Latest Crackpot Podcast Episodes
Ep 19 - MALIBU HIGH with Daniel Waters
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 31, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsCrackpot Cinema Ep 19: MALIBU HIGH with Daniel Waters HEATHERS screenwriter Daniel Waters joins the Crackpot Crew to celebrate MALIBU HIGH (1979), the bombastically berserk teen-prostitute-turb-mob-assassin blowout that Crown International Pictures sold—insanely successfully—as a beach-bunny bi...
Episode Twenty-Nine: Padak, Finding Nemo Delicious
Crackpot Theories - July 25, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis week's episode finds Sorika bravely confronting her fish phobia to talk about the link between happy colourful Pixar classic Finding Nemo and grim as hell sushi-bound Korean film Padak. Whereas one is a sweet ocean adventure where natural predators coexist peacefully beside their prey, the ...
Episode Twenty-Eight: Winnie the Child Catcher
Crackpot Theories - July 18, 2020 20:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsAre the shenanigans of Winnie the Pooh and his woodland friends as sweet and wholesome as they appear to be? Or is the entirety of Hundred Acre Wood just a very complex honey trap to tempt a small child into abandoning the human world for the realm of the fairies? Where are Christopher Robin's p...
Ep 6 - Lunatic Liz Taylor, Part 1
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 21:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDon your most Herculean headdress, down any and all intoxicants within reach, and storm into our salute to the titanic extra everything-ness that is Elizabeth Taylor in BOOM! (1968), THE BLUE BIRD (1976), and THE MIRROR CRACK'D (1980).
Ep 1 - Dirty(Magazine)Movies
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsFor the maiden voyage of the SS Crackpot, Mike McPadden and Aaron Lee reflect on their past as HUSTLER magazine pros with four films dedicated to the “men’s sophisticates” game: the decidedly non-obscure THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996), Steve Coogan in THE LOOK OF LOVE (2013), the documentary P...
Ep 2 - Ritter Me This
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsThe Episode That Glows in the Dark! Mike McPadden and Aaron Lee pratfall into Le Cinema du John Ritter with AMERICATHON (1979), HERO AT LARGE (1980), THEY ALL LAUGHED (1981) and SKIN DEEP (1989)
Ep 3 - Krackpot Kirk Douglas
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsCrackpot Cinema honors the dimpled-chin demigod that was Issur Danielovitch, aka Kirk Douglas, with a salute to four of his least-loved productions: MOUSEY (1974), THE VILLAIN (1979), SATURN 3 (1980), and TOUGH GUYS (1986). Find out what we "Dug More" and "Dug Less"!
Ep 5 - Toxic Masculinity Breakdowns
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsEat, drink, and explode miserable male bombast! It's Apocalypse Testosterone time as we mansplain LA GRAND BOUFFE (1972), PRAY FOR THE WILD CATS (1974), and I MELT WITH YOU (2011). Who will survive and what will be left of their boyish fragility? Nobody and nothing, that's who and that's that!
Ep 4 - That's Brookesploitation!
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsPRETTY BABY. BLUE LAGOON. ENDLESS LOVE. When contemplating "Brooke Shields movies," these leap to mind. Not here. Mike McPadden & Aaron Lee crack the pot with JUST YOU AND ME KID (1979), TILT (1979), WANDA NEVADA (1979), SAHARA (1983) and BRENDA STARR (1989).
Ep 7 - Adult (Book) Movies: THE BETSY vs BLOODLINE
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIt's all page-burners and potboilers when two behemoths of '70s lust literature turn the silver screen blue: Harold Robbins' THE BETSY (1978) and Sidney Sheldon's BLOODLINE (1979).
Ep 8 - Stink or Stan: THE FAN (1981) vs DER FAN (1982)
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHomicidal headcases hunt their heartthrobs in two early-'80s sagas of celebrity worship gone wackoid: the sanguine Lauren Bacall showcase THE FAN (1981) and the meaty German new-wave mouthful, DER FAN (1982).
Ep 10 - HollyWOOFS: GABLE & LOMBARD and W.C. FIELDS & ME
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratings"That's enter-taint-shit!" We salute two nostalgia-sopped, putty-mugged, magnificently moronic Golden Age of Tinseltown biopics from 1976: GABLE & LOMBARD and W.C. FIELDS & ME! (Billy Barty IS included!)
Ep 9 - The Heritage of Joel M. Reed: An Orgy of Sick Minds
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 19:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratings"Master!... He is DEAD!" [Applause] Come mourn the passing of BLOODSUCKING FREAKS perpetrator Joel M. Reed as he's crackpotically honored by hosts Mike McPadden, Aaron Lee, and our first-ever special guest—L.A. comedy legend JOE WAGNER!
Ep 11 - G******g or Gangrene? SUNNYSIDE vs. BOARDWALK
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 19:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDon your colors for two of 1979’s most stupefying street-gang epics. No, it’s not THE WARRIORS & THE WANDERERS. It’s not even BOULEVARD NIGHTS & WALK PROUD. It’s SUNNYSIDE with Joey Travolta and BOARDWALK with Lee Strasberg & Ruth Gordon. Wisconsin film scholar Ben Reiser also guests and prospers...
Ep 12 - Fred Willard Forever: CRACKING UP & FIRST FAMILY
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 19:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIn a salute to recently departed side-spitter supreme FRED WILLARD, we take on two of his more unsung efforts: the sketch comedy CRACKING UP (1977) and Buck Henry’s White House romp FIRST FAMILY (1980). It’s a pod-slapping Fredstravaganza!
