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TOM HOLLAND and FRIGHT NIGHT

Aug 21, 2015 | Featured, Podcasts |

Actor/writer/director Tom Holland returns to continue his podcast with the Damn Dirty Geeks, this episode focusing on his highly popular 1985 twist on the vampire genre, FRIGHT NIGHT… for real!

The full contingent of Damn Dirty Geeks — Frank, Jack, Frank, Trish and Scott — spent a wonderful and informative evening with actor/screenwriter/director Tom Holland to discuss his successful filmmaking career and his daunting task of writing the 1983 sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s innovative horror thriller PSYCHO.

STAR WARS, EMPIRE AND JEDI – A Look Back Part 2

Aug 7, 2015 | Podcasts, Star Wars |

In Part 2 of this double-episode, Frank, Jack and Scott return to discuss RETURN OF THE JEDI that capped off the Original (and at the time, the only) STAR WARS Trilogy in 1983. Comparisons and criticisms abound between JEDI’s lighter tone following up EMPIRE’s cliffhanger (some say unsatisfying) ending, and how Episode VI caught a bit of a bad reputation for being as much of a toy-selling product as an exciting franchise finale.

STAR WARS, EMPIRE AND JEDI – A Look Back Part 1

Jul 25, 2015 | Podcasts, Star Wars |

With STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS just a few months from blasting into theaters, the Damn Dirty Geeks revisit the classic, original STAR WARS trilogy in two full length podcasts. In Part 1 of this double-episode, Frank, Jack and Scott discuss in depth the unique clash of perfect timing and epic fantasy storytelling that launched a cinematic phenomenon in 1977.

Uncle Ira’s Basement: THE DEAD ZONE

Jul 24, 2015 | Podcasts |

We’re on a roll with Stephen King films after our CHRISTINE episode, so the Damn Dirty Geeks make a U-turn back into Uncle Ira’s Basement for this mini-podcast about David Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s THE DEAD ZONE. In this episode, Frank, Trish and Scott focus their psychic skills on Christopher Walken’s memorable performance in this tense Cronenberg thriller which arguably is the best feature adaptation of a King novel yet.