After Lunch
768 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsMichael May, Rob Graham, and Friends discuss TV, movies, comics, games, and anything else they happen to think of.
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225 | After Midnight – Universal Mummies, Part 1
November 13, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 37.4 MBMichael and Jess open the sarcophagus on Universal's first three Mummy movies: The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and The Mummy's Tomb (1942).
224 | Fithy Horrors Rerun – Edgar Allan Poe
November 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBWith the recent release of Mike Flanagan's adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher, it seems like a good time to rerun this conversation about Edgar Allan Poe between Michael, Jessica Hickman, and Darla Ecklund from the old Filthy Horrors podcast. The episode begins in a cemetery as we dig into "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Raven," with side-trips to other Poe stories and favorite adaptations of his work. Note: It was windy at the cemetery and ...
223 | Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
October 31, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBHappy Halloween! Michael, Rob, Pax, and Becky finish the Underworld films with a visit to the ice vampires as they talk about whether Blood Wars is a satisfying conclusion to the series.
222 | Underworld: Awakening (2012)
October 30, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBMichael, Rob, Pax, and Becky return to the main Underworld timeline to briefly check on the Underworld: Endless War animated shorts before seeing what happens when humanity discovers the existence of vampires and werewolves in Underworld: Awakening.
221 | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
October 27, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBMichael, Rob, Pax, and Becky travel back in time to the Dark Ages to witness how the war between the Underworld werewolves and vampires began. And whether the lack of Kate Beckinsale at all affects their enjoyment of this prequel to the previous two films.
220 | Underworld: Evolution (2006)
October 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBMichael, Rob, Pax, and Becky return to a look at the second Underworld film to see how well it deals with the awakening of Marcus from the end of the previous movie, adds to the world of the series, and develops Selene's relationship with Michael Corvin.
219 | Underworld (2003)
October 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBMichael, Rob, Pax, and Becky Tyler are talking about the Underworld movies in this week leading up to Halloween. Starting, logically enough, with the first one starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, and Bill Nighy. It's an old favorite for some of the panel, a second look for one, and a brand new experience for yet another.
218 | After Dinner Lounge – Collarbone
October 24, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 73.3 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax wrap up this month's Lounge with conversations about shark movies, ZZ Top, The Fall of the House of Usher, Ahsoka, Only Murders in the Building, After Party, “buying” digital movies, Haunted Mansion, Us, To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North, finishing the Harry Potter series, Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, Totally Killer, the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina TV series, From Dusk Till Dawn sequels, Batman ‘66, Black Mirror, favorite museums, Reservation...
217 | After Dinner Lounge – You Really Stokered That Up
October 23, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 58.4 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax gather again in the Lounge to talk about things they hate (and their tolerance for people who like them), favorite comics artists, re-visiting favorite art vs seeking out new art, appearing in documentaries, The Classified Dossier: Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula by Christian Klaver, Edgar Allan Poe, Joe Hill, James Bond comics, high school reunions, the surprising relevance of gothic stories to modern society, Jason X: The Experiment by Pat Cadigan, and The Cabin at ...
216 | The After Lunch Screaming Service
October 16, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 65.3 MBMichael and Rob welcome Joanna from Bloody Popcorn and Shawn Robare to create a horror-themed streaming service. Each panelist controls a sub-channel that includes 5 favorite horror films, 5 favorite horror-related TV series, and an original series created by the panelist themself. Listen and see if your favorites are available! (Special thanks to Shawn for the name: 'screaming service'.)
215 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
October 09, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax talk about the third Planet of the Apes movie in which the series keeps going in spite of the planet's literal destruction at the end on the previous film. How convincing is the continuity? How well does the bold, new direction work? And what do Victor Newman and Khan Noonien Singh have to do with it?
214 | The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
October 02, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 75.6 MBMichael, Rob, and Karen discuss fun houses, slide whistles, kung fu nieces, and Mary Goodnight's espionage skills in this comprehensive conversation about Roger Moore's second Bond film. It's The Man with the Golden Gun, starring Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, Britt Ekland, and Hervé Villechaize.
213 | After Midnight – Karloff's Frankenstein
September 29, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 61.5 MBAfter spending a lot of time talking about the Conjuring and Amityville Horror movies, Michael and Jess finally get around to discussing the three Universal Frankenstein movies starring Boris Karloff as the Monster: Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939).
212 | After Dinner Lounge – Harry Potter Really Hates Lasagna
September 27, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 72.9 MBThis month's After Dinner Lounge concludes with Michael, Rob, and Pax talking about video game encyclopaedias, the new Birds of Prey comic, Jughead, books and comics by Charles Soule, Greg Rucka, Ryan North, and Kieron Gillen, Harry Potter, ‘80s Spider-Man comics, The Pope’s Exorcist, more Elvis movies, Batman ‘66, the cancelation of Winning Time, breakfast preferences, Blue Beetle and the current state of superhero movies, the second seasons of Dark Winds and The After Party, the Equalizer ...
