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Just The ThingBatman Returns with Matt O'Dwyer and Peter ReganIn the Just The Thing 2024 Christmas Special, Joel and Chris are joined by Matt O'Dwyer and Peter Regan as they attempt to unwrap Tim Burton's Batman Returns and imagine what might happen if the shapeshifting creature from John Carpenter's The Thing crashed Gotham's most chaotic Christmas party.Join us as we revisit this wildly dark "kids' movie" from the '90s, marvel at Danny DeVito's grotesque and tragic Penguin, and applaud Michelle Pfeiffer's iconic transformation into Catwoman. We also explore how Batman himself gets overshadowed in his own movie by the film's incredible villains. Did we mention...2024-12-181h 22
Just The ThingOverboard with Andrea ReganJoel and Chris have brought the brilliant Andrea Regan back to discuss the other film that Kurt Russell said every boat owner has on VHS: Overboard! And put The Thing into it.Cult misstep? Weird classic? Problematic flop? We throw this film into the water of discussion and see if it ends up with amnesia and will look after our kids.Joel loves Dr Norman Korman. Chris never believes fake movie photos. And Andrea analyses why this was once one of her favourite films!Sign up to our Patreon for monthly bonus episodes patreon.com...2024-02-271h 06
Video HighEp #74: Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)Podcast! Right ahead! Man the life boats as the class plumbs the depths of animation with TITANIC: THE LEGEND GOES ON. Will these podcasters choose to go down with the ship? It’s sink or swim as we delve into our first animated film. But *not* the first animated retelling of the Titanic with talking animals, if you can believe it. Editor of MERRY LITTLE BATMAN Andy Young joins us for a chat that’s Mucho Gusto. Party Time!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | XWITTER2024-01-251h 31Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Jacking Into 2024"Your Video High Videoracles have returned. We stare into the 2024 that sicko cinema predicted and jack into the void. What kind of speculative wasteland simulation from outer space will the future force upon us this year?
The class picks apart four movies - THROUGH THE TIME BARRIER (1960) / A BOY AND HIS DOG (1975) / HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING (1991) / THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR (1999) - and learn what they know about our world. Spoiler: it sucks.
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TWITTER2024-01-011h 08Just The ThingBig Trouble in Little China with Peter Regan Joel and Chris are joined by author Peter Regan to discuss Big Trouble in Little China! ...and put The Thing into it.For our 25th episode we look at the third part of the Russell/Carpenter collaboration pentagon. Is this film now underrated, overrated or correctly rated? What is its connection to The Golden Child? And do you really need to know Jack Burton's backstory?Chris and Peter also talk about their scriptwriting, and connection to the Dad From Twilight, and Joel talks about The Raccoons for some reason.Check out Pete's book, The...2023-11-071h 09Video HighEp #73: Hellgate (1989)Welcome to HELLGATE (1989)! A place where you can relax and remember the simpler times - doo-wop on the radio, menacing bikers, huge mustaches, the inability to be female and not get objectified in a diner, old-timey attractions that somehow make money...we've got it all! We'd like to thank you for joining us! Another Schlocktober, another head-scratcher. Just the way we like it. Don't forget your pie!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | XWITTER2023-10-261h 27Video HighEp #72: Bingo (1991)Like a dog with a bone, we're obsessed with BINGO (1991). This shaggy dog story follows a runaway circus dog that travels America in search of a family. Billed as starring a "sort of canine Macaulay Culkin," this dog and pony show comes straight from the Blockbuster shelves of Jamie's memory. But is this another forgotten childhood gem, or are we barking up the wrong tree? Go Packers!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | XWITTER2023-10-261h 21Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "The Lesser Pauls"Coming off their discussion of BINGO, the class ponders why Josh and Jamie can't make money off of their dog. Also we're not done talking about Paul W. S. Anderson.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | XWITTER2023-10-0517 minVideo HighEXTRA CREDIT: "He's a Leo? That Makes Sense."We may not know anything about astrology, but we know what we like. And that's not knowing anything about astrology.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | XWITTER2023-09-1419 minVideo HighEp #71: Split Second (1992)If the title means anything, it's the sheer pace with which new concepts are thrown out in SPLIT SECOND (1992). A thematic chopped salad, this dystopian thriller stars Rutger Hauer as a indeterminably psychic cop on the edge chasing a heart-eating serial killer through the flooded streets of London to avenge the death of the partner he cuckolded before he is driven mad by the heartbeat of the clawed rat-mutant sewer dweller that may be the actual Devil with an interest in astrology and scampish sense of humor. What's that? Blood? Coming out of my nose? Huh.
2023-09-071h 25Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "It's The Only Way"The class decides to extend their stay in Dinosaur City a little longer and accidentally lightly neg Tiffanie Poston’s career. Would you believe there were Forry jokes we DIDN'T include in the full episode?
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | TWITTER2023-08-2412 minVideo HighEp #70: Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)Like a flightless pun-slinging pterosaur, ADVENTURES IN DINOSAUR CITY (1991) comes crawling up from way down in our collective memory holes. Maybe we caught it on the Disney Channel. Maybe it's just another piece of the omnipresent dinosaur media of the 90s. Maybe Forry is just the most Video High friendly character we've watched. But this group of friends who have nothing better to do than dive into a VHS sure did love this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cribbing mess about a group of friends diving into a VHS. At least we'll always have Tar Town.
