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A Ghost And The Boy With A Box On His Head writer/director/editor/cinematographer Philp Blue chats about his film. Theo, an 18 year old boy who has a shrewd perception on reality, has an encounter with someone from deep within his subconscious; his image of a perfect girl, Sadie, who he has been looking for since he can remember. Unaware that others cannot see her, he is sent to a mental hospital for help as he cannot come to grips with the reality that everyone else super imposes on him. In the hospital with the other patients, Theo goes through an adventure into the depths of his imagination with Sadie, into a place that is hard to return from. 

On this episode we talk about two abandoned films which fortunately for audiences have been chronicled in documentary form. In LOST IN LA MANCHA, we are witness to the start and eventually end of production on Terry Gilliam’s failed film on Don Quixote. And in JODOROWSKY’S DUNE, we get to hear with great passion from the man himself on his film adaptation of the novel DUNE that never got the green light. But first, an even newer release as we got the chance to talk to actor/writer/producer and former NFL player Conrad Goode about his film WATERCOLOR POSTCARDS that you can find now on iTunes and Amazon Prime streaming, and also his involvement in the recent VOD release, an abandoned David O. Russell film that was shot in 2008, ACCIDENTAL LOVE.

All his life, Dan Landsman (Jack Black) has never been the cool guy. That’s about to change – if he can convince Oliver Lawless (Marsden), the most popular guy from his high school who’s now the face of a national Banana Boat ad campaign, to show up with him to their class reunion. A man on a mission, Dan travels from Pittsburgh to LA and spins a web of lies to recruit Lawless. But he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable Lawless proceeds to take over his home, career, and entire life. Showcasing Jack Black and James Marsden's most intoxicating performances to date, D TRAIN serves up the question: how far would you go to be popular? Co-starring Kathryn Hahn and Jeffrey Tambor.

Muck director Steve Wolsh chats about his film that is the ultimate love letter to the 12 year old version of me. When I was 12 I would stay up far too late watching movies on cable. This is how I discovered the genre films that became my entryway to the films I love today. At the time I just wanted to see gore and boobs. And to be perfectly honest not in that order. Muck is described on IMDB as: After narrowly escaping an ancient burial ground, a group of friends find themselves trapped between two evils, forcing them to fight, die, or go back the way they came. Muck is a fun movie. Its currently available on VOD and DVD/BluRay, if you have an appreciation for the 80s horror exploitation films give this one a shot.

When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home.

I'm hesitant to even describe the basic plot of this film in fear that I could possibly lessen the experience of watching it. I'll use IMDB as my spoiler threshold and not go any further than its synopsis but in my humble opinion you should go into this film with nothing more than its title. Just take my word for it and watch it, the film is wonderfully innovative from a visual perspective and deeply touching from an emotional perspective. To describe the film in a word, its beautiful. I emailed Philp Blue immediately after seeing the film even though I had an interview scheduled with him two days later. I wanted to say "thank you" for sending me the screener but mostly I wanted to start talking about the film. I didn't want to wait two days, I wanted to talk about this film immediately.  I remember the conversation I had with some friends after we saw PULP FICTION for the first time. We stood next to our cars for close to an hour and talked about the fil

“ Fight Like a Girl is about women making the choice to stand up and fight for their life” -Huffington Post, Gerry Gavin "Morley views the sport and women in the ring with a steady, knowledgeable eye that can only be derived from participatory knowledge gained inside the ropes." -WBAN, Bernie McCoy   WHAT: WORLDWIDE VOD and DVD Release of Fight Like A Girl   WHERE: www.FightLikeAGirlTheMovie.com   WHEN: NOW Why would a woman step into the ring, don the gloves and risk her life in front of a blood hungry crowd? In a gritty, first-person narrative, shot over a period of five years, award winning filmmaker Jill Morley delves inside the little-known world of female boxers to meet the women who are passionate about fighting hard. She gets pulled into this culture as she trains for the New York Golden Gloves. From world champions to amateurs, Morley discovers that there’s a common thread in eac

The hit movie out of the Sundance Film Festival, DOPE tells the story of Malcolm (Shameik Moore) who is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles.  A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.  Produced by Forest Whitaker, Executive Produced by Pharrell Williams and Co-Executive Produced by Sean Combs.

