The Tuesday Morning Screening Room Podcast

Screening Roomers, grab your 12-sided dice and hold onto your Gorvils as we head back to the basement to celebrate Tom Hanks 70th Birthday with his first starring role - 1982's made-for-TV anti-Dungeons & Dragons movie MAZES AND MONSTERS . And to help us with all the festivities are a trio of performers and D&D enthusiasts - actors Yuri Lowenthal (Naruto), Frank Todaro (Transformers: War f...

Screening Roomers, it's time to celebrate a monumental milestone in film, entertainment and pop culture history - the 100th birthday of writer/director/producer/playwright & songwriter - Mel Brooks! A living legend and EGOT winner, who shaped the face of comedy with groundbreaking films like BLAZING SADDLES , YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN & THE PRODUCERS . So, to honor this momentous occasion, FM is...

Logan-5 didn't think he would make it past 30... well, now he's turning 50... or, at least the film he stars in is... so, join FM and actor Yuri Lowenthal (Spider-Man / Naruto) , Screening Roomers, as they run to Sanctuary (or rather to the Screening Room) for a very special 50th Anniversary celebration of a 1970s sci-fi cult classic - 1976's LOGAN'S RUN , which had its debut 50-years ago on June...

Screening Roomers, it's the companion episode to our Heavy Metal episode (episode 75)!!! And, just when you thought you couldn't possibly handle anymore animated Cheap Trick... we see your Cheap Trick... and raise you some animated Blondie, Iggy Pop, Earth/Wind & Fire and Lou Reed doing his best Mick Jagger impression in 1983's animated sci-fi cyberpunk rock musical cult classic - ROCK & R...

Screening Roomers, HEEEERE'S JOHNNY... or actually, here's our Johnny Carson episode! As this week we take a behind the scenes look at one of the most influential figures in comedy and late night television... an innovator, pioneer and star maker who was responsible for breaking the careers of our generation's most popular stars... while also making stars out of some quirky regular folks, as well....

Hold onto your Loc-Nars, Screening Roomers! As this week actor Yuri Lowenthal (Naruto / Spider-man) flies into the the Screening Room on the back of a pterodactyl with the horniest of Cable Box Classic films this side of Neverwhere, the animated cult classic sci-fi fantasy musical - 1981's HEAVY METAL ! A gonzo film that features contributions from some of the most innovative and influential artis...

Screening Roomers, our resident Midnight Movie Mavens, the writing team of Kevin Burke and Doc Wyatt (Stranger Things: Tales from '85 & Ninjago) , return to bring us another [flippin'] Midnight Movie in the morning! And this one is nearly indescribable [Melon Farmers]! A nihilistic punk rock sci-fi Neo-western cult classic comedy! And the film that made Harry Dean Stanton yell at its director...

Screening Roomers... WELL BLOW ME DOWN ... our new segment for 2026 Second Chance Theatre . returns with a little muskle! As our Commodore of Second Chances - podcaster/comedian Mike Spiegelman sails into the Screening Room with one of the most notorious, misguided and misunderstood films in cinema history - 1980's live-action comic strip musical comedy (or is that mu-skical comic-dee) - POPEYE !...

SCREENING ROOMERS & MOVIE DEATH MATCH FANS - IT'S THE WAR OF THE WEIRD as two quirked out 1980s sci-fi / fantasy /action / comedies enter the Tuesday Morning Screening Room Octagon to settle the score over who will wear the coveted Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - Gonzo Sci-Fi Movie Division - 1984's THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION vs - a film ce...

Screening Roomers, the Derby Race might have just ended (congrats, Golden Tempo!!!). .. but our horses have just lined up at the gate... horse racing films, that is! So, refill your mint juleps and grab your big hats because our TMSR Derby Day is just getting started... as we are joined by our very special guest, the track announcer for Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky - Travis Stone - plus...

Screening Roomers, what do you get when you mix 1950's Hitchcock... with 1980s DePalma... then throw in a copy of Fangoria and Starlog Magazines ... you get one of the most interesting thrillers to come out of the mid-1980s - as well as a certified Cable Box Classic - 1986's F/X ! A film that had massive success on big and small screens in its era, but then all but disappeared from our cinema conv...

Screening Roomers, join us in the Screening Room this morning for a very special Tribute Episode as we celebrate the life... the artistry... the music... and the films of Prince on the 10th anniversary of his passing - April 21st, 2016 . And joining us this week to discuss all the moments and memories from Prince's career as actor and director - 1984's PURPLE RAIN , 1986's UNDER THE CHERRY MOON an...

