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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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Ice-Cold Angel

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2024/08/25

This week- a pair of films starring the late French icon Alain Delon. Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy to retrieve Phillippe Greenleaf, son of a wealth San Francisco family. Phillippe has no intention of returning home, especially if it means leaving behind his fiancée, Marge. He soon grows cruel and abusive to the always fawning Tom. But Tom Ripley has ideas and plans of his own. The first film adaption of the original book Patricia Highsmith's classic novel series,Purple Noon(original

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Mutant Beavers

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2024/08/19

This week- a pair of features occupying areas adjacent to classic cartoons. When his applejack distillery is destroyed in an accident, Jean Kayak has to find a new trade to survive the harsh winter. Taking up fur trading, something he doesn't exactly excel at, he soon finds love and danger in the forms of The Furrier andHundreds of Beavers. Super powered mutants are being born all around the world, these evolutionary leaps are treated with fear and bigotry. Now the United States government is

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Swamps are for Squids

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2024/08/11

This week- a pair of moves designed to inspire nostalgia, even in the most begrudging of hearts. After stopping the nefarious plans of Martin Whistler in the 23rd century, hardboiled trooper Jak Deth chases him back to 1980s Los Angeles. Taking over the body of his ancestor, Phil, Jak must find the body Whistler now inhabits before he can take over the world with his brain washed zombie cult known. The first entry in Full Moon's sprawling sci-fi fantasy series,Trancers. Every once in a while a

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Unsimulated Car Chase

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2024/08/04

This week- a pair of films about criminal elements and the fast decent into obsession. When his partner is killed, just three days before retirement, Secret Service Agent Richard Chance becomes obsessed with getting revenge on the counterfeiter Eric Masters. As Chance increasingly goes off the rails, indulging in sexual extortion of an informant and kidnapping and assault, his new partner is powerless to rein him in. Masters and Chance head toward an unavoidable confrontation that is the price

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Keep Rollin Rollin Rollin

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2024/07/28

This week- a celebration of France's vampire auteur that avoids almost purposefully avoids his beloved vampire work. When Frederic sees a photograph of old ruins by the sea, he suddenly remembers a beautiful young woman his preteen self fell in love with. Obsessing over finding the ruins location, he soon finds himself the target of nefarious forces. Will Frederic find solace in the dilapidated stones or will he only seeLips of Blood (aka Levres de sang). Driving along a lonely road late at

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Lady of the Wake

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2024/07/21

This week- a pair of French speaking serial killers and the people who obsess over them. Saskia and Rex are on a biking holiday in France. At a rest stop, Saskia goes to buy drinks and is never seen again. Raymond is a wealthy family man who spends his free time practicing his approach to abducting women. Raymond refines his methods through fumbling trial and error. Three years later, Rex will learn exactly what happened to Saskia. A clinical tour of two men's obsessions that has firmly earned

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Newman's Own French Dressing

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2024/07/15

This week- a pair of films about people on the make. Small time hustler, Johnny Hooker, accidentally puts a giant target on his own back when steals a large amount of money from a violent crime boss's courier. His only hope is to ruin the crime boss with the help of Henry Gondorff, a once big time con artist currently on the run from the FBI. Together they put on a massive and desperate operation using horses and the wire service while hitmen and federal agents nip at their heels. Will Hooker

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Sirloin Sovereign

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2024/07/06

This week we jump back to 1985 for a double feature of b-movie bliss. Just before Christmas, Lane Meyer's only two interests, his girlfriend and skiing, are ripped away from him by Roy Stalin, the bully ski team captain. Unfortunately, Lane is about on par with the rest of the town for eccentricities and he does not take this dual rejection well. Plus he's living in the shadow of his genius younger brother, delightful mother, psychotic paperboy, race obsessed twins, and a best friend from a home

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Lo-Fi Sci-Fi

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2024/06/29

This week a four pack of sci-fi with less than futuristic surroundings. Scientist Sterling Peirce dreamed of a future where mankind no longer feared death, lived in harmony with all existence, and dedicated his life to the miracle elixir he created. Tragically, he died before his vision of a a peaceful future could come to pass. Years later, his son, Jaxxon Peirce, controls and manufactures a version of the elixir he callsDivinity. A small group of people exiled to an island called The Burn

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Lifted Jealousy

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2024/06/22

This week- a pair of films about high emotional responses. Paul and Nelly run a successful hotel, have a beautiful child, and live what appears to be an idyllic life together. Until Paul begins to have suspicions about Nelly's fidelity. Paul soon finds himself sinking into a quagmire of jealous fantasies and anger. Will Paul get the help he needs? Are his fears secretly justified? Will society at large ever stop being misogynistic asshats that enable cycles of abuse? Claude Charbol's take on a 30

