The Tuesday Morning Screening Room Podcast

Heavy Metal with Yuri Lowenthal

Hold onto your Loc-Nars, Screening Roomers! As this week actor Yuri Lowenthal (Naruto / Spider-man) flies into the the Screening Room on the back of a pterodactyl with the horniest of Cable Box Classic films this side of Neverwhere, the animated cult classic sci-fi fantasy musical - 1981's HEAVY METAL! A gonzo film that features contributions from some of the most innovative and influential artists and musicians of its era - Devo, Moebius, Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick and more. But this is far from Pixar, Screening Roomers! Heavy Metal - making the squares clutch pearls for 45-years and counting! [cue guitar sting and pterodactyl screech]

"[HOLY COW]! It's [FLIPPIN'] REPO MAN, [MELON FARMERS]!!!" with Kevin Burke & Doc Wyatt

Screening Roomers, our resident Midnight Movie Mavens, the writing team of Kevin Burke and Doc Wyatt (Stranger Things: Tales from '85 & Ninjago), return to bring us another [flippin'] Midnight Movie in the morning! And this one is nearly indescribable [Melon Farmers]! A nihilistic punk rock sci-fi Neo-western cult classic comedy! And the film that made Harry Dean Stanton yell at its director - "Harry Dean Stanton only uses real baseball bats!" (tune in to find out what that is all about) So, grab your cans of "FOOD" and "DRINK" and join us as we celebrate one of our favorite Midnight Movies - 1984's REPO MAN!

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: "SECOND CHANCE THEATRE: Popeye" with Mike Spiegelman

Screening Roomers... WELL BLOW ME DOWN... our new segment for 2026 Second Chance Theatre. returns with a little muskle! As our Commodore of Second Chances -podcaster/comedian Mike Spiegelman sails into the Screening Room with one of the most notorious, misguided and misunderstood films in cinema history - 1980's live-action comic strip musical comedy (or is that mu-skical comic-dee) - POPEYE! To quote the sailor man - "I yam what I yam" but will that be enough to earn it a second chance? Tune in for all the stories... trivia... and Mork-tifying details (see what I did there) as this scrappy little film tries its luck at redempktion... [insert Popeye laugh here]

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: "MOVIE DEATHMATCH: 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension vs 1986's Big Trouble in Little China" with Eric Fogel & Piotr Michael

SCREENING ROOMERS & MOVIE DEATH MATCH FANS - IT'S THE WAR OF THE WEIRD as two quirked out 1980s sci-fi / fantasy /action / comedies enter the Tuesday Morning Screening Room Octagon to settle the score over who will wear the coveted Tuesday Morning Screening Room championship belt - Gonzo Sci-Fi Movie Division - 1984's THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION vs - a film celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year - 1986'S BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA! And back for another 10-round, no-holds-barred cinematic smackdown of crazy film-relevant categories is someone that knows a little something about the sweet science of deathmatching - director/writer/producer, Eric Fogel - the creator of the original Celebrity Deathmatch for MTV! But this battle is way too weird and way too wild for just two referees - so we have called in an expert on all things Lo Pan, Lithgow and Lectroids (from Planet 10) - actor/impressionist Piotr Michael! So, will Big Trouble's anniversary gift be victory in the ring.... or crushing defeat... TUNE IN TO FIND OUT!!!

SURPRISE DERBY DAY SPECIAL: Horse Racing Films with Travis Stone

Screening Roomers, the Derby Race might have just ended (congrats, Golden Tempo!!!)... but our horses have just lined up at the gate... horse racing films, that is! So, refill your mint juleps and grab your big hats because our TMSR Derby Day is just getting started... as we are joined by our very special guest, the track announcer for Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky - Travis Stone - plus, writer/producer Jonathan Rosenthal... for a loop around the track on our favorite Horse Racing films! 1937's A DAY AT THE RACES, 1944's National Velvet, 1978's Casey's Shadow, 2001's Seabiscuit and more... [insert starting bugle here]