The Rad Revival House
Presenting a cult film podcast unlike any other! The Rad Revival House unearths cool, forgotten cinema for the young, and cinematically curious. Join your host, "The Professor" Cesare Augusto, as he introduces underrated, forgotten, and obscure movies to influence current moviegoing audiences to rediscover these forgotten gems, AND to help ignite the passion of newer generations of filmmakers in hopes of returning the cinema to vintage glory of decades past! The Rad Revival House premieres a new episode every Wednesday. Theme song by George Davison. Artwork by Liza Manansala
Episodes
The special Season 3 Finale Series at The Rad Revival House begins with our review of the original hard-hitting no-holds-barred 1978 Macaroni Combat classic, THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS! We at the RRH opens with open arms the Special Guest Lecturer of the week, one of the stars of THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, vintage tough guy actor Mr. Bo Svenson!
Our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, sits down with Bo to discuss his experiences making this ...
Ten-HUT and fall in, class! The Rad Revival House explores one of the greatest yet criminally-underrated war films of all time: Samuel Fuller’s 1980 autobiographical epic, THE BIG RED ONE, starring the incomparable Lee Marvin!
Joining us for the first time is Kass Smiley, host of The Big Lee Marvin Fan Podcast and big Lee Marvin superfan. As a first time Special Guest Lecturer on the RRH, Kass brings her significant expertise ...
On this dual Juneteenth/Father’s Day Weekend, the Rad Revival House pays tribute to both yearly observances with our review of the great 1970s African-American family drama, CLAUDINE! Returning to provide his excellent cinematic insight is filmmaker and frequent Special Guest Lecturer Mike Dennis of Reelblack.
CLAUDINE stars legendary film stars Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones, in a performance of a lifetime. Carroll is t...
Happy Pride Month to our LGBTQ class of listeners and aspiring filmmakers!
The Rad Revival House embarks on its first-ever Pride Month tributes with a double-feature of great LGBTQ-based films: the gripping 1961 drama THE CHILDREN’S HOUR, and the light-hearted 1993 foreign comedy-drama THE WEDDING BANQUET. Joining our analysis is Sam Levy, co-host of the great Informed Nostalgia Podcast and frequent RRH Special Guest Lecturer,...
Avanti, pardners!
The Rad Revival House returns to the wild and wacky Spaghetti Western with our review of IF YOU MEET SARTANA, PRAY FOR YOUR DEATH. And if that isn’t the coolest damn movie title ever, we don’t know what is!
Helping to review this bonkers Spaghetti Western is frequent Special Guest Lecturer and expert analyst Rob of the great podcast The Cinemigos. Together, Rob and our host, Professor Cesare Augusto anal...
This week on The Rad Revival House, we take a visit to the surrealistically simplistic world of Louis Malle’s MY DINNER WITH ANDRE!
Returning to the RRH is frequent Special Guest Lecturer, Frank Mandosa of the great cinematic podcast, Reels of Cinema. Together, Frank and our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, analyze this deceptively simple, yet brilliant film from 1981.
On the surface, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE appears experimen...
Presenting a special two-fer of firsts at the Rad Revival House! We’re reviewing our first ANIMATED feature, as well as our first DISNEY film, with 1959’s SLEEPING BEAUTY!
Aurora, a beautiful young princess, finds herself cursed by an alluring but evil fairy named Maleficent, who, after being slighted by the girl’s royal parents, hexes Aurora to prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep by her 16th birthday. Look...
The Rad Revival House returns to television with a look at 4 great episodes of the Western hit show, HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL!
Our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, deep-dives in his favorite TV Western of all time. He reveals what makes this show so interesting, and how he first discovered it from, all things, STAND BY ME, his favorite film of all time, where the picture’s 4 young protagonists sing the show’s theme song on ...
The Rad Revival House explores the gruesome sub-genre of Italian Sci-Fi Exploitation cinema with the bonkers 1984 picture, RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR!Appearing for the first time on our show as Special Guest Lecturer is Sam Panico of the cool AF cult film website B&S About Movies. Along with our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, Sam offers his enthusiastic insight about RATS and its bizarre take on the post-apocalyptic sub-genre of Sc...
The Rad Revival House ventures back to Asia with a look at the quiet, poignant character study YI YI, directed by Taiwanese film icon Edward Yang.
