The LAMBcast

Robert Downey Jr. is our actor of the month in the LAMB's Acting School 101 feature. Alongside the monthly blogathon held on the LAMB site, there will also be a monthly podcast episode devoted to the actor and their roles, and wouldn’t you know it but that’s this very show. Rob was joined by Darren Lucas of Movie Reviews 101 to discuss all things Robert Downey Jr., but mainly the five performances...

The Peter Jackson Films are the subject of our annual MOTM Franchise Lookback. Heather Baxendale-Walsh assembles a new fellowship to travel through Middle earth and highlight the things that make this series essential. Because the film talk was so involved, we skip a game, Rants/Raves/Reviews, and heck, we don't take a break or give you an ad. This is all LOTR all the time. Two Hours and Twenty Mi...

After being moved on the schedule over the last two years, six times, and enduring fierce on-line hate before it saw the light of day, Sony's Marvel Film "Morbius" lands on our laps in time for a Lambcast dissection. We start off the show however, with some talk about the two biggest stories in Hollywood this week. The Slap heard round the world and the early retirement of one of our great action...

This week we travel back 18 years to find some gems from 2004 to share with you. Tyler, Todd, Howard and Richard have different enough tastes that their five lists only produced two of the Infamous Pineapple Kiosk moments. Lots of ideas for you to explore and some other discussion as well. Come on in, the movies are fine. 

Just in time for the Academy Awards tomorrow, it's the Lambpardy Oscars special! Before a bunch of film-makers win their awards tomorrow, there's one major award that needs to be presented first, and that's the winner of this month's Lambpardy! There's one former player and two complete Lambcast newcomers competing today, but only one can win. Who will it be? Listen to find out!  This month the co...

Francis Ford Coppola had a good year in 1974. He was nominated for Five Academy Awards that year, and he won three but none of them were for the film he has always said was his favorite of his movies, heck it wasn't even his favorite of that year, and those awards came for Godfather Part II. Coppola's most personal film and the one he thinks is his best is "The Conversation" and you won't get too...

Rachel Weisz is our actor of the month in the LAMB's Acting School 101 feature. Alongside the monthly blogathon held on the LAMB site, there will also be a monthly podcast episode devoted to the actor and their roles, and wouldn’t you know it but that’s this very show. Rob was joined by Emily Slade of  Why This Film Podcast to discuss all things Rachel Weisz, but mainly the five performances of he...

So when the question comes up, do we need a new Batman, the five people on this show have an easy answer for you,...Yes. This is an even darker take on a film character that is getting more dense and dark as we go along. There are no Joel Schumacher moments in the Matt Reeves' "The Batman". Robert Pattinson dons the cowl and he is joined by a cast that is deep and a story that is disturbing. Our L...

Two Lambs with second sight look forward and prognosticate about the upcoming film year. Based on hope, history and not much else, Jeanette Ward Joins Richard for an intimate discussion of the movies we both look forward to and dread. Will Avatar 2 actually show up in December, is The Batman going to be great, how much will Morbius suck?  Take the plunge into the future with us, we have lots to sp...

The popularity of this series is growing, we had a lot of requests to join so the guest list was expanded so you can expect a lot of Pineapple Kiosk because there was a great deal of overlap. Even with that overlap we had nearly two dozen movies to talk about. So get in your "Wayback" machines and join us for a lively trip to the decade of the 90s, where we landed right in the middle. 

Emily Blunt is our actor of the month in the LAMB's Acting School 101 feature. Alongside the monthly blogathon held on the LAMB site, there will also be a monthly podcast episode devoted to the actor and their roles, and wouldn’t you know it but that’s this very show. Rob was joined by Katy Rochelle of Oh So Geeky! to discuss all things Emily Blunt , but mainly the five performances of hers that t...

Last month we had a couple of Lambpardy newcomers and someone who hadn't been on for a long time, but this month the 2022 tournament continues with an all-star line-up and a real nail-biter of a finish! This month the contestants are: Amanda Kirkham - Hollywood Consumer , Catching Up TV Podcast Richard Kirkham - The Lambcast , Kirkham A Movie A Day , The Strother Martin Film Project , Catching Up...

