Reel Roulette

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 Subscribe now to the new podcast, A Cosmic Void starring Alex Biggs Small and Jeremiah Perez! Here's a taste of one episode, there's more on the feed and many more to come. This episode is about the Alex Garland instant classic: Ex Machina. We dissect the movie going scene by scene uncovering the themes that run beneath. We discuss the feminist reading of this movie, the allusions to literature and history, and discuss the slightly ahead of it's time presentation of the danger of data mining. And of course we list movies that informed it, as well as movies influenced by it. And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

Aaron and Biggs finally get to review a movie that's nominated for an Oscar. The Big Sick is a true life story turned romantic comedy about Kumail Nanjiani. He avoids praying, wants to avoid arranged marriage, and realizes that he loves his girlfriend...after she goes into a coma.

A bunch of genetically altered sharks use a Skarsgard to break open a window, sinking an underwater facility so that they can ram their way out of to the open sea. They also try to cook LL Cool J, and eat an inspirational Samuel L. Jackson raw. We saw Deep Blue Sea!

Three men get out of prison, go to a trailer park, and go right back to prison. There's a bunch of B-plots too. We watched Trailer Park Boys:  Countdown to Liqour Day. 

Kate Donaldson sits in tonight. We watch a movie about a group of vegetarian vampires (who drink animal blood) move to Washington state to seduce a seventeen year old and play lots of baseball. In the rain. Because they sparkle in the sun *Sigh* We had to watch Twilight.

Hellraiser is the story of a man who opens a puzzle box revealing to him the ultimate pleasure, but actually the ultimate pain. It's administered with chain hooks by a guy with pins sticking out of his head. This episode finds the answers of why horror movies are studied, why demons wear sunglasses, and which clubs hire blue grass bands for S&M parties. Let's get started, Satan's-a-waitin.

Kevin Costner plays Farrell, a man who has an affair with a call girl...who just happens to romantically tangled with the Secretary of Defense...who just so happens to hire him...and just so happens to kill the call girl...and just so happens to put Farrell in charge of an investigation to find himself and blame himself for being a Russian spy...which he just so happens to be. There's a lot a of random chance in this episode, and it's not just with the movie selection. We watched No Way Out.

In a crash grab attempting to get in on that big, big Maleficent money, Asylem created this pile of schlock retelling the story of Sleeping Beauty. Only this time it has zombies, an iguana dragon, simulated rape, and Johnny Rico from Starship Troopers taking on Karen Arnold from The Wonder Years. Do you want to learn more?

A vengeful, handsome spirit dressed in an S&M outfit races the gang responsible for his death.  As he blows them up one by one, you start to wonder, what's with the arm braces he leaves everywhere?  Aaron and Biggs set out to these questions and more. And believe us, Lady Luck left us a lot of questions to answer with this 80's revenge/thriller/sci-fi/drama:  The Wraith.

We start season two with perhaps the most known movie of the 80's:  Top Gun! Maverick and Goose enter the Top Gun program for the best of the best fighter pilots. Along the way they find action, love, and hot sweaty volleyball. Biggs and Aaron focus on the movie being a grandfather of many tropes, the soundtrack, the A-list cast, and it's place in the rise of militaristic films. All that, plus a lot of random tangents.

Aaron Donaldson (from The Alien Movie Project, That's Debate-Able, and the Airheads episode of this podcast) is teaming up with Biggs for another season. This episode helps you get to know your new co-host. The focus of the show shifts slightly. The streaming platforms widen. The algorithm changes. An NBA Draft ping pong ball machine is brought in. A new movie is selected. Welcome to season two.

Here we are, Lady Luck.  The final episode of season one of Reel Roulette.  It's been a hell of a ride.  We end with special guest Brandon Beardslee watching the 1976 version of King Kong starring Jeff Bridges and Charles Groden. And it's not a comedy. No really.

Lady Luck shines onto Biggs, Zac, and special guest Janalee Minton by granting them Star Trek IV:  The Voyage Home.  The crew of the Enterprise heads back to Earth to face a court marshal.  But before they reach their destination, an alien probe begins destroying the Earth in search for humpback whales.  Kirk and company slingshot around the sun and go back to 1986 to find them.  Hilarity ensues.

Lady Luck lights some scented candles and draws a hot bath for the soap opera disguised as a movie...Soda Springs.  Eden was arrested for killing people while drunk driving.  He returns to his hometown after serving his time to find his ex-wife remarried, his child playing baseball, his mother obsessively pining over his dead father, a pair of cops who take orders from a used car salesmen, and a ghost.  You got all of that?

A clairvoyant detective of sorts fights a mallpocolypse and CG creatures call Bodeks.  Based off a Dean Koontz series of books, Odd Thomas dares to be uneven in tone, ignoring simple editing cuts, and yet still manages to be fun.  Lady Luck is making Zac and Biggs scratch their heads.

When a megashark breaks out from an iceberg being towed by a tugboat to Egypt, the US military upgrades their mechashark to do battle with it.  Scientist Debbie Gibson also stars in Megashark vs Mechashark.  Seriously, Lady Luck?

Lady Luck really sucks right now.  She forces Biggs and Zac to watch the so-bad-it's-terrible movie Never Back Down 2:  The Beatdown.  It's so horrible that massive amounts of alcohol are consumed and the show is turned into a commentary just so that they didn't have to watch it and talk about it later.  It's the story about MMA fighters punching notebook paper.  No, really.

Lady Luck toys with Zac, Biggs, and special guest Aaron Donaldson.  Three idiots (Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, and Brendan Frasier) have difficulty getting anyone to listen to the demo they've recorded for their band.  They try to get it played on the radio...and wind taking hostages instead.  Now everyone wants to hear them, the police want to arrest them, and women want to love them (except Buscemi).  Chris Farley, Ernie Hudson, Joe Mantenga, Michael Richards, and Michael McKean also star in 1994's Airheads.

Lady Luck splits Zac and Biggs with the 1995 family adventure Jumanji.  A child finds a game uncovered by an excavation.  He begins to play and finds himself stuck within the game for twenty-six years.  The game then falls into the hands two children (one played by Kirsten Dunst).  They free the child now grown into a man (Robin Williams) and realize they have to finish playing the game before the town's torn up by Bad CGI animals.  May God have mercy on our souls.