Staff Picks

Horror movie fan and Staff Picks favorite Jessi Bentley joins me to discuss what I think is the best horror movie of the past twenty years, 2016's Korean zombie movie, Train to Busan.

Writer and film analyst Darren DeBari joins me to discuss one of my favorite suspense movies of all time, and one that is very special to me, personally, because my dad used to watch it with me. It's 1977's mad bomber movie, Rollercoaster.

Fellow child of the 80s Michael Allbright joins me to salvage the reputation of a movie that was never as bad as its legacy. It's time to talk about one of my all-time favorite comedies, 1984's Police Academy.

Fellow child of the late 70s Pete Butler joins me to discuss a movie that was HUGE for any kid who grew up with it, but is sadly pretty much forgotten today, the 1979 Disney movie The Black Hole.

Therapist Leann Lindsley joins me to discuss a cute little summer movie you might not have ever seen before. It's the spiritual successor to Meatballs, 2013's The Way Way Back.

Scott Drebit, author of "A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies", joins me to discuss one of the craziest B horror movies of them all, 1981's The Pit.

Young movie fan Owen Donne joins me to discuss one of my very favorite movies of all time, Alexander Payne's wonderfully sharp and cynical 1999 masterpiece, Election.

Horror author Fiona Carter joins me to discuss the cutest, most feel good, most adorable zombie comedy you are ever going to see, 2017's One Cut of the Dead.

Podcaster and fellow fanadu Jessica Liese joins me in one of my funniest episodes of all time, as we discuss the legacy of the flop that really shouldn't have been a flop, 1980's musical disaster Xanadu.

Archivist and Ted Bundy researcher Tiffany Jean joins me to discuss one of the greatest TV movies of all time: Mark Harmon (as Ted Bundy) in the 1986 movie The Deliberate Stranger.

Horror movie fan and cinephile Christopher Chardi joins me to discuss maybe the most underrated horror movie ever made. It's 1981's supreme creepfest Dead & Buried.

Movie fan Jack Mourouzis joins me to discuss what I'd consider one of the best movies of the past twenty years, which surprisingly rarely ever gets talked about anymore. It's Clint Eastwood's 2008 masterpiece Gran Torino.

Fellow 80s child Celia Curran joins me to discuss a movie that was beloved in its time, but somehow fell right off the face of the earth soon after that. It's time to give more love to the charming 1983 fairytale Max Dugan Returns.

Pop culture podcaster and movie fan Quintin Philipson joins me to discuss what I think was the best movie of the past five years, 2019's instant classic Jojo Rabbit

Sportswriter and podcaster Jack Vita joins me to discuss a movie that shouldn't have worked at all, yet somehow turned out to be amazing. It's 2011's baseball masterpiece, Moneyball.

Screenwriter and George Romero fan Brian Scully joins me to discuss one of the greatest horror films of all time, the original 1978 classic, Dawn of the Dead

People Magazine writer and TV host Steve Helling joins me to discuss one of my favorite suspense/horror movies of the 2000s, 2007's Vacancy

Donnie McHenry, from Psychotronica: A Podcast for Forgotten Film, joins me to discuss an unfairly forgotten horror film. We're talking about the 1990 anthology Tales from the Darkside: The Movie.

My daughter, fellow horror fan Vanessa Lanza, joins me to discuss the movie that has been scientifically proven to be the scariest film of all time, 2012's Sinister

Horror fan and John Carpenter expert Christopher Chardi joins me to discuss "the lost Carpenter film," 1978's made-for-TV-suspense-fest Someone's Watching Me!