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In a returning PRAISING KANE we’re doubling up, starting with an first season episode of TALES FROM THE CRYPT starring Carol Kane as a woman who switches bodies with an old crone, much to the chagrin of her gun-nut husband. FUN! Then we pivot from gothic horror to existential satire with John Patrick Shanley’s 1990 cult classic JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO, starring Tom Hanks as a soul-crushed hypochondriac sent to leap into an active volcano on the island of Waponi Woo /w Meg Ryan in three different roles. Also, Carol Kane is there. For literally two minutes. And we talk about the suitcase guy, because that guy rules. ENJOY!

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On this episode of YOU DON'T KNOW DICK (the world's finest Dick Miller podcast) we're going APE with Box Office Gross podcast co-host Rob Stammitti as we check out the Jonathan Kaplan-directed Matthew Broderick-starring chimpanzee science-fiction(?) drama PROJECT X from 1987. Filled with monkeys flying planes, microwaving slop (and being microwaved by the government!), and causing mischief, this controversial film also has Helen Hunt, William Sadler and CHIMPS galore! But not only THAT, we also check out an episode of TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE called "All a Clone By The Telephone" featuring Harry Anderson! AND DICK MILLER! It's ALL TOO MUCH!

YOU MUST BE TIRED OF LIVING! On this skull-crushing episode of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT we're tackling the Kenji Tanigaki-directed action spectacle, The Furious! Filled (overfilled?) with action spectacle, a cavalcade of international action superstars come together to beat on each other in countless inventive ways while Xie Miao tries to track down his kidnapped daughter. We also chat about some of the recent films we've watched because WHY THE HECK NOT? Enjoy!

What's THIS? A returning episode of ERIC ROBERTS IS THE MAN with guest Mike X Nichols joining us to talk about all the latest Eric Roberts news as well as an odd AI-centered thriller from 2025 called VIOLET with a WILD backstory that is way more interesting than the film itself? IT'S TRUE! We talk about celebrity chefs, the SPIN cycle, mockbusters, stop motion, and so, SO much more before breaking down the unbelievable story behind VIOLET, which - despite being about the AI takeover of the world - features a ton of AI-generated content! WILD STUFF. CHECK IT OUT!

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Bundle up tight because Further Reeding is heading deep into the unforgiving 19th-century Canadian wilderness with Oliver Reed at his absolute gruffest (and most outrageously accented) as Jean La Bête, a wild fur trapper who rolls into town and casually purchases a mute orphan girl, played by Rita Tushingham, to be his wilderness wife in 1966’s THE TRAP. Can the pair survive the wilderness and each other? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!

Watch the film right here:

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This week on Wild in the Streets, Doug and Liam are familiarizing themselves with Er Monnezza (aka Garbage Can), Tomas Milian’s foul mouthed criminal with a heart of.. uh.. gold who teams up with Claudio Cassinelli’s hard-nosed cop to track down a kidnapped little girl being held hostage by the evil Henry Silva in 1976’s FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP (aka TOUGH COP). Grab some J&B and grab a brick because on this episode we’re out for BLOOD!

Here’s the article on J&B Scotch mentioned in the episode:

https://punchdrink.com/articles/j-b-scotch-whisky-bottle-movies/

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Check out the Serpent’s Path archive right here.

SERPENT’S PATH: THE FILMS OF KIYOSHI KUROSAWA returns, and we dive into the third and fourth entries of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s crime-comedy V-cinema series: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot (1996) (Katte ni shiyagare!! Ôgon keikaku) and Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble (1996) (Katte ni shiyagare!! Gyakuten keikaku). Once again we follow low-level criminals Yûji (Sho Aikawa) and Kôsaku (Kôyô Maeda) as they find a treasure map(!), win big at the track, get in trouble with yakuza (of course) and maybe, just maybe, learn a little about themselves. Or not! We look at how Kurosawa’s style is developing, where he’s moving to in his career, and look forward to some VERY interesting developments. CHECK IT OUT!

Our major sources for this episode are:

This Tom Mes interview with Kurosawa from Midnight Eye:

http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/kiyoshi-kurosawa-3/#:~:text=It%20was%20based%20on%20a,I%20actually%20made%20this%20film.

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Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here

On a returning HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we are stepping back behind the camera to look at a film directed by the man himself: 2005’s LONESOME JIM. Written by Jim Strouse and starring Casey Affleck as a depressed, failed novelist who returns to his Indiana hometown and connects with a local nurse (played by Liv Tyler), LONESOME JIM got a bit lost in the cavalcade of sad-sack dude movies in the mid 2000s, but is it worthy of discovery? Let’s find out.

Here’s the Steve Earle video for “City of Immigrants”, directed by Steve Buscemi

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