Healy was born in Chicago, Illinois. He played the lead character "Craig" in E.L. Katz’ dark comedy thriller Cheap Thrills, and substantial central roles in Ti West's The Innkeepers, Craig Zobel's Great World of Sound, and Compliance (also directed by Zobel). He has also appeared in memorable supporting roles in Magnolia (as the pharmacist at the receiving end of Julianne Moore's profane meltdown), Ghost World, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Harmony and Me, Dirty Girl, Snow Angels, Rescue Dawn (2006), Undertow, Pearl Harbor, and Home Alone 3. He also appeared in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Draft Day starring Kevin Costner. On television, he has starred on Eagleheart, and appeared on Six Feet Under, Star Trek: Enterprise, 24, Grey’s Anatomy, The Shield, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, NCIS, Cold Case, Charmed, CSI: Miami, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, and The Practice. Pat has written three episodes of

Rich people live in a different world than I do. Their actions carry a different weight and the physics of my universe in no way apply to them. I live in a world of consequences and stifled exploration or impulse. We've seen the rich brats behaving badly (pardon the alliteration) story executed in many ways and the part of it that we never really discuss is why we like them. Why are we compelled to watch people who can do whatever they want? Why are we fascinated by these disconnected assholes? What do we like about them? I'm fully convinced that its the things that we hate about them that make them so interesting. That they breathe rarefied air and have no idea what it feels like to sweat a mortgage payment. I wouldn't go as far as to say that we envy them but we do like to project ourselves into their fine Italian leather shoes, to wonder what it would feel like to live without regard or fear. With that lets discus The Riot Club. The film is directed by the brillia

On this episode we follow the first 2015 critical sensation IT FOLLOWS with two films that aren’t very much like IT FOLLOWS but have a following theme in WINGS OF DESIRE vs. FOLLOWING and are members of The Criterion Collection. But as you will see in our reviews of these three films, the new horror movie is by far the most deserving of that status. We also shamelessly plug our website Following Films . Oh wait you're already here.

14-year-old Mackenzie is sent by her mom from her home in Seattle to spend the summer with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska. His kindness is almost overwhelming as he welcomes her into his Juneau, Alaska home but still a foreboding hangs over the home and their relationship. Mackenzie longs for her struggling absent mother. As her mom's phone calls become less frequent and her Uncle's care becomes anything but caring, she must flee. With no one to turn to, Mackenzie runs away after a hike around a local Juneau glacier. On her own and haunted by desperate phone calls and text messages from her Uncle, Mackenzie escapes into the town of Juneau which she soon discovers is not an easy place to escape being cut off from everywhere by the sea and mountains. Seeking a way back to Seattle, Mackenzie encounters Rene Bartlett while hiding out at a motel. He is gruff and keeps to himself and wants nothing more than to be on his own. Learning that Bartlett is also from Seatt

Los Angeles, October 1971. A small film, made for television, is being shot near LA under the direction of a young and unknown director. The film tells the story of “a man, a truck and an open road”. It has attracted no attention at all. It's not based on a famous book. It has no stars. It has a modest budget. It will be filmed in only 13 days. But film lovers all over the world will still show their admiration for it more than four decades later. The film is called DUEL. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT A FILM MADE FOR TV IN 1971, WITH NO BUDGET, SHOT IN RECORD TIME, WITH NO BIG FILM STARS AND A ROOKIE DIRECTOR HAS BECOME THE CULT ICONIC MOVIE THAT IT IS TODAY? IN OUR DOCUMENTARY, FIVE FANS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WILL CONVENE IN THE USA AND TRAVEL ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO FIND OUT WHY.

Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers & experimented on by a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans her escape Barry goes out on the road to find her & teams up with Benny, a fellow survivor - together they must arm themselves and prepare to battle their way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland. Director/Writers Kiah Roache-Turner & Tristan Roache-Turner stop by with special guest host Howard Gorman of Scream Magazine and Cinema Chords to discuss the film.

Shot in 13 days, VANish  (tagline: ‘the shit’s about to hit the van’) wears its micro-budget upon its greasy sleeve with licentious pride. For nearly the film’s entire running time, we are grounded in the singular setting of a dishevelled van, along with brothers Jack (Austin Abke) the loathsome Max (writer/director Bryan Bockbrader) and possible PTSD sufferer Shane (Adam Guthrie); following the rapidly escalating events spiralling out of their abduction of Emma (Maiara Walsh) and their attempts to rendezvous in the desert with her rich pops (a very dangerous man, played by Danny Trejo). I had Adam on the show to discuss working on the film and what he has coming up next. This was his first film and in my humble opinion he steals the show. He gives a really strong performance and I fully expect to more from him in the near future. I had a great time chatting with him and I hope you enjoy our conversation. 

On this episode we travel back in time slightly by catching up with a recent release that just hit DVD and Blu-Ray since the recording in PREDESTINATION, which inspires a look back at two older films about time travel with THE TERMINATOR vs. MINORITY REPORT. We also catch up with a former guest and director of OUT OF PRINT, Julia Marchese, and jump ahead in time to her future plans.

Adam is an accomplished actor but lately has been steering more towards a career as a Writer/Director with his acclaimed first feature film Backcountry. The film had its world premier at TIFF 2014. Born in Montreal, he now resides in Toronto with his wife. His other directorial works include three short films; Sombre Zombie 2005, KillerKiller 2007, and In the Dominican 2010. Backcountry is a remarkably good man vs animal tale. I see a ton of genre films and rarely do I get as caught off guard as I was with Adams film. Backcountry is currently in select theaters and available on VOD.  iTunes: http://apple.co/1BaO1ie Amazon: http://amzn.to/1HaG3gW Xbox: http://bit.ly/1GymDiL Google Play: http://bit.ly/1MQetWD

On this episode we join up with three different cults, two are old hat at this point, both Sundance darlings of 2011 in MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE and SOUND OF MY VOICE. This extreme podcasting decision was made with the controlling guidance of new release FAULTS. But before we fully commit to this cult movie decision we try the Kool-Aid of Netflix's new original series UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT and let Tangible Teddy gripe about the death of video stores.

Canyon Prince was born on December 14, 1977 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. He is known for his work on The Girl Next Door (2004), Zoolander (2001) and Hard Sun (2014)  I had Canyon on the show to discuss his film Hard Sun. The film is described as: After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make room for one.

Jack is in a rut. Depression and severe anti-social behavior has whittled down his existence to sleeping and watching television. Seeing the human race as little more than meat with a pulse, Jack has no interest to bond with anyone. There's little purpose for him to make friends with someone he'd eventually eat or outlive by more than a millennia. The fuse is lit when Jack's past comes back to rattle him. Jack must now walk a tight rope of sobriety and try to eat as few people as possible in this violent tale of personal responsibility." Director Jason Krawczyk on his film HE NEVER DIED which screens in the Midnighters section of the 2015 South By Southwest Film Festival. Rollins has been a lot of things over the course of his career, and he’s done a lot of them well. Acting has usually seemed like more of a side project than a real career move, however. From appearances in a spate of ’90s films like Johnny Mnemonic, Heat and Lost Highway to roles in Wrong Turn 2

"Spring, on its surface, is a monster movie. But beneath, we tried to build layers of humanity with truly dark, personal moments giving way to unexpected levity. Ultimately it’s to make you feel as though you’ve discovered something complex and inarticulable about the nature of love, lust and relationships. “Relationship monsters” become a bit more literal, the grotesque complemented by the beauty of the people and the places of Mediterranean Italy. After the success of Resolution, we wanted to keep pushing storytelling boundaries to bring something fresh and smart to genre cinema. It's the creation of a new monster mythology that resonates with being human (like the best creatures in cinema always do), coupled with the presentation of a relationship that makes you laugh one minute and breaks your heart the next.  The more you believe the characters are real, relatable, vulnerable people, the more the scares work when you genuinely worry for the people†

Displacement Welcomed is a short 16 minute independent film dealing with the relationship between two unlikely people. The film follows a young woman who returns home to deal with her father's disappearance. However along the way its a homeless woman named Norma who shows her that life is truly what you make of it. Displacement Welcomed - A Film by Evan Kidd from Evan Kidd on Vimeo .

