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Nerd Lunch Extra Helping: The Ref (1994)

Posted in movies, podcast with tags movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts on December 27, 2012 by Paxton

While I’m off overseeing the birth of my daughter, CT and Jeeg convene for a quick discussion about the little remembered Denis Leary movie, The Ref, from 1994.

The fellas discuss their love for Mr Leary and JK Simmons as well as the hatred that CT has for the Christmas candle hats the family wears. It’s a fun roundtable about a hidden Christmas gem that you may or may not like depending on your tolerance level of Denis Leary. So fire up your iTunes and download this directly into your ear holes.

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Or listen to it on our online player here.

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Cult Film Club Episode 2 Part 1: What is a cult movie?

Posted in movies, nostalgia, podcast with tags Cult Film Club, movies, podcast, podcasts on December 20, 2012 by Paxton

We’ve made it to episode 2. In this second meeting of the Cult Film Club Jaime, Shawn and I discuss what the word “cult” means to us.

What is Cult?

We try to talk generally about the term and use examples, but the discussion gets involved so we had to split the episode into two parts. You can listen to Part 1 today in which we talk about the definition of cult films, the nature of cult films and we list our own personal examples of cult movies.

You can download Episode 2 Part 1 from iTunes or listen to it online here.

In Part 2, which should post in January, we discuss our own personal experiences with cult films.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 66: Creating the ultimate Christmas special

Posted in Christmas, holiday, podcast, pop culture, Rankin/Bass, Santa Claus with tags Christmas, holiday, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts, Rankin-Bass, Santa Claus on December 18, 2012 by Paxton

Episode 66 of the Nerd Lunch Podcast has stuffed itself down your chimney and is sitting in your stocking. Waiting.

This week we are joined by Mr Michael Digiovanni from The Atomic Geeks for a discussion about Christimas Specials. Except we aren’t going to actually discuss the specials themselves, we are going to take our favorite characters from our favorite specials and start creating our own Nerd Lunch Christmas special.

Via RankinBass.com

We each pick a hero, a villain, some henchman, a narrator and a specific plot device (MacGuffin). Then we all talk about and pick the ones we like best and “Frankenstein” those ideas up into our very own Christmas special. And it turns out pretty f**king awesome. Give it a listen and see if you don’t agree.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 65: The Trial of Tim Burton

Posted in movies, podcast, pop culture with tags movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts, pop culture on December 11, 2012 by Paxton

This week, we are joined by Mr Matt Ringler of the Schlock Treatment podcast (when he decides to show up). For our topic, we return to do one of our trial episodes which we did previously in episode 15. We put Michael Bay on trial in that episode, this time, we are prosecuting Mr Tim Burton.

Tim Burton

I play the star witness as well as the bailiff, CT is the judge, Matt is the prosecutor and Jeeg is the defender. We talk about Burton’s body of work, we talk about what works, what doesn’t. Essentially we are deciding if Burton should be put away for good for crimes against the movie-going people. Are Batman and Ed Wood enough to keep him out of jail? Are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Planet of the Apes going to drag him down like an anchor around the neck? Tune in to find out.

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Or listen to it online right here.

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Cult Film Club Episode 1: The Wraith (1986)

Posted in 80s, movies, podcast, pop culture with tags Cult Film Club, movies, podcast, podcasts, pop culture on December 5, 2012 by Paxton

It’s official. The Cult Film Club podcast has gone live. Check out our very first episode here.

In this first episode Shawn, Jaime and I discuss the 1986 Charlie Sheen car-tacular classic, The Wraith. We cover nearly every aspect of the movie including the pedigree of the actors, the rockin’ soundtrack and, of course, the kick ass car.

So hop in your prototype inter-dimensional vehicle and steer your way to iTunes or listen online.

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