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Reel RapIn A Lonely Place with BrendanWe discuss the novel, In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes and the adaptation by Nicholas Ray. The film stars Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart.Follow Brendan: @luso_brendanTales From the Mall Podcast The Isolation ChamberThank you for listening to Reel Rap. On the next episode, we will discuss Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)Intro song: Flamengo by Bonfiglio de Oliveira (1931)
2025-03-311h 50
Heavy Bored#68 William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet w/ BrendanAndrew Wittstadt is joined by Brendan of the Tales from the Mall podcast in a discussion of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and two film adaptations of the play, Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Lurhmann’s Romeo And Juliet (1996) Topics Include: Masculinity–Male Romance–Emo boys–Shakespeare’s massive influence–fear and faith–romantic comedies–It’s a Wonderful Life–small talk–men vs women–and more!Recorded 7/17/2024*LINKS* *Buy the Books*Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/45lk2gvThe Norton Shakespeare Collection...
2024-08-182h 50
GHOST JAIL11 - HEREAFTER MAN - A GHOST JAIL STORYBerto listens to an ear movie about a late-nite paranormal talk radio guest who tells of near death adventures through mind-altering astral realms populated by a gallery of colorful spirits.
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2023-09-012h 36
New WriteEpisode 51: In the Isolation Chamber w/ Brendan LusoRecorded 3/4/23Matt and Dan sit down with Brendan Luso to discuss Tales From the Mall, his 13-part radio drama, The Isolation Chamber, the duty of the artist to bring light into the world, and much more.Brendan TwitterMatt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-03-112h 18
Cathedral in the PinesEP004 - A Swamp Yankee Christmas Special (MANDATORY JOLLINESS 2022)Family & friends join me in the swamps of New England for song, cheer and DEEP DARK CRINGE. Warm up with us by the fire on the darkest day of the year.
Featuring @AnarContrarian @luso_brendan @joeclark @habit_of_being @HOLYFOOLS_2666 @ActiveShootrRob @roseanneluver18 @nealjclark1 @RizomaAt and MANY MORE.
2022-12-211h 12
Movies - A Podcast About the Act of CinemaE244: HEAT Omnibus Special - Heat (1995), Heat 2 (2022), L.A. Takedown (1989) [Guest: Brendan McCauley]Brendan is the writer and director of The Isolation Chamber and is the host of Tales From the Mall. Listen to Tales from the Mall: https://apple.co/3xXxO78 Follow Brendan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luso_brendan Video Episodes & Bonus Episodes: https://patreon.com/lowres LowRes Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/lowreswunderbred Hans on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hwordname To decide our next film to discuss, join our Listener Sponsored tier on https://patreon.com/lowres Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
2022-11-201h 32
Cathedral in the PinesEP003 - Endless Sleep (Sometimes I Swear That Man is Out to Get Me)Take heart, friend
LIFE does not end
It’s only yours that can
LIFE is forever
An unfrozen river
Whose tedious tides end and begin
Featuring (in order of appearance): @Det_Wolfman @MartianOrthodox @luso_brendan @twistall @briesslewis @nealjclark1, (Refrain by @nealjclark1)
2022-10-2649 minMovies - A Podcast About the Act of CinemaE216: She Hate Me (2004) - Spike Lee's Worst Film [Guest: Brendan McCauley]Brendan is the writer and director of The Isolation Chamber and is the host of Tales From the Mall. Listen to Tales from the Mall: https://apple.co/3xXxO78 Follow Brendan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luso_brendan SPONSOR: https://surfshark.deals/lowres [Get 83% off Surf Shark VPN and help out the podcast] Video Episodes & Bonus Episodes: https://patreon.com/lowres LowRes Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/lowreswunderbred Hans on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hwordname To decide our next film to discuss, jo...
2022-07-181h 36
Rare CandyGUYahuasca w/ Brendan and EddieThe Artist Formerly Known as Eddie from Car Crash and Brendan (Tales From The Mall, Isolation Chamber) return to the show to talk about Altered States (1980), Terence Mckenna, Drug stories, and more
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2022-06-161h 41Movies - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema192: Bright Lights, Big City (1988) and Less Than Zero (1987) [Guest: Brendan McCauley]Brendan is the writer and director of The Isolation Chamber and is the host of Tales From the Mall. Listen to The Isolation Chamber: https://spoti.fi/3nvK5vJ Follow Brendan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luso_brendan SPONSOR: https://surfshark.deals/lowres [Get 83% off Surf Shark VPN and help out the podcast] Video Episodes & Bonus Episodes: https://patreon.com/lowres LowRes Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/lowreswunderbred Hans on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hwordname To decide our next film to discuss, jo...
