Drive-In Garage

Franz and Paul can get it up to about 140, but can't keep it there.  This week: William Fruet's 1976 supercharged Canadian rage-o-rama DEATH WEEKEND (aka The House By The Lake), starring Brenda Vaccaro and Don Stroud!  A drive out to the country quickly turns into a carnival of mayhem when Diane and Harry are terrorized by a gang of unwelcome unhinged yahoos.  It's ten square miles of privacy and peril at the Drive-In Garage! Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

Franz and Paul are reborn as they welcome back special guest Brandon and tear open Jonathan Glazer's 2004 chilly love letter BIRTH, starring Nicole Kidman!  Anna, still grieving the death of her husband, finds her reality rocked with the arrival of Sean, a ten-year-old boy.  Quickly, quietly, fantasy and doubt lay bare the shaky illusions holding things together.  Is love just a lie, made to make you blue?  Some fools fool themselves, I guess.  They're not fooling the Drive-In Garage. Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

The Drive-In Garage serves up blood 'n' donuts as Franz and Paul interrogate the holiday spirit, closing the year out with William Friedkin's 1987 sanity slay ride RAMPAGE, starring Michael Biehn and Alex McArthur!  A series of brutal murders propel law-family-church-marriage-morals to their limits.  Therefore, while the merry bells keep ringing, deliberate with care and cover all the exits.  Peace. Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

Franz and Paul keep odd hours.  Time enough to enjoy one more bite for Halloween — Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 vampire western NEAR DARK, starring Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenny Wright, Adrian Pasdar, Jenette Goldstein, and Joshua Miller!  So, fire up the transfusionmobile and get those spurs a-janglin'.  We got til daybreak, and the night has its price. Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

It's lights out for Franz and Paul when they get into Jack Sholder's 1982 super-autumnal siege slasher ALONE IN THE DARK, starring Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, and Jack Palance!  A local power outage leaves a psychiatrist and his family at the mercy of four of his new, most dangerous patients.  A healthy dose of midnight madness awaits at the Drive-In Garage!  Why don't you come out, and we can explore a few things together? Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

From infinity they come — Meteors!  Franz and Paul rock out to the 1957 silica-based sci-fi breakdown THE MONOLITH MONSTERS!  Directed by John Sherwood, starring Grant Williams.  The small desert town of San Angelo finds itself suddenly overrun by jagged non-indigenous minerals that keep growing and multiplying, destroying everything and everyone in its path.  Another strange calling card from the limitless reaches of space?  Centuries of stone cold chillin' in effect! Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

Franz and Paul brush wings and spit leopards to reach the top of John Boorman's 1977 hypnagogic not-so-sequel EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, starring Linda Blair, Richard Burton, and Louise Fletcher!  Fall into a new dimension of healers and honeycombs, mind melds and strobe lights, ghost glass and good locusts.  Once in sync it'll be worth the climb. Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast     

The only thing Franz and Paul know better than fighting is running.  Pick a direction!  Together with returning guest Dan, they welcome October and go all smooth-tasty-sweet for Larry Cohen's 1985 merchandising monster THE STUFF, starring Michael Moriarty as industrial saboteur Mo Rutherford!  Will he get to the bottom of the mysterious oozing gooey treat before it gets to him?  Enough is never enough at the Drive-In Garage! email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

Franz and Paul feel like they're gonna let loose.  Like something incredible is really gonna happen here.  This week: Martin Scorsese's 1985 absurdist all-nighter AFTER HOURS, starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, and a cast of real characters!  A man was torn limb from limb by an irate mob last night in the fashionable Soho area.  Different rules apply when it gets this late.  You know what I mean? Email: [email protected] Instageam: driveingaragepodcast     

You can't drop out without breaking a few eggs.  Franz and Paul, along with returning guest Scott, are willing to touch Indians, see the mountains and the prairies and the whole rest of that song while hitching a ride onto Albert Brooks' 1985 yuppie comedy meltdown LOST IN AMERICA!  See David (Albert Brooks) and Linda (Julie Hagerty) pack the Winnebago and hit the open road, leaving behind the world of the responsibly blind.  What awaits is sweet freedom…give or take $1000.   Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast   

Franz and Paul, along with returning guest Becki, bite off more than they can chew while digging into Julia Ducournau's rich 'n' rare 2016 French horror body rock — RAW!  Garance Marillier plays Justine, a first year veterinary student experiencing the initial flush of independence away from home.  And a fierce craving that proves extremely difficult to suppress.  Mmmm, baptism by fire.  You are what you eat at the Drive-In Garage! Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

