BC:SF wraps up its Ghostbusters commentary series with the recent Ghostbusters: Afterlife! Topics include: “giving it back to the fans”, how the character named Podcast got his nickname, counti...
2022-02-21 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Want to hear us talk about how hot Mark Ruffalo is for two hours? Oooh boy, do we have a treat for you! Wikipedia-cited “In The Cut” stan Jourdain Searles joins us to unpack Jane Campion’s un...
2022-02-20 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it nobler to try to pee on camera and fail than it is to not try at all? Does Harvey Keitel’s performance in this film only work when he puts on a dress? What the hell is going on in this movi...
2022-02-13 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostVanity Fair writer and friend of the show, Sonia Saraiya, joins BC:SF to discuss season one of the Jane Campion tv series Top of the Lake. Topics include: David Wenham's performance, storage contai...
2022-02-11 05:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This lady might not be “on fire” but she IS wearing a 19 inch corset! Social media maven Marie Bardi joins the boys to dissect Campion’s tepidly received follow-up to “The Piano” - the em...
2022-02-06 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGriffin, David, and Ben continue the Ghostbusters commentary with 2016's Answer the Call (Extended Edition)! Topics include: dunking on Edward Begley Jr, Bill Murray's death, the lack of NYC authen...
2022-02-01 04:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Just imagine…it’s 1993. Bill Clinton is in the White House, Seinfeld is on TV, and America has PIANO FEVER! Newly-minted member of the Five Timers Club Esther Zuckerman joins us to unpack Campi...
2022-01-30 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dana Stevens (Slate.com / Her new Buster Keaton biography “2022-01-23 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Ghostbusters commentary continues with the long anticipated 1989 follow up! Topics include: alternate plots, the main cast's standing in the industry coming into the sequel, the improbability&n...
2022-01-21 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve climbed up in our childhood treehouse and we’re not coming down! Sarah Violet Bliss (Search Party) joins us to talk about “Sweetie” - Jane Campion’s off-kilter meditation on suburbi...
2022-01-16 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGriff, David, and Ben once again open up the ol' mailbag and discuss questions submitted by you–the Checkmates! Topics include: top Matt Damon supporting performances, SteelBook collecting, the p...
2022-01-11 08:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re kicking off our Jane Campion miniseries with her feature-length debut, auspiciously titled “Two Friends” - perhaps she has a competitive advantage? The backwards-structured script (the ...
2022-01-09 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year! We’re going back to the Matrix - which we last covered in 2016 (!!) - and we’re feeling pretty good about it! Seraph was a login screen, sure…but is “Tiffany” a .TIFF? Is ...
2022-01-02 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post3…2…1…BUSTIN’ MAKES ME FEEL GOOD!
BC:SF is kicking off 2022 with a new Ghostbusters commentary series starting with the 1984 original. Topics include: everyone’s personal history wi...
2022-01-01 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello Blankies, Checkmates, and Patrons of the Pod:
Happy Hozlidays!
As we step into the new year, we wanted to kick things off with a very special Patreon episode - it's the retu...
2021-12-26 21:54:40 +0000 UTC View PostSeason greetings Checkmates! The final commentary of 2021 is here. Griffin, David, and Ben discuss The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Topics include: Tim Allen’s 2021-12-21 05:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
They said it couldn’t be done. Remaking possibly the most revered movie musical of all time?! A fool’s errand! But folks, we’ve learned a very important lesson…NEVER DOUBT STEVEN SPIELBERG....
2021-12-19 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Alert the horny police, because we’re taking ourselves to a nunnery with the Dirty Dutch Daddy himself - Paul Verhoeven! The gang goes bonkers for “Benedetta'', and Producer Ben-edetta reveals ...
2021-12-12 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostJ.D. Amato returns for Blank Check's annual Talking the Walk ep! For our 2021 edition, the gang is ranking the best walks in film history. What cinematic walks come to mind? Which characters had th...
2021-12-11 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve spent four months in the Mouth of Madness with the Horror Master, and we’ve reached the end point of Carpenter’s directorial career...for now. A man who has *actually collaborated with ...
2021-12-05 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostBC:SF is back with more Santa Clause commentary to kick off the holiday season. Topics include: #CoalGate, stanning Molly Shannon, alternate international titles, the Council of Legendary Figures a...
2021-12-01 05:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Contrary to popular belief (and Wikipedia), this film was NOT supposed to be another installment in the Snake Plissken series - John Carpenter just thought it would be cool to make a movie about Ma...
2021-11-28 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHo Ho Ho! There's a present under the tree and its a new shiny franchise! BC:SF is discussing the Santa Clause Trilogy starting with 1994’s The Santa Clause. Topics include: accidental Santa homi...
2021-11-21 05:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post
They’re not just Vampires, they’re John Carpenter’s Vampires! “Closer in patina” to a classic Howard Hawks western than anything Carpenter’s ever done, this film is nasty, gruesom...
2021-11-21 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Less of a sequel and more of a “next gen video game re-skin,” Snake Plissken is back in “Escape from LA” and this time he’s got a surfboard! The “Gourley and Rust” guys join us to pon...
2021-11-14 05:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter winning our recent listener poll, this month’s b-b-b-bonus episode of BC:SF is about The Scorpion King. The prequel franchise of the sequel to the remake of the original The Mummy! It is NO...
2021-11-11 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s not “Children of the Damned” nor “Children of the Corn” nor “Corn of the Damned” - it’s John Carpenter’s “Village of the Damned,” goddamnit! Creepy blonde kids with laser...
2021-11-07 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostBC:SF is kicking off November with the 2017 Mummy reboot, the first (and probably last tbh) release in Dark Universe franchise. Topics include: Tom Cruise hanging on to being a leading man, favorit...
2021-11-01 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in time for Halloween - it’s the conclusion of Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy” and one of the best Lovecraftian horrors ever to grace the silver screen! Vulture’s Angelica Jade Bast...
2021-10-31 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In which we try to find the John Carpenter in what is overwhelmingly a Chevy Chase vanity project. The legendary Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone) joins us to make sense of this befuddling genre mishm...
2021-10-24 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post