2023-08-171h 25Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Um Actually, It Was Flavor Aid"Can't believe summer's almost over. No more songs around the campfire. No more passed around porno mags. No more encounters with Christ. Soon we'll go back to our boring lives, and drink the Flavor Aid with the rest of the squares. They say that's the real SUMMER CAMP NIGHTMARE (1987) EXTRA CREDIT episode, ya know?
INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-08-1018 minVideo HighEp #69: Summer Camp Nightmare (1987)In the name of the glorious revolution, do not wake us from this SUMMER CAMP NIGHTMARE (1987). This not-so-campy, surprisingly affective anti-authoritarian allegory Lord of the Flies in the face of its summer camp slasher packaging. Chuck Connors earns a Video High merit badge for showing up once again, this time as a pious camp director on the wrong side of a horny teenage people's rebellion. And it's the first movie we've done based on a book, so it pretty much counts as reading. Ya'll know us. We're Ed Heinz!
INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-08-031h 26Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Paul W.S. Anderson's Murder on the Orient Express"The class had so much fun talking about things that weren't STEEL DAWN that they needed their own episode. Such wide ranging topics as: the false scarcity of the Disney Vault, Lawrence of Arabia puns, and imagining the beauty of Paul W.S. Anderson's Murder on the Orient Express.
INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-07-2710 minVideo HighEp #68: Steel Dawn (1987)It's a mad mad mad max world in the post-apocalyptic western STEEL DAWN (1987). In this dystopian rip-off of the western classic SHANE, a dirty but non-dancing Patrick Swayze saunters out of the wasteland and into the arms of his real life wife, Lisa Niemi. But will a water robber baron, a knife-kneeing assassin, and the cries of a young boy to come back stop our unnamed hero? Not even a little. Now that's what I call wind racing!
INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-07-201h 29Video HighEp #67: Evolver (1995) with Peter AngeloReady Player One? Take off that VR headset cuz EVOLVER (1995) is stepping out of the game and into the living room of one lucky contest winner (Ethan Embry). But this supposedly family-friendly adversary hates to lose and plays for keeps. A state-of-the-art robot voiced by William H. Macy goes on a killing spree in a 90s rental store classic where hi-tech meets low-class. And joining our class is stand up comedian PETER ANGELO (@metalpetecomedy), who's ready to tea-bag this bot. Get good.
Check out Pete and fellow Video High alum Neil Rubenstein's new podcast...2023-07-061h 14Video HighEp #66: Delta Force Commando (1987)To celebrate three years of Video High, the class infiltrates the airspace of another jungle shoot-em-up Rambo II ripoff with DELTA FORCE COMMANDO (1987). Brett Baxter Clark packs the guns and the pecs for just the right amount of M60 muscle jiggle, and Fred Williamson backs him up with cool quips and just the right amount of romantic subtext. The plot has something to do with avenging a murdered wife and a stolen nuclear weapon. But that's not important. We just need to know if it's ok to think a reactionary film villainizing a democratic people's revolution is this rad...2023-06-091h 28Video HighEp #65: The Rejuvenator (1988)Beauty is a real beast in THE REJUVENATOR (1988)! A mad scientist turns an aging b-movie starlet into a b-movie monster. It's like if THE FLY and SUNSET BLVD went into the machine from THE FLY.
Can the killer make-up make up for a lackluster story? Does out of sync audio add to the film experience? Is Jamie the real monster for watching this movie at 1.5x? Lights, camera, serum!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-05-251h 21Video HighEp #64: Super Mario Bros (1993) with Neil McNeilHold onto your plungers as we warp pipe into SUPER MARIO BROS (1993)! We all know the classic Mario story: alternate dimensions, royal fungus, Dinohattan, yadda yadda yadda. But is this legendary flop a masterpiece or a disaster-piece?
With the help of TV writer and double-named Italian Brooklynite NEIL MCNEIL (@Neil_McNeil), the class tries to convince Josh it's the best thing since sliced pizza. This episode's a spicy meat-uh-ball! 🤌
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-05-111h 14Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Still Not Dungeon"We need an extra week to get our heads around the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie. But thankfully after our "final thoughts" on DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (2000), we just couldn't shut up. Enjoy a taste of what happens after class, and we'll see you in the Mushroom Kingdom next week.
INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-05-0411 minVideo HighEp #63: Dungeons & Dragons (2000)To celebrate the release of a new D&D movie, we're revisiting the old D&D movie: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS (2000). It takes everything you love about the tabletop roleplaying game and burns it to a crisp. With graphics out of a late 90's screensaver and too many scepters to count, this one is a sight to Beholder. But at least Jeremy Irons is there to chew the scenery. Roll initiative!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-04-201h 36Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Straight As with Neil Rubenstein"This never happens to us. But we went on a little tangent during our last episode with comedian Neil Rubenstein (@neilrubenstein) and accidentally talked about A-Movies and mainstream properties, like Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and American racism.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-04-1307 minVideo HighEp #62: Bounty Tracker (1993) with Neil RubensteinLorenzo Lamas is Boston's finest BOUNTY TRACKER (1993), and his Los Angeles vacation is about to be cut short by the grisly murders of his brother and pretty much everyone else in the movie. Matthias Hues leads a team of untraceable leather-clad assassins that enter and exit every room guns blazing, silencing anyone connected to the money laundering schemes of a jailed millionaire. Will our Bounty Tracker be able to stop doing karate and community outreach long enough to stop this mass murderer? We tracked down stand-up comedian Neil Rubenstein (@neilrubenstein) to help us reach these kids.
