DRUNK CINEMA 074: "The Silence of the Lambs" Is Up!

 
"Do you think that Jack Crawford wants you sexually? True, he is much older but do you think he visualizes scenarios, exchanges...fucking you?"
"That doesn't interest me, Doctor, and frankly, it's...it's the sort of thing that Miggs would say."
"Not anymore."
-- Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, The Silence of the Lambs

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we watch The Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 psychological horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme, featuring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford, and Ted Levine as Jame Gumb!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like Xan hooking us up with DEVO tickets, running down my Top 5 All-Time Favorite Movies, The Silence of the Lambs being released on Valentine's Day, Caged Heat being the Citizen Kane of women's prison movies, Silence being the second book in the novel series by Thomas Harris, Xan and I previously discussing this movie on Gold Standard: The Oscars Podcast, Scott Glenn creeping Xan out, Chris Isaak as Special Agent Chet Desmond in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Xan campaigning for The Substance at this year's Oscars, Dr. Lecter being Anthony Hopkins' definitive role, Demme's love of shots where the character is looking right at the camera, Clarice looking at her car and realizing that Lecter was absolutely dead-on in his analysis of her, Clarice looking for father figures, Buffalo Bill not being transgender, Xan crushing on Mark Knopfler, the film's accurate depiction of rural southwest Ohio, the scene where Lecter's eyes bore into your very soul, "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus, that awkward moment when Jack Crawford and the FBI storm the wrong house, new Drunk Mail from Aaron Case, finally getting For Your Eyes Only back on the schedule, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I watch For Your Eyes Only, the 1981 James Bond series espionage film directed by John Glen, featuring Roger Moore as James Bond, 

Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, Chaim Topol as Milos Columbo, and Julian Glover as Aristotle Kristatos!

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 334: "The Sontaran Stratagem" Is Up!

 
"And your name?"
"General Staal...of the Tenth Sontaran Fleet. Staal the Undefeated!"
"Aw, that's not a very good nickname. What if you do get defeated? Staal the Not-quite-so-undefeated-anymore-but-never-mind?"
-- The Tenth Doctor and General Staal, Doctor Who: "The Sontaran Stratagem"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we discuss "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", the fourth and fifth episodes from Doctor Who Series Four in 2008, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, along with the return of the Sontarans and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like my writing a Titans story for DC Comics in their new anthology DC's Lex and the City #1, the four writers announced for Doctor Who Season 2, the explanation for where the Brigadier was during this story, Christopher Ryan as Mike Thecoolperson on The Young Ones, the first appearance of Dan Starkey as a Sontaran, the Sontarans returning after 28 years, writer Helen Raynor wanting to avoid a "handbags at dawn" scenario that rehashed Rose Tyler's meeting with Sarah Jane Smith in "School Reunion", the undramatic explosion of a UNIT jeep, Donna's mispronunciation of "Sontaran" being a reference to "The Time Warrior", Martha reunion with the Tenth Doctor, the Doctor's consistently inconsistent attitude toward guns, the "Are you my mummy?" gag that references "The Empty Child", the Doctor's surprise that Donna and Martha get along with one another, Sylvia still not knowing that Donna is traveling in the TARDIS, Sylvia having a common sense solution to save Wilf's life while the Doctor didn't, UNIT's Colonel Mace and Captain Price sharing a kiss, not wanting to recast the Brigadier for live-action, Luke Rattigan being inevitably betrayed by the Sontarans, wondering why Luke sacrificed his life to save the Doctor's, Freema Agyeman getting to play an evil clone of Martha Jones, wondering how the Doctor knew igniting the upper atmosphere would work instead of setting the Earth on fire, our favorite quotes of the story, new listener feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, my upcoming story for DC Comics' anthology, Jesse having to watch another Dalek story, and more!

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And just in time for the new era of Doctor Who, we now have a BRAND NEW Next Stop Everywhere t-shirt, which you can find on TeePublic RIGHT HERE!  This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite Doctor Who podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool Next Stop Everywhere merch there as well!

Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "Destiny of the Daleks", the first serial from Doctor Who Season 17 in 1979, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, David Gooderson as Davros, and introducing Lalla Ward as the Second Romana!

First THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Trailer Teases Galactus

Welcome to the Baxter Building.

Marvel Studios has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Fantastic Four: First Steps, based on the Marvel Comics superteam created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

In the film, on a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic Earth, the Fantastic Four must protect their home from being devoured by the cosmic being Galactus and his enigmatic herald, the Silver Surfer.

The 90-second teaser trailer opens with Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) and Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) introducing someone to their home in the Baxter Building. "We make a point to do family dinner every week, Sunday at seven, on the dot, no matter what. We're all here."

We then see an exterior shot of the retro-futuristic Baxter Building, with the team's "4" logo at the top. Inside, The Thing/Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) asks the team's robot helper H.E.R.B.I.E. about the status of spaghetti sauce that's being prepared in the kitchen. After taste testing the sauce, the Thing tells H.E.R.B.I.E., "I wanna add a couple cloves of garlic, not because it's not delicious. I just wanna add a little bit of zip, okay?"

