The Midnight Movie Club

Apologies for the late publishing of the podcast as was explained over on the Facebook page there was an issue with a Fossa and Terry the intern that looks like a Lemur. This week Lee and Dan finish what they started by completing the Indiana Jones trilogy... What? Another one...? That doesn't sound right. In week of geek Dan and Lee discuss: the mystery of the fortune cookie Lee marvels at the idea of character development in a television series (Falling Skies) Dan slightly disses SeaQuest DSV Dan is going to see Transformers 3 (he's since actually gone and watched it) (Lee manages to discuss robot testicles... again) Dan also contemplates watching Bridesmaids and they discuss its advertising Dan is watching the Human Target and says it's really really good.  Lee disappointed there's no The Bodyguard series. Lee and Dan get into comic book crossovers and Flashpoint Lee misses Harold the hunchback and Ace the Bat Hound. Did Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade live up to expectations?  Listen and find out! Stick around for Dan's thanks to all the Midmoclub iTunes reviewers! Next week Lee and Dan are braving Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  Be afraid. Leave a comment.

Anything goes this week as Lee and Dan journey to the deep dark historically and culturally inaccurate mysterious India as they this week they watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In week of geek Dan and Lee discuss: Lee makes up a delightful limerick featuring Dan's name and then completely balls up using it Dan is called out regarding his wife listening to the podcast Dan isn't much of a fan of older artwork in Batman comic books before 1995 Dan is still playing Batman Arkham Asylum Lee has lost a lot of his spare minutes to the ridiculously addictive Tiny Tower Lee has also been watching The Larry Sanders Show There were no new comics at the local comic book store for Lee MySpace is making a come back and Lee is leading the way Dan is weary of Twitter but is excited about Google+ kind of. Just a note that there is some sailor language in the podcast (you know swearing... you know the F word) so you should use discretion when playing to your co-workers or innocent family members, I think there's only one or two occurrences but still. Lots of interesting analysis regarding the middle child of the Indiana Jones trilogy lets keep the discussion going here in the comments or over on Facebook! Next week rather predictably Lee and Dan are off to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  

Lee and Dan went to great lengths to bring this week's podcast to you.  Lee was suffering from the dreaded man flu and is more than a little surprised to have pulled through with no divorce to speak of.  Dan on the other hand sat in his little recording room and watched the furniture melt around him due to the extreme heat... well extreme for him anyway. The end result you'll have to judge for yourself! In week of geek Dan and Lee discussed: Dan's been playing Batman Arkham Asylum and Lee expresses his distaste for riddles. Lee and Dan ponder the futility of The Clone Wars when we all know that he will murder in cold blood everyone around him including his padawan. Economics and the reverse tower game Anomaly Warzone Earth Dan has been banned from most major auction sites Lee's hopes to earn a trophy for sitting through video game credits, Dan spoils Halo for everyone yet to play it Lee just started playing Homefront and praises Superman #712 (though gets the current Superman story lines completely balls'd up) There is promise that Lee and Dan will talk about the DC Universe reboot in the future. The film this week is Raiders of the Lost Ark starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg. So did Lee and Dan get it right? Leave a comment below and let us know!! Next week Dan and Lee continue the adventure and watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

This week laziness defines the new structure of the Midnight Movie Club as we enter a bold new period of the club of the sameness just shuffled around. In week of geek Lee and Dan discuss: Y: The Last Man - the brilliance of the series and our take on the end The slowest Harry Potter film marathon ever and how Lee is unimpressed by JK Rowling Pottermore (Lee predicts it as a fizzer) Some of Dan's thoughts on Green Lantern and how Australia doesn't get to see it for ages 2D tickets outselling 3D tickets - 3D Graph The film this week is of course the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Lee watched the Blu-ray special edition and Dan watched the theatrical release. A quick note about the sound quality, Dan feels that the sound levels had some trouble this week and apologises. Lee didn't notice any problems. Next week: Dan and Lee are watching Raiders of the Lost Ark Let us know what you thought of the podcast in the comments and remember you can use your Facebook login below the comments!

On this week's podcast Lee and Dan are taking a look at the 1980 movie Caddyshack, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, and a bunch of other people that we've never heard of before - but one of them was in Tron. This weeks three of the best was provided by Claire from Moon in the Gutter, and very good it was too (despite the fact she blatantly cheated). You can also find Claire on twitter as @merialc. No podcast next week, and very possibly the week after that, as we take a little break to have a think about if/how we need to change the podcast at all due to Dan's new job and Lee's paucity of time. We will be back shortly however so stay tuned. Anyhow, here's this weeks podcast: If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback on the podcast in general, and what you would like to see/not to see going forward then mention them in the comments. I should point out though – we know you don't like the Star Trek bit (and it's likely not to return).

