http://noisepicnic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/db_27.mp3 Spearheaded by co-host Michael Postle and guest Gregory Parks, there was skepticism on the Joshua Humphrey and Brian Watson-Jones front regarding this entry. The Facebook messenger rants we exchanged, trading thoughts on originality and what a superhero movie must do and set up, were barbe…

Leave your corpse-related phobias at the door–today we’re matching up Weekend at Bernie’s and Swiss Army Man. The 80’s buddy comedy and the 2016 (horror? independent? romantic comedy?) film utilize corpses as props, both for different purposes. Bernie is used as a social equalizer, allowing Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) t…

Double Bill took a break for awhile, but we have a few episodes in the hopper waiting for your listening pleasure. First up, we have passion projects from two creators: “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “UHF” and Mike Jittlov’s “Wizard of Speed and Time.” Listeners may recognize the first but have no idea about the second. Both are narratives about outsiders s…

Alex Collyard joins us in our continuing series of audience suggestions. We present for your edification frozen yogurt v. gelato, the case of the century! Will frozen yogurt see itself vindicated, and its status as ice cream’s healthy successor restored? Or will the Double Bill judges find for gelato and its marshmallowy texture and overall present…

We last tackled documentaries when we paired Religulous and Going Clear. We return to the documentary well with Pumping Iron, the documentary that brought bodybuilding into public consciousness, and Bigger Stronger Faster*, which looks critically at steroid usage in American culture. We’re joined this week by special guest Bill Stiteler! Bill is pa…

Alex Collyard joins us in our continuing series of audience suggestions! This episode, we mash up Dad’s Old Fashioned Root Beer with an alcoholic version, Not Your Father’s Root Beer. Just like a certain DS9 bartender, we have opinions about root beer. Up next, we’re moving into the fascinating world of body-building: and The post Dad’s Old Fashion…

Levi Weinhagen is host of The Pratfalls Podcast, co-host of Regret Labs, and a comedy-maker. But most importantly for our purposes, he’s a Robert Ludlum aficionado, and he joins us for a discussion of 1988’s The Bourne Identity miniseries coupled with 2002’s The Bourne Identity. Which Identity will prevail? Will Richard Chamberlain’s gloriously fur…

Elevate your podcast enjoyment with the first of our audience suggestions: an audio version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Grey Poupon. Suggested by Alex Collyard of the fellow NoisePicnic podcast, Cold Read, this is a cross-media pairing: one the best of the printed word, the other the best of the mustard genre. Alex will be joining us for othe…

Jeremy Motz brings us a combination Halloween/Thanksgiving episode with Ravenous and Cannibal: The Musical. Alferd Packer, confessed cannibal, serves as inspiration for both films (one more directly than the other). Up next: a selection of audience suggestions from our August live show. The post Ravenous / Cannibal: The Musical | Double Bill: Episo…

In August at the NoisePicnic Podcast Festival, we Double Billed two shorts by filmmaker Paul von Stoetzel: Pet Peeve and Here’s to Old Friends. Take a watch, come back, and listen as we talk local theatre and film, the tension between horror and comedy, and clowns. Lots and lots of clown talk. Consider this a clown trigger warning. If you’re more i…

And now, a very special wedding episode of Double Bill, featuring the brilliantly improvisational Brian Watson-Jones and Joshua “thinks-he’s-clever” Humphrey. The post Michael David Postle / Rachel Finch | Double Bill: Special Episode appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.Joshua Humphrey, Brian Watson-Jones, Michael Postle

I (Joshua) am a big fan of the animated programming Renaissance we are in, with our Adventure Times, Rick and Mortys, and Gravity Fallses. So when I saw Melissa Kaercher make this comment on Twitter: I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks the Steven Universe theme sounds exactly like “Creep” by Radiohead. — Melissa Kaercher (@chebutykin) July …

Michael Postle decides that there will be some religion talk in Double Bill with the pairing of Bill Maher’s “Religulous” and the HBO documentary “Going Clear.” Special guest Tim Wick, of the Geeks Without God and Reel Education podcasts, gives us added help and perspective as we delve into each film. Coming up, Humphrey indulges his Steven Univers…

Our obsession with covers continues with Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice” coupled with the version by The Gourds. Brian Watson-Jones posits that the musical styles aren’t too far apart from each other in spirit, and this divides the panel. Next up, Michael picks a religion-themed double bill with special guest, Tim Wick! Religulous and Going Clear. The…

Where can you go to find references to a better version of this podcast, stories about horrific encounters with deer, and a promise that we’ll never do “Battlefield Earth”? Here, on this quality podcast covering Marjane Satrapi’s “The Voices” and Mary Crawford’s (a.k.a. David DeCoteau) “A Talking Cat!?!” It’s true: we lined up a special guest, Aric…

This episode, it’s all about the Lady Marmalade(s)! The original, Patti LaBelle classic and the new(ish) Moulin Rouge cover version. There’s been a delay in episodes the last couple months as Joshua concentrated on his finals. But the next episode features two movies with “talking” animals! Everyone likes animals, Ryan Reynolds, Anna Kendrick, and …

This episode visits the works of screenwriter Dan O’Bannon. First is his work with John Carpenter, Dark Star, which they made mostly during their time at USC. Second is Alien, which came after O’Bannon’s stint on Jodorowsky’s Dune project. O’Bannon said that Alien is Dark Star as a horror movie. That, we’ll let you decide for yourself. If you’re mo…

And now, something fun for all you fans of 80’s hair bands and YouTube superstars! It’s time for a rundown on Mr. Big’s music video for “To Be With You” and Glove and Boots’ cover version “To Meh With You.” I love Glove and Boots. When they did their cover video, I thought it was the BEST. THING. EVER. The shot-for-shot remake and the attention to …

