The Talking Back Podcast

This week we're talking Contra for the NES from 87, one of the most punishing games of all time!! Contra is one of the early greats for the NES, it had a kick ass sound track, addicting gameplay, unique gameplay elements, one of the best cheat codes of all time, and you could play it with a buddy.  Tune in as we chat all the coolness this game has to offer, and be sure to check out our Patreon whe...

This week we're covering the second movie in our Year of Time Travel, and what would Time Travel be without Jean Claude Van Damme?? Join us as Van Damme tries to kick and splits his wife back to life in a film of questionable quality that has a far too good soundtrack. Timecop will take you through a gambit of emotions. Tune in to find out what they are.  Be sure to tell your friends about Talking...

This week we're counting down our top 10 favorite songs from the Star Wars movies! In a continued effort to bring more Star Wars content to the podcast we thought an episode based on the incredible music from the movies would be a fun path to walk down. Join us as we revisit the soundtracks, pulling out and sharing our 10 most beloved tracks.  Be sure to tell your friends about Talking Back and we...

This week we're checking out the first film from director John Carpenter, his "sort of" a student film from 1974, Dark Star! As student films go you can count on one hand how many are at the same level of genius as Dark Star. This film excels in several important areas and has an atmosphere few movies can compete with.  Join us as we chat John Carpenter and his contributions beyond directing this...

This week on Talking Back we're digging back into some of our favourite Video Game Music! As with previous video game music episodes Mark is joining to help with the breakdowns. We're each bringing 10 of our favorite tracks to the table, we'll discuss why we chose them, and what makes them great.  Tune in now to have your ears wowed in this second edition in our Video Game Music series! Be sure to...

This week we're covering another issue of the What If? comic series from the 70s. We're at issue #2 titled "What if the Hulk had the Brain of Bruce Banner"! These What If comics are quickly becoming some of our favorite comics to read for the elaborate storytelling and huge ideas they bring to the table. Join us as we look into an alternate timeline where the Hulk keeps all of the intelligence of...

Welcome to a new year at Talking Back! New year means new theme, this year will be the year of Time Travel! To help us kick things off we have friend of the show Tony joining to chat about one of his favorite movies, About Time. Join us as we discuss the film, the wonderful characters, how the film utilizes the concept of time travel, and all of the great moments that make this film so special. Pl...

Today on a special Christmas Day episode we're digging into the Rambo franchise with the original movie First Blood! First off there's a Christmas Tree in it so it's a festive movie. Second, it's about time we get into the Rambo franchise. Third, this movie rules! Join us as we dig into this classic and share all of the greatness it has to offer, such as Rambo using a 2 man gun all by himself, som...

This week we're reviewing Deadly Class Volume 12, the final instalment in the series! It's bitter sweet to say goodbye to a series that has meant so much to us over the years we've been reviewing it. Deadly Class will go down as one of our favourite comic book series, and was incredible start to finish.  Join us as we review the final instalment and learn the fates of the remaining characters. We...

This week we're covering a very fun 5-comic series called Star Wars Vader: Dark Visions! We love our boy Vader and decided he needed more air time so we dug up a fascinating comic that tells 5 stories about the Dark Lord. The comic features some of the lesser known, in-between moments in the life of Vader. While they may not be the stories you know they sure as hell are the stories you need! Join...

This week it's the final Ninja movie in our 2023 Year of the Ninja Walkthrough and we're reviewing a little something called Five Elements Ninja! This movie turned out to be a perfect bookend to the year. It's a great example of Ninja, it's a non stop action filled rollercoaster ride, it's controlled chaos at it's best, it's exactly what we were looking for to end off the year! Join us as we walk...

This week we're checking out the sequel to a movie we loved with Escape from LA! We love when John Carpenter and Kurt Russell team up but what about this movie? Even though it's a sequel to the gritty original, Escape from LA has decided to blaze its own trail.  What do we think of the movie? How does it hold up against the original? Will Dean ask Tim to call him Snake? Tune in now and find out th...

