Award winning filmmaker Donovan Smith, aka Monster Dugan, aka Monster Smith, and long time film journalist John Shatzer discuss movies in general, reviewing multiple films from every genre, with a deep dive into one particular individually selected film at the end of every episode.
In this episode John and Monster share what they've watched recently, chat about the pizza bomber case which spawned the 2011 action comedy 30 Minutes or Less starring Jesse Eisenberg as well as the 2018 Netflix documentary Evil Genius, and they also do a deep dive on two throwback drama films, 2003's Runaway Jury, a taut courtroom crime thriller starring Gene Hackman, and The United States of Leland, a psychological coming-of-age drama starring Ryan Gosling.
7 Jul 2025
Adrift in a Demon City
Hosts John and Monster review casting failures and delve into the foreign films *À Deriva* (Adrift) and *One Goroshi* (Demon City), offering their first-time viewing perspectives.
16 May 2025
Hammer to Slaughter
In this episode John and Monster discuss what they've watched recently, viewers expectations of films when watching a movie, and they do two deep dive reviews of two classic 1972 "Blacksploitation" films, 'Hammer' starring Fred Williamson, and 'Slaughter' starring Jim Brown. What other Podcasts do you know that are covering "Blacksplotation" films?!?!
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