum and Villa...

It’s Tara vs. Adam as they magically take on the fairytale classic told two ways, it’s Beauty and the Beast – The Animated One versus the Live Action One! The knives have come out (and come to life) as they’ve declared their sides! JDH Moderates as Dave is their guest judge for this Disney-fied REEL DEBATE. The Reel Debate Theme composed and performed by Gregory Bromfield Follow us on Twitter @Cra...

Stephanie welcomes TV writers Nikita Hamilton and Amy-Jo Perry into the Terror Tunnel to riff on the most unforgettable (and unforgivable) rapper roles in horror movies of the Nineties and the Naughties! This month we’re supporting The Black Fairy Godmother Foundation whose mission is to restore Black and Brown families' stability by removing the barriers that keep them in abject poverty and domes...

Michael Myers is back and he’s killing his way through town to get to his favorite view- the window of his dead sister’s bedroom! At the end of Halloween – the 2018 one, not the 1978 one - the Strode Brood flee in the back of a pick-up from the burning wreck of their home with Michael Myers trapped in the basement! Unfortunately, no one tells the fire trucks racing towards the blaze. Meanwhile, An...

Beyond super villains, gadgets and fast cars, there’s surprisingly a lot to unpack about the James Bond franchise in the Daniel Craig era and for the future of the franchise. This special mini-sode continues our conversation with the renowned James Bond scholar, Dr Lisa Funnell, as she helps us look at the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for the most successful movie franchise in film...

It’s been 15 years since Daniel Craig first stepped into the tuxedo and left us shaken and stirred as Agent 007. The Geeks look at his thrilling era from 2006’s Casino Royale to this week’s No Time To Die. Joining the discussion is our favorite Bond scholar, Dr. Lisa Funnell, who once again offers her masterful insight into the brave new world James Bond exists in now and heading into the future....

SCOTT EISENBERG from the podcast SHOOT THE FLICK takes the podium with the debate crew! On the opposing side is Dave as JDH moderates in INDIANA JONES AND THE RECASTING OF DOOM! Debate Crew regulars Tara and Adam dare to judge this courageous discussion with fighting monkeys, adventurous 90-year-olds and the plain truth that Hollywood likes to make money! Who is right? Who states their case the be...

Dave and JDH snuck into a screening of DUNE! After a long delay, we have things to say! In a special Craptaculus minisode, Dave & JDH snuck into an early screening of #DUNE. After months of delays does this latest movie spice up your life or leave you high and dry! In this special spoiler free review, we have lots to say! This month we’re supporting The Black Fairy Godmother Foundation whose missi...

Steph, Dave & John make the take a bet for a different generation! They’ve flipped the script on SHE’S ALL THAT and updated it for TikTok generation – It’s HE’S ALL THAT! Social influencer and highschooler, Padgett Sawyer (Addison Rae) is the makeover queen of her class. Cameron Kweller (Tanner Buchanan) is the class loner who’s only social circle is his best friend Nisha and his socially-obsessed...

Tara, Adam and Dave are going back to the 80’s for a movie that is ROCKY meets CONVOY and the title describes it best - OVER THE TOP!! Lincoln Hawk, Sylvester Stallone, is a buttoned up but restless truck driver who’s running from the family he never wanted to leave. His estranged 12-year-old-son, Michael, is a buttoned up private school cadet who’s never been off track in his life. But after his...

Tara, Adam & Dave dress up for a ball to take our one in a million shot with the Amazon Original Movie CINDERELLA! Here’s how Amazon describes their movie - Cinderella is a modern movie musical with a bold take on the classic fairytale. Our ambitious heroine (Camila Cabello) has big dreams and with the help of her Fab Godmother, she perseveres to make them come true. Cinderella has an all-star cas...

Adam and Dave go face to face to off the other’s argument as they debate Face/Off! John Travolta and Nicolas Cage have their own Freaky Friday (But it’s no body switch movie, this is a face switch movie) and now they try to destroy the other before the other destroys their life! Whose argument will stand up to the action and whose point of view will fall face first into the bargain bin? JDH modera...

Will the Netflix original SWEET GIRL sour John, Adam and Dave on Jason Momoa? They watched the bring your daughter to work revenge flick and have some thoughts! It’s THE FUGITIVE meets TAKEN meets the ripped from the headlines greed of pharmaceutical companies with a pinch of political corruption thrown in! Momoa plays Ray Cooper a Pittsburgh survival expert. But his expertise doesn’t help his wif...

Avast ye hearties, batten down the hatches as Tara, Dave and Adam dig up Davy Jone’s locker for this booty from 1984 – Ahoy, it’s THE ICE PIRATES! This is how Scott Vogel on IMDB describes ICE PIRATES - In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dange...

It’s been 25 years since we ventured on impossible missions, fought for our independence, and evaded twisters. As we near the end of Summer, John HH, Doc, and Smoore take a look at the CGI floodgate that opened in Summer of 1996. Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe, “Summer Lovin’ Movies of ’96!” This month, we’re supporting BLACK TABLE ARTS whose mission is to gather black communit...

Tonight, Tara, Dave & Adam put the pedal to the metal and call out for shotgun – cuz’ Nicolas Cage is taking us for a ride and he’s going to DRIVE ANGRY! Here’s how Wikipedia describes the movie: John Milton (Nicolas Cage) escapes hell and steals Satan's gun, the Godkiller, to kill Jonah King. King, a cult leader who killed Milton's daughter and her husband, plans to sacrifice Milton's infant gran...

Tara, Dave & Adam truck into the arctic night with Liam Neeson as we dare travel THE ICE ROAD! After the sudden collapse of tunnel six in a Canadian diamond mine traps twenty-six miners, it falls to the seasoned big-rig driver, Mike McCann (Liam Neeson), to deliver a vital, 30-ton, gas well-head in under 30 hours. This trucking team is composed of Mike's aphasia-stricken brother, Gurty, the vetera...