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BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#78 - A HOME OF OUR OWN!This week we tackle the 1993 film A HOME OF OUR OWN!Widow Frances Lacey (Kathy Bates) is being sexually harassed by her boss while she tries to provide for her brood of six children. Also, her oldest son, Shayne (Edward Furlong), is constantly in trouble. When she's fired from her job, Frances decides to abandon Los Angeles. She and her family end up in Idaho, where she buys a dilapidated piece of land and tries to build a home. As she struggles to make a fresh start, Frances encounters both encouragement and new problems.Hear...2025-06-2745 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#78 - A HOME OF OUR OWN!This week we cover the 1993 film - A HOME OF OUR OWN!Widow Frances Lacey (Kathy Bates) is being sexually harassed by her boss while she tries to provide for her brood of six children. Also, her oldest son, Shayne (Edward Furlong), is constantly in trouble. When she's fired from her job, Frances decides to abandon Los Angeles. She and her family end up in Idaho, where she buys a dilapidated piece of land and tries to build a home. As she struggles to make a fresh start, Frances encounters both encouragement and new problems....2025-06-2650 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#77- CASUALTIES OF WAR!This week we discuss the film CASUALTIES OF WAR. Pvt. Max Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) is stationed in Vietnam under Sgt. Tony Meserve (Sean Penn). Though Meserve saves Eriksson's life during battle, the two men clash when the callous senior officer orders the abduction of Than Thi Oanh (Thuy Thu Le), a young Vietnamese woman, to be used as a sex slave. When Eriksson refuses to take part in the abuse of Oanh, tensions between him, Meserve and the rest of the unit heat up and finally explode during a firefight with Viet Cong troops. ...2025-06-2051 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#76- EVENT HORIZON!This week we dive into the 1997 horror/sci-fi flick EVENT HORIZON! After disappearing for seven years, revolutionary spaceship Event Horizon is rediscovered. The team of scientists sent to investigate find that the entire crew is dead, and a terrifying, malevolent presence is lurking on board. Hear our take on the film and on the review of SISKEL AND EBERT.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-06-1441 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#75- BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS!This week we cover the obscure Robert Altman film - BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS! By 1885, beloved cavalryman Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman) has hired a publicist and producer to help shape and promote his traveling Wild West show, which presents historically inaccurate reenactments of conflicts between U.S. troops and Native Americans. Cody hires Chief Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts) to play himself, as a villain, in stagings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. But, to Cody's dismay, star performer Annie Oakley (Geraldine Chaplin) and spectators both take to Sitting Bull. Hear our take...2025-06-0547 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#74 - THE DREAM TEAM!This week we cover the 1989 comedy - THE DREAM TEAM! Psychiatrist Dr. Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) takes four mental patients on an outing to Yankee Stadium. Billy (Michael Keaton) is a nihilistic author, Henry (Christopher Lloyd) lost his bearings while working as a mailman, Jack (Peter Boyle) thinks he is the world's scapegoat and the childlike Albert (Stephen Furst) is obsessed with baseball broadcasts. When two corrupt cops incapacitate Dr. Weitzman, the four troubled men must fend for themselves amid the lunacy of New York City.Hear our take on the film and on the review...2025-05-2946 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#73 - EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN!This week we tackle ..(get it?).. the 1988 film EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN! Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his marriage, and Gavin begins to wonder who he is, if he's not a hero...2025-05-2249 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#72 - THE AMATEURThis week we are covering the original 1981 version of THE AMATEUR!When the wife of CIA agent Charles Heller (John Savage) is killed by a group of terrorists in Munich, Germany, he decides to hunt down the escaped killers. However, he is only a code specialist without combat expertise, and he does not have agency permission. Using classified information, Heller blackmails the CIA into training him and sending him into Czechoslovakia, where the killers are currently located. Once he arrives, Heller discovers that he may be their target after all.Hear our take on the...2025-05-1540 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#71 - BLOODLINE!This week we cover the 1979 film BLOODLINE!A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.Hear our take on the film and the review of Siskel and Ebert. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-05-0945 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#70 - FADE TO BLACK!This week we discuss FADE TO BLACK!Eric Binford is a lonely movie-buff who struggles to find his place in the world. The rejection by a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, who embodies his obsession, sends him on a killing spree during which he transforms himself into classic film characters.Hear our take on the film and on the review of Siskel and Ebert!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-05-0149 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#69 - SERIAL!This week we discuss the film Serial!Inspired by the Cyra McFadden novel The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, Serial is director Bill Persky's (TV's Kate & Allie) satirical look at the lifestyles of California's 1970's hippie culture. Viewed through the eyes of Harvey Holroyd (Martin Mull, TV's Roseanne), a man perplexed by the behavior of his wife Kate (Tuesday Weld, Pretty Poison) and their liberal-minded friends, Serial lampoons everything from feminism, free love and sexual politics to cults, motorcycle clubs and the random midlife crisis. The gifted ensemble cast includes Sally...2025-05-0148 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#68 - YANKS!This week we cover the 1979 film YANKS!Matt (Richard Gere) and John (William Devane), U.S. soldiers stationed in England during World War II, are both beginning affairs with British women, but they soon find their romances complicated by moral dilemmas and a clash of cultures. Jean (Lisa Eichhorn), a girl from a working class family, has caught Matt's eye, and John is trying to woo the elegant Helen (Vanessa Redgrave). However, both woman are already involved with local men who have left for the front.