Two old friends cracking wise and talking thoughtfully about favorite flicks as if from their cozy seats at the back of a beloved theater. Pass the popcorn! Current Season: Apocalypse Then! Looking back at dystopian cinema from the ridiculous to the sublime - just as it was looking forward to...now?
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Blood Drive! Episode 13 - Interview With the Vampire (Series 2022)
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Lucky episode 13 takes the Blood Drive to 2022 to talk about the Interview With the Vampire, the series! Ab and Al are obsessive completionists and we're going to go through the adaptations of these Anne Rice vamps. This ain't the novel, but it's a fascinating take on the source material. Louis is different, Claudia is different, Daniel is way diff…
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Blood Drive! Episode 12 - Interview With the Vampire (1994)
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Happy Halloween everyone! The Blood Drive celebrates the S'amhain season by discussing Neil Jordan's 1994 colossus, Interview With The Vampire. Based on Anne Rice's iconic novel, Ab and Al discuss casting controversies, camp and mopey tragic vamps. Kirsten Dunst gets her flowers, and is there any place Antonio Banderas can't go? Take my vampire wif…
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Blood Drive! Episode 11 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
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The Blood Drive takes Exit 1992 straight into Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, Bram Stoker's Dracula! Absynthe takes us through the production and stylizing of this strange, surreal movie. We discuss almost-casts, the influence of this movie on later genre cinema, and much much more!By ChillerPop and Absynthe
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Blood Drive! Episode 10 - Vampire's Kiss (1989)
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The Blood Drive exits the 1980s with with Vampire's Kiss (1989!). This is our season covering vampire movies, but was there even a vampire in this one? Trigger warning - sexual assault and animal cruelty. Topics include: Cage-outs, decadent 1980s nightclubs, abusive Manhattan corporate culture, possible rabies, and notorious occult bookstores. This…
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Blood Drive! Episode 9 - Near Dark (1987)
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On Episode 9 of the Blood Drive, we pack into a blacked out van and head out west to look at the vampire western Near Dark from 1987. We compare and contrast to The Lost Boys, discuss Kathryn Bigelow's interesting body of work, and marvel at all of the excellent actors in this movie. Anne Rice minus the aristocracy? Who did Jesse Hooker and his pac…
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Blood Drive! Episode 8 - The Lost Boys (1987)
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The Blood Drive is on the Pacific Coast Highway to Santa Cru - err, Santa "Carla" - to visit with The Lost Boys from 1987! Ab and Al, two very Gen X kids, think it's the perfect summer movie, and Gen Z ambassador provides some sharp, smart analysis. Topcs discussed include: What's the real romance here? Are Reagan era values upheld? Who dressed Cor…
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Blood Drive! Episode 7 - The Hunger (1983)
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The Blood Drive zooms along to the 1980s, as Ab and Al talk about the notorious 1983 vampire fever dream The Hunger! This episode, as SNL's Stefon might say, has it all: Goths. Goth rock stars. Goth clubs. Medical labs that look like goth clubs. Bisexuals. Fluttering curtains. Doves. Icy French legends. Rapidly aging glam rock legends. Ankhs. Rabid…
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Episode 3 - Ryan's got the X-Factor!
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Listeners, meet Mutant Menace Ryan! Ryan speaks with us today about his origin story (duh, it was the animated series), and we talk about why Louise Simonson should be regarded as a top-tier X-Writer (and I reveal my shameful toxic fandom, which thankfully ocurred before the age of the Internet). Tangents include Apocalypse's ancient civilization h…
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Blood Drive! Episode 6 - Dracula (1979)
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If you want Frank Langella's body, and ya think he's sexy, then this is the episode for you! The Blood Drive takes a turn up the English coastline to visit John Badham's Dracula from 1979. Is this a peak disco era movie? Is it horror, romance, or both? Is it good and bad? Is John Badham the Quentin Tarantino of hands? Come hear what we think, and t…
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Blood Drive! Episode 5 - Nosferatu (2024)
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On the fifth episode of Blood Drive, Ab and Al leap forward in time to 2024 to capitalize on Nosfer-mania! We discuss Nosferatu (2024), directed by Robert Eggers and starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Bill Skarsgard. To the disappointment of Mr. Absynthe, a fight does not ensue, but we do discuss Victorian psychology, and th…
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Blood Drive! Episode 4 - Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
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In the fourth episode of our Blood Drive, Ab and Al take a look at 1979's Nosferatu by the legendary Werner Herzog. We talk the real life horrors of Klaus Kinski and animal cruelty, our love for the cinematography of this movie, Isabelle Adjani's complex portrayal of Lucy, and what the hell the ending was supposed to mean! And we tease our next epi…
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Episode 2 - Josh M. Hates the X-Men!
