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Happy Halloween! This week we bring you a real treat, as the Beyond the Mouse crew talks with D.J. MacHale. In addition to bringing Are You Afraid of the Dark into our lives, D.J. also wrote and directed the Disney cult classic Tower of Terror! Based on the attraction, Tower of Terror thrills with a tale of Old Hollywood and the mysterious events that occurred on Halloween night at the Hollywood T...

GUILTY PLEASURES is back with their 2nd offering of the month for MonsterCast. And man why not dive into the craziness that is the Wes Craven-Eddie Murphy comedy horror mashup Vampire In Brooklyn? Man oh man are there things to DISCUSS. FEATURING: Lou Hare, Tara Erickson, Sam Weller Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website:  www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @frontrowrevi...

MonsterCast continues to close strong! We're proud to debut an interview we conducted all the way back in March at C2E2 with horror mainstay Sandy King Carpenter. Aside from being the wife of horror master John Carpenter, Sandy has blazed a trail in entertainment as a film producer and script writer. She talks to our own Alex Orona about the launch of Storm King Comics and why she loves the comic...

Five Star Pod Splash is getting in on the #MonsterCast action bringing you the definitive review of WWE's Hell In A Cell payperview. 3 cell matches highlighted a night of new champions some genuinely shocking developments for the rest of the year! FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner & John Sivak Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website:  www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @frontrow...

MonsterCast is coming to a head this week and we're kicking it off with a MONSTER-SIZED podcast. Flashback is going back to 1980 to look at Stanley Kubrick's iconic scare-fest The Shining. And for this episode we're welcoming not only Brandon from Classics, but all three amazing hosts of the Derry Public Radio podcast! FEATURING: Ryan Lootens, Jay Hoffman, Erin McCabe, Brandon Davis (Front Row Cla...

MonsterCast just can't be stopped! We're continuing our look at some amazing horror shorts by welcoming the writer and director of our top choice of the 2018 Huluween Film Fest, Josh Tanner, to talk his inspiration and behind the scenes stories from The Rizzle. FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website:  www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @frontro...

MonsterCast 2020 continues with another round of FULL DISCLOSURE! Horror mega-studio Blumhouse has released the final two films in their October "Welcome To The Blumhouse" film series. We take a spoiler-filled look at "Evil Eye" and "Nocturne". FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website:  www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @frontrowreviewz Email: ...

Beyond the Mouse continues a month long celebration of all things Halloween and Disney. Who would you draft on your team of villains from all Disney properties? Find out who Craig, Vanessa and Brett selected, and let us know who you think won this round!   FEATURING: Craig McFarland, Brett Rutherford and Vanessa Ferguson Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website:  www.nprillinois.org/programs/fr...

MonsterCast roars on with the 3rd of our horror film spotlights. In this edition Sara and Jeremy are looking at the good and very, very bad parts of I Know What You Did Last Summer and the unfortunate I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Long story short, if you hit someone with your car, just call the cops. Avoid the hook-wielding revenge feud. FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner & Sara Baltusevich Don'...

Our huge MonsterCast month continues with the latest episode of FULL DISCLOSURE. In this episode, resident Front Row horror fanatics Sara and Jeremy are breaking down Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mike Flanagan's follow up to 2018's modern masterpiece The Haunting of Hill House. This isn't what you might expect but undoubtedly one of the best series of the year. FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner &...

MonsterCast rolls on with a very special interview with actress Diane Franklin. You may remember her as the dream girl in LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (1982) or the crush-worthy exchange student Monique in the 1985 comedy BETTER OFF DEAD. But she's also built a solid horror resume with such films as AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION, TERRORVISION and the recent reboot, THE AMITYVILLE MURDERS. And in this epis...

Guilty Pleasures is officially getting in on the MonsterCast fun with their first October offering. And man oh man is this film guilty as hell as they break down the made-for-television Disney film Mr. Boogedy. which sees a family move to the New England city of Lucifer Falls, which they soon find to be haunted by ghosts from the colonial period. FEATURING: Lou Hare, Donna Hare & Christian Krauspe...

