Raiders of the Podcast

     This week a pair of trips to cities of night.      Aaron Boone dreams of Midian, a city of monsters. Boone's psychotherapist, Dr. Decker, has a hobby he wants Boone to take credit for. Soon both men will seek out Midian and its secrets for very different reasons...

    This week two films with a heavy focus on local transportation preferences.     Frank Martin, a mercenary who specializes in the timely conveying of sensitive items and people, only has three rules. Never change the deal, no names, and never open the package. When he breaks his own rules on a delivery, his employers try to kill him, and Frank finds himself working against the clock to find a container filled with 400 trafficked people...

     This week- a whole bunch of people who are in questionable states of mind.      When Gallico, an aspiring magician and underappreciated inventor of death defying stage effects, is stopped in the middle of his professional debut by his employer he might finally be pushed too far. With his brilliant mind for tricks and make up, Gallico begins a path of revenge in glorious 3D...

     This week the second starring role for one of Hong Kong's most bad ass stars and a film made by a son of a Bond.      When Hong Kong detective Michelle Yip, air security guard Michael Wong, and hardboiled Tokyo detective Yamamoto team up to stop a crime boss's daring in flight escape. Little do the expect that it would set them, and all the care about, in the sights of a pair of revenge focused blood brothers...

     This week three tales of horror and mad science under the high seas.      The experimental submarine "Siren I" has gone missing. So the Contek Corporation has decided to drag its whiney and obnoxious designer, Wick Hayes, onboard "Siren II" with an experienced crew and no nonsense Captain to find whatever may remain of the vanished vessel. Soon they will see what lies beyond THE RIFT...

     This week a satire from the 1960s and a sports comedy of more recent vintage.      An advertising firm accidently votes its only African-American member as the new chairman-of-the-board. He quickly changes the name and starts claiming to be forging new paths. Their ads make all their clients wildly successful...

     This week a pair of walks on the wild side that end in fairly similar results.     The movie version of a 1980s titan of television. Crockett and Tubs are undercover vice detectives. When they stumble on to a joint federal agency operation against a paramilitary cartel. The operation is leaking information and unable to move forward...

     This week a maniacal vanity project by an aging dancer of international renown and a young franchise actor's second project getting arthouse cred with a French auteur.      A legendary spy known as "Blackbird", head of the notorious group known as "The Chieftains", takes his whole team into retirement after the death of his... fiancée... or wife... sister, maybe... though I'm pretty sure there are some kid hands in those early quick cuts but whatever...

    This week we close out Japanuary with a three pack of films from auteur Sion Sono.     Notorious criminal, Nicolas Cage... I mean HERO, is sent by the tyrannical Governor to retrieve his adopted granddaughter, Bernice, who has fled into the mysterious and terrifying Ghostlands to get away from him...

     This week- two entries in long running series.      Nami works at a large upscale department store. Except for some heavy breathing phone calls, she is fairly satisfied being alone. When a coworker talks her into being a substitute for a fetish model photo shoot, it kicks off many complications in her life. I hope she was well compensated for... Angel Guts: Red Porno...