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Two old friends cracking wise and talking thoughtfully about favorite flicks as if from their cozy seats at the back of a beloved theater. Pass the popcorn! Current Season: Apocalypse Then! Looking back at dystopian cinema from the ridiculous to the sublime - just as it was looking forward to...now?

Blood Drive! Episode 4 - Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) 02/03/2025

Blood Drive! Episode 4 - Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) In the fourth episode of our Blood Drive, Ab and Al take a look at 1979's Nosferatu by the legendary Werner Herzog. We talk the real life horrors of Klaus Kinski and animal cruelty, our love for the cinematography of this movie, Isabelle Adjani's complex portrayal of Lucy, and what the hell the ending was supposed to mean! And we tease our next episode, where we may need to agree to disagree about Nosferatu 2024! /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/35124115

Blood Drive! Episode 3 - The Vampire Lovers 01/05/2025

Blood Drive! Episode 3 - The Vampire Lovers The Blood Drive rides on with our 3rd episode discussing 1970's The Vampire Lovers. Join us as we discuss this infamous adaptation of J. Sheridan LeFanu's classic vampire novella, Carmilla. /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/34723305

Blood Drive! Episode 2 - Dracula A.D. 1972 11/05/2024

Blood Drive! Episode 2 - Dracula A.D. 1972 Diiiig the music, kids! In Episode 2 of our Season 2, Blood Drive, we discuss Hammer Films' Dracula A.D 1972. Hear us talk about how we first got turned on to Hammer Films! the What Ifs of this movie! A history of Hammer Horror! Our love of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing! Shocking hippies that could've been glam rock kids! That one friend in the friend group that brings everyone down!Though many don't like this movie, we love it's campy warm cheese and we hope you do too. /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/33789037

Blood Drive! Episode 1 - Dracula's Daughter 10/09/2024

Blood Drive! Episode 1 - Dracula's Daughter Welcome to Blood Drive! This is Season 2 of Back Row at Bank Street. Just in time for Halloween season and beyond, Ab and Al will be looking at some great vampire movies. First up is the classic 1936 Universal Monsters sequel, Dracula's Daughter! Our discussion includes The Hayes Code, the history of Universal Studios horror, LGBTQ representation, and much, much more! /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/33385972

Apocalypse Then! Episode 8 - Idiocracy 10/01/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 8 - Idiocracy Back Row at Bank street ends its Apocalypse Then! series with the 2006 doc- err, apocalyptic comedy film, Idiocracy. We discuss why this film has and has not aged well, and why it might actually be the way we go out in North America. Stay tuned for Blood Drive! /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/33275517

Apocalypse Then! Episode 7 - V For Vendetta 08/23/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 7 - V For Vendetta It's our penultimmate episode of Apocalypse Then! And ChillerPop and Absynthe bring you the 2006 graphic novel adaptation V For Vendetta! Hear us go off on the "war on terror", trumpism, the pandemic, fascism and more! Does this movie make you want to stand up to evil authoritarians? What banned books and music would YOU keep in your secret lair? Let us know! /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/32708507

Apocalypse Then! Episode 6 - Dark City 08/01/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 6 - Dark City Apocalypse Then! continues as we take a look at the 1998 neo-noir science fiction movie, Dark City! Directed by Alex Proyas, and starring Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien and Ian Richardson. Like Blade Runner before it, this movie asks "what does it mean to be human?" and we're pretty sure it might have something to do with test tube paint mixtures by a very Renfield-esque Kiefer Sutherland. We also talk about noir cinema, pre-millenium tension, and why our alien nosferatu overlords are all dudes. Let us know what you think! /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/32379907

Apocalypse Then! Episode 5 - Night of the Comet 07/11/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 5 - Night of the Comet On this fifth episode of Apocalypse Then! two former 80s teens talk about an apocalyptic movie featuring two 80s teens. We dig into Thom Eberhardt's camp classic Night of the Comet. See: proto-gamer girls! Sparse, talkative and fast zombies! Highly incompetent government conspirators! The magnificent menace of Mary Woronov! Quincy...Kraftwerks? And Ab reveals precisely how one might preserve their big hair after the world ends. /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/32092947

Apocalypse Then! Episode 4 - Blade Runner 2049 05/23/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 4 - Blade Runner 2049 On the fourth episode of Apocalypse Then! Ab and Al discuss Denis Villeneuve's 2017 film Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the storied cult classic Blade Runner from 1982. We discuss what it means to be human (of course), an AI's AI, when San Francisco imitated art, the return of Harrison Ford and Sean Young to this universe, and we deem Blade Runner 2049 an artistic success! /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/31429707

Apocalypse Then! Episode 3 - The Omega Man 04/13/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 3 - The Omega Man Grab the popcorn and join us at the end of the world as we fight weird Luddites with Charlton Heston and Rosalind Cash! We discuss 8 tracks, cults, the Heston of it all, and the eerily prescient pandemic and reproductive rights issues this movie brings up. /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/30810758

Apocalypse Then! Episode 2 - Gattaca 03/05/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 2 - Gattaca Join ChillerPop and Absynthe as we test In-Valid for the upper echelons of Gattaca! We discuss cheekbones, solar panels, 1960s aesthetics, Aldous Huxley, and what it means to be human. /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/30233423

Apocalypse Then! Episode 1 - Zardoz 02/10/2024

Apocalypse Then! Episode 1 - Zardoz Welcome to the first episode of Back Row at Bank Street! In this first episode, Ab and Al discuss John Boorman's insane 1974 film Zardoz. Come hear about floating heads, men behind curtains, religious parables, thigh high boots and red briefs, psychic fops, class struggle, good guns and bad penises, and whether or not Viagra could have saved the Eternals! Current Season: Apocalypse Then! Looking back at dystopian cinema from the ridiculous to the sublime - just as it was looking forward to...now? /episode/index/show/cb68f67e-fbe3-444b-a0ee-a55a4ea4db79/id/29837518

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