2022-04-251h 49Movies - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema189: Men of a Certain Age - Friday Night Hang with Brendan and SiscoAnthony Sisco is the writer, director, and star of The Body (2022) and the host of Slothcast. Brendan is the writer and director of The Isolation Chamber and is the host of Tales From the Mall. Listen to The Isolation Chamber: https://spoti.fi/3nvK5vJ Follow Brendan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luso_brendan SPONSOR: https://surfshark.deals/lowres [Get 83% off Surf Shark VPN and help out the podcast] Video Episodes & Bonus Episodes: https://patreon.com/lowres LowRes Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/lowreswunderbred Hans on T...
2022-04-161h 12Movies - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema188: Tokyo Vice [Pilot] (2022) [Guests: Anthony Sisco and Brendan]Anthony Sisco is the writer, director, and star of The Body (2022) and the host of Slothcast. Brendan is the writer and director of The Isolation Chamber and is the host of Tales From the Mall. Listen to The Isolation Chamber: https://spoti.fi/3nvK5vJ Follow Brendan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luso_brendan SPONSOR: https://surfshark.deals/lowres [Get 83% off Surf Shark VPN and help out the podcast] Video Episodes & Bonus Episodes: https://patreon.com/lowres LowRes Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/lowreswunderbred Hans o...
2022-04-111h 15
If Anyone's Listening"Tales From The Pod" ft. Brendan LusoBrendan Luso of "Tales From The Pod" joins the If Anyone's Listening to tell us his story. He dives into "The Big Dog Ideology" and his life travels thus far. It was a pleasure.Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/talesfromthemallApocalypse Confidentialhttps://apocalypse-confidential.com
2022-04-021h 34
Rare CandyCarbs Are Bad w/ Eddie And BrendanBrendan (Tales From The Mall, The Isolation Chamber) and Eddie (Car Crash) join Crypto Psi and Glen Rockney to have a little fun. We talk about quitting your job, HBO's Succession, Women, The best kinds of co-workers, and so much more
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2022-01-242h 02Movies - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema142: Miami Vice (2006) [Guests: Brendan from The Ellroy Boys, Kid Polaroid]Brendan is the writer and director of The Isolation Chamber and one of the hosts of The Ellroy Boys podcast. Kid Polaroid is a musician and the composer behind LowRes Wünderbred's first feature Mass State Lottery. Listen to The Isolation Chamber: https://spoti.fi/3nvK5vJ Listen to The Ellroy Boys: https://apple.co/2VzBg8A Follow Brendan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luso_brendan Follow Kid Polaroid on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kidpolaroid/ Video Episodes & Bonus Episodes: https://patreon.com/lowres LowRes Instag...
2021-09-201h 22
Ellroy BoysPervdog Panic with Steven PowellThe Ellroy Boys are joined by one of the finest people on the planet, the crime fiction scholar and author, Steven Powell. This show would not exist without his work as he is truly the original Ellroy Boy. Additionally, he created the wonderful resource, The Venetian Vase (https://venetianvase.co.uk/) and if you're at all interested in this show, if you're fan of the demon dog, it's just essential, so if you haven't, check it out. Anyhow, today we're talking about James Ellroy's latest novel, Widespread Panic, a benzedrine blitzed confessional from real-life police officer turned Hollywood extortionist and...
2021-09-111h 37
Ellroy Boysnight and the city with oliver batemanThe Night and the City is a wonderfully warped and thrilling noir that welcomes the audience into a shifting & vicious world hijacked by frauds and hucksters of the worst variety. The real heroes of the story, those like Gregorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko), have their hearts and bodies crushed by manipulative hustlers looking only to bleed them dry. It’s a sad, stylish, and prescient film. Richard Widmark leads the way and he's terrific as an anti hero, whose really more of a villain than anything, and who slithers around London like a spastic, feral animal. It’s dark and dreary and inse...
