On this week's episode, we review the ultimate gothic horror classic, Tod Browning's Dracula from 1931!
In this episode, we reminisce about the way we view gothic horror as well as the way Matt and Tracey viewed movies back in the day. We also learn about a couple of different versions of this iconic classic! Starring Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan. Directed by Tod Browning.
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On this week's episode, we review Alone in The Dark! Yay...
Internal narration from Christian Slater plus awkward dialogue and god-awful effects with what we can make out to be a plot? We have quite the treat to share with all of you as we near Halloween!
Alone in The Dark (2005) starring Christian Slater, Tara Reid, and Stephen Dorff. Directed by Uwe Boll.
On this week's episode, we review Wes Craven's horror classic Scream!
We talk about Errol Flynn's corpse joke, Matt accuses Alex of stealing his notes, and former WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette!
Every month, The 35mm Podcast reviews films around an arbitrary theme we made up. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Scream (1996). Starring Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, and Skeet Ulrich. Directed by Wes Craven.
Opening our 2nd annual Spooktacular Month, we start with sequelitis and Ghostbusters 2!
This week, we talk about Columbia's issues with this movie, Dana's abrupt career change, and our personal songs that make us positive.
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Ghostbusters 2 (1989). Starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, and Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
On this week's episode of The 35mm Podcast, we talk about the 1994 classic (?) Street Fighter!
We talk about the bad Street Fighter game, JCVD's habits, and many tangents like a discussion on Thunder in Paradise (because we were not feeling this movie)! All that and more!
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Street Fighter (1994). Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Kylie Minogue, and Wes Studi. Directed by Stephen de Souza.
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On this week's show, we discuss 1994's The Shadow starring Alec Baldwin! Is it good? You be the judge, but we don't think so. Listen as Matt discusses nightmares related to this movie, the very little character development, and how Tracey will fit into the cabbie role with how he drives. Every week, The 35mm Podcast reviews a movie based around an arbitrary film. The Shadow (1994). Starring: Alec Baldwin, Jone Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, and Tim Curry. Directed by Russell Mulcahy.
On this week's show, Tracey and Matt introduce Julia as the 3rd member of the 35mm team after a hiatus while we review Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse! We talk about the Kingpin's white wall that Tracey has at home, how the movie revolutionized animation, complain about some other comic book movies, and Matt's quest to make velcro shoes popular. Each week, the three of us review a movie (loosely) based around a theme. Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse (2018), starring Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, and Liev Schreiber. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman.
The year 2022 has come to an end and the year 2023 officially kicks off! Join us as we kick in the New Year paying tribute to one of Matt's favorite Movie holidays with the New Years Comedy Cure for the month of January. Many of these movies we will be doing appeared on the TBS channel on New Years days many many moons ago. Our first movie we will be covering is the classic time travel movie, Back to the Future.
Listen in as we discuss not only the first movie, but bounce around across the entire trilogy to some degree while also discussing reusing calendars, residual checks on large movies, our choices if we had a time machine available to us, and how our local theater rips about 2 mins from this movie for their cheezy opening montage before movies..
Each month, The 35mm Podcast views movies around a theme we make up as we go along.
Back to the Future (1985), starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, and the DeLorean . Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Happy New Year! On this SPECIAL episode, we decided to do a commentary track on the 1983 film Trading Places to ring in the new year and new theme.
We hope you enjoy!
There is a prompt to start the movie to follow along with the commentary.
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Wrapping up Christmas Month a day after the holiday, it's Ernest Saves Christmas!
Starring one of Kentucky's greats, listen as we talk about how The Santa Clauses basically rips this Ernest movie plot beat for beat, the joys of pre-9/11 airports, and the problematic issues in an otherwise feel good movie.
Each month, The 35mm Podcast views movies around a theme we make up as we go along.
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), starring: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Noelle Parker, Oliver Clark, Gailard Sartain, and Billie Bird. Directed by John Cherry.
What happens when two staunch republicans get together and make a Christmas Movie! You get a warning from the FBI that it is a Communist plot. And you get one of the best Christmas Movies, if not, one of the best movies ever made in It's a Wonderful Life.
Listen in as we spin the yarn on this movie as we discuss this great film along with the situation around it's TV rights, the first ever movie released in disc format, Jimmy Stewarts military Career, the Spanish Flue, vaccines, and the largest star you've probably never heard of.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946), starring: James Steward, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Gloria Grahame, Henry Travers, and Lillian Randolph. Directed by Frank Crapra.
What happens when a bunch of miserable people live in a community and force Christmas season on each other? You get Christmas with the Kranks!
Listen as we wonder why some people are involved in this movie, go off on tangents about studio logos, how dissimilar our relationships are, and just how much of a dead bedroom the main characters are in.
