The Tuesday Morning Screening Room Podcast

IT'S ALIVE!!! ALIIIIIIIVE!!! Our first Cable Box Classics segment of 2026! And this month actor Yuri Lowenthal (Naruto/Spider-Man) returns to the Screening Room to help celebrate the 40th anniversaries of a pair of teen genius Cable Box Classics that premiered in theaters only 5-days apart in 1985- WEIRD SCIENCE & REAL GENIUS . So, grab yourself a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty as...

Screening Roomers! You asked for it... and you got it... "NIC F**************KING CAGE!!!" It's the return of fan favorite "unCAGEd"... and this season we're celebrating Nic Cage's 67th birthday (and from this day forward hereby dubbing January 7th Nic Cage Day across the universe) by bringing you volume 2 - THE CAGE COMEDIES . So, actor, TMSR regular and Nic Cage authority Yuri Lowenthal joins FM...

IT'S THE SEASON PREMIERE OF SEASON 2!!! AND IT'S ALSO SHERLOCK HOLMES' BIRTHDAY!!! And the game is afoot, Screening Roomers, as we are honored to kick-off season 2 with legendary writer, director, producer and author, Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / Time After Time) . And Nicholas is joining us in the Screening Room to help ring in the new season and celebrate Sherlock's 172nd......

IN PART TWO OF AN INTERVIEW THAT COULDN'T BE CONTAINED TO JUST ONE EPISODE ... Director/Editor/Writer/Producer Jeff Kanew (Revenge of the Nerds/Troop Beverly Hills) tells us about his film collaborations and friendship with Kirk Douglas... working with another Hollywood legend - Burt Lancaster... plus, takes us behind-the-scenes of his '80s films 1984's Revenge of the Nerds , 1985's Gotcha! (Happy...

IN PART ONE OF AN INTERVIEW THAT COULDN'T BE CONTAINED TO JUST ONE EPISODE... Director/Editor/Producer Jeff Kanew (Revenge of the Nerds/Troop Beverly Hills) takes us through the beginnings of his incredible career... starting as a singer in a 1960's vocal group... through editing trailers for historic films such as The Good, the Bad & the Ugly , The Graduate , Midnight Cowboy and more... into...

Screening Roomers, have we got a holiday treat for you... ' Tis the season! And, 'tis Episode 50! So, 'tis the time for TMSR's Great Debate! The biggest episode we have ever done! And just in time for the holidays! 11-guests! 20-plus films! And because 'tis the season to be jolly - we tackle one of the biggest questions in film history - IS IT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE ? Our illustrious panel of cinefile...

Screening Roomers, it's time to take a deep dive into the twisted mind of writer/director Terry Gilliam to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his magnum opus - 1985's BRAZIL ! And joining FM in the Screening Room this week to talk all the brilliance - as well as all the madness - of this sci-fi / dystopic / dark comedy classic and cult favorite is writer/artist/producer, Duncan Rouleau of Man of Ac...

Screening Roomers, the holidays got you down? Feeling a little "Scroogey"? Are you in need of some holiday spirit... or more appropriately... some holiday spirits ... then how about joining us in the Screening Room for one of our favorite holiday films, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL , a Muppefied re-telling of Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic! Not only is this a Muppet tour-de-force of puppet...

Happy Holidays, Screening Roomers! And 'tis the season for holiday movies! And this morning we take a rowboat to Frogtown Hollow for one of our favorites that also happens to be one of the most innovative and ambitious holiday specials in TV/film history - 1977's EMMET OTTER'S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS - from the brilliant mind of Jim Henson with the powerhouse talents of his Muppeteers and the music of...

It's THE BIG LIZARD INVITATIONAL in the Tuesday Morning Screening Room Octagon as two titans of Kaiju cinema battle tooth and nail for the coveted Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - Giant Monster / Kaiju Division - 1954's GOJIRA vs 2023's GODZILLA MINUS ONE! ! So, joining FM this month for every stomp and tail sweep in a 10-round, no-holds-barred cinematic smackdown of crazy film-r...

We're gonna need a bigger episode!!! As this morning we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first summer blockbuster - a film that has inspired, entertained and thrilled movie audiences since its debut in 1975 - Steven Spielberg's masterpiece JAWS ! And we take a deep dive into the film through the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' wonderful new exhibit - JAWS: THE EXHIBITION - with the exhibit...

Screening Roomers, it might be Thanksgiving in America.... but it's GAMERA DAY in Japan!!! As November 27th is the giant green nuclear turtle's birthday and this year we celebrate his 60th as he made his big screen debut on this date in 1965. So, to help us celebrate we are joined by our resident Kaiju expert, writer/author Todd Ludy , to talk about the towering terrapin's history and take a close...