211 | After Dinner Lounge – Check Your Situation Out
September 25, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 72.8 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax gather again in the lounge to discuss what they've been listening to, thinking about, reading, and watching. And Evan Hanson stops in for a bit! In this episode, they dig into their favourite video games and Autumn traditions, various podcasts (including the impressive, new Remember That Show?), Jimmy Buffett, the second seasons of Foundation and Good Omens, Justified, X-Men and Star Trek comics, Asteroid City, Werewolves Within, The Menu, 1917, Attack the Block, Twit...
210 | Fithy Horrors Rerun – Frankenstein
September 20, 2023 05:10 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBIn preparation for an upcoming episode of After Lunch After Midnight in which Michael and Jessica Hickman discuss the first three Universal Frankenstein movies, here's a rerun of a 2019 episode of the Filthy Horrors podcast where they and Darla Ecklund talked about the Mary Shelley novel and several adaptations of it.
209 | TV Villains Sour 16
September 18, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 77.4 MBFollowing up on Episode 132 from last year when we determined the Ultimate Literary Villain of All Time, Michael and Rob welcome Ben Graham and Paxton Holley to do the same with TV villains. Each panelists nominates four favorite boob tube baddies, then we put them into tournament brackets to discuss and vote. Will you agree with our choices? Did we leave off a favorite of yours? Listen and let us know!
208 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
September 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax return to the Planet of the Apes and dig deep into its subterranean (and substandard) sequel.
207 | Live and Let Die (1973)
September 05, 2023 01:04 - 3 hours - 83 MBMichael, Rob, and Karen discuss Roger Moore's first go as Bond and the mixing of British spy adventure with the blaxploitation and hicksploitation genres. It's a messy film with plenty to talk about in terms of what works and what doesn't.
206 | Fithy Horrors Rerun – Dracula
September 01, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBInspired by last episode's Dracula discussion, we're rerunning another episode of the old Filthy Horrors podcast. Michael, Jess, and Darla talk about all things Dracula: from the original novel to their favorite movies, comics, games, and more.
205 | Dracula on Film
August 30, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMichael and guest Becky Tyler take a bat-driven carriage through an overview of Dracula movies from 1922's Nosteratu to this year's The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
204 | After Midnight – The Creature from the Black Lagoon
August 28, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBAs mentioned in Episode 199, After Lunch is starting a new series of horror-themed episodes that we're calling "After Midnight". Jessica Hickman joins Michael to kick off with a discussion of Universal's trilogy of Creature from the Black Lagoon films: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge of the Creature (1955), and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).
203 | After Dinner Lounge – We Could Never See Eye to Eye
August 25, 2023 05:16 - 2 hours - 58.2 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax wrap up this month's Lounge talking about Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, playlists for running, the Wham! documentary, Barbie, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, video games we've been playing, the Jungle Cruise movie, Justified, Secret Invasion, They Cloned Tyrone, and Classic Doctor Who.
202 | After Dinner Lounge – Filmy Smurf
August 21, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax chat about how reading goals affect reading enjoyment, death and funerals, life as a cartoon animal, Matthew Reilly’s YA book (The Secret Runners of New York), Old Habits (a Die Hard spec script turned novel), Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent, Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics, The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, current Star Trek comics, and Elvis and Ann-Margret movies.
201 | Planet of the Apes (1968)
August 14, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax visit the Planet of the Apes! Kicking off a bunch of discussions about the simian series, we start with a quick conversation about Pierre Boulle's novel before exploring the 1968 movie that started a phenomenon.
200 | Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
August 07, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 72.1 MBMichael, Rob, and Karen Flieger close out the Sean Connery era of the Bond films with Diamonds Are Forever. They talk about the return of Connery, whether it's a worthy follow-up to On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and the wisdom of hiring a jazz musician and Crispin Glover's dad to play assassins. The movie's directed by Goldfinger's Guy Hamilton and also stars Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, and Jimmy Dean.
199 | Introducing: After Midnight
August 02, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBWe're soon going to start a new horror-focused series of episodes called After Lunch After Midnight featuring Michael and his pal Jessica Hickman. It's sort of a spin-off of another podcast called Filthy Horrors that they did together with their mutual pal Darla Ecklund. So to introduce After Midnight, we thought it might be good to rerun the first episode of Filthy Horrors in which Jess, Darla, and Michael talk about their history with horror, the kinds of horror they like, and lots of exam...
