The LAMBcast

Hello Everyone, and welcome to the dystopia that is Episode 719. I’m your Host Judge Kirkham. Every Month on the Lambcast, we have a movie put forward by a member and voted on in a poll, to be the MOTM. For January, that Movie is “Dredd”, the 2012 action dystopia featuring Karl Urban as the masked executioner of Justice. In addition to myself, we have three other Jurists on the show today, to disp...

The frigid weather seems to have kept most of the sheep in their mangers this week, but Todd Liebenow came out to the pasture to play with us. So we end up with two guys over Fifty, talking about a movie that is targeted to Girls under 20. Not to worry, also opening this week was a film targeting Guys and probably even older audiences, so it all balances out. "Mean Girls 2024" gets its musical bon...

Between the guests on the show this week, there were 37 different films that made our Top Ten Lists. The number goes up even higher when you add in the lists submitted to the show by those that could not be with us live.  There is a wide range of opinions on some of the films, in fact if we were doing a 10 worst list, some films from this show would overlap. The Lambs are nothing if not diverse wh...

A bucketload of films get dumped on the silver screen in December, and we never have time to cover all of them, but we do want to try. This week, seven Lambs share the last minute gifts (and lumps of coal) that they caught up with at the close of 2023. A couple of streaming films sneak in, there is plenty of Oscar Bait, and there are several pleasant surprises. We also talk briefly about the films...

The community selected this film from all the December releases, to be the new film that we cover for the month. Tony Coogan and Jay Cluitt return from 200 episodes ago, when we talked about the original "Chicken Run", but we are also joined by Rachel Wagner, back for a third week in a row and James Wilson, who is filling out the show completely. This is the sequel we have waited 23 years to hatch...

High School Pressures, The Christmas Pageant, Repressive Teachers, Unrequited Love, Dancing, Singing, Christmas and Zombies, "Anna and the Apocalypse" has it all. This week, we have your Christmas Movie of the Month and you are going to love it as much as we did. Howard Casner Championed the film and he hosts a discussion of Zombie etiquette and choreography. Rachel Wagner and the Vern join in to...

The Lambs flock together to share some memories of Christmas Past, Present and Future as Howard Casner leads a discussion concerning Christmas Gifts, Christmas Movies and Stocking stuffers. Are you still looking for some gift ideas, maybe this show will plant a seed that will germinate into your own Christmas memory. 

The November Movie of the Month is the 2002 Sci-Fi Action film from Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise. Pre-Crime is the topic and the questions are plentiful. Bubbawheat was the champion of the film and he leads us through a discussion of the U.S. Constitution, Determinism, Free will and eye surgery. The films innovations and prescient technology is acknowledged but so are the plot holes and tech th...

 This week we get back to talking about new movies, and it is the time of the year that the cream begins to rise to the top. Director Alexander Payne is a two time Academy Award winning screenwriter, and a three time directing nominee, so when he shows up with a new film, it seems likely to be talked about in the awards season. "The Holdovers" features a cranky history teacher at a remote prep sch...

Through dangers untold. And hardships unnumbered. I have fought my way here to the castle; beyond the goblin city, to take back the child that you have stolen. My will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great…The gallant Lambs this week take on Nostalgia for the ages, or at least for a long ago decade. Oh, Mother Night! Fold your dark arms about me. Protect me in your black embrace. I sit al...

"What's your favorite scary movie?", As we gather at this seance to summon the films we most want to talk about, we will metaphorically join hands, close our eyes and open ourselves to the voices from the other side. Sitting at the table with their fingers on the planchette, waiting to ask their questions of the dead, and argue with the living are several LAMbs who have dug out some horror movies...

Mysterious disappearances of Lambs from the Podcast, draw eerily strange comparisons to the story told in the latest work from Director Martin Scorsese. The surviving Lambs may draw suspicions as you hear their thoughts on the highly anticipated movie. Is Leo getting too old for some parts? Can DeNiro pass for 45? Where did all these incredible faces come from, both native American and white?  Som...

Despite Recounts and pleas to investigate voting irregularities, Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein is indeed the MOTM for our October Horror Film. This surprise winner was championed by James Wilson of Blogging by Cinema Light and he hosts the discussion of this Comedy/Horror classic from 1948. You get three Monsters, two comedians and five Lambs talking about Universal Monsters, Vaudeville, Bo...

