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Rex O’Herlihan (Tom Berenger) knows how to rescue poor townsfolk from wealthy bad guys. In this self-aware version of an old Western serial, Rex will befriend the town drunk, Pete (G.W. Bailey) have to square up against the nefarious, greedy antics of Colonel Ticonderoga (Andy Griffith). He’ll appear even more befuddled by the advances of prostitute Miss Tracy (Marilu Henner) and Ticonderoga’s daughter, Miss Ticonderoga (Sela Ward). Will Rex inevitably prevail over the forces of bad?Join Bill and Colin as they explore this lukewarm Western comedy made by Writer/Director Hugh Wilson immediately following his mega success with POLICE ACADEMY (1984).

Two valley girl sisters (Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney) wake up to find most of the world’s population gone. The comet that has just passed the earth has also wiped out everyone who wasn’t protected by metal walls. Those exposed humans who haven’t been turned to dust share the fate of becoming man-eating zombies. Deep in the desert scientists who foresaw this problem have protected themselves in an underground bunker but have found that they didn’t do a great job of it. Now they need blood to slow their fates of becoming zombies. Will our sisters and their new trucker friend (Robert Beltran) survive the end of the world?Join Bill, Colin and Editor Tim Rush ("Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal") as they mine the depths of this clever, upbeat satire with heart.

Burke (Viggo Mortensen) is a mysterious prisoner sentenced to live in a prison that is haunted by the ghost of an old inmate who has a score to settle with Warden Ethan Sharpe (Lane Smith).Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Kevin Rhoades (CRAZY TRAIN, THE OVERNIGHT) as they visit the spooky correctional facility where Renny Harlin (DIE HARD II, CLIFFHANGER, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT) launched his U.S. career.

Dr. Charlies Forbin (Eric Braeden) and his associates build and engage an AI supercomputer known as “Colossus” whose purpose is to protect the United States in the event that anyone attacks. Plans go awry when Colossus instead melds with a Russian supercomputer named Guardian with the intent to control and perhaps enslave all of humanity. The U.S. government, Dr. Forbin and his team make best efforts to thwart Colossus’ plans, but have they built this artificial intelligence too well?Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director/Producer Robert Beaucage as they boot up Joseph Sargent’s prescient AI techno-thriller.

Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) has just had her first period and is becoming a woman. This means she has to traverse a confusing dreamscape of friends, family members and others who now look at her with desire. It becomes clear that Valerie must learn how to fend for herself in a predatory world.Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Alison Star Locke (THE APOLOGY) as they drop into a visually engaging but disturbing dream about young female adulthood.

Sylvia (Mimsy Farmer) is a scientist who struggles to keep it together as she appears to her lover, friends and neighbors to be losing her mind. Is she?Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Matthew S. Robinson (MY FRIEND VIOLET) as they try to piece her together.

Florinda Bolkan plays Alice, a translator who seems to be living events and going to places she can’t fully recall. She’s also having disturbing dreams connected to a film she once saw wherein an astronaut is left all alone on the moon in a government (or is it a corporate?) experiment. Is Alice losing her mind? Is she part of a larger conspiracy? Or has reality simply devolved into a rabbit hole full of mysterious characters and events that she must struggle to piece together?Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director DM Harring ("Rosewood" and "The Company You Keep") as they follow footprints through a unique Italian psychological thriller.

Governess Julia Septién (Marga Lopéz) is hired to watch over Silvia (Lucy Buj), a young girl with a friend named Hugo. However, Julia will come to learn that Hugo is actually a stone statue standing on the family home’s grounds. Silvia’s father, Eugenio (Joaquín Cordero), and stepmother, Mariana (Norma Lazareno), don’t know what to do about Silvia’s obsession with Hugo which seems to plague them. When strange occurrences trigger family life to unravel, Julia fights to help Silvia and her parents solve this mystery once and for all; but will it cost her life?Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Sean Hood (CONAN THE BARBARIAN, THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER and HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION) as they fall under the spell of Mexican horror auteur Carlos Enrique Taboada.

Michael Williams (Nic Cage) is a broke, wounded Marine vet who wanders into a small-town Wyoming bar to be mistaken by bar owner, Wayne Brown (J.T. Walsh) as a hired killer from Texas named Lyle. When he agrees to kill Wayne’s wife (played by Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael then doubles the amount when the wife he’s supposed to kill pays him to double-cross her husband and kill him instead. But that’s just the beginning because the true hired killer, Lyle, from Dallas (Dennis Hopper) shows up and things get really interesting. How is Michael going to survive the mess he’s gotten himself into?Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director/Producer Frank Merle (NAMAKA) as they spiral down into John Dahl’s remarkable Neo-Noir.