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform...2025-04-1746 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#67 - GALAXINAThis week we cover the sci-fi spoof GALAXINA!When an interstellar police cruiser is sent to recover a precious blue crystal in the 31st century, crew member and android Galaxina (Dorothy Stratten) is left alone as the others are put into suspended animation as part of the mission. While bumbling Capt. Cornelius Butt (Avery Schreiber) and the others sleep the years away, Galaxina begins to fall in love with the pilot of the vessel, Sgt. Thor (Stephen Macht), but their romance is complicated when a strange alien life form appears.Hear our take on the...2025-04-0946 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#66 - BLINKThis week we tackle another "discovery" with 1992's BLINK. Blinded at the abusive hands of her mother as a young girl, Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe) is now a musician in Chicago. After an operation, she partly regains her sight, but sometimes she can remember things only hours after first seeing them. When she thinks she sees the person who murdered her neighbor, the police detective John Hallstrom (Aidan Quinn) becomes involved both with the case and with Emma. Now the killer is after Emma, and John struggles to protect her as they unravel the mystery....2025-04-0144 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#65 -THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXASThis week we cover THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS!Justin and I wrap up Musical March with this fun film starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton!Miss Mona (Dolly Parton) runs the Chicken Ranch, a brothel with a long history in a small Texas town. The locals have a good relationship with the institution, and Mona is respected in the community. The sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd (Burt Reynolds), also looks out for the Chicken Ranch due to his past with Miss Mona. However, when pious reporter Melvin Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) exposes the brothel, outside...2025-03-2843 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#64 - A CHORUS LINE!!This week Justin and I continue our month of musicals with A CHORUS LINE! Hundreds of hopefuls congregate at a cattle call for Broadway dancers. A sour director, Zach (Michael Douglas), and his brusque assistant (Terrence Mann) whittle down the ranks until they're left with 16 dancers. All tell their life stories -- some tragic, some comic -- and explain their love of dance. Tension mounts when Cassie (Alyson Reed) -- once both a big star and the director's lover but now desperate for a part -- auditions. But Zach must choose only the best for his show...2025-03-1848 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#63 - NEWSIES!!This week we are covering NEWSIES!!In this musical, homeless New York City newsboy Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) befriends two newcomers to his trade, brothers David (David Moscow) and Les Jacobs (Luke Edwards). When publisher Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall) sets new rules that make it harder for the young newspaper salesmen to make a buck, the boys go on strike. Bryan Denton (Bill Pullman), a journalist who's sympathetic to their plight, gives them some tips in public relations, as the newsboys' battle grips the city.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform...2025-03-1655 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#62 - HAIR!!This week Justin and I tackle the first movie of Musical March - HAIR, directed by Milos Forman! In New York City for the first time while on his way to enlist in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Oklahoma farm hand Claude Hooper Bukowski (John Savage) meets up with a freewheeling group of Central Park hippies led by the irrepressible George Berger (Treat Williams). When the unlikely friends meet upper-middle-class debutante Sheila Franklin (Beverly D'Angelo), sparks fly between the country boy and the city girl, and Berger's troupe attempts to keep the young lovers...2025-03-0543 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#62 - HAIR!!This week we start our month of musicals with 1979's HAIR! This was my pick - and I hate musicals - so obviously I like it. But what of my cohost and our boys Siskel and Ebert?? Watch and find out! Subscribe today!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-03-0443 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#61 - THE SISKEL AND EBERT QUIZ SHOWThis week we take a break from film reviews to play a little game. I test Justin's brain power by playing clips of Siskel and Ebert reviews where he has to guess the film that they are discussing. Play along!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-02-2537 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#60 - THE BILL MURRAY EPISODEThis week we take on the Siskel and Ebert special dedicated to Bill Murray. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-02-1850 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#59- ERNEST GOES TO CAMP (A SPECULATION EPISODE)This week we do another listener request, but this time with a twist. Since Siskel and Ebert did not review Ernest Goes To Camp (but we love it anyway) - we decided to do a speculation episode on how we think they would have rated the movie!Hear our take on the film and the review of Siskel and Ebert!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-02-1138 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#58 - THE THING!!This week we tackle the film THE THING.n remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.2025-02-0450 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#57 - THE HITCHER!!This week we are covering the 80's thriller THE HITCHER!!While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders.Hear our take...2025-01-2842 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#56 - NAKED LUNCH!!This week we cover David Cronenberg's adaptation of the William S Burroughs novel - NAKED LUNCH. Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and his dead-eyed wife, Joan (Judy Davis), like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing....2025-01-2147 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#55 - BLUE THUNDER!!This week we discuss the 1983 action flick BLUE THUNDER - as well as the Siskel and Ebert review of the film.Frank Murphy is a courageous and honourable Los Angeles police officer who is chosen to test run Blue Thunder, a high-tech experimental attack helicopter. While flying Blue Thunder, Murphy and his partner discover that the government intends to use the helicopter for corrupt crowd control and surveillance.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2025-01-1450 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#54 - DOGFIGHT!This week we discuss the Siskel and Ebert review of the indie darling DOGFIGHT.A young Marine named Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix) is set to spend his last night in San Francisco with his military friends before they are deployed to Vietnam in 1963. Eddie and his friends plan to attend a cruel bar event called a "dogfight," which requires Marines to bring unattractive dates who will be judged for their ugliness. Eddie encounters a shy, frumpy girl named Rose (Lili Taylor) whom he brings to the dogfight but finds himself falling for as the night goes on.2025-01-0751 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#53 - FULL METAL BENJI!!WELCOME TO SEASON 2!! We kick things off with a conversation on one of the most controversial episodes of Siskel and Ebert - their conversation on FULL METAL JACKET and BENJI: THE HUNTED. Gene loved what Kubrick did - Roger did not. Hear us discuss their infamous debate on what it means to be a critic - and how we have discourse on what audiences want. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-12-311h 03
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#52 - SEASONE ONE AWARDS SHOW!This week we finish off 2024 and season one with an awards show covering the best and worst films, performances and reviews of the films we watched this years - check it out! Link in bio.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-12-2752 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#51 - NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION!This week we are discussing the classic NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION!As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) wants to have a perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), and children, as he tries to make sure everything is in line, including the tree and house decorations. However, things go awry quickly. His hick cousin, Eddie (Randy Quaid), and his family show up unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property. Even worse, Clark's employers renege on the holiday bonus he needs.Be sure to subscribe on...2024-12-1747 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#50 - THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT!This week we are discussing the SISKEL AND EBERT review of THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT!Schoolteacher and single mother Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) lives an average suburban life -- until she begins having strange memories of unexplained violence and discovers that she has physical skills that she never imagined. Hiring private detective Mitch Hennessey (Samuel L. Jackson) to probe into her past, Samantha discovers that she's a well-trained government assassin who went missing after suffering a bout of amnesia and that her former handlers want her back in their employ.Be sure to subscribe on...2024-12-1050 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#49 - SCROOGED!This week we discuss SCROOGED!n this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit...2024-12-0446 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#49 - SCROOGED!This week we discuss Richard Donner's SCROOGED!In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!2024-12-0346 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#48 - HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!This week we discuss HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!When her teenage daughter opts out of Thanksgiving, single mother Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) travels alone to her childhood home for an explosive holiday dinner with her dysfunctional family. Claudia quickly tires of her parents, her long-suffering sister (Cynthia Stevenson), her snobby brother-in-law (Steve Guttenberg) and her nutty aunt (Geraldine Chaplin). But the evening gets interesting when sparks fly between Claudia and her brother's handsome friend Leo Fish (Dylan McDermott).Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit...2024-11-2650 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#47 - DUTCH!!This week we discuss the Thanksgiving cult classic - DUTCH!!Working man Dutch (Ed O'Neill) is dating the divorced Natalie (JoBeth Williams), and he offers to drive her stuffy 13-year-old, Doyle (Ethan Randall), from his private school in Atlanta to his mother's home in Chicago for Thanksgiving. Doyle is not interested as he blames Natalie for the divorce and wants nothing to do with Mom's new boyfriend, especially given the man's lowly, working-class roots. This pairing makes for a journey filled with bickering, mishaps and, eventually, bonding.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod...2024-11-1951 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#46 - WOLF!!This week we discuss 1994's WOLF!!After being bitten by a wolf in rural Vermont, aging book editor Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) finds himself full of youthful vigor. Randall then discovers that he's been fired and replaced by Stewart Swinton (James Spader), a vicious young executive. As Randall struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden (Michelle Pfeiffer), his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be a werewolf.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!2024-11-1247 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#45 -THE CROW!This week we cover 1994's THE CROW!Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Draven returns to seek bloody revenge against the killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-11-0551 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#44 - LITTLE MONSTERS!!THIS WEEK WE COVER LITTLE MONSTERS!Little Monsters is a 1989 American fantasy comedy film starring Fred Savage and Howie Mandel and directed by Richard Alan Greenberg. It tells the story of a boy who befriends a real-life "monster under the bed" and discovers a secret world of monsters who sneak into children's bedrooms at night to pull pranks on them. Although the film failed financially, receiving a limited theatrical release due to Vestron’s bankruptcy, it obtained a cult following on home video and is considered a requisite title in the gateway horror genre.Be su...2024-10-2955 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#43 - WOMEN IN DANGER (AN 80'S SLASHER DEBATE)This week we tackle the controversial "WOMEN IN DANGER" episode where Roger and Gene naively attack the horror/slasher genre - saying that it is against the "women's movement" and has no redeeming qualities. We hit back hard - how do you feel about it?Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-10-221h 03
