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Michael, Sam, and their mother are moving in with their grandpa in Santa Cruz after leaving the uber-progressive Phoenix. Michael, brooding with teen angst and wistful hair flips falls for a mystery girl who pals around with a group of leather-clad hair metal hoodlums. As he eyes the girl, his younger brother Sam turns out … Continue reading MONSTERCAST – The Lost Boys →

Welcome to a special episode of Front Row Flashbacks for our Monstercast interview of writer/producer/director and friend of the pod, David Weiner. He is the director of the critically acclaimed documentaries In Search of Darkness Parts I and II, which focus on the history of 1980’s horror movies. Weiner also directed the documentary In Search … Continue reading MONSTERCAST – Interview with David Weiner →

Join us as we follow the Mobile Infantry to Klendathu to exterminate the bug scourge that has declared war with the Federation once they launched the asteroid that destroyed Buenos Aires. The bugs are non-stop killing machines, but Rico’s Roughnecks are gonna put that claim to the test. Again, Paul Verhoeven bringing brilliant satire in … Continue reading Starship Troopers →

Join us as we get into a futuristic Detroit where the police force is run by mega-corporation Omni-Corps. In this dystopian future, big police are getting mowed down by gangs running loose, and Omni-Corps suits know just how to save the day, Robocop.  Listen in as we talk about why this ultra-violent, 80’s action classic … Continue reading Robocop →

Join us as we discuss Jackie Brown, a game of cat and mouse film noir set in the Tarantino movie verse. In Tarantino’s third outing as a director, he adapts Elmore Leonard’s “Rum Punch”. Listen in as we see how Jackie Brown stacks up against the entirety of Tarantino’s catalog. FEATURING: Jay Hoffman, Ryan Lootens, … Continue reading Jackie Brown →

Conan is orphaned by the violence of Thulsa Doom and goes from an enslaved boy to gladiator to a free man with the thirst for vengeance.  Join us as we look at the adventures of Conan in his first cinematic outing, where we discuss this cult classic that may tend to be dismissed as run … Continue reading Conan the Barbarian →

Inspector Tequila is a one-man wrecking crew who is gonna stop one of the most violent gangs in Hong Kong, even if he has to kill everyone in his way.  Join us as we dig into John Woo’s magnum opus, Hard Boiled. This gun fu, action masterpiece may not be as mainstream as Woo’s 90’s … Continue reading Hard Boiled →

Today marks the 110th Anniversary of the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic, and then 30 years ago the biggest movie on the 20th Century was released and teen and pre-teen girls collectively lost their minds over the romance aboard the sinking ship. Join us as we dig into behemoth of a natural disaster movie. Does … Continue reading Titanic →

Join us, as we follow Will Munny, his partner Ned, and the Schofield Kid as they go after a couple of prostitute-abusing outlaws. Will constantly takes every punishment he’s dealt because he feels like he deserves it for all the wrong he had done in his past life before his wife converted him into a … Continue reading Unforgiven →

Front Row Flashbacks is gearing up and linking up with our best gang mates to battle it out for dominance over the Five Points. Please join us as we work through Martin Scorses’ Gang of New York. This movie has vicious violence, poignant commentary, and a grit that seems to be missing from most period … Continue reading Gangs of New York →

Front Row Flashbacks needs to throw out some teenage rebellion through the art of sexy dance. Join us we dig into Dirty Dancing and why this movie is more than a chick flick about dancing, and why Baby is a far more heroic character than a quick movie rundown may suggest. FEATURING: Jay Hoffman, Ryan … Continue reading Dirty Dancing →

Join us as we dig into an adventure with sword fighting, adventure, fire swamps, giants, miracle men, and true love with The Princess Bride, which turns 35 years old this year. This movie manages to walk a fine line between cheese and satire to create a timeless fantasy yarn. Give the episode a listen to … Continue reading The Princess Bride →

