Somewhere on the Screen

We're building up to discussing Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and this week Nick's suggested we take a look at Rian Johnson's first film, I think it's the first film(?), Brick. How can I describe Brick? Have you ever thought about being a teenager...but then been like, "Yo...what if everything was black and white and I was a detective and I had to solve a murder and the Vice Principle was the cops?" Well, other than the black and white thing...that's this film!Will it play a role in how we view the new Knives Out film? Only one way to find out!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're starting our next cycle with a classic! It's time for Sidney Lumet's classic take on Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Chris took a wild guess in trying to find an early version of a detective mystery (definitely not early) which he hoped might inform about Rian Johnson's thoughts on the upcoming Knives Out film (nailed it here). Nick said he'd seen this movie a million times only to later admit he'd watched the 2017 version and never heard of Sidney Lumet. Will they argue? Only one way to find out!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with another planning episode! This time around we're going to be looking into one of those awesome murder mysteries with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Man these movies are good! I can't wait to see it. We'll be waiting to discuss it until the film is out on Netflix on December 12th so we'll have some time to get prepped. Listen in for more about why we're picking them but for this cycle we'll be discussing:Murder on the Orient Express (1974)Brick(the other Knives out films...maybe...probably?)Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's out and we've watched it! Netflix has finally launched our long awaited Frankenstein film, directed by Guillermo del Toro so we're gonna talk about it!With out this week is a special guest! We're joined by film maker Eriq Ortiz, noted fan of the director and our "person who actually did the homework" by reading the book. He's an amazing addition for this episode as we look at the beautiful techniques and cinematography that went into the movie. Oh, and Nick and Chris are both here as well.Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're talking about the original Frankenstein this week! del Toro has been out talking about this was his big inspiration for...everything! With this, at the very least, being the inspiration for his new Frankenstein movie we figured we'd take a look and see what all the hub bub was about. Oh! Also...Chris is tired of spooky crap so he demanded we watch Young Frankenstein. Funny! Comedy! Happiness!!!We're watching both! You can find Frankenstein (1931) on Prime Video but if you're looking for Young Frankenstein you may need to do your own bit of science to bring it back from the dead cause that thing isn't streaming anywhere. We only found it through a bit of string pulling on a person's Plex account that we know. But it's fun!On to the shows and come back next week for our discussion of del Toro's Frankenstein!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're taking a deep dive into Nick's childhood with a viewing of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! This is a film Nick saw on TNT when he was young that stuck with him and was clearly formative in his views on monster movies and horror. Will it hold up? More importantly, what does it tell us about cinema views the pitfalls of literary horror? Also...did Chris watch this thing? I'm not sure he watched it!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's on to our first episode for Cycle 3! As we build up to discussing Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Frankenstien we thought we'd discuss his previous monster movie...The Shape of Water. I'm not even going to hide my enthusiasm for this film -- it's great. We both thought so. But why? Find out on this week's episode!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with a planning episode! If you've never heard one of these before, we've always gated this behind the paywall of our Patreon (patreon.com/somewhereonthescreen) but with our new plans moving forward, these will be up for everyone! Hooray!On this bonus episode we talk about the new cycle and what we're going to cover with a bit of "why" involved.If you're one of those "I don't know want to know before I hear it!" don't read any further but if you're just here to know what you need to study...This cycle we're going to be covering the new Frankenstein film by Guillermo del Toro! del Toro is an amazing director (and quietly directed the best superhero film evey made) so we thought we'd check it out.To get you ready though, we're also going to discuss:1) The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro's phenomenal Oscar-winning film which is pretty clearly a precursor to this film.2.) Mary Shelly's Frankenstien - The Frankenstien film which is most people's touchstone when thinking of Frankenstien on the big screen.3.) A double feature!!! Frankenstien (1931)/The Bride of Frankenstien -- we wanted to throw in a comedy (okay...Chris demanded we throw in a comedy) but apparently you need to watch the original to understand the jokes...so that's what we're gonna do!Thanks for sticking with us and we can't wait to be back in your ears with more amazing conversations about what's Somewhere on the Screen!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey! We finally figured it out! Thank you so much for bearing with us as we worked to figure out exactly how we wanted to move forward and whether we wanted to move forward. Having Joe leave us was sad...wait, like "leave us" as in the show -- he's still alive. We talk. He just isn't recording at 1am with us any more. Point is, it was sad but we've found a way I think we can still continue and make it work.Take a listen to all the things here and let us know what you think. If you have thoughts you'd like to share with us you can send them to somewhereonthescreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we continue to discuss how to proceed, we wanted to take a moment to discuss a documentary that has sprung out of nowhere to take us into the shocking world of...BIRD WATCHING!!!We decided to talk about a new, documentary that's been making it's way across the internet called Listers. Is a facinating film about two brothers who, stoned out of their mind one day, decide to take up bird watching at the highest and most competitive level...and film it. What follows is the most amazing look into what can seem like America's dullest passtime.You can find the film on Youtube HERE for free and then we encourage you to listen and share your thoughts. Especially if there are any birders out there who can really put this into perspective for us, send us an email at somewhereonthescreen@gmail.comSomewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oof...y'all. It's been a week. First and foremost, we want to apologize for the brevity of this capstone episode for our Toxic Avenger cycle. If you've been with us through all of this, you've put a lot of time into waiting for our thoughts on this episode and we're coming up short for you. Between some technical issues and emotional issues stemming from the news at the top of the episode, it was just a tough recording session. We apologize and promise to return to our usual extra long episode full of raving rants and pseudointellectual gobbldegook. In the meantime, here's Toxie...Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grab your notebook and a writing utensil, we're going back to school as it's a Chris episode this week! Chris is taking us through what many people likely think of when hearing about the toxic avenger...the Toxic Crusaders! If you don't know about the Toxic Cursaders, it's an early-90's children's cartoon about the Toxic Avenger. How does it play into the upcoming release of Toxic Avenger (2023)? Who knows! But we're going to find out how it plays into the history of the Toxic Avenger!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you ready for a hideously deformed monster of superhuman size and strength! Well have I got good news for you! This week we're discussing The Toxic Avenger (1984) to see the origins of our choice for our second cycle!As we build toward the release of The Toxic Avenger (2023...yes, that's correct) we wanted to see where the series began and boy oh boy did we. This...this is a movie. Yup. It's a movie alright. I...I don't know what else to write here. Is it the world's most offensive piece of trash or a B-movie masterpiece? The guys discuss and come to some shocking conclusions.Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And we're back at it! For our second cycle we're going to be prepping for upcoming release of The Toxic Avenger! It's a remake of the 1980's cult classic of the same name about -- and stop me if you've heard this before -- gets super-powers from toxic waste. I think? I haven't seen it yet. You'd think that maybe we'd start with the orignal film but what fun is that? Instead we're starting with......Cyrano! As The Toxic Avenger is starring Peter Dinkledge Joe decided to have us watch the breadthe of this man's acting talents. Sure, you likely know him as Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones but did you know he played Cyrano de Bergerac? In a musical? Yeah...we're going there. Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Due to some personal things going on behind the scenes we weren't able to record our episode for this week. We're recording it tonight though and so we'll be back on track for our next episode! In the meantime, we thought we'd share a fun episode we did for our patrons! One of our Patreon tiers offers patrons the chance to choose a show for us to cover each cycle. During our first cycle they chose the film Second Hand Lions, a feel-good...I'm gonna call it a comedy?...about a young man living with two old men with gold. *checks notes*Yep...that's about it. I think Joe missed this episode but Nick and Chris went on a tangent that really instilled the importance of having Joe around. Check it out and if you enjoy, consider supporting us on Patreon.com/SomewhereonthescreenSomewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's finally here! Superman has been released in theaters, we've studied, prepared, and watched the film while a bunch of teenagers kicked the back of our chairs! We are officially ready to discuss the official beginning of the DCCU!We open this week's discussion with a brief (20ish minute) spoiler-free discussion of our thoughts on the film so if you haven't seen it yet and are simply looking to find out if it's "for you" then feel free to pop in and see what we thought. After that 20 minute mark, though, it's a no-holds-barred (and immediately spoils the only actual "revelation" in the film.Come join us while we discuss everything from whether we thing Lex Luthor ever steps off a green-screen, if the film avoids the fate of The Mummy (2017), and whether Rachel Brosnahan is most or least attractive member of this pretty people only film (I'm not proud of this part of the conversation...but it did happen). Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey! It's a bonus episode! Sorta? Okay...it's a bonus regular episode!So somewhere along the line we realized our schedule meant we needed an extra episode before Superman (2025) comes out. After some discussion (and by that I mean Nick giving us a dissertation on James Gunn's influences for the upcoming film) we decided to watch All-Star Superman, the animated film based on the comic book of the same name. According to Nick, James Gunn has said it's a major inspiration for how he was thinking about crafting a Superman story while he was writing this film. So let's see what that influence actually is! It's a fascinating film! And Joe didn't get to talk about it with us. We'll mention what happened. It's a whole thing. Listen to find out more!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we continue to build up to the big release for James Gunn's Superman (2025) in July, we're talking about Superman (1978) in this episode! It's the gold standard of what a Superman film has been held against for decades. Between Christopher Reeves's iconic performance, John Williams's memorable score, and Margot Kidder's constant screaming this is the film James Gunn is trying to live up to...but how does the (nearly) 50 year old film hold up? The guys take a look at the film and see how they'd like to see James Gunn evolve the form.As always, if you enjoy the show, please share it with a friend and leave us a review on Apple or Spotify. Every review helps other people find the show and is an enormous help for us.If you're enjoying the show and want more, please consider becming a Patron on Patreon.com/somewhereonthescreen where we host special bonus episodes on our $10 tier. We'll be covering the HBO show (and playstation video game) The Last of Us next week exclusively on our Patron feed so join us to hear our thoughts on the show.Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Nick's turn to choose our film for the cycle and he's going with Brightburn, James Gunn's original attempt at Superman through the lens of a horror film. Only...it's not James Gunn's attempt at Superman because he didn't direct it, only produced it...but it's still his? I don't know. It's all very confusing. Nick tries to explain his thoughts but mostly the guys just B.S. about the film.Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with a bonus episode! Last week we launched the show with a live Bonus episode feature the godfather of the Somewhere Podcast Universe (SPU) himself, Ryan Sprague, where we discussed Andor!Usually, these bonus episodes will release exclusively on our Patreon member feed (Patreon.com/Somewhereonthescreen) but we wanted to celebrate the launch of the show by releasing this first special discussion for everyone!Somewhere on the Screen is a part of the Somewhere family of podcasts. You can find our other shows on your podcast app of choice at Somewhere in the Skies and Somewhere in the Ring.Our art is by Caitlyn Westemeyer. Find more of her work on Instagram at Katnap.sOur music is Heading Home by Mr. Smith. Find more of their music provided on a CC BY license on the Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.