Retro Ridoctopus

With the help of our pal Scott Clevenger (from The Slumgullion podcast) we dish all about four stylish 90's action/adventure films that were looking to the pulps of the 30s for inspiration! These movies featured heroic characters from a bygone era of pulp magazines, comic strips and serials!

We'll each present one of the four films while diving into their pulpy origins. By the time these films were made, these characters weren't as...

This week, down in that rusted out hull we call the BRIG… we are honored to have New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Christopher Golden! Chris is the author of such novels as Snowblind, Road of Bones, Ararat, The House of Last Resort, 13 Buffy The Vampire Slayer novels and more comics than you can shake a RIGHT HAND OF DOOM at!

Since his debut in 1994 (with "Of Saints and Shadows"), Chris has ...

Coopster Gold takes us back to our Amazing Animal Facts theme from last season, but with a twist! This time we only picked those creatures who have sadly joined the ranks of the EXTINCT.

We decided to leave the dinosaurs out of it, focusing on such fantastic beasts as Mighty Moas, Tasmanian Tigers, Woolly Rhinos and, of course, the poster animal for extinction, the Dodo.

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This time in the BRIG, we have an enormously talented artist, graphic designer and author of the novels Blood For The Sun, All The Dead Men, Lightning Wears a Red Cape and his brand new one: The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile! All that and he’s a former Marine, a black belt in Krav Maga..

It’s Boston’s own… Errick Nunnally!

The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile is a Black nerd coming-of-age novel set in 1970s Boston ...

Retroids, start your engines! This episode is all about driving and racing games! We're talking arcades, Atari, Super Nintendo, the N64, and into the era of Playstation and X-Box! As long as the game puts you behind the wheel, it counts!

Along for the ride is our old pal and former host of the Retro Ridoctopus cephalopodcast, Synopsis Grim AKA BOSS RUSH MODE!! So buckle up and floor that gas pedal. It's the finish line or BUST!

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Val Kilmer was an actor's actor. The rare sort of movie star whose focus was always on creating the best performance possible. Even when not the leading man, he through himself into every role, always elevating what had been written on the page into something special.

Over the course of an impressive 30 year career, Val was shaped by the Hollywood machine into a bonafied movie star. From lighter fair like Top Secret and Real Genius...

This week, down in the eldritch unknown of the BRIG… we have returning guest, Cat Scully!

A talented artist, video game developer, writer and novelist … Cat is the author of Jennifer Strange and comes back to chat all about her hotly anticipated novel BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL! We’ve got the roaring 20s, flapper dresses, Ziegfeld Girls... Faustian bargains, mouths where there shouldn’t be mouths...you know, all the ingredients of a goo...

Between 1980 and 2010, a total of eleven SNL movies were produced. Some are great, others are far from it and there are plenty in between. But love em or pan em, these comedies were foundational viewing for many of us who grew up in the 90s and beyond!

In this episode, Coop continues his Saturday Night Live theme and we spotlight a total of of our personal favorite SNL films, including the really obvious one! Party on, Wayne! And p...

Hiya, Toonsters!

Parasite Steve and 8-Bit Alchemy had a totally toontastic time re-playing some classic Tiny Toon Adventures video games, and you're gonna hear about it! This is a property that produced more games than you realize and some of them are absolutely worth any retro gamer's time!

Covered meticulously in this episode are: • Tiny Toon Adventures (NES) • Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland (NES) • Tiny Toon Advent...

LIVE FROM (somewhere on the internet) IT'S (a podcast about) SATURDAY NIGHT!!!

Saturday Night Live is more than a TV show, it's an American institution. As much a part of our lives as apple pie and cutting people off at intersections. Now in it's 50th season, the show is older than any of the Octo-hosts, but that just means that it's been a staple for our entire lives!

For this first part of 2 SNL themed episodes, we are concentra...

Morgan Sylvia is an author from Maine with numerous published works including novels, short stories, poetry collections and everything in between. Whether she's writing long or short form, one thing is clear, the quality of the prose itself is always top of mind. This lends a musical quality to the language of her work. A poetic fingerprint that most authors never achieve. In other words, you should be reading her stuff!

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Building on our Real Ghostbusters episode, we decided to not only focus on the sequel to that legendary cartoon, but spotlight three major animated series the helped shaped the 90s!

Drew Mollo (from Splash Pages) is back for the second week in a row, as we tackle The Extreme Ghostbusters, Men In Black The Series and Godzilla The Series! Aside from all being continuations of popular sci-fi/action movies, these fantastic shows were a...

Who you gonna call? Why, Drew Mollo (from the Splash Pages podcast) that's who!

As a lifelong Ghostbusters super-fan, Drew has spent years memorizing Tobin's Spirit Guide and definitely knows how to read a P.K.E. Meter. A good thing too, because for this episode, we're be spotlighting 8 episodes from this seminal animated series! Expect plenty of Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston as well as a few buckets of slime as we stock up on Ecto-Co...

Our Wild Wild Westerns theme continues! But before we ride off into the sunset, there's still some rip-roaring fun to be had!

Join your saddle-sore hosts Rattlesnake Steve, Doc Cooperday and The 8-Bit Kid as they rustle up some westerns in basically every media besides movies! We've got a wagon full of cartoons, video games, a short story collection and even (what some might call) a Power To The Metal in disguise. And after that, w...

On another episode of the BRIG… we’ve got a talented Brooklyn based filmmaker, actor, podcaster and award winning author. Marc Abbott!

Marc's short stories have been featured in numerous anthologies including the Bram Stoker Nominated horror anthologies New York State of Fright & Under Twin Suns, not to mention the two-time African American Literary Award-winning horror anthology, Hell at the Way Station. And if that wasn’t eno...

Hope you've packed plenty beans, bacon, whiskey and lard because we are headed WEST!

Hitch your wagon train to three nefarious-looking desperadoes by the names of Rattlesnake Steve, Doc Cooperday and The 8-Bit Kid because for this first episode of our Wild Wild Westerns theme, we cover some of our favorite Western MOVIES! From Wayne to Eastwood, Russell & Kilmer to...SCOTT GLENN?? We cover a wide breadth of this expansive genr...

This Crow's Nest shines the torchlight on a sequel that was 35 years in the making!

At Retro Ridoctopus, we love point and click adventure games and for Parasite Steve and 8-Bit Alchemy, that journey started with a game called Shadowgate on the NES. Fast forward to 2024, whena small indie game developer, (started by the the original creators of the Macventure Series which included not only Shadowgate but also Déjà Vu and The Uninvi...

For the season 7 premiere of THE BRIG… Retro Ridoctopus is proud and honored to present two incredible guests who are absolutely tearing up the indie comics scene!

First, we have a thirty five plus year veteran of the comics industry, and frequent collaborator of Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola and other total industry legends...New York Times Best Selling Author, Tom Sniegoski! With him is Tom's writing partner, Jeannine Acheson,...

Sometimes supporting and background characters shine brighter than the heroes do!

Continuing our new Season 7 format, we are splitting this theme into two episodes. Part 2 concentrates on memorable background characters from Video Games. And later, 8-Bit Alchemy will drop the first B-Segment of the season in the form of a DIE MONSTER!

If you missed it, check out Not Enough Screen Time Part 1 which covered our favorite supporting ch...