This week Lee and I are watching the 1993 film The Three Musketeers staring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Chris O'Donnell, Tim Curry and Rebecca DeMornay. To be honest I've only just finished editing the podcast and I still can't remember what we talked about. I'm pretty sure that we were unpleasant about Chris O'Donnel, showed our ignorance of classic French Literature, and spent some time discussing Lego Batman. Something like that anyway. Lee is far better at writing these show notes, which is annoying as he doesn't even bother listening to the podcast. Unfortunately due to my general slackness I ended up editing the episode right at the last minute, so as punishment it's down to me to write the accompanying post. I'm the bloody Igor of this partnership. It's a disgrace. "All for one" my arse. Anyway – I do remember that the marvelous Jeff from Caddickisms did a stirling job of a Three of Best for us on this episode. Jeff's also recently jumped on twitter, so you should all go follow him @Caddickisms Here we go: No podcast next week as we take our regular mid-season break. But we'll be back the week after with Caddyshack.

What can you say? When you get unpaid interns to do all the office admin work then you get exactly what you pay for. Actually it's just one of those weeks where Dan and I haven't been able to line up our times and so we never actually got a chance to watch and talk about The Three Musketeers though rest assured next week we will be back swashbuckling our way through another podcast. In the meantime why not wrap your ears around a super extended Week in Geek as Dan and I chat about everything wrong in comics and some other pop culture thingos: So next we'll be back, leave us a comment in the comments below and shed your own light on the subject of The Avengers or defend Green Lantern! PS I have no idea what Dan was doing with those songs ;)

It won the Razzie Award for: Worst director Worst screenplay Worst picture "A movie this unspeakably awful can make an audience a little crazy. You want to throw things, yell at the actors, beg them to stop." is the way some dude from Rolling Stone described it. Yes that's right. Lee and Dan are watching the Bruce Willis comedy caper Hudson Hawk. Is it as bad as they say it is?  Do Lee and Dan remember it correctly?  Will you learn how to recover from temporal narcosis? Will this podcast give you temporal narcosis? Listen to find out!!! Big thanks to Phil for providing his Three of the Best! Next week Lee and Dan are doing a filler episode!!! So no movie next week but plenty of geeky talking bits!!! Tell us what you think of Hudson Hawk or if you've managed to avoid temporal narcosis thanks to this podcast!! Also this sentence will end with many exclamation marks much like the last two!!!

In the film Speed 2 Cruise Control Sandra Bullock starred as Annie Porter, a woman who has been lied to by her SWAT team boyfriend Jason Patric and trapped an out-of-control luxury cruise liner whose navigation computers have been reprogrammed by a computer hacker (Willem Dafoe) setting the ship on a collision course with an oil tanker. The week Lee and Dan are watching the lessor known prequel to this film: Speed. Now according to Lee the films Speed, Speed 2 and Citizen Kane all share something in common: none of these films were watched by Lee in the last week. Yes, that's right it's only one week into the new season and already Lee hasn't watched the film. But to cover up Dan does discuss the weather, it's all very exciting. To be fair Lee did watch the movie about a month or so ago in high definition, although he now wishes he'd watch it on his iPad on the bus which would have been completely meta had Dan not pointed out that most of the film takes place off the bus.. Anyway this week Dan and Lee are watching the 1994 action thriller Speed staring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper. Enjoy! Once again it's a big thank you to Kasey of The Fantasy Movie Podcast for actually being on Three of the Best this week! Next week Lee and Dan are catching the Bruce Willis comedy Hudson Hawk! In the meantime why not share your own thoughts or somebody else's in the comments!?  Dan prints every single one of them up and hangs them on his wall!!

We're back!! It's an all new season of the Midnight Movie Club and Lee and Dan are fresh off their break from the podcast and are ready to the films that keep you bleary eyed at work the next morning after staying up too late on a school night! In fact they have purposely only been watching brand new films of the highest quality just to keep themselves fresh and ready to dive into the vault to dig up the sometimes less than fresh films of the past! The first film on the agenda is the 1984 science fiction "thriller" Runaway. It stars Tom Selleck, Tom Selleck's moustache, Kirstie Alley and Gene Simmons... yes THAT Gene Simmons. So you have Magnum PI, Saavik, the bass player from KISS and hat box sized homicidal robots plus it's all directed and written by the dude who wrote Jurassic Park, how can this film be anything but awesome?!?! Have a listen and see if it lives up to all of its promise: A huge thank you to Kasey of The Fantasy Movie Podcast for almost being on Three of the Best and for providing the voice for our brand new intro!!! Join Lee and Dan next week as they catch the bus and watch Speed! Are you going to track this film down?  Have you already seen it?!? Let us know what you thought in the comments!!