Let's get the guns on the table — Franz and Paul are here to tell you that this free enterprise system of ours works!  And they, along with returning guest Brandon, will cross the rickety footbridge and step into Robert Altman's 1971 muddy dreamy revisionist western McCABE & MRS. MILLER, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie!  A gambler and a prostitute work at making something out of nothing.  The result is Money & Pain — pain, pain, pain. Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

Franz and Paul have tried everything a person can do.  And still, every week, they plow into at least one deer.  This week: David Lynch's 1999 slow 'n' stubborn midwestern road movie THE STRAIGHT STORY, starring Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek!  Armed with hot dogs and grit, 73-year-old Alvin Straight drives from Iowa to Wisconsin on a John Deere lawn mower to reconnect with his ailing brother.  The trip is a hard swallow of his pride...but a brother's a brother.  Tie them sticks in a bundle and try to break that. Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

Franz and Paul won't go near a job without front money.  But they will gladly Wang Chung to William Friedkin's 1985 shotgun blast to the face TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.!  William "Rick" Petersen and Willem "Rick" Dafoe walk the counterfeit safety line between cop and criminal.  So it won't be long before worlds collide — like clockwork, baby!  It's play dough or play dead at the Drive-In Garage.  You're beautiful. Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast 

The study of nature has taught Franz and Paul that life is founded upon killing and destruction.  Also, the Plesiosaurus is a bit undercooked.  The year draws to a close with the 1974 tribe vs. tribe matinee adventure THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT!  Directed by Kevin Connor, starring Doug McClure, Susan Penhaligon, and John McEnry.  Uncharted for 200 years, the mysterious island of Caprona plays host to a jamboree of evolutionary anachronisms.  Can life find a way under only one microscope?  Damn the torpedoes!  Full speed ahead! Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast

To understand, one only has to listen…to Franz and Paul as they try to contain the mischievous mayhem of Joe Dante's 1984 holiday classic GREMLINS!  So light the fire, notice the smell, and make the illogical logical.  Rules were made to be broken at the Drive-In Garage! Email: [email protected] Instagram: driveingaragepodcast

It's decompression in depth as Franz and Paul quadruple-check their air tanks and take the plunge into Peter Yates' 1977 Bermuda summer squall THE DEEP, starring Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, and Louis Gossett Jr.!  If the rum 'n' morphine don't get you, it'll be the cold embrace of the stache. And that's no lover's kiss. Email: [email protected]

Franz swears that he saw something but Paul doesn't believe him.  This week: the October horror train pulls back into the station with Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Venetian psychic death-capade DON'T LOOK NOW!  As a grieving couple attempt to put the pieces of their lives back together following a tragic accident, a sinister warning may be broadcasting from beyond the grave!  The echoes from the walls are so clear at the Drive-In Garage.  Happy Halloweeeeen! Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul got those highway blues, can't you hear their motor runnin'?  October rolls on at breakneck speed with Steven Spielberg's 1971 fuel injected nightmare DUEL!  It's Mann vs. Machine as Dennis Weaver fights for his life when a psycho truck driver decides to take out his rage on the next dude that passes him.  Fasten yer seatbelts, and fill 'er up with ethyl.  It's gonna be a bumpy ride! Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul have been in the business a long time.  Now if they don't want to do a show, it's not because they got stage fright.  It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want them to do the show.  On the other hand, the show must go on!  This week: Brian De Palma's 1974 devil-in-the-details horror rock musical PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE!  Now we're in business together…forever! Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul punish the guilty, reward the innocent, and kick off another Rocktober with Ed Wood's 1957 psycho Solaranite babble bonanza PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE!  Direct from Space Station Seven — the flying saucers are here and ready to touch down.  So watch the skies…and the cemeteries…and the patio.  Monsters!  Graves!  Bodies!  Can you prove that it didn't happen? Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul remember to turn off their phones as they explore Issa Lopez's 2017 tough 'n' tender ghost tale TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID!  Amid the rooftops and empty streets of Mexico City, a group of children orphaned by the drug wars learn to survive while facing the constant threat of violence and the shadows of missing people.  In the Kingdom of Broken Things, mind what you wish for. Email: [email protected]

Sha Ka Wheeeeeee!  Franz and Paul don't want their pain taken away.  They need their pain!  They will, however, journey deep within William Shatner's 1989 brother-from-another-mother summer space sequel STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER!  Laughing Vulcans, apologetic Klingons, anti-logic boots, marshmellons, the Almighty, and the return of Franz's brother Jason!  Here is the proof you seek! Email: [email protected]