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#42 - JEWEL OF THE NILE!This week we discuss JEWEL OF THE NILE!Novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is living with adventurer boyfriend Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) on his yacht. But she leaves when Omar (Spiros Focas), the head of a North African nation, asks her to visit his country and write about him. Jack intends to go on a pleasure cruise to Greece, but when he learns that Joan is a pawn in Omar's quest to polish his image and gain greater power, he partners with continent-hopping criminal Ralph (Danny DeVito) in a quest to free her.We cover...2024-10-1848 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#41 -THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE!!This week we discuss the Mel Gibson film THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE.Young Chuck Norstadt (Nick Stahl) wants nothing more than to join a prestigious military academy like his late father, but he is wary of the school's lofty academic standards. With only a single summer in which to study for the entrance exam, Chuck finds an unlikely tutor in the form of Justin McLeod (Mel Gibson), a disfigured recluse who was once a teacher. McLeod agrees to teach Chuck, and the two form a deep friendship -- until Chuck learns of the secret behind McLeod's...2024-10-0852 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#40 -ANGEL!!This week we discuss 1984's ANGEL!Angel is a 1984 American exploitation thriller film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil, written by O'Neil and Joseph Michael Cala,[4][5] and starring Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, and Rory Calhoun. Its plot follows a teenage prostitute in Los Angeles who faces danger when a serial killer begins stalking and murdering young prostitutes.We cover the film and Siskel and Ebert's Review!CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR!BULLETPROOF COFFEE: https://www.bulletproof.com - USE CODE "B2B"Be sure to subscribe on...2024-10-0153 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#39 - WEIRD SCIENCE!!This week Justin and I discuss the classic comedy WEIRD SCIENCE!Teen misfits Gary and Wyatt design their ideal woman on a computer, and a freak electrical accident brings her to life in the form of the lovely, superhuman Lisa. She outfits Gary and Wyatt in cool clothes, surprises them with a Porsche and helps them stand up to jerks Ian and Max. But, all the while, the boys must hide Lisa's existence from Chet, Wyatt's nightmare of a big brother.We cover the film and Siskel and Ebert's Review!CHECK OUT OUR...2024-09-2452 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#38 - LA BAMBA!This week we are discussing the film La Bamba!Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips) becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend (Danielle von Zerneck) whose parents didn't want her to date a Latino boy. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob (Esai Morales), and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly (Marshall Crenshaw).We cover the film and...2024-09-1752 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#37 - STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTUREThis wee we welcome a very special guest: Josh Skaar of THE TALKING SMAC podcast! We discuss STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE.The Federation calls on Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Starship Enterprise to contain an immense nimbused object that's on a crash course with Earth. After investigating, the crew discovers that the alien cloud harbors artificial intelligence with an ominous primary directive. Crisis strikes when a probe dispatched by the energy cloud attacks the crew, abducting navigator Lt. Ilia (Persis Khambatta). An android look-alike containing her memories shows up soon...2024-09-101h 01
The Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY EP #170 - CULTWORTHY CAMPUS: MY BODYGUARD / GET OVER IT!This week my guest Justin Henson of THE MOVIE WIRE discuss the next 2 films in our back to school special: MY BODY GUARD and GET OVER IT! In My Bodyguard - Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) is a sensitive, well-to-do teen who becomes the target of bully Melvin Moody (Matt Dillon) after he starts attending a new school. Tired of being picked on, Clifford recruits brooding tough kid Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) to be his bodyguard. While this initially works, and Clifford and Linderman form an unlikely friendship, soon circumstances strain their bond. As Clifford is forced to...2024-09-0556 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#36 - SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL!This week we discuss SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL!She's Out of Control is a 1989 American independent coming of age comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti, starring Tony Danza, Ami Dolenz and Catherine Hicks.[3] The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. The film was marketed with the tagline "She was Daddy's little girl. Now she's at that age when girls go wild, guys go crazy and Dads go nuts". The film was shot with the working title Daddy's Little Girl.We cover the film and Siskel and Ebert's Review!CHECK OUT OUR...2024-09-0350 minThe Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY EP #169 -CULTWORTHY CAMPUS PART ONE: HIDING OUT / BIG MAN ON CAMPUSWe're back!! Welcome to the new season of THE CULTWORTHY! We kick things off with part one of our BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL! This episode we bring Bob Giraldi's HIDING OUT starring John Cryer and Kieth Coogan, and BIG MAN ON CAMPUS starring Allen Katz and Melora Hardin. My guest of course is Justin Henson of THE MOVIE WIRE and my other show BACK 2 THE BALCONY!Sign up for Zencaster TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKemgLq-YYFcUzPdCT19xZh1EOFFER CODES: cultworthyVisit thecultworthy.comVisit THE MOVIE WIRE @ https://www.themoviewire.com2024-08-291h 00