2023-04-061h 26Video HighEp #61: Hands of Steel (1986)In the nearish future Paco Queruak is a cyborg with second thoughts about his mission to assassinate an environmental crusader. After going on the run from his handlers, Paco wanders into an entirely different movie...an arm wrestling competition flick! HANDS OF STEEL (1986) is chock full of surprises. It has toilet paper based pranks. It has phallic computer renderings. It even has a helicopter chase that puts the "death" in "death-defying". You have no future, except to listen to this week's episode!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-03-231h 27Video HighEp #60: Knights of the City (1986)When you're whatever this gang is called, you're what that word is all the way. In KNIGHTS OF THE CITY (1986), Leon Isaac Kennedy leads a street gang of chain-swinging, switch-blading, tight leather shirt-wearing, bad b-boys with dreams of musical stardom taking them beyond their rough streets. The big music competition is their last shot to prove something to themselves and everyone else - except the record label head, who threw the contest specifically to see and sign them. But will rival gangs, a romance with the execs daughter, and the existential angst of being a gang that now focuses...2023-03-091h 29Video HighEp #59: Last Flight to Hell (1990)Somewhere in the jungles of Southeast Asia, a drug kingpin has kidnapped another drug kingpin, foiling the DEA's plans and demanding his daughter bring him a key to a safety deposit box. Now it's up to golden throat gargantuan Reb Brown to shoot everyone and get whoever's left on the LAST FLIGHT TO HELL (1990). While we love Italian schlock jungle shoot-em-ups as much as the next school, this one rebbed some of us the wrong way. Today's episode brought to you by Long John Silvers, and their new Buttered "Lobster" Bites.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-02-231h 23Video HighEp #58: The Kiss (1988)This Valentine's Day, give your Auntie THE KISS (1988)!
After the death of her mother, Amy's strangely estranged aunt comes to live with her and her oblivious father. Don't let Aunt Felice's supermodel body or free vitamin shakes fool you! She's only out for one thing: her niece's body...in a non-sexual demon possessing way, of course.
But best of all, THE KISS has the climax to end all movie climaxes. So THE KISS, will you be ours? XOXO
Enroll today: INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-02-091h 26Video HighEp #57: Alienator (1990)It’s January-Michael Vincent, so out of respect, today’s lesson plan will debate the ethics of death by ALIENATOR (1990): a Fred Olen Ray riff on two classic 80s franchises that, combined, make for something much more. A cast of B-movie vets, scenic Griffith Park shooting locales, and a cyborg female body builder with a gun arm make for essential Video High watching.
Enroll today: INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2023-01-261h 14Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "VideOracles: New Year or Die"Video High once again puts its ear to the door of the future to listen to what cinema is coyly whispering about the year 2023. We see it all: what has passed, what's to come, and what may yet shall be. The only thing we don't see is texts from each other to make sure we don't all cover the same movie. But our resolution this year is to try to be attentive, B-E attentive. The class discusses movies set in the year 2023, such as BRING IT ON: CHEER OR DIE (2022) and [redacted] and etc etc.
2023-01-0156 minVideo HighEp #56: ElvesWe pulled a gift from the video store shelves, because this Christmas we're unwrapping ELVES (1989)!
When a young woman summons a killer elf from the grass;
An ex-detective mall Santa helps her kick Nazi ass.
Given three ideas and a week for the script;
Writer/director Jeffrey Mandel pulled it together fast as St. Nick!
Plus the class has questions about elf folklore;
Luckily Greg may have some answers in store.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-12-221h 19Just The ThingSanta Claus: The Movie with Andrea ReganIt's the Just The Thing 2022 Christmas Special! Joel Jessup and Chris Regan are joined by Andrea Regan to discuss Santa Claus: The Movie, and put The Thing into it!Andrea's such a big fan of the film that she married Chris many years ago, just so she could get on this podcast. Joel absolutely roasts Dudley Moore, Chris reveals his anti-wooden toy agenda, Andrea explains how she's an elf in spirit, and we all discuss exciting revelations about Mrs Claus' real name. Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat AudioSign up to ou...2022-12-131h 04Video HighEp #55: L.A. BountyEven if the title makes it a little obvious, it's still possible to get lost in L.A. BOUNTY (1989). Written and produced by star Sybil Danning, she cast herself as Ruger: a monosyllabic ex-cop turned bounty hunter following the trail of a kidnapped mayoral candidate. But let's face it, we're all here for the main attraction - Wings Hauser! - who delivers a trademark enigmatic villain performance that has the class asking themselves whether Heath Ledger deserves his posthumous Oscar. Was that a good one, God?
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Additional mu...2022-12-0614 minVideo HighEp # 54: Home Sweet Home (feat. Chloe Medghalchi)Tryptofanatics - third time's a charm! We again gather 'round the Thanksgiving table yet again with our favorite dinner guest CHLOE MEDGHALCHI to hold hands and thank the B-movie Gods that we have one more turkey to watch. HOME SWEET HOME (1981) pits a large, annoying family of indeterminate relation against a knife-wielding (but never using) killer who may be actually be doing them a favor by bumping them off. So grab some beer, some valium, and pass the PCP!2022-11-241h 25Just The ThingStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan with Peter Regan1982 season continues as Joel and Chris are joined by author (and part-time Chris' brother) Peter Regan to discuss Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and put The Thing into its plot, somehow!Our first ever guest means a super-sized episode! Joel realises he can't pronounce oeuvre, Peter tries to steal Joel's vocal tic, and Chris discusses his chronic wig-blindness.Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat AudioThe Time After Time Episode of The People In The Dark PodcastPeter's Book, The Strange Case of Robert Louis StevensonSign up to our...2022-11-151h 27Video HighEp #53: Model by DayThe class sashays down the runway with MODEL BY DAY (1994)! In this failed TV pilot based on a based graphic novel from the aptly named Rip Off Press, Famke Janssen stars as Lex. She's the world's best supermodel by day, but when her roommate is injured in a carjacking she must become the vigilante Lady X to avenge her roommate's...uh, eyeball we guess?
