Old Movies For Young Stoners

It's been delayed, but IT COULD NOT BE STOPPED. The PhileApocalypse is here!!! The episode where Philena takes over and subjects the OMFYS olds to MORE RECENT FILMS--movies from this century even! Can they take it?!? The answer may surprise you. First, Philena goes easy on the geezers with BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999)--an actual good movie! Is such a thing possible??? Natasha Lyonne is Megan, a cheerleader whose love of Melissa Etheridge and tofu convinces her god-fearing parents (Mink Stole and Bud Cort!) to pack her off to a conversion camp run to get her off the path to obvious lesbianism. Things don't go as planned, however, when Megan meets and falls for Graham (Clea DuVall) at camp. With Cathy Moriarty as the camp commandant, and RuPaul as a camp counselor, and an amazing cast all the way around. (How did we not mention Michelle Williams is in this???) But before Greg, Bob and Cory could get too comfortable, Philena picks SLEEPOVER (2004) for her second feature. Like MIDNIGHT MADNESS (1980) from the first PhilenApocalypse, this is another scavenger hunt movie, only this one has a band of 13-year-old geek girls taking on the cool kids for the best lunch spot in their future high school. The movie is very mid-2000s, so it has an extended sequence in an Old Navy set to "Freeze Frame" by the J. Geils Band, because I guess a Me First and the Gimme Gimmes version wasn't available. The presence of Jeff Garlin as the clueless dad sets off a substantive discussion of the man's lack of talent. In the opening segment, we discuss the uproar in the comments section (for us anyway) over our YouTube video of Philena's reaction over the existence of Andrew "Dice" Clay + Philena recounts a disastrous screening of SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON (2002) at a wagon museum in the pouring rain so the horse didn't even show up. All this plus Bob delivers the X TWITTER REPORT!!! Hosts: Philena Franklin, Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar, and Greg Franklin Old Movies for Young Stoners theme by Chaki the Funk Wizard Something You Could Never Own by NEFFEX, Rinse Repeat by DivKid, and Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner courtesy of YouTube Audio Library. Trailer audio via Archive.org. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com NEXT EPISODE: Bret Berg of the Museum of Home Video joins us.

The PhilenApocalypse has been postponed! While Philena ain't too thrilled with this development, we were able to keep our already inconsistent schedule with this Howard Hawks double feature, which is like a PhilenApocalypse prequel because her contrarian take on Howard Hawks' screwball classic BRINGING UP BABY (1938) is what landed her on OMFYS. In short, she hates it--AFI Top 100 or no. Because of this, Bob programmed two wildly-different films from the versatile Hawks' filmography, and with wildly different results. First, we've got HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), another classic screwball comedy from Hawks. Cary Grant is Walter Burns, a conniving newspaper publisher who will go to criminal lengths to keep his best reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson (Rosiland Russell) from leaving his paper so she can get remarried and "be a woman." Then, we've got the sci-fi classic THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951). The film's direction is credited to Christian Nyby, but the rumors that Hawks directed it persist. A favorite of Horror Master John Carpenter's, who remade it in 1982. In our opening segment, a discussion of the Tesla Cybertruck devolves into Greg and Bob horrifying Philena by explaining the concept of Andrew "Dice" Clay to her in one of the funniest moments we've ever recorded. We also talk about the horrors of something called Skibidi Toilet for some reason. Plus there are thrills as Greg almost plunges the podcast into chaos as he attempts to win a record on eBay. Does Greg prevail and what is the record? Was it all worth it? Listen and find out! Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin, Greg Franklin Cory Sklar is on assignment Old Movies for Young Stoners theme by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Busy City" by TrackTribe and "Planetary Paths" by Joel Cummins & And a Farag via YouTube Audio Library Trailer audio via Archive.org Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com THE PHILENAPOCALYPSE IS (STILL) UPON US!

S3E4 Kaiju Unite w/ Son of Godzilla (1967) and Destroy All Monsters (1968) With GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE upon us, we salute the Big G himself, GODZILLA, with a pair of his movies made a year apart from each other, that show his tremendous range. First, the radioactive mutant dinosaur tackles family comedy in SON OF GODZILLA (1967), the "Courtship of Eddie's Father" of kaiju movies. But unlike so many movie and TV single dads, Godzilla has to rear young Minya while battling overgrown mantises and a freaky-assed spider called Kumonga. I'd like to see Dustin Hoffman do that in "Kramer vs. Kramer!" Then, Godzilla shows his serious side in the greatest monster mash of them all, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS! All the kaiju are here--Godzilla! Rodan! Mother! Gorosaurus! Anguirus! Ghidorah!--and they are smashing cities! This was supposed to be the final Godzilla film, so GOJIRA (1954) director and OMFYS GOAT Ishiro Honda directs it with a poignant tone. Movie and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz was booked for this episode but he had to reschedule. We hope to have him back soon. Greg Franklin and Philena Franklin also couldn't make it so it's just Bob and Cory this time, and they still managed to gab for over an hour. AMAZING! Besides the Kaiju Classics, Bob and Cory discuss the new remake of ROAD HOUSE with Jake Gyllenhaal. One host is Yeh, and the other is Meh on Prime's big streaming release, so it's like Siskel and Ebert for people who smoked too much Super Silver Haze. They also talk about the Netflix documentary AMERICAN CONSPIRACY: THE OCTOPUS MURDERS and what to see THIS SATURDAY at Noir City Hollywood. There's something for everyone here. SON OF GODZILLA and DESTROY ALL MONSTERS are streaming on Criterion Channel, Max, Tubi, and the Pluto Godzilla channel. Hosts: Cory Sklar and Bob Calhoun The Franklins are on assignment "Enemy" by Whipping Boy from the Third Secret of Fatima album courtesy of Eugene Robinson. Steve Shaugnessy RIP. "How it Began" by Silent Partner and "Tropical Thunder" by RKVC courtesy of YouTube Audio Library Trailer and commercial audio via Archive.Org Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com THE PHILENAPOCALYPSE IS COMING!

