Secret Handshake

Secret Handshake

by Jacob Knight, Marten Carlson & Cody Bouchard

Film History Film Reviews

Season 2

Spine #18 - King of New York

Room service motherfuckers! This week, Jacob and Marten head to Abel Ferrara's grimy vision of New York City to watch Chris Walken battle cops and rival gangs as the iconic Frank Black. Get the shower ready, this is real gutter cinema.

Dealbreakers #2 - The Shawshank Redemption

In the second installment of the Bad Opinions Podcast, Marten attempts to justify why he hates the seminal Stephen King prison picture. Cody and Jacob disagree.

Season 2

Bonus Episode - The Exhumed Films 24-Hour Horror Marathon XIV (Featuring Simon Abrams)

The boys travel to beautiful Phoenixville, Pennsylvania and experience 25 hours of 35mm horror madness. With Special Guest Simon Abrams!

Dealbreakers #1 - Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN II

The antithesis of "Secret Handshake", "Dealbreakers" covers the movies opinions your friends hold that make you rethink your entire relationship. Kicking it off: Jacob says Zombie's slasher sequel is a masterwork. Cody and Marten do not concur.

Season 2

Spine #17 - Ride Lonesome

This week, Marten assigns Jacob a ton of homework as they explore the Ranown Cycle of Westerns that saw Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott and Burt Kennedy churning out some of the best matinee gunfighter fare in the history of cinema.

Spine #16 - The Crow

This week, Cody returns to the pod and brings out the inner Goth teenager in both Jacob and Marten by making them revisit '90s supernatural revenge staple THE CROW.

Spine #15 - Midnight Mass

An early audible in Season Two sees Jacob and Marten tackling MIDNIGHT MASS and the terrifying film career of Mike Flanagan. Is this the best Stephen King adaptation (that's not actually based on a King novel?). Find out in super-sized Spine #15.

Spine #14 - Shakedown

The start of a new Secret Handshake: Jacob and Marten usher in the series' second season with SHAKEDOWN, James Glickenhaus' ultraviolent NYC Grime two-handed buddy cop action extravaganza. Grab your Uzi, this one goes off the rails.

Season 1

Spine #13 - The Astrologer

For the season finale, Jacob, Cody and Marten go long on Craig Denney's tough-to-see masterpiece of DIY outsider art. Psychedelia and Moody Blues tunes abound.

Spine #12 - The Legend of Billie Jean

Fair is fair! Jacob, Marten and Cody tackle the very best teen movie in existence and dissect how it might also be the very first #metoo movie ever. Helen Slater. Christian Slater. Keith Gordon. Fire up your motor scooters, we're headed to Texas! (Programming Note: this episode was originally recorded as "Spine #7" before we called an audible and did THE EMPTY MAN with David Prior at the last minute. Please excuse the odd mis-numbering in the intro.)

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