We’ve reached the final installment of the Mummy Trilogy! Topics include: why the kid still sucks, bone books, Jet Li as a dragon, Rob Cohen’s directing and more!
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2021-10-17 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Don’t adjust your sunglasses - it’s another epic crossover podcast! The Doughboys join #TheTwoFriends to tackle Carpenter’s still-relevant anti-capitalist alien action classic. Is “Rowdy”...
2021-10-17 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks - we can't decide what to cover for November 11.
Should we slot in another Carpenter bonus (his "Body Bags" TV movie with Tobe Hooper) or tackle THE SCORPION KING?<...
2021-10-16 21:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostAin't nothing but a pod dog. Casting all the time! This month’s bonus feature on BC:SF is the early Carpenter TV movie, Elvis (1979). Friend of the show Layne Montgomery returns joined by fellow ...
2021-10-11 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Every filmmaker gets one “Satan in a jar in a basement” movie and this is John Carpenter’s! Keith Phipps (The Next Picture Podcast) joins us to chat “the anti-God,” fictional British scie...
2021-10-10 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You know what ol’ Jack Burton would do on an episode like this? Bring back Jason Mantzoukas and Paul Scheer, of course! The HOW DID THIS GET MADE? guys make their triumphant return to Blank Check...
2021-10-03 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostMore Mummy bay-beee! Today’s new installment of BC:SF commentary is on the 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns. Topics include: The Rock pivoting into movies, kidnapping, other deeply flawed sequels, ...
2021-10-01 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Voyager II may be approaching the “Termination Shock” (Ben’s new favorite phrase), but we’re on earth cherishing the otherworldly romance of John Carpenter’s STARMAN! Vanity Fair’s Kate...
2021-09-26 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe curse has been lifted! BC:SF officially opens the tomb to a new commentary series with The Mummy franchise! Griffin, David, and Ben re-recorded their commentary of 1999 reboot after experiencin...
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2021-09-21 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDear Checkmates!
Due to technical issues, THE MUMMY (1999) commentary will be released the following day on Sept 22nd at midnight est. Sorry for the delay. For now please enjoy this backstage...
2021-09-21 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s the Blank Check / Kingcast crossover event you’ve all been waiting for! Scott Wampler and Eric Vespe join us to discuss John Carpenter’s “Christine” - the first Stephen King adaptati...
2021-09-19 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s the thing about THE THING - it might be the best movie we’ve ever covered? Emily St. James joins us (and joins the five-timers club!) to discuss Carpenter’s Arctic paranoia classic, wh...
2021-09-12 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor September's bonus ep, Griffin, David, and Ben discussed the TV movie Someone's Watching Me! directed by John Carpenter. Topics include: how this project influenced the making of Hallow...
2021-09-11 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Grab your eyepatches - it’s Snake Plissken time! Karen Han joins the gang to chat Carpenter’s action classic ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - which was actually filmed in St. Louis! Topics covered includ...
2021-09-05 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe've come to the third (and for now final) installment in our commentary series on the Riddick franchise with 2013's return to form! Topics include: tracking the CGI advancement, bone aesthetic, s...
2021-09-01 04:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A film brave enough to ask the question - what if there was fog? Just kidding - this movie is ACTUALLY about vengeful pirate ghosts and a lady with a sexy radio voice. CANDYMAN’s Nia DaCosta retu...
2021-08-29 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s our biggest episode EVER as Alex Ross Perry brings his own dossier of talking points to tackle 1978’s iconic HALLOWEEN. We explore the history of American independent cinema as seen throug...
2021-08-22 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostBlank Check: Special Features picks up on everyone's favorite rapscallion, Richard B. Riddick, in the 2004 odd expanded universe sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick. The gang talks knife notes, dusty...
2021-08-21 04:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post
John Carpenter puts his own spin on Howard Hawks’ iconic western RIO BRAVO and Griffin learns about “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” - it’s our ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 episode! Screenw...
2021-08-15 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn June 25, 2021 the BC crew hosted a private screening of F9 at Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn. In attendance were many friends of the show. You could say people who are part of the extende...
2021-08-11 05:06:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Our long-awaited John Carpenter series kicks off with his ultra-low budget oddity debut DARK STAR. Ben goes Hollywood (actually, “Hosleywood”) to record with Emily Yoshida - the Mother of Blank...
2021-08-08 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostBC:SF launches into a new franchise with 2000's Pitch Black (Theatrical Cut)! Topics include: Vin Diesel's early career, space buses, a Riddick themed Burning Man, Keith David always being great, a...
2021-08-01 04:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
What if there was a beach that made you old? Only the mischievous mind of M. Night Shyamalan could conjure such a place! The gang (including Shyamalan Superfan and Blank Check social media manager ...
2021-08-01 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the slam, it’s time to jam - it’s our first in-person recording since the pandemic! Griffin’s brother James Newman returns to the pod to chat BASKETBALL, a topic that Griffin now k...
2021-07-25 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostBC:SF completes its Twilight Saga commentary series with the fifth and final film, Breaking Dawn: Part 2. Topics include: an audio option for **late night listening, a shared empathy for Charlie Sw...
2021-07-21 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s the direct-to-Crackle sequel to our original Clifford episode from four years ago! Clifford superfan and comedy legend Tom Scharpling (“The Best Show,” his new memoir “It Never Ends”...
2021-07-18 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post