The theme is failed promise, and we explore the creative geniuses behind projects that never came to be in two documentaries: Lost in La Mancha and Jodorowsky’s Dune. We had a lot of fun with these films, but there’s no denying that our lives are emptier because Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s version of Du…

Two short pieces that challenge our sanity. Adult Swim’s Too Many Cooks and Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejected begin our series of mini-episodes. We have a long time between our tent-pole episodes, and wanted more episodes to fill out our docket. Our answer was to create smaller-scale double bills. This is Brian Watson-Jones’ pick, so you can praise (blame)…

Happy Sweet Sixteenth episode, Double Bill! The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline have two large commonalities: they are directed by Henry Selick (who also directed James and the Giant Peach) and use stop-motion animation in their storytelling. Why and how they’re connected to the life of our guest, Tess Kean, you’ll need to listen to find ou…

Until today, the pairing of Dhoom 2 and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance was never contemplated beneath the skies and stars on this Earth. We’ve made it happen for you, dear listener. Do these connect? Kinda. There are motorcycles! Chases! A willingness to go big or go home! But there are no musical numbers in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and …

The theme is cameos, cameos, cameos! Sub-themes include, but are not limited to: musical numbers, getting the band together, and magical realism. Revisiting “The Muppet Movie” and “Blues Brothers” and focusing on every recognizable celebrity after a lifetime of movie-watching–and probably still not getting everyone–is an exercise that each one of u…

The Double Bill rotation comes around to Michael David Postle, and he smashes together two films of the space-opera variety: “Guardians of the Galaxy” (hurray!) and “Ice Pirates” (what?). Partially inspired by this HuffPo article, “Ice Pirates” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” are separated by 30 years, and oh what a change 30 years and giving two bit…

Satoshi Kon has been a favorite of mine for years. I started watching him with “Perfect Blue” back when I was in college, and managed to see all of his films afterward: “Millennium Actress” and “Tokyo Godfathers”. His most recent (and last) full-length feature film was “Paprika”. This film I wanted to revisit for awhile, and what better way to do t…

This month’s Double Bill theme: parody, gangster and noir-style. Offered to you by Brian Watson-Jones is the film Johnny Dangerously (1984) and the audio program The Further Adventures of Nick Danger by Firesign Theater. Brian also brings along a special guest, the actor, writer, and finely-dressed man Ben Tallen! Don’t worry, there’s an episode in…

Michael Postle’s picks “The Science of Sleep” and “The Fall” lift us from the “Escape From Tomorrow” fugue. “The Fall” is a gem that I hadn’t heard about until Mickey suggested it. I love its concentration on imagery and the its mutable narrative. I’m glad that I’ve seen something else now from Michel Gondry besides “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotles…

“Saving Mr. Banks” delights us, “Escape From Tomorrow” doesn’t. The mash-up was chosen from the viewpoint of “Saving Mr. Banks” being a packaged Disney product–it’s part of the Disney brand, and made in such a way to appeal to nostalgia for not only “Mary Poppins,” but for the Disney Co. itself. “Escape From Tomorrow” is the exact opposite–in no wa…

Don’t blink…unless you want to fall in love. Double Bill returns, and with it comes 80s cheesy goodness in Mannequin (1987) and delightful dread in the form of the Doctor Who episode, “Blink.” Brian Watson-Jones chose these films with the “uncanny valley” effect in mind, but most of us thought his connecting theme involved “things that stopped movi…

Because I couldn’t bring myself to see any more of “Basket Case,” here’s an image of a meadow. A nice, soothing meadow. Photo by Averain. We don’t even know what to say about this one besides “We’re very sorry.” Not so much for Bad Milo!, but for exposing anyone to Basket Case. Actually, we have plenty to say about just how very bad Basket Case is–…

The cycle of billing comes again to Joshua Humphrey, who picks Pixar’s La Luna and Radiolab’s The Distance of the Moon for comparison. We seem to be a very moon-centered podcast. On the previous episode, we explored the Dark Side of the Moon. Now we focus on coming-of-age stories involving our celestial neighbor. You’d think we would have a werewol…

Brian Watson-Jones picks this Double Bill, a simultaneous listening/viewing of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939), in what is known as “The Dark Side of the Rainbow.” Mikey is on board, but Joshua is dubious of the whole endeavor. If you want to know more about how to do the mash-up like we did, you can tra…

We cycle back to Mikey Postle and his pick of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! and Pacific Rim. Mickey debated a long time with Brian and Joshua over what should be paired with Pacific Rim–would it be something Gundam flavored? Or perhaps even Evangelion? But ultimately it was decided we needed to go back to the origins of kaiju and pick the King of…

Joshua Humphrey takes us on a journey involving smoke men whispering evil in ears, leprechauns that bite off fingers, and one damn rocking accordion interval. Two modern films, Cloud Atlas (2012) and Holy Motors (2012) get the Double Bill treatment, and if our mash-ups could be said to have winners, one clearly outclasses the other, emblazoned in a…

It’s samurais and gunslingers all up ins for Brian Watson-Jones’ Double Bill pick! Akira Kurosawa’s classic film Seven Samurai (1954) was adapted for American audiences as the Western The Magnificent Seven (1960), what Brian describes as a “best of” the original. Is he right? How do they compare back-to-back? And who turns out to be the biggest bad…

In the first episode of “Double Bill”, join hosts Joshua Humphrey, Mike Postle, and Brian Watson-Jones as they dissect the films “Manhunter” (1986) and “Red Dragon” (2002), both adapted from Thomas Harris’ beloved (at least in Mike’s opinion) novel “Red Dragon.” Which is the better adaptation? Why does Michael Mann love blue filters? And who, ultim…