Imagine a world where a fast-acting virus spreads through the masses turning people in society into rage monsters. Now imagine that’s not the current state of news, but a fictional world where the rage monsters are fast-moving, zombie-like creatures. 28 Days Later is the non-zombie movie that reinvigorated the zombie genre that was so prevalent … Continue reading 28 Days Later →

Rick Deckard is a lonely, depressed Blade Runner muddling about his life, and is forced onto a case and must seek out four killer replicants. Will Deckard find his humanity in the process of retiring these killer replicants or find himself deeper in isolation? Do replicants have a soul? Is Deckard a replicant? Give this … Continue reading Blade Runner: The Final Cut →

Twenty years ago the first installment of the greatest film trilogy in history was released. Here we started our epic journey across Middle Earth, where we see a team made up of a merry band of hobbits, a dwarf, an elf, a wizard, and a couple of Gondor frat bros set out to destroy the … Continue reading Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition →

Twenty years ago the boy wizard that defeated He Who Shall Not Be Named as a baby took over the world with Pottermania, but how does the first in this eight-film series hold up? Harry and his crew start their first year at Hogwarts where they learn to become witches and wizards, battle for wizard … Continue reading Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone →

Get ready for Turkey Day as we Flashback 20 years to Wes Anderson’s dysfunctional family classic, The Royal Tenenbaums. A family full of child prodigies, a caring mother, a neighbor kid that wants to be a member of the family, and an estranged patriarch that left them all in disarray as an adult. Royal Tenenbaum … Continue reading The Royal Tenenbaums →

Join us as we flashback 35 years as we look at the prestige body horror film, The Fly. Dr. Brundle is on the verge of changing the world, but will his ego and lacking ethics impede his success? One drunken night of jealousy and rage led to the first human teleportation. After Dr. Brundle returns … Continue reading Monstercast – The Fly →

Join us as we flashback 40 years to arguably the greatest werewolf movie ever made, An American Werewolf in London. David and his pal Jack did not heed the warning given on the Moors and one was left viciously mauled and the other transformed into a hound of hell. Along the way we find great … Continue reading Monstercast – An American Werewolf in London →

Join us as we flashback 40 years to the original blood and guts tale of The Evil Dead. Five twenty somethings take a minimalist vacation at a sketchy cabin in the woods that their friend got a heck of a deal on. After playing a recording from a tape player in the cabin where the … Continue reading Monstercast – The Evil Dead →

Join the Front Row Flashbacks as we get the opportunity to interview Axelle Carolyn. Axelle is one of the most exciting emerging horror filmmakers in the genre right now. She created and co-directed the award winning Tales of Halloween, and has directed episodes of Creepshow, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, … Continue reading Monstercast – An Interview with Axelle Carolyn →

Join us as we talk with Walter Phelan, an foam rubber, make-up effects artist with Legacy Effects and all around monster maestro. Walter is best known for his portrayal of Doctor Satan in House of 1000 Corpses, but he has also been a demon (Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight), a vampire (From Dusk til … Continue reading Monstercast – An interview with Walter Phelan →

Join us in Chinatown where there is a kidnapping and lots of girls with green eyes. Pretty soon Jack Burton, Wang, and crew face off against Mortal Kombat wizards and cryptozoological creatures in Big Trouble in Little China, where mystical kung fu comedy ensues. Can Jack Burton help Wang stop the evil sorcerer or will … Continue reading Big Trouble in Little China →

Join us as we go back 40 years to a movie that looked ahead 18 years, to a time that is now 24 years ago, as we look at the John Carpenter cult classic – Escape from NY. \ The year is 1997, and the president of a tyrannical United States has had his plane … Continue reading Escape From New York →

Front Row Flashbacks is gonna live life with a bottle of Nos under the hood by reliving the high octane, mediocre Point Break rip off The Fast and the Furious.  Will the perfect mix of early-2000’s electronica and Nu metal balance out the neon underbellies of these fine foreign four-wheelers? Will Brian give Dom up, … Continue reading The Fast and the Furious →

