The Schlock and Awe Podcast

The Schlock and Awe Podcast

Schlock and Awe is a Double Feature Podcast that celebrates all movies from the sublime to the suspicious

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May 26, 2025 174 mins

This week on S&A Lindsay, Ryan from The New World Podcast & Andy from the Imperial Scum Podcast talk about the Magnificent Gene Hackman and two of his more lighter modes. In Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty (1995) & Richard Donner's Superman The Movie (1978).

Both of these movies are about the cinema experience in different ways, while Gene is playing a man trying to get one last big score.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & James Coddington head to New York for a rumble with Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002) & Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (2021). Two Titans tackling one of the greatest Cities of Earth.

Bring your hatchets or snapping fingers.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King


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This week on S&A Lindsay & Carmelita Valdez McKoy spend a debauched weekend soaked in liquor, with a Double of Mike Figgis' Leaving Las Vegas (1995) & Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright (1971). This is a Double of the desert and alcoholism - because both are never ending. And everyone loves the Yabba.

Original Graphics by Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King


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On this S&A Lindsay & Nadine Whitney head in the Cornfield to see if they can find a Clown. Spoilers they do. They are looking at Eli Craig's Clown in a Cornfield (2025)


Fucking Teenagers - or is it Gen X?


Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music by Anthony King


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This week on S&A Lindsay and Matt Bledsloe deliver a package while taking the bus. It's a Double of Louis Leterrier/Corey Yuen' Transport (2002) & Jan De Bont's Speed (1994)

Two movies that are perfect examples of their particular era of action. Drive fast and kick harder. Pop Quiz Hot Shot.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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On this not so very Quickie S&A Quickie Review Lindsay & Preston go to the Juke Joint with a look at Ryan Coogler's new Movie Sinners (2025).

This movie is all about Vampires, Music, Appropriation and the Black Experience.


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This week on S&A Lindsay and Producer Max of Action for Everyone talk standing up to authority and fighting Vampires with a Double of Andre Overdal's The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) & Stephen Norrington's Blade (1998)

This is a Double of Race, Blaxploitation and the Vampire as the Man.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Bede, Marcey & Twinning Titles are back with a meeting at the Crossroads, two different Crossroads. Tamra Davis' Crossroads (2002) & Walter Hill's Crossroads (1986).

The journey is always about the discovery.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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On this very special Bonus Episode of S&A Lindsay is joined by VH US Host Dirk Marshall, as they take to the road with a Double of Abbe Wool's Roadside Prophets (1992) & Wim Wenders Kings of the Road (1976).

This is a movie where we get philosophical while trying to find meaning on the road.  And look at a time when Tarantino wasn't king of the  independent movie.

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Blind Spot Podcast Host Dan Grima talk how we would spend a perfect day. With a Double of Michael Sarnoski's A Quiet Place Day One (2024) & Wim Wenders' Perfect Days (2023)

This is a Double of appreciating the little moments.


Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King


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This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Harris Dang stand in a shadow while smoking a cigarette. We are going in Noir ; with a Double of George Marshall's The Blue Dahlia (1946) & Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

This is a Double of what defines a Femme fatale. Is it really the hair cut, or is she just drawn that way?

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King


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This week on S&A it' a not so quickie S&A Quickie Review. Lindsay & Preston Mitchell take a look inside of Steven Soderbergh's Black Bag (2025). This is a massive nerd out of British Spy Movies, Character Actors, Soderbergh & Cool Britannia.

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Original Music by Anthony King


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On this S&A Quickie Review Lindsay takes a look at some Kiwi Killers. With a Double of James Ashcroft's The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) & Gerald Johnstone's Housebound (2014).

This is a Double of elongated accents, weird turns of phrase and New Zealand's want for institutionalism.

Kia ora tena koutouOriginal Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King


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This week on S&A Lindsay & Andrew Shaw celebrate the master David Lynch with his Angels & Demons. Lynch's Elephant Man (1980) & Lost Highway (1997)

This is a Double that show cases his talent for making a heart rendering weepy and a stone cold abstract horror noir. David was never one thing and he loved the concept of an image.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King


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This week on S&A Lindsay & Bede Jermyn dress up in their finest and take a look at the 2025's Academy Awards. Who won, you gave the best speech, did they get their predictions correct.

This is pure nerding out.

Original Graphics Nadine Whitney

Original Music Anthony King

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On this S&A Quickie Review Lindsay takes a look at Mike Leigh's latest with a British Classic. Leigh's Hard Truth's & Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988).

Magnificent British Drama

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Original Music by Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay is joined by Chainsaw & Claws Hosts Robb and Patrick as we loudly and excitedly argue our way through a Double of Lambert Hillyer's Dracula's Daughter (1936) & Lucky McKee's May (2002).

This is a Double looking these wonderful messy murderous women.

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Original Music by Anthony King

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On this Quickie Review Lindsay takes a look at Fabric of Africa Triple with; Mati Diop's new Documentary Dahomey (2024), Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl (1966) & Ryan Coogler's Black Panther.

This a triple looking at Ghosts and Colonization.


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This week on S&A Lindsay & Carmelita Valdez McKoy are getting a British Sex Education. It's a Double of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning & Ken Russell's The Devils.

This is a huge double of sex and society and Oliver Reed's Moustache

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