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Raiders of the Podcast

We are a weekly podcast about movies. Sometimes new ones, often older ones, frequently bad ones. We like cowboy hats, face hugs, strangely sexual automaton interactions, and listeners like you.

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Steven Seagal: Worse Than A Stroke

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2023/08/26

This week we close the month with a four pack of Steve Seagal in the 21st Century. When ICE arrest a pair of OTMs (Other Than Mexican) who are affiliated with both AQAP AND Daesh (which would never happen) blows open a conspiracy of the (long defunct) Sonora Cartel smuggling in terrorists. A collaboration for reasons that aren't made very clear. The federal government has only one man to turn to, former DEA/CIA/FBI/USASF asset John Harmon. Harmon once was in a Sonora compound and that's why he's

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Party by Gaslight

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2023/08/19

This week- a missing child might never have existed and a deadly game that could destroy the global economy. Ann and her daughter have just moved from New York to London to be close to the only family they have, Ann's brother Steven. Tragedy strikes when Ann goes to pick the child up from her first day at pre-school but her child is nowhere to be seen. To make things worse, it seems no one but the family claims to have ever even seen the girl. Soon a tangled web of mental illness and jealousy

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Beatroot, Texas

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2023/08/12

This week- two trips into unfamiliar territory in vans that become crime scenes. When Dean, Duncan, DJ Beatroot, and Ian are dropped off along the road to hike through the highlands for a the Duke of Edinburgh Award, they never dreamed they would be hunted by an older couple wearing masks. Soon the boys are in a desperate fight for their lives with only their limited wits and local fauna excrement to save them. Meanwhile, Sargent Morag hunts a notorious thief. A darling of the 2019 South by

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Work Life Unbalanced

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2023/08/05

This week- two films about women at work and the strains it brings. May is an awkward and lonely woman whose only friend is a doll in a glass case. Adam, a mechanic with pretty hands, and Polly, the most aggressively predatory lesbian in a 2000s movie, enter her life she begins to take steps into the wider world. Entering a romantic relationship with Adam and endless flirting with Polly at work. When neither relationship works out as May hoped, she decides to make a friend herself. The second

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Mexican Sausage

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2023/07/29

This week- four films from Mexico. Immediately before setting off to Europe for an extended trip, Doctor Alejandro Mangino stumbles on a former lover, Lucia, posing as a nude art model. His time on the other side of the Atlantic becomes a fog of booze as the good doctor begins to obsess over his former flame. Upon his return, he discovers Lucia has married his good friend Ricardo. Can the good doctor find his way out or will he be claimed by Crepúsculo (aka Twilight, 1945)? Elena is murdered by

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Better Than Scarlet Diva?

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2023/07/22

This week a pair of European movies about women finding themselves. Anna Battista, a young and beautiful award winning actress, is desperate to spread her creative wings. Tragically, everyone tries to keep her down despite everyone around her totally seeing how brilliant she is and how great her movie would be. Even more tragically, Anna has a taste for massive amounts of recreational narcotics, a penchant for racism, and is quick to obsess over the worst musicians she can find. The

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Hill Street Boos

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2023/07/15

This week- a couple of scam artists and a fistful of cops. Rookie cop Roy reports for duty in East LA. He is partnered with Andy, a veteran quickly approaching mandatory retirement. Roy thinks he will only be a cop long enough to make it through law school but, for some, the job becomes their all consuming obsession. Based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh,The New Centurions. George and Kathy Lutz, with Kathy's three children, move into a beautiful home with enough room for all, a massive yard,

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Tunnel of Swole

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2023/07/08

This week- two movies with surprise orgies and appreciations for the male form in different sizes. Simon is a cold call scam employee in a dying relationship without any direction or joy. His last ditch effort to change his life trajectory is to join a gym and try and reclaim his body from desk degradation. He soon meets trainer Terry and everything changes. Centered by a powerhouse performance from Craig Fairbrass in a pitch black comedy about toxic masculinity and how far one can be

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Behemoth Meat

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2023/07/01

This week a pair of grounded fantasies with people living their own realities. An Italian noble uses mercenaries to retake his city. In order to spur on his troops, he promises them 24 hours free reign to plunder as they see fit. Being as that is a stupid promise, it doesn't go well and soon the noble has the mercenaries routed from the city without their promised loot. Lost and without direction, some of them reform into a bandit group led by Martin and a statue of St. Martin. Soon they will

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Perturbing Behaviour

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2023/06/24

This week three films about moral panics, the imagined threats lurking to upset social order from morality police happy to stoke public fear for a payout. A harmless game played by a group of college students. Nothing wrong with any of it... except... what if the game goes too far? What if an obviously schizophrenic player with a history of unresolved family trauma has a sudden and immediate break from reality while playing? It MUST be the game's fault and not anything else. I said, NOT ANYTHING

