The Tuesday Morning Screening Room Podcast

The Tuesday Morning Screening Room Podcast

by The Tuesday Morning Screening Room Podcast

Comedy TV & Film

Season 1

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: "MOVIE DEATHMATCH: 1979's Alien. vs 1987's Predator" with Eric Fogel

We know Predator: Badlands ripped the spine out of the box office this past weekend... smashing records and thrilling audiences alike (congrats!)... but can recent franchise success boost the original 1987 PREDATOR film to take the Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - Unstoppable Galactic Lifeform Division - from its oldest and most hated rival - 1979's ALIEN! Who knows?!? So, joining FM this month for every bite and scratch in a 10-round, no-holds-barred cinematic smackdown of crazy film-relevant categories is someone that knows a little something about the sweet science of deathmatching - director/writer/producer, Eric Fogel - the creator of the original Celebrity Deathmatch for MTV! FM & Eric hope to answer a question that not even two AvP films could answer... but remember, Screening Roomers, no matter who wins - WE ALL LOSE!!!

"Get to the Choppa... and Theater!": Exploring the Predator Movie Franchise with Jordan Morris

With PREDATOR: BADLANDS hitting theaters this week... it's time to celebrate one of the most iconic movie monsters in film history and one of our favorite sci-fi/action/horror franchises ever in the TMSR - The Predator and THE PREDATOR MOVIE FRANCHISE! And joining FM this week to tackle all six Predator films... plus two Alien vs Predator films... is TV & comic book writer, Jordan Morris, recent scribe of the new Marvel Comics Anthology - Predator: Black, White & Blood! Well, should you listen, Screening Roomers? To quote Ah-nuld from the '87 original... "C'MON! DO IT NOW!"

SURPRISE BONUS EPISODE: Popcorn with Thom Adcox-Hernandez

Screening Roomers, we have one last Halloween treat for you before we wrap up our month of horror-related episodes... a midnight movie slasher about a midnight movie slasher... a forgotten little gem that might also be one of the better meta-horror-comedies of the last 30-years - 1991's POPCORN! And joining FM in the Screaming Room to help make some new Popcorn '91 fans and discuss his experience on the film is Popcorn's Pvt. Corky Bivens - actor Thom Adcox-Hernandez. Happy Halloween, Screaming Roomers!

Fade to Black with Yuri Lowenthal

Hey, Screening Roomers, have you ever heard of 1980's FADE TO BLACK? Probably not. Should you? Definitely yes! And actor Yuri Lowenthal joins FM in the Screaming Room to make the case to why this is such a criminally underrated Cable Box cult classic and single-handedly the best horror-comedy made in 1980 about a disturbed young man obsessed with old Hollywood films who enacts his revenge through highly theatrical kill fantasies starring Dennis Christopher.

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: "MOVIE DEATHMATCH: Tag-Team Monster Mash - The Originals. vs The Remakes" with Eric Fogel & Piotr Michael

Help us... Help us.... as this month's MOVIE DEATHMATCH has a special Halloween season Creature Feature twist!!! As we pit three revered Creature Classics (1951's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, 1958's THE FLY & 1958's THE BLOB &) against their spirited and spunky Remakes (1982's THE THING, 1986's THE FLY & 1988's THE BLOB) - in a 10-round, no-holds-barred, tag-team cinematic smackdown to see who will win the coveted Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - and claim Overall Movie Concept Supremacy! And joining FM for every bite, scratch and evisceration is someone that knows a little something about the sweet science of deathmatching - director/writer/producer, Eric Fogel - the creator of the original Celebrity Deathmatch for MTV... with our special guest referee - actor/impressionist, Piotr Michael! WHICH TEAM WILL REIGN SUPREME???!!! WHO KNOWS... but we do know this... to quote Geena Davis in The Fly '86 - "be afraid... be very afraid..."

The Strange Case of War of the Gargantuas: A Kaiju Conundrum

1966's WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS... is it a sequel... a reboot... a based on the comedy of... just what the (bleep) is it! Well, whether it is in fact the follow-up to 1965's FRANKENSTEIN VS BARAGON (aka FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD) or not - both films remain two of our favorite monster mashes! So, this week our resident Kaiju expert, writer/author Todd Ludy, returns to the Screening Room to help FM solve this Kaiju conundrum once and for all... and hopefully not break their brains in the process.

The Universal Monsters Pt. 3's with Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast

The Universal Monsters - Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Invisible Man, The Mummy and The Wolfman - are horror and pop culture icons with each starring in their own classic film. But their respective series didn't end at just one. These mighty monsters went on to make a hefty string of sequels that sometimes honored their original films or subverted them completely. So, this week, writers Sam Cherington & Will Morey of Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast return to the Screaming Room to explore the part 3's of this Fearsome Fivesome! Which ones should you put on your Halloween watch list...and which ones should you ward off with garlic? Find out... IF YOU DARE!!! [insert creepy organ music here]

The Demons Double-Feature with Mitch Watson

Attenzione amici della sala cinematografica! (very loosely translated: "Attention, Screening Roomers!") This week the TMSR doubles-down on the weird (and wonderful) with a double-feature of two of the goriest, goopiest and gooiest entries in the annals 0f gonzo Italian horror history - 1985's Demons & 1986's Demons 2! So, to help revel in all the glorious goop & gore is award-winning writer/producer & former Italian horror movie actor, Mitch Watson... with a very special appearance by Demon Dog! Preparatevi!!!

"Phanboying over Phantasm" with Yuri Lowenthal

BOYYYYYYY (did you see what I did there) do we have quite an episode for you this morning, Screening Roomers... as actor Yuri Lowenthal returns to the TMSR with another of his Cable Box Classics. And this time he has brought along a Halloween season cult classic, a sci-fi horror film that revels in the weird... while also being truly wonderful... a film filled with inter-dimensional portals, shrunken reanimated corpses, killer silver orbs, lots of Mexican beer and one very Tall Man (we told it was weird) - 1979's PHANTASM!

SURPRISE BONUS EPISODE: A Tron Franchise Download with the Geek Buddies

Screening Roomers! Just in time for the weekend release of TRON: ARES, the Geek Buddies podcast returns to the Screening Room for a SURPRISE BONUS EPISODE as they take a trip into the Game Grid with FM to download on the first two films in the Tron movie franchise - 1982's TRON and 2010's TRON: LEGACY. So cue up the Daft Punk, hop on your light cycles and try not to get de-rezzed as we chat all things Tron, Flynn and the dude himself - Jeff Bridges! [note: this blurb was written without the use of A.I.]

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