464: Rumble In The Bronx [1995] Movie Discussion

We talk for far too long about the various meanings of the world ‘rumble’ at the start of this podcast as well as tangents about youth clubs and soap operas for kids. What’s all this got to do with the out first discussion of a Jackie Chan film, the Hong Kong martial arts classic Rumble in the Bronx? Not much really, but then the film is just a series of excuses to have fun, stunt-filled action set pieces strung together loosely so why can’t our podcast be the same!? Up for discussion this week: the largest small Chinese supermarket ever, the ‘we don’t know how videogames work’ trope of the 90’s, Jackie Chan’s polo neck tank top, throwing a truck of bouncy balls off a roof and that incredibly illogical hovercraft climax.

462: Harry and The Hendersons [1987] Movie Discussion

We all remember watching the t.v show Harry and The Hendersons in our youth, so we figured we’d better check out the movie, especially considering it had podcast favourite John Lithgow in it. Our questions this week: is this the most rugged and sexy we have ever seen David Suchet?, would a fan casting of The Big Show as Harry be any good?, is the ultimate lesson of this film simply ‘don’t drive like a douche in the forest’? and would we get a bigger audience if we did a Big Foot podcast or if we did a Big FOOT podcast?

462: Legend of The Red Dragon [1994] Movie Discussion

Our Chinese martial arts movie kick continues with the 1994 action comedy Legend of The Red Dragon, which soon descends into a trope filled, silly, Looney Tunes-style live-action cartoon that forgoes logic and sense for as many visual gags as it is possible to jam in there and, do ya know what, we are totally here for it! It’s a film that never stops delivering it’s fun crazy antics, far too many to list here, so we’ll just say strap in for an entertaining wild ride.

461: The Gate [1987] Movie Discussion

It’s the classic story of ‘parents go away for the weekend and kids have to deal with hell portal that opens up in the backyard’ in The Gate from 1987. If you’re looking for a Stranger Things fix this may be the perfect film for you with its fun blend of kid-centred family film meets surprisingly effective supernatural horror in a movie featuring: demonic geodes, dancing with dead dogs, hilarious tiny gremlins demons, perplexing moth symbolism, our favourate miming scene ever and the seemingly inevitable fireworks climax of every 80’s movie.