As a countdown begins, we flash back to the team's mission to space where they received the powers, with Reed working out calculations on a blackboard, the team posing for pictures in their spacesuits, and the actual rocket launch.

In bed, Reed says to Sue, "Before we went up the first time, you couldn't turn invisible, Ben wasn't a rock, and Johnny never caught fire."

We see the Thing sadly looking at a television in a store window, watching himself before his physical transformation into an orange rock monster. "Best pilot in the world right here," Reed says to the camera. "Yeah," Ben replies to the camera, "best-looking he means."

Next, we glimpse the Human Torch/Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) catching fire and blazing off into the night sky. 

Back to the conversation between Reed and Sue, Sue tells him, "Ben has always been a rock, Johnny is...Johnny, and I'm right here." As we glimpse Johnny flying up into the upper atmosphere until his flame cuts out from lack of oxygen, Sue continues, "Whatever life throws at us, we'll face it together...as a family."

Various fleeting images follow, including the Four watching something explode in the night sky over Manhattan from their balcony, a sleek FantastiCar automobile racing through the streets, John Malkovich stepping into view with long hair and a beard, the back of Galactus' head as he looks down at the Statue of Liberty, and the costumed Fantastic Four inside what appears to be a TV studio set.

If you'd like to watch the teaser trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 25, 2025.

DRUNK CINEMA 073: "Blue Velvet" Is Up!

 
"It's a strange world, isn't it?"
-- Jeffrey Beaumont, Blue Velvet

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we pay tribute to legendary director David Lynch by watching Blue Velvet, the 1986 neo-noir mystery thriller directed by Lynch, featuring Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont, Laura Dern as Sandy Williams, Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens, and Dennis Hooper as Frank Booth!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like ugly crying in the Drunk Cinema Theater, admiring our mutual friend Jesse Jackson for keeping focused, Xan and I being friends and sort-of family because of David Lynch, my being thankful that Xan agreed to do Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast with me, both of us not wanting to hook my Dad up with Xan's mom, Blue Velvet being the prototype of Twin Peaks, my identifying with Lynch's love of small towns, David Lynch exploring the dark underbelly of Americana, a special appearance by my cat Desire, Lynch being diagnosed with emphysema, David Lynch as Gus the bartender on The Cleveland Show, the various celebrity tributes after Lynch's passing, why '80s high schoolers in Blue Velvet dress like they're in the 1950s, the Yellow Man being a Century 21 realtor, Jeffrey watching Dorothy undress while hiding in her closet, Frank's various psychological issues, Roy Orbison not wanting "In Dreams" to be used in Blue Velvet, Lynch's love of speeding highway POV shots, Julee Cruise's "Mysteries of Love", Sandy's justifiable slap to Jeffrey's face, new Drunk Mail from Christine Peruski, my upcoming story for DC Comics, our next unconventional Valentine's Day movie, and more!

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NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 333: "Frontier in Space" Is Up!

 
"We are about to enter hyperdrive and return to our base. Do not fail the Daleks!"
"Right, we'll see who rules the galaxy when this is over. 'Do not fail the Daleks', indeed. You stupid tin boxes."
-- Dalek Voice and the First Master, Doctor Who: "Frontier in Space"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we discuss "Frontier in Space", the third serial from Doctor Who Season 10 in 1973, featuring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, Katy Manning as Jo Grant, and the final appearance of Roger Delgado as the First Master!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like my Ohio State Buckeyes laying the beatdown on Jesse's Texas Longhorns in the College Football Playoffs, "Frontier in Space" not kicking in until the Master showed up, the story ending on a cliffhanger for "Planet of the Daleks", the tragic death of Roger Delgado, original plans for the Master to have a final encounter in the scrapped serial "The Final Game", the original plans for the Cybermen to appear in "Frontier in Space" instead of the Ogrons, the original plans for "Frontier in Space" and "Planet of the Daleks" to be one 12-part serial, director Paul Bernard omitting the giant Ogron-eating monster, the Draconians being Jon Pertwee's favorite Doctor Who monster, the Ogron stuntmen being asked to move homeless people and drunks so filming could proceed, Jesse liking the Third Doctor and Jo's chemistry, the Third Doctor overloading the mind probe, the Master reading H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Jo resisting the Master's hypnotism by reciting nursery rhymes, the Doctor not being at all concerned that he's in prison, the Third Doctor as a moral crusader, the Doctor realizing that he needed to contact the Time Lords, the female President of Earth, General Williams being more misguided than evil, wondering why the Master would use the dimwitted Ogrons as henchmen, the Master planning to betray the Daleks once they take control of Earth, our favorite quotes of the story, new listener feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, my upcoming story for DC Comics' anthology DC's Lex and the City #1, our upcoming schedule the first third of 2025, trying to persuade DJ Nik and Xan Sprouse to join us for upcoming episodes, and more!

