Writer/performer Ali Davis returns to the podcast as we continue #SEXtember with 1975’s COVER GIRL MODELS! This Cirio Santiago-directed film follows the exploits of three models and the sleazy photographer they are friends with for no good reason as they travel to Hong Kong for musical montages of photoshoots, a runway show, a dance contest,…
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Jessica Young (co-host of the Rants ‘n Raves podcast) returns to the podcast as we continue our tawdry journey through #SEXtember with 1987’s Nice Girls Don’t Explode – a movie that is everything and nothing you’d expect with the title, “Nice Girls Don’t Explode”. For a movie that explores a young woman’s tendency to spontaneously…
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Happy Labor Day indeed! We kick off #SEXtember by talking about 1974’s CANDY STRIPE NURSES written and directed by Alan Holleb (SCHOOL SPIRIT). In typical NWPP fashion, we start covering New World’s NURSES series with the final one in the series, and dig deep into what it takes to be a private eye in Los…
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To end out #AuGHOST, a celebration of the ghost films released by New World Pictures, we talk about a movie that started a franchise (albeit one New World only half participated In): HOUSE! The film about a haunted house taken over by a deceased owner’s nephew with his own strange history brought director Steve Miner…
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Our #AuGHOST month continues with our most terrifying selection yet (that is, if you find local theater terrifying): 1986’s SHADOW PLAY! The directorial debut of writer/director Susan Shadburne, this features plenty of star power in the form of Dee Wallace Stone and Cloris Leachman, as it explores a playwright who loses her fiance to suicide…
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We kick off #AUGHOST with 1987’s PRISON. Directed by Renny Harlin (CLIFFHANGER, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT) and written HALLOWEEN producer Irwin Yablans, PRISON is a curious partnership between New World Pictures and Empire Pictures. And who’s the beneficiary of this partnership? We all are. Don’t let the title fool you. The Prison in PRISON…
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Joining us to finish off #SciFiJuly is our friend, comedian and actor Tommy Bechtold (The Middle, New Rockstars YouTube Channel), who almost watched another movie altogether but finally caught DEF-CON 4, writer/director Paul Donovan’s post-apocalyptic tale of love, survival, and unseasoned steaks! We discuss post-nuclear hut-building, DEF-CON 4’s iconic poster, the incredible amount of spices…
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We are ribbiting our way into #SCIFIJULY with 1988’s HELL COMES TO FROG TOWN – a futuristic sci-fi comedy staring everyone’s favorite Canadian Scotsman, Rowdy Roddy Piper. He hop all over this episode. Marc talks about his favorite movies from the 2011’sis year including JUST GO WITH IT. In fact, this episode spends an unusual…
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As they say, “all gloomy things must come to an end”. We wave goodbye to JUNE GLOOM with a movie that isn’t short on tears – Ingmar Bergman’s CRIES AND WHISPERS. This movie which deals with the fractured relationship between three sisters as one of the sisters is dying of cancer is long on…
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JUNE GLOOM marches on and takes a dramatic (yet satisfying) turn as we discuss SAINT JACK, the film that saw director Peter Bogdanovich’s return to Roger Corman filmmaking! And joining us for this episode is the hilarious and insightful Ben Slater, who literally wrote the book on SAINT JACK with Kinda Hot: The Making of…
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