462 | After Midnight – Needful Things

Michael, Rob, and Pax continue watching the Predator movies with what may be the worst movie we've ever talked about on this podcast. Full of unrealized potential, it's Colin and Greg Strause's Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, starring Reiko Aylesworth and John Ortiz (but don't blame them).

Pax, Michael, and Rob ease out of Spooky Season with conversations about socks, Mike Flanagan's Carrie, Marvel's Tomb of Dracula, and Patrick Stewart.

It's Halloween, so Michael and Rob celebrate our traditional way by spending time with Joanna from Bloody Popcorn. And since we're talking board games, we also celebrate that the traditional way by spending time with Ben Graham (Board and Savior). We talk a little about our favorite horror-themed board games that actually exist, but we don't stop there. Oh no. We go on to make Rob's nightmares come true by each of us designing our own board games based on different horror movies: Night of the Lepus, Midsommar, Saw, and A Quiet Place.

Michael and Jess move their Stephen King project in the 2000s with Duma Key, a book about a Minnesota man who moves to Florida for a new life and experiences strange phenomena in his pink beach house on the Gulf coast. As a native Floridian who now lives in Minnesota, Michael has a lot of connection to this story. Let's see if it works for Jess as well.

Special guest Jeeg joins Evan, Pax, Michael, and Rob in the Lounge to talk about Dracula and other '70s horror movies, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Starlog Magazine, and whatchoo gettin' from Dairy Queen?

The Lounge has extra pumpkins and coffins in it this month as Rob, Michael, Evan, and Pax talk about Marvel's Mr Hyde, Midnight Marvel, DC vs. Vampires, and the Protestant Reformation and sola scriptura.

The After Lunch Irregulars, Rob, Pax, Jacob, and Michael gather to discuss a 1991 cable TV adaptation of The Sign of the Four starring Charlton Heston and Richard Johnson as Holmes and Watson. It was directed by Heston's son and also stars Susannah Harker, Simon Callow, and Edward Fox.

Pax, Rob, Michael, and Evan are back in the Lounge talking about what Human Torch's power smells like, Anya Taylor-Joy in Lucky, fictional role models, Coyote vs Acme, and algorithms.

Michael and Jess talk about Needful Things, wrapping up Castle Rock as a story location and the 1990s part of our Stephen King novel project this year.

In this rerun episode from the Dragonfly Ripple podcast, we talked about a whole bunch of Star Wars. First, Carlin and Michael spent a few minutes talking about their philosophies on planning a "curriculum" for their children and their nerd interests. After that, Michael and David discussed some Star Wars animation including both version of Clone Wars as well as Rebels. After a "Jetpack Tiger" about the Lego video games, Carlin and Annaliese talked about her first experience with the complete original Star Wars trilogy.