There are lots of bonkers classics on Criterion Channel right now and we wanted to pair pot with them before they show up on that "Leaving Criterion Channel" list in an episode we call "WHAT THE FUCK CRITERION." First up is THE DEVILS (1971), Ken Russell's masterpiece of blasphemy, demonic possession and religious persecution in 17th Century France. Oliver Reed is Urbain Grandier, an impossibly hot Jesuit priest, and Vanessa Redgrave is Sister Jeanne des Anges, a delusional nun who claims that she is possessed by the devil, and that devil works with Grandier. It's a gut-wrenching work that may be Russell's best. Continuing with the theme, our second feature is THE UNKNOWN (1927), a bizarre circus tale from FREAKS director Tod Browning. Lon Chaney, Sr. is Alonso, an armless knife-thrower who longs for Nanon, his fetching assistant played by a very young Joan Crawford. Nanon can't bear to be held in men's arms, so she should be perfect for Alonso, right? Well, all is not what it seems in this carnie world of deception, which motivates Alonso to go to sadistic and even masochistic extremes. What the fuck Criterion??? Man, we could've added a third feature here because PEEPING TOM is on the channel as well. Hopefully we'll get to that one soon. In the opener, Cory asks if it's even possible to create a cult movie these days where streaming has flattened everything out. Greg, Bob, and Philena all hold out hope. Hosts: Philena Franklin, Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin Music: OMFYS Theme Song by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Black as the West" by "The Kiss and Crash Collective, courtesy of Kiss and Crash Collective and Sean Heskett "A Witches Sabbath" from Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" performed by the United States Marine Band, courtesy of Archive.org "Minor Lament for Solo Bass" by John Ptitucci courtesy of YouTube Audio Library BIRDEMIC trailer audio courtesy of archive.org. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com Coming soon: Matt Zoller Seitz joins us again for Crazy for Kaiju with SON OF GODZILLA. Subscribe so you don't miss it.

Mike Lisk AKA AP Mike of The Best Show and co-host of his own Egg Foo What?! podcast takes us INTO THE MARLOWEVERSE with a pair of very different portrayals of Raymond Chandler's cynical gumshoe Philip Marlowe. Mike's choice, MURDER MY SWEET (1944), is one of the first examples of film noir, and its success--along with DOUBLE INDEMNITY from the same year--added the spark that set off late 40s film noir explosion. It's also a way stoney and a total gateway drug to classic cinema with its snappy dialog and its trippy AF hallucination sequences. Former song-and-dance man Dick Powell plays Marlowe in this one, and he handles Chandler's dialog with a sense of cartoon humor that makes this one stand out. Directed by Edward Dmytryk (one of the Hollywood 10) with a script by John Paxton, the writer of several classic noirs (CROSSFIRE, CORNERED), and the uncle of crime fiction comic book writer Ed Brubaker (it runs in the family). Also starring noir ice queen Claire Trevor and ex-pro wrestler and Mike Mazurki. Available on disc at your local library and online via Archive: https://archive.org/details/murder-my-sweet-1944 Our next interpretation of Marlowe comes three years later while film noir was in full swing. Like Dick Powell before him, Robert Montgomery used his portrayal of Marlowe to shed his nice guy image, only he did it while barely being seen onscreen! As director and star of LADY IN THE LAKE (1947), Montgomery shot the entire film from Marlowe's jaundiced point-of-view. We only see the private eye when he's looking at himself in the mirror, making it one of the strangest films every made. While Mike and the OMFYS crew can't quite agree on if this cinematic experiment is successful or not, they all think that Montgomery put the dick in private dick as he is the surliest of the movie Marlowes. This is really saying something when you consider that Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and growly-assed Liam Neeson have all taken turns as the detective, and none of them are Mr. Sunshine. With Audrey Totter as the femme fatale, and Lloyd Nolan as a tough-talking cop who might not be on the up-and-up. Streaming on Criterion Channel. In the opening discussion, Mike and your hosts stay on topic and talk about their favorite movie Marlowes, and Cory and Bob give us a Noir City 21 report. Follow Mike Lisk on the site formerly known as Twitter at @APMike and check out his Egg Foo What?! podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/egg-foo-what/id1635904703 And if you aren't already a fan, check out The Best Show at https://thebestshow.net/ Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin Philena Franklin is on assignment Music: OMFYS Theme Song by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Members Only" by TrackTribe and "Blue Mood" by Robert Munzinger via YouTube Audio Library Trailer audio via Archive.org. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