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Men With MicsThe Sexiest Number with Tommy O’ReganDon Chenz and Casey Drake welcome comedian Tommy O'Regan who co-hosts arguably the craziest episode to date. Topics discussed include the average "unit" size, Kim Jong Un is adorable, and the dating vs siblings trend. This week's debate is: little things that give you anxiety. Finally, Corners of the Internet include Adnan Syed from the Serial Podcast freed from jail after a wrongful conviction (the jail conversation that ensues is...interesting), the recent Paul Pelosi controversy, and a viral video of a heckler at a stand up comedy show and Casey's genius business idea.
Watch To...2022-11-081h 23Video HighEp #52: Hollow GateHey all. Casey here. I want you to know that while I wrote HOLLOW GATE (1988) in the show title, the movie's opening credits clearly read "Hollowgate." Everyone else on the internet calls it Hollow Gate, and I don't understand why we're all perpetuating this farce. Either way, it's about a mentally ill middle-aged teenager named Mark who goes off his meds and kills people. Seemingly triggered by it being any Halloween in his life, this nutcake slashes out with a variety of kooky methods and rachel slurs. This is a Pepin-Mehri masterpiece before PM Entertainment. So it was AM...2022-10-271h 24Video HighEp #51: The JarThe class blows the lid off Shlocktober with THE JAR (1984)! After getting into a car crash Paul finds himself tormented by a pudgy lil' demon in a jar...or a bottle. Much like everything in THE JAR it's not quite clear, or visible, or audible. But is it really as bad as the internet would have us believe?
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-10-131h 12Video HighEp #50: K-9000 (feat. Jordan Olds)For their big five-o, the class goes to the dogs with K-9000 (1990)! A failed TV pilot turned failed TV movie where a luddite cop reluctantly teams up with a cybernetic dog to save its creator. Special guest Jordan Olds (Two Minutes to Late Night) joins us to discuss: the lack of dog content, the cinematic canine-iverse, and the rabbit hole that is Catherine Oxenberg's IMDB trivia page.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-09-291h 25Video HighEp #49: The Divine EnforcerForgive us classmates, for we have sinned. In an act of gluttony, we couldn't stop ourselves from making a whole meal out of THE DIVINE ENFORCER (1992): the parable of the kick-boxing, gun-toting, dialogue-mangling vigilante priest who comes to a Los Angeles diocese to diodecease some scum bags. Armed with crucifix knives, psychic visions, and a never ending stream of confessors, Father Daniel tries to protect a Holy Order of B-Movie Bishops from Don Stroud eating corn flakes out of a human skull. That sentence makes sense. We'll tell you our sins, if you tell us yours!
2022-08-041h 33Video HighEp #48: Meet the HollowheadsThe world is really going down the tubes...and that's where we start when we MEET THE HOLLOWHEADS (1989)! The class wades through softening jelly, butt polish, splat spray, and whatever else this Nickelodeon-gone-nutso family portrait can throw at us. Unclog your brain and join us on the edge!2022-07-211h 12Video HighEp #47: Project Vampire (feat. Dave Columbo)This movie sucks, and not the way you want it to. PROJECT VAMPIRE (1993) is much more project than vampire, pitting a hapless intern against an immortal college professor bent on the worldwide distribution of his immortality serum/anti-sun booster so that humanity may fall under his psychic spell: a vampire’s greatest power. Just as Bram Stoker imagined. We invite comedian and TikTok virus Dave Columbo (@davecolumbo) to help us out with this one, because we don’t have a dot matrix AI powerful enough to do the podcast for us. Bleh!
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Video HighEp #46: Naked ObsessionBelieve or not, William Katt is hankering for a fatal attraction in NAKED OBSESSION (1990) and the class is hot and BOTHERED. Urban planning and gentrification have never been sexier (???) in this psychosexual thriller. Allow Sam Silver to welcome you to the Dark Side—just be careful where you leave your neckties lying around.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-06-231h 23Video HighEp #45: Future ForceJohn Tucker must die in FUTURE FORCE (1989)! In the near future, justice as we once knew it has ceased to exist (too real). Cops have been replaced by C.O.P.S, bounty hunters sporting sleeveless denim vests and beige sedans. After the CEO of C.O.P.S puts a bounty out on a reporter, John Tucker (famous martial "artist" David Carradine) goes rogue-er to keep her safe. It's a RoboCop ripoff without the Robo.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-06-091h 25Video HighEp #44: RoboCop 3Don't think we've gone Hollywood or anything, but Fred Dekker gave his career so that we could have this insane threequel! ROBOCOP 3 (1993) casts a sans-Weller RoboCop in a PG-13 Detroit - filled with splatter punks, ninjas, and jetpacks - in the hopes of telling a brand new story the same way again. Dead or alive, creeps, you'll buy that for a dollar!
