The Rebel Radio Podcast

It's an invasion! The martians have decided to finally come out of hiding and visit Earth!  What starts out friendly quickly turns devastatingly violent as it's a full on invasion!  It's up to the US government & military to figure out how to stop the Martian menaces & their ray guns but is it a Grandmother & her grandson who have all the answers?  It's a twisted, bizarre, alien invasion like you have ne...

Camp Crystal Lake is a known cursed grounds that people have warned others to stay away from for years.  That doesn't stop this group of campers from visiting regardless of the warnings but when they are mysteriously hunted by a killer they realized they made a huge mistake.  We look back on the origins of this massive franchise that has spawned multiple sequels & take a look back at 40 years of Friday The !3th!

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When researchers in Antarctica are hunted by a shape shifting alien, it becomes a fight for survival among the crew & guessing as to who might be next to be a victim or to become the alien itself!  Kurt Russel & a fantastic cast star in the 1982 classic from director John Carpenter in The Thing! It's an all time classic to kick off our Halloween Horrors Month!

In the Weekly Top 5 we discuss our favorite sci-fi horror fil...

The crew of the starship Serenity are just trying to make due in a tough future where survival is the key & your next job is the only thing that keeps you going in the fight against the Alliance & the powers that control the 'verse.  Captain Reynolds leads them on a quest that could bring down the Alliance once and for all after discovering that crew member River is a living weapon with a secret that they don't want...

Young William Miller is an aspiring journalist who loves rock n roll.  After he meets Lester Bangs & begins writing for Cream Magazine he catches a big break to write an article for Rolling Stone on the band Stillwater.  His journey begins across the country  with the beautiful & mysterious Penny Lane, the band members Russel Hammond, Jeff Bebe, & more while his mother worries at home that he is going to be all right!  ...

Dalton is a cooler, a specialized bouncer with skills that few men have.  When he is asked to come to a small corrupt town to save a bar, he gets into more than he bargained for all while taking care of business.  Patrick Swayze stars in the film that has maintained a cult status despite it's several short comings.  Matt picked this movie for his birthday this week as we discuss Road House!

The Weekly Top 5 features movie charac...

Dick Tracy is the toughest cop in the city.  As Big Boy Caprice makes a run to take over the mob, Tracy must do his best police work yet to stop the crime wave, while keeping his own name clear & those close to him out of harm's way.  It's a star studded cast with Warren Beatty staring & directing, along with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Sorvino, & Madona herself as Breathless Mahoney in the comic strip come ...

It is 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars and the H.M.S. Surprise under command of Captain Jack Aubrey or on the track to capture or destroy a French ship called the Acheron that is faster, bigger, & more powerful than his.  Captain Aubrey uses his strategies & wit's in a race to capture the ship, all while keeping his crew morally sound & ready to fight.  Russel Crowe stars in Master & Commander: The Far SIde Of Th...

We welcome Rob from Random Ramblins w/ Rob this week to discuss Scott in a time in his life in which his band just wants to do well & he just wants to figure things out.  He meets the mysterious Ramona Flowers and his life goes from boring to exciting as he must defeat Ramona's seven evil ex's if he wants to have her heart!  It's a crazy fun time from director Edgar Wright as we discuss the instant cult classic, Sco...

Clarence is just a regular guy who likes movies & comic books.  When his friends set him up with a night with a call girl named Alabama, his world is changed forever.  After setting his true love free from her pimp it sets forth a crazy adventure that only be brought to screen from a Quentin Tarantino script & direction from Tony Scott.  Christian Slater & Patricia Arquette are joined by Christopher Walken, Dennis Hoppe...

Jong is the assassin with a conscious as he decides to take on one last job to pay for a surgery of someone injured during one of his firefights.  When he is double crossed though things get out of hand as he has to contend with his former triad's after him, as well as a hot shot cop who wants to bring him in but also realizes that Jong may be his only ally as well.  Chow Yun-Fat stars in the gritty & influential action cla...

Three men are after the rumored riches left behind in a mysterious grave.  Two have a history with each other while the third just wants what he can take at no matter the cost.  Set across the back drop of the Civil War comes an epic western that sits among the best films in cinema history.  Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, & Eli Wallach are The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly in Sergio Leone's spaghetti western classic! We go ...

Perseus has fallen in love with Princess Andromeda and has beaten the vile Calibos to be her suitor!  But in order to truly be free, he must find a way to defeat the evil Kraken who will destroy the city because of the wrath of the Gods!  He must defeat the evil Medusa to get the only weapon known to defeat the Kraken.....her head! It's an epic battle of good vs evil with master special effects by the great Ray Harryhausen in t...

This week we return to Metropolis to catch up with the Man Of Steel.  After battling Zod & saving the world in the previous film, this time Superman has to save us all from....Richard Pryor?  That's right this time he faces a menace not quite like that which came before in 1983's Superman III.  We look back on why this film didn't succeed in the way it's previous film's in the series did, but we also take a ...

In the year 2029 technology has advanced to the point that cyborg technology is common place.  When a hacker known as The Puppet Master who hacks into the brains of cyborgs to obtain information & commit further crimes.  Major Motoko Kasunagi & her partner Bato are on the trail of this elusive villain that leads to an epic conclusion that test the boundaries of what it means to be human as we look back at the 1995 epic anim...

At the height of the Civil War, Col. Robert Shaw leads the first all-black volunteer company into battle.  As they fight prejudice along the way not only from the Confederates, but their own Union Army, the men come together to form bonds like no other, gain courage amongst their piers, & become an inspiration to many others throughout the war.  This is the story of the 54th Massachuesetts Infantry as told by director Edward Zw...

In the far future the world has been covered in water & the survivors people on makeshift floating cities.  They fight to stay alive with the hope that one day they will discover the mythical place known as dry land.  The Mariner is a drifter who searches the waters for his own truths & makes his own legends in doing so.  When he takes on a  young girl & a woman he gets into a fight for survival against Deacon & his...

In the future Douglas Quaid  looks for more in his life than his daily grind at a construction job.  He decides to go to Recall and have a virtual vacation to Mars planted into his memories but when things don't go as planned, Quaid has to survive to find out the truth across Earth and Mars.  This Paul Verhoeven sci-fi classic features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Ronnie Cox, Michael Ironside & more in 1990's To...

We look past 200 episodes & move forward as we step into the dream world of a group of mind thieves led by Cobb as they look to plant an idea into the mind of a corporate c.e.o.  Cobb has to come to terms with his own dark past while keeping his team alive as they set up an elaborate plan of multiple dreams & phases to hatch the mission.  It's a mind bending masterpiece starring Leonardo DiCaprio & many more in Chri...