Franz is the theme, Paul is the metaphor.  They're not from anywhere.  They're from this bed.  And they, along with returning guest Brandon, will get to the bottom of Paul Schrader's 1980 L.A. chic flick AMERICAN GIGOLO, starring Richard Gere!  When you're ready we can share the wine.  Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, anyhoos. Email: [email protected]

Thou shall not fall...for sexy vampires.  Unless it's Kiefer Sutherland.  This week: Franz and Paul, along with special guest Laurie, hit the boardwalk and sink their fangs into Joel Schumacher's 1987 teen horror bonfire THE LOST BOYS!  You'll never grow old.  You'll never die.  But you must feed.  Bwa-ha-ha-haaat the Drive-In Garage! Email: [email protected]

This is what Franz and Paul fought all night to get back to?  It's still good news, Boppers, 'cause next up we got Walter Hill's 1979 NYC gangland fantasy THE WARRIORS, starring Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, David Patrick Kelly, and the armies of the night — 100,000 strong!  If you get separated, make it to the platform at Union Square.  Can you dig it? Email: [email protected]    

Franz and Paul are staying right here…in hell.  This week: Joel & Ethan Coen's 1984 dead n' buried neo noir BLOOD SIMPLE, starring Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh!  Nothin' comes with a guarantee.  And somethin' can all go wrong at the Drive-In Garage. Email: [email protected]

During their costume fitting Franz and Paul seemed to get into it.  Joined by special guest Brandon, they venture into Olivier Assayas' 1996 Super 16 film-within-a-film IRMA VEP, starring Maggie Cheung!   Attempts to remake a classic French film go haywire as cast and crew try to keep the rudderless production afloat.  It's a '90s conflux-collision of dream and reality, art and commerce, latex and cigarettes.  Vive le dailies! Email: [email protected]

The four-part series on Stanley Kubrick comes to its cosmic conclusion as Franz and Paul go 100% failure in 72 hours.  Until then, they, along with returning guest Becki, are a go to explore the 1968 Cinerama human vivarium that is 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY!  Deliberately buried some four million years ago, the Drive-In Garage can only be attributable to human error.   Email: [email protected]

Naughty Naughty Stan the Man meets Lovely Lovely Ludwig Van.  The four-part Kubrick series rolls on as Franz and Paul look at the 1971 tolchock to the system A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, starring Malcolm McDowell!  Katie pops by later to govoreet about the Anthony Burgess novel.  So slooshy well, my little sophistos!  And please...TRYYY THE WIIINE!! Email: [email protected]

Snow Day!  Franz and Paul got the fever.  Cabin fever, that is.  Continuing with the four-part series on Stanley Kubrick, and joined by returning guest Amber, they tackle the 1980 haunted family fun fest THE SHINING, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall!  Come and play with us…! Email: [email protected]

Killarney!  Franz, Paul, and Katie have all come to claim satisfaction as they kick off a four-part series on the films of Stanley Kubrick.  First up, the 1975 eighteenth century boy BARRY LYNDON, starring Ryan O'Neal!  Based on the picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, it's a three-hour tour of human folly and painterly landscapes.  Now, will you join and take the bounty, sir, or will you be given up? Email: [email protected]

Attention passengers - Franz and Paul, along with returning guest Jason, are now leaving Nun Central on their journey to hell and beyond!  With a brief pit stop at the Neal Israel 1984 sex comedy blowout BACHELOR PARTY, starring Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, and Adrian Zmed!  So, get the hookers in a circle, we're gonna put Cochise outta business.  Banzai! Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul are all hat and no cattle as they dig up the past and have a peek at John Sayles' 1996 Tex-Mex drama LONE STAR, starring Chris Cooper, Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, Matthew McConaughy, and Kris Kristofferson!  Generations and cultures clash in the small border town of Frontera.  Made worse by the discovery of a long-buried corpse!  The truth will out as this stretch of road runs between nowhere and not much else. Email: [email protected]

By George, I think they've got it!  Franz and Paul feel a slight stiffness coming on…due to the altitude, no doubt, and their return to Bond Country as they look at the 1969 Peter Hunt one-off ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, and Telly Savalas!  We have all the time in the Drive-In Garage. Email: [email protected]

It's Vietnam all over again as Franz and Paul re-enter the Cimino-verse and take on all of the 1985 raving rampage cop thriller YEAR OF THE DRAGON, starring Mickey Rourke and John Lone!  There's a new marshal in Chinatown.  And the streets are gonna run red with blood.  You'll soon be missing the peaceful days of Jackie Wong — when earth was earth, and heaven was heaven! Email: [email protected]