2021-09-011h 18
Ellroy Boysalligators have the right idea. they eat their young. with jackThis week on THE ELLROY BOYS...
Brendan and Sam are joined by dear friend and honorary Ellroy Boy, jack, the perfume nationalist, to discuss a mutual favorite work, James M. Cain's masterpiece, Mildred Pierce. And while we spend some time talking about the book, its origin, and all of it's adaptations, we concentrate on the best one: the Michael Curtiz version. It's a bizarre and baroque masterpiece and we celebrate it's strange power, the torrid and fascinating life of Joan Crawford, how the film revolves around unspoken & unrequited incestuous lesbian longing, the brilliance of Curtiz, why it's not a feminist...
2021-08-252h 14
Ellroy Boysthe Hurdy Gurdy Man comes singing songs of loveThis week, the intrepid Ellroy Boys venture into serial killer cinema. First, they discuss David Fincher's magnificent, epic procedural drama, 2007's Zodiac, in addition to 1971's singular and bizarre grindhouse oddity, The Zodiac Killer. The latter picture was in part crafted in collaboration with crime reporter, Paul Avery, who thought a movie might draw the real killer out of hiding, by drawing him into an actual movie theater. Furthermore, the boys explore why Fincher's film functions so well and why it remains so strangely addictive. It's a film, unafraid of it's inherent tragedy, of its bold dismissal of the idea...
2021-07-231h 54
Ellroy Boysi'll forgive you if you can forgive meThe Ellroy Boys discuss David Lean's tragically beautiful, Brief Encounter, with the wonderful and wise, @bimboubermensch. The film, an adaptation of Noël Coward's Still Life, tells the story of an affair between two married strangers who meet at a railway station, prior to the beginning of WWII. The story is entirely set to Sergei Rachmaninoff's incredible Second Piano Concerto, which feels inextricably tethered to the film's heart and to it's success and overall effectiveness. Our discussion goes far and wide as we talk about love, extramarital affections, the death of romance, the film's Ellrovian sensibilities, and of course, Rachmaninoff.
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2021-07-131h 39
Ellroy Boysa wanderer like CainThis week, the Ellroy Boys examine Samuel Fuller's sublime "The Baron of Arizona", an especially strange and wonderful western about infamous master forger, James Reavis and his fraudulent attempt to lay claim to the state of Arizona. The boys dissect the film and talk Vincent Price, alchemy, noir, 'geography as destiny', Brendan's adventure to the hallowed grounds of El Monte, CA, and why Samuel Fuller may be our new favorite director.
Starring @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan, & @rubberwidow
produced by @GOLDpny
2021-06-212h 05
Ellroy BoysWhatever You Desire...We're back in the books for this very special episode featuring original Ellroy Boy and brilliant crime fiction scholar and author, Steven Powell, as well as genius artist Howling Mutant. This time we're talking L.A Confidential, the third novel in the first LA quartet. We discuss Ellroy, the film adaptation, film noir, Disneyland, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, the cosmic horror of history, and the deeply haunted infrastructure of Los Angeles.
w/ @Howlingmutant0, @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan & @rubberwidow
Produced by @goldpny
2021-05-191h 45
Ellroy Boysswing low sweet chariot with Walter KirnThe wonderful & wise Walter Kirn joins the boys for an off-the-cuff hang. We talk Ellroy, his brilliant book Blood Will Out, and the eternal dullness of psychopaths. Kirn further shares some excellent anecdotes, including a few about being friends with the Demon Dog himself. This one is special.
with @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan & @rubberwidow
produced by @goldpny
2021-04-2356 min
Ellroy Boysslits in the hangman's maskThe one and only Howling Mutant is back with the boys, to talk Suicide Hill, the third and final novel in James Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkin's trilogy. It's almost certainly the finest book in the series and coincidently this is our best ep on the trilogy yet. Enjoy!
feat. @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan, @rubberwidow, & @Howlingmutant0
Produced by @goldpny
2021-04-231h 50
The Isolation ChamberPart 3: Expose Your PositionWith the concept for his performance piece revised, Brendan prays for the return of his Angelic Vision and heads back into the Isolation Chamber. Some new strange visions provide Brendan with clues about the secrets of the chamber. Starring Brendan (@luso_brendan), Erik (@goldpony), Sam (@rubberwidow), Sam Spano (@mirrordogg) and Sandra (@bimboubermensch).