Front Row Flashbacks is taking a trip with our adopted murderous robot dad by breaking mom out of the mental institution and stopping judgement day! All we have to do is get past the liquid metal slasher villain terminator, a swat team, a helicopter, a semi, another semi, liquid nitrogen, and liquid metal knives. We … Continue reading Terminator 2: Judgement Day →

We have the power! On this episode we bring you our review of the first five episodes of the Kevin Smith lead “Masters of the Universe Revelation” for Netflix. Up front is our non-spoiler review followed by full deep dive into Eternia.  “A radical return to Eternia, REVELATION is a direct sequel series to the … Continue reading FULL DISCLOSURE: Masters of the Universe Revelation →

On the eve of Netflix’s new Masters of the Universe series, we’re using our cosmic key to open a portal between Guilty Pleasures and Flashback to talk about 1987’s Live-Action Masters of the Universe! The whole crew is here to talk about Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, and what is was like to be a massive … Continue reading Masters of the Universe – Crossover with Guilty Pleasures →

Front Row Flashbacks is journeying through an America that sees the President of the United States, a space nerd from New York, and fighter pilot from L.A, and a drunken crop duster from the southwest team up to take on the fiercest alien scourge ever to arrive on Earth. This movie is part alien invasion, … Continue reading ID4: Independence Day →

Front Row Flashbacks is headed into a high octane dystopian Australian outback in search of the precious black fuel required to make it out of this barren wasteland. Join us as we get into that action classic Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Mad Max will take it on himself to stop the Lord Humungus … Continue reading Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior →

Front Row Flashbacks has a need for speed as we re-visit the epic 1980’s arial-battlin’, macho cheese-fest that is Top Gun. Join us as we fly high with the dynamic duo of Maverick and Goose. Is this movie just a giant Navy recruitment ad? Is this movie sweatier than Cool Hand Luke? To find out, … Continue reading Top Gun →

Front Row Flashbacks is looking at the 1986 Best Picture winner Platoon for its’ 35th Anniversary for our Memorial Day Special. The first Vietnam War film made by Vietnam veterans takes an unflinching look at the struggles and confusion involved in the conflict, and the human toll that took. This movie gives great insight into … Continue reading Platoon →

Front Row Flashbacks is going on a secret mission with James Bond and crazy Nic Cage to infiltrate Alcatraz to stop General Hummel from launching VX nerve gas into San Francisco. This movie has over-the-top action, dialogue and acting, and is pure enjoyment. Some say that this movie is the inspiration for Monster energy drinks! … Continue reading The Rock →

Join the Front Row Flashbacks as we get the opportunity to interview Elisa Donovan. She is most widely recognized as playing Amber on the 1990’s mega-hit Clueless, as well as transitioning that character to the television version of the same namesake. She also starred in Beverly Hills 90210, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Night at the … Continue reading Interview with Elisa Donovan →

Front Row Flashbacks is going on an adventure in the woods to find a dead body. Join us as we discuss why Stand By Me is one of the all-time great coming of age movies. This movie is an R-rated, kids movie that finely walks the line between childhood innocence and adult cynicism. Let’s go … Continue reading Stand By Me →

Front Row Flashbacks is crossing over with a double episode. First, we’ll be breaking down the original 1995 Mortal Kombat and then we’ll get into spoiler territory with a Full Disclosure of the 2021 Mortal Kombat. How do the movies stack up against one another? Will there be a draw or a flawless victory? Do … Continue reading Mortal Kombat ’95 & ’21 →

Front Row Flashbacks goes deep into an investigation with a law woman from West Virginia and a genius cannibal to catch a man trying to make a suit out of people….also it won the Best Picture Oscar 30 years ago! We’re going to dig into why this psychological horror still captivates our imagination and why … Continue reading Silence of the Lambs →

Join the Front Row Flashbacks as we get the opportunity to interview David Weiner. He is the director of the critically acclaimed documentary In Search of Darkness Part I as well as it’s sequel In Search of Darkness Part II, which focuses on the history of 1980’s horror movies. Weiner is currently working on another … Continue reading Interview with David Weiner →