On this episode we look at two 2001 movies trapped behind enemy lines with BLACK HAWK DOWN vs. the Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film in NO MAN’S LAND. This particular double feature was inspired by a film just now getting released here in the U.S. and starring Jack O’Connell in ’71. And we were privileged to have the director of photography for that film, Tat Radcliffe, join us to talk about this film and the great year he had professionally in 2014.

THE WIGLUM STORY At his local supermarket salad bar, Wiglum witnesses the ridiculous routine of human life in mindless motion -- and it has taken its toll. Meanwhile at his company, he can no longer face the show-posing put on by the self-important applicants he interviews, but somehow stumbles upon Doug Nichol in the process. How is Wiglum now listening to the spurring voices in his mind from the tongue of another person . . . in this interview? And what is that worth anyway? This 15-minute short film tip-toes between 'fever-dream' and 'black-comedy' through the banal lens of a microscope. WIGLUM - trailer from Kouros Alaghband on Vimeo .

We go on a writers' retreat with two older films and two sets of dueling writers, Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve in the comedic thriller DEATHTRAP going up against the sexy cat fighting led by Charlotte Rampling in SWIMMING POOL. This duel where the weapons of choice are typewriters and word processors has been inspired by a film new to DVD, Blu-Ray, and various VOD services in LISTEN UP PHILIP.

On this episode we are haunted by Hollywood, much like the characters in David Cronenberg's new film MAPS TO THE STARS. The only way we can see to exorcise these demons is by tackling two of the classics on this subject with Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD taking on Robert Altman's THE PLAYER. Wilder. Altman. Cronenberg. The only clear winner in this episode is us.

On this episode we join strangers who arrive in small but equally strange communities and how they shape or are shaped by them. Unfortunately we are not talking ROAD HOUSE, but we do have a 1938 French film in PORT OF SHADOWS going up against Lars Von Trier's DOGVILLE. So... basically the same thing as ROAD HOUSE. This pairing has been inspired by the new release OCTOBER GALE from writer/director Ruba Nadda, who joins us to talk about her work.

On this episode we are inspired by THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH, which recently hit Amazon streaming, to have a long talk about romance in films where couples have long talks. The two older films that we picked are Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE MIDNIGHT, the first and third in a trilogy which perfectly fits our format as we debate how time has changed our perceptions of the two films and the characters as they have progressed. To do so we bring in the wife of one of our hosts to get a female point of view and to have our own version of a married couple having a long conversation in podcast form. But before all of that, we got to speak with the writer and director of THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH, Jim Hemphill, about the inspiration for the project and his creative influences.

In this episode we are directed by Nicolas Winding Refn to have a theme inspired by MY LIFE DIRECTED BY NICOLAS WINDING REFN. That direction leads us to the films HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE and AMERICAN MOVIE, as we see that both someone at the top and bottom of their field can be driven mad by the passion and pitfalls of seeing their dream film through to completion.

David the documentary filmmaker is 40 years old, but he still doesn't feel like a man - not a real man anyway. When his wife becomes pregnant with a boy, David's manhood insecurities deepen. How can he bring his son into manhood if he feels so estranged from his own? This question sets him off on a quest for his manhood that leads him from voice lessons to a men's group to deer-hunting, and ultimately back to his own father. My Own Man is an intimate, humorous, and emotional account of one man's search for what it means to be a man and a father in the 21st century. My Own Man is currently streaming on Netflix.