The Schlock and Awe Podcast

This Week on S&A Lindsay & Unholy Terrors Podcast's Pat Brennan hear the loud yell of the Yukuza. It's a Double of Kazuya Shiraishi's Blood of the Wolves (2018) & Juzo Itami's Minbo: The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992). This is a Double that looks breaking down the mythology and aggrandizement of the Yukuza. One of these movies have tragic real world consequences. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform  

On this Murderers We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take a look at another Crime of the Century. The murder of New York Architect Stanford White by Philadelphia Millionaire Harry Thaw. All seeming about The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Richard Fleischer's The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing (1955) & Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981). These movies are set during a specific time of innovation and progress. Yet both movies go into how are human nature does not change.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Carmelita Valdez McKoy go for a triple feature of epic proportions and sexual awakening. Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) & José Ramón Larraz's The Coming of Sin (1978) & Tony Richardson's The Taste of Honey (1961). This Triple goes into so many directions, sex, exploitation, queerness, growing up. To grow into a women there is a lot going on Please feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform 

This week we go to Springfield where they did story telling first. Lindsay & Bede Jermyn look at reference and story telling convention with a Double of The Simpsons Tree-house of Horror II (1991) & Curry Barker's Obsession (2026). Not only was Lisa 's Nightmare The Monkey Paw one of Barkers inspiration for his Obsession but it also show how our stories are often change, manipulated and re-told into different formats. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay & Genevieve Radosti of Movie Jawn & CineFilth Podcast have to choose a Messiah but we change the channel. It's a Double of Hal Ashby's Being There (1979) & Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). This is a double of a Jesus Figure who loves television. And more importantly a portrait of 1970s America and where they are heading to into the 1980s and well today. Please feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform 

On this Murders We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take on another kill duo. This time Raymond Fernandez & Martha Beck - The Lonely Hearts Killers. The Double Todd Robinson's Lonely Hearts (2006) & Leonard Kastle The Honeymoon Killers (1970). One a period piece set in the time appropriate time of the late 1940s, the other set in contemporary America. And everything is just a bit shit, whether that is the over arching theme or just literal construction of the movie. Just always beware of the toupee   Please feel free to rate, review and subscribe Schlock & Awe Podcast on your favourite podcast platform

This week Lindsay & Bede on this S&A Twinning Titles Lindsay & Bede want One More Shot. James Nunn's One More Shot (2024) & Nicolas Clifford's One More Shot (2025). Two movies who used a gimmick structure - The Long Take or One Shot or the Time Loop Movie to contain their movies. Do these movies stretch out of the structure or work within it.   Feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform

This week on S&A Lindsay & Age Film Critic Jake Wilson head into the world of Charles Walters. A Spectacular Spectacular Double of Walter's Dangerous When Wet (1953) & Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962). Two golden age musicals that are about movement, transformation and that something intangible thing about art. Feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform  

Welcome to a new Schlock & Awe Series. Murderers We Have Known. Lindsay & Nadine will focus on a famous murder or series of murders and look at how a Double Feature treats changes and portrays the crime. To start things off we are looking at Leopold & Leob and the Crime of the Century with a Double of Tom Kalin's Swoon (1992) & Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948). This is a Double that looks at queerness, intellectualism, the Übermensch and how there is no such thing as the perfect murder.   Feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform 

This week on S&A Lindsay & Film Critic Kahn Duncan try to untangle the strings of fate with a Double of David Lynch's Dune (1984) & William Fredkin's Sorcerer (1977). This is not just a Double about Fate, it is also about the environment that each world inhabits but also about a certain Space Opera hanging over both as each of these auteurs try to define their era.  Remember to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform  

This week on S&A Lindsay and Rachel tap dance on the town in Paris with a Gene Kelly Double of Stanley Donan's On the Town (1949) & Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris (1951). Gene Kelly was an important figure not just in the Movie Musical but in Movies in General. They way he developed dance and abstract moved through film history. Plus these movies are just fun   Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Please rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast plaform

This week on S&A Lindsay and Tim from It Didn't Go Platinum Podcast wonder what it would be like to grow up in the apocalypse. It's a Double of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men (2006) & Dr. George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). This is a Double that not only looks at gaining power or resources in a dystopia - whether it be children or a bullet farm. But more importantly the attitudes of countries like Britain and Australia and their attitudes toward dictatorships. Are we closer than we think heading toward 2027 (the answer is yes by the way) or is all about putting on a show. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Please rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform.     

