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Team B #11: The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

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2021/09/18

BLT Team B review British filmmaker Ken Russell's horror / comedy cult classic, The Lair of the White Worm (1988), starring a young Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi of Dr. Who, and the provocatively bewitching Amanda Donohue.

#73: PROMARE

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2021/07/31

After the hell year that was 2020, the Thieves are at long last back on the couch together! We catch up by chatting about the zaniness that is Record of Ragnarok and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5, discuss Heat's ongoing mission to ruin movies watch a new movie every day and how that's been going, bum ourselves out with a double dose of sad news items, and finally give our thoughts on Studio Trigger and Hiroyuki Imaishi's first feature film, the loud, energetic, and joyously colorful, 3DCG/2D

Team B #10: The Secret of Nimh

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2021/05/31

BLT Team B review Don Bluth's directorial debut, the cult-classic, animated feature film: The Secret of NIMH (1982).

#72: Zeiram & Zeiram 2

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2021/04/03

Special guest David Bednar (@ykarps) joins us on the show to chat about two of his favorite '90s Tokusatsu films, the action filled, science fiction cult classics, Zeiram and Zeiram 2, from the creative mind of artist / director Keita Amemiya. Timestamps: [00:00] Intro + What We've Been Watching: Violet Evergarden, Alita, Cyber Punk Movies, One Piece, Golden Kamuy [43:17] Zeiram [1:23:10] Zeiram 2

#71: Infini-T Force: Farewell, Friend

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2021/02/20

Classic Tatsunoko super heroes return in this cross dimensional, team up film follow up to the 2017 CG animated Infini-T Force series by Tatsunoko and Digital Frontier studios. Tune in for the full review of Infini-T Force: Farewell, Friend!

Team B #9: Jack Frost (The Slasher Film)

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2020/12/25

Not satisfied with reviewing just one Jack Frost movie this season -- oh no, not this Christmas buster! -- the Team B crew had to go and review two of them. For your listening pleasure, here's Jack Frost (1997) a.k.a. the snowman slasher film.

Team B #8: Jack Frost (The Keaton Film)

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2020/12/19

Team B review Jack Frost (1998): the Michael Keaton film in which he plays a neglectful father and musician who, after dying in a fatal automobile accident, is given one last chance to make things right when his son summons him back to life (using a magical harmonica he gifted him on the eve of his death) as a wisecracking, fun-loving snowman - Oh Joy!

#70: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

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2020/10/31

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming this evening to bring you a scream filled night of ghouls, ghosts, vampires, and kung fu. *Record Scratch* You heard me! On tonight's Blade Licking Thieves spooktacular we're watching the 1974 Hammer Films and Shaw Brothers co-production, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, in which Hammer Films regular, Peter Cushing (a.k.a. Grand Moff Tarkin), reprising his role as the legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing, teams up with Hong Kong martial art

Team B #7: Dog Soldiers

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2020/10/19

Team B are back at it once again: enduring the pain, so we don't have to. This episode they're taking a bite out of director Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers (2002). It's an action / horror film about a group of soldiers on a rescue mission that's about to go horribly wrong -- when werewolves attack!

#69: Cat Soup / One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the...

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2020/10/04

Our series of donation funded listener requests continues with a Blade Licking Thieves' double feature! First, we have a review of Tatsuo Sato and Masaaki Yuasa's short, surreal and slightly twisted 2001 OVA, Cat Soup, based on the manga by the late Nekojiro. And, lastly, we review One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, the sixth film in the long running shonen action series by Eiichiro Oda, notable for being directed by Mamoru Hosoda (a year before he would go on to achieve monumental

Team B #6: Escape from New York

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2020/08/19

Ultra cool grouch and Hideo Kojima love interest Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has twenty four hours to rescue the President of the United States from the world’s largest maximum security prison, New York City. Tune in to find out whether Snake is a bad enough dude to save the president as BLT Team B check out John Carpenter’s cult classic Escape from New York (1981).

#68: Pacific Rim

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2020/08/03

We're kicking off our series of listener requests with Guillermo Del Toro's love letter to the Kaiju and Mecha genres: Pacific Rim - so, tune in, enter the drift with us, and let's cancel the apocalypse! Review (17:14) Twitter Questions (1:42:05 )

Team B #5: Color Out of Space

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2020/07/23

BLT Team B review Color Out of Space, writer-director Richard Stanley's new film adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft horror short story, featuring the latest and greatest advancements in CAGE RAGE™ technology.

#67: Terminator 2: Judgement Day

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2020/07/02

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY. That's it. That's the blurb. Review (43:13)

#66: The Prodigal Son (1981)

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2020/05/31

Special guest Nate Ming joins the Blade Licking Thieves to talk about one of his all time favorite martial arts films, The Prodigal Son (1981), an action comedy romp featuring the mega talents of Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Lam Ching-ying, and Frankie Chan. Review (36:08)

#65: The Dagger of Kamui

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2020/04/12

We chat about the 3-D anime, centered around 1990s arcade nostalgia, Hi Score Girl. Argue the merits of the Berserk anime before a court of law. Sally forth into the whimsical world of slimes, heroes, and dragons with the launch of Dragon Quest Your Story. And, finally, review a hidden gem from 1985, Rintaro’s tragically underappreciated ninja epic: The Dagger of Kamui.

#64: Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time

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2020/03/16

We spend an hour talking Tezuka's Phoenix, Sega's Yakuza series, and too-horny-for-TheHeat-mecha-show Godannar, among other things, before breaking into our review of director Yoon Jong-bing's Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Game (2012), which chronicles the rise and fall of two South Korean gangsters (Choi Min-Sik and Ha Jung-woo) during the 80's and 90's.

Team B #4: Maniac Cop

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2020/03/08

BLT Team B review the 80s slasher cult classic, Maniac Cop, starring always a treat Bruce Campbell and man with a huge face Robert Z'Dar!

#63:Versus (2000)

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2020/02/21

Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast joins us to review Ryuhei Kitamura's break out Japanese action film Versus! Review (39:48) Twitter Questions (2:32:05)

#62: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

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2020/02/04

We review the 2006 anime film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time from director Mamoru Hosoda: a delightful coming of age comedy / drama loosely based on a story by Paprika writer Yasutaka TsuiTsui about a teen-aged girl named Makoto who discovers she has the ability to quite literally leap through time. Review (25:45) Twitter Questions (1:27:58)

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