Episode 435: World War Z (2013)

Special Guest: Sarah Juliet Lauro
Guest Co-Hosts: Patrick Bromley, Dahlia Schweitzer

Dahlia Schweitzer and Patrick Bromley join Mike to kick off #Shocktober2019 with a look at Marc Foster's World War Z (2013). It's not necessarily based on Max Brooks's book of the same name though he gets a credit at the beginning. It’s a zombie apocalypse film starring Brad Pitt that takes Pitt around the world looking for the cause of and cure for a zombie plague.

Special guest Dr. Sarah Juliet Lauro, author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death, discusses zombies in a global context.

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Buy Train to Busan on Blu-Ray
Read Brad Pitt, Not So Hidden Racism and Sexism, and “World War Z” (2013) by Dr. Andrew Johnson Pegoda
Read Here's How 'World War Z' Originally Ended Before the Reshoots by Peter Hall
Read World War Z Writer Shares His Original Idea for Canceled Sequel by Ryan Scott

Music:
“The Dead Don’t Die” - Sturgill Simpson

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Episode 402: House Party (1990)

Special Guest: Reginald Hudlin
Guest Co-Hosts: Jay Scott Smith, Patrick Bromley

We kick off Black History Month 2019 with Reginald Hudlin's House Party (1990). Starring Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin AKA Kid 'N Play, the film is about a House Party, the wild shenanigans surrounding it, and a whole lot more.

Jay Scott Smith of JSC Radio and Patrick Bromley of F! This Movie join Mike to discuss the ins-and-outs of House Party and the four other films it inspired. Special guest Reginald Hudlin dishes about the making of House Party, the glorious "Hey Love" commercial, Bebe's Kids, Boomerang, Black Panther and more.

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Buy House Party on DVD

Music:
"Ain't My Type of Hype" - Full Force
"Rollin' With Kid 'N Play" - Kid 'N Play

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Episode 332: Visitor Q (2001)

Special Guest: Tom Mes
Guest Co-Hosts: Kevin Heffernan, Patrick Bromley

Written by Itaru Era, the 2001 movie from prolific director Takashi Miike Visitor Q tells the story of a family in disarray. The unemployed father (Ken'ichi Endô) a former newsman who laid off after an unfortunate incident, the mother (Shungiku Uchida) a heroin addict who prostitutes herself for money to get a fix, the son (Jun Mutô) is a victim of bullying who then bullies his own mother, and the daughter (Fujiko) who has left home to become a prostitute as well. When the titular Visitor Q (Kazushi Watanabe) shows up... things change.

Special guest Tom Mes, author of Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike, discusses Miike's career. Co-Hosts Patrick Bromley and Kevin Heffernan join Mike to examine Visitor Q as well as François Ozon's Sitcom and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema (1968).

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Links:
Buy Visitor Q on DVD
Buy Sitcom on DVD
Buy Teorema on DVD
Buy Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes
Buy Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing on Takashi Miike by Tom Mes
Buy Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto by Tom Mes
Read Knot and Gender blog by Kevin Heffernan
Read The Crawling Eye Cult Media Blog by Kevin Heffernan
Visit F This Movie! for more of Patrick Bromley

Music:
"Dead or Alive" - Koji Endo
"Bubbles of Water" - Realtime

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Special Report: The Thing (1982)

Special Guests: John Kenneth Muir, Jez Conolly, Dean Cundey, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites
Guest Co-Hosts: El Goro, Patrick Bromley

Initially lambasted by critics, John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) was a brilliant adaptation of John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There?. The film tells the story of a dozen men in Antarctica who are infiltrated by an alien shapeshifter.

Interviews include authors John Kenneth Muir (The Films of John Carpenter), Jez Conolly (Devil’s Advocates: The Thing), actors Joel Polis (Fuchs), Thomas G. Waites (Windows), and cinematographer Dean Cundey.

Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast and El Goro of the Talk Without Rhythm podcast join Mike on this very special episode.