The 35mm Podcast reviews movies each week based on an arbitrary monthly theme!
Christmas with the Kranks (2004), starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Julia Gonzalo, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth Franz, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey, Tom Poston, Caroline Rhea, Felicity Huffman, Kevin Chamberlin, and Vernee Watson-Johnson. Directed by Joe Roth.
On this week's episode, It's Mariah (and Muppet!) SZN! We start the holiday season here at the 35MM podcast with The Muppet Christmas Carol!
Listen in as Matt and Tracey discuss the soul soaking that retail does to Christmas, perils of living in a 19th century city, Michael Caine making a conscious choice to interact with the Muppets seriously, where the split between Sesame Street and Muppets is, how often a Christmas Carol is adapted, plus much more.
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The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992). Starring: Michael Caine, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Beaker, Bunson, with Gonzo and Rizzo as the Greek Chorus. Directed by Brian Henson.
On this week's episode and wrapping up feel good month...we look at the phenomenal Pixar film UP!
Or the movie that asked "how quick will it be before you cry and have an existential crisis in the theater?" Listen to Matt argue about why this should have been a serious contender for Best Picture, why our friend hated Hellboy, and more as we conclude feel good month!
Every month, The 35mm Podcast explores movies based around a theme we make up.
UP (2009). Starring: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, and Delroy Lindo. Directed by Pete Docter.
It is Thanksgiving week and we are working our way through our feel good month with this Thanksgiving classic. It's Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!
This classic brought memories of Tracey and Matt's times travelling together, US infrastructure compared to the rest of the world, Tracey's problems with how slow they it seems they travel, and Nixon speech writer Ben Stein.
Check out the new 4K version with almost 3 hours of footage.
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987), starring: John Candy, Steve Martin, Laila Robins, Kevin Bacon, and Edie McClurg. Dir. by John Hughes
Still in feel good month, we look at a movie set in the future year of 2020. It's Real Steel! Full of past and present Marvel actors, this movie takes the classic Richard Matheson short story and then asks "what if this was Rocky on nuclear energy and has big Transformers vibes?"
Tonally shifting every 20 minutes, we find out just how much Charlie isn't good at this parenting thing in a movie that probably could have been 30 minutes shorter.
Every week, The 35mm Podcast explores movies based around a theme.
Real Steel (2011), starring: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, James Rebhorn, Olga Fonda, Karl Yune, and Dakota Goyo. Dir. by Shawn Levy
The Halloween spookiness has ended. Living in fear for the month that we have had here at 35MM podcast has got us looking to the brighter side of life and seeking out those particular comfort movies that make us happy. We begin this turn towards the light with the 1988 classic Coming to America.
This classic brought riveting conversation ranging from the Tragedy on the Twilight Zone movie set to the inspiration into the characters and opulence of King Jaffe Joffer, the early attempts at Marvel super heroes, sneakerhead culture, our preferred movie going experience, and much much more.
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Coming to America (1988), starring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Samuel L. Jackson, and Louie Anderson, and a young Cuba Gooding, Jr. Directed by John Landis.
Happy Halloween! What happens when you bring a TV to the woods and there's no reception on the rabbit ears? You get attacked by Deadites!!! Wrapping up Spooktacular Month, it's The Evil Dead!
A cult classic, listen as we talk about how great Bruce Campbell is and always will be, a riveting discussion on braunschweiger, Scotty's disregard for saftey down a dirt road, and some confusion over Cheryl and Shelly.
Every week, The 35mm Podcast explores movies based around a theme.
The Evil Dead (1981), starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, and a whole bunch of Fake Shemps. Directed by Sam Raimi.
The 35MM Spooktacular Spooktober continues on as "city authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living!"
Our 2nd cult classic in a row, listen in as we talk about head injuries in movies, local haunted houses and cemeteries, watching tv using old antenna's, how this movie forced changes to the MPAA ratings and film copyright laws, and race issues in America during this movies release.
Every week, The 35mm Podcast explores movies based around a theme.
The Night of the Living Dead (1968), starring: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon, George Kosana, and Bill Hinzmann. Directed by George A. Romero.
Quote from Anthrax - Fight em' til you can't.
Just in time for Halloween Ends because of random happenstance *wink*, we roll along Spooktacular month with where it all started...Halloween (1978)! A fantastic director, score, and cast gives us one of horror's staples!
Listen as Matt and Tracey discuss how they made a great movie on a $300,000 budget, a skunk big enough to take out a dog, and promiscuous teens who aren't paying attention to Michael Myers. Also hear how Matt can't stop bringing up Halloween Kills because of the details.
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Halloween (1978) stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Castle, P.J. Soles, Nancy Kyles, and Charles Syphers. Directed by John Carpenter.