February 2012
6 posts
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Episode 9: Pyunsanity
In this episode: some follow-up on fakery in movies, catching up with Albert Pyun, and wandering the internet before landing on the topic TV series that end abruptly or go down in flames.
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe / Gamera 2 Blu-ray cover features Stomp Tokyo quote.
Catfish documentary
Moviefone: Catfish lawsuit may reveal truth
Wikipedia: Googlebomb
Albert Pyun’s web site
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Stomp Tokyo quote on Gamera / Gamera 2 blu-ray
Looks like Stomp Tokyo was quoted on the back of the Gamera/Gamera 2 blu-ray set as well. That brings our quote total up to a staggering 3 titles.
Here’s the original review of Gamera 2.
The other films for which we were quoted on the art: Gamera 3 and The Incredible Hulk Returns. How you like us now?
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Episode 8: Quote Whores
A quote from a decade-old Stomp Tokyo review lands on the Gamera 3 Blu-ray box art, which leads Chris & Scott to reminisce about the bad old days of VHS imports.
Violet Crown Theater
Gamera 3 blu-ray cover art
The Host
Video Daikaiju
Gamera 3 review on Stomp Tokyo
lots and lots of Kamen Rider toys
TwitchFilm review: Extraterrestrial
Download the episode here or subscribe on iTunes...
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Episode 7: Lost in the Couch Cushions
Manos: The Restoration, Lost Movies, universal remote controls, and ancient home theater systems.
Manos: the Restoration
Entertainment Weekly : The Worst Movie Ever Made
Cowboy Creed at Kickstarter
io9 list of lost movies
Ingagi poster at Wikipedia
Harmony One Universal Remote
Griffin Beacon for iPod touch and iPhone
Logitech Harmony Adapter for PS3
Sony HT-CT150 (Scott’s home...
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Episode 6: 35mm is dead. Long live 35mm.
Discussing the expedited end of 35mm film exhibition, B-Fest, and more.
Austin’s Paramount Theater
Universal Studios’ digital restoration trailer
Roger Ebert on the Sudden Death of FIlm
IndieKicker on 35mm
Movie Morlocks: The End
Online Petition for 35mm
Indiewire: the Battle Continues
Film Tech on 35mm
The War on 35mm
B-Fest
Wizard of Speed and Time short on Youtube
The...
January 2012
7 posts
3 tags
MANOS: The Restoration →
Learn about a project to restore the infamously bad film Manos, the Hands of Fate from a newly-discovered 16mm work print.
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Choose Your Own B-Fest
Distraught that you couldn’t make it to B-Fest this year? Here’s a balm for your soul: a reasonably complete listing of films from previous B-Fest lineups that are available on Netflix Instant. (I had to cheat a little with some extra films in the giant monster and blacksploitation categories. Films that are not previous B-Fest selections are marked with an asterisk. *)
Just like one...
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Episode 5: Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Highlights this week: British TV (Doctor Who, Sherlock), Tolkien nerdery, new Godzilla and Bond blu-rays, Buck Rogers, and the burning question of our time: do Italians really like lots of sugar in their coffee?
BBC’s Sherlock
Sophia Myles is on Twitter
Steven Moffat on Twitter
Is Sophia Myles the new Companion?
Benedict Cumberbatch (Wikipedia)
Gene Dietch’s 12-minute animated...
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Episode 4: Hand of Death
Topics this week: a bevy of trailers for upcoming genre films and a discussion of the lengthy career of Jackie Chan. We’re still working out our audio issues, please forgive the echo on Chris’ voice.
Jack the Giant Killer trailer
Mickey and the Beanstalk
Chinese Zodiac trailer
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance trailer
Summer Wars trailer
Redline trailer
G.I. Joe 2 trailer
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Episode 3: Koyaanisqatsi for our generation
Discussing Viva Knievel, Brainstorm, the New Orleans Worst Film Festival (NOWFF), Neil Sedaka, Skinemax, and more.
New Orleans Worst Film Festival Facebook page
B-Fest: 24 Hours of Bad Movies
Viva Knievel (Opposable Thumb Films)
Sextette (Jabootu’s Bad Movie Dimension)
Brainstorm (Roger Ebert)
Huffington Post piece on Natalie Wood
Media Bistro piece on Natalie Wood, Christopher...
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Episode 2 - Richard Dreyfuss
In this badly-recorded episode (put some headphones on to hear Scott in amazing reverb-o-rama), we compare Entertainment Weekly’s recent “worst movies” article, the token female characters in ’80s cartoons, dropping cell phones down toilets, and a trailer for one of the worst movies to come along in a while: Song of the Blind Girl. Audio oddities to listen for: Chris’...
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B-Fest 2012 tickets on sale →
Tickets are now available for this year’s 24 hour celebration of ludicrous fantasy and sci-fi movies. B-Fest takes place at Northwestern University near Chicago.
December 2011
2 posts
HBO To Cord Cutters: You’ll Never See Our Shows →
tinch:
Makes sense. They have the ultimate leverage in being the content creator.
Cord cutters to HBO: “That’s what torrents are for.”
And DVDs, I suppose. It seems to me that a good percentage of cord cutters would have to be people who just don’t care that much about seeing content right when it comes out.
Custom domain powers, activate
The Stomp Tokyo podcast blog (show notes, new episode announcements, other weirdness) can now be found at cultmoviespodcast.com.
November 2011
4 posts
What to watch on Turkey Day
Behold! A scientifically-researched Stomp Tokyo approved list of things to watch on TV today.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - Duh.
Miracle on 34th Street - Render unto Santa what is Santa’s.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving - Popcorn, toast, and jelly beans never go out of style.
Punkin Chunkin 2011 - How far can you fire a pumpkin from a cannon? Let’s find out.
A Very Gaga...
Subscribe in iTunes
Here’s the direct link to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Through 50+ episodes of the previous podcast we never got approved for the store, and this approval happened in less than 24 hours. C’est la vie!
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Episode 1 - Reboot
In which Scott and Chris return to the podcast and discover they’ve forgotten how this works. Some discussion of upcoming genre movies, holiday kid flicks, movies in the cloud, and what the future holds for the podcast.
Links to videos and other things mentioned in the show:
Movie poster for The Expendables 2
Weird Japanese commercial with Jean Reno
Jackie Chan in V8 Commercials
Martin...
The RSS feed for Stomp Tokyo: The Cult Movies... →
Yep, we’ve decided to start the podcast up again. Here’s the feed – show notes for the first episode to follow shortly.