We are back from our break for our SEASON 3 PREMIERE!!! Hey! We've lasted longer than most Netflix shows! To kick off 2024, we are celebrating Criterion Channel's wonderful CAT COLLECTION for our CAT EPISODE! Cats rule the Internet, and this podcast is on the Internet, so kitty cats rule us as well. We pair cannabis with the Czech New Wave weirdness of THE CASSANDRA CAT (1963) and the existential 50s sci-fi dread of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) from CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON director Jack Arnold and legendary author Richard Matheson. We start the episode by discussing Jodie Foster's thoughts on Gen Z and Philena's love of SALTBURN (with some thoughts on its mid-00s nostalgia subtext). We also ask Greg just how much Mickey Mouse porn he's created since STEAMBOAT WILLIE went public domain on January 1st, and dive into the BARBIE adapted screenplay controversy. You also get Bob's thoughtful audio essay on the life and career of the true star of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, Oragey, the marmalade tabby cat and two-time Patsy Award winner (the animal Oscars). Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar, Philena Franklin and Greg Franklin Music: OMFYS Theme Song by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Wash 'n' Dry (There's a Cat in the Dryer)" by The Loudmouths, courtesy of Loudmouth Beth Allen. Thanks Beth!!!! "Bageshri" by Aditya Varma; "Colony" by TrackTribe; and "George's Lament - Go By Ocean" by Ryan McCaffrey via YouTube Audio Library. "Incredible Shrinking Man" trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org "How Animals Help Us" (1954) audio via A/V Geeks 16mm Films Big thanks to Nanjie from Criterion Channel! THANKS NANJIE! www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

S2E8 - The Lost Barbie Episode w/ Muscle Beach Party (1964) & Back to the Beach (1987) In our #Noivember Rain episode, we promised that you'd have a Barbie under your tree for Christmas and here she is! Now that the SAG AFTRA strike is finally over, we can finally post THE LOST BARBIE EPISODE without getting Philena in trouble as Warner Bros' BARBIE was definitely a struck work back when. We did not trim this episode down so you can hear how much the OMFYS crew underestimated the power of pink in our mostly laughable predictions of BARBIE's box office. We also talk about Mattel's history of industrial espionage and the potential for a prestige BRATZ movie. For this episode's movies, we go back to the wildly successful beach party movies of the 60s that inspired Barbie's movie to Malibu with MUSCLE BEACH PARTY (1964). In this second beach movie from American International Pictures, Frankie Avalon and Anette Funicello find their precious strip of sand is overrun by oiled-up body builders who are harshing their vibes! Can they deal??? Bringing the jokes that mostly don't land are Don Rickles, Morey Amsterdam and Buddy Hackett with musical performances by Dick Dale (a regular in the beach party series) and STEVIE WONDER!!! After that Frankie and Annette go BACK TO THE BEACH in 1987, and those jokes do land this time around in this smart and loving satire of the kooky 60s source material. Like BARBIE, Back to the Beach is directed by a woman, Lyndall Hobbs, but it did not get enough love in the late 80s despite two thumbs way up from Siskel AND Ebert. Also starring Connie Stevens and future felon Lori Laughlin along with cameos by a cavalcade of 50s and 60s sitcom stars including Alan Hale Jr. & Bob Denver (The Skipper & Gilligan), Jerry Mathers (the Beaver), Tony Dow (Wally), Barbara Billingsley (Wally and the Beav's mom), and Don Adams (Get Smart) + a PEE WEE HERMAN (rip) showing up to rock SURFIN' BIRD! If all that wasn't enough, we've got DICK DALE and STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN rockin' WIPE OUT and Cory's pals FISHBONE performing Jamaica Ska and dancing through the sand with Annette. This is just a wonderful 80s relic by way of the 60s that everyone should check out. This was one of our most fun episodes, and we really wish we could've gotten it to you when it was still more timely, but we're all about timeless here at OMFYS. BARBIE is definitely that, so we hope the LOST BARBIE EPISODE is too. Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas with enough CBD in your seasonal strains to help you deal with your most difficult aunts and uncles at the family gatherings. And here's hoping for a stony AF New Year. Co-hosts: Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar, Greg Franklin and Bob Calhoun Theme song & Christmas Funk: Chaki the Funk Wizard Barbie commercial audio courtesy of Archive.org Check out our new website: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Thanks Rosie! Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

The Czar of Noir Eddie Muller joins us for our epic SEASON 2 FINALE. Eddie takes time out of his busy #Noirvember to chat about his new book NOIR BAR: COCKTAILS INSPIRED BY THE WORLD OF FILM NOIR and his even newer hardboiled kid's book, KITTY FERAL AND THE CASE OF THE MARSHMALLOW MONKEY. He also tells an amazing story about ELLIOT GOULD from the just-concluded TCM Cruise that you won't want to miss + insights into Kim Novak and Ernest Dickerson (DP of DO THE RIGHT THING, MALCOLM X) from the Cruise. We also talk about the history of child endangerment in noir and how you can't do a lot of this stuff today. If that wasn't enough, Eddie sticks around to pair cocktails while we pair cannabis with a pair of movies from his NOIR BAR book. First, Edmond O'Brien has been slipped a Mickey full of luminescent poison and only has a few days to find out who murdered him and why in D.O.A., a frantic, sometimes comical, and essential noir from 1949. And then, Golden Age of Hollywood screenwriting giant Ben Hecht writes, directs and produces SPECTER OF THE ROSE, a bizarre ballet noir with a wealth of dialog that will bring you to the brink of madness! No need to write a lot about these movies here because we go long in this episode, but it's our last one for a while (kinda). Big thanks to Eddie and apologies to Kathleen for keeping him so long. Eddie's NOIR BAR is available from Larry Edmund's Bookshop in Hollywood, CA: https://www.larryedmunds.com/product-page/eddie-muller-s-noir-bar-cocktails-inspired-by-the-world-of-film-noir As are signed copies of KITTY FERAL: https://www.larryedmunds.com/product-page/kid-noir-kitty-feral-and-the-case-of-the-marshmallow-monkey We won't be doing a HOLIDAY SPECIAL this year but there will be a Barbie under your Christmas tree next month, so please subscribe so you don't miss the LOST BARBIE EPISODE. We can finally post it now that the SAG AFTRA strike is finally over. (Thank God!) MUSIC Theme song & Christmas Funk: Chaki the Funk Wizard "Rinse Repeat" by DivKid via YouTube Audio Library Movie audio courtesy of Archive.org Check out our new website: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Thanks Rosie! Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Halloween is only a few days away so we've got horror romps from a pair of carnival hucksters. First, William Castle--the King of the Gimmicks--is back on OMFYS with his ghostly masterpiece HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL from 1959. Vincent Price is back in this one as an eccentric millionaire (please tell me there's no other kind) who offers $10 thousand to a handpicked group of desperate people. What can go wrong??? Of course, there are ghosts, skeletons and gorilla hands galore in the ultimate Halloween movie. Then, we go from carny spook house to the utter depravity of the geek show with Herschell Gordon Lewis' BLOOD FEAST (1963), the first gore movie where a mad Egyptian caterer is butchering the young women of the Miami suburbs right in their own front yards. We wouldn't have SAW or FRIDAY THE 13th without this one folks. We also talk about the new Jurassic weed that's hitting the California market, the dude who dropped mushrooms and tried to disable a plane, 70s variety TV specials, the TCM Cruise and what's coming up at the New Beverly in Los Angeles. OMFYS Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin. Philena Franklin is on assignment. MUSIC Theme song & Funky Frankenstein: Chaki the Funk Wizard "Happy Haunts" by Aaron Kenny via YouTube Audio Library Movie and trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Philena Franklin is back but she's still on strike with SAG AFTRA so we've got some PUBLIC DOMAIN ZOMBIES for our first of two special HALLOWEEN episodes! First, we have rights-free ghouls invading a Ralph's in Burbank in MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974) from Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the forgotten Lucasfilm power couple who later brought you HOWARD THE DUCK (1986). After really getting disturbing letters from her artist father, a young woman named Arletty (Marianna Hill) goes to the creepy coastal town of Point Dume to find out what's going on. She finds a polyamorous threesome, strange people gathering to stare at the sea at night, and, yes, flesh-eating zombies with blood streaming from their eyes. Also starring Elisha Cook, Jr., whom Greg calls the greatest film noir patsy of all time, and Royal Dano, Disneyland's voice of Abe Lincoln. Now streaming on Prime, Shudder and just about everywhere else--it's public domain! Next, we have Bela Lugosi himself in WHITE ZOMBIE, widely considered to be the first zombie flick ever. A rich plantation owner wants Bela to put a voodoo spell on the woman he loves, but gets so much more than he bargained for. This movie has some of the creepiest zombies ever and one of Bela's best performances, and a banger of an opening score according to Greg. The best print of White Zombie is streaming Kanopy, a free video streaming service available through participating public libraries. This episode is a bit of long one because we're so happy to have the full crew back again. We open with some talk of the Hollywood strikes, the end of Netflix DVDs by mail, a review of Sean Howe's new book AGENTS OF CHAOS, Cory's encounter with Pat Morita, and so much more. OMFYS Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin MUSIC Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard "We Get Stoned All Night Long" by Three Stoned Men, courtesy of John Blackwell "Minor Lament for Solo Bass" by John Patitucci, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library "Swan Lake" Op.20 by Tchaikovsky, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Movie and trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

San Francisco movie and media critic Pam Grady joins us and she finally brings Westerns into OMFYS with ZACHARIAH (1971), a homoerotic oater starring John Rubenstein and a very young Don Johnson as star-crossed gunslingers who just can't quit each other on their road to hippy-dippy enlightenment. Billed as "The First Electric Western," Country Joe & the Fish, the James Gang and the New York Rock Ensemble show up with their late-1960s Gibson guitars and Fender stacks even though everything else about the movie takes place in the 19th Century. John Coltrane drummer Elvin Jones nearly steals the show by shooting a dude and then playing a kick-ass drum solo. ZACHARIAH is streaming on YouTube but this DVD-rip on Archive is far superior so Airplay that to your flat screen: https://archive.org/details/zachariah-1971-dvdrip-xvi-d Our second feature is the very-noir psychological western PURSUED from tough guy director Raoul Walsh in 1947. The Hollywood pothead par excellence ROBERT MITCHUM plays Jeb Rand who struggles to recall the massacre of his family through repressed memories and expressionist dream sequences. Making the past more than prologue is that the people who slaughtered the Rands are still plotting to finish the job. Also starring Teresa Wright as Jeb's love interest and sister-by-adoption (ew); Judith Anderson as the matriarch who's definitely keeping secrets; and the Skipper's dad, Alan Hale Sr. New Mexico's landscapes are brought to life in PURSUED by the breathtaking cinematography of James Wong