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Reasonable Charges

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2023/06/17

This week- a pair of films about lawbreakers who might be more than they appear. 17-year-old Isabelle decides to start a side hustle after losing her virginity on vacation. When her favorite client, Georges, does something deeply traumatizing, Isabelle's secret life will soon be revealed. A more recent entry from Francois Ozon, one of France's most important modern filmmakers,Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie). Early in the morning, two police detectives breakdown the door of Edward

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Emerald Emotions

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2023/06/10

This week green men of various sizes and the ladies who love them. When Bruce Banner is accidentally exposed to massive amounts of gamma radiation and exploding medical nanobots, it awakens a secret buried deep inside of him by his mad scientist father, David. Now whenever Bruce gets angry he becomes a green rage monster. Meanwhile, two estranged fathers try to use this as a way to reconnect with their children. Chaos ensues. Ang Lee's ambitious comic book adaption-Hulk. It's been 50 years since

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Boards & Bars

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2023/06/03

This week- a pair of nightmares. For Michael's seventeenth birthday, his bestie Tony gifts him one of Hasbro's most popular board games and a pair of supernatural bonus gifts that apparently come with it. Now Michael has to try and save people we have to assume are his friends, despite how much believing he has friends breaks suspension of disbelief, from a serial killer. Why is Michael having these visions? Who is killing his circle of distant acquaintances? How much extra did they pay the

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Property Cowherd: 3 with Udo Kier

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2023/05/27

This week we bring May to a close with a celebration of the most character of actors- Udo Kier! Two from his early days in 70s European art films and one of more recent vintage as a face among genre enthusiasts. When Count Dracula, last of his line and quickly declining in health, must leave his ancestral home looking for a virgin bride for a quick sip to regain his lost strength. He travels to pre-Fascist Italy and becomes involved with the di Fiore family, impoverished landowners looking to

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Diagnosis: Samurai Night Fever

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2023/05/20

This week two films about Chinese-Americans and cross cultural experiences. Billi maintains a close relationship with her Nai Nai (paternal grandmother), despite there being half a planet between them. When Nai Nai is diagnosed with late stage terminal lung cancer, which the rest of their family have decided to keep secret from Nai Nai. The whole family gathers under false pretenses to have The Farewell. Jo and Steve are purchasing their taxi medallion. Their friend, Chan, volunteers to be the

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SCALES

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2023/05/13

This week two movies with couples that really want to kiss but never do. Mia is almost 16 and has just moved to a new town. Before long she befriends Gianna, head of a more rebellious clique, and tries to fit in. Unfortunately, she is about to undergo some changes which are a far cry from normal adolescence. The first feature by Lisa Brühlmann, Blue My Mind. An evil spirit takes a late night stroll and music teacher Eric Longfellow rises from his grave. Eric wastes no time in opening a new music

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Cosmic Anthropoid

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2023/05/06

This week two strangers in strange lands and the rednecks that oppose them. When new infrared images reveal an uncharted island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Petrox Oil sends an expedition to take samples for drilling. Along the way they pick up a stowaway paleontologist and an adrift ingenue. If they don't find oil, they will have found a forty foot tall primate named Kong by the indigenous population. The first remake of the RKO monster horror classic,King Kong. When an alien lifeform

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Daddy's Back

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2023/04/29

This week- two movies about people trapped in places they are unable to leave. Some metaphorically, others literally. Sascha drifts through her days, getting by as well as she can at work and with occasional visits to her young son. Maria is a dreamer who wants to be a performer and poet. When sparks fly between them, both women embrace their blooming romance but can't see how it could be threatened by their individual outlooks. The second feature by Henrika Kull,Bliss. Carlin just wants to keep

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Are You There Log? It's Me, Margaret.

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2023/04/22

This week we finish our journey through the Lodges and find more questions than answers in the strangest and most unlikely of places. Like Buckhorn, South Dakota. 25 years after being trapped in the Black Lodge, Special Agent Dale Cooper final prepares to escape. Unfortunately, his evil doppelgänger has other plans. Meanwhile, old allies are called to investigate a new case which seems to connect to a case they thought was long behind them. Simultaneously, an insurance investigator in Las Vegas

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Chris Isaak's Cream Corn & Coffee

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2023/04/15

This week- a once reviled prequel that debuted only 11 months after the series finale. In 1988 outside a small town in Washington state, a body, wrapped in plastic, floats down river. The body is that of Teresa Banks and the town is Deer Meadow. FBI Special Agents Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley are sent to investigate. Things do not go as expected. Exactly one year later, the last seven days of Laura Palmer's life play out to their brutal conclusion. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Episode 303-

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