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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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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Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Happy New Year from the Video Junkyard crew! We took a little holiday break this year but not to worry - we are back with a new review! This week we take a look at the 1974 classic horror film "Black Christmas". Directed by Bob Clark, written by A. Roy Moore, and starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Lynne Griffin and John Saxon, Black Christmas is one of the first (if not THE first) telling of the "stranger in the house with the babysitter"-style slasher films. Taking place during the Christmas season, a group of sorority sisters are preparing for the holiday break when a derranged caller ("The Moaner") keeps calling and harrassing them. But soon the calls become more threatening. And then worse.
One of the more inspirational/impactful films on the horror genre, Black Christmas has beeb remade multiple times. But how does it hold up in early 2023? Check out the Video Junkyard Podcast to find out!
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Friday Dec 16, 2022
On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast we continue our annual Christmas movie marathon with a long-time fan favorite (yet often forgotten holiday film) Gremlins! This 1984 classic was directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus and stars Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyte Axton, and an early role by Corey Feldman. When a father gives his son Billy (Galligan) a strange pet for Christmas, the creature - a Mogwai named Gizmo - he tells him to follow three important rules for caring for the creature: never bring him out into bright light, never get him wet, and never EVER feed him after midnight. When Billy accidentally breaks the last two rules, a bunch of new mogwais are created and transform into mischievious and monstrous gremlins that wreak havoc to their small midwestern town. With voice talents by Howie Mandel and Frank Welker to round out that cast, Gremlins was a smash hit in 1984. But how does it hold up in 2022? Check out the latest episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast to find out!
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
This week's movie was selected by our esteemed patron Tony Rodriguez. It's one we, collectively, had never seen before, and WHOA! is it something. If the poster art and show title weren't a giveaway, it's the 1994 Italian horror classic Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man).
Something is causing the dead to rise from their graves as flesh-eating zombies, and cemetery custodian Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) grows tired of killing them all for the second time. However, the town politicians won't listen to him, so Francesco is on his own. One day, he falls for a beautiful woman (Anna Falchi) whose husband has recently died -- but their affair is tragically interrupted by zombies, sending Francesco into a tailspin of madness and woe.
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