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Bonus Episode: Interview Part 2 with Producer Donald P. Borchers (CRIMES OF PASSION, ANGEL, TUFF TURF)

 #Newoirvember continues with Part 2 of our 3-part conversation with producer and director Donald P. Borchers, who produced both ANGEL and CHILDREN OF THE CORN for New World Pictures and helped get the post-Corman era off to a good start. In this episode, we discuss Ken Russell’s CRIMES OF PASSION, which Borchers produced and discuss…

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Bonus Episode: Interview Part 2 with Producer Donald P. Borchers (CRIMES OF PASSION, ANGEL, TUFF TURF)
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Ep. 71: Sweet Kill – featuring Galen Howard

For our first episode of Newoirvember, Galen Howard (Book of Boba Fett, Brooklyn 99) joins us to discuss director Curtis Hanson’s most esteemed work, SWEET KILL. Or did he eventually direct something better? We’ll offer our opinions on Hanson’s filmography as we discuss Tab Hunter and his series of Bleak Workout video tapes, Nightly Night…

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Ep. 71: Sweet Kill - featuring Galen Howard
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Bonus Episode: Interview with producer/director Donald P. Borchers (CHILDREN OF THE CORN, ANGEL, THE BEASTMASTER, THE FOG)

The end of #Corntober arrives with an epic interview with producer, director and writer Donald P. Borchers, who was a Senior Vice President of Production at New World Pictures after Roger Corman sold the company. His career took off fast producing ANGEL and CHILDREN OF THE CORN and that’s where this part of our conversation…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with producer/director Donald P. Borchers (CHILDREN OF THE CORN, ANGEL, THE BEASTMASTER, THE FOG)
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Bonus Episode: Children of the Corn Franchise Ranking – featuring Dirk Marshall

Considering we’re already halfway through #Corntober, it’s fitting that we return to the franchise that inspired it all AND RANK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!  Dirk Marshall of the VHUS podcast joins us  as we raw cob all the CORNS and discuss all the different places that the franchise goes (mostly Nebraska).  Which film did…

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Bonus Episode: Children of the Corn Franchise Ranking - featuring Dirk Marshall
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Ep. 70: The Vineyard

#Corntober continues as we turn our attention to the curious world of viticulture with 1989’s THE VINEYARD.  As it turns out, making the best wine in the world is hard.  It takes more than a great crop.  You need to have incredibly loyal staff, an associate’s degree in magic, and the blood of aspiring twenty-something…

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Ep. 70: The Vineyard
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Bonus Episode: Interview with screenwriter David Simkins (ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, WU ASSASSINS, ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTRY JR.)

 David Simkins is well known as a writer for both the big and small screen, writing ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING and working on shows like Adventures of Brisco County Jr. and Lois & Clark, but it was a surprise to us that he started his career working as a development executive at New World Pictures. In…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with screenwriter David Simkins (ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, WU ASSASSINS, ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTRY JR.)
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Ep. 69: Deadly Harvest

 #Corntober is here! And what better way to kick things off than 1977’s DEADLY HARVEST, a Canadian eco-thriller about famine, human desperation, and our universal hatred of eggplants!  Clint Walker and Kim Cattrall lead this film about a society with a dwindling food supply due to climate change, yet plenty of gasoline and eggplants! (But…

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Ep. 69: Deadly Harvest
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Nearly New World: THE BLOB

It’s another installment in our burgeoning Bonus Episode series, “Nearly New World”.  This time, we’re talking about 1988’s THE BLOB. This movie checks a lot of boxes.  It has faceless eurocrats (Ryan’s favorite).  It’s a creature feature (Erica’s favorite).  It highlights the challenges of a low tax basis on a small town’s infrastructure (Marc’s favorite). …

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Nearly New World: THE BLOB
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Ep. 68: Reno and the Doc – featuring Dan Gorman

Dan Gorman from the Notes From the Back Row Podcast (http://www.back-row.com) joins us as we dig deep into the New World Pictures catalog to uncover 1984’s RENO AND THE DOC, a Canadian action(?) film about telepathy, middle-aged friendships, and skiing! The directorial debut from Charles Dennis (COVERGIRL) was an HBO staple and was nominated for…

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Ep. 68: Reno and the Doc - featuring Dan Gorman
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Convince Me: BATMAN RETURNS

Way back in our HEATHERS episode, Marc mentioned his disdain for 1992’s BATMAN RETURNS, only for it come back to haunt him when we interviewed screenwriter Daniel Waters. We felt the next step was to try to convince Marc to give BATMAN RETURNS another chance, first by interviewing Marc’s 1992 self and then catching up…

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Convince Me: BATMAN RETURNS
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