Reel Roulette

 Check out the network's new podcast Dipperz. There's five episodes on the feed so far; here's one of them. Episode #4 is $6.66 for the first minute, $.69 each additional minute as Sarah and Lauren take a dip into 1-900 mumbers*! Make sure you get your parents permission before listening.* In a time long ago, far away, before the internet, people used to pay to make a landline phone call for premium audio content.https://open.spotify.com/show/6LMXvqaGE3WsXHFhWMTuHB

 Subscribe now to the new podcast, A Cosmic Void starring Alex Biggs Small and Jeremiah Perez! Here's a taste of one episode, there's more on the feed and many more to come. This episode is about the Alex Garland instant classic: Ex Machina. We dissect the movie going scene by scene uncovering the themes that run beneath. We discuss the feminist reading of this movie, the allusions to literature and history, and discuss the slightly ahead of it's time presentation of the danger of data mining. And of course we list movies that informed it, as well as movies influenced by it. And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

Jedi Master's Degree is a podcast that will introduce you to the world of Star Wars, or bolster what you already know. All nineteen episodes of season one are available now! This episode is about the book that was the backdoor pilot to The Empire Strikes Back.

Find out what Biggs and Zac have been up to with the podcast Box Office Battle as we drunkenly debate whether The Rise of Skywalker is any good with NOT SAFE FOR netWORK hall of famers Brandon Beardslee and Connor Lachenbruch. Plus we rank the episodes by quality and title, find out about George Lucas's sex life, gush over Baby Yoda, and more!

Want more of Biggs? Here's his new podcast. It talks about the history of television one show at a time. It begins by talking about one of the most iconic television series of all-time Star Trek. Find out the reality of the first interracial kiss on television, how the cast chemistry affected the show, the best episodes and so much more!

Aaron and Biggs finally get to review a movie that's nominated for an Oscar. The Big Sick is a true life story turned romantic comedy about Kumail Nanjiani. He avoids praying, wants to avoid arranged marriage, and realizes that he loves his girlfriend...after she goes into a coma.

A bunch of genetically altered sharks use a Skarsgard to break open a window, sinking an underwater facility so that they can ram their way out of to the open sea. They also try to cook LL Cool J, and eat an inspirational Samuel L. Jackson raw. We saw Deep Blue Sea!

Three men get out of prison, go to a trailer park, and go right back to prison. There's a bunch of B-plots too. We watched Trailer Park Boys:  Countdown to Liqour Day. 

Kate Donaldson sits in tonight. We watch a movie about a group of vegetarian vampires (who drink animal blood) move to Washington state to seduce a seventeen year old and play lots of baseball. In the rain. Because they sparkle in the sun *Sigh* We had to watch Twilight.

Hellraiser is the story of a man who opens a puzzle box revealing to him the ultimate pleasure, but actually the ultimate pain. It's administered with chain hooks by a guy with pins sticking out of his head. This episode finds the answers of why horror movies are studied, why demons wear sunglasses, and which clubs hire blue grass bands for S&M parties. Let's get started, Satan's-a-waitin.

Kevin Costner plays Farrell, a man who has an affair with a call girl...who just happens to romantically tangled with the Secretary of Defense...who just so happens to hire him...and just so happens to kill the call girl...and just so happens to put Farrell in charge of an investigation to find himself and blame himself for being a Russian spy...which he just so happens to be. There's a lot a of random chance in this episode, and it's not just with the movie selection. We watched No Way Out.

In a crash grab attempting to get in on that big, big Maleficent money, Asylem created this pile of schlock retelling the story of Sleeping Beauty. Only this time it has zombies, an iguana dragon, simulated rape, and Johnny Rico from Starship Troopers taking on Karen Arnold from The Wonder Years. Do you want to learn more?

A vengeful, handsome spirit dressed in an S&M outfit races the gang responsible for his death.  As he blows them up one by one, you start to wonder, what's with the arm braces he leaves everywhere?  Aaron and Biggs set out to these questions and more. And believe us, Lady Luck left us a lot of questions to answer with this 80's revenge/thriller/sci-fi/drama:  The Wraith.

We start season two with perhaps the most known movie of the 80's:  Top Gun! Maverick and Goose enter the Top Gun program for the best of the best fighter pilots. Along the way they find action, love, and hot sweaty volleyball. Biggs and Aaron focus on the movie being a grandfather of many tropes, the soundtrack, the A-list cast, and it's place in the rise of militaristic films. All that, plus a lot of random tangents.

Aaron Donaldson (from The Alien Movie Project, That's Debate-Able, and the Airheads episode of this podcast) is teaming up with Biggs for another season. This episode helps you get to know your new co-host. The focus of the show shifts slightly. The streaming platforms widen. The algorithm changes. An NBA Draft ping pong ball machine is brought in. A new movie is selected. Welcome to season two.