This week on S&A Lindsay & Bede vs The Living Dead - Bede create their own Vanity Project with a Double of Craig Denny's The Astrologer (1976) & John De Hart's Champagne and Problems (1993). Do you want a film maker who doesn't know what they are doing? A film guided by numerology, no context for scenes, grotesque sex scenes and a very drunk Wings Hauser? We have that and more. These men had a dream and too much money and we are thankful for it. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Please rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe as it helps the show.

This week on S&A Lindsay and Preston Mitchell go the way of Revenge in a Double of  Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) & Park Chan-wook's Olddog (2003). This is a Double of many things. The rules and philosophy behind it - the Japanese & Southern Korean Rules. What does it mean to be a warrior and using spirits of the past, whether as tutors or to fuel vengeance. There is a lot going on. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King   Please rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe Podcast on your favourite podcast platform. It helps the show.

This week on S&A Lindsay & Action 4 Everyone's Mike & Max look into the different seasons of Sam Raimi with his Send Help (2026) & A Simple Plan (1998). These are Sam Raimi stretching his legs when it comes to power and capitalism in the only way Sam Raimi knows how to direct. Punishment and Americana   Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King   Please rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite platform. It helps the show.  

On this week's S&A Lindsay and Luna Rossi Films & This is Film's Carlo be leaping. It's a bonkers mid naughties French double of Pierre Morel's District B13 (2004) & Louis Leterrier's Unleashed (2005). This is an action double that looks at a time and a place, but also a style of action and the history that lead up to it. It's my favourite kind of Double to cover. So much leaping! Parkour  Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Please rate, review & subscribe Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform 

This week on S&A Lindsay & Justin Anderson wake up in an unusual place. This is a Double of Philippe Mora's Communion (1989) & Dean Parisot's Galaxy Quest (1999) is there something out there or is it really just an episode of Television. Who knows - but these movies are awesome. So best to check the historical documents. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Please rate, review or subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast apps 

This week on S&A Lindsay and Director's Club Host Jim Laczkowski go on a road trip through the never-ending landscape. It is a Double of Rachel Lee Goldenberg's Unpregnant (2020) & Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986). Lives will be had, tears will be shed. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Musica Anthony King Please rate review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platforms.

This week on S&A Lindsay & AJ waltz into the west with a mop and bucket to clean it. This is a Double of George Marshall's Destry Rides Again (1939) & Rowdy Herrington's Road House (1989). This a Western Double, but one that defies expectation. Cause Pain Don't Hurt. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform

S&A Quickie Review is back with Lindsay & Kahn Duncan looking at Kirill Sokolov's They Will Kill You (2026). Starring Zazie Beetz it is a Rip Roaring Time. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Anthony King Please Rate, Review & Subscribe S&A on your favourite podcast platform

This week on S&A Lindsay and the Make Me Watch it Hosts Brendan Agnew & Brendan Foley meet a group of men called Mr. Anderson. It's a triple of Paul W.S. Anderson' In the Lost Lands (2025), Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme (2025) & Paul T. Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025). Three different Andersons each made a movie about the time we live in just in three different ways Please rate and review S&A on your favourite podcast platform Original Graphics by Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King

This week on S&A it's the 98th Academy Awards ReCap. Lindsay Bede & Kahn come back to break down the wins and the snubs, Conan's bits and Ryan Coogler best reaction. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Rate and Review S&A on your favourite podcast platform.