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder. Absence makes you lot forget about us and wander off to other podcasts. We at the Midmoclub Institute are well aware of this which is why we are serving up this tasty reminder that we are back next week with all new podcasts!!! Don't be afraid to openly weep at the sweet sounds of Dan and Lee's voices and the knowledge that this time next week you'll be once again held in the warm embrace of the Midnight Movie Club podcast. You can leave comments now declaring your love and/or bragging about picking all of the films.

Whilst Lee and Dan are finishing sunning themselves and generally lazing around watching films made within the last ten years during their break we thought we'd treat you to a special episode of the Midnight Movie Club.  Dan and Lee invited the Chris's from the podcast Casta La Vista over for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat around the 1984 comedy adventure film Romancing the Stone. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito and was followed up with a sequel called The Jewel of the Nile. Okay enough chit chat go listen to the podcast you've been hanging to listen to! Sigh. There now, wasn't that worth it!? Only another week without the boys and then season three of the Midnight Movie Club kicks off!!! Big thanks to the Casta La Vista boys and you should add them to your listening selection (here's one to ease you in... starring Lee and Dan!!) Be back in two weeks or be... ummm absent... ummm you know, from the podcast... Damnit.  

Put away your Xander, ignore your Willow and hide your Giles and Spike CDs because this week Dan and Lee are watching the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer film for their Season Two finale!  This is the 1992 Fran Rubel Kuzui directed film starring Kirsty Swanson and Luke Perry that came before the acclaimed television series. Now as this is the finale episode there is a remarkable amount of silliness going on and you are not promised a completely coherent podcast like the boys usually serve up... ...well you know. A big thanks to Andrew of the podcast Podcast Squared for taking part in the Three of the Best. So the boys are riding off into the sunset for a well earned break, Lee is apparently excited to watch movies made within the last 10 years and Dan is building himself a Blue Beetle costume during his holiday*. What does this mean for you though?!? Well if you can just hang on for a week the boys are joining the Casta La Vista boys in another amazing crossover as they come together to celebrate the film Romancing the Stone. So that's not next week, but the week after and then you have to wait another week and then Lee and Dan will be back with season 3... or it may be the week after... or ummm ahhhhhhhh Yay holidays!!! Share your thoughts or your hopes and dreams in the comments! *May be a lie. Oh, and excuse us while we claim-my-podcast-in-podbean{scid-bWlkbW9jbHVi-ecid}

Yup this week Dan and Lee are stealing themselves a camper van, taking hostages and making for the border because this week they are watching the 1996 Robert Rodriguez horror romp From Dusk Till Dawn.  Starring George Clooney and (who wrote the screenplay) plus a whole host of Rodriguez and Tarantino regulars this film is a double sided coin that possibly can't be considered horror simply because it didn't keep Dan behind the couch for very long. Now there is a strong language warning for this episode as it would have been essentially impossible to discuss this film in any other way. A big thanks this week to CS for sharing his Three of the Best, you can check out his blog at Big thoughts from a small mind. Next week on the podcast Lee and Dan are sticking with the vampire theme for their season finale and watching the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer film. There is also going to be a bunch of silliness. Share your thoughts in the comments!!

If you change your mind, I'm the first in line Honey I'm still free Take a chance on me If you need me, let me know, gonna be around If you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown Honey I'm still free Take a chance on me Gonna do my very best and it ain't no lie If you put me to the test, if you let me try Take a chance on me (That's all I ask of you honey) Take a chance on me Yes that's right this week Lee and Dan are watching the 1993 John Woo action film Hard Target. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux (see what we did there?!?!... fine whatevs). It's a pretty awesome podcast this week so stop gawking at the scary ABBA song lines and listen to the podcast!! Big thanks to Alex this week for taking part in our Three of the Best! Check out his blog "Do it Anyway". Now next week is possibly the first horror film (there must have been another... maybe Jaws) on the podcast, if you listen carefully you can hear Dan shaking in his boots already!! Lee and Dan are checking out From Dusk Till Dawn!!