Welcome to Karate in the Garage!
We’re two industry professionals that revisit the movies that made us want to be in the business, and discuss if they're Better Remembered or Remembered Better.
Along the way, we'll mix it up with newer movies, special guests, as well as our weekly Kickstart show every Monday to start off your week!
NEW MONTH. NEW THEME. IT'S FAILED FRANCHISES. (OR LUMPS OF COAL IN YOUR STOCKING IF YOU'RE THE STUDIO EXECS THAT GREELIT THESE TITLES IN HOPES OF RAKING IN THAT PROVERBIAL IP CASH.
We're starting off…
Oh, NOIRvember. You may be our favorite month.
Thank you to everyone that has written in or shared their favorite noir and neo noir movies. (Some really good ones that we just may cover in 2024!)
WIN…We're here. The last episode of our FIRST NOIRvember! (Oh, yeah, and it's like our 300th episode, too, or whatever...)
We close out with some neo noir slick from the 1980s: DOA with Dennis Quaid, Meg…
Our final Kickstart before our final NOIRvember movie for 2023!
We hope you're all enjoying NOIRvember. We dropped Movie #3 last Wednesday for you fine Patreon folks, and the general public got it on…
Here it is. Karate in the Garage's NOIRvember Movie #3 is a classic:
John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, his adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name from W.R. Burnett. It stars Sterling Hayden, L…
It's Kickstart Deuces for NOIRvember!
Movie #2 Neil Jordan's 1986 classic Mona Lisa was released last week! Patreon's Early Access and EXTRA LARGE episode (with EIGHT++ extra minutes than the public …
Movie #2 for NOIRvember is the first of our two neo noir delights for the month. It's Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa from 1986 starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, and Michael Caine.
From IMDB: A man recentl…
It's the first Kickstart of NOIRvember! This month is going to be a great time.
We dropped Night in the City last week (Patreon on Wednesday with an XL episode, and Friday for general public), and th…
It's NOIRvember! After FIVE LONG years, we're finally dedicating an entire month to noir and neo noir movies!
First up, is one that some consider to be among the best in the genre, and it's Night and…
As promised, here is our wrapup of The Devil Made Me Do It Month disguised as a Kickstart.
Thank you to those on Patreon that added to the our list of movies today, as well as those non-Patrons that …
We close out The Devil Made Me Do It Month with one you may not have expected given the other three titles we covered this month. But, surprisngly, couldn't be more at home with those movies.
Peter H…
Three down and one to go for The Devil Made Me Do It Month!
We exorcized Lost Souls with Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin onto the world last week.
The 4th and final will hit Patreon on Wednesday via Ear…
The Devil Made Me Do it Month continues with a seemingly little seen movie from 2000: Lost Souls with Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt, and another one of those supporting casts that's too dense …
We're half of the way through The Devil Made Me Do It Month!
We dropped The Order with Heath Ledger and Shannyn Sossamon last week. Movie #3 will hit Patreon on Wednesday via Early Access, and this F…
The Devil Made Me Do It continues with what we've determined is a little seen movie that is the YOUNGEST of the movies covered this month: THE ORDER from Brian Helgeland, who wrote and directed this …
Hey, All!
One week in the books, new movie theme dropped, and we're in full swing of SPOOKY SEASON! (And MLB Postseason for those that care about such things.) This week, we chat about BeyondFest, n…
So. Here we are. October 2023. What is Karate in the Garage serving up horror wise for October? The Devil & God, demons & angels, and Y2K triggered paranoia.
First at bat is 1999's Stigmata with Patr…
AHHHHHHHHH, SHIT! IT'S ROCKTOBER! IT'S SHOCKTOBER! IT'S MOCKTOBER! IT'S CAULKTOBER! IT'S SCHLOCKTOBER! Whichever of those is your jam, have at it.
One thing that is 100% fact is that's October 2, 202…
Spectember 2023 comes to a close today with The Others starring Nicole Kidman in her 112the movie for 2001.
From IMDB: During World War II, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on h…
WHILE IT'S LOOKING LIKE THE WGA STRIKE IS GOING TO BE RESOLVED SOON, AND EVEN IF SAG GETS THEIR'S TOGETHER, WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE GOING TO BE STRUGGLING FOR A WHILE. THE OVERWHELMING BURDEN …