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#35 - BLAME IT ON RIO!This week we tackle the 80's disaster - BLAME IT ON RIO!Two friends who work for the same Brazilian company, Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) decide to take a vacation together without their wives, since both men are having marital difficulties. Each brings his teenage daughter along, and there is trouble when Matthew begins an affair with Victor's daughter, Jennifer (Michelle Johnson). As Victor catches wind of the fling, Matthew tries to keep his involvement a secret, leading to plenty of uncomfortable situations.We cover the film and Siskel and Ebert's Review!2024-08-2754 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#34 -THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESSThis week Justin and I discuss the 1980's yuppie comedy - THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS.Recent college graduate Brantley Foster (Michael J. Fox) travels from his home in Kansas to New York City to pursue a new finance job. However, when Brantley arrives, he learns that his position has been eliminated, and he's forced to take a job working for his inept Uncle Howard (Richard Jordan), who became a company president through marriage. Brantley starts as a mere mailroom worker, but quickly climbs the corporate ladder when he begins posing as an executive.We...2024-08-2059 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#33 - BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES!This week Justin and I cover the Brian de Palma misfire - BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES!In this adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel, powerful Wall Street executive Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) is riding with his greedy girlfriend, Maria (Melanie Griffith), when she makes a wrong turn and winds up in the Bronx. There, she runs over a black boy and drives off without reporting it. When alcoholic tabloid reporter Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis) discovers the story, he knows it will be scandalous and riles up New Yorkers with his coverage of the case, which soon goes...2024-08-1358 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#32- HOOK!This week we take a listener request and cover the maligned Steven Spielberg film HOOK!!When his young children are abducted by his old nemesis, Capt. Hook (Dustin Hoffman), middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams) returns to his magical origins as Peter Pan. Peter must revisit a foggy past in which he abandoned Neverland for family life, leaving Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) and the Lost Boys to fend for themselves. Given their bitterness toward Peter for growing up -- and their allegiance to their new leader, Rufio -- the old gang may not be happy to see him.2024-08-061h 04
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#31- MERMAIDS!This week Justin and I discuss 1990's MERMAIDS.Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) is tired of her wacky mom (Cher) moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper (Bob Hoskins), Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate (Christina Ricci), hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR!2024-07-3056 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#30- GUILTY PLEASURES!This week Justin and I take a break from our normal routine and focus on a special episode from 1992 dedicated to Siskel and Ebert's GUILTY PLEASURES. From TREMORS to EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY - we take these critics to task in regards to their "guilty pleasure" films.CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR!BULLETPROOF COFFEE: https://www.bulletproof.com - USE CODE "B2B"Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-07-231h 03
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#29 - PALE RIDER!This week we discuss the 1985 Western Classic PALE RIDER.When property owner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) starts using a band of hooligans to terrorize a group of small-town gold miners into giving up their territory, an enigmatic man named "Preacher" (Clint Eastwood) arrives in town. Preacher fends off the attacks, and then goes directly to LaHood to negotiate. When the miners, led by Hull Barret (Michael Moriarty), refuse the terms, LaHood sends in Marshall Stockburn (John Russell) to take down Preacher and the others.Heat our thoughts and the thoughts of Gene Siskel and Roger...2024-07-161h 02
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#28 - BEETLEJUICE!!This week on BACK 2 THE BALCONY we discuss BEETLEJUICE!After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose "help" quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.Heat our thoughts and the thoughts of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.2024-07-0952 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#27 - FRIGHT NIGHT!This week we make up for the lackluster "John Carpenter's Vampires" with a real vampire classic - FRIGHT NIGHT!Teenage Charley Brewster is a horror-film junkie, so it's no surprise that when a reclusive new neighbor moves next-door, Brewster becomes convinced he's a vampire. It's also no surprise when nobody believes him. After strange events begin to occur, Charlie has no choice but to turn to the only person who could possibly help: washed-up television vampire killer Peter Vincent.Heat our thoughts and the thoughts of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.CHECK OUT...2024-07-0259 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#26 - JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES!This week we discuss one of John Carpenter's latter day curios - VAMPIRES!Ever since his parents were murdered by vampires, Jack Crow (James Woods) has had one purpose in life: putting stakes through bloodsuckers' hearts. With his battle-hardened crew of vampire killers and the assistance of the Catholic Church, Crow roams the New Mexico desert looking for undead lairs to annihilate. But he meets his match when, at a roadside motel, he comes face to face with Jan Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), a vampire kingpin possessed of incredible powers.We definitely have our reservations...2024-06-2500 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#25 - ENEMY MINE!This week Justin and I cover ENEMY MINE!During a war between humans and the reptilian Drac race, spaceship pilot Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid) ends up stranded on an alien world, along with enemy fighter Jeriba Shigan (Louis Gossett Jr.). While both Willis and his Drac counterpart can breathe on the planet, the environment and its creatures are relatively hostile, forcing the two to work together to survive. As time goes by, Willis and Jeriba become unlikely friends, though their unique relationship faces considerable challenges.Hear our take on the film and the review of...2024-06-1857 minThe Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY EP #160 - THE DAD BATTLE (FATHER'S DAY SPECIAL)This week I am joined by Justin Henson of THE MOVIE WIRE PODCAST and Josh Wilson of SUPER FAMILIAR WITH THE WILSON'S PODCAST to discuss our favorite cinema dads - and who win's in our "dad battle" based on a poll to our listeners. We put FURIOUS STYLES from BOYZ IN THE HOOD, DARTH VADER and ARMAND GOLDMAN from THE BIRDCAGE to the test! Who comes out on top? Listen and find out!Sign up for Zencaster TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKemgLq-YYFcUzPdCT19xZh1EOFFER CODES: cultworthyVisit thecultworthy.comVISIT THE MOVIE...2024-06-131h 10