Howe and it's all set to a sweeping Max Steiner score. Bob and Cory also discuss how Raoul Walsh got his eyepatch plus the ghastly prank the great director played on Errol Flynn, so wait for that. PAM GRADY will be introducing Scorsese's Dylan near-mockumentary, ROLLING THUNDER REVUE, on Sunday, Sept. 24th at the 4 Star Theater (2200 Clement Street, San Francisco). Go here for tickets and info: https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/scorsese-more-than-a-gangster-rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story-live-music-500-pm You can follow Pam on X (Twitter) @cinepam and read many of her latest reviews on the #AWFJ site: https://awfj.org/blog/author/pam-grady/ OMFYS Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin Philena Franklin is on strike but her dad did the TikTok Report. Philena will return later this month for our PUBLIC DOMAIN ZOMBIE episode with MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974) and Bela Lugosi in WHITE ZOMBIE (1932). MUSIC Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard "Pray for the Flying J" courtesy of Count Dante & the Black Dragon Fighting Society. "Royale" by Josh Lippi & the Overtimers and "Les-ly" by Mini Vandals courtesy of the YouTube Audio Archive. Trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

S2E10 - The Music Business w/ All Night Long (1962) & King Creole (1958) Independent filmmaker Floyd Webb joins us once again for a pair of classic near-noirs that show that the music business was scammy and sleazy long before Spotify, but it was maybe a little cooler when you had Walter Matthau in a smoke-filled backroom plotting how to screw the talent. First, we've got Charles Mingus on bass, Dave Brubeck on keys and Patrick McGoohan from THE PRISONER (!) on drums--and he's really playing those drums--in ALL NIGHT LONG (1962), a jazzified retelling of Shakespeare's Othello from British director Basil Dearden. This movie's got jazz cigarettes, reefer madness, awesome mid-century modern set design and some amazing musical performances from Mingus, Brubeck, Tubby Hayes and John Dankworth. Then, our ELVIS EPISODE was unexpectedly the third most popular installment of OMFYS in June, so the King is back in KING CREOLE (1958), a musical New Orleans noir from the braintrust that brought us CASABLANCA--producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz. Joining Elvis are Walter Matthau as ruthless gangster Maxie Fields, Dean Jagger as Elvis' feckless father, film noir regular Paul Stewart as Maxie's rival, Vic Morrow as a street thug, future nun Dolores Hart as the good girl, and Morticia Addams herself Carloyn Jones as the hard-luck dame who hopes Elvis can help her go straight. All this plus some of the best songs of any Elvis movie. Floyd discusses his upcoming martial arts documentary, THE SEARCH FOR COUNT DANTE, that he's been working on for way too long now + some awesome screenings in Chicago that he has coming up. Find out more about Floyd and what he's got going on at https://floydwebb.com/ https://thesearchforcountdante.com Also featuring THE STRIKE TOK REPORT with PHILENA FRANKLIN, a rundown of reactions to the SAG AFTRA and WGA strikes on TikTok. Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun & Cory Sklar Greg Franklin is on assignment. Philena Franklin is on strike but will return for our public domain Halloween ep. ALL NIGHT LONG (1962) is currently streaming on Criterion Channel as part of their excellent British Noir series and it's also available for free with commercials on Tubi. KING CREOLE (1958) is part of Criterion Channel's Elvis series and it's available with ads on Pluto. The Elvis Episode (S1E8): https://soundcloud.com/omfys/s1e8-the-elvis-episode-w-roustabout-1964-the-worlds-greatest-sinner-62 Music: OMFYS Theme Song: Chaki the Funk Wizard The Deadliest Man Alive: Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society (1997). All rights reserved. "Greaser" and "Smoke Jacket Blues" by TrackTribe courtesy of YouTube Studio Audio Library All trailer audio courtesy of archive.org Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Podcaster, pop-culture writer and three-time and reigning Ms. Noir City AUDRA WOLFMANN joins us to talk about defending her Ms. Noir City crown, and one of her favorite sub-genres: Beatsploitation. We kick things off with Seijun Suzuki's psychedelic yakuza noir, TOKYO DRIFTER (1966). This isn't Beatsploitation per se, but there are plenty of dudes in mod suits and the film is so incomprehensible that it's gotta be poetry man. Plus it's got jazz, rock and roll, 60s bubblegum pop, and haunting Japanese torch songs. Audra asks if this movie is really a noir, and Bob wonders if it's actually a musical. Either way, Cory gets it right when he says it's a "trip factor 10." Our next film is Roger Corman's dark, beatnik satire A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959), where Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) becomes a coffee house arts sensation by killing pets and people and covering up his victims with clay. It's one of Roger Corman's best and Hollywood everyman Dick Miller's only lead roles. We also talk about the unexpected dominance of Gweneth Paltrow's new weed brand, the return of Taco Bell's Volcano Menu, how Covid drove Bob to binge on Hostess Ding Dongs, and how the movies are back baby--but at what cost? Audra also discusses her history with Noir City, her all Weird Al burlesque troupe, and her podcasts: SPEAKEASILY VS. THE 80s and RETROPHILIA. If you're digging OMFYS, you should definitely check out and subscribe to Audra's amazing pods: http://www.audrawolfmann.net https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/retrophilia-the-90s-in-music-film-culture/id1598247675 Philena also joins us later on for "The Strike Tok Report," a now regular feature on OMFYS until those cheap studio bastards pay the actors and writers some decent wages and royalties for keeping our asses at home watching Netflix, Hulu and Max (It's not HBO; it's just Max). We had to shelve our BARBIE EPISODE because Philena is a SAG AFTRA member and there is no more struck work than BARBIE. We'll be sure to post this ep as soon as the strike is over and it's no longer relevant. Yay. Join us in August as we keep things jazzy with ALL NIGHT LONG (1962) and KING CREOLE (1958). Special Guest: Audra Wolfmann Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin PHILENA FRANKLIN IS ON STRIKE. Trailers and movie audio courtesy of ARCHIVE.ORG. Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Former TCM Underground chief programmer Millie De Chirico joins us to talk about her book, "TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema." She also helps us get through our TCM Underground withdrawals that we've all been going through since Turner Classic Movies cancelled the Friday night cult movie cavalcade in February. First, Millie and the OMFYS crew discuss a trio of way underground short films from Curtis Harrington and Kenneth Anger (RIP): THE WORMWOOD STAR (1956), INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME (1956), and INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER (1969). Millie and Cory shed a lot of light on the occult art scene of 1950s Los Angeles, and one of its central figures, the bewitching (maybe literally!) Marjorie Cameron, and Philena's "TikTok Report" shows us that people are still very afraid of these movies, which is a good thing. Curtis Harrington, who directed WORMWOOD STAR and stars in PLEASURE DOME, sticks around for our feature, his haunting zero-budget horror film, NIGHT TIDE (1961). Dennis Hopper plays a sailor drawn to a sideshow mermaid (Lindy Lawson) who might just be the real thing. Marjorie Cameron also appears as The Water Witch plus bongos by Chaino. There is a big SPOILER WARNING! on this one because we DESTROY THE ENDING. We usually edit this stuff out but the spoilery bits may help people understand NIGHT TIDE and the conversation is just too fun to end up on the virtual editing room floor. At least Bob thinks so, and he's usually the spoiler police. If you haven't seen NIGHT SIDE stop listening at the 1:13 mark of this episode and skip ahead to the weed recs four minutes later (1:17). Both of our featured filmmakers, Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, are LGBTQ+, so please consider this our ACCIDENTAL PRIDE EPISODE. Love is love. Ask for Millie De Chico's TCM UNDERGROUND book at your local bookstore or succumb to the corporate octopus and order it online from you know where, or maybe this somewhat more benign corporate bookseller. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tcm-underground-millie-de-chirico/1141004302 Also, check out Millie's excellent film podcast, I SAW WHAT YOU DID. If you like this podcast, you should definitely subscribe to hers. It's streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and all the major pod apps. https://wondery.com/shows/i-saw-what-you-did/ Join us in about two weeks for our BARBIE EPISODE with MUSCLE BEACH PARTY (1964) and BACK TO THE BEACH (1987), one of Cory's favorites. Co-hosts: Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar, Greg Franklin and Bob Calhoun Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard Trailer audio: Archive.org Mermaid by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100671 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

The PhilenApocalypse as foretold by prophecy is finally upon us! Philena Franklin has taken over OLD MOVIES FOR YOUNG STONERS and has transformed it in NEW MOVIES FOR OLD STONERS! Both movies are in color and both have synchronized sound! No silents! No subtitles! One of these movies is even from THIS CENTURY!!! Can OMFYS survive this brush with modernity??? Listen and find out! First, Philena shows us what it was like to grow up in the Franklin household with MIDNIGHT MADNESS (1980), a movie she claims her dad, OMFYS co-host Greg Franklin, made her watch repeatedly during her formative years. David Naughton (AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON), Eddie Deezen (GREASE), Maggie Roswell (THE SIMPSONS), and Stephen Furst (ANIMAL HOUSE) star in this wacky scavenger hunt comedy produced by Disney (although you wouldn't know it from the opening credits). The Mouse kept their name off of this one. It's also Michael J. Fox's first film, which probably helped the studio recoup their losses from it on the home video market once Family Ties hit. Then, Philena takes us to 2013--just 10 years ago!--for WARM BODIES, a zombified retelling of Romeo and Juliet with Nicholas Hoult from RENFIELD as a rotting zombie searching who finds true love, and John Malkovich in the Lord Capulet role. I'd wanna say it's the first movie featured on OMFYS with CGI effects, but there might've been some video toaster action going on in LOST HIGHWAY (1997) from our "In Cold Bud" episode. We also talk about the WGA strike and what musical artists are torturing the poor, starving writers on the picket line. Hope you enjoy all the newness but we promise to get back to black and white with our next episode where we will be joined by longtime TCM Underground programmer Millie De Chirico for Curtis Harrington's NIGHT TIDE (1961) with Dennis Hopper + Kenneth Anger's (RIP) occult short, INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER (1969). Co-hosts: Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar, Greg Franklin and Bob Calhoun Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard Trailer audio: Archive.org Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Matt Zoller Seitz, the hardest working man in movie criticism, joins us for the long-awaited GORILLA EPISODE! In addition to covering film and TV for New York Magazine, serving as editor-at-large for RogerEbert.com, and running a bookstore and publishing company out of his house with MZS.press, Matt is a bit of a gorilla movie enthusiast going back to the 1976 KING KONG and an episode of WONDER WOMAN with a sci-fi Nazi gorilla. You'll hear all about it here plus some insights into what's up with HBO, his editorial process and watching TAXI DRIVER while stoned. Of course we start it all of with the granddaddy of all gorilla movies, the 8th Wonder of the World, KING KONG from 1933! And then we go from the heights of Hollywood movie making to the depths of poverty row with THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST (1958). Scripted by Edward D. Wood, Jr. a year after his schlock triumph with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, this simian reincarnation epic has plenty of Ed Wood's trademark angora kink. You can find out more about Matt Zoller Seitz at https://mzs.press/ or follow him on Twitter AT mattzollerseitz Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin and Greg Franklin Special Guest: Matt Zoller Seitz Cory Sklar is on assignment Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard Primate sounds courtesy of freesound.org Trailer audio: Archive.org Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Mastadon: oldmoviesforyoungstoners@mstdn.social Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com Next episode will be the PhilApocalypse. Yes, Philena's choosing the movies and she's chosen MIDNIGHT MADNESS (1980) and MIAMI CONNECTION (1987), so be here in a week or three.

Bob, Cory, Philena and Greg are back for the first time this season! Yes. This is only S2 episode with all the OMFYS co-hosts. Greg hasn't been here since our season premiere, but Cory wasn't around for that one, and the Psychedelic Kaiju ep had no Franklins whatsoever. We did get a little chatty with the joyous reunion and all, and our movies this time gave us a lot of psychological baggage to unpack, so this ep is, um, expansive. However, Cory tells Bob that "people really like long podcasts," so have at enjoy the 88 minute binge. This week we explore criminal justice and murder with two f--d up movies from directors we should have covered a lot sooner. First, we have Orson Welles pulling off the mother of all crane shots in TOUCH OF EVIL, his ACAB masterpiece from 1958--a film so brilliant that even Charlton Heston in brown face can't ruin it. Welles is Hank Quinlin, a grotesque American cop in a sleazy border town who never found a piece of evidence he didn't manufacture. Heston is Vargas, an upstanding Mexican official who clashes with Quinlin when an American businessman is blown to bits by a car bomb that was planted on the Mexican side of the border. The movie is a technical marvel with a banger of a Latin jazz meets rock and roll score by Henry Mancini. And the cast is pretty amazing too, with Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Cotten, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, and the Queen of Outer Space herself, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Cory gives it the stony seal of approval. Next, we come dangerously close to the 21st Century with David Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY (1997). At the time Lynch and Barry Gifford wrote this film, they were both obsessed with the OJ Simpson murder trial and how dissociative fugue allowed The Juice to maintain his breezy demeanor despite his horrible crimes. Lynch takes his exploration of murder, guilt and fugue states to an appropriately absurd level here as Bill Pullman plays a jazz saxophonist who murders his wife, goes to jail, and wakes up as an auto mechanic played by Balthazar Getty. Making things even creepier is the casting of Robert Blake as the movie's "Mystery Man," a few years before he was the defendant in a sensational murder trial of his own. Also starring Patricia Arquette and Robert Loggia in dual roles plus Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Wood's daughter), Gary Busey, Richard Pryor (his last film role), and Marilyn Manson as a porn actor to make things even more problematic. Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar, and Greg Franklin Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Mastadon: oldmoviesforyoungstoners@mstdn.social Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Philena Franklin returns for our National Women's History Month episode. Yes, Old Movies for Young Stoners has been a real sausage fest with nothing but films directed by MEN, so, like much of corporate America, we decided to rectify that for at least one episode with our salute to the work of women directors. First, we go to France for CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962), a masterpiece from Agnès Varda, the mother--or grandmother--of the French New Wave. The film is told nearly in real time as an up-and-coming pop singer named Cléo spends two hours waiting for the results of a cancer test. It's not nearly as depressing as it sounds as the film is full of wonderful shots of the streets of Paris in the early 60s plus gorgeous fashions and a street performer who eats living frogs. Then we go to Hollywood for movie-star-turned-director Ida Lupino's tense noir, THE HITCH-HIKER (1953) where a couple of guys out on a fishing trip pick up a dude thumbing a ride who turns out to be a serial killer. Told in a very no-nonsense old Hollywood style, this movie wasn't nearly stony enough for Cory and Philena. Cory was still fascinated by its dom/sub subtext, but Philena was still willing to throw poor Ida Lupino under a bus, and in our Women's History Month episode no less! This ep also features a tribute to Raquel Welch, a little bit of Oscars and Cocaine Bear talk + some scathing criticism of the town of Santa Clarita, home of Magic Mountain. Co-hosts: Philena Franklin, Bob Calhoun & Cory Sklar. Greg Franklin is on assignment. Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

