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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with two dinguses. This is, simply, good field recording.
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Blamison are made to be contrite for our cinematic sins when Demetrius Sanders comes back on the show to talk 1987's Hollywood Shuffle which was the filmic statement by Robert Townsend--who we covered one of his other films, The Meteor Man, earlier in the year. We talk about the anger seething underneath the satire of the film and the various traps of stereotypes in cinema. Don't worry, we also have a lot of fun talking about a true fun movie.Other things talked about: the relativity of forgettability, gaming journalism and anime, but not THAT kind of anime.Clip: Segment of Reel Brothers skit from Hollywood Shuffle.
Blamison are back with a regular episode...sort of! We have a special returning guest--and probably has the award for the shortest turnaround as well!--Luke T. Harrington. On this episode, we talk about Joker: Folie à Deux and why it flubbed at the box office after the hugely successful Joker. We also dig into the controversies and dIsCoUrSe™ surrounding both films when they came out. It's a great episode about a very strange movie! Also discussed: going back to grad school and Luke's six pack.Clip: Werner Herzog telling about how he discovered John Waters was gay.
Blamison have completed their fourth annual Halloween series! On this episode they finish up the final two Vincent Price films, Scream and Scream Again (1970) and The Comedy of Terrors (1963). We talk about the absolute battiness of the former narrative and the enjoyment of watching Price stretch himself in the latter (even though the film itself was not, on the whole enjoyable). Join us for this sPoOkY final installment of the series!Also discussed: HELLClip: live performance of Vincent Price’s monologue for an Alice Cooper song.
Blamison are back with our fourth installment of our Price Halloween series! On this episode we discuss the 1961 Roger Corman joint The Pit and the Pendulum and 1972's Dr. Phibes Rises Again. We talk about Price playing a little against type in the first film and just going full Mandy on the second film. We dig into what makes Poe scary and why Phibes might be a precursor to Saw.Also discussed: Jamison's wild week and the token doomer/greek orthodox bands Sleep and Om.Clip: Vincent Price as Dr. Frankenstein on Rowan & Martin's Laugh In
Blamison are back for the third Halloween of the month! This time we take on 1974's Madhouse and 1953's House of Wax. We talk about everything from what it means to choose a resolution in the film that makes no logical sense but is pure, distilled cinema nonetheless. We also talk about scores and why they do and don't work for specific movies. Oh yeah and we, of course, discuss WRATH and ENVY and the links they have to the films we chose.Also discussed: Blake joins the dead dad club and doctors who pray.Clip: Vincent Price on Johnny Carson teaching the audience how to cook fish in the dish washer.
Blamison are back with their first true installment of "Sins Come at a Price" with our discussion of two films for the sin of Lust: 1965's spy-comedy Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and 1959's spooky mansion film House on Haunted Hill. We discuss all of the sexy and lusty elements of these films (or not). We also dig into the penchant for making lust always about sex and questioning the Catholic penchant for elevating these above others.Also discussed: the Sunday gloomies, is Vincent Price a comedic actor?Clip: Boris Karloff and Vincent Price singing "The Two Of Us" on The Red Skelton Show
Blamison discuss their theme for this year's October series and select their films on the air. This year we are looking at the seven deadly sins through the films of Vincent Price. So join us as we dig into what you can come to expect from us this month!Also discussed: Jamison murdering his skin tag.Clip: Vincent Price on the Joan Rivers Show.
Blamison are back with a special episode. By "special," we mean a regular episode but with more doubly more guests! The Harrington Brothers (so Thadd and Luke say) join us to talk about 2023's highly enjoyable Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. We talk about Thadd's addiction to D&D and his wife's distain for it. We also talk about how Luke is too cool (and too chiseled) to think table top games are worth his time. Eventually we talk about the movie as we are wont to do.Other things talked about: how our wives don't really like to do things with us, getting bulked up, the most annoying thing right now, and how many times we can go off topic.Clip: "When Hip-Hop and D&D Collide" - Key & Peele
Blamison are back and we have back up one this episode! We do some exploring into Cecil B. Demille's 1940 film North West Mounted Police starring Gary Cooper. Our guest Aren Bergstrom is our resident Canadian film and history buff and schools us on Louis Riel and all of the things that went into the Battle of Batoche which this film attempts to depict and fails in ways only DeMille could pull off. This is probably our most substantive episode to date so put on your thinking caps and set your gaze up North. Other things discussed: the films we have hated this year, A.I.Clip: from the tv show "Due South"Check out Aren and his brothers at 3 Brothers Film and Filmcast.
Blamison are back! We are digging in to a lesser known Hitchcock film 1944's Lifeboat and, well, let's just say it wasn't what we were expecting. Jamison does a free-form opening for the episode and Blake waxes philosophical about why Hitchcock is revered and Shyamalan is not. Oh, and we talk about John Steinbeck's misgivings about being attributed to the writing of this movie.Other topics of discussion: our favorite songs of the year so far, parenting (duh!) and the new film Weapons.Clip: Jamison doing a spoken trailer for a partially fake movie.
