Episode 78: 10 Switchblade Sisters I Hate

Sneaky Shakespeare!

This week, Faults in the Vaults, takes the old and makes it new again and looks back at a pair of modernized teen-centric Shakespearean adaptations. We add to the list of 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and instead declare allegiance to the Switchblade Sisters (1975).

Slipping Through the Tracks returns after a lengthy hiatus as Josh highlights the work of Steven Price and Basement Jaxx on Joe Cornish's Attack the Block (2011). Akira Kurosawa transplants Shakespeare's Hamlet to the corrupt Post-war corporate world in The Bad Sleep Well (1960) as part of another edition of Where in the World Cinema?

Soapbox Seconds adds to last week's discussion and speaks of the cinematic pedigree of Meet the Applegates (1990).

Also in this episode, concrete blues, Parks Doc news, Raleigh Soapery holiday deals and The Soapbox Office Podcast Cool Yule Contest Giveaway Type Thing!

Episode 73: Drinking & Drive-ins - Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper Tribute!

This week, Faults in the Vaults pauses to bring you another installment of Drinking & Drive-ins - the segment where we kick back and revel in some of the very best cinematic exploitations from the heyday of the local drive-in to the birth of the multiplex and beyond.

This time, we pay tribute to the passing of another icon of genre cinema, the great Tobe Hooper, director of such classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, Salem's Lot, and Poltergeist! Kick back with one of our customized cinema cocktails and listen as we take a look back at his epic Sci-Fi/Horror space oddity, Lifeforce (1985)...

Josh goes Digging Up The Docs to introduce the initiated to the world of theatrical music composition with Matt Schrader's Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016).

The Soapbox Rant takes issue with the erasure of established sequel continuity in film franchises.

Also in this episode, Josh takes ill while Mitch takes issue with David Lynch and Christopher Nolan, Kingsman reviews, and plenty of love for Scream Factory!

Episode 70: Rebel Without a Wild Seed

Young Rebels!

This week, Faults in the Vaults returns with a pairing of films depicting rebellious young love and the hardships of youth.We play "Chickie Run" and bail on Rebel Without a Cause (1955) in order to hop a train car and make off with 1965's Wild Seed.

The Mailbag is chock full of shout-outs, worldly connections, and technical questions about the speech patterns of S.T.U.R.G.E.S...

This Week in Torrents, Mitch and Josh detail a brief history of Disney's Silly Symphonies collection, the theatrical short animations that ran from 1929 to 1939.

Mitch goes Slipping Through The Tracks, courtesy of a birthday request in order to highlight the upbeat bossa nova-laden soundtrack to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by the legendary Burt Bacharach!

Also in this episode, night outings at New Beverly, post-TromaDance Other Fish, Outtake-O-Rama with Pinky and the Brain, and more fun with the great products from Raleigh Soapery!

Episode 64: Drinking & Drive-Ins - Americathon

Neil Israel Interview!

This week, we temporarily put aside Faults in the Vaults to bring you yet another installment of Drinking & Drive-ins - the segment where we kick back and revel in some of the very best cinematic exploitations from the heyday of the local drive-in to the birth of the multiplex and beyond. This time, we're celebrating the B-Day of the U.S. of A with 1979's surprisingly prophetic screwball satire, Americathon!

Mitch and Josh scrape The Mailbag and discuss the nature of actors taking on new skill sets for specific roles, as well as trying to recall early exposures to great acting in film. This Week in Torrents, Josh digs up the unsold Andy Kaufman pilot for Stick Around (1977).

Mitch goes Slipping Through the Tracks to provide an audio guide to the Planet of the Apes franchise, specifically the sounds of Tom Scott's contemporary primal jazz fusion score for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972).

Also in this episode, Fourth of July celebrations, TV binge-watching, Hicksville exploits, Corgi beach days, and a plethora of fine American made products from the good people at Raleigh Soapery!

Episode 52: Losers Wanted

Comics on Film!

This week, Faults in the Vaults curves a bullet into the path of Timur Bekmambetov's Wanted (2008) in order to clear the names and rebuild the reputation of The Losers (2010)!

This Week in Torrents finds Josh highlighting an unaired television pilot for the Sam Raimi-created cult favorite, Darkman (1992)! The Soapbox Rant sets its sights on the Iron Fist (2017) haters!