Together, Franz and Paul ARE the Most Fabulous Object in the World!  The year closes with the return of Franz's brother Jason, and a leap into Terry Gillian's 1981 temporal fantasy freak out TIME BANDITS!  Adjust your clocks, load the Polaroid, and return what you have stolen!  History comes alive at the Drive-In Garage! Email:[email protected]

Beef Jerky Time, everyone!  Franz and Paul discover both the value of a dollar AND the true meaning of Christmas as they roll around the 1983 John Landis dark commodity TRADING PLACES, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy!  It's a classic role reversal with a startlingly short learning curve.  Yet what lessons are actually learned?  It's either kill or be killed at the Drive-In Garage! Email: [email protected]

Destiny has brought Franz and Paul this lamb chop!  For the 100th Episode: Ridley Scott's 2023 conquest-happy historical epic NAPOLEON, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby!  Joining in the festivities are returning guests Becki and Katie!  So, on with the funny hats…and off with their heads! Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul have always had meanness in them.  And Jacy's the kind of girl that brings out the meanness in men.  This week: it's a long sad pan across Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 wistful Texas town drama THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Eileen Brennan, and Ben Johnson!  We will always be true!  Anarene High School, we love you! Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul wanna put down five dollars (each) for the blue shirt in the window.  In the meantime they, along with returning guest Katie, will quasi-strut through John Badham's 1977 Brooklyn inferno SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, starring John Travolta!  All you need is a salad bowl and a potato masher.  So don't worry about nuttin'! Email: [email protected]

The money doesn't know where it comes from, but Franz and Paul do.  This week: Bill Duke's 1992 L.A. crime drama DEEP COVER, starring Lawrence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum!  Do not blow your cover, or blow your top.  'Cause it's 1-8-7 on an undercover cop! Email: [email protected]

Productivity comes to a halt as Franz and Paul talk about Peter Hyams' 1981 sneakers 'n' shotgun sci-fi western OUTLAND, starring Sean Connery!  Can one man clean up the corruption on one of Jupiter's moons?  Why are so many heads exploding?  What's the connection between titanium ore and smart turtlenecks?  It's a pure dose of polydichloriceuthimal at the Drive-In Garage! Email: [email protected]

La-di da-di, free Aunt Lotte!  This is the way Franz and Paul eat in America — They got their meat, they got their potatoes, they got their vegetables.  And they don't even have to do the dishes.  This week: the 1984 Jim Jarmusch New York-Ohio-Florida-Hungarian rhapsody STRANGER THAN PARADISE, starring John Lurie, Eszter Balint, and Richard Edson!  It's funny, you come to someplace new and everything looks just the same. Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul taste the salt air of Utah and feel the muddy waters of Kansas as they talk about Herk Harvey's 1962 phantasmagoria classic CARNIVAL OF SOULS!  Starring Candace Hilligoss as Mary Henry, a woman trapped within a threatening frosty twilight — out of sync and out of time.  The lights are on and the danse macabre has begun! Email: [email protected]

Ahoy, Mateys!  Franz and Paul know which way the wind is blowing and are definitely weird for John Carpenter's 1980 ghost by the coast story THE FOG, starring Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, and Janet Leigh!  From on top of the world — fabulous 1340 K.A.B. Antonio Bay is about to feel the hundred year curse.  Don't touch that dial. Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul have the entire school grounds to themselves as they talk about Osgood Perkins' 2015 unholy tale of mourning THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER, starring Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, and Emma Roberts!   Alone at Bramford Academy, in the dead of winter, a sinister urge come a-calling.  Light the furnace.  Barricade your door.  Smell pretty. Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul test the waters while looking at John Frankenheimer's 1979 methylmercurial mutagen frightmare PROPHECY, starring Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire, Armand Assante, and one mad ginormous man-pig-bear!  It'll be a hike so bring your sleeping bag.  Every rock, every tree has a story at the Drive-In Garage! Email: [email protected]

If the piano doesn't keep Franz and Paul off the streets, maybe the clarinet will.  For now, they'll keep talking about Terrence Malick's 1973 killers-on-the-run debut feature BADLANDS, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek!  Filmed in Colorado.  Set in South Dakota and Montana.  Inspired by the story of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.  Well, somebody might dig 'em up 1000 years from now, and wouldn't they wonder. Email: [email protected]

Franz and Paul are both tickled pink and lemon satin when they, along with special guest Becki, dive into Robert Altman's 1977 personality crisis purgatory 3 WOMEN, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule!  Enter into a desert netherworld of lost souls, empty vessels, monstrous murals, therapy pools, purple sage singles, magazine recipes, and Dirty Gertie.  Pull her bow and she'll say "hello"! Email: [email protected]