Mixed Review

Our series on the Halloween franchise concludes with our dissections of Jamie Lee Curtis' long-awaited returns to Haddonfield (Halloween: H2O (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (2018)) and a final word on the movies as a whole, including a rundown of which to seek and which to skip and a comparison to the Friday the 13th films.

Bad words and B-movie stars abound as director Rob Zombie is handed the keys to the franchise and quickly makes it his own, for better or worse, with Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009).

After each falling into a comatose state, the four of us awaken exactly one week later, tattooed with the Mark of Thorn, to discuss Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).

In the first of a four-part series on the Halloween franchise, we discuss John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II (1981), and Tommy Lee Wallace's Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).

Our interstellar travels bring us to John Carpenter's 1974 directorial debut, Dark Star, co-written by and starring future Alien scribe Dan O'Bannon.

This week, we gag on Jell-O shots and discuss John Hughes' 1985 movie Weird Science, a horny teen comedy (seemingly written by horny teens) starring Kelly LeBrock, who describes her character as "Mary Poppins with breasts." Indeed.

Corbin returns to the podcast to help hunt down Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk, a mishmash of heavy adult themes, lengthy CGI battle sequences, and Nick Nolte biting into a cable and absorbing all the electricity in San Francisco.

The movie made a bundle, the soundtrack won a Grammy, and Zach Braff walked away with indie cred. Only in 2004 could Garden State become a runaway success, and only in 2018 could it maintain such a deep critical divide: Some love it; some hate it; we drink to forget.

An attempt by directors John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller to update the classic TV series with 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie results in three accidental deaths and charges of manslaughter. 25 years later, we discuss how its legacy has changed Hollywood and wonder whether Spielberg should be imprisoned for directing "Kick the Can".

Kevin loses his composure, William loses his mind, and Silas is just lost as we run down Wayne Newton/Knight/Kramer's 2006 thriller Running Scared, starring the late Paul Walker and the early Vera Farmiga.

Wingardium Leviosa! Open up your copy of the Book of the Vishanti and join us as we follow four friendly munchkins to the magical kingdom of Narnia in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

The Cannon Group made the leap to major motion pictures with Joe, John G. Avildsen's controversial 1970 drama about a racist who owns too many firearms. We discuss how fortunate we are to live in the present, where racism doesn't exist and nobody owns guns.

Over shots of Fernet-Branca with PBR chasers, William suffers a mini-breakdown and Silas remains incredulous about Rick Alverson's The Comedy.

Space vaginas abound as we gush over Robert Wise's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a movie about nerds made by nerds for nerds.

Tuck your carpenter jeans into your Doc Martens and grab your Hi8 camera, because we're about to venture deep into the wooded areas of Maryland (and possible Nova Scotia) to document Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's The Blair Witch Project, Joe Berlinger's Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, and Adam Wingard's Blair Witch.

What's that!?? Who's there!?? It's the CHEAPEST - er - SCARIEST movie ever made, Paranormal Activity!

This week on the Lucy Liu Appreciation Podcast, we Kansas City shuffle our way towards Paul McGuigan's Lucky Number Slevin, a heistless heist movie starring coulda-been sex symbol Josh Hartnett.

We glue our hair over our breasts and head off to sea with Randal Kleiser's The Blue Lagoon, a "classic" "love" "story" about young teenagers trapped on the cushiest desert island imaginable. Hands to yourselves, please!

Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some kill an evening discussing David Fincher's 2008 film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I say, I say, I SAY, sir.

In Russell Mulcahy's The Shadow, Alec Baldwin battles the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper, now a telekinetic, child-killing New York taxi driver (Peter Boyle), with help from Scotland Yard's Reinhardt Lane (Ian McKellan), the last surviving relative of the Whitechapel murderer's first victim. Join us as we wish any of that was true.