Movie Roulette Tuesday: The Podcast
Three lifelong friends with a passion for cinema invite you to their weekly movie night where they get together for dinner, discussion and laughs. Written, directed and hosted by Rachael, Karl and Matt.
Episodes
This week is a listener pick from Kevin!
We’re boarding the starship Avalon for a 120-year ride to Homestead II with 2016’s Passengers, directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.
A mechanical engineer wakes up 90 years early on a luxury sleeper ship full of hibernating colonists, and the only company he has is an android bartender. What happens next raises some bi...
Before there was Avatar, Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Avatar 4….is there a 4? Who even knows anymore? But before all of that, James Cameron directed a little film in 1982 called Piranha 2: The Spawning. And while he may have been fired after two and a half weeks of filming, his name remained on the movie as the director. Why? Tune in to find out!
We also discover some facts about piranhas (including how much of t...
We continue our “before they were famous” theme with a little whodunnit film noire gem from 1944; “Laura,” directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, and Vincent Price. Yes, before he was synonymous with gothic horror, Vincent Price had more mundane roles. In this film, he plays a cowardly playboy love interest, one of several suspects in this mur...
Hi everyone, we have a new theme this week and that theme is: “before they were famous”. It’s pretty self explanatory but just to be clear, that means we will be reviewing films where the stars/directors/etc are not necessarily making their debut but significant contributions to the film industry before they became their own brand.
We are kicking things off with The Outsiders. This is a ...
Once Upon a Time. . . this podcast occasionally has a Special Guest Host. And this week is one of those magical weeks! Matt's sister Kristen joins us for her listener pick: the 2025 Norwegian body horror film, "The Ugly Stepsister." This is a twist on the Cinderella story by the Brothers Grimm that explores the lengths someone will go to to be seen as "beautiful." It is visually stunnin...
In a very special episode of the Movie Roulette Tuesday Podcast, we take a construction necessitated break from our normal programming to watch one of the most bizarre films we’ve ever seen, maverick filmmaker Palmer Rockey’s Scarlet Warning 666, AKA It Happened One Weekend.
Palmer Rockey claims to have played 7 roles in front of the camera, and 47 behind the camera, including writing, direc...
We close out our “Love Hurts” theme with the 1993 Brian Yuzna zombie romance classic Return of the Living Dead 3 about a sweet young couple who won’t let a case of death stop their romance.
We also discuss the worst pain each of us has ever felt, as well as the history of the Return of the Living Dead series and its ties to the George Romero classics. So please join us…and bring your BR...
We continue our “Love Hurts” theme; this week it’s a classic tear-jerker from 2004, “The Notebook”. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner and Gena Rowlands, this film explores what happens when a lifetime of love is lost to Alzheimer’s disease.
We also learn a little more about Alzheimer’s and its prevalence and impact on s...
Love is a wonderful thing. Make ya smile through the pouring rain, take your heart and make it sing.... blah blah blah, what does Michael Bolton know anyway. The truth is, sometimes love hurts and that is the theme we will be dealing with this round.
We haven't had a truly bizarre pick in a little while and that is exactly what we are kicking things off with via David Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash. S...
Ahoy there mateys! This week is a listener pick, and our most recent submission is from loyal listener Jared, who said his mother made him watch this film every Christmas. (We are not sure if this was for enjoyment or punishment.) He has requested that we watch 1983's "The Pirates of Penzance;" a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta written in the late 19th century, which had a Broadway reviva...
We finish off our “Don’t Mess with Texas” theme with 1975’s Aztec deity worshipper road movie Race with the Devil, about two couples who witness a human sacrifice while on a road trip together. Doesnt that sound like fun?
We also discuss some RV history, and provide updates on what we’ve been up to during our two week hiatus. Wanna know why Rachael isn’t allowed i...
Our “Don’t Mess With Texas” theme continues with one of the most iconic episodes in Texas history; “The Alamo.” We chose the 2004 version of this movie, which is a little more historically accurate than the 1960 John Wayne epic. Directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Quaid, this film tells the story of Santa Anna’s siege of the Alamo an...
Texas, the final frontier. It's big, bold and a little strange but most of all, don't mess with it. Well dear listener, that's our new theme for this cycle in a nutshell: "don't mess with Texas".
In this episode we will explore some interesting facts and figures about our second largest state, but mostly we will dig into the phrase "don't mess with Texas"; what it means, where it came from and what ...
It’s time for another listener pick and this time the submitter is our special guest host for this episode.
Loyal listener and good friend Mike wanted us to watch the 1985 film Runaway Train which helped foster his passion for trains. The film stars Jon Voight and Eric Roberts where two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody drivi...
We go down under to close out our theme of “It’s Magic!” with the 1980 Australian fantasy thriller Harlequin. The film, a modern day retelling of the story of Rasputin, is about a magical healer who seemingly cures a senator’s son of leukemia, but gets close enough to the family to make the senator’s handlers uncomfortable.
We also talk about the “Ozploitation&r...
We continue our magical theme this week with a fantasy film from 1988: “Willow.” Directed by Ron Howard, produced by George Lucas, and starring Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis and Joanne Whalley. You want magic? This movie delivers. There’s real magic, illusions, fairies, brownies, good and evil sorceresses, magic wands. . . I could go on. It’s also a personal film favorite ...
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls please step right up, give us a moment of your time and be amazed! We have for you a new theme so fantastic, so incredible that you won't believe your very ears. Reaching beyond the bounds of your wildest imagination, of everything you thought possible we bring you "It's Magic!".
First on the stage to overwhelm your sense of reality we have the 1995 neo-noir 'Lo...
Our next listener pick, chosen by loyal lister and family to the show Michael, is the 1982 John Carpenter classic The Thing! The film stars Kurt Russell as a member of an Antarctic research team who must do battle with an alien that can take on the form of anyone.
We also discuss the big local news of the week, what locals were calling the “big boom”. What was the big boom exact...
We close out our theme of “Movies That Couldn’t Be Made Today” with the 2002 forgotten oddity Tiptoes. You can’t make this up. Gary Oldman only did the movie because he had bills to pay. Kate Beckinsale agreed to the SAG minimum as long as she could wear her “lucky hat” during filming. The writer/director tried to get his name completely removed from the movie. Matthew McConaughey...
We continue our theme of "Movies That Couldn't Be Made Today" with one that literally couldn't (for TECH-nical reasons). . . we are watching something filmed in vibrant, beautiful, and now extinct TECHNICOLOR!!! Our shining example of this format is 1947's "Black Narcissus." Directed by the duo of Powell and Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr and David Farrar, this film is about a group of nuns tas...
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