S2E2 Psychedelic Kaiju w/ War of the Gargantuas (1966) & Matango (1963) Kevin Moss from the Junk Food Dinner podcast joins Cory and Bob for the most wigged-out Japanese monster movies ever to come out of Toho Studios. First, it's the good Brown Gargantua vs. the evil Green Gargantua in a battle of land and sea elemental forces in the appropriately titled WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966), an epic that rattled the minds of everyone from Guillermo del Toro to Tim Burton to friggin' Brad Pitt (who gushed about it once during The Oscars). It's also a favorite of Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO, who used to close out their set with "The Words Get Stuck in My Throat," the baffling-yet-catchy pop song that's ruined by Green Gargantua in the middle of the movie. Watch for it. The Gargantuas are about half the size of Godzilla or Rodan, and they don't have tails, so they move fast and hurl tanks like they're baseballs. Starring a decidedly unimpressed Russ Tamblyn from the original WEST SIDE STORY and the lovely Kumi Mizuno. Things get even weirder with our second feature, MATANGO (1963) aka ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE. Seven stranded castaways (or maybe a few more) are shipwrecked on an island where the only thing to eat are mutated mushrooms with the power to transform you into creepy toadstool creatures. It's kaiju meets full-on body horror. Kumi Mizuno is back for this one along with Yoshio Tsuchiya and Akira Kubo. Both of our films also feature the artistry of Gojira director Ishiro Honda and special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, which makes Honda the most featured director on OLD MOVIES FOR YOUNG STONERS of all time, since we profiled his ALL MONSTERS ATTACK (1969) in Season One, Episode Six. We haven't even done Orson Welles or Fritz Lang movies yet, but we've featured three Ishiro Honda movies. Priorities! Big thanks to Kevin Moss for joining us. His indispensable JUNK FOOD DINNER podcast is streaming on Apple Podcasts and your favorite podcast app. You can learn more about it at junkfooddinner.com. All of Bob's Ishiro Honda knowledge in this ep comes from the excellent book, "Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film from Godzilla to Kurosawa" by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski. Bob purchased the book from MZS.press, the bookstore run by movie and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz out of his home. Highly recommended. Join us in March for our International Women's Day Episode with Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) and The Hitch-Hiker (1953) by Ida Lupino. Rog Franklin, Rest-in-Power. Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun & Cory Sklar. Greg Franklin and Philena Franklin are on assignment. Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Cannabis comic and activist Ngaio Bealum joins us for our SEASON TWO PREMIERE, and he's selected two movies that are real gateway drugs to classic cinema. Both films are tense AF depictions of desperate men trying to pull off that one last score. Both movies were also made by domineering filmmakers, so, as Ngaio says, this could have been our asshole director episode. First up, is THE KILLING (1956), a cutting-edge noir from a young Stanley Kubrick making his first Hollywood studio film. Made on a shoestring budget, Kubrick still shows more than mere glimpses of his future promise with overlapping timelines, a camera that appears to move through walls and furniture, and brutal violence that is still shocking today. Backing Kubrick is a noir who's who with Sterling Hayden putting together an intricate racetrack heist, Timothy Carey AKA God Hilliard as a deranged hitman, Elisha Cook, Jr. as the weak link in the chain, and Marie Windsor as Elisha's conniving wife. There's also a hairy wrestler airplane spinning cops! What more can you ask for? How about a bunch of sweaty dudes driving truckloads of nitro across treacherous South American terrain where any bump in the road--and there are loads of bumps--could send them all sky high? Well, that's what we've got in Ngaio's second pick, Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE WAGES OF FEAR from 1953. This movie is more of a gateway drug to French cinema than classic film as a whole, but the last hour or so of it is a real white-knuckler so you'll really want to heed the weed recommendations for this one to get you through all that suspense. "Don't smoke a sativa with this one," Ngaio warns. The Killing is streaming for free with ads on Pluto The Wages of Fear is streaming on HBOMax, Criterion Channel & Kanopy You can follow Ngaio on Twitter and Instagram at @ngaio420. We hope to have him back on the show soon. Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin & Greg Franklin Theme song and closing theme: Chaki the Funk Wizard Cory Sklar is on assignment but he will be back for our Psychedelic Kaiju episode in February. The movies will be WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966) & MATANGO (1963). Contact Email: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail dot com Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Mastadon: oldmoviesforyoungstoners@mstdn.social