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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

  • October 21, 2025
  • Tagged as: donald sutherland, Horror, Not-So-Scary Horror, philip kaufman, sci-fi
On this week’s episode, Mike and Steven break down the 1978 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film of conformity and the struggle against it is a feast for the senses and lends...

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13 Ghosts (1960): Haunted House Fun . . . In Illusion-O!

  • October 14, 2025
  • Tagged as: 13 Ghosts, Haunted House, Illusion-O, Not-So-Scary Horror, William Castle
Do you believe in ghosts? If so, you’re going to love this week’s episode. And if you don’t, well, it’s still a good time. Mike and Steven discuss the late, great William Castle’s 13 Ghosts...

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Freaky (2020): Body-Swapping Slasher Fun

  • October 6, 2025
It's October, which means spooky season. So Mike and Steven are kicking off a month of horror discussions with a caveat: the frights in these films are few and far between. Call them

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Him (2025): A Lot of Flair, But Is It a Fumble?

  • September 29, 2025
  • Tagged as: Football, Him, Justin Tipping, Marlon Wayans, Stories From the Gridiron, Tyriq Withers
Stories From the Gridiron Month finally wraps up this week with a spoiler-heavy discussion about HIM, the new football horror film from director Justin Tipping, starring Tyriq Withers and Marlon Wayans. This story of sacrifice...

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Any Given Sunday (1999): Football Is War When Oliver Stone is Directing

  • September 24, 2025
  • Tagged as: Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday, Dennis Quaid, Football, Jamie Foxx, Oliver Stone, Stories From the Gridiron
Stories From the Gridiron Month rolls on this week with a real doozy of a film. Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday from 1999 is a highly stylized story of a pro football team struggling to...

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Wildcats (1986): Goldie Hawn On the Gridiron

  • September 15, 2025
  • Tagged as: Football, Goldie Hawn, Michael Ritchie, Rewatch & Reconsider, Stories From the Gridiron, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson
This week on the show, it’s a Rewatch & Reconsider episode, where Mike and Steven revisit a film that is generally considered a clunker, and re-evaluate it to see if it’s still bad or if...

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The Replacements (2000): QB Keanu and His Rag-Tag Team

  • September 8, 2025
Stories From the Gridiron Month continues this week with 2000's The Replacements, directed by Howard Deutch. Mike and Steven called an audible this week, replacing John Frankenheimer's terror-at-the-Super-Bowl thriller

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The Program: Pride and Pressure on the College Gridiron

  • September 1, 2025
  • Tagged as: Craig Sheffer, David S. Ward, Football, Halle Berry, James Caan, Kristy Swanson, Omar Epps, The Program
This week Mike and Steven kick off Stories of the Gridiron Month (see what we did there?) with 1993's The Program. This film, directed by David S. Ward, is one of only a few that turns its lens to college football instead of the pros,

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An American Werewolf in London (1981): Horror, Humor, and Transformation

  • August 25, 2025
  • Tagged as: An American Werewolf in London, Horror, John Landis, Physical Media
This week on the podcast, Mike and Steven close out Physical Media Appreciation Month with a deep dive into John Landis’s horror classic An American Werewolf in London (1981). They’re joined by horror aficionado and...

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Memento (2000): The Start of Christopher Nolan’s Mind Games

  • August 18, 2025
  • Tagged as: Carrie-Anne Moss, Christopher Nolan, Film Noir, Guy Pearce, Joe Pantiliano, Memento, Physical Media
This week, we continue Physical Media Appreciation Month with a real mind-bender of a film. Christopher Nolan’s Memento from 2000 is an exercise in manipulation, identity, and the reliability of memory. Told both forward and...

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