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Die in a Fire

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2024/06/15

This week two movies where everyone is pretty awful and the title is wished upon everyone on screen. A friend group of recent college graduates are horrific to everyone around them and to each other. Kevin is obsessed with his bff's girlfriend. Alec is a serial cheater who only cares about career advancement. Billy is a serial cheater and occasional rapist who only cares about getting fucked up and playing the sax. Jules is a serial cheater who only cares about sleeping with her boss and waiting

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Traffick Force

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2024/06/08

This week- a film about a girl pushed beyond human endurance and a franchise entry that made the internet ridiculously thirsty for a basic whiny tantrum spree killling piss baby. When her mother goes to America with her fiancé, Lilya is left to fend for herself. Living in in a tiny squalid apartment, she has few options and no money. When a friend frames her for their own indiscretion, Lilya finds herself suddenly shunned by her community. With only younger and equally lost Volodya for company,

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Matters of Trust

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2024/06/01

This week- a pair of films about relationships and rumors. Eva is a divorced massage therapist whose daughter is about to fly across country for college. At a party she meets Marianne, a poet and new client/friend. She also meets Albert, a television archivist and love interest. Before long she learns that Marianne and Albert used to be married and uses their friendship to gather all the inside information she can. Will Eva's newly formed bonds be strong enough to withstand the eventual reveal

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Uncarbonated Poptimism

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2024/05/25

This week a quartet of movies starring popstars. When Ali travels from Iowa to LA with dreams of becoming a professional dancer, she takes a job as a waitress. The club's owner, Tess, is battling financial worries, an aggressive developer, a drunken diva, and a partner on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Desperate for something new to revitalize their stagnating stage show, Tess hears the vocals belted out from Ali, which makes everyone wonder why she didn't just try singing to begin with. All

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Laser-crossed Lovers

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2024/05/18

This week- a couple of nostalgic classics from low budget independent studios. Mandroid escapes the lair of nefarious scientist Albert Reeves and his time travelling plan for global conquest. Soon he finds an ally in robotics expect Nora Hunter, roguish riverboat captain Harry Fontana, ninja Kuji, and desperate for its own toyline complete with a Saturday morning cartoon to market it S.P.O.T. Can our intrepid heroes stop the wicked plans or will history as we knew it be wiped out by our beloved

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O Mario Where is Yo?

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2024/05/11

Due to some vague and out of our control issues with the site we record with, there will be a fair amount of snap, crackle, and even pop this week. We did our best to fix it but... apologizes in advance. This week two movies about desperate men trying to get the money and run before their short windows of time run out. When rogue Secret Service agent Foss takes the Vice President of the Uniter States hostage in the owner's box at Civic Arena during Game 7 of the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals, he never

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Do a Kickflip

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2024/05/04

This week- kids in 90s American and a con artist learns therapy is helpful. Roy Waller is a con artist in LA who suffers from OCD and stress induced tics. After a bad panic attack, his partner convinces him to see a therapist. The therapy convinces Roy to reach out to people from his past. Soon Roy finds himself with the biggest mark of his career and a teenage daughter he just met wanting to learn the trade. One of Ridley Scott's most overlooked films-Matchstick Men. Stevie finds himself drawn

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The Butler Did It

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2024/04/27

This week- four films starring a tartan typhoon called Gerry. After being locked away in a vault for 120 years, a heist unleashes a vampiric nightmare on New Orleans just in time for Mardi Gras (as if a movie would acknowledge the city for the other 11 months of the year). Mary, a young record store employee with questionable mental health, finds herself in the bloodsucker's sights. Will she escape the eternal night ofDracula 2000 (aka Dracula 2001 aka Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000)? In

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Low Stakes Horror

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2024/04/20

This week- a classic gothic horror from England and a, uh, different type of classic for a very dedicated type of audience. In 1885, self proclaimed librarian Jonathan Harker arrives take charge of some books at a lonely castle. Mr. Harker didn't tell anyone that his real job is vampire hunter and the noble whose books he used as cover is named Dracula. Things don't work out as planned and soon Dr. Van Helsing goes to find Harker while Dracula goes to find Harker's friends in England. Hammer's

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Rented by the Hour

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2024/04/13

This week- a pair of films adapted from the stage. 1931, Berlin, while finishing his doctorate a British academic, Brian Roberts, takes residence in a boarding house. Finding his room is too small to teach English lessons, which he must to survive, Brian strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, Sally Bowles, a performer at the Kit Kat Klub. Soon Brian finds himself caught up in her bohemian lifestyle. One of the first films to be rated X with fiendishly catchy songs, strong performances, plenty

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