Welcome back to The Culture Garden Podcast! This week, Rich is joined by Spike Lou to recap the films they watched in theaters and on streaming in September and preview what they’re looking forward to in October. Tune in for recommendations, film talk, and plenty of conversation about what’s worth watching. Let us know what you enjoyed last month and what’s on your October watchlist!We appreciate you for listening. Y’all be cool how y’all be cool!

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Director Shaun Paul Piccinino — a former stuntman and martial artist who cut his teeth on Jackie Chan documentaries — tells Mike White how Double Trouble came together as "Home Alone meets Ocean's Eleven": a Vegas heist comedy built around real-life sisters Madeleine and Violet McGraw, anchored by an Andrew Koji-led, Jackie-Chan-inspired kitchen brawl where even the lettuce gets used as a weapon.Piccinino details the chaos of filming inside a live, working casino — sound so loud from slot machines

The Ballad of Tony and Steve continues with a deep dive into one of the most polarizing and controversial installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Join your favorite pals in podcasting, Nick and Scott, as they give you the full … Continue reading →

She was born bad… but what did my only child think about her? Let’s find out on the only podcast brave enough to put a teen with a driver’s permit behind the wheel as we revisit Stephen King and John Carpenter’s 1983 collab, CHRISTINE. It’s Oli’s first time watching the film, so we had to talk about good and bad band names, drive-in hamburgers, yogurt murders, taking rides from guys down by the docks, and rock ’n roll bits. All this, plus dumb parents, back braces as shirts, road beers, boxy shorts,

BEEP BEEP Richie. 🤡Fire up your VCRs and grab your yellow raincoats! This week, Michael Reagan and Nate Lane are heading into the sewers of Derry, Maine alongside recurring contributor and resident retro expert Stan (aka @nostalgiaatnite on Instagram). The guys are tackling the legendary, star-studded 1990 made-for-TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s IT. In this episode, the trio breaks down the phenomenal dual-timeline cast, dissects the terrifyingly brilliant plot, and revisits the

looking at the two ends of Eva Marie Saint's extraordinary acting career, there are a few ways to define “first” and “last”:First professional screen work: Saint appeared on NBC's early live television program Campus Hoopla (1946–47), where she worked as a performer/commercial spokeswoman. This was during television's infancy. WikipediaFirst movie: On the Waterfront (1954) — Saint made her feature-film debut as Edie Doyle, opposite Marlon Brando. Remarkably, she won the Academy Award for Best

National Grouch Day exists, it lands on October 15, and we are absolutely claiming it. We take our favorite kind of nostalgia, the kind with sharp edges, and use it to build a Gen X hall of fame for legendary grouches. Think Oscar the Grouch energy, but expanded into sitcom dads, cartoon villains, and the characters who taught us that complaining can be a craft. We dig into where National Grouch Day came from (a sixth-grade prank aimed at a grouchy teacher) and then roll through the icons: F...

It opens on Day 2, with a cough in the dark. This week on Required Viewing, we put Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011) under the microscope — the cold, procedural pandemic thriller that spent a decade as a well-made what-if, then climbed back up the rental charts in the spring of 2020 as the whole world's homework.We get into Soderbergh's refusal to dramatize (he dispatches one of his Oscar winners inside the first ten minutes), Scott Z. Burns' script that treats a virus as a logistics problem, and

The candles are lit, footsteps are beginning to soften in the corridors, and outside the tall windows, the gardens of Versailles are disappearing into darkness. Tonight, we’re not touring the palace. We’re staying after everyone else has gone home.We’ll follow what an evening at Versailles could actually feel like during the height of the French royal court, from supper and entertainment to candlelit apartments, servants finishing their work, courtiers navigating elaborate routines, and eventually

Mike Flanagan's latest TV show CARRIE is out now on Amazon Prime! Mike sat down with Flanagan to chat about the show and his other upcoming projects (including his new Exorcist movie a new adaptation of The Mist), then Becky Darke joins Mike for a deep dive, spoilerific discussion of the whole series... Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney  Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Get ad free episodes and weekly bonus content on our Patreon! www.patreon.com/evolutionofhorror  Visit our

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It's time for another Ko-Fi donation episode! Thanks to a $50 donation from Dave, Mike and Mike are watching the 1985 adventure film REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS starring Fred Ward. The studio was trying to set up an American James Bond - and even brought in a director and screenwriter who made many Bond films! But something didn't click with audiences. Was it the white actor playing an Asian man? It's possible that had something to do with it.

Johnny Flynn talks with Mike White about playing Jacob Hansen (opposite John C. Reilly's Doc) in A Prayer for the Dying, Dara Van Dusen's directorial debut adapted from Stewart O'Nan's novella. Flynn breaks down the challenge of embodying an unreliable narrator — a Civil War veteran whose PTSD warps everything the audience sees through his eyes — and the novella's hidden debt to the Book of Job, which is why he showed up to set in Slovakia with a real, unscripted beard he and Van Dusen eventually

Prequel Episode: Primetime, Avengers: Doomsday, and more We went to see Lance Oppenheim's "Primetime" . Listen to our thoughts and our best Chris Hansen impersonations. Then we get into the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and its connection to the late great MF DOOM homself. Plus a whole lot more. Hosted By Mike Evans & Kendell Sweeney-Thomas Follow on Instagram & TikTok @modernclassicspodcastFollow Mike on Letterboxd@ChadMichaelMann

Punching Up-Episode 36-HopeTo paraphrase the great English writer Oscar Wilde, “Each man kills the thing he loves, the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a… podcast.” The brave man in this instance is Damian. The thing he loves is South Korean cinema. The object of his disappointment and pugilistic rage, Na Hong-jin’s cops and hunters vs destructive lanky aliens, 2026 critical smash, Hope. Damian has loved everything Na Hong-jin has ever made. But not Hope. Damian doesn’t like Hope

"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?" For Episode 422, Brandon is joined by returning guest and talented singer-songwriter Valerie Broussard to dive into Robert Eggers's debut feature film, THE WITCH. Listen as they discuss Eggers's early upbringing, his first few short films, how they financed the film, which family film director became a mentor to Robert Eggers, how the movie became a breakout role for Anya Taylor-Joy, how they created authentic sets and costumes, which animal was a nightmare

Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña built their new film inside a Santiago museum, in front of a live audience, using rear-projected scale models and painted backdrops instead of CGI. The Chilean directing duo talk with Mike about Donkey Princess, their shape-shifting reimagining of the Donkeyskin fairy tale starring Antonia Giesen as Princess Diana.León and Cociña describe the chaotic, caffeine-fueled process of splitting one overstuffed script into two films, Donkey Princess and its companion piece

Bil Richardson's Ephemera was built backwards: instead of writing a script and shooting it, the longtime below-the-line filmmaker and West Virginia University professor emeritus assembled the entire 87-minute film from licensed stock footage on Artlist and Envato, recording all dialogue as ADR, and discovering — only while writing the final log line — that he'd accidentally told his own story. Richardson tells Mike White how the project began as a distraction during a year-long hospitalization for a

Our exit today has us not showing up to that Saturday tutorial class. This week, we are talking about The Rules of Attraction, written and directed by Roger Avary. And we've brought along our friend Jim Laczkowski from The Director's Club for the wild ride.Obviously, we can't help but talk about American Psycho and Bret Easton Ellis, but we also talk David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, Sam Smith, 90s TV shows, American Pie, George Michael, the French New Wave, sexy Reese Witherspoon