The Cold Open Podcast

In The Cold Open #39, The Great Pumpkin/Scary Movies Edition, Kynde Kiefel, Robert Sickels, and special guest star Kathryn Frank begin with their responses to Todd Phillips’ Joker, which Kynde loves and Robert most definitely does not. They then delve into a discussion about the scariest movies they’ve seen in a movie theatre, which includes Attack the Block, The Omen, The Love Witch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Pan’s Labyrinth, Let the Right One In, The Blair Witch Project, Lady Vengeance, Us, Hereditary and a ton of others. Our intro this edition is Jerry Goldsmith’s “Ave Satini” from the Omen Soundtrack and our outro is Luniz’s “I Got 5 On It (Tethered Mix featuring Michael Marshall)” from the Us Soundtrack.

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In The Cold Open Podcast #19, The Winter is Coming Edition, Matt Reynolds and Robert Sickels start with an old man digression about weather that unexpectedly leads to our naming our favorite gambling movies, Robert Altman’s California Split and John Dahl’s Rounders. We then go into a spoiler heavy break down of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar as a singular film and in the context of both his career and science fiction films in general. This is followed by our takes on Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, which, as professors at a small residential liberal arts college, is more than a little bit in our wheel house. We touch briefly on Dear White People and other college set films before concluding with Robert’s obsession with the video game Shadow of Mordor and Matt pledging to play The Last of Us from start to finish, which we’ll discuss in a future pod. In homage to Mike Nichols, our outro this episode is Simon & Garfunkle’s “Sound of Silence,” a director both Matt and Robert adore.

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In The Cold Open Mini #31, Matt Reynolds and Kathryn Frank discuss media that is unexpectedly particularly relevant to our present cultural moment, touching on Watchmen, Blockers, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, and a variety of other things along the way.

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In the Cold Open Mini #40, Kynde Kiefel and Robert Sickels discuss Zack Snyder’s redemptive Netflix zombie/heist movie Army of the Dead, which might be the most Zack Snyder film ever made–and also his best film by a long shot.

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