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Bonus Interview with Stuart Cohen:
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Links:
Buy The Thing on Blu-Ray with a commentary from El Goro, Patrick Bromley, and Mike White (UK Release)
Buy The Thing on Blu-Ray (US Release)
Buy The Films of John Carpenter by John Kenneth Muir
Buy Devil's Advocates: The Thing by Jez Connelly
Buy The Thing (BFI Modern Classics) by Anne Billson
Visit Stuart Cohen's website
Visit the Joel Polis website
Visit the Thomas G. Waites website
Visit Jez Conolly's official website
Visit John Kenneth Muir's blog
Watch ‘Big John’: A 75-Minute Precious Exploration of John Carpenter’s Life, Work and Ways
Read John Carpenter's The Thing had an Icy Critical Reception
Visit Outpost31.com
Read Ennio Morricone’s unused score for The Thing ended up in The Hateful Eight by Ben Kaye
Listen to Special "The Thing" Commentary for Patricia Stevens by The After Movie Diner
Read The Men Who Were 'The Thing' Look Back on a Modern Horror Classic by Simon Abrams and Matt Zoller Seitz
Listen to the The Thing Read Along Book
Here more from Dean Cundey on The Projection Booth
Listen to our interview with Keith David
Hear more Patrick Bromley on F This Movie!
Hear more El Goro on Talk Without Rhythm

Music:
"Burn It" - Ennio Morricone
"Bestiality" - Ennio Morricone
"Fuchs" - Ennio Morricone
"The Thing that was Bennings" - Ennio Morricone
"Desolation (Main Theme)" - Ennio Morricone
That Thing" - Who Ha
"I Know I'm Human" - Beckett

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The Hateful Thing from KINO on Vimeo.

Episode 230: Solarbabies (1986)

Special Guest: D.A. Metrov
Guest Co-Host: Patrick Bromley

What was once "the kids' version of THX-1138", Solarbabies is the story of seven orphans looking for salvation in a water-starved post-apocalyptic world. The neon-colored film from second-time director Alan Johnson was originally conceived by the artist Metrov. The story behind Solarbabies might be more compelling than the final film itself.

We're joined this week by Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast to make our way through the wasteland of Solarbabies.

Links:
Buy Solarbabies on DVD
Visit the official Metrov website
Read Patrick's piece on It Came from the '80s
Read the Forces of Geek piece about Solarbabies
Read Mel Brooks talks Solarbabies
Listen to our Rollerball episode
Be sure to listen to F This Movie!

Music:
"Lawrence of Arabia (Overture)" - Maurice Jarre
"Love Will Set You Free" - Smokey Robinson

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Episode 205: The Wraith (1986)

Special Guests: Mike Marvin, Clint Howard, Jamie Bozian
Guest Co-Host: Patrick Bromley

Released in 1986, The Wraith was directed by Mike Marvin and stars Charlie Sheen as Jake Kesey, a new face in the town of Brooks, Arizona. Jake makes his appearance around the same time as a dark-helmeted, supernatural figure arrives; the mysterious Wraith of the title. This figure takes out members of Packard Walsh's gang of goofs with his badass Dodge -- using the seemingly indestructible car as a weapon.

We talked to writer/director Marvin along with Packard gangmembers Rughead (Clint Howard) and Gutterboy (Jamie Bozian). We're joined by Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast.

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Bonus Interview: Dave Sherrill

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Links:
Buy The Wraith on DVD
Hear the rest of our Mike Marvin interview
Be sure to LIKE The Wraith Movie Page on Facebook
Hear Patrick on our Bad Lieutenants episode
Visit the official F This Movie website

Music:
"The Wraith" - Blitzkrieg
"High Plains Drifter" - Beastie Boys
"Ghost Rider" - Suicide

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Episode 163: The Bad Lieutenant Films (1992, 2009)

Special Guests: Edward Pressman, William M. Finkelstein
Guest Co-host: Patrick Bromley

This week we're talking about Bad Lieutenant - the original and the sort of loose re-make by filmmakers Abel Ferrara and Werner Herzog. The 1992 original stars Harvey Keitel as the Bad Lieutenant in question who gets in over his head with drugs, prostitutes and a gambling debt. The 2009 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans stars Nicolas Cage as the Bad Lieutenant in the days around and after Hurricane Katrina. He plays a cop who gets in over his head with drugs, prostitutes and a gambling debt.

Our guests are producer of both films – Edward Pressman and the screenwriter of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, William Finkelstein

Guest co-host this week is Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast.

Thanks to Filip Önell for the Werner Herzog impersonation!

Music:
"Pledging My Love" - Johnny Ace
"Signifying Rapper" - Schooly-D
"Old Lost John" - Sonny Terry
"Release Me" - Johnny Adams

Links:
Buy Bad Lieutenant on DVD and Blu-Ray
Watch Bad Lieutenant on Netflix Instant
Buy The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans on DVD and Blu-Ray
Buy the Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans book
Check out Patrick's show F This Movie Podcast
Follow F This Movie on Twitter
Read How Werner Herzog and Nic Cage made the trippiest movie of the 21st Century

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