198 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023)
July 31, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 66.4 MBMichael and Rob wrap their Mission: Impossible movies watch-through (for now) with the new entry in the series: Dead Reckoning, Part One. They talk about all the spoilers and whether second viewings changed their perspective on anything. Well, one thing in particular, but sure, everything else, too.
197 | After Dinner Lounge – A Mission: Impossible Level Puzzle
July 28, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 67.6 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax finish this months Lounge with discussion about their personal movie rating systems, Sherry Thomas’ Lady Sherlock series, Daniel Pemberton movie scores, The Haunting of Bly Manor, the second season of Schmigadoon!, more about Ted Lasso, Kate Beckinsale in Love & Friendship, Nimona, modern Luddites, The Flash, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Alamo Drafthouse, their top three favorite comic book artists, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, maybe a little bit about th...
196 | After Dinner Lounge – Sniff This Microphone
July 26, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 64.6 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax chat about farting soulmates, '90s revamped superheroes, Pax’s idea for a Batman ‘66 Season 4 crossover, Philip Marlowe in The Little Sister, Hammer Frankenstein and the Hammer House of Podcast, Men both Gray and Thin, weekly comics reading, crappy Spider-Man novels, the darkening of the Harry Potter books, and lots of other things.
195 | Star Trek: Discovery, Season 4
July 24, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 65.3 MBMichael, Rob, and Delaney Graham continue their Star Trek Trek with season 4 of Discovery. Find out what we thought of the butterfly people, the new Federation President, all that jargon (The DMA! Species 10-C! The Orb! The Hyperfield!), and the most contentious element of the season: Zora.
194 | The Hasbro Cinematic Universe
July 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBAs Hasbro begins building its cinematic universe in real life, Michael and Rob welcome Jeeg and David May to talk about how they would do it. Following the MCU model, each person has picked a Hasbro game or toy to adapt into a movie that then connects somehow into the other movies, all leading to an Avengers-style crossover blockbuster. Madness or genius? You decide!
193 | The Man from UNCLE (2015)
July 10, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBWhile Michael and Rob wait for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One to come out, they follow up Henry Cavill's performance in Fallout with another Cavill spy movie, Guy Ritchie's The Man from UNCLE.
192 | On Her Majesty's Secret Christmas
July 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBSince we just talked about On Her Majesty's Secret Service last episode, now seems like a good time to revisit this conversation from Michael's old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast in which he talks with Carlin Trammel about the movie and how (or if) it functions as a Christmas movie.
191 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
July 03, 2023 05:20 - 3 hours - 99.6 MBAfter some Goldfinger and Thunderball trivia that you can play along with, Michael, Rob, and Karen Flieger talk about George Lazenby's grounded and human James Bond, Diana Riggs' lovely and kickass Tracy di Vicenzo, and Telly Savalas' tough and brutish Ernst Stavro Blofeld. It's an unusual entry in the series, but is it also good? Once they settle that, the panel wraps with some On Her Majesty's Secret Service trivia, too.
190 | After Dinner Lounge – This Changes a Man
June 30, 2023 06:27 - 2 hours - 57.9 MBMichael, Rob, and Michael DiGiovanni talk about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Star Wars Visions Season 2, Ted Lasso Season 3, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the Our Man Flint movies, Hammer's Frankenstein movies, Peter Pan and Wendy (2023), streaming service avatars, Fast X, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Silo, Disney’s Stan Lee documentary, how our buying and reading of comics has changed, aging and wisdom, budgeting entertainment time, and other things they've been watching and thinking abo...
189 | After Dinner Lounge – Flintstones Calisthenics
June 26, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 68 MBAs Pax recovers from vacation, Evan returns to the Lounge for a bit with Michael, Rob, and guest-lounger Michael DiGiovanni. In this first half of the discussion, the conversation includes butt tattoos, underwear preferences, Joe Hill, nepotism, how horror works in books vs film, jazz trombone, William T Riker, Fourth Chair Carryover Questions, the difference between the book and movie versions of Prisoner of Azkaban, The New Classic Film Jerks, the Off Panel comic book interview podcast, th...
188 | Batman (1966), Season 4
June 19, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 55.5 MBMichael and Rob welcome Erik Johnson and Noel Thingvall to create a fourth season of the Adam West Batman series by crossing it over with other late-'60s TV shows. In addition to the new guest-characters, some of the stories also include new villains pulled from comics of the day and played by popular actors of the period.
187 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
June 12, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBMichael and Rob finish their Mission: Impossible movies catch-up with a discussion of Fallout. Henry Cavill, Vanessa Kirby, and Angela Bassett join the series while other favorites return. But is that, plus emotional closure and fantastic stunts, enough to make this one of our favorite in the series?
