Stomp Tokyo: The Cult Movies Podcast

Stomp Tokyo quote on Gamera / Gamera 2 blu-ray

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:25:36 -0500

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?

Episode 8: Quote Whores

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:13:13 -0500

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.

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Episode 7: Lost in the Couch Cushions

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:36:17 -0500

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 theater system)

Sony STR DE335 (Chris’ home theater system)

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tjmhw: Stomp Tokyo review of “Gamera 3” quoted on the Blu-Ray...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:06:43 -0500

tjmhw:

Stomp Tokyo review of “Gamera 3” quoted on the Blu-Ray cover on Flickr.

Nearly 12 years later, the Stomp Tokyo review of Gamera 3 lands us on a Blu-ray cover. Always nice to be quote-mined, even a decade later.

Episode 6: 35mm is dead. Long live 35mm.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:31:55 -0500

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 Creeping Terror - Jabootu review

The Brain from Planet Arous - original B-masters round table

Choose your own B-Fest - titles available on Netflix streaming

Grabbers

Captain America 2 news

MM9

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MANOS: The Restoration

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:22:00 -0500

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.

Choose Your Own B-Fest

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:36:56 -0500

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 of those old choose-your-own-adventure books, you will be (kind of) in charge of your own fate. Select a film from each category and watch in order for an authentic (roughly) 24-hour bender of bad movies. Junk food, slide whistle, and smart-mouthed friends not included.

High Energy Badness to Start You Off Right

Vintage Monster Movies

Space Madness

Angry Red Planet
Planet of Blood (aka Planet of the Vampires)
Invasion of the Star Creatures

Important Things Just Before Midnight

The Wizard of Speed and Time short (yeah, it’s on YouTube now)
Raffle off some crap to your friends

Round About Midnight

Plan 9 From Outer Space (not on Netflix, bring your own DVD for this one)

Blacksploitation Will Keep You Awake, Sucka!

60s / 70s Surrealism In The Dead Of Night

80s Weirdness For Breakfast

Sex & Violence

Second Wave of Black and White

Please Stop The Music

Kids movies that never shoulda been

Giant monster finale

Episode 5: Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:43:01 -0500

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 version of The Hobbit (related article)

Criterion’s Godzilla cover controversy

Screenshot comparisons for Criterion Godzilla blu-ray

Bond 50 Blu-Ray box set

Netflix accepts longer window for Warner DVD releases

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Time Out interview with Daniel Craig - writers’ strike hurt Quantum of Solace

End Game

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

Do Italians Love Sugar in their Coffee?

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (new Jet Li movie)

How much is 300,000,000 yuan in US dollars?

Dragon Gate Inn from 1960s

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Episode 4: Hand of Death

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:50:01 -0500

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

Concept trailer for Goliath

St Louis Cemeteries (wikipedia)

Nic cage’s vault in New Orleans

Neil Gaiman’s “Dream Story” for Doctor Who

I Am Jackie Chan autobiography

Snake in Eagle’s Shadow

Armour of God 2: Operation Condor

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Episode 3: Koyaanisqatsi for our generation

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:38:40 -0500

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 Walken

1911 Jackie Chan trailer

Ncinerator

Shazam for TV article

Skinemax

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Episode 2 - Richard Dreyfuss

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:38:31 -0500

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’ stuffy nose and noisy mouse scroll wheel, and Scott’s vibrating cell phone.

Entertainment Weekly: 24 Stars’ Worst Movies

Reel Shame: Bad Movies and the Hollywood Stars Who Made Them by Scott Hamilton and Christopher Holland (buy a copy for someone you love this Christmas!)

Radio Times Guide to Film (we contributed select entries to this around 1999 or so)

Our review of Cutting Class

The theme and lineup for our very first movie night series, back in 1997.

Half of all damaged cell phones in the UK are dropped down toilets

1 in 5 young adults have dropped a phone down the toilet.

Wikipedia entry on female Transformers characters

Trailer for Song of the Blind Girl (not appropriate for all ages)

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B-Fest 2012 tickets on sale

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:06:14 -0500

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.

HBO To Cord Cutters: You’ll Never See Our Shows

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:24:11 -0500

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

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:42:33 -0500

The Stomp Tokyo podcast blog (show notes, new episode announcements, other weirdness) can now be found at cultmoviespodcast.com.

What to watch on Turkey Day

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:10:29 -0500

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 Thanksgiving~~

Not your cup of tea? TV Guide has this handy list of all the marathons playing on the various cable channels. I’m still trying to figure out why BBC America is playing Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Subscribe in iTunes

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:42:58 -0500

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!

Episode 1 - Reboot

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:03:12 -0500

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:

Direct link to the MP3 for this episode.

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The RSS feed for Stomp Tokyo: The Cult Movies Podcast

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:50:00 -0500

The RSS feed for Stomp Tokyo: The Cult Movies Podcast:

Yep, we’ve decided to start the podcast up again. Here’s the feed – show notes for the first episode to follow shortly.