Join Larry Smith and Jay Hoffman as they continue to navigate through the intense karate world located in Reseda, California. This time we’re going episode by episode for season 3, and there is a high likelihood that we get our episodes confused and meander off track, but much like the ebb and flow of great … Continue reading Flashbacks Presents Cobra Kai Season 3, Episode 1 →

Join the crew of Front Row Flashbacks and the crew of the S.S. Enterprise in the fight to battle their villainous, space zombie enemies, The Borg. After successfully destroying the Borg Cube, the Borg were able to abort their Borg Sphere to enact their Plan B of enslaving humanity, which is to travel back in … Continue reading Star Trek: First Contact →

Front Row Flashbacks goes on a whirlwind adventure with the 1996 disaster hit, Twister. We dig into the technical aspects of a film that blew past the competition at the box office and inspired disaster movies for years to come. As one of the few blockbusters that takes place in rural America, this movie is … Continue reading Twister →

Front Row Flashbacks is travelling around the world covering centuries of battles between immortals who must decapitate one another to become the final immortal! Will it be Connor McCloud, the titular Highlander, or will it be the barbarian bred for battle, The Kurgan? Join us as we talk about one of the definitive cult cinema … Continue reading Highlander →

Phillip Kennedy Johnson is the Eisner-nominated comic writer behind original comics like the popular The Last God series and Warlords of Appalachia. He has also worked on numerous super hero series such as Aquaman, Captain America, and Marvel Zombies Resurrection. Kennedy will be taking the lead on the King Daddy of super heroes with his … Continue reading Interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson →

It’s time to feel the power of the glow!! Guilty Pleasures is teaming up with Flashbacks to talk all about Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon. What possessed the Father of Motown to make a Kung-Fu movie? What is The Glow? How many times can Vanity bite her lip? These questions and more on a special … Continue reading The Last Dragon – Guilty Pleasures Crossover →

Front Row Flashbacks is going on an outlaw road trip with one of cinema’s greatest duos, Thelma & Louise. These ladies leave the toxic men in their lives and truly find themselves as they make their way through the beautiful scenescape that America has to offer with the wind in their hair and a great … Continue reading Thelma & Louise →

Join Larry Smith and Jay Hoffman as they continue to navigate through the intense karate world located in Reseda, California. They meander and talk about movies and somewhere in there they get into Season 2 of the Netflix smash hit Cobra Kai! PATREON: https://bit.ly/2W5hC0I SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/49zpoGHCE4nIJbX100xQNS AMAZON PODCAST: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/35dc9382-fdd0-4a5f-a785-ac83b7cccd12/Front-Row-Flashbacks FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/291424762277800/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/FrontRowReviewz EMAIL: [email protected] … Continue reading Flashbacks Presents Cobra Kai Season 2 →

Front Row Flashbacks is going to the prom in a handmade pink dress to revisit the Molly Ringwald classic Pretty in Pink. We’ll get into the socioeconomic disparities as well as the great expressions of teenage awkwardness littered throughout this John Hughes production. Can Andie navigate life through her final year of high school with … Continue reading Pretty in Pink →

Join your co-sensei’s Larry Smith and Jay Hoffman as they walk you through all things All-Valley Karate and breakdown Season 1 of the Netflix hit Cobra Kai. They talk about how Cobra Kai pays homage while simultaneously pointing out the sheer silliness of Karate Kid, all while being the most bingeable show on TV.  Future … Continue reading Flashbacks Presents Cobra Kai →

Front Row Flashbacks is diving into the Scottish, drug-fueled, modern-day classic, Trainspotting. We’re gonna get into how this movie simultaneously shows the allure and extremely destructive power of hard drugs. This movie kickstarted the careers of director Danny Boyle, who gave us films such as 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire, and actor Ewan McGregor. … Continue reading Trainspotting →

FLASHBACKS is kicking off 2021 with a snowy independent film from 1996 that had a huge impact as it snow blew the Coen Brothers into the world of mainstream cinema and received an avalanche of award nominations. We are discussing the impact of Fargo as it celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year. Along with your … Continue reading Fargo →