So in revisiting 2013, some of us might have had a theme, some may just have picked randomly but in sharing our lists there is a pattern. Round Robin with the Pineapple Kiosk Rule in place. David Brook, Todd Liebenow, and Howard Casner join the show and they have that 20/20 vision that hindsight usually provides. If ten years ago is just your ticket, you might be surprised at the films this weeks...

This week you don’t have to get out of your Lazy Boy, or buy a ticket to a movie. You can also skip digging out your physical media, you don’t need to dust off a VCR, or heat up a DVD player or Blu Ray, all you need to be a part of this show is an Internet Connection and a Streaming Service, you may not even need a paid subscription. That’s because on this week's show we are focusing entirely on f...

For as long as there has been a Lambcast, there have been games played on the show. Sometimes the game is skipped because of time or some other reason, but that will not be the case on this week's show. This episode is all games all the time. There are Five intriguing and fun games that you can play along with, there is even a game in deciding the order of the games and finally, the exit question...

We have gathered five souls together to conduct a séance of our own. We are trying to reach not a person but a conclusion. Is the third Hercule Poirot film from director Kenneth Branagh a wake for a dead franchise, or a celebration and resurrection of a well loved character?  Get ready to hold hands, close your eyes and listen for the tapping of typewriter keys. Two Lambs fell out of the show but...

This week is Movie of the Month Week for September. Jeanette Ward has championed a Sci Fi Teen Comedy to the pole position, but that may not tell you enough to guess the movie, because in 1985, within two weeks of each other, three films opened with that description. Our film is "Real Genius" which features the genius of comic performances from Val Kilmer. College students at a science/technology...

Howard Casner takes over on the show as Richard is traveling this week, and he welcomes in a group of Lambs with a wide variety of interests. They take you from Short Films to Capra Films and throw in a little Ray Harryhausen along the way. We welcome Daniel Chadwick-Shubat into the flock and old hands Stephen Palmer, Nicole Ayers and David Brook also plan ahead to what they will be watching Next....

Balloons, Fireworks, Dance Numbers and spectacular productions featuring celebrities! We have none of that this week, our 700th Episode celebration is more muted but nevertheless still interesting. A few of the hosts of the LAMBcast get together to talk about old times, Lampardy Cheating, and how the podcast has developed. We are joined by a couple of Lambs for some games, one of which you can par...

This week we are going to Listen to Hotel California and Saturday Night Fever on the radio. When we turn on the TV we can watch Laverne and Shirley, Three’s Company and Mork and Mindy. If you want to make a bundle, bet on  Leon Spinks against Muhammed Ali. You will believe a man can fly and you won’t believe that Kiss agreed to be in a movie monstrosity. Our Decade Lookback this week is for the ye...

Flying swordsmen, deadly assassins, duel handed weapons and Chinese History, this movie has all sorts of things that should make you want to listen. The Podcast has Tony Coogan, Howard Casner and guest host Heather Baxendale-Walsh, so that should also make you want to listen. Wirework, subtitles and cinematography are on the menu for our talk this week about the seminal martial arts film from prol...

The Lamb Community voted for Meg 2:The Trench to be the new feature we cover in August. Was that a wise choice? Maybe not. You expected the film to be dumb fun, but were you expecting just dumb? The Lambs on this episode are bouncing around it, some might give it the benefit of the doubt, others would put it as far down in the Trench as it can go. This week, you get a short show because after all,...

It's summertime and the viewing is easy. All you need are some recommendations and a little chat to go along with your choices. This week, Four Lambs have some discussion about Double Features and Drive-In Theaters, and then we program an evening for you. Everybody is enthusiastic about their suggestions, some of us have themes, some included a whole set of extras, but you can treat it like a cafe...

The biggest blockbuster opening of the year features a doll that has been with us for sixty-five years and dozens of animated movie, but is finally a live action character. How did the transition turn out artistically? That's what we discuss on this episode of the Lambcast. There is a lot of love for Barbie, the movie, but we had one curmudgeon who certainly dampened the mood during the show. Come...