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Aisle of the Damned: 01/18/19- The Perfunctory Best (and Worst) of 2018 Episode

As the year begins, we see the movie podcast critics begin their ritual driven by ancient instinct and time immemorial; naming the best and worst films of the previous year. Bryan and Kent are on that majestic journey. Let it never be said that if everyone jumped off a bridge, they wouldn’t as well. They discuss the five worst/most disappointing movies of 2018, then their 10 favorites. There are sequels both stinky and sublime. Big movies. Small movies. Movies, movies, movies, up to our ears in movies! We count ’em down! Bryan invents the word “Spielbergery” too! Join us, won’t you?

Music:
The Aquabats- Stuck in a Movie!
The Flipsides- The Best of Times

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AotD presents Blockbasterds: 01/11/19

So much to talk about in the first Blockbasterds of 2019! Bryan has a winter movie recommendation to help with your crippling seasonal depression. We talk the slates for Turner Classic Movies’ Fathom Events series and the DC Animated films from Warner Bros. Plus, casting news, film announcements, a few new trailers and more. Then, we talk our recent views as Bryan has finally seen the majesty that is RAW FORCE! And Kent runs through his frantic catch-up for the Best of 2018 episode. Join us for the fun!

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Aisle of the Damned: 01/04/18- I’m Mary Poppins, Ya’ll!

Here comes the new year; same as the old year. Kent and Bryan are all Christmas movied out as they tackle a four-pack of holiday releases. Kent discusses how Mary Poppins Returns stacks up against the original, while Bryan tries to decide if 90 minutes of head trauma would be preferable to Holmes and Watson. Then they both give all of their attention to the Transformers spin-off Bumblebee. What’s a Bayformer movie without the Bay? They find out. Then, you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish… unless you’re Aquaman, that is. Then you can tune that fish all night long. It’s made a lot of money in China, but does DC’s latest keep it’s head above water?

All this and less as Aisle of the Damned welcomes you to 2019!

MUSIC:
The Aquabats- Stuck in a Movie!
Motion City Soundtrack- Calling All Cops

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AotD Presents: Going in Blind- It’s No Jack and Jill

It’s a new year and it’s a new episode of Going in Blind! Kent and Jared discuss the legacy of Burt Reynolds as they talk the original Adam Sandler-free The Longest Yard. They talk antiheroes and nihilism in cinema for Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy. They discuss what they deem “The Better Risky Business” with The Girl Next Door. And they wonder just how many deaths a ship has to participate in to make it a Death Ship. Join us and ring in 2019 right!

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Aisle of the Damned: 12/21/18- A Marvel-Licensed X-mas

Spidey bells, Goblin smells, Vulture laid an egg...

Now I have a podcast. Ho-ho-ho. 

It’s a Happy Marvelkah here at Aisle of the Damned, and our sack is filled to bursting with reviews, including the web-slinging Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! We also talk the Deadpool 2 rerelease: Once Upon a Deadpool. Is it worth seeing again without the best bits? Fred Savage says yes! Also in theaters, The Mule is Clint Eastwood’s first on-screen appearance in six years. Was it worth the wait? Anna and the Apocalypse sings in Christmas with a zombie outbreak. Is it as whacky as it sounds? Bohemian Rhapsody takes a fictitious look at Freddie Mercury’s life and times. And we even have a couple of Netflix offerings: the coming of age film Dumplin’ and the big-budget historical epic Outlaw King. It’s everything you could want under your tree and up your chimney!

Join us for all this and less in Aisle of the Damned!

MUSIC:
The Aquabats- Stuck in a Movie!
Kay Martin and Her Body Guards- I Know What You Want for Christmas

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AotD presents Blockbasterds: 12/14/18

It’s our pre-Christmas episode and we wing it through a few bits of news, talk new releases and our second half of November hauls, knock out a couple of trailers and have a discussion over how one of Marvel’s best special features in years has been left completely off the Infinity War physical release in favor of digital distribution. We also talk sequels and Christmas flicks, trying to figure out what it is about Elf that’s just so darn endearing compared to so almost every other recent holiday film. 

All this and less on Aisle of the Damned’s latest episode of Blockbasterds! 

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Aisle of the Damned: 12/07/18- A Rocky Patchwork Quilt

It’s been a few weeks, and the Damned boys are all loaded up for the holidays with new movie reviews. First, Netflix has dropped the new Coen Brothers’ anthology, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and the film that dares to ask, what if Kurt Russell was Santa Claus, The Christmas Chronicles. There’s also the underworld-skirting thriller Widows. Finally, there are sequels galore: what’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald‘s biggest offense? We’ll tell you. Then Ralph wrecks the internet in Ralph Breaks the Internet. Then we finish up with the eighth film to feature Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, Creed II. Who could ask for more?

Hear all this and less on Aisle of the Damned!

MUSIC:
The Aquabats— Stuck in a Movie!
The Minibosses— Mike Tyson’s Punch Out

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AotD presents Blockbasterds: 11/30/18

If this episode had a title, it would be “The Enigma of Bikini Frankenstein.” Regardless of that fact, Kent and Bryan have some news and a metric ass-ton of trailers for you. Join us as they look at the mystifying world of movies while blizzards and rainstorms rage outside the confines of their respective homes. We pay our respects to the great Stan Lee, we talk found Disney films and wonder just what is the deal with that Detective Pikachu movie? Who are these people? Then it’s on to what they’ve been watching for the least few weeks, with another film in the Rambo series. Listen while you stress eat your Christmas ham early!

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AotD presents: Going In Blind- Introductory Run Down #2

Stuffed with stuffing? All turkeyed out? Good. While you figure out your Black Friday, Kent and Jared are back in Part 2 of their run down of all of the movies they’ve watched during their blind movie nights over the last year. They include the nearly forgotten Kurt Russell comedy Used Cars, Irish monster movie Grabbers, and the twin Playmate double feature: Sorceress and Twins of Evil. They wax philosophical about how recommending movies isn’t necessarily easier in the age of streaming. And they lose focus and jabber on about a mall in Kansas City that looked like it was designed by the costumers on Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.

Enjoy!

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Aisle of the Damned: 11/16/18- It’s Like Japanese Christmas

It’s been a few weeks since the last Damned episode, and we’re ready to rumble. The fellas take on the World War II horror film Overlord, but not before Kent has given his thoughts on a few things. First, there’s Robert Redford’s goodbye in The Old Man & the Gun. The folks behind Despicable Me decided we needed yet another version of The Grinch. And then there are lots of people using accents which aren’t their own in the Tom Clancy-lite Hunter Killer. Which ones are worth your time? We’ll tell you what we think.

All this and less on Aisle of the Damned!

MUSIC:
The Aquabats— Stuck in a Movie!
Cake— War Pigs

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