Screening Roomers, it's our first Kaiju segment of Season-2... and our resident Kaiju expert, writer/author Todd Ludy, returns to the Screening Room to serve up a full order of some cinematic sashimi... as we celebrate all the wet and wild wonderfulness of 1966's EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP (aka Godzilla vs the Sea Monster) - the 7th entry in the Godzilla movie series... even though the film wasn't...

SCREENING ROOMERS & MOVIE DEATH MATCH FANS -WE HAVE AN "ELLIE" (Extinction Level Event) of a Movie Death March for you this month as two late 90s summer blockbusters crash the Tuesday Morning Screening Room Octagon to settle the score over who will wear the coveted Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - Best Disaster Movie of 1998 Involving a Giant Space Rock Hitting Earth Division...

Screening Roomers, it's time to do the time warp to April 1st, 1976 ... to the first midnight showing of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW at the Waverly Theater in New York City... but let's first take a jump to the left and find out how we got there with our guest this morning - author Tim Deegan (Saving "Rocky Horror" From Orphan to Icon) - who as former Advertising Manager at Fox through his own d...

Screening Roomers, it's time to look under your beds... in your closet.... and in your toy box... as we hear the pitter-patter of little plastic feet... which means only one thing - there's a Killer Doll on the loose!!! Well, not really. Phew! But we have unleashed a bunch of KILLER DOLL MOVIES in the Screening Room this morning... so, voice actor Kaitlyn Robrock (Minnie's Bow-Toons) has stopped b...

FIRE! FLOOD! EARTHQUAKE! No... it's not the latest update from the Weather Channel, Screening Roomers... because in the 1970s Disaster Films were the biggest movies of the decade flooding theaters with audiences and smashing box office records! Massive casts of Hollywood legends past and present battled natural and unnatural disasters as audience cheered them on. So, this morning actor/impressioni...

Well, Screening Roomers - it turns out we weren't quite done with our exploration into the sub-genre of Teenagers in Revolt films (the perfect companion ep. to Ep. 60 "Edgy"Teen Films with writer/director Tim Hunter )... as our cult movie expert, Emmy award winning writer/showrunner - Mitch Watson , joins FM to talk about how revolting they both were as teens and also take a stage dive into two of...

Screening Roomers, in honor of what would have been her 72nd Birthday... we celebrate the life and talent of one of our favorites in the TMSR - CATHERINE O'HARA ! From Cookie Fleck... to Delia Deetz... to Kate McAllister... to Moira Rose... and beyond... join FM and his special guest - Netflix's VP of Scripted Series, Teddy Biaselli - as they explore all the wonderful films, characters, memories a...

Screening Roomers, are all bad films truly bad? Or did some of them have extenuating circumstances that sealed their fates? Maybe it was a terrible ad campaign... or a bad release date... or maybe it was some cranky critics... or maybe it was just a mess. But is it also a mess worthy of a second look... and a SECOND CHANCE !. Are these films actually better than their reputations and reviews say t...

Screening Roomers, if you enjoy your teen films with a little "edge"... have we got a trio for you!. As this morning writer/director Tim Hunter joins us for a deep dive into three of his films (and three of the best of the genre, in our opinion) - 1979's Over the Edge , 1982's Tex & 1987's River's Edge ! So, grab your Cheap Trick records and head over to the Screening Room rec center for an ex...

YIPPEE KI-YAY, SCREENING ROOMERS & MOVIE DEATH MATCH FANS -IT'S THE FIRST MOVIE DEATH MATCH OF 2026!!! As two action-classics enter the Tuesday Morning Screening Room Octagon to settle the score over who will wear the coveted Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - 1980s R-Rated Action Movie Division - 1987's LETHAL WEAPON vs 1988's DIE HARD! So, returning for another season of 10-r...

Screening Roomers, our resident Midnight Movie Mavens, the writing team of Kevin Burke and Doc Wyatt (Stranger Things: Tales from '85 & Ninjago) , return to bring us another Midnight Movie in the morning! And this one has everything! A killer comet... piles of pink dust... uzi packing cheerleaders... flesh-eating mutant zombies... empty Los Angeles freeways... psychotic stock boys...and a post...

Huddle up Screening Roomers, now that the Lombardi Trophy has been awarded... and all the nachos have been eaten... we bring you a surprise post-Big Game Special as the award-winning radio voice of the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals and University of Cincinnati Bearcats football, Dan Hoard, joins FM and his other special guest, Emmy Award winning writer/producer, Jack Thomas (Dreamworks Dragons & Fa...

Screening Roomers, they're not necessarily midnight movies... but they are movies that take place after midnight... one set in Los Angeles... the other in NYC... and both released in theaters only months apart in 1985! So, join FM and his special guest this week, actor/impressionist - Piotr Michael - for some late night fun in the morning as they talk stolen jewels... Elvis impersonators... and pa...