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2022-05-261h 23Video HighEp #43: Terminal Entry (feat. Patrick Labyorteaux)Boot up, kiddos - it's a blast from the past! Cold War agitprop goes full technophobe in TERMINAL ENTRY (1987), which makes WarGames look like kid's stuff. We dive into all the 8-bitty gritty with star & gentleman Patrick Labyorteaux! It's not just an episode, it's a warning...
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-05-051h 07Video HighEp #42: Devil RiderTravel down the GOREgon trail for DEVIL RIDER (1991)! Canoodling frenemies fall victim to an immortal cowboy who may or not be Satan himself. Come for the horse screams, stay for Zeb the farmhand (RIP Zeb). Plus the titular Devil Rider visits the class (and won't leave, despite Josh's insistence). In the immortal words of Cosmo Kramer: Giddy up!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-04-211h 29Video HighEp #41: Tiger Claws 2 & 3It's a Video High double feature! The class re-enters the tournament ring for TIGER CLAWS 2 and TIGER CLAWS 3. Forget everything you know about Tiger Claws. Because now there's magic, time travel, time-travel-magic and (sigh) even less Cynthia Rothrock. But which is the class' favorite? What's the "Indiana Jones problem"? And what rhymes with "Tarek"? Step through the magic Stargate to ancient China to find out!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-04-071h 19Video HighEp #40: The Killing of SatanThe class hitches a ride back to visit Uncle Miguel but must contend with The Prince of Magic and his MASTER! Who could it be, we wonder? We'll have to summon all our squiggle magic to find out and join Lando, Renzo, and a host of snake people to crack open the secrets of THE KILLING OF SATAN (1983)!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-03-241h 15Video HighEp #39: Tiger Claws2022 is the year of the tiger, so Video High starts a new semester with the DTV Jalal Merhi martial-arts movie megalith, TIGER CLAWS (1991). So many questions... Can Detective Tarek stop the Death Dealer, played by Bolo Yeung, by becoming a master of Tiger Claw style kung fu without becoming a killer himself? Can Cynthia Rothrock be there to help sometimes? Can anonymous wall hole sex prevent the spread of COVID? Somehow all these answers lie in Canada, the New York of the North. Claws out, yall.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2022-03-101h 16Video HighANNOUNCEMENT: "Reduce, Reboot, Recycle"Dearest classmates, Video High will be taking a brief hiatus. So we called the school into the auditorium to talk reboot culture, discuss our favorite remakes, and work out how to come back sexier, woker, and commercially viabler. Stay tuned!
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2022-01-2752 minVideo HighEp #38: TrancersIt’s Christmas in July in January as the class time travels down the line for TRANCERS (1984)! A Terminator era tale of a bounty hunter named Deth traveling back in time to stop a psychic-zombie cult by inhabiting the body of his ancestor and bagging a baddie. (And by baddie, we mean Helen Hunt. Grrrowl!) Nothing puts you in the holiday spirit like time traveling cops and psychic serial killers, right? So curl up next to the ashes of your yule log, grab a mug of expired eggnog, and join us for the most festive podcast you'll hear all mon...2022-01-201h 17Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: “Don’t get mad, get New Years Even”The class reads the runes of these sacred cinematic texts to pierce the veil of time and comprehend the year 2022…
- SOYLENT GREEN (1973)
- THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (1990)
- TIME RUNNER (1993)
- NO ESCAPE (1994)
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2022-01-0152 minVideo HighEp #37: The Carrier (feat. Alana Regan)The Video High class starts this holiday season with a deep meowtaphysical quandary: Cats or Death? If the deliriously delicious disease horror-comedy THE CARRIER (1988) has taught us anything, it's that can be a much more complicated question than it seems. So we’re making this a family practice by bringing sister extraordinaire Alana Regan into the classroom to diagnose our woes and dissect this perfectly imperfect allegory for our quarantine years.
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2021-12-091h 29Video HighEp #36: Blood Rage (feat. Chloe Medghalchi)Despite what BLOOD RAGE (1987) may think, very few people truly mistake blood for cranberry sauce. But that doesn't stop this cornucopia of carnage! Filled to the brim with blood, guts, weirdos, maniacs, and more - Blood Rage proves that we always have something more to be thankful for. Artist and friend Chloe Medghalchi (@lil.somethin) returns to our Thanksgiving table, unless her evil twin has something to say about it.
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER2021-11-251h 20Video HighEp #35: Sakura Killers (feat. Sharif El Neklawy)Have you ever wondered: what is a ninja? Before 80s gave us ninja shellshock, you may not have known. Thankfully there were movies like SAKURA KILLERS (1987) to learn ya but good. Shuriken! Smoke bombs! A lot more wiggling than we were expecting! When a deadly beta tape is stolen, star of the film Chuck Connors knows what to do: get someone else to go get it. Filmmaker and cinematographer Sharif El Neklawy (@sweetsharif) cuts it up with the rest of the class on a field trip through Taiwan's best teppanyaki joints.
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER2021-11-111h 19Video HighEp #34: The Devil's Rain (feat. Bunk 237)Iiii wanna knoooow... Have you ever seen THE DEVIL'S RAIN? Yes, it's the Ernest Borgnine goat man movie. But is it more? Can William Shatner and Tom Skerritt take down this devil in the dust before the fires of hell consume them? The class is joined by the inhabitants of Bunk 237 and that of course means everything's about to get absolutely soaking wet
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2021-10-281h 22Video HighEp #33: The Demon LoverHappy Schlocktober Classmates! This week, The Devil went down to Michigan and was looking for a whole coven of souls to steal in THE DEMON LOVER (1976). A Donald G Jackson—Jerry Younkins covenant, this exercise in "Zen Filmmaking" offers up a mess of mansplaining, karate lessons, and Ted Nugent’s house—and maybe a couple of gory teen deaths while it’s at it. AT LAST! THE TRUTH ABOUT DEMONS!
