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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Barbara Pokras (SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS, FADE TO BLACK)

We close out #PrisonMarch 2: Second Offense with an interview with someone who there at New World from the very beginning: editor Barbara Pokras! After graduating from USC (where she went to school with Dan O’Bannon with whom she would work on RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD), Barbara found her way to Roger Corman’s newly-formed…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Barbara Pokras (SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS, FADE TO BLACK)
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Ep. 142: The Big Bust-Out featuring Chris Iannacone

That’s right, #PrisonMarch is back for Prison Marc H 2: Second Offense! Once more, we plumb the depths of the women-in-prison movies released by New World Pictures, this time with an Italian knock-off created after New World’s THE BIG DOLL HOUSE became a huge success! Yes, plenty of studios were making knock-offs by 1973, but…

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Ep. 142: The Big Bust-Out featuring Chris Iannacone
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Ep. 141: The Tin Drum

 We close #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February) with an Academy Award winner! Director  Volker Schlöndorff’s 1979 adaptation of THE TIN DRUM! Based on the book of the same name by Günter Grass, the film shows the rise of authoritarianism in Europe prior to World War II through the life of self growth stunting,  drum banging and…

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Ep. 141: The Tin Drum
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Ep. 140: The Harder They Come

Do you know how much reggae is played in San Diego? Marc and Ryan do, and Erica sort of does, which makes the NWPP the perfect podcast to discuss Jamaica’s first film, 1972’s THE HARDER THEY COME, as we continue #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February)! A foreign film where the only language used is English? You…

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Ep. 140: The Harder They Come
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Ep. 138: God Told Me To

We wrap up #FANuary – where listeners chose what we watched across all our social media accounts – with Larry Cohen’s 1976 classic GOD TOLD ME TO! Cohen’s strange odyssey of a New York police detective whose investigation yields way more than he ever bargained for is truly a genius piece of cinema that only…

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Bonus Episode: ALIEN Franchise Ranking

We end #ROBOtober like we with every October, with a franchise ranking episode! This time, to celebrate our 5th year as a podcast, we are talking about all the ALIEN movies! Roger Corman had a shot at ALIEN at one point, as we discussed in a previous episode, so this is a “Nearly New World”…

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Bonus Episode: ALIEN Franchise Ranking
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Ep 131: The Cremators

We continue #ROBOtober with 1972’s THE CREMATORS, a movie that doesn’t include a single robot but that’s okay because #ROBOtober is all about the weird movies made by New World Pictures.  You wouldn’t be to blame for punching holes in the second part of that last sentence but we will move on. Considered one of…

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Ep 131: The Cremators
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Nearly New World: Stripped to Kill

We can think of no better way to kick off #SEXtember Part Deux than with Katt Shea’s 1987 thriller, STRIPPED TO KILL.  This isn’t one of those movies the skimps (wink) on the stripping.  There’s a lot of it in STRIPPED TO KILL.  So much, in fact, that it broke our titty count machine.  …

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Nearly New World: Stripped to Kill
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Bonus Episode: Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Interview with director Allan Arkush, editor Mark Helfrich, and author Stephen B. Armstrong

We continue #HAHAugust, our celebration of the comedies of New World Pictures, with an interview about one of classic comedies to emerge from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, 1979’s ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL! Joining us to talk about the film is author Stephen B. Armstrong, who just wrote a book on the subject called…

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Bonus Episode: Rock 'n' Roll High School Interview with director Allan Arkush, editor Mark Helfrich, and author Stephen B. Armstrong
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Ep. 125: In the Aftermath featuring Dirk Marshall

We continue #SciFiJuly presents #DystopianSummer with 1988’s IN THE AFTERMATH! Never heard of it? You’re not alone! A mixture of Mamoru Oshii’s 1985 anime ANGEL’S EGG and live-action, dystopian footage directed by New World’s then Head of post-production, Carl Colpaert, the film is a wild mix that skipped theatrical release and went straight to video…

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In the Aftermath
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Ep. 125: In the Aftermath featuring Dirk Marshall
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