Blamison get together once again to explore Jamison's pick of forgotten films. Raw's director Robert Townsend takes a tonal shift in his 1993 superhero film, The Meteor Man. We talk, of course, about the film's weirder elements and those parts that have not aged as well, but we end up defending it from its naysayers as it provided substance that is not often present in contemporary superhero films. Join us as we get MEATIER...urgh I mean METEOR with this film!Other things discussed: actually most of the runtime is talking about film of some sort. It's our most film-centric episode to date probably.Clip: "Meatier.... meteor...?" from YouTube Clips
Blamison are back with a totally unchill discussion of 1991's John Hughes-written Target ad Career Opportunities starring Jennifer Connelly (be still Jamison's heart) and Frank Whaley. There are several aspects of the film that would have made for a great film, but, alas, it all comes to, well, not much. Meet-cute beats out capitalist satire by the end of the film. Other things discussed: how work sucks, parenting wily children and the Mulroney brothers.Clip: "K-Strass the yo-yo man on KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri." on Youtube.
Blamison are back with another terrible and justifiably forgotten film with 2003's Christian film Quigley starring Gary Busey in a dog collar, Oz Perkins as the most unmotivated Guardian angel, and Booger as an inept boss. Yes, Jamison found this film and we had to watch it since this is an Oz Perkins Parenting podcast...and not a essentially a forgotten film podcast. The stars have aligned however. Here we stand...Other topics discussed: favorite movies of the last 25 years, kids going through vibe shifts, and Joan Osborne.Clip: "Gary Busey On Spirituality, God and Only Human" via Times Square Chronicles
Blamison are back with a regular episode about a movie that know one fucking knows! We dig into the first of three feature films by Mark Romanek who is most known for doing the multi-million dollar budget music video for Michael Jackson's "Scream." The name of the movie is Static from 1985. We talk about the weird tonal shift in the final act of the film, hanging out with slackers, and grief of all things. Join us on this angelic adventure!Also talked about: Blake's post-punk journey, Blake's hatred of Pitchfork and why The Edge is not a cool nickname.Clip: Al Gore talking about creating the internet with Wolf Blitzer.
Blamison remain consistent in their inability to remain consistent as they take a break from forgotten films to talk about a show that is IN THE ZEITGEIST. This show is season two of The Rehearsal with Nathan Fielder. We dig into the true meta nature of Fielder and all of his shows--because they all feed back into this season--and what it is about this show that makes us giddy. Join us! We spoil everything so Beware! And Don't Care!Other Things Discussed: Part 1 of our diatribe on why Christian rock 'n' roll IS actually rock 'n' roll and then we talk about the best thing our kids have done in the past week.Clip: Airplane! (1980)
On this one-off episode of Will Blake Get Cancelled?, Jamison and Blake explain the curse that has been brought upon them by the likes of Ian Olson (of the upcoming Book of Common Terror podcast). We talk about 1992's Michael "MFumay" Mfume's Ax'Em and how nothing could save this film from its own incompetence. This is probably the hardest film we have watched to this point. Join us.Other things discussed: Ian's Native heritage, parenting (because this is a low-key better parenting podcast), and not Christian rock music.Clip from: Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson introduce the 2024 Detroit Lions game schedule.
Blamison made it back just in the nick of time to maintain the efficacy of their typical intro of "once or twice a month"! On this episode we play thought games with the 1996 comedic fable Multiplicity starring Michael Keaton and Andie McDowell and directed by Harold Ramis. But let's be honest, we hadn't talked in about a month, so most of this episode is just babbling.Other things talked about: Blake's mustache, his upcoming breakout talk at the NYC Mockingbird conference, and Jamison's trip to Japan.Clip: The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Blamison return to our regular length of blabbering on with this episode on the obscure and FORGOTTEN 1983 film Eureka starring none other than the man, the myth, and the legend: Rutger Hauer....and also Gene Hackman. We don't know quite what to do with this movie even though our review of it is nothing less than glowing. So, sit back and relax as we dig for gold and exploit the native populations under the guise of progressivism.Also talked about: religious faith and TA DA! our kids.Clip: Gene Hackman in Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
Blamison are back in the march towards the Ides with a banger of a film starring Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly (1970). And, get this!, Micky Boy only sings one song on this film and it is all the better for it. We talk about film, yes, but mostly about how fucking incredible this soundtrack is and why it makes the movie so much better than it actually is.Other things talked about: throwing Demetrius Sanders under the bus again and our favorite historical figures and their portrayals in cinema.Clip: "Insult Comic Restaurant" from Season 2, Episode 5 of I Think You Should Leave.
Blamison are back with a great episode on one hell of a film! 1972's Horror Express with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Telly Savalas is what would happen if Hammer tried to make John Carpenter's The Thing ten years earlier. Plus if you want to talk about representation on screen, then one of the under-represented great Christian denominations (which sounds suspiciously Protestant) is shown front and center in this film. Plus Cossacks!Other thing talked about: skateboarding maths, science's increasingly shady track record and Blake gets Cossacks and Hessians mixed up.Clip: "The Impossible Dream" by Christopher Lee
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