Front Row Classics brings you their first offering for MonsterCast this month with the original Monster movie, 1931's Frankenstein directed by James Whale. Allison Means joins Brandon and Eric for a fun conversation that delves into Boris Karloff's career defining performance as Frankenstein's Monster. The crew will also discuss the differences the film has to Mary Shelley's novel as well as diffe...

The Rundown makes its return this week with just too much news to try and summarize here. Get caught up on the biggest stories in entertainment of the past 2 weeks. FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website: www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @frontrowreviewz Email: thefrontrowmoviereviews@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefrontrowne...

October 13, 2020 Your weekly #BoxOfficeMinute has a new champion for the first time in 5 weeks and probably one of the biggest surprises of all in the #3 position. Featuring: Jeremy Goeckner Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website: www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @frontrowreviewz Email: thefrontrowmoviereviews@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefrontrownet...

It's our Super GG Radio Halloween Spooktacular! Your three hosts of Super GG Radio are here to discuss some of our favorite Halloween games that give us the chills! We also close out the episode with our extra special Halloween Indie or Outdie! Come hang out and get scary! Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Twitter:  @SuperGGRadio   Email: SuperGGRadio@gmail.com Wordpress:  www.superggradio.wordp...

MonsterCast 2020 is roaring on with the 2nd of our spotlight films of the month; the 2015 found footage instant classic Hell House, LLC. And if that weren't enough, we also welcome the film's writer and director Stephen Cognetti to take us behind the scenes at the making of this terrifying film! Five years after 15 people were killed during a haunted house tour, a documentary crew visits the scene...

MonsterCast 2020 continues with another round of FULL DISCLOSURE! Horror mega-studio Blumhouse has released the first two films in their October "Welcome To The Blumhouse" film series. We take a spoiler-filled look at "The Lie" and "Black Box". FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner & Sara Baltusevich Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website:  www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @front...

MonsterCast 2020 continues with another round of FULL DISCLOSURE! We saved our spoiler-filled review of the new horror film Antebellum so that we could release in the midst of the spooky festivities. Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality that forces her to confront the past, present and future -- before it's too late. FEATURING: Steve Sykes Don't forget to...

Leslie Iwerks is an Emmy® and Oscar® nominated documentary director, producer and writer. Her work ranges from "behind the scenes" looks into Hollywood filmmaking and, following in her father and grandfather's footsteps, the magic behind Walt Disney Company. She also engages her audiences with looks into wide ranging geo political documentaries and ecological and human tragedies.  In Selling Lies,...

MonsterCast 2020 continues with the launch of a brand new show on the Network! We're so excited to debut VIEW FROM THE BACK ROW with Steve Sykes. This show will endeavor to analyze movies through the lens of disability representation on film. In the first episode, Steve welcomes CLASSICS host Brandon Davis to discuss the horror classic Wait Until Dark where a recently blinded woman (Audrey Hepburn...

FLASHBACK is getting in the MonsterCast 2020 mood by bringing you 80s schlock-fest that is Return of the Living Dead. When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food; brains. FEATURING: Ryan Lootens, Jay Hoffman & E...

MonsterCast 2020 continue with the newest episode of FULL DISCLOSURE. In this mini review, Jeremy is breaking down the new Netflix horror comedy Vampires vs. The Bronx, which is what happens when you combine The Goonies, In The Heights and Shaun of the Dead. FEATURING: Jeremy Goeckner Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Website:  www.nprillinois.org/programs/front-row-network Twitter:  @frontrowre...

The 2020 General Election is one month away! First-- you should vote. Second--- YOU SHOULD VOTE. Third-- you should sit back and listen to us argue who is the best fictional president of all time! Craig and Jeremy are your commentators as a bipartisan group of contestants pick their team and compete for your vote! We are excited to welcome first time guests Ryan Melchin and Nick Dodson along with...

We take a quick break from MonsterCast to bring you some good old fashioned non-horror entertianment. In case you missed the live presentation 2 weeks ago, here is the audio version of the Guilty Pleasure & Flashback crossover podcast event on 1990's pulp mess Dick Tracy staring Warren Beatty, Al Pacino & Madonna.  FEATURING: Ryan Lootens, Jay Hoffman, Erin McCabe & Lou Hare Don't forget to follow...