The LAMBcast

Hello Everyone, and welcome to the dystopia that is Episode 719. I’m your Host Judge Kirkham. Every Month on the Lambcast, we have a movie put forward by a member and voted on in a poll, to be the MOTM. For January, that Movie is “Dredd”, the 2012 action dystopia featuring Karl Urban as the masked executioner of Justice. In addition to myself, we have three other Jurists on the show today, to dispense sentences on the perpetrators of this film. Listen and be Judged. Also, Sequels that we really wanted to see.

Jay Cluitt is back to Host the Lambcast for this Nicolas Cage Extravaganza. His posse consists of two Y chromosome challenged Lambs, the always excellent Jeanette Ward and the equally wonderful Heather Baxendale Walsh. The three of them have only love for the subject of today's show but they is do enjoy speculating about casting and imagining who other than Nick Cage could pull this off. Jay has a game that is so long, we severed it from the regular show and stuck it in as an outtake. So you can listen to it then, Not that you went anywhere.

Well it happened again, The Vern won the Movie of the Month Poll and we got a film that is likely to be divisive. Exactly the way Vern wants it. "The Neon Demon" is a 2016 film from "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn. It may be a cautionary tale about the fashion industry, it may be a horror film, or it may simply be repulsive. Matthew Simpson, James Wilson and The Vern have very different views of the film. Whether or not you want to hang a single frame from the film on your wall as art, will depend first on whether you can stomach some of the ideas and scenes in the movie. Beauty isn't everything. It's the only thing. Are you high?

It's been hardly anytime at all since our last MCU film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has only been in theaters 66 days, but already we seem to be ready for another comic book movie. This week, the stand alone film features Thor, in a chapter directed by Taika Waititi who had previously done "Ragnarok". We have a group of Gods taking a break from being worshipped on their home sites, to talk about this film. There are three comic book experts and two guys who last read comic books fifty or so years ago, and we head to town to cover "Thor Love and Thunder". Come have a listen, If you don't, you won't be invited to the Orgy!

This is the sixth Decade Lookback Episode we have done, and let's just say it, 1973 cleans every other years clock so far. There is such a plethora of great films that "The Sting", "American Graffiti" , ""Save the Tiger", "Scarecrow", "Serpico", "The Last Detail" did not make the top five list of anybody on the show. It is such a great diverse year, that there was only one "Pineapple Kiosk" in the twenty five films that were discussed. And with Howard Casner and David Brook on the show, we got more non English language films than you can shake a stick at. It may take years for us to find as many films for a single show that people were passionate about. Dave Anderson and Todd Liebenow tried to keep Richard honest, but let's just say enthusiasm was everywhere. You should come and get some rubbed off on you.