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#24- IF LOOKS COULD KILL!This week Justin and I tackle his guilty pleasure film IF LOOKS COULD KILL starring Richard Grieco.Before he can graduate, cocky high school student Michael Corben (Richard Grieco) travels to France on a school trip to earn a missing French credit. But when a British intelligence agent mistakes Michael for a spy of the same name, they rush him to headquarters and assign him to capture the evil Augustus Steranko (Roger Rees), using a plethora of espionage gadgetry. Michael has the time of his life -- until he crosses paths with two assassins (Tom Rack, Carole...2024-06-1157 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#23 - FROM PRYOR TO MURPHY: SPECIAL EPISODEThis week we cover the Siskel and Ebert Special from 1984 where they predicted the rise of Eddie Murphy and the decline of Richard Pryor. It's a sentimental episode that really showed us their approach and appreciation of these two amazing comics. Check it out!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-06-041h 04
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#22 - GODZILLA 1985 This week we tackle GODZILLA 1985- and we struggle with it as much as our critics do!Godzilla 1985 is a 1985 kaiju film directed by R. J. Kizer and Koji Hashimoto. The film is a heavily re-edited American localization of the Japanese film The Return of Godzilla, which was produced and distributed by Toho Pictures in 1984. In addition to the film being re-cut, re-titled, and dubbed in English, Godzilla 1985 featured additional footage produced by New World Pictures, with Raymond Burr reprising his role as American journalist Steve Martin from the 1956 film Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, which itself...2024-05-2846 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#21 - GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!This week Justin and I discuss GREAT BALLS OF FIRE from 1989.Upstart rock 'n' roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid) has just cut a record at Sun Studio. Jerry's cousin, pastor Jimmy Swaggart (Alec Baldwin), tries to steer him away from a depraved life in the music business, but Jerry was born to play the so-called "devil's music." With rock 'n' roll king Elvis Presley busy with military service, Jerry sees his chance to claim the throne of popular music. But, his unabashed love of his 13-year-old cousin, Myra (Winona Ryder), may ruin his chances.2024-05-2156 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#20 - BAD INFLUENCE!This week Justin and I tackle Curtis Hanson's BAD INFLUENCE!Los Angeles marketing analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) struggles with insecurity despite his successes -- until he meets a mysterious man, Alex (Rob Lowe), who promises to help him gain confidence. However, Alex's guidance becomes toxic when he introduces Michael to sex, drugs and crime. When Michael's life begins collapsing, he comes to realize that his mentor is a sociopath. Is it too late, or can Michael escape Alex's sinister web of machinations?Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE...2024-05-1456 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#19 - THE BEST OF 1986!This week Justin and I tackle one of Siskel and Ebert's "special episodes" - this one about their favorite films of 1986. Join us as we discuss their picks - and then suggest some of our own.Hear our take on Siskel and Ebert's review.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-05-071h 00
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#18 - RESERVOIR DOGSThis week Justin and I discuss the controversial review of Quentin Tarantino's debut film RESERVOIR DOGS. Six criminals with pseudonyms, and each strangers to one another, are hired to carry out a robbery. The heist is ambushed by police and the gang are forced to shoot their way out. At their warehouse rendezvous, the survivors, realizing that they were set up, try to find the traitor in their midst. Hear our take on Siskel and Ebert's review.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy...2024-04-3055 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#17 - RADIOLAND MURDERS!This week Justin and I tackle the divisive comedy RADIOLAND MURDERS!The secretary at radio station WBN, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is frantically trying to keep things in order as a broadcast goes on the air. Chaos breaks loose, however, when a series of murders occurs in the building, accompanied by an enigmatic voice over the airwaves. Penny's writer husband, Roger (Brian Benben), tries to deduce who the killer is, but he also happens to be the prime suspect. As he evades the law, Roger gets closer to uncovering the identity of the murderer....2024-04-2353 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#16 - THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESSThis week we jump into the 1996 cult classic - THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS!Sir Robert Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer) to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman (Henry Cele), seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas), who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.Justin and I tackle the film as well as...2024-04-1650 minThe Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY EP #151 - TRAUMATIC TOONS!This week I am joined by my BACK 2 THE BLOCKBUSTER Justin Henson to continue our conversation from last year - TRAUMATIC TOONS!! This year we discuss THE CHIPMUNK ADVENTURE and THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN. Be sure to like and subscribe to the YOUTUBE channel and on your favorite podcast platformSign up for Zencaster TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKemgLq-YYFcUzPdCT19xZh1EOFFER CODES: cultworthyVisit thecultworthy.comVisit THE MOVIE WIRE: themoviewire.com2024-04-1158 