Every ten years, a representative swordsman from China and from Japan must duel to the death as a matter of tradition between the two countries. The Chinese Bo Ching-wan (Damian Lau) and Japanese Miyamoto Ichiro (Norman Chu) are selected as their nations’ best to compete in a fair manner. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, forces from both countries have other ideas. Also, Sheng Nan (Flora Chong-Leen), daughter of Master Han (Paul Chang Chung), wants to compete, but she’s a girl. Both Ching Wan and Miyamoto want to have a fair competition, but will they get their wish?Join Bill, Colin and Cinematographer/Director/Editor Gary Landry Jr. as they leap into a tense stand-off crafted by Chinese master action director Siu-Tung Ching (aka Tony Ching) in his directorial debut.

An unhappy cruise ship doctor and his crew are surrounded by an amalgam of 1933 Americans, Mexicans and Germans on their way from Mexico to Germany, each with their own lusty, romantic, ideological, human dramas to play out in miniature. By the end, director Stanley Kramer hopes you will learn something about the folly of humanity.Join Bill, Colin and Post Production Supervisor Cindy Freeman as they set sail with a combustible international cast that includes Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, José Greco, Christiane Schmidtmer, Heinz Rühmann and Michael Dunn.

Jean (Carl Miller) and Marie (Edna Purviance) are in love and decide to run off to Paris together. Just as they are about to, Jean’s father dies and Marie leaves for Paris alone. A year later Marie has worked her way into being the romantic partner of high society playboy Pierre Ravel (Adolphe Menjou), who doesn’t seem to have any intention of marrying her, though he might just love her. That’s when Marie runs into her old small town flame, Jean. Just as it seems that Jean and Marie might be back on the road to forever love, Jean’s mother comes between them sending Jean into a spiral.Join Bill, Colin and Producer John Bernstein as they roar into a tale of fast living, love, tragedy and hope.We also note that John Bernstein has been newly elected to the Board of Directors to the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation, and you may find out more about them at www.lahtf.org.

A small hamlet somewhere in medieval UK is anticipating the coming of the black plague, but a boy who seems to be able to see pieces of the future has visions that could guide them away from a sickly, horrible death by boring into the earth and coming out the other side of it to plant a copper crucifix at the top of a cathedral before the sun rises. The boy’s fanciful prescience leads a small group of the town’s men straight into the year 1988, where they struggle to understand these new surroundings and its inhabitants while they rush to set the crucifix in its place to save their village.Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director BC Jones as they dig into this wildly imaginative and fanciful tale of salvation.

Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and schoolteacher Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) see a space ship crash land and try to convince the authorities and townspeople that aliens are among them; but no one wants to listen…that is until very strange things begin happening to the locals.Join Bill, Colin and Author, Documentary Filmmaker and VFX Artist Adam Lima as they look to the skies and a small Arizona town to meet beings from another world.

In a future where nobody dies from illnesses, there’s a reality show named “Death Watch” which convinces a doctor to lie to perfectly healthy author, Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider), that she is dying of a terminal illness so they can film her as she thinks she’s living her last days. Producer Vincent Ferriman (Harry Dean Stanton) hires Roddy (Harvey Keitel), a man with cameras implanted in his eyes to befriend her and follow her around as she goes through this psychodrama. Eventually, Roddy falls in love with Katherine and the whole reality show plan goes awry.Join Bill, Colin and Writer / Producer David Draper as they delve into the high ratings world of unscripted life and death.

Sully (Paul Newman) is an older man in a small town whose life hasn’t exactly worked out perfectly, but he’s done it his way. He’s also angered and alienated a lot of people in the process. When his down-on-his luck son, Peter (Dylan Walsh), happens to visit town with his wife and son, Sully gets a second chance at being a family man. This movie boasts an incredible cast including Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Margo Martindale and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Editor Antony Berrios as they visit a small New England town to see if an old dog can learn new tricks.

Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) is a factory worker whose wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) has just given birth to their daughter. The ecstatic new father buys an eight millimeter camera, and his life begins to change. Filip begins to use the camera all the time, and his boss wants him to film pieces for the factory. Before you know it, Filip’s films are playing well at a film festival, and his amateur hobby begins to threaten the simple happiness he had with his wife and daughter. Is Filip’s awakening to movie art selfish or is he somehow growing into an artist who can add something to humanity? Come along with Bill, Colin and their guest, Producer, Director and Filmmakers Alliance co-Founder Jacques Thelemaque, as they peer through Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski’s eyepiece to see what they see.

Hubert Selby Jr.’s taboo-smashing 1964 novel jumps to the screen in Uli Edel’s theatrical adaptation starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Ricki Lake and many others in an ensemble piece about poverty-stricken troubled souls in 1950s Brooklyn. What emerges is dark and disturbing and yet thoroughly human. Join Bill, Colin and writer/director George Zaver as they take a long walk down some shadowy streets.

Frank Bono (played by the director Allen Baron himself) lives the lonely life of a hired killer. He’s going to New York City to complete a job when he runs into old friends who cause him to rethink his life. Joining Bill and Colin this week is writer/director Steve Mitchell to explore a classic American crime indie that depicts a killer’s contract where the job and the killer begin to unravel.

Trucker “Rubber Duck” (Kris Kristofferson) runs afoul of Arizona Sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) after Wallace extorts money from Duck and his friends. So begins the latest in a series of conflicts between Rubber Duck and Wallace, including the sherriff trying to detain his friend Spider Mike (Franklyn Ajaye), with Wallace in hot pursuit as Duck and company hightail it for the New Mexico border to avoid getting arrested. Various friends and admirers join Rubber Duck’s escape and form a convoy of support. The convoy takes on a larger meaning for all kinds of working class gripes with the state of things in the U.S. of A. back in 1978. The film also features Ali MacGraw sporting an amusing haircut, Seymour Cassel gleefully playing a crooked governor and a host of wonderful character actors.Ride along with Bill and Colin as they travel cross-country in an attempt to make some sense of a messy and sometimes fun film that was part of the 1970s American Citizens Band Radio craze, originated from a hit country song of the same name and wound up becoming Peckinpah’s most profitable movie ever.

Peter Winter (Peter Greene) has a lot going on in his head and most of it is painful. It’s all he can do to try to appear “normal” when he isn’t alone. Despite all this, Peter wants to find the daughter who was taken away from him. Meanwhile an investigator searches for a child murderer and his suspicions are beginning to point to Peter. Is Peter’s daughter in trouble? Join Bill and Colin as they investigate Lodge Kerrigan’s debut, a gripping, experimental dramatic thriller.

Trombone player Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) has just met Julie Peters (Mare Winningham) at the La Brea Tar Pitts in the Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, and it looks like this could be instant true love. Yet the night they’re supposed to go on a date, by complete coincidence Harry finds out that the U.S. is beginning a nuclear war in less than an hour…or is it? Now Harry has to find Julie and take shelter for a possible end-of-the-world scenario that he’s not even sure is going to happen. Join Bill and Colin as they themselves seek shelter in Steve De Jarnatt’s unconventional and brilliant thriller.

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (aka CEMETERY MAN) relates the story of melancholy and discontented Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett), who watches over a cemetery in a small European town where the dead won’t stay buried. He takes it upon himself to put “returners” back into their graves. One day he stumbles upon the love of his life (Anna Falchi) burying her husband. When said husband returns from the dead and kills her, Francesco begins a series of relationships with various iterations of her and a dialogue with death that drives him to kill the living. In what is sure to go down as one of our more elliptical episodes, Bill and Colin explore this questionably-adapted and sensually-visualized horror/dark comedy film that wrestles with ideas of love, death and perhaps the greatest challenge of all…life.

John Boorman has built an eclectic body of work ranging from the experimental and deconstructionist POINT BLANK (1967) to the coming-of-age military drama QUEEN & COUNTRY (2014). In this episode, Bill and Colin explore his less-talked-about EXCALIBUR, a strange and inspired Arthurian fantasy drawing from various mythological sources. The cast is an embarrassment of riches including Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart, Ciarán Hinds and Nigel Terry. Joining us is Producer Dave Woods to help the lads in this battle for truth and honor.

Welcome to our first episode! Timothy Carey was a beloved character actor and all-around eccentric who tore his way through a number of television shows and films including various from the likes of auteurs Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes. Yet Carey had an interest in making his own films as well, and he wrote, directed and starred in this uniquely bizarre and, in many ways, effective take on the perils of powerlust and the cult of personality. We're delighted to explore it with you...