This week’s poster is a real life image based on a movie about a haunted apartment building and the roommates that live there. Two plucky 20-somethings move into an apartment with some pretty noisy neighbors, only to discover that their neighbors have been dead for hundreds of years! It’s a real nail-biter as our lead tries to dispose of the misburied remains before his possessed roommate gets the best of him.
You may think you know what movie this poster is about. A take on the recent Downsizing, but bigger and better. Well, yeah. That’s the gist. Instead of shrinking Matt Damon to reduce the carbon footprint of humanity, why not make him a towering world-ender size instead? Matt Damon stars as a middle-aged schlub that aspires to be sixty feet taller. He gets all the way through an intensive interview process before he realizes he can’t leave his grandfather (Michael Caine) regular-sized. His dream comes true as both of them are granted the irreversible surgery to upsize. But his dream becomes his nightmare as he wakes from the surgery next to his murdered grandfather, and realizes he’s next. This is a conspiracy of giant proportions that goes all the way to the top, that only a giant Matt Damon can hope to rectify.
Be excellent to each other, and show people this much-needed sequel! Bill and Ted set out on the high seas to find Bluebeard’s treasure, with Bill’s smart son and the real Bluebeard himself! But the Illuminati, Bluebeard’s ancient rivals, are hot on their trail, and want to trap them in the Bermuda Triangle! Will the Wyld Stallyns reuniting be enough to save the world? Oh, most definitely!
Charlie Van Stee is our guest on this episode, bringing the meat of the movie and trop rock vibes to the show.
This week we had a pitch session with Paulie Band of Full Moon fame and pitched him a franchise to really put those millennial butts in the seats for decades to come. Dan Aykroyd stars as a WW2 scientist whose ghost is trapped in a sick vape rig and seeks revenge on Robert Englund, the man who locked him in there. Does this sound like it makes sense? No? Well shut up, you’re not the target audience.
Dylan of Podquest: No Strangers to Adventure guest stars!
Hey! Did you ever see The Shining? Remember how people were displaced in time in that movie but they were just sort of walking around with modern-day people? The state fair is kind of like that and this week Andrew and Kelsey delve deep into that rich vein. Bruce Campbell stars in this SPIRITual sequel to The Shining. The poster features a featureless, ghostly outline of Mr. Campbell residing over the fair that he will eventually become trapped in forever, or has he been there all along? Find out in this week’s episode!
This week’s episode serves up a simple yet elegant cooking film. In the vein of greats such as Big Night, I Am Love, and Ratatouille, A Single Bite pairs danger with desire, tradition with passion, and porridge with fish eyes. This movie has high stakes, high steaks, true love, true loss, and the best witches stew you’ve ever tasted. If only ears could taste the sumptuous line up of dishes described in this film. You’d never have to eat another shepherd’s pie again.
This week’s episode is all about the movie of the summer that will eclipse all this talk of eclipses: it’s about the eclipse. Hikers on the hunt for the best moon viewing spot encounter Jeffrey Tambor who stars as the leader of a cult determined to use the eclipse and a little bit of blood sacrifice to permanently block out the sun. Our poster this week may seem like a death metal poster but it’s actually the poster for a budget horror film involving a moon monster. Enjoy that summer sun while it lasts because it may be ending soon in a torrent of vampires and super werewolves!
This week’s episode exposes the naked face behind mask-centric films. Elijah Wood stars as a bored jokester armed only with a 3D printer and a high resolution scan of his face. And what else can you do but print a bunch of masks of your face and stick them on flies to confuse people. Wood’s pranks escalate to more daring feats in a world just realizing the immense, terrible power behind a really realistic mask. They’re not just for making pigs into the next James Dean, hypnotizing chickens, or scaring yourself when you forget you put one on your dog. Maybe all those masked supervillains were on to something.
This week’s movie is a rom-com but with vampires! Starring Christoph Waltz as the cool guy Dracula and Brendan Fraser as a goth wannabe vampire. The twist? These two lovers think the other one is fakin’ and that’s a dealbreaker! This week we go over all them weird twisty, topsy turvy rom-coms. Kelsey and Andrew talk about partially misremembered director’s cuts of Kate and Leopold–did you know she dates her great-great-grandson? But only in the director’s true vision.
This movie’s got a private island! A fresh oyster bar! And only one way to return home. That’s right, it’s a battle royale film! Paul Dano stars as a super smug rich boy that’s convinced he could survive a massive fight to the death. Lured guests are told only one person can leave the island alive, so they better get to killing. But Dano’s weekend plan falls apart when he’s sniffed out quickly by the guests as the man behind the murder game, and becomes the sole target of the hundred other people he’s trapped with him. Can he grovel, sneak, and cheat his way to survival? Will he realize this was just a perverted, roundabout attempt to make some friends before he’s gutted with a butter knife?
GHOST PARTY! 