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#15 - THE NAME OF THE ROSEThis week we cover THE NAME OF THE ROSE - the infamous box office bomb that nearly killed Sean Connery's career - as well as the Siskel and Ebert review of the film.In the 14th century, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), a renowned Franciscan monk, and his apprentice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater), travel to an abbey where a suspicious death has occurred. Using his deductive powers, William begins investigating what he believes to be murder. During the course of his investigation, several more monks wind up dead. With fear running through the abbey, the church...2024-04-0956 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#14 - OSCAR!This week Justin and I discuss the 1991 comedy OSCAR!Oscar is a 1991 American comedy film directed by John Landis. Based on the Claude Magnier stage play, it is a remake of the 1967 French film of the same name, but the settings has been moved to the Depression era New York City and centers around a mob boss trying to go straight. The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Ornella Muti, Tim Curry, and Chazz Palminteri and was a rare attempt by Stallone at doing a comedy role.We discuss the film and the reviews of...2024-04-0258 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#13 - SHORT CIRCUIT 2This week Justin and I discuss SHORT CIRCUIT 2 - a superior sequel in our opinion - but what do our critics think? Tune in and find out!Having rescued robot Johnny Five (Tim Blaney) from being destroyed by the military in "Short Circuit," Indian scientist Ben Jahrvi (Fisher Stevens) moves to New York City to become an American citizen. After struggling to sell a few toy replicas of Johnny, Ben must scramble to make more when Sandy Banatoni (Cynthia Gibb) orders 1,000 for her department store. With Johnny's help, Ben begins making the gadgets, but his plans are...2024-03-2653 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#12 - GHOSTUBSTERS 2This week Justin and I tackle Ivan Reitman's GHOSTBUSTERS 2 - the maligned sequel that our critic's just couldn't get behind.After saving New York City from a ghost attack, the Ghostbusters -- a team of spirit exterminators -- is disbanded for demolishing parts of the city during the battle. But when Ghostbuster Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) learns that spirits have taken an interest in his son, the men launch a rogue ghost-chasing mission. The quest quickly goes awry, landing them in court. But when the ghosts turn on the judge, he issues an order allowing the Ghostbusters...2024-03-1954 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#11 - OSCAR'S SPECIAL: A MEMO TO THE ACADEMY '99In this very special episode - Justin and I review the 1999 episode of SISKEL & EBERT where they petition the Academy to honor some of the lesser known but award worth films and performances of the prior year. Did they get some right? Listen and find out!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-03-1057 minBACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#10 - ALL THAT JAZZThis week Justin and I discuss the classic "not-a-musical" ALL THAT JAZZ.When he is not planning for his upcoming stage musical or working on his Hollywood film, choreographer/director Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is popping pills and sleeping with a seemingly endless line of women. The physical and mental stress begins to take a toll on the ragged perfectionist. Soon, he must decide whether or not his non-stop work schedule and hedonistic lifestyle are worth risking his life. The film is a semi-autobiographical tale written and directed by the legendary Bob Fosse.Be sure...2024-03-0557 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#9 - *BATTERIES NOT INCLUDEDThis week Justin and I discuss 1987's *BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED. Frank (Hume Cronyn) and Faye Riley (Jessica Tandy) are an elderly New York City couple living in a depressed part of town. There, they run a diner as well as an apartment building, which is home to a poor but friendly group of people. One day, Frank and Faye learn that a property developer wants them to sell the apartment. When they refuse, their diner is vandalized. However, Frank, Faye and their tenants are aided by mysterious flying saucers, which help them repair the diner and fight...2024-02-2752 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#8 - MELVIN AND HOWARDTHIS WEEK Justin and I tackle 1980's MELVIN AND HOWARD!When luckless dreamer Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat) rescues a grizzled, half-dead man (Jason Robards) from the desert, he's skeptical of the man's claim that he's actually reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. But in the wake of Hughes' death a decade later, a will appears naming Melvin the recipient of $156 million, and a media circus ensues. Accused of forgery, Melvin vigorously maintains his innocence despite a strong intuition that he'll never see any of the money.Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and...2024-02-2059 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#7- FROM DUSK TIL DAWNThis week Justin and I discuss the vampire/crime flick FROM DUSK TIL DAWN. From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 American action horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino from a concept and story by Robert Kurtzman. Starring Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Ernest Liu, and Juliette Lewis, the plot follows a pair of American criminal brothers (Clooney and Tarantino) who take a family as hostages (Keitel, Liu, and Lewis) in order to cross into Mexico, but ultimately find themselves trapped in a saloon frequented by vampires.The film was...2024-02-131h 00
