The LAMBcast

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...

Drug dealing aliens and interstellar law enforcement officers find their way to Earth in this 1990s time killer. Mark Hofmeyer  championed a movie that made him feel good after some arduous viewing for his job, let's see if you can lean into the film and get some relaxing vibes from it as well. Dolph Lundgren stars as a rule breaking rogue cop, and he is partnered with a straight laced FBI agent,...

This week, the Lambs create their own individual lists, with some surprises along the way. Multiple New Waves, an overlooked director, changing opinions on films and a host trapped in the 70s, this is what you have in store when you listen to this episode. The Exit Question of the Week addresses the issues from last week's canceled show, and we have a game that was not challenging at all.  

Wes Anderson films are definitely different. Some people can't get enough, and some can only tolerate so much. This week we have a range of opinions on "Asteroid City". There are existential questions  about the script, the actors and the style, and only a couple of points seem to create unity of thought. This is just the sort of conversation you want to have with your friends after seeing a movie...

A troubled star, a staggering franchise, a corporate shake up, and guess what, the film is actually really good. A full contingent of our own superheroes take on "The Flash", the newest DC Comic Book film, and we find lots to recommend, including the lead performance and the return of "Batman". This is a multiverse film in a world overrun by multiverse movies, but there are some strong emotional m...

June carves out a niche to insure that we discuss a female directed film, and this month we have one from only the third woman from the sound era to direct a Hollywood movie. Elaine May was a comic, an actor and the comedy partner of Mike Nichols. Her directing vita is narrow but filled with interesting, if not always successful films. Naturally to celebrate women making movies, we have five guys...

This week we go Back to the Future, it's 1985 and there are films you may not have heard about, seen, or caught up with yet. Marty and Doc Brown don't make it to the show but Dave Anderson, David Brook, Howard Casner and Todd Liebenow do. We have Hong Kong Action Films, Forgotten Films, and Spielberg Clones to fill your Television Screen with. If you like Zombies, Kung Fu, Depressing WWII stories...

This week we have two guests on the show,  who have written movie related books, and spend some time talking with us about those books. Eric Friedman was a guest two years ago when his second book was published, and now the third book in his trilogy is available. Kristen Lopez, a long time Lamb, and now an editor on "The Wrap", has partnered with TCM, and her book is a compendium of book and movie...

Four Lambs enter, one Lamb leaves, that is after you vote for the Summer Season that you think is the Greatest. Dave Anderson leads off with what could be a knockout punch, but Todd Liebenow follows up with a strong right cross and Nick Rehak has a solid uppercut. Richard Jabs and moves but has a good combination to finish off. You are the judges. Come listen to us talk about the summer films of 1...

The scheduled host who had championed "Fantasia" to victory in the poll, was unable to join the show, but we had four fans of the film who more than make up for that.  Howard Casner takes a seat in the spot we keep warm for him and Bubbawheat remembers at the last minute that it is this week's show that he is scheduled for. We kept Doug Jamison from the Jam Report in Australia, up into the wee hou...

The Guardians of the Lambcast show up this week to guide you through a trip to the theaters. James Gunn's Guardians Finale comes under the microscope and peering through the lens are Nick Rehak, Amanda Kirkham and Jeanette Ward. Our general thoughts are enthusiastic, but there are a few reservations. The team ranked the Guardians film, talked about our favorite sequences, and warns all of you that...

All of us have those films in our back pocket that we have been meaning to get to. Sometimes it is a documentary that the whole world is talking about but you haven’t been able to generate enough interest to stream it. Maybe it is a film from the Sight and Sound Poll, AFI or BFI film lists, or maybe just something everyone has talked about, except you, because you haven't seen it. This week, Nicol...

Howard Casner wins the MOTM Franchise Poll for a second time, and he joins us for a deep dive into the themes and cultural influences of the four films made based on Jack Finney's 1954 science fiction novel. We talk Pod People, 50s conventionality, 70s paranoia, 90s youth emphasis and 2007's prescient contagion themes. If you think remakes are worthless, you should listen to a compelling argument...

Two Lambs who don't suck, show up to tell us if the new Nic Cage movie does. Former Host Jay Cluitt rises from the grave to give us his opinion and Howard Casner puts a stake in the heart of movie audiences and critics who don't get post modernism. "Renfield" is a vampire picture more interested in laughs than in horror, and this week we dig into whether or not that approach works. We also have a...

What's that behind you? Surely not! No! It can't be! It's Lambpardy time!  After an unintentional hiatus Lambpardy is back, and this time it's spooky! This is the first show in the third tournament year, and also the first of a mini horror tournament! There are hopefully two more horror-special shows to come, followed by a horror final with the winners of those three shows, and the champion from t...