Video Junkyard Podcast
Do you ever get a flash of a memory of a movie you saw as a child, but can’t remember the name? Perhaps you caught it on TV while staying up later than you should have. Or maybe you never saw it, but you recognize the cover art from the neighborhood video store around the block. At the Video Junkyard, we dig up these forgotten films and franchises and see if they still hold up in the digital age. Hosts Erik Gulbrandsen, Joe Peterson and Ryan Steiskal will look at the best, the worst, and the best of the worst.
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Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
This week we leave the comfy confines of the junkyard on a road trip to Dunwich, otherwise known as Lucio Fulci's "City of the Living Dead" (AKA The Seven Gates of Hell). This 1980 horror film pits Fulci regular Catriona MacColl against an army of the walking dead, or something like that. Honestly, we're not sure, but it's a hell of a ride.
A newsman (Christopher George) and a prematurely buried woman (Katriona McColl) confront the living dead in Massachusetts.
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Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Get your interstellar rigs ready to ride because this week, we're watching "Spaces Truckers." Stuart Gordon directs this 1996 sci-fi adventure starring the late Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar, and Charles Dance. With killer robots designed by the one and only Screaming Mad George, this is a forgotten movie that shoots for the stars, but does it end up crashing back down to earth? Its 15% Rotten Tomatoes score would have you believe it's an interstellar stinker, but we've got some thoughts of our own. Join Us!
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Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
On this week's episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, we take a look at the 1986 science fiction film "Solarbabies". Directed by Alan Johnson and (shocklingly) co-produced by Mel Brooks, "Solarbabies" stars Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, and Charles Durning and tells a tale of a post-aocalyptic future ruled by the military where a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb (named Bohdai) that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.
When it was first released, Solarbabies was received poorly by critics due to its confusing plot and derivative sci-fi elements. So how does it hold up in 2023? Check out the latest episode to find out!
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
It's our semi-annual annual Razzies Special! This year we're watching the one that went on to win... Andrew Dominick's Marilyn Monroe biopic "Blonde." This controversial film was awarded the Golden Rasberry award for the WORST film of 2022. Come and see what we make of this disturbing, emotionally draining experience of a movie, and consider if it is indeed as bad as its nomination would have you believe.
A look at the rise to fame and the epic demise of actress Marilyn Monroe, one of the biggest stars in the world.
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Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, we revisit Perfection to take a look at the 1990 comedy/horror movie "Tremors". In this popular thriller franchise starter (directed by Ron Underwood and starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Riba McEntire), the locals of a small southwestern town discover giant monstrous worm-like creatures (dubbed "graboids") rooting through the ground beneath their feet...and they are hungry!
While "Tremors" wasn't a huge hit in the theaters, it spawned a seven-film (direct-to-video) franchise and a short-lived series.
So how does the first film hold up? Check out "Tremors" on TubiTV and then join us for the discussion on the Video Junkyard Podcast!
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
This time the Junkyard gang is off on the adventure of a lifetime... vicariously, of course. We are living the adventures of Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas in 1984's "Romancing the Stone." Robert Zemeckis directed this classic romantic adventure that sees the stars off to South America on the hunt for a lost jewel of immense value. Joe and Ryan were both newbies to this one. Let's see if they think this treasure is worth unearthing or if we should give that map to Danny Devito and get on our way.
A dowdy romantic-adventure writer is hurled into a real-life adventure in the Colombian jungle in order to save her sister, who will be killed if a treasure map is not delivered to her captors. She is helped out by a brash mercenary, and together they search for the priceless gem located on the map.
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Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
On the latest episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, the guys to space! Ok...so we've been doing a lot of that lately. But this time it's with 1980's "Battle Beyond the Stars" directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and Roger Corman. Starring Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon, George Peppard, and Sybil Danning, this space opera latches on to the heels of some other popular sci-fi epic that came out just a few years earlier, but also borrows heavily on a different Kurosawa film (this time it's "Seven Samurai").
With a star-studded cast and a unique production design, how does "Battle Beyond the Stars" hold up? Check out the latest episode to find out(and also check out our Patreon)!
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
In this episode, the Junkyard crew rides on an interstellar spacecraft back to the year 1986 and the Disney family Sci-Fi film "The Flight of the Navigator." Whether this is a beloved classic from your youth or never seen a relic of the 1980s, come along and see if we can find any reason to give this one a (re)watch or if we should send it back to its own timeline in 1986 where it belongs.
"This 1978 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David (Joey Cramer), who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back but just as perplexed as he is by the fact that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist (Howard Hesseman) discovers a UFO nearby, David can unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost."
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, Erik and Joe take a look at the 2005 film "Lord of War" staring Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm, and Ethan Hawke. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, "Lord of War" is a semi-true story of one of the world's most infamous arms dealers in the 1980s through early 2000s. While Cage's character of Yuri Olav is fictional, the character - and many characters in the film - are based on real individuals (Olav is based on real-life "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout).
An interesting, and sadly still topical film and a unique role for Cage in this particular time in his career, but does Lord of War still hold up in 2023? Check out the Video Junkyard Podcast to find out!
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Well, it doesn't take place in 2023 as meme culture would have you believe, but that doesn't mean that "Zardoz" isn't one of the craziest sci-fi movies ever. Welcome back to the Junkyard. It's 2023, and we're visiting the 23rd century where Sean Connery plays Burt Reynolds in a G-sting with suspenders, and that's the most reasonable decision John Boorman made in this 1974 "classic."
In the future, Earth is ruled by Eternals, an advanced and secret sect of beings who reign over a savage group called Brutals. The Eternals have created a god named Zardoz to intimidate the Brutals, making them believe that killing is their natural state. However, Zed (Sean Connery), a Brutal warrior, challenges that assumption when he enters the Zardoz monument and is captured by an Eternal (Charlotte Rampling). There, he learns the truth about the Eternals and the false god that rules society.
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