Screening Roomers, the holidays are upon us... and holidays mean houseguests... so, what better time to honor the 40th anniversary of a film about the worst houseguests you could possibly have - demons, monsters and one killer skeleton soldier - this is 1985's HOUSE . And actor Yuri Lowenthal is back in the Screening Room to celebrate this monumental occasion and to also prove why this is one of t...

Screening Roomers, if you like your midnight movies weird... ponderous... and featuring a shirtless Sean Connery in thigh-high leather boots, ponytail and a red space diaper... then boy do we have the film for you - 1974's ZARDOZ ! A heady sci-fi mind trip that is guaranteed to confound and confuse, but also tantalize and titillate while defying all expectation, logic and reason. And joining us th...

Screening Roomers, you wanted the best... you got the best... a special Tribute and Halloween Holdover Episode featuring the biggest rock band in the world - KISS! So, it's time to rock'n'roll all night and party everyday as FM and his guest, writer/producer/director and the creator of the original Celebrity Death Match on MTV - Eric Fogel - head to the Magic Mountain amusement park circa 1978 to...

We know Predator: Badlands ripped the spine out of the box office this past weekend... smashing records and thrilling audiences alike ( congrats! )... but can recent franchise success boost the original 1987 PREDATOR film to take the Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - Unstoppable Galactic Lifeform Division - from its oldest and most hated rival - 1979's ALIEN ! Who knows?!? So, joi...

With PREDATOR: BADLANDS hitting theaters this week... it's time to celebrate one of the most iconic movie monsters in film history and one of our favorite sci-fi/action/horror franchises ever in the TMSR - The Predator and THE PREDATOR MOVIE FRANCHISE ! And joining FM this week to tackle all six Predator films... plus two Alien vs Predator films... is TV & comic book writer, Jordan Morris , re...

Screening Roomers, we have one last Halloween treat for you before we wrap up our month of horror-related episodes... a midnight movie slasher about a midnight movie slasher ... a forgotten little gem that might also be one of the better meta-horror-comedies of the last 30-years - 1991's POPCORN ! And joining FM in the Screaming Room to help make some new Popcorn '91 fans and discuss his experienc...

Hey, Screening Roomers, have you ever heard of 1980's FADE TO BLACK ? Probably not. Should you? Definitely yes! And actor Yuri Lowenthal joins FM in the Screaming Room to make the case to why this is such a criminally underrated Cable Box cult classic and single-handedly the best horror-comedy made in 1980 about a disturbed young man obsessed with old Hollywood films who enacts his revenge through...

Help us... Help us... . as this month's MOVIE DEATHMATCH has a special Halloween season Creature Feature twist!!! As we pit three revered Creature Classics ( 1951's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD , 1958's THE FLY & 1958's THE BLOB &) against their spirited and spunky Remakes ( 1982's THE THING, 1986's THE FLY & 1988's THE BLOB ) - in a 10-round, no-holds-barred, tag-team cinematic smackd...

1966's WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS ... is it a sequel... a reboot... a based on the comedy of... just what the (bleep) is it! Well, whether it is in fact the follow-up to 1965's FRANKENSTEIN VS BARAGON (aka FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD) or not - both films remain two of our favorite monster mashes! So, this week our resident Kaiju expert, writer/author Todd Ludy , returns to the Screening Room to hel...

The Universal Monsters - Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Invisible Man, The Mummy and The Wolfman - are horror and pop culture icons with each starring in their own classic film. But their respective series didn't end at just one. These mighty monsters went on to make a hefty string of sequels that sometimes honored their original films or subverted them completely. So, this week, writers Sam...

Attenzione amici della sala cinematografica! (very loosely translated: "Attention, Screening Roomers!" ) This week the TMSR doubles-down on the weird (and wonderful) with a double-feature of two of the goriest, goopiest and gooiest entries in the annals 0f gonzo Italian horror history - 1985's Demons & 1986's Demons 2 ! So, to help revel in all the glorious goop & gore is award-winning wri...

BOYYYYYYY (did you see what I did there) do we have quite an episode for you this morning, Screening Roomers... as actor Yuri Lowenthal returns to the TMSR with another of his Cable Box Classics. And this time he has brought along a Halloween season cult classic, a sci-fi horror film that revels in the weird... while also being truly wonderful... a film filled with inter-dimensional portals, shrun...

Screening Roomers! Just in time for the weekend release of TRON: ARES , the Geek Buddies podcast returns to the Screening Room for a SURPRISE BONUS EPISODE as they take a trip into the Game Grid with FM to download on the first two films in the Tron movie franchise - 1982's TRON and 2010's TRON: LEGACY . So cue up the Daft Punk, hop on your light cycles and try not to get de-rezzed as we chat all...