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And just in time for the new era of Doctor Who, we now have a BRAND NEW Next Stop Everywhere t-shirt, which you can find on TeePublic RIGHT HERE!  This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite Doctor Who podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool Next Stop Everywhere merch there as well!

Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", the fourth and fifth episodes from Doctor Who Series Four in 2008, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, along with the return of the Sontarans and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones!

The Titans Return to Happy Harbor in DC'S LEX AND THE CITY #1

 
If you ever get up to Happy Harbor, the cherry pie is worth a stop.

My second DC Universe story for DC Comics, "Together Again", was released this week as part of DC's new Valentine's Day anthology DC's Lex and the City #1. Featuring art by Serg Acuña, colors by Alex Guimarães, and lettering by Josh Reed, "Together Again" has four original members of the Teen Titans -- now adult Titans -- spending a guys' weekend in the wonderful and strange town of Happy Harbor, Rhode Island.

Returning to the Double H Diner, their former refuge from being teenaged superheroes, Dick Grayson, Wally West, Roy Harper, and Garth Curry reminisce about the original weekend they spent as teenagers helping the Justice League move from the League's original Secret Sanctuary headquarters hidden inside Mount Fox in Happy Harbor. However, it turns out Dick Grayson has an ulterior motive for the guys' weekend, involving a towering Kaiju monster named Raxodon.

Here's the official solicitation for DC's Lex and the City #1...

AS SUPERMAN FLEW AWAY YET AGAIN, I HAD TO WONDER…WAS I TRYING TO DESTROY HIM, OR WAS HE DESTROYING ME? Written by Brendan Hay, Sina Grace, Dave Wielgosz, Charles Skaggs, Callie C. Miller, Maggie Tokuda-Hall and More Art by Howard Porter, Serg Acuna, Stephen Byrne, Lisa Sterle, Leslie Hung, and More

It's Valentine's Day, which means that love and heartbreak are sweeping every city in the DCU! This anthology collects eight stories of heroes and villains looking for love in the big city (which practically feels like its own character!). Lex Luthor laments over the one that got away–the big, ever-elusive Metropolitan man, Superman! Raven and Beast Boy embark on a romantic scavenger hunt across San Francisco (which just might be a trap)! And Damian Wayne runs a dating-advice gauntlet through Gotham City, organized by none other than the dating master himself, Tim Drake! Gather your pals, pour yourself a cosmo, and hit your nearest comic shop–DC'S LEX & THE CITY is coming this January!

DC's Lex and the City #1 can be found at your local comic shop or digitally on Amazon.com!

THE FANDOM ZONE 313: "A Very Funny Monster" Is Up!

 
"First, you seduced Flag to get him on your side. Then, after we captured Circe, you suggested we kill her. That would’ve taken care of everything, but Flag, despite him being an old rube hung up on your charms, refused, so you sent on of your knights to spy on us. He must’ve seen McPherson visit Waller, someone you’d know would back up Cersei’s story, so you’re only choice was to get your friend Clayface to make it look like she wasn’t who she was, even though she was who she was when she and Waller spoke."
"This is all nonsense."
"Malarkey. You were who Circe said you were all along, a power-mad, sadistic, narcissistic Disney princess who wants to destroy the world, but I want you to know, I’m not going to kill you because you’re going to cause World War III and I’m not doing it to save the world. I mean, what has this ball of dirt ever done for me? No, Ilana, I’m killing you because you took the life of the only friend I have, and the only one of us with an ounce of kindness in her veins."
-- The Bride and Ilana Rostovic, Creature Commandos -- "A Very Funny Monster"

Hello again, everyone! DJ Nik and I are back for another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast! This time, we discuss "A Very Funny Monster", the Creature Commandos Season One finale, starring the voices of of Indira Varma as The Bride, Zoë Chao as Nina Mazursky, and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller!

In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like Ohio State heading to the College Football Playoff National Championship, whether Season One stuck the landing, wondering how the Bride pieced everything together so completely, Gregg Henry as Grandpa Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy, some comics background on Nina Mazursky, the homage to Creature from the Black Lagoon, Nina's mother being a hot piece of garbage, Nina's father being the only person in Nina's life that cared about her, the Bride's really fast takedown of Eric Frankenstein, the Bride manipulating Nina to swim out and kill Ilana, Rick Flag Sr. waking up from his coma, Weasel becoming a hero to Pokolistan, the Bride's Columbo moment with Ilana, The Bride only caring about getting revenge on Ilana for killing Nina, the welcome return of G.I. Robot, the Bride leading the new team of Creature Commandos for Season 2, Gail Simone writing King Shark in Secret Six, Gail Simone's cameo as Principal Gail, the post-credits scene with Eric and another old Pokolistan woman, our favorite quotes of the episode, my upcoming story for DC Comics' anthology DC's Lex and the City, our upcoming discussions of Daredevil: Born Again, and more! 

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Be sure to come back in March when DJ Nik and I discuss the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again on The Fandom Zone Podcast!