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2021-10-141h 22Video HighEp #32: Doctor MordridGreetings true believers! This week, the doctor is in - DOCTOR MORDRID (1992) that is! Jump into a multiverse of madness where Jeffrey Combs stars as a (sadly not at all Strange) sorcerer who defends the Earth from his NYC penthouse...sound familiar? Come for Brian Thompson's meaty performance, stay for the stop motion dinosaur battle. Excelsior!
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2021-09-301h 18Video HighEp #31: Summer SchoolJust cuz it's almost the end of summer doesn't mean we can't go back for SUMMER SCHOOL (1987)! Figure out your wishes, have your learner's permit handy, and visit beautiful Venice Beach with the class as we all tear up at the thought of Denise's dyslexia subplot!2021-09-161h 18Video HighEp #30: The CatcherCause it's one.. two... three strikes, you're dead in THE CATCHER (1998), a baseball slasher somehow equal parts "Halloween" and "Angels in the Outfield." We got a literal Murderers' Row with faceless maniac Johnny in the hole, and Coach is signaling for the eternally overshadowed Joe Estevez to steal the show. This time, the ball game takes YOU out.
INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK2021-09-021h 14Video HighEp #29: Beaks: The MovieIt's a bird! It's another bird! It's a plane! It's a plane being taken down by a bird! It's BEAKS: THE MOVIE (1987)!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-08-191h 16Video HighEp #28: Ebony Ivory & Jade (feat. Elsa Eli Waithe)It's Olympics week and we're going for the gold with EBONY IVORY & JADE (1976)!
Special guest Elsa Eli Waithe (@elsajustelsa comedian, activist, and co-host of the You're Fine podcast) joins the class to try and decipher the endless dialog and barely lit scenes.
An American track team on their way to the Olympics(?) in Hong Kong(?) are kidnapped, escape, are kidnapped again, escape again, etc. It's hard to tell, but what's clear is the true hero is none of the titular colors. It's everyone's favorite character Casey! (No, not the host) #JusticeForCasey
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | T...2021-08-051h 08Video HighEp #27: Body BeatLoosen up those feet and dirty up those dance shoes. This week, the classmates dance, dance, dance to the radical rhythms of BODY BEAT (1988) (known in the rock world as DANCE ACADEMY).
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-06-171h 28Video HighEp #26: The StrangerDon't let being dead get in the way of your dreams, kids. After kickboxing the whole world five times over, Kathy "The Punisher" Long rides into town as THE STRANGER (1995) to show Video High there's nothing you can't do with a mean right hook, a script full of one-liners, absolute omniscience, and other ill-defined ghost powers.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-06-031h 22Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Strike Commandoversary"Happy one year at Video High, classmates!! Join us as we stroll down memory lane and watch the 'sequel' to our first assignment: Strike Commando 2.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-05-2745 minVideo HighEp #25: The Oracle (feat. Sav Smith)Roberta Findlay's legacy in cinema has been reclaimed as a feminist auteur, despite staunch opposition from Roberta Findlay. But does this work-a-day cinepornographer have a horror classic in her oeuvre? Only THE ORACLE (1985) knows! Occult mysticism, murderous tchotchkes, problematic nonbinary representation, bongo solos, and over the top New York accents are in your future. And filmmaker Sav Smith (@transsexualicon) joins the class to help us find some #JUSTICEFORPAPPAS.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-05-201h 28Video HighEp #24: Revenge of the Red BaronA squadron of absolute aces captained by Roger Corman, a young Tobey Maguire, an old Mickey Rooney, and a wisecracking haunted doll came together to pilot this hard PG family comedy with a body count. Michael McDonald of MadTV fame wrote a script full of punderful one-liners for the reincarnated Red Baron to quip while he mows down the rest of the cast. Take to the skies or face the Teutonic terror of the REVENGE OF THE RED BARON (1994)!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-05-061h 23Video HighEp #23: Stones of Death aka KadaichaTo sleep - perchance to dream. To dream of KADAICHA (1988)! This week, class has a bone to pick with our classmates down under. We'll learn about the birds & the bees and all the OTHER deadly wildlife while we're at it.2021-04-221h 19Video HighEp #22: FunlandYou're not gonna wanna miss opening day at Funland (1987), a true bait-and-switch sideshow oddity that's sure to give you a bit of coulrophobia (and spoiler - Josh has got it bad!). So don't be a JOKER and bite the big one!
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-04-081h 05Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Camacho Macho Man"After nearly being inducted into Lucifer's Gangland army, we caught up with director and PM Entertainment stalwart ART CAMACHO and talked about working with Coolio & Ice-T, running two major action set pieces without assistants, no-show actors, and horny monkeys! 2021-04-011h 00Video HighEp #21: Gangland (feat. Justin Ferraro)This land is your land, this land is GANGLAND (2001), a desolate wasteland crawling with mutants, disease, a red-eyed ubermensch named Lucifer and his wannabe brother Damien. It's also DEFINITELY starring Ice-T and Coolio. It says so on the box. From the backlot city, to the vine swamp lairs. Round house kicks for you and me.