Here we are, Lady Luck.  The final episode of season one of Reel Roulette.  It's been a hell of a ride.  We end with special guest Brandon Beardslee watching the 1976 version of King Kong starring Jeff Bridges and Charles Groden. And it's not a comedy. No really.

Lady Luck shines onto Biggs, Zac, and special guest Janalee Minton by granting them Star Trek IV:  The Voyage Home.  The crew of the Enterprise heads back to Earth to face a court marshal.  But before they reach their destination, an alien probe begins destroying the Earth in search for humpback whales.  Kirk and company slingshot around the sun and go back to 1986 to find them.  Hilarity ensues.

Lady Luck lights some scented candles and draws a hot bath for the soap opera disguised as a movie...Soda Springs.  Eden was arrested for killing people while drunk driving.  He returns to his hometown after serving his time to find his ex-wife remarried, his child playing baseball, his mother obsessively pining over his dead father, a pair of cops who take orders from a used car salesmen, and a ghost.  You got all of that?

A clairvoyant detective of sorts fights a mallpocolypse and CG creatures call Bodeks.  Based off a Dean Koontz series of books, Odd Thomas dares to be uneven in tone, ignoring simple editing cuts, and yet still manages to be fun.  Lady Luck is making Zac and Biggs scratch their heads.

When a megashark breaks out from an iceberg being towed by a tugboat to Egypt, the US military upgrades their mechashark to do battle with it.  Scientist Debbie Gibson also stars in Megashark vs Mechashark.  Seriously, Lady Luck?

Lady Luck really sucks right now.  She forces Biggs and Zac to watch the so-bad-it's-terrible movie Never Back Down 2:  The Beatdown.  It's so horrible that massive amounts of alcohol are consumed and the show is turned into a commentary just so that they didn't have to watch it and talk about it later.  It's the story about MMA fighters punching notebook paper.  No, really.

Lady Luck toys with Zac, Biggs, and special guest Aaron Donaldson.  Three idiots (Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, and Brendan Frasier) have difficulty getting anyone to listen to the demo they've recorded for their band.  They try to get it played on the radio...and wind taking hostages instead.  Now everyone wants to hear them, the police want to arrest them, and women want to love them (except Buscemi).  Chris Farley, Ernie Hudson, Joe Mantenga, Michael Richards, and Michael McKean also star in 1994's Airheads.

Lady Luck splits Zac and Biggs with the 1995 family adventure Jumanji.  A child finds a game uncovered by an excavation.  He begins to play and finds himself stuck within the game for twenty-six years.  The game then falls into the hands two children (one played by Kirsten Dunst).  They free the child now grown into a man (Robin Williams) and realize they have to finish playing the game before the town's torn up by Bad CGI animals.  May God have mercy on our souls.

Lady Luck blesses the podcast with the classic:  Memento.  Christopher Nolan directed this film about an insurance agent (Guy Pierce) who gets in an accident and loses the ability to make new memories.  He spends his life tracking down his wife's killer.  Or does he?  This brilliant film moves forwards in one half of the movie, backwards in the other.  Finally the stories collide in great ending that won't be easily forgotten...unless your the main character.

An American ex-patriot in Belgium is on the run with his daughter after his past in the CIA comes back to haunt him.  Aaron Eckhart stars in Erased, a thriller that Lady Luck threw at us.  Zac and Biggs change the pace and do this film as a commentary that you don't necessarily need to watch while listening.

A man sells his Fantastic Four issue #1 for a ring and goes to propose to his girlfriend.  He finds her nailing a guy named Steve...and even worse...she doesn't know who Johnny Storm is.  Heartbroken, he returns his stalker father's rented tape and discovers a magic VHS tape that allows him to be attractive to the ladies.  Along the way he finds true love.  That's right, Lady Luck has given Zac and Biggs the throwback comedy Screwed:  The movie.

Shia Labeouf plays the title character, Charlie Countryman, an aimless man who suddenly finds himself without his mother or any direction (and a really bad last name).   He meets a cellist (Evan Rachel Wood) who he feels a connection to because of a series of events put into motion by his ghost-mom, and her ghost-dad.  Then he does some drugs, gets hit by a car, has his life threatened multiple times, and nearly gets killed.    And there's some random souls floating around...and a Harry Potter kid suffers from priapism.  Hooh boy, Lady Luck, it's going to be a long one.

Godzilla director Gareth Edwards made this independent film about monsters, which isn't about monsters at all.  Scoot McNairy plays a photographer trying to scrape by off of taking pictures of tragedies committed by tentacled monsters in Mexico.  His boss forces him to help his daughter (Whitney Able) back over the border into America.  Along the way they learn about the creatures, humanity, and love.  They even learn a thing or two.  And if you're not careful you may learn something too.  Lady Luck's gonna have a good time.

Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, and Madeline Stowe star in Lady Luck's new picture:  Revenge.  A fighter pilot and Mexican king pin are best friends who have a falling out over a little matter of his wife being banged.  Costner gets the crap kicked out of him, heals up, and gets...well...revenge.  Sort of.

Lady Luck takes us back to 1922 for the silent movie that first ushered vampires to the silver screen.  Nosferatu, played by Max Schreck, goes by the name Count Orlock.  He has his minion, Knock, summon the film's protagonist named Hutter up to his castle.  He soon learns that his host is a vampire feeding off of him nightly.  He escapes to rush home and help his somewhat suicidal wife before Orlock moves in next door.  The body count rises and horror ensues.

Lady Luck decides to drop some knowledge on Zac and Biggs.  We review Happy People:  A Year in the Taiga.  This Werner Herzog documentary accounts for a year in the life of a trapper in Siberia.  We see him set traps, catch fish with a shotgun, abuse his dogs, and unwind with a spot of tea.  And all of this is under the shadow of bears--big...scary...evil...devious bears.  What else would you expect from the director of Grizzly Man?

Lady Luck smiles upon Zac and Biggs as they draw the 1968 classic science-fiction flick:  The Planet of the Apes.  Charlton Heston plays an astronaut who travels forward in time to see what becomes of the human race.  To his shock the spaceship crash lands on a planet where apes have supplanted humans at the top of the evolutionary ladder.  The film explores issues of race, religion, and the human condition in addition to having apes riding horses while netting people or stabbing them with tridents.  The film ends in an iconic spine-tingling scene that won't be forgotten in cinematic history.  Zac and Biggs also spend a few minutes discussing all the sequels and reboots to this amazing movie.

Pam Grier and Sid Haig star in the grindhouse film about women so hot they melt the chains that enslave them...but not really...The Big Bird Cage.  This movie from 1972 was produced by Roger Corman and marks the second of his Women in Penitentiaries Trilogy.  Django and Blossom go from robbing night clubs to starting a revolution in...Hanoi?  They sweep up an actress having an affair with the prime minister into their madness.  She gets locked away in a prison camp run by guards where conjugal visits are never allowed...except when they are.  Django and Blossom wind up infiltrating the camp in an attempt to free all the women for their revolution.  Lots of skin, offensive stereotypes, and hilarity ensues.

This week Lady Luck has lead us to the highest grossing movie in Russian history:  Night Watch.  The director of Wanted, Nine, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter put together a big budget looking Hollywood style movie for 1.5 million dollars.  It's the tale of light vs. dark.  Good vs. evil.  Psychics vs. vampires.  This is a foreign film that you won't want to miss.

This time we review the movie that IMDB rated as the 21st worst movie of all time:  Zombie Nation.  A police officer with a German accent born and raised in Los Angeles (to an American mother who is obsessed with cleanliness and runs a mental institution) lives in an ex-asylum / furniture store / apartment and begins murdering women there.  Yes this is what the movie's about.  Yes I felt weird typing that sentence.  Eventually the women become zombies who don't look like zombies (but apparently do and don't look like zombies), and enact their revenge after walking into the police department and getting jobs there.  Lady Luck hates us, she really hates us.

Zac and Biggs have apparently upset Lady Luck.  She punishes us this week with Unstable Fables:  Tortoise vs. Hare.  See what happens when the Jim Henson company slums it by animating Jay Leno, Danny Glover and Vivica A. Fox in an unfunny take on the fable we all know...but never asked for.  We watched it so that you don't have to.  You're welcome.

Lady Luck has Zac and Biggs watch the enduring drama:  What's Eating Gilbert Grape.  Find out what happens when a man young adult is saddled with a morbidly obese mother, a mentally challenged brother, a nomadic girlfriend, a crazy cougar on the side, and a job at a grocery store with no lobster tank.  This pull from 1993 stars Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Crispin Glover, John C. Reilly, and Leonardo DiCaprio in his first Academy Award nominated performance.

Welcome to the podcast where Alex "Biggs" Small and Zachary "Zac" Lachenbruch pick a movie off of Netflix at random.  Sometimes the movies are wonderful;  sometimes the movies are wretched.  Today we go into great detail covering arguably one of the greatest movies in cinematic history:  The Godfather Part II. Francis Ford Coppola  directed Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Bruno Kirby, and Diane Keaton in this gangster epic that tells tales from the twenties and fifties concurrently.  The movie won Best Picture in 1975, nabbing five other Oscars along the way.