Mitch goes Digging Up The Docs to honor the memory of the legendary Don Rickles with the wonderfully produced career retrospective, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007), directed by John Landis.

Slipping Through the Tracks makes a triumphant return as Josh selects a surprisingly classical theatrical score by John Frizzell and The London Metropolitan Orchestra for Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996).

Also in this episode, the guys bask in commercial success, continue to roll cameras for Lovett or Leave It, hang out with industry friends at Monsterpalooza, and ward off sewer monsters with the help of great products from Raleigh Soapery!

Episode 43: Nixon & Nixon

Nixon: Fact vs. Fiction!

Faults in the Vaults returns in the New Year and braces for our incoming President with a pair of films depicting one of the most notorious occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue --- Richard Milhous Nixon.  We accept the resignation of Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995) in favor of 2016's comic curio, Elvis & Nixon.

In this week's Spotlight Interview, we talk to the Writer and Executive Producer of Elvis & Nixon, Joey Sagal! Mr. Sagal sheds light on the origination of the movie as well as his own encounter with The King!

The Mailbag presents yet another chapter in the developing saga of brotherly civil war with more listener opinions. Digging Up The Docs takes an unfiltered look at the Man, the Myth, the Legend --- Evel Knievel, from the perspective of his adoring fans and friends who knew him best in Daniel Junge's Being Evel (2015).

Josh goes Slipping Through The Tracks to spotlight the often overlooked work of composer, Bruce Broughton, specifically his John Williams-esque work on Young Sherlock Holmes and *COUGH* where you can find the unreleased full sessions.

Also in this episode, New Year love for Raleigh Soapery, post-holiday updates, and more!

Episode 27: Harry Torino

Old Timer Vengeance!

This week, Faults in the Vaults takes a look at two films dealing with what happens when old white men are pushed too far. We're driving Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008) to the scrap yard in order to seek vengeance for Harry Brown (2009).

Our good friends at Raleigh Soapery return and contribute a question about awkward movie going experiences in this week's Mailbag. The guys discuss the pros and cons of Stranger Things in this edition of The Soapbox Rant. In Diggin' Up the Docs, the Herzog discussion streak alive as Josh highlights his brand new film, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016).

Mitch goes Slipping Through the Tracks this week with a selection from earlier in the career of popular German composer, Hans Zimmer, specifically his work on John Boorman's South-East Asian political drama, Beyond Rangoon (1995). And in the new segment, Recycled Cinema, Mitch briefly discusses frequent Zimmer collaborator -- Christopher Nolan's 2002 remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg's 1997 Norwegian crime thriller, Insomnia!

Episode 24: Hearts of Burden, Dreams of Darkness

Chaotic Filmmaking Docs!

This week, Faults in the Vaults heads deep into the jungles and the depths of the human psyche in order to analyze a pair of documentaries on the chaotic nature of filmmaking. Specifically, we're taking a look at Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (a 1991 document of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now) and Burden of Dreams (a 1982 document of Werner Herzog's Fitzcaraldo).

Elsewhere in the episode, Mitch shakes open The Mailbag once more to read aloud some fan follow-ups to a previous episode (Ep.22: Heavy Rock & Rule). In This Week in Torrents, Josh picks a PBS broadcast of American Masters featuring George Lucas and his associates discussing his work in the field of filmmaking.

It's Josh's turn to go Slipping Through the Tracks as he tells the story behind the great Bernard Herrmann's unused score for Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966). Also, Josh explains the show's absence and recaps this month's SDCC while Mitch explains his fear of coyotes. Plus, Herzog impressions!!!

Episode 14: The Goonies Squad

Childhood Classics!

This week, in Faults in the Vaults, Josh & Mitch take a look at a pair of adolescent adventure films! They're foreclosing on the Richard Donner/Steven Spielberg collaboration, The Goonies (1985) in order to join up with Fred Dekker's The Monster Squad (1987).

Elsewhere, Mitch dives into The Mailbag to discuss guilty cinematic pleasures. Josh cracks open the Book of the Dead to deliver an Evil Dead fan restoration for This Week in Torrents. Vitriolic opinions are cast on the nature of corporate cannibalism in The Soapbox Rant.

Josh extols the beautiful and inventive score for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes by Hans Zimmer featuring Diego Stocco on the Experibass in Slipping Through the Tracks, while the guys then attempt to rewrite cinematic wrongs once more with a Total Recast!!!

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Music by Cam Mosavian.