The LAMBcast

This week, the Lambcast is Shanghaiing five of it's members for a pirate expedition to search for buried treasures. Movies that are hard to find or access were the subject under discussion, and everyone had tales of success and failure to share. The Tortuga of today appears to be YouTube, where many of the treasures were unearthed, although how many died to put them there is never revealed. We als...

It's the last week of the month so it seems like maybe we better get in the MOTM while there is still time. MovieRob hosts the show with his selection of the multiple Academy Award winning film from 1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai. This David Lean epic gets the full treatment from the guests as we talk about duty, right and wrong, power and control, and a whole host of subjects. There is a game...

Zach is back in the DCEU, no not that Zach, the other one, Zachary Levi, as the adolescent hero in a grown man's body, Shazam!  Four years after making a winning introduction in the strange mix of DC heroes, the Champion with the power of the Gods returns, and the daughters of one of those Gods are none to pleased. Jeanette Ward and Amanda Kirkham are the guests this week as we spend a little time...

Originally scheduled as an episode devoted to "65", this week's Lambcast both devolved an evolved into something a bit different. Three films were transplanted onto the shoulders of this episode and two people who saw all three get herded by someone who just saw one. Confused Yet? Wait till you hear us play a guessing game about Lambscores, when one of the guests didn't see two of the features. Wh...

Some of our guests have been dutifully attending screenings at movie theaters, some of us have plugged into TCM for 48 straight Hours, and some guests actually opened up some physical media and watched at home old school style. It doesn’t matter where or how your films were delivered, we want to know what kind of stuff we took the time with recently, and maybe whether you should be taking some tim...

Special programming this week on the Lambcast, as we engage in another Roll Your Own Top Five show. The participants pick their own subjects and create a top five list to share with us. This week we got movie lines, 80s Teen Films, Muppet Suggestions, Robert Aldrich love and some twins. This is a week where all kinds of things get thrown in the pot, and we got a savory stew of delicious movie talk...

Back to the MCU this week with the latest film featuring everyone's favorite ant-talking hero. Lots of questions get discussed, including "how much of the extended MCU are we going to need to know to keep up with these movies?" Our panel of guests try to guess everyone else's Lambscores, we have a game featuring miniaturization, and there is trailer talk about upcoming films. We start off small bu...

February is Richard's Birthday month and this year, his frequently suggested title was finally voted into the Champion spot, 1975's "The Man Who Would be King". John Huston directs Sean Connery and Michael Caine in an adaption of Rudyard Kipling's story. The opinions on this film were not uniform but there was a great deal of admiration, and for one of our Lambs it was a first time watch. We also...

Valentine's Day invites us to speculate on Romantic Comedies this week. We have a serious discussion concerning the hate that many in our community have for the genre, and then we subvert that with recommendations and warnings. You will certainly find some film you can share with your Valentine on the holiday, so listen or download now. Don't brerak our hearts by ignoring this week's show. 

Six Lambs, 28 Movies, 2 hours and forty minutes, there is a lot going on this week on the Lambcast. Our popular Decade Lookback this week features the year 2002, and the guests have things to share. Some guilty pleasures are matched with some alternative Oscar winners and a fist full of documentaries. Take a deep dive into films from 21 years ago and also get a little Oscar talk at the end. 

This week we are giving props to character actor Vincent D'Onofrio by having a draft show with some enthusiastic fans. D'Onofrio is instantly recognizable to most people as Private Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket". That movie however was at the start of his career and we take a deep dive into a variety of films that he has appeared in to bring the wide range of his roles to your atten...

We have a full complement of suspects to discuss the first feature film from the Coen Brothers. It is also the debut film of Frances McDormand. This is a deep in the heart of Texas Neo Noir that subverts location and the femme fatale tropes and gives us something new in the thriller field.  Sean Homrig, as the champion of the film, hosts the discussion with longtime Lamb Daniel Lackey, back for an...

Looking for something you are not familiar with? Ready to explore strange new movies and experiences? This is the place to start. This week's episode is a trail head to adventure. Take a chance on some films you have probably not heard of. Damien Riley, Howard Casner, Nicole Ayers, Todd Liebenow, and The Vern get out their maps to the unknown and suggest some destinations you might enjoy. Everybod...

