Tag: 2016

• FRANCHISE REWIND: Ghostbusters (2016)

  Ghostbusters, 2016 (Melissa McCarthy) Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing “Never compare me to the mayor in Jaws! Never!” This is what happens when you go too far. Sometimes an idea has to stay relevant, even if the relevancy comes about in a wholly inorganic way. We can keep the idea alive by referencing it, by restoring…

  lawlerd

  June 28, 2022

  FRANCHISE REWIND

  1984, 2016, Andy Garcia, Bill Murray, comedy, Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Neil Casey, Paul Feig

• Extreme Cinema! “I’d Buy That For a Dollar!”

  Tonight, we discuss the selected work of Paul Verhoeven, from 1983’s De Vierde Man to his most recent movie, Elle, which earned Isabelle Huppert an Academy Award nomination in 2016. The credits appear to be a fly caught in a web, interspersed with images of Christ on the crucifix. A spider catches the fly and…

  lawlerd

  July 30, 2017

  Podcast

  1983, 1987, 1990, 2016, Academy Awards, action, adventure, De Vierde Man, Elle, get your own crab, graphic violence, help me, Isabelle Huppert, Jeroen Krabbé, Michael Ironside, Miguel Ferrer, Paul Verhoeven, Peter Weller, religious imagery, Ronny Cox, science fiction, Sharon Stone, suspense, The Fourth Man, Total Recall, toxic waste

• “Her Worshipfulness”

  My friend and colleague, Mark Jeacoma, put up what is probably the most comprehensive yet concise list of notable deaths (I’m not talking about all the old soccer players who seem to drop dead of heart attacks every five hours) for the year 2016. In the last week alone, we’ve lost Zsa Zsa Gabor, George…

  lawlerd

  December 29, 2016

  Podcast

  2016, Bundle of Joy, Carrie Fisher, Chevy Chase, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Leslie Neilsen, Mark Hamill, Princess Leia, Return of the Jedi, Shampoo, Star Wars, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, The Blues Brothers, The Burbs, The Catered Affair, The Empire Strikes Back, Three Little Words, Todd Fisher, Under the Rainbow, Wishful Drinking

• ANOTHER NEW EPISODE! “Seeds from the Suicide Tree”

  We had a short circuit a couple of days ago that lasted, at it’s peak of operations, I wanna say three days. That’s what results if you overload a power conduit, a wire or a serial bus. The wire or the bus melts and we see some smoke, and that one broken link disrupts the…

  lawlerd

  November 18, 2016

  Podcast

  2016, Andrew La Ganke, Barack Obama, cognitive dissonance, conservative, David Lawler, democrat, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Election Day, Hillary Clinton, hysteria, liberal, madness, Media, Media Coverage, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, POTUS, President, Regan Lawler, republican, shared madness, Short Circuit

• New Episode! “A Confederacy Of Douchebags (Part One)”

  “We are, we are, we are but your children Finding our way around indecision We are, we are, we are rather helpless Take us forever, a whisper to a scream.” “Tiddy Bear”, “We’ve Only Just Begun” (Roger Nichols/Paul Williams) by The Carpenters (from the 1970 album, “Close To You”), “America” (Neil Diamond) by Neil Diamond…

  lawlerd

  March 7, 2016

  Podcast

  2016, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Carly Fiorina, carving happy faces on open sores, democrat, Donald Trump, Election, Hail To The Chief, Hillary Clinton, liberal, Neil Diamond, Nevada Caucus, POTUS, President, primary, republican, South Carolina primary, The Carpenters, Yale

• “You Can’t Kill What You Don’t Understand”

    Tonight, Andrew and I discuss the candidates, Democrats and Republicans, but as with every conversation about this topic, we eventually talk Trump, and nothing but Trump!  This is the second take of the conversation because our first talk got so heated we had to re-record it just for the sake of getting our divergent…

  lawlerd

  September 25, 2015

  Podcast

  2016, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bobby Jindal, democrat, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hilary Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, Joe Biden, Politics, POTUS, President, republican, Scott Walker, Socialism, Stephen Colbert, Ted Cruz