Stomp Tokyo: The Cult Movies Podcast

Episode 12.5: Not just a hot dog place

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:05:36 -0400

Chris & Scott record a quick and dirty episode to fill the time while Scott prepares to move from St. Petersburg, FL to Chicago, IL. Forgive the retrograde production values on this episode.

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Episode 12: Post-Modern Apocalyptic

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:03:34 -0400

Discussing the Muppets Blu-Ray and its nod to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Hunger Games, Cabin in the Woods, and what to do with those comics moldering in your closet.

The Muppets on Blu-Ray
IMDb: Tyler Bunch (muppeteer)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV series: clip 1, clip 2
The Hunger Games - Map of Panem
Stomp Tokyo review of Battle Royale
The Hunger Games article at Entertainment Weekly
Battle Star Galactica: Blood & Chrome trailer
Cabin in the Woods - official site
Comic Book Men - official site
ComicZeal
Comic Book Lover
Comixology

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Episode 11: Creepy and Weird Awesome

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:21:01 -0400

Discussing the rumored death of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actual death of Ralph McQuarrie, tales from development hell, and why Spock Must Die!

Arnold Schwarzenegger death hoax
Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie dies at 82
Star Trek original series novelization covers
Spock Must Die! (Wikipedia)
Tor.com’s article about Spock Must Die!
Star Trek - The New Voyages (book)
Star Trek - The New Voyages 2 (book)
Splinter in the Mind’s Eye
The Long, Strange Saga of Total Recall 2
Tales from Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made?
Godzilla vs the Devil
Gamera vs Garasharp at Shrine of Gamera
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Chris’ review of The Lorax on Slackerwood

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Episode 10: Check out the big brain on Brad.

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:20:53 -0400

Following up on Albert Pyun, a discussion of the film Limitless and other movies in which people get smarter and then go crazy. Sometimes by implanting goat glands in their testicles.

Check out the big brain on Brett!
Albert Pyun’s Infection
Limitless starring Bradley Cooper & Robert DeNiro
Nootropics on Wikipedia
Lawnmower Man
Wired: This is Your Brain on Tetris
The Goat Gland Doctor (Quackwatch)
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Border Blaster (Wikipedia)
Border Blasters, the band on Myspace
Border Blasters on CDBaby
iTV’s Whitechapel
BBC’s Jekyll

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Warner Bros. Embarrasses Self, Everyone, With New “Disc-to-Digital” Program

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:00:25 -0500

Warner Bros. Embarrasses Self, Everyone, With New “Disc-to-Digital” Program:

Michael Weinberg, writing for Public Knowledge:

The head of Warner Home Entertainment Group thinks that an easy, safe way to convert movies you already own on DVD to other digital formats is to take your DVDs, find a store that will perform this service, drive to that store, find the clerk who knows how to perform the service, hope that the “DVD conversion machine” is not broken, stand there like a chump while the clerk “safely” converts your movie to a digital file that may only play on studio-approved devices, drive home, and hope everything worked out. Oh, and the good news is that you would only need to pay a reasonable (per-DVD?) price for this pleasure.

If Apple releases a new iteration of the Apple TV tomorrow, that and this little tidbit should be enough to get me and Scott on a jag about technology in the next episode we record. - Chris

Episode 9: Pyunsanity

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:48:34 -0500

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
Albert Pyun’s Facebook page
Review: Omega Doom
Review: Nemesis 3
Review: Hong Kong 97
Review: Captain America
Review: Spitfire
Don’t Trust the B—— in Apartment 23
Happy Endings TV series
Murders in the Rue Morgue TV movie
Wikipedia: Made for TV movies
Wikipedia: Jekyll TV series
Benedict Cumberbatch in Frankenstein

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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.