186 | You Only Live Twice (1967)
June 05, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 81.1 MBThis extra-sized episode opens with Michael, Rob, and Karen Flieger answering trivia questions about Dr No and From Russia With Love. The questions are multiple choice, so play along as you listen. After that, the panel returns to the official Bond film series with Sean Connery's first last appearance in the role. And they are not in agreement about the quality of this film. They'll talk about why before wrapping up with more trivia, this time about You Only Live Twice.
185 | After Dinner Lounge – Technical Difficulties
June 02, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax experienced some technical difficulties in the lounge before they got around to thinking about anything this month. But they did get to talk about what they've been watching, including Perry Mason, Season 2, John Wick, Chapter 4, The Super Mario Bros Movie, Renfield, Sisu, Strange New Worlds, Air, Fast X, Bruce Lee, Philip Marlowe, The Black Phone, and Star Trek: Lower Decks.
184 | After Dinner Lounge – Conquering Heroes to the Mall
May 29, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 63.7 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax talk about what they've been listening to and reading, including their favorite podcasts and comics, but also Harry Potter audiobooks, Cameron Crowe's novel Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, Circe by Madeline Miller, Raymond Chandler's The High Window, and additional thoughts on Rogue Nation and Picard, Season 3. All of this, plus a new Ask Us Anything segment thanks to listener voicemail from our pal Jody Collins.
183 | Dungeons & Dragons, Session Zero - "You Here to Kill Gerald?"
May 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 37.1 MBAfter Michael, Rob, Jeff Somogyi, and Ben Graham talk briefly about their various experiences playing Dungeons & Dragons and their expectations for the game, Ben leads the rest of the party into a quick encounter with a sheep-stealing griffin. Assuming the group survives, this is the first of a series of adventures that will also see William Bruce West joining the fun in future episodes. Roll a d20 and make a Fun Check.
182 | License to MCU
May 22, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBMichael and Rob are joined by Michael DiGiovanni and William Bruce West to imagine a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie that includes characters from the wide array of toys, movies, and TV series that Marvel Comics has licensed over the years.
181 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
May 19, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBMichael and Rob continue watching their way through the Mission: Impossible movies with Christopher McQuarrie's debut in the series, Rogue Nation. Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner are back, but how does Sean Harris measure up as the villain? And then there's Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust. Is this the entry that will supplant Mission: Impossible III as our favorite? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tune in and find out.
180 | Jason Copland's Full Tilt
May 15, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBMichael and Rob welcome Michael's friend and Kill All Monsters partner Jason Copland to talk about Jason's new graphic novel, Full Tilt. Successfully funded on Zoop in an hour, the book is a non-stop scifi noir action thriller. Jason talks about its inception and the creation process, but there's also some Kill All Monsters talk and we wrap up with a discussion of some of our favorite other "full tilt" stories in various media. Full Tilt promises to be a unique story in a beautiful packag...
179 | Casino Royale (1967)
May 08, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 64.5 MBMichael, Rob, and Karen Flieger wrap up their digression into 1967 unofficial Bond movies with a look at Charles K Feldman's spoof, Casino Royale, starring David Niven, Ursula Andress, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, and Orson Welles. It's a classic train wreck of a movie, but does that mean that it's no good? We talk about what happened behind the scenes during production, critique the jokes, and try to make sense of the plot.
178 | Picard, Season 3 (Initial Reactions)
May 01, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBMichael and Rob reunite with their old friend Carlin Trammel to talk in a very spoilery way about the recent, third season of Star Trek: Picard. This isn't part of After Lunch's official Star Trek Trek discussions, because those won't get to Picard for a long time. We just couldn't wait that long to talk about the season. And again, lots of spoilers in this episode.
177 | After Dinner Lounge – $#!t, Did You Do the Tooth Fairy?
April 28, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 71.1 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax talk about what they've been watching and thinking, leading to conversations about New Girl, Shrinking, Star Trek: Picard, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, John Wick, Chapter 4, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Ted Lasso, The Mandalorian, Murder, My Sweet, Nope, The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, former fandoms we used to enjoy, Easter traditions, and dream RPG settings.
176 | After Dinner Lounge – And... We're Dead
April 26, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 64.9 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax talk about what they've been listening to and reading lately, leading to topics like the intersection of faith and feminism, different approaches to film podcasting, the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Bono's memoir Surrender, Pax's reaction to Michael and Rob's Ghost Protocol episode, Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, ‘90s Batman comics, and Batmobiles in general. Check out the After Lunch website for images of some of the Batmobiles that come up.