Doomsday at the Movies

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What is a Doomsday movie? Any movie that deals with an apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, or dystopian scenario. Film critic Ryan Covey and author Amber Covey delve into the world of Doomsday Movies; why we love them, what they have to say, and if they're wor

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    • Jun 13, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
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    Doomsday at the Movies 0077 - Mars Attacks! (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2023 93:15


    Amber & Ryan take up yodeling as Mars Attacks! (1996)

    Doomsday at the Movies 0076 - Miracle Mile (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 38:37


    Amber & Ryan have less than an hour to get out of Los Angeles before the bombs drop as they watch 1988's Miracle Mile.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0075 - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 44:18


    Amber & Ryan glide over the toxic jungle and learn that war is not good in 1984's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0074 - Isle of Dogs (2018)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2022 52:10


    Amber & Ryan traverse an island of trash in a dystopian future Japan to explore the bond between boy and dog with Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0073 - Stripperland (2011)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 45:59


    Amber & Ryan are back from an unplanned hiatus with their most cursed episode where they discuss the spoof(?)/mockbuster(?) Stripperland.

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    Doomsday at the Movies 0072 - Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 62:35


    Amber & Ryan feel old as they watch Zombieland: Double Tap

    Doomsday at the Movies 0071 - Zombieland: The Series (2013)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 36:27


    Amber & Ryan dig through the trash at Amazon Prime and unearth the failed pilot for Zombieland: The Series.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0070 - Zombieland (2009)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 53:12


    Amber & Ryan learn some important rules and scour the wasteland for pre-packaged snack cakes as they watch 2009's Zombieland.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0069 - Love and Monstes (2020)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2022 39:17


    Amber & Ryan get out and stretch their legs in a world filled with giant deadly beasts as they watch 2020's Love and Monsters.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0068 - Blood Quantum (2019)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 41:57


    Amber & Ryan buckle in for a depressing ride with the Indigenous zombie film Blood Quantum

    Doomsday at the Movies 0067 - Space Sweepers (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2021 50:51


    Amber & Ryan clean up junk in a cluttered universe as they watch 2021's Space Sweepers.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0066 - The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 43:06


    Amber & Ryan take a quirky road trip through the robot apocalypse with The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0065 - Parasite (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2021 26:02


    Amber & Ryan struggle to find much to talk about after watching Charles Band's Parasite.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0064 - Slither (2006)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021 53:37


    Amber & Ryan act according to their nature as they discuss James Gunn's Slither.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0063 - Night of the Creeps (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 48:57


    Amber & Ryan are thrilled and learn the perils of brainworms as they watch Night of the Creeps

    Doomsday at the Movies 0062 - The Deadly Spawn (1983)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2021 40:21


    Amber & Ryan spend a rainy day inside and fight man-eating slugs from outer space as they watch The Deadly Spawn.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0061 - Shivers (1975)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2021 45:18


    Amber & Ryan kick off killer slugs month with David Cronenberg's Shivers. CONTENT WARNING: Shivers deals heavily with the subject of sexual assault.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0060 - Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2021 63:40


    Amber & Ryan collect bounties, play future sports, and do robot karate as they watch Alita: Battle Angel.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0059 - Surrogates (2009)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2021 42:15


    Amber & Ryan fall asleep in their chairs and let their robot avatars watch Surrogates for them.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0058 - Bounty Killer (2013)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2021 54:03


    Ryan & Amber watch 2013's Bounty Killer and dream about a world where rich people are punished for their crimes.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0057 - Barb Wire (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2021 59:29


    Amber & Ryan visit the far-off future year of 2017 as they watch 1996's Pamela Anderson vehicle Barb Wire.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0056 - Chosen Survivors (1974)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2021 52:42


    Amber & Ryan go a little batty as they watch 1974's Chosen Survivors.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0055 - Delicatessen (1991)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2021 84:11


    Amber & Ryan hang out in a crumbling apartment building with quirky French cannibals as they watch 1991's Delicatessen.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0054 - The End of the World (1916)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2021 43:16


    Amber & Ryan travel all the way back to 1916 to watch the first post-apocalyptic movie: The End of the World.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0053 - Waterworld (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2021 92:37


    Amber & Ryan celebrate the podcast's 1st anniversary by searching for Dryland with a grumpy fish-man as they watch 1995's Waterworld.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0052 - Badlands 2005 (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2021 40:52


    Amber & Ryan talk Badlands 2005, a failed TV pilot for ABC directed by George Miller that bears a few elements of Mad Max: Fury Road. Does it live up to the Mad Max legacy?

