“The problem is the tone”, is something I frequently say when speaking negatively about a movie.  A movie can have everything going for it, a great cast, good director, and solid premise but if it gets the tone wrong, everything falls apart (see Maps to the Stars).  In that regard, Justin Benson and Aaron...

Internet beware! The Mike Staub Pod Show is back! After a long hiatus, the show has decided to make a somewhat triumphant return. This show we have Keith, Brendan, Chad, and Amanda in studio. We talk about the past year, as well as Brendan’s experience with Fifty Shades of Grey.  We also celebrate the...

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday I hate more than all the others combined.  It’s a pathetic excuse to get drunk, dress like an imbecile, and act like a fool.  Guess what people? You’re all adults.  You can get drunk whenever you feel like it.  You don’t need a bullshit holiday to do...

It Follows is the best kind of horror movie, one with an ingeniously simple premise that allows the director to create scenes of such tension and suspense that you sit in total dread of what is going to happen next. The characters are well written and believable, the soundtrack is oppressive and threatening, and...

It takes a truly talented filmmaker to make a movie as unpleasant to sit through as Maps to the Stars.  David Cronenberg has made some of my favorite movies and will always be a director I hold in high regard.  The first Cronenberg flick I saw was The Fly and it holds up as well today...

Chappie is getting ripped to shreds by critics.  Few are even calling writer/director Neill Blomkamp the ‘next Shyamalan’.  Ouch.  I was a big fan of his first film, District 9, but never got around to seeing his second, Elysium.  I was told the social commentary that worked so well in District 9 was far too heavy handed in Elysium.  Well, that...

Is anyone else slightly offended that 1995 was officially twenty years ago? I know that as I get older I keep realizing that I remember these years fairly vividly. I remember 1995, I remember things I did in 1995: movies I saw, games I played, albums I listened to on repeat for hours on...

Post-apocalyptic stories are a dime a dozen these days.  They’re so damn prevalent that whenever I recommend one to somebody they almost always groan.  I usually try to sneak that part in at the end of my pitch.  We’re just tired of them and most of us find The Walking Dead to be more than enough...

For ChompCast Episode 4 we have Jordan in studio. Mike and Jordan talk about the Oscars, which movies they feel should have been nominated, and discuss the future of the show.  They also talk about genre films and why they’re so tragically underrepresented. Enjoy!    

Netflix is both a wonderful and maddening service. It’s wonderful because there are so many options, so many categories—many of them oddly specific—that it always seems like you’ll be able to find something interesting to watch. You know the truth though. Nine out of ten times, you just sit there, scrolling through titles in...