We held back Justin Ferraro for another lesson in nonsense population destroying plagues. It's his field. He also makes music, so be sure to listen to The Rizzos, Lowboy, and Half Moon.
INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER2021-03-251h 33Video HighEp #20: Carnosaur (feat. Justin Ferraro)We’re back! with an episode 65 million years in the making. Roger Corman, the T-Rex of t-rash, spared every expense to beat Jurassic Park to the box office—and WON. The nihilist's lizards-run-amok classic, CARNOSAUR (1993) raises two raptor claws in the shape of middle fingers to Spielberg’s legacy and says “Oh yeah? Well we have Laura Dern's mom rip a baby dino out of herself!" The debate gets heated when JUSTIN FERRARO, a musician behind some of your favorite podcast outro tracks, collides like an extinction level meteor into Video High!
Check out Justin's...2021-03-111h 23Video HighEp #19: A*P*E (feat. Garrett Stiger)We just know you're going to go APE (1976) over this ep! Welcoming our guest kaiju speaker Garrett Stiger, the class tackles cinema's baddest sinister simian. Kneel before your true king!
2021-02-111h 29Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Guess Who's Greg Scott Cummins to Interview"We loved "ACTION USA" so much, the whole class got in our sleek one and caught up to the movie's goodlooking lead, GREGORY SCOTT CUMMINS. The star of "Hack-o-Lantern", "Caged Fury," and "Dead End City" tells Video High about the joys of going from gridiron to grindhouse, putting on the network TV black hat, bringing friends back from the dead, and being choked out by The Boz. He's had a prolific career, but can he survive our crossfire questions? Don't miss Gregory Scott Cummins in Season 7 of "BOSCH" out this Spring on Amazon Prime!
...2021-02-051h 09Video HighEp #18: Action USAOther movies may say they have heart but ACTION USA (1989) rips that out and sends it home to mama. It's a barrage of bullets, broken bones, and bravado set to screaming, frenetic guitar solos. By land, by air, by any means necessary!2021-01-281h 29Video HighEp #17: Neon CityTake a walk on the Ironside with the VH class -- next stop NEON CITY (1991)! Madder than Max, this DTV flick is DTF and looking for a little action on the wasteland.2021-01-141h 22Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Happy Eww Year 2021"After this...interesting year, class goes on a special field trip to find out how movies depict the coming 2021. And if our calculations are correct, we may soon all be shouting for room service.2020-12-3142 minVideo HighEp #16: The Magic Christmas TreeDeck those halls and strap in for 1964's best Wizard of Oz ripoff THE MAGIC CHRISTMAS TREE, the holiday season's most mind-bending 59 minute journey from Halloween to Jesus' birthday that'll have you wishing for more. 2020-12-241h 18Video HighEp #15: A Gnome Named GnormMove over Django, cause this G ain't silent. Tunneling up from the depths of our childhood psyches is A GNOME NAMED GNORM (1990). This Z'Dar studded buddy cop fantasy flick pairs Anthony Michael Hall with a furry friend who's got a different kind of po-po in mind. Take a little trip and see a horned up good-sized ground dweller come to life in monster maestro Stan Winston's madcap masterpiece.
Facebook | Twitter | Instagram2020-12-101h 28Video HighEp #14: Blood Freak (feat. Chloe Medghalchi)Rub-a-dub-dub. Thanks for the blood. Amen. This gobbleday season, we tear into the definitive 1970s Christian anti-drug parable cautioning against a life of sex, drugs, and turkey meat. What happens if our American appetites are turned against us in the form of a bloodthirsty man-sized Turkey beast? Director Brad F. Grinter asks this and many other incredibly specific questions in BLOOD FREAK (1972).
Joining us at the big kids table this Thanksgiving is a friend as good as family, artist and winner of the wishbone pull Chloe Medghalchi. Check out her paintings on Instagram @lil.somethin
2020-11-261h 19Video HighEp #13: The Power of NinjitsuEver consider switching between two movies on two different channels and trying to piece the plots together? THE POWER OF NINJITSU (1988) beat ya to the punch, friend! One of Godfrey Ho's ninjified gangster pickups had the class parsing out the physics of a sword fight wearing all leather...2020-11-121h 30Video HighEXTRA CREDIT: "Discount Drugstore HauntedWeen Candy"Ah, November in an election year. Another HauntedWeen has come and gone. Now a new age of terror potentially begins - or ends, depending on who you ask. But like true Americans, VIDEO HIGH has done some extra credit so you have something to listen to while you vote.
We got new thoughts, a couple mea culpas, chewing sounds, political intrigue, and we finally get the grapes to drag the Star Wars prequels. Enjoy some unabashed silliness, then FIND YOUR LOCAL POLLING PLACE AND GET OUT TO VOTE: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/
2020-11-0329 minVideo HighEp #12: HauntedWeenIt's a haunted house on a HAUNTEDWEEN (1991), and the students of Video High are just dying to get out. This Halloween-cribbing cult classic about a masked killer cutting up coeds in a haunted house is to John Carpenter's prototypical slasher what "Ice Ice Baby" is to "Under Pressure:" a fellow masterpiece. This movie is such a scream, we end up screaming at each other.
HAPPY HAUNTEDWEEN!