This week on Talking Back we're celebrating the fact that we made it to 250 episodes! As we hit this milestone it seemed appropriate to take a moment to reflect on our time here at Talking Back, and also treat ourselves to some fun and games.  Thanks for everyone's support in getting to 250, and we hope you enjoy all of the shenanigans waiting for you in this episode! Be sure to tell your friends...

This week we're tackling one of the earliest super hero movies with Wes Craven's Swamp Thing! This movie does some things right and some things wrong but overall you get what you might expect out of a lower budget superhero film from the early 80s. There's fun to be had if you're looking in the right spots.  Join us as we walk through the film and point out some of those spots that left us feeling...

We're down to our second last Ninja episode of the year and this time we're covering a wild one in Ninja Assassin! We've seen a lot of Ninja movies this year and we're happy to report that Ninja Assassin delivers the goods! This movie felt like a mix of some of the Ninja content we've already covered, but it takes certain aspects and levels them up. Join us as we walk through the movie and share a...

This week we're inserting our final October movie into the feed with one of the all time great ground breaking films with George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead! This film essentially created the modern take on what a Zombie is. The movie is masterfully created and still holds up today. Join us as we walk through the film touching on all the classic moments from this epic thriller! Be sur...

This week we're going to scare you with a tale of an overly protective Shark who'll murder you if you touch it's whale carcass!! What would you do if you were stuck on a rock with a Great White circling? Would you make a run (swim) for it? Would you wait for help? Would you get in and fight the Shark? Find out what we'd do and listen to us break down this fun Shark story. Join us now as we review...

This week we're having fun once again with some original Tales from the Crypt comic books! Join us if you dare as we walk through 12 terrifying stories filled with murder, deceit, mystery, horror, terror, ghouls, bodies being buried alive, voodoo, and other scary occurrences! Be sure to tell your friends about Talking Back and we hope you enjoy our review of Tales from the Crypt!  If you'd like to...

This week we're placing a call to everybody's favourite group of parapsychologists to help us with our ghost problem! It's been a long time coming but we're finally covering one of the all time classics, Ghostbusters! This movie checks all the right boxes for a horror, adventure, comedy.  Join us as we walk through the film touching on all our favourite moments and try to break down what makes thi...

This week we're joined by our bud Corey for another Ninja Movie review! Up this week is 1985's Pray for Death! This turned out to be "not your typical Ninja movie". While it still had a lot of Ninja magic the movie also tried to be something different, something grittier. Some of us where thrilled with the choices the movie made, some of us weren't.  Tune in to see who's on what side and what we t...

This week we're getting back into the Star Trek Franchise with the 8th entry "First Contact"! This is one of the strongest entries in the franchise and is aided by the presence of The Borg! As far as villains go it doesn't get much more sinister than that group. Join us as we walk through the movie, and touch on the many aspects that make it so much fun.  Be sure to tell your friends about Talking...

This week we're continuing our long standing review of the Deadly Class series with the penultimate Volume 11! In this volume old rivalries come to a head and dark secrets are revealed as the deadliest people on earth reunite one last time. Tune in for our full review! Be sure to tell your friends about Talking Back and Remote Takes and we hope you enjoy our review of Deadly Class Volume 11!  If y...

This week it's our 5th annual Podcast at the Lake!! Tim and Dean once again adventure out to a cabin in the woods to record a special episode of Talking Back. We continue the Evil Dead franchise with the 3rd entry Army of Darkness! What evils await us this year at the cabin? Will we survive the adventure or will the forest swallows us whole? What terrifying creature do we see emerging from the for...

This week on Talking Back it’s Ninja time again! This time around the episode is infiltrated by our friend Tony from the Remote Takes Podcast! Ninja Scroll is regarded as one of the most influential anime of all time, and praised for increasing the awareness of anime outside Japan. Ninja Scroll gives us something we love to see which is of course Super Ninja! Anytime Ninja with super powers are th...

This week on Talking Back we hop back into our new favourite genre, Sword and Sorcery, with 1985’s Red Sonja! The consensus out there is that this movie is bad. We’ll if by bad you mean good then we agree because we loved this one! Sure there’s some problems but they’re easily overshadowed by all the good things the movie has to offer. Join us as we walk through the film and touch on our favourite...