The central hub of everything made by one Noel Thingvall. Mostly podcasts and blogs with a geek theme, occasionally some surprise diversions. Enjoy, and feel free to comment on older posts!
February 24, 2020
[Schumacast] The Client (1994)
The fabulously facially follicled Weston joins Angie and I as we look at Joel's first adaptation of a John Grisham legal thriller, and vent our feelings about the career and legacy of one Akiva Goldsman. Check it out here.
February 15, 2020
[Thundarr Road] Master of the Stolen Sunsword
Michael, David, and I ride in from a long hiatus with this odd tale of stage magicians gone mad, men in business suits on camel back, and Thundarr struggling with the anxiety of impotency when the Sunsword loses its power. Check it out here.
February 4, 2020
[Craft Disservices] Atlantis: The Lost Empire
After sharing a panel with Aaron and his frequent co-host Mikanhana at CONvergence, he was kind enough to invite me onto his series exploring films worth another look after failing to connect with critics on their original release. Here, we discuss Disney's animated adventure epic, blending the design style of Mike Mignola with dark violence, cultural genocide, another Joss Whedon found family of mercenaries with a plucky young woman mechanic, and more adventure tropes than you could trigger a booby trap at. Plus, a fun, broader discussion of geeky media as a whole. I had a really fun time with this discussion. Check it out here.
January 1, 2020
[Atop the Fourth Wall] Heavy Wrex and the Contest of Champions
At the tail end of Linkara's annual rundown, you'll see a storyline segment updating the latest challengers and stats in the ongoing Contest of Champions, in which I had the delight of playing Heavy Wrex, an interdimensional professional wrestler and construction foreman, who will be returning again in the near future. If you want to jump straight to that segment, it's 25 minutes into the second part. Check it out here.
December 18, 2019
[Schumacast] Falling Down (1993)
Windy Bowlsby joins Angie and I as we dig into this notorious early 90s thriller about anger, entitlement, and petty acts that explode into excessive violence. Check it out here.
December 5, 2019
[Sleigh Bell Cinema] Christmas in Connecticut
I'm back for another year as Michael sleighs in for another celebration of Christmas movies. This time we discuss another favorite of my mother's, a classic romance farce involving fake celebrities, starved soldiers, flippy-flopjacks, multiple impostor babies, and Sydney Greenstreet raiding the fridge for leftovers. Check it out here.
November 20, 2019
[Masters of Carpentry] Halloween (2018)
Alex returns as he, JD, and I take on the latest reboot of the franchise, erasing all sequels as a team better known for their comedies take on the reunion of Michael and Laurie, both of whom are older, wiser, and angrier than ever. What works, what doesn't, and where do we feel the franchise can go moving forward. Check it out here.
October 30, 2019
[Projection Booth] Dead Heat
I had the delight of recording with Heather Drain for the first time as Mike had me back for a discussion of this 80s hybrid of buddy cop and zombie movies, as Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo navigate the crime sprees of suspects who either won't stay dead, or rapidly decay into goo. Where heroes solve their own murder, Vincent Price heckles from a corner, a bloated biker corpse looks awfully familiar, and an entire kitchen of undead animal edibles arise to attack. Check it out here.
October 21, 2019
[Masters of Carpentry] Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 (2009)
JD and I take on Rob Zombie's sequel to his infamous remake, where he took the franchise off in some wildly new directions - some of which work, some of which very much do not - and we parse out the significant differences between both cuts. Check it out here.
September 9, 2019
[Schumacast] 2000 Malibu Road (1992)
Evie joins us as Angie and I learn the hard way what happens when you combine Joel Schumacher with the 90s prime time soap opera world of Aaron Spelling, the star power of Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Beals, a head writer who was escorted from the set of her previous series, and story threads like a Hollywood agent getting a doctor's diagnosis that a voodoo curse has indeed been enacted upon his penis. Check it out here.
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