Get ready for an epic show, almost as long as Avatar The Way of Water or Babylon. Five Lambs go round robin style through their Top Ten Lists for the year. Pineapple Kiosk is heard several times and 60% of the show guests had the same film at the top of their lists. We also hear from some other Lambs who could not be on the show but sent in their lists. There are some interesting and controversial...

It's time for the Lambpardy 2022 final! Over the course of last year, twenty seven LAMB members battled it out in tournament fashion to determine who knew the most movie trivia, or at least who could answer some occasionally oddly specific categories in the silly trivia game format! Those twenty seven were whittled down to nine, who have now become the final three, and this is the final! Listen no...

The world's greatest detective with a weird Southern Accent, returns to solve another case involving rich assholes and low culture. The Lambcast goes slumming this week with a Netflix film that should have been a theatrical release but was only made available to cinemas for a week before it was banished to streaming. The original "Knives Out" had Jay Cluitt as it's biggest fan, and he returns alon...

James Cameron finally delivers on the long promised sequel to his biggest hit ever. Avatar The Way of Water is naturally a visual delight but how does it hold up on all the other fronts. Heather Baxendale-Walsh joins Richard for a dialogue on the film which may be the biggest financial hit of the year, but is certainly a big risk when it comes to making their money back. It's Episode 666, so clutc...

It's Lambpardy time again, and this month's show is the last of the semi-finals for the 2022 tournament! The final three first round winners are back to battle it out for the one remaining slot in this year's final, but who will claim it? Listen to find out! This month the contestants are: Howard Casner - Pop Art , Rantings and Ravings Tim Costa - First Time Watchers Daniel Lackey - From Inner Tim...

Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes gives us a personal story about movies and madness. Is this the companion piece to the Fabelmans that we want, or is it the indulgence that film makers sometimes get when their previous films have been a success? Tune in to find out what three Americans living in the Western U.S. think about a film set forty-two years ago set in an English Coastal town. Ol...

After taking on such Christmas Classics as "L.A. Confidential" and "Batman Returns", a little more conventional choice was the winner of the MOTM Poll for our December edition. "It's a Wonderful Life" may be the quintessential holiday film and MovieRob leads us through a thorough discussion of the plot and dates in the film. Check your timelines because this is either the precursor to "Back to the...

For movie lovers. the Fabelmans is a dream come true. It is an autobiographical film by the most celebrated filmmaker of the last fifty years. Steven Spielberg takes on a fictionalized version of his own story, and who would not want to see what that looks like? This week, Howard Casner sits in as host and the praise is effusive but tempered by our resident curmudgeon. Michelle William, Paul Dano,...

You are just in time for an appetizer, if you hurry, you can finish that before the main course begins. Travel and tech limitations resulted in this dish taking a while to get from the kitchen to your table, but the wait will be worth it. Howard Casner is your maître d for this episode as our guests partake in The Menu. Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicolas Hoult are the stars, but the rea...

What may turn out to be the biggest box office success of the MCU since Endgame becomes a unique episode of the Lambcast. We start off our discussion, not with the people who saw the film but with someone who did not. It was a conscious decision on their part and we get to hear what the reasoning was, and then we dive into the film talk, because obviously, we did not buy in. Politics, Grief, Sex S...

It's the second Lambpardy semi-final! Three more first round winners compete for a spot in the final, and amongst them is your regular host, Jay, who also happens to be writing this. As such you could be assumed of casting biased aspersions, but this truly is a game for the ages, with Jay facing off against his regular podcasting co-host Mark, and the record holder for most legitimate pre-tourname...

Persistence pays off as Jeanette Ward continued to submit this film until it won. This sequel to the widely remembered "The Fugitive" is itself widely forgotten, but not this week. An action film with the Marshal team reassembled in pursuit of a different fugitive seems like a perfect set up and when you add Wesley Snipes and Robert Downey Jr. , how could you miss? We debate whether this sequel hi...