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#6 - THE BRIDE (1985)This week Justin Henson of THE MOVIE WIRE and I tackle THE BRIDE from 1985. The Bride is a 1985 period horror film directed by Franc Roddam, and starring Sting, Jennifer Beals, Geraldine Page, and Clancy Brown. Based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, the film follows Baron Charles Frankenstein who creates a woman, Eva, while his original monster—believed to have been killed in a laboratory accident—escapes into the countryside.The film, an international co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, was released theatrically on August 16, 1985 by Columbia Pictures to gene...2024-02-0657 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#5 - GORILLAS IN THE MISTThis week Justin and I tackle GORILLAS IN THE MIST from 1988. Directed by Michael Apted, this film is an adaptation of wildlife expert Dian Fossey's autobiography. Midwesterner Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) leaves the United States for Africa, where she studies the gorillas of Rwanda and Uganda. As Fossey develops a bond with the animals, she also becomes wary of the poachers who prey on them. Fearing that the gorillas will go extinct if humans continue to hunt them, she organizes a defense league to protect the animals; in doing so, though, she puts herself in a perilous situation....2024-01-3055 minThe Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY EP #141 - CULTWORTHY CONVERSATIONS w/ JUSTIN HENSONThis week I I am joined by my friend and cohost of my new show BACK 2 THE BALCONY - A SISKEL AND EBERT RETROSPECTIVE. We discuss the world of cinema podcasting and our history with film and film critique! Try NOM NOM TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKejMMH3kG31Hc8ShXDUV0BWMSign up for Zencaster TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKemgLq-YYFcUzPdCT19xZh1EOFFER CODES: cultworthyVisit thecultworthy.comVisit themoviewire.com2024-01-2555 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#4 - SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMESThis week Justin and I butt heads over the 1980 film SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES. One of us thinks its a fun nod to the screwball comedies of the 1930's, the other thinks it missed the mark. Tune in to find out more!Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-01-2359 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#4 - SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMESThis week Justin and I go head to head on the 1980 Neil Simon comedy - SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES. One of thinks it's a fun tribute to the screwball comedies of the 1930's - the other thinks it's a total misfire. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-01-2359 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#3 - THE FRIGHTENERS!!This week Justin and I discuss the 1996 Horror/Comedy classic THE FRIGHTENERS! We personally love this film, but GENE AND ROGER HATED IT! We do our best to dissect their review and opinion on this underrated and influential piece of 90's cinema! Be sure to subscribe on your favorite pod platform and our YOUTUBE channel!Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-01-1653 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#2 - INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS This week Justin and I tackle Philip Kaufman's 1978 film INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the film - but we absolutely agree that there was a lot to be desired in the reviews by Gene and Roger. Check out the episode to hear our thoughts! Be sure to like, subscribe and review our show on YOUTUBE and your favorite pod platform.Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-01-0954 min
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY EP#1 - Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesWelcome to BACK 2 THE BALCONY!! The first episode of our Siskel and Ebert retrospective tackles the 1990 classic TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - directed by Steve Barron. We discuss our history with the film before dissecting the reviews of Gene and Roger. Check it out! Be sure to like, subscribe and review our show on YOUTUBE and your favorite pod platform.Visit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.comVideo: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony2024-01-021h 02The Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY #138 - *SPECIAL EPISODE* HAPPY NEW YEAR!!Happy New Year from THE CULTWORTHY! This week I treat you to an update of what to expect from the show in 2024 - a special thanks to all the people who have helped me over the years - and special BONUS EPISODE - A NEW YEAR Special featuring Justin Henson of THE MOVIE WIRE, Thanks for all the support and listens this year - See you in 2024!Try NOM NOM TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKejMMH3kG31Hc8ShXDUV0BWMSign up for Zencaster TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKemgLq-YYFcUzPdCT19xZh1EOFFER CODES: cultworthyVisit thecultworthy...2024-01-011h 31
BACK 2 THE BALCONYBACK 2 THE BALCONY - Teaser!Back to the Balcony debuts January 2nd on your favorite podcasting platforms!Please like, review and subscribe!Visit THE CULTWORTHY: https://thecultworthy.com/back-to-the-balcony/Visit THE MOVIE WIRE: https://www.themoviewire.com/2023-12-3100 minThe Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY EP #119 - HIGH SCHOOL ROYALE 2023 PT.1In this very special episode I am joined by my cinema brother JUSTIN HENSON of THE MOVIE WIRE PODCAST. In this episode we cover ANGUS (1995) and CLASS OF 1984 (1982) - A perfect back to school double feature in our opinion. Check it out!Try NOM NOM TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKejMMH3kG31Hc8ShXDUV0BWMSign up for Zencaster TODAY! https://zen.ai/Ax2lLiOypAMyn_rp4eoKemgLq-YYFcUzPdCT19xZh1EOFFER CODES: cultworthyVisit thecultworthy.comVisit https://www.themoviewire.com/2023-08-311h 00
The CultWorthy ClassicEPISODE #39 - POPI! A FATHER'S DAY SPECIALWe celebrate Dad in this very special episode. Justin Henson of THE MOVIE WIRE PODCAST joins me to talk about 1969' "POPI" starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno- it's my favorite "dad" film of all time and it was a blast sharing it with my pal. Enjoy!2023-06-121h 04The Cultworthy Cinema PodcastTHE CULTWORTHY EP #99 - TRAUMATIC TOONS PT. 2Justin Henson of The Movie Wire returns to conclude our conversation of TRAUMATIC TOONS!! We wrap it up with 1983's ROCK AND RULE and 1982's THE LAST UNICORN. Thanks for supporting ANIMATION APRIL!! What do you want us to talk about next year??THE MOVIE WIRE PODCAST - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-movie-wire/id1610290212SPONSORED AD: Try Blendjet2 today at https://zen.ai/cult12!PROMO CODE: CULT122023-04-2754 min
Sugar Coated MurderVelvet Vocals, An Old Hollywood Murder, and Caramel Apple Pull Apart BreadWe welcome and friend and fellow indie podcaster, Antonio Palacios of The Cultworthy Podcasts. While Anne bakes an easy and delicious recipe for Caramel Apple Pull Apart Bread, Antonio unleashes his velvety vocals as he details an old Hollywood murder case. Next, Karen narrates the twists and tales of a local murder at The Mill tavern in North Charleston, SC. This is a story of Teresa Haught's murder and the man who loved her but confessed to killing her twice. It's a story brought to Karen's attention through divine intervention, giving both victims a voice.
Antonio's podcast can...2022-11-121h 05