The Neon Movie Bunker

Two guys talking about movies, more movies, other movies, and DVDs.

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 420 11/20/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 420 A fairly quick show this week, with John and El'Ahrai reviewing "Predator: Badlands" and "The Strangers: Chapter Two". Does more colons mean more quality? Listen and find out! Plus video picks, newsbits, questions, and more! I learned a long time ago there's no sense getting all riled up every time a bunch of idiots give you a hard time. In the end, the universe tends to unfold as it should. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/39105000

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 419 11/13/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 419 There are reviews in this show: "Blue Moon" and "Good Boy". There is speculation about the just-announced "Gremlins 3". There are home video picks. And leavened through is the commentary from El'Ahrai and John you've come to expect. Step into the Neon Movie Bunker, and bring a friend. There's a family with kids. Do the kids first and make the mother watch. Tell her you'll stop if she can hold back her tears. I *owe* her that. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/39016385

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 418 11/06/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 418 Three critics enter. One review leaves. Ladies and gentlemen, theydies and gentlethems, children of all ages, John, El'Ahrai, and beloved guest star Cati "The Blonde in Front" Glidewell collaborate today to review "Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein". Prepare yourself for heights of hyperbole rarely reached outside the realm of professional wrestling! Plus! Newsbits, video picks, and a rundown of Cati's Autumn of 1000 Horror Festivals! You should listen, and tell a friend! I look in the mirror and the only thing I recognize, are these eyes. In this old man's face. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38933110

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 417 10/30/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 417 O, children! It's a good episode this week. El'Ahrai and John are here to regale you with reviews of "Bugonia" and "The Toxic Avenger"! Plus there is a significant amount of discussion of hypothetical Star Wars projects, home viewing picks, and so much more, so listen and enjoy! I have an idea! If I sweat some more my body will cleanse itself and I won't be contaminated anymore! I'm already sweating! A.k.a., come lick me! /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38838545

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 416 10/23/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 416 You know what time it is? I mean besides that. And that. And that's next week. No, it's Neon Movie Bunker time! This week, John and El'Ahrai review "After the Hunt" and "Blood on the Stars"! Which one was the good kind of weird, and which one was weirdly no kind of good? Listen to find out! When all you've got is nothing, there's a lot to go around. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38750375

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 415 10/16/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 415 The days are growing shorter, and movies are still coming to theaters. And where there are movies to review, El'Ahrai and John will be there to review (some of) them! This week, "Tron: Ares" and "John Candy: I Like Me" get the treatment. Plus bits of news, home viewing recommendations, questions, you know what it's like. So listen in! But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you! /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38600340

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 414 10/09/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 414 John and El'Ahrai are back once more, armed with reviews, opinions, and (sometimes) pizza. "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" are on the docket for today, so gather around and listen! Love is a luxury a spy cannot afford. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38519460

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 413 10/02/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 413 Well, the movies start coming and they don't stop coming! This week, El'Ahrai and John review "Eleanor the Great" and "Night of the Reaper"! Which one fares well, and which one is compared rather unfavorably to a previous worst movie of the year? The only way to find out is to listen! Plus newsbits, video picks, and fun questions of inversion! That's just what happens when you're rich and you don't have a job. You get a little crazy. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38435080

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 412 09/25/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 412 2025 has had its japes and shenanigans, but now it's time to flip the swith from "The Fun Movies" to "The Good Movies", as John, El'Ahrai, and everybody's favorite guest star, Cati Glidewell (a.k.a. The Blonde in Front) are here to talk about "One Battle After Another", "The Long Walk", and "Together". Plus! news on government censorship, a surprise out of the Hollywood Labor