An incredible cast gets discussed by an incredible cast. This week, the MOTM show, a Birthday gift for Richard and a new film for three of the guests. It's a Western, but not in a style you are likely to have seen before. The Quick and the Dead features a bucket load of character actors and everybody pretty much gets a death scene. Our show cast indulges in Hackman Love, Silvestri Admiration, and...

Forget the T.S. Eliot poem that suggests the world ends with a whimper, Roland Emmerich insists that it ends with a "BANG!" and he has made more than a half dozen movies to prove it. This week on the Lambcast, the guests review the newest of his disaster films "Moonfall". We also lookback at a long string of Emmerich films, most of which are variations on some kind of disaster. What can you expect...

So we tried something a little different on the show this week. It's a small group, just talking without much of an agenda. We discuss January Film releases which are usually a travesty, and we found plenty of those, but we also uncovered a few nuggets of gold amongst all the garbage. Todd, Tyler and Richard have a great time wandering down memory lane and throwing rocks at the same time. Come hav...

It's been nearly a year since we had a Draft show and since January is a slow period in the cinemas, it seemed a good time for some alternative programming. The last actor draft we did was an update on Tom Hanks, but this time we are looking at the other side of the aisle, an acclaimed performer who has a resume to make the argument that she is the G.O.A.T. Meryl Streep. With an astounding 21 Acad...

It's Lambpardy time again, with the start of a whole new tournament!  Three new Lambpardy players - one's played before, one's been on the Lambcast before and the third is new to all listeners (unless you listen to his show) - are here for the first show of the first round of a whole new Lambpardy tournament! Two thirds of the First Time Watchers podcast take on each other and one-third of the Sim...

Jim Carrey is our actor of the month in the LAMB's Acting School 101 feature. Alongside the monthly blogathon held on the LAMB site, there will also be a monthly podcast episode devoted to the actor and their roles, and wouldn’t you know it but that’s this very show. Rob was joined by David Brook of Blueprint Review to discuss all things  Jim Carrey, but mainly the five performances of his that th...

The January Movie of the month was championed by Emily Slade and she delights in bringing us Sean Connery as a Dragon. Former Host of the Lambcast, Jay Cluitt, joins the show to grouse about the films human star, Dennis Quaid, and Lisa Leaheey and Richard get into it in the Rant/Rave and Review section for a different film. Join us for some 90s nostalgia and some serenades as well.

This week, the host and the guests take turns taking pot shots at the dumpster fire that 2021 turned out to be. Everyone had their pet peeves about movie trends, streaming services, musicals, cancel culture and assorted other bit of ephemera. We complain and whine like a bunch of babies, but we had some fun doing it and you might enjoy listening to some cranky guys take down the entertainment busi...

Five Lambs discuss their favorite ten films of the year, and a bunch of the flock who could not be with us sent in their lists as well. If you are wondering what it is that you should have seen by now, or what might be up for awards in this season, this is the show for you. 

We did nothave a lot of shows in the last two months, devoted to single films. That means that the prestige films and holiday releases might go unmentioned. We can't let that happen, so we have a December session with the LAMB Community, where anything released at the end of the year could be included. Lots of films you have heard about but also several that might slip by without a mention. 

Alert the media! Start a parade! Set fire to something! It's the 2021 Lambpardy final!  It's been over a year in the making, but the Lambpardy final is finally here! 27 LAMB members have duked it out across 12 shows, 36 daily doubles, 732 questions and at least one round dedicated to cinematic dildoes to arrive here with our final three. Todd, Lisa and Justin all have very different histories with...

This week the Lambs examine the new Spider-Man film "No Way Home" in some detail, in a spoiler filled edition of the Lambcast. After we get that squared away, there is an elaborate discussion of all the stand alone films in the Spider-Man Universe. Come along and listen as we wonder why Paul Giamatti is insufficient to rescue The Amazing Spiderman 2, whether Andrew Garfield is the best actor among...

That's right, murder, corruption, prostitution, all the things you want in your stocking for Christmas are on this episode of the Lambcast. Continuing our long tradition of non-traditional Christmas films, Heather Baxendale-Walsh hosts the discussion of her winning entry in the MOTM December poll "L.A. Confidential".  Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.