This week on S&A Lindsay & Action Addicts Host Scott Wiley head back in time. To a time called The Naughties. A time when slurs were thrown out freely and metal was nue. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Please rate and review S&A on your favourite podcast platform

It is getting closer to that time of year. Oscars! In this Bonus S&A episode: Lindsay, Bede Jermyn & Kahn Duncan go through each category and predict who is going to win. Will Timmy finally win his statue or will Michael B. Jordon take it? Will it be a Sinners' sweep or will it be One Battle After Another? Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Please Rate & Review S&A on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Carmelita Valdez McKoy want to see. It's death on screen with a double of Joel Schumacher's 8MM (1999) & Alejandro Amenábars' Thesis (1996). This is a double that not just gets into our obession with portraying death on screen and why. But also whether we really know our limits and it we want to. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Holy Terror's Brian Keiper go back to 1976 with a Double of John G. Avildsen's Rocky (1976) & Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). This is a Double of two sides of the American Dream as well as Masculinity in the year of 1976 Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite Podcast app

On S&A Twinning Titles, Lindsay & Bede are living on the edge with a Double of Rush. Lili Zanuck's Rush (1991) & Ron Howard's Rush (2013). This is a movie of people being in constant danger and often having to work outside the system or trying to make a better one. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Imperial Scum Podcast Co-Host Andy Gorham nerd out over Golden Harvest and Yuen Biao in a Double of Jackie Chan's Project A (1983) & Alfred Cheung's On the Run (1988). 80s Hong Action was a very specific beast; trying push a crowd pleasing genre like action but with the anxiety of identity with the China Handover happening very soon. And Yuen Biao was actor who was in the middle of this often playing goofy acrobatic characters as well as hard nosed action. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Martial Streep's Wendi Freeman take a look back at our childhood's and face the trauma. With a Double of Don Bluth's All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) & Walter Merch's Return to Oz (1985). Little Girls will always be the on to save the day. And the 1980s was a weird time. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A S&A Lindsay and Carlo of This is Film and Luna Red Wedding Films decsend in the land of Dragons. With Rob Bowman's Reign of Fire (2002) & Shane Blacks Iron Man 3 (2013). This is a Double that looks at how each movie treats the mythoical beast of the Dragon. Apocolytic or Comic Book. A fantasy movie made in an era of transition on Hollywood or a movie in a system that is in complete assurance of itself and will to do something different. But Beware Here be Dragons Orginal Graphics Nadine Whiteny Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favaourite podcast app

This week on S&A Twinning Titles is back. Lindsay & Bede look at Black Sunday and she will have her revenge. Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) & John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday (1977). These are movies about revenge and slightly under rated film makers who always make their movies interesting. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay, Preston Mitchell & Carmelita Vadez McKoy share our favourite Discoveries of 2025. Get ready your watch list is going to explode Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to S&A on your favourite Podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay, Matt, Mark & Hayden celebrate the year in movies that was 2025. They create a 25 hour 2025 Movie Marathon. Technically it's more like 28 hours, but who is counting. We love movies. The good, the bad and the bombastic. Come join us. There will be free pop corn. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app.

