The CineMEH Podcast

SEASON 1 FINALE IS HERE!  This... is where it all began.  Or, rather, is ending.  For... season 1... anyway. Josh and Ryan discuss the genesis of the "B-Siders" project through the context of the original film we deconstructed: 2002's "Blue Crush."  If you want to feel the rush, you have to take the risk, and this movie took some serious risks with its storytelling and plot str...

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!  Josh and Ryan pack their bags for Transylvania to hunt Dracula: the one, the only, the terrifying and... hilarious?  Join us for this week's romp in the later catalog of Mel Brooks where we explore the tropes, the themes and the comedy of the world's most famous vampire.  Do you feel unusually uptight?  Are you feeling suffocated by Victorian repressiveness?...

If you've got fond memories of spending birthday parties eating pizza next to oversized animatronics singing cheesy songs, then turn out the lights and grab an energy drink because hell has come to town in the form of a children's play place.  In this week's entry of 'The B-Siders,' Josh and Ryan deconstruct the modern cult classic "Willy's Wonderland," a horror comedy where Nic Cage, a silen...

What do you get when you cross the cherished friendships and bonding experiences of 'Stand By Me' with the madcap, zany antics of 'Saturday Night Live'?  You get a story about three buddies who find themselves up a creek without... well, you know the rest!  Creator Josh and Critic Ryan go canoeing down the rivers of the Pacific Northwest along with Jerry, Dan and Tom on the adventure of...

Greetings, podcaster!  You have been recruited by Podcast league to defend the zeitgeist against mediocre movies and their cult followings!  This week, Josh and Ryan hop in their Star Car and take a galactic trip to Rylos to join Alex and Grig in a desperate battle against Xur, the Ko-Dan Armada, and a host of absolutely abysmal CGI effects.  Ever wished that your video games were a...

Why go chasing waterfalls when the podcast you're looking for is right here?!  This week on The B-Siders, fly with peacocks Josh and Ryan to the hard streets of New York City to join detectives Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz as they take down the most unfortunate adaptation of Dora the Explorer ever!  Or, something like that.  Just, please, leave the electric shavers attached to a man...

You ain't never heard a cast like this!  This week on The B-Siders, creator Josh and critic Ryan sift through the sands of Disney's vault and take you back to 1996 with the third and final animated Aladdin film: "Aladdin and the King of Thieves"!  Why is it that Genie has been getting more and more light blue as time goes on?  How does Cassim keep his mullet so well coiffed?  A...

It's Conan vs. Conan vs. Conan!  This week on The B-Siders, Josh and Ryan go back to the days after the oceans drank Atlantis and sharpen their steel for the 2011 sword and sorcery epic, "Conan the Barbarian," starring Jason Mamoa.  We talk about the stories of Robert E Howard, the original Arnie film interpretation, and why this iteration is so... forgettable.  Grab your sword and...

What is the central preoccupation of your life?  It might be luggage after this podcast!  Join Keystone Creator Josh and Curmudgeonly Critic Ryan as they discuss the very first entry in the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan romcom pairings: Joe Versus The Volcano.  Cross oceans and continents with us as we go on a daring quest to throw ourselves into a volcano for the greatest of human pursuit...

With an adequate grimace and a mediocre sound, he pulls the laughing film critics down!  This week on The B-Siders we discuss the 1998 American entry in the Godzilla franchise.  Crawl with Josh and Ryan through a nuclear wasteland of promising but poorly executed plot threads, lackluster character development, and the largest marketing campaign of the late 20th Century (don't quote us on...

Take a journey with Josh and Ryan to the jungles of South America, where we trail The Rock as he chases down Sean William Scott in this 2003 action comedy.  We'll answer questions critical to your well being, like "Is every movie made better for the inclusion of Christopher Walken?"  "Can hordes of evil monkeys bore an audience?"  "Does the toothfairy exist, and if she does, what wo...

Josh and Ryan break down this monstrously average film from the early 2000s!  Marvel as Ryan rants about parachutes!  Wonder as Josh finds poignant parallels to Medieval folklore!  All for the low, low price of an hour of goofy, free-wheeling conversation between two would-be film critics! Reign of Fire stars Matthew McConaughey, Gerard Butler, Christian Bale and Izabella Scorupco,...

Josh and Ryan discuss and deconstruct the seminal 1988 'Alien from L.A.' starring Kathy Ireland in her first acting role!  Join us on a journey of hacky dialogue, suspiciously familiar musical keys, and painfully cringe tropes in this film that tries its best to split the difference between 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth,' and 'The Wizard of Oz.'  Curious about movies that aren't...