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In this episode, I learn that our mutant menace, Josh, actually hates the X-Men! Josh tells us why the metaphors do and don't land with him, why he supported the Inhumans in the ill fated X-Men v. Inhumans event, and why he loves the Scarlet Witch.By ChillerPop
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Blood Drive! Episode 3 - The Vampire Lovers
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The Blood Drive rides on with our 3rd episode discussing 1970's The Vampire Lovers. Join us as we discuss this infamous adaptation of J. Sheridan LeFanu's classic vampire novella, Carmilla.By ChillerPop and Absynthe
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Blood Drive! Episode 2 - Dracula A.D. 1972
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Diiiig the music, kids! In Episode 2 of our Season 2, Blood Drive, we discuss Hammer Films' Dracula A.D 1972. Hear us talk about how we first got turned on to Hammer Films! the What Ifs of this movie! A history of Hammer Horror! Our love of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing! Shocking hippies that could've been glam rock kids! That one friend in the…
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Blood Drive! Episode 1 - Dracula's Daughter
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Welcome to Blood Drive! This is Season 2 of Back Row at Bank Street. Just in time for Halloween season and beyond, Ab and Al will be looking at some great vampire movies. First up is the classic 1936 Universal Monsters sequel, Dracula's Daughter! Our discussion includes The Hayes Code, the history of Universal Studios horror, LGBTQ representation, …
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Back Row at Bank street ends its Apocalypse Then! series with the 2006 doc- err, apocalyptic comedy film, Idiocracy. We discuss why this film has and has not aged well, and why it might actually be the way we go out in North America. Stay tuned for Blood Drive!By ChillerPop and Absynthe
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Apocalypse Then! Episode 7 - V For Vendetta
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It's our penultimmate episode of Apocalypse Then! And ChillerPop and Absynthe bring you the 2006 graphic novel adaptation V For Vendetta! Hear us go off on the "war on terror", trumpism, the pandemic, fascism and more! Does this movie make you want to stand up to evil authoritarians? What banned books and music would YOU keep in your secret lair? L…
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Apocalypse Then! Episode 6 - Dark City
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Apocalypse Then! continues as we take a look at the 1998 neo-noir science fiction movie, Dark City! Directed by Alex Proyas, and starring Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien and Ian Richardson. Like Blade Runner before it, this movie asks "what does it mean to be human?" and we're pretty sure it might h…
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Apocalypse Then! Episode 5 - Night of the Comet
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On this fifth episode of Apocalypse Then! two former 80s teens talk about an apocalyptic movie featuring two 80s teens. We dig into Thom Eberhardt's camp classic Night of the Comet. See: proto-gamer girls! Sparse, talkative and fast zombies! Highly incompetent government conspirators! The magnificent menace of Mary Woronov! Quincy...Kraftwerks? And…
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Apocalypse Then! Episode 4 - Blade Runner 2049
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On the fourth episode of Apocalypse Then! Ab and Al discuss Denis Villeneuve's 2017 film Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the storied cult classic Blade Runner from 1982. We discuss what it means to be human (of course), an AI's AI, when San Francisco imitated art, the return of Harrison Ford and Sean Young to this universe, and we deem Blade Runner …
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Apocalypse Then! Episode 3 - The Omega Man
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Grab the popcorn and join us at the end of the world as we fight weird Luddites with Charlton Heston and Rosalind Cash! We discuss 8 tracks, cults, the Heston of it all, and the eerily prescient pandemic and reproductive rights issues this movie brings up.By ChillerPop and Absynthe
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Join ChillerPop and Absynthe as we test In-Valid for the upper echelons of Gattaca! We discuss cheekbones, solar panels, 1960s aesthetics, Aldous Huxley, and what it means to be human.By ChillerPop
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Episode 1 - Peter's Emma Frost Problem!
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In our inaugural episode of Mutant Menaces, we speak to my friend, the inimitable writer, podcaster and activist Peter about how foundational the X-Men Animated Series was for his generation, his fondness for the pre-Claremont era of X-Men, and his indefatigable love for one cold-blooded, blue-blooded, luxury communist diva, Miss Emma Frost!…
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Apocalypse Then! Episode 1 - Zardoz
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Welcome to the first episode of Back Row at Bank Street! In this first episode, Ab and Al discuss John Boorman's insane 1974 film Zardoz. Come hear about floating heads, men behind curtains, religious parables, thigh high boots and red briefs, psychic fops, class struggle, good guns and bad penises, and whether or not Viagra could have saved the Et…
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