Ep 13 - Woodless Allens: SOMETHING SHORT OF PARADISE (1979) and SOUP FOR ONE (1982)
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 19:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsAfter Woody Allen’s one-two knockout plotz of ANNIE HALL and MANHATTAN, audiences so clamored for more New York Nebbish/Tall Drink of Shiksa rom-coms that movie cash-ins cropped up both high to low. We’re here to kibbitz about the low—i.e., SOMETHING SHORT OF PARADISE and SOUP FOR ONE.
Ep 14 - Mae West, Frankly: SEXTETTE with Frank Santopadre
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 19:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsGilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast co-host FRANK SANTOPADRE joins Mike and Aaron for a platinum-wigged, girdle-straining, Vaseline-smeared salute to Mae West’s camptastic 1978 swan song, SEXTETTE! So why don’t you come up and listen sometime? (i.e.—now!)
Ep 15 - Crackpot Pride: ZORRO THE GAY BLADE & PARTNERS
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 19:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsGo gay all the way with us for a Pride Month salute to a pair of, let’s say, “non-pioneering” homosexual-themed comedies: ZORRO, THE GAY BLADE (1981) and PARTNER (1982). Note: Mike’s audio is a little distorted this ep (fixed for next time). ZORRO showcases George Hamilton going high el campo as...
Ep 16 - Rated T by an All Danny Peary Jury: SATAN’S SADISTS & NURSE SHERRI
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsBrian Saur of Pure Cinema Podcast (and Just the Discs and Rupert Pupkin Speaks) joins us to take out Danny Peary’s trash—specifically, the movies rated “T” (for Trash) by our beloved author in his 1986 masterwork, GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC. We also focus on SATAN’S SADISTS (1969) and NURSE SHER...
Ep 17 - Inside TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL TIME
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 18:26 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsTo celebrate their utterly monstrous, mind-roasting, epic new documentary series TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL TIME, director Danny Wolf and producer Paul Fishbein drop by to talk in depth about the very movies Crackpot Cinema loves the very most.
Ep 18 - Make Mine Morricone: ORCA and SO FINE
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - July 13, 2020 18:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsCrackpot Cinema: Ep 18—Make Mine Morricone: ORCA and SO FINE Let’s all dab our eyes with a fresh slice of gobba-gool as we salute the late, great Ennio Morricone with two of Il Maestro’s more Crackpot-oriented efforts—Dino De Laurentiis’s blowhole blow-out ORCA (1977) and Andrew Bergman’s ass-j...
Episode Twenty-Seven: He's not the Antichrist, He's a Very Naughty Boy
Crackpot Theories - July 11, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis episode is a deep dive into one of Sinead's favourite childhood films, horror classic The Omen. Is Damien truly the literal spawn of Satan, or is he a relatively normal kid who just happens to have terrible adoptive parents? Is there a doomsday cult manipulating circumstances around this po...
Episode Twenty-Six: Breaking Basketball in High School Musical
Crackpot Theories - July 04, 2020 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis week sees us connecting the dots between gritty meth drama bomb Breaking Bad and super-shiny tweenage bait High School Musical. Does High School Musical make more sense when you put it in the context of a burnout's fever dream? Does crystal meth make you have intense recollections of your f...
Inside TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL TIME
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - June 28, 2020 16:55 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsTo celebrate their utterly monstrous, mind-roasting, epic new documentary series TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL TIME, director Danny Wolf and producer Paul Fishbein drop by to talk in depth about the very movies Crackpot Cinema loves the very most.
Episode Twenty-Five: Natural Disasters and the Kaiju that cause them
Crackpot Theories - June 27, 2020 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsNatural disasters are well-known for not being especially cinematic, so Hollywood has had to ignore scientific fact in order to create a spectacle. But what if in the world of disaster movies, from Dante's Peak to 2012 and beyond, kaiju were responsible for each and every eruption, tremor and la...
Rated T by an All Danny Peary Jury: SATAN’S SADISTS & NURSE SHERRI
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - June 21, 2020 13:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsBrian Saur of Pure Cinema Podcast (and Just the Discs and Rupert Pupkin Speaks) joins us to take out Danny Peary’s trash—specifically, the movies rated “T” (for Trash) by our beloved author in his 1986 masterwork, GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC. We also focus on SATAN’S SADISTS (1969) and NURSE S...
Episode Twenty-Four: Mulan's Rise to Ultimate Power
Crackpot Theories - June 20, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsEpisode Twenty-Four sees us musing over the inspirational tale of Fa Mulan (specifically the Disney version) and wondering if this is possibly the origin story of one of China's most formidable Empresses? Both Wu Zetian and Empress Cixi have mysterious pasts, is it possible one of them (or both ...
Episode Twenty-Three: Mad Max, Beyond Symbolism
Crackpot Theories - June 14, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsEpisode Twenty-Three sees us discussing the Mad Max quadrilogy; is this a surface-level apocalypse or is there something more biblical going on under all that leather, sand and screaming? And on another note, what did Sorika do that was so bad that it made someone make a film featuring all of he...
Episode Twenty-Three: Mad Max, Beyond Symbolism
Crackpot Theories - June 14, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsEpisode Twenty-Three sees us discussing the Mad Max quadrilogy; is this a surface-level apocalypse or is there something more biblical going on under all that leather, sand and screaming? And on another note, what did Sorika do that was so bad that it made someone make a film featuring all of he...
Crackpot Pride: ZORRO THE GAY BLADE & PARTNERS
Crackpot Cinema Podcast - June 14, 2020 10:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsGo gay all the way with us for a Pride Month salute to a pair of, let’s say, “non-pioneering” homosexual-themed comedies: ZORRO, THE GAY BLADE (1981) and PARTNER (1982). Note: Mike’s audio is a little distorted this ep (fixed for next time). ZORRO showcases George Hamilton going high el campo ...
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