This week on S&A Lindsay & Didn't Go Platinum Host Tim explore the world of -symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war metal. With a Double of Juuso Laatio & Jukka Vidgren's Heavy Trip (2018) & Jason Lei Howden's Deathgasm (2015) . Get your corpse paint and demon on. It's time to rock and roll. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay & Preston Mitchell celebrate the new year with melodrama. A Double of Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread & Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019). Both movies draped in yards and yards of fabric, but also use not only in a textural way. But also to define characters. Both of these movies are about the passage of time, whether we sit still to take in the moment or rush forward impatient to get to the future. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A a place where we give out hand made presents from Santa. Lindsay & Patrick Vicious dive into the minds of Henry Selick's Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) & Damien Leone's Terrifer 3 (2024). This turns into a discussion on not only the practical elements of these movies, but also on adaption vs full authorial control. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A - tis the Season. Lindsay and Bede bow to the Christmas Exploitation Queen Lacey Chabert. With a Double of Jerry Ciccoritti's Hot Frosty (2024) & Glen Morgan (2006). This is a Christian and Pagan Double. To how we celebrate to what what lies beneath. Or what is hiding in the attic. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Rachel Marie swoon over the chemistry. It's a Double of George Cukor's The Philadelphia (1940) & Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail (1998). This is not only a Double of some Romantic Comedy with some of the most charismatic actors to grace the silver screen. Honestly we mainly thirst over Cary Grant. But also about the rules of engagment. How the rules of dating, relationships and society often meld into one. Becasuse remember the caviar is a garnish. Original Graphics Nadine Whtiney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay, Gabe Bergmoser & Justin Anderson play around with history. With a Double of Gregor Jordon's Ned Kelly (2003) & Justin Kurzel's The True History of the Kell Gang (2019). Who was Ned Kelly and how has been portrayed in film since his death in 1880. He is either one of the great villains or heroes in Australian Colonial History. Also really inventive with putting a quick amour together in a pinch. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Schlock & Awe can be found on your favorurite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Nadine Whitney take a look at a story of two different film makers. The Journey Man and the Auteur and how they tell the same story. J. Lee Thompson's Cape Fear (1962) & Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). Two very different versions of the cigar chomping Max Caddy. And not as many Simpson's references as you think. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Blind Spots Host Dan Grima Dream about Cage. With a Nicolas Cage Double of Lorcan Finnegans' The Surfer (2024) & Kristoffer Borglis' Dream Scenario (2023) This a a Double of later era Cage in a weirdo phase. Deconstructing personalities and types of masculinity you would absolutely give side eye to. The desire to be cool and to belong. But doing it all the wrong way. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Nadine Whitney travel to the land of Guillermo del Toro and his Gothic Castle for a Double of his Devil's Backbone (2001) & Frankenstein (2025). Here we look at a career that loves the gothic, fairy tales, natural vs unnatural and insects - more insects than you think. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Co-Host of Imperial Scum Podcast join the Harlin Hive. A Double of Renny Harlin's Cliffhanger (1993) & Deep Blue Sea (1999). This is a Double Renny Harlin in 1990s and how the 1990s changed throughout the decade. Though importantly it is more about Lindsay & Chris trying to figure out the plot to Deep Blue Sea. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

It is Halloween! Lindsay & Mark Wanner celebrate this All Hallows Eve with a celebration of the Dead and Stephen King. With a Double of Mary Lambert's Pet Semetery (1989) & Oz Perkins' The Monkey (2025). This is a Double of Curses, Animals and Horrific Deaths. Because everybody dies and some times dead is better. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

On this Schlocktober Kills & Giggles Lindsay, Matt & James head into the forest and what will they find there. Well it's a Double of John Carl Buechler's Friday the 13th Part VII The New Blood (1988) & Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods (2011). This is a Double not only about Sacrifice but why we love this type or horror movie in the first place Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

On this Schlocktober Kills & Giggles Lindsay and Chainsaw & Claws Patrick Visious enter the cult of Melissa Barrera. It's a Double of Caroline Lindy's Your Monster (2024) & Radio Silence's Scream 5 (2022). This show many sides of the actor all while looking at a Double about the Killer Instinct but also the creation of art in it's many different forms. When art turns into real life. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Schlock & Awe can be found on your favourite podcast app

This time on Schlocktober Kills & Giggles Lindsay and host of Bede vs The Living Dead Bede Jermyn go full Ocker. It's a Double of Ollie Martin & Kendal Flanagan's Houseboat Horror (1989) & Philip Brophy's Body Melt (1989). This is a true blue Double you cannot get more Aussie than this. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This episode of Schloctober Kills & Giggles Lindsay and film writer Brian Keiper doom scroll in a Double of Matt Spicer's Ingrid Goes West (2017) & Wes Craven's Scream 4 (2011). This is a double of Psychotic Influencers. Who needs friends when you have fans. Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Listent o Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

On this Schlocktober we take a break from Kills & Giggles so Lindsay can convince Film Writer Preston Mitchell he likes Horror Movies. With a Candlelight Double of Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase (1946) & Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961) Oh the gothic nerding out that is about to happen Original Graphics Nadine Whitney Original Music Anthony King Schlock & Awe episodes can be found on your favourite podcast app

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