    Doomsday at the Movies 0051 - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2021 71:20


    Amber & Ryan ride into Valhalla, shiny and chrome, as they discuss George Miller's magnum opus, Mad Max: Fury Road.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0050 - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 75:56


    Amber & Ryan say bidey-bye to the highscrapers and find out who run Bartertown as they watch Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0049 - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2021 61:32


    Amber & Ryan are just here for the gasoline as they discuss Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0048 - Mad Max (1979)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 64:30


    Ryan & Amber watched 1979's Mad Max and discuss its strange place in the doomsday movie canon. Think of them when you look a the night sky.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0047 - Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2021 59:50


    Amber & Ryan check out Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors and talk musicals, the 1960 movie, and the director's cut that features the original ending.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0046 - Beowulf (1999)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2021 55:34


    Tonight, Amber & Ryan are filled with magic because they watched 1999's Beowulf starring Christopher Lambert and Rona Mitra. Outro Song: Life at the Outpost by The Skatt Bros. (1980)

    Doomsday at the Movies 0045 - Bullets of Justice (2019)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2021 45:43


    Amber & Ryan explore a gonzo world of pigmen, mustachioed women, male models, and ridiculous violence in 2019's Bullets of Justice.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0044 - The Book of Eli (2010)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2021 68:56


    Amber & Ryan go on a journey with The Book of Eli. They talk about cinematography, subtle worldbuilding, and ponder the intent of the film's message.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0043 - Nemesis 5: The New Model (2017)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2021 46:51


    Amber & Ryan are not kind to Nemesis 5: The New Model. They discuss the various things it does wrong, the couple of things it does very right, and reflect on the series as a whole.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0042 - Nemesis 4: Death Angel (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2021 46:49


    Amber & Ryan watch Nemesis 4: Death Angel and discuss how it functions as an endpoint for the series, its tonal disparity to the previous films, and how the movie's protagonist has changed between entries.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0041 - Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2021 54:08


    Amber & Ryan are confused and fatigued after watching Nemesis 3: Time Lapse.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0040 - Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2021 61:13


    Amber & Ryan travel forward 100 years into the future in order to go back 20 years into the past and learn to throw machetes at pigs and blurry cyborgs as they watch Nemesis 2: Nebula.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0039 - Nemesis (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2021 62:02


    Amber & Ryan wade through a tangled web of dropped plotlines in between martial arts gun battles as they watch Albert Pyun's Nemesis.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0038 - Bird Box (2018)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2021 63:52


    Amber & Ryan avert their eyes from 2018's Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich. Content Warning: Contains discussion of suicide.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0037 - Ready Player One (2018)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2021 19:11


    Amber & Ryan suffer the effects of acute nostalgia poisoning as they watch and discuss Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0036 - Dogma (1999)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 78:09


    Amber & Ryan watch 1999's Dogma and discuss theology, comedy, and Kevin Smith.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0035 - Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2021 67:11


    Amber & Ryan watched 2019's Steven Universe: The Movie. They discuss the difference between children's and all-ages entertainment, whether the movie is a worthy successor to the TV show, and question why this is a musical.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0034 - Angel's Egg (1985) and In the Aftermath (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2021 51:16


    Amber & Ryan bring Aftermonth to a close with the double feature of the 1985 esoteric anime Angel's Egg and the 1988 mixed-media American reappropriation of the film, In the Aftermath. They discuss art films, religious overtones, whether a movie that exists purely to make money can still be artistic, and sum up what Aftermonth has taught them.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0033 - The Aftermath (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2021 58:15


    Aftermonth enters its third week as Amber & Ryan watch 1982's The Aftermath and discuss the film's progressive and regressive sexual politics, Sid Haig, and how the movie gives off divorced dad energy.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0032 - Aftermath (2014)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2021 50:11


    Amber & Ryan talk about 2014's bummer indie gem Aftermath featuring Monica Keena and Edward Furlong and get derailed talking about diesel engines, EMPs, late-period Friday the 13th sequels, and pop tarts.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0031 - Aftermath (2012), Aftermath: A 2012 Story (2010), and Aftermath (2013)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2021 59:20


    Aftermonth is upon us! Amber & Ryan experience 2012's zombie/other stuff(?) film Aftermath and then, exhausted of things to talk about, watch two short films also called Aftermath.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0030 - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2021 52:43


    Amber & Ryan try not to panic as they make their way through the glacially paced 1981 miniseries version of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0029 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2021 75:25


    Amber & Ryan dive into the 2005's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Is the movie a good adaptation of the material? Is Sam Rockwell doing a George W. Bush impersonation? Is Trillian a Manic Pixie Dream Girl or just being played by Zooey Deschanel? All will be answered.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0028 - Songbird (2020) and Corona Zombies (2020)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2021 56:53


    Unable to pass up an opportunity to discuss movies about a dystopia that we're all currently living in, Amber & Ryan discuss the Covidsploitation films Songbird and Corona Zombies.

    Doomsday at the Movies 0027 - Repo Men (2010)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2021 66:50


    Amber & Ryan ask all of your biggest questions about 2010's Repo Men. Does Jude Law's character have any redeeming qualities? Is this movie's subtext supposed to be this homoerotic? Did this movie rip off Repo! The Genetic Opera?

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