2021-03-2725 min
The Isolation ChamberPart 2: Love Comes CallingWith his self-doubt in check for now, Brendan returns to Dr. Miller with a concept for a project. However, once inside the chamber he is confronted with some female visions - some familiar, some not - and they recalibrate his heart. Starring Brendan (@luso_brendan), Erik (@goldpny), Sam (@rubberwidow), Robbie (@activeshootrrob), Katie (@airhornleghorn), Sandra (@bimboubermensch), and Scout (@killscout). Ending song by Knox (@knooxxyy).
2021-03-1323 min
Ellroy Boysstorm the cities of human desireThe Ellroy Boys dig deep into the second installment of the demon dog's Lloyd Hopkins trilogy, Because the Night. While the sequel to Blood on the Moon has been largely dismissed as the least compelling Hopkins adventure, the boys find a lot to love. This one drifts into the phantasmagoric and is alive with the kind of borderline cosmic horror and transgression that makes it a book worth revisiting.
@blauer_geist + @luso_brendan + @Howlingmutant0 + @rubberwidow
produced by@goldpny
2021-03-111h 41
Ellroy BoysReruns, Right?This weeks episode is the first of what will be a trilogy dedicated to Arizona on film. To begin, we talk about a film everyone should see, 'White of the Eye', directed by notorious and brilliant freak, Donald Cammell. There isn't anything else like it so we have to talk about it. Additionally, we were joined by the wonderful @aesthetics_ket of Pleasure Helmet. In short, everybody had a great time and we talked about everything there is to talk about and more. Featuring @blauergeist @luso_brendan @rubberwidow & produced by @goldpny
2021-03-022h 01
Ellroy BoysThe Fury Of SunsetsThe Ellroy Boys dechurn, rechurn, and start somewhere close to the beginning. That means our brother, @Howlingmutant0 joins @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan and @rubberwidow to talk Blood on the Moon, the first novel in Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkins trilogy and the first Ellroy opus to be adapted for film, as Cop (1988), starring James Woods and directed by James B. Harris. This is the first breakdown of Ellroy's first series, and will further dive deep into the myth of Silverlake homeboy and supercop, Lloyd Hopkins and coming soon, we'll be breaking down Because The Night & Suicide Hill.
2021-02-221h 58The Isolation ChamberPart 1: Self-DoubtSeeking treatment for self-doubt, Brendan meets the mysterious Dr. Miller who introduces him to some strange characters in THE ISOLATION CHAMBER. Starring Brendan (@luso_brendan), Erik Harris (@goldpny), Sam Dennis (@rubberwidow), Matthew Harris (@mcoleharris), Danielle Harris (@resonantwitch) and Sam Spano (@sam_8_7). Sam Spano also did the art and can be found on Instagram at @ sam.spano
2021-02-2125 min
Ellroy BoysI don't need no fucking bimbo telling me what's wrong with the system!!!!!'The boys are joined by the brilliant & mysterious Gwen @rancid0rchid to discuss Gary Sherman's singular, sleazoid slimeball masterpiece of a movie, Vice Squad (1982)starring the one and only Wings Hauser as Ramrod, the Judge Holden/Terminator of Hollywood pimps and featuring Season Hubley and Gary Swanson as those who dare to try and stop him. Apparently, Martin Scorsese was once at a Paramount dinner party and got into an argument. It's said the the award winning director exclaimed loudly that the 'Academy didn't have the guts to nominate the best picture of the year!' Vice Squad, of course...
2021-02-172h 24
Ellroy BoysTHE ELLROY BOYS - BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIAThe Ellroy Boys (@rubberwidow, @blauer_geist, @luso_brendan)are joined by two very, very special guests, Jack (@lotus__point)and Howling Mutant (@Howlingmutant0)to discuss Sam Peckinpah's melancholic booze-soaked desert noir Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia. Extrapolations cohere and good time is had by all.
2021-01-291h 51
Contra GentilesWhat is Love? w/BrendanThe CG boys are joined by Brendan (@luso_brendan) for a rich discussion regarding the death of Gorgonzola Man, the nature of love, the development of sexuality in young people, the nature of slavery in the South, and more.
2021-01-202h 23