Optimism Vaccine

A few years, multiple delays, and several explosions in the company of exotic women later, Jake and Jack have finally reached the finish line. It's time for the final Daniel Craig bond film and the f…

Eric Marsh of The Gauntlet Podcast joins us as we wrap up our annual October dalliance with the macabre. This week we're taking a stroll through that old, crowded, grungy cesspool New York City, wher…

We've dug through the ditches and burned through the witches and slammed Shawn Glinis into the wild world of Rob Zombie horror films. We're joined by author, critic, and Rob Zombie superfan, Mike Tho…

The Shawn Glinis 2021 Halloween Spooktacular marches on with four adaptations (maybe interpretations? films inspired by? Vague recollections of something someone read once?) of Edgar Allan Poe's clas…

SHAWN GLINIS SPOOKTOBER 2021 kicks off with a pair of eccentric Lamberto Bava splatter flicks, Demons and Demons 2. We also take an ill-advised swerve into trying to figure out how many Demons sequel…

If a bipedal ape kills in the forest and no one has a GoPro, was a crime ever committed? Can great apes even be punished for capital crimes? Why won't Jack just acknowledge his love of Chicago's prem…

There was a time when Jack proudly declared that he would never watch another Steven Paul movie ever again. That lasted roughly a week. For our final Bond-adjacent podcast before No Time To Die, we'r…

What is film? What is television? What is my life? What started as a potentially fun dalliance with R.L. Stine quickly devolves into Netflix-induced existential crisis as the OpVac crew examines the …

Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele liked our podcast on Candyman (1992) from a few years ago so much, they decided to resurrect the series with a direct sequel! They also pulled the classic move of trying …

With No Time To Die less than a month away, Jake and Jack take another Bond knockoff detour into Stephen Chow's 1994 Chinese spy comedy spoof, From Beijing With Love.

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Stuart Paul has spent three decades creating mega-budget outsider art and his producer/agent brother, Steven, has been with him every step of the way. Turns out when he's not producing mega-blockbust…

It's a Caustic Content Crossover as we explore a selection of works from cult icon in the making Stuart Paul. Our panel attempts to answer such difficult questions as: Just how much money did Burl Iv…

Filmmaker, critic, and author Scout Tafoya (@Honors_Zombie) joins us for the final episode of our Tsui Hark retrospective series. We look at how Tsui Hark interprets the cinema of John Woo, discuss i…

We're continuing our Tsui Hark retrospective by returning to his early career to see how he transitioned from making a nihilistic masterpiece about kids blowing things up for fun to producing gorgeou…

We probably ought to have started this series with Once Upon a Time In China, yeah?

We're knee deep in Tsui Hark goodness in Part 2 of our journey back to Hong Kong. A lesser podcast would dedicate an…

This week we're headed back to Hong Kong as we launch another multi-episode expedition into the kinetic, underseen, influential HK New Wave scene. This time around we're focusing on Tsui Hark, a man …

Forget being an agent for the British Secret Service - what if Bond was a super cool criminal (with a super sexy girlfriend, natch), who regularly overthrew bureaucratic structures to fuel his selfis…

We're in the middle of a national eviction crisis during a global pandemic and filthy rich landlords are getting wealthier exploiting working-class folks like you. So what can cinema teach us about t…

We decided to celebrate the 4th of July like true red-blooded Americans by watching three films that embody the spirit of the United States (or possibly just have USA in the title and involve blowing…

Who needs James Bond when you've got a hunk like James Coburn? This week, For Your Ears Only checks out the original Bond parody franchise and looks at how the zany Derek Flint films stack up to thei…