Facebook | Instagram2020-10-291h 26Video HighEp #11: Forever EvilFrom the dreaded Ghost Quasar comes a force so dreaded, so malicious it can only be FOREVER EVIL (1987). The class does battle with wizards, zombies, possessed underbrush, and glowy eyes in the dark to bring you this second SCHLOCKTOBER outing!2020-10-151h 23
The Sausage FactoryThe Sausage Factory Episode 297: Casey DonnellanHost Chris O'Regan chats to Casey Donnellan about the design and development of his game, Kill It With Fire, an action adventure game that Casey developed and is published by TinyBuild that features the destruction of spiders and many other things besides.
There are some who respect that a spider is more afraid of them than they are of it, but that doesn't stop them from trying to squish them as quickly as possible, regardless of the collateral damage. Kill It With Fire takes on that same concept and pushes into places it probably shouldn't go...
http://media.blubrry.com/c...2020-10-091h 00Video HighEp #10: Shadow CreatureWhat horrors may slither out of Lake Erie onto the shores of Cleveland? If you guessed a rubber suit Creature from the Slack Lagoon, you'd be right! This week, the class dissects 1995's SHADOW CREATURE while counting their blessings that they made it out with their intestines intact...2020-10-011h 17Video HighEp #9: Busted UpDo you know what jugmilk is? FIND OUT with the Video High class who make it their business to ask the important, aggressively Canadian questions surrounding the Great White North's answer to Rocky, 1986's BUSTED UP.2020-09-171h 13Video HighEp #8: Future-Kill (feat. Drew Kaufman)Video High's nuclear family gets a little larger when we invite comedian, photographer, and co-creator of "Two Minutes to Late Night" Drew Kaufman to sink his claws into 1985's FUTURE-KILL. But we put him through a SPLATTER-ing of classic school pranks. Car crushing. Tar and feathering. Human trafficking. Violent opposition to the continued erosion of class solidarity. All the classic pranks.
Check all the cool sh*t the "Two Minutes to Late Night crew" is doing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Cmvvc9ZmyQ412RzXhYoEg
Instagram | Facebook2020-09-031h 20Video HighEp #7: Bigfoot - The Unforgettable EncounterWhat do Home Improvement's Zachary Ty Bryan, a kooky billionaire, a team from Northwestern University, and a sad-eyed park ranger have in common? A run-in with America's original cryptid! This week, Video High becomes Cryptozoology 101 with 1994's BIGFOOT: THE UNFORGETTABLE ENCOUNTER!2020-08-201h 18Video HighEp #6: Guardian AngelIt's a true BLAST from the PAST! GUARDIAN ANGEL (1994) assaults Video High - Cynthia Rothrock & PM Entertainment's first collab is an explosive ass-kicker that only the small screen could produce.2020-08-061h 14Video HighEp #5: The Lords of MagickHuzzah! THE LORDS OF MAGICK have arrived! Join Video High on an unmedievable magical journey stretching from times long past to 1989 Los Angeles. Magic! Merlinites! Maidens! MULLETS! Follow two sibling sorcerers as they laserblast bikers, commune with Elder Gods, sidestep library registration policy, underpay sex workers, and disrespect hardwood flooring in the hopes that they can defeat evil in wizardly combat in this sword-and-sorcery shot-on-video beauty!2020-07-231h 25Video HighEp #4: Droid Gunner aka CyberzoneVideo High in outer space! Beaming in is 1995's DROID GUNNER aka CYBERZONE, a movie about cyborgs and the man who hunts them. Sound familiar? Well, we wax poetic about the future, overqualified female co-stars, a pirate bartender, and the unnecessary nudity that ties them all together.2020-07-091h 19Video HighEp #3: Salsa - The Motion PictureWhat happens when a member of Menudo, the producer of Shark Attack 3, and the choreographer of Dirty Dancing make a movie? 1988's SALSA answers that question! Grab your chips and join the Video High crew as they shimmy and shake their way through the veil between life and death. As the tagline says, IT'S HOT!2020-06-251h 10Video HighEp #2: Kung Fu RascalsVideo High meets low comedy in 1992's KUNG FU RASCALS - an epic adventure of three fools to find the power most BIG! Laugh with us! Cringe with us! Join us on our epic journey to find out why Les Claypool had a hand in it. The answer may confound you!2020-06-111h 07Video HighEp #1: Strike CommandoEver want a little extra marinara with your Rambo? Well then STRIKE COMMANDO cannot wait to grant all your wishes! This piece of 1987 Italo-action is our first mission...hopefully we make it through in one piece...2020-05-281h 03Video HighWelcome to Video HighAt Video High, the teacher is always hung over and putting on a movie. From beefcake shoot-em-ups to chintzy dance dramas and horrible horrors, Video High is where the rejects rule! Join hosts Casey Regan, Jamie Kennedy (no, the other one), Greg Hanson, and Josh Roth as they take you down the rabbit hole of remarkably offbeat cinema. Class is now in session.2020-05-2201 min
Be Ready Training PodcastEPISODE 14 - STEPHEN CASEYStephen Casey has been working in the fitness industry for the last fifteen years. He is currently the Strength & Conditioning coach for both Blackrock Senior and Blarney Premier Intermediate hurling teams.Stephen has played a big part in Cork hurling after spending 3 years as the S&C with Cork Minors (2017), U21s (2018) and most recently U20s (2019). Throughout this episode , Steve covers an array of topics and gives great insight into how he trains his athletes. He goes into load monitoring, training the hamstrings and who he'd choose to go to war with! Enjoy!2020-04-0959 min