Returning to the RRH is Special Guest Lecturer Sam Levy, co-host of the YouTube-based podcast “Informed Nostalgia.” Labeled by our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, as the go-to American guy for great Asian cinema, Sam originally recommended YI YI to us as essential viewing, and...
The Rad Revival House returns to the wonderful, fantastical whimsey of classic special effects titan Ray Harryhausen with THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD!
Recurring Special Guest Lecturer Philip Duke II of the great movie review podcast Making Tarantino lends a welcoming hand in reviewing this wacky piece of 1970s fantasy cinema. Two-fisted sea captain Sinbad (Towering vintage star John Phillip Law) is recruited in restoring the rightfu...
A Rad Revival House EXCLUSIVE!
We are thrilled to have a Bonafide film star, screenwriter, filmmaker, and actual subject of our reviews as a Special Guest Lecturer, Mr. Daniel Roebuck, this week! Together with our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, Danny has graciously agreed to analyze and review two of his films: his most recent directorial effort, 2026’s THE HAIL MARY, and 1987’s DUDES.
First on deck is THE HAIL MARY, Dan...
Happy Easter from The Rad Revival House! To commemorate such a joyous occasion, we will tackle the awesomely bad 1970s camp horror classic, NIGHT OF THE LEPUS!
Our beloved host, Professor Cesare Augusto, tackles this review solo for a change. Here, he provides a testament to the schlocky, so-bad-it’s-good trash masterpiece NIGHT OF THE LEPUS, which he first discovered on TNT’s “Monster-Vision” horror campaign...
Not since BLACK SWAN has there been such a visually-intense picture about ballerinas than 1948’s THE RED SHOES, this week on The Rad Revival House!
Appearing for the first time on our show are the unbeatable team of Nicole and Tessa from the excellent Doom Generation Podcast. They join our host Professor Cesare on exploring the musical majestic beauty of THE RED SHOES, directed by the powerhouse British team of Michael Powell ...
The Rad Revival House pays tribute to a true icon of the Cinema: the late, great Robert Duvall.
Returning to the RRH as Special Guest Lecturer is Newman of the excellent podcast Movies 4 Dayz. Together with host Professor Cesare Augusto, Newman lends a strong hand in analyzing two criminally underrated Robert Duvall pictures: the Sci-Fi dystopian classic THX 1138, and the rough an’ tumble Crime classic, THE OUTFIT.
In THX 1138,...
On this very special Oscars Edition of The Rad Revival House, we revisit the fantastic political foreign thriller, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS! Nominated for three Academy Awards (in non-consecutive years, a true cinematic achievement), including Best Foreign Language Film in 1966, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS is a great landmark picture that has impacted filmmakers for decades.
Returning to the RRH to assist in analyzing duties is Rob of the gr...
Horror gore-hounds of the world, REJOICE! The Rad Revival House hits the bloody 1980s with the cult 1985 splatter-fest RE-ANIMATOR!
Joining us as a first time Special Guest Lecturer is longtime Horror film lover Mike Messbauer, who is more than eager to discuss his fascination with director Stuart Gordon’s take on the classic Frankenstein tale, originally conceived by iconic writer H.P. Lovecraft. RE-ANIMATOR tells the tale of...
What do you get when you combine the futuristic, technological, but paranoid marvel of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY with the gripping nuclear what-if nightmare of DR. STRANGELOVE? You get the brilliant underrated sci-fi masterpiece COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT as this week’s Rad Revival House review!
Returning to the RRH is our old friend and recurring Special Guest Lecturer, George Davison. He rejoins our host, Professor Cesare Augu...
Are we our brother’s keepers? YES WE ARE!
The Rad Revival House concludes our Black History Month Movie Movement 2026 with a true bang through our review of the 1991 African-American action classic, NEW JACK CITY.
Helping us analyze this slam-bang urban thriller is Vashawn “V.Q.” Quinones, host of the Fear Of A Black Film Critic Podcast and son of the late, great actor and break-dancing extraordinaire Adolfo “...
Who’s ready for some football…drama?
Happy Superbowl Sunday, class! We’re at a very special edition of our Black History Month movie movement, as we combine both BHM and the big game! This week, the RRH explores the great 1971 made-for-TV dramatic sports tearjerker, BRIAN’S SONG.
Helping in our review is first-time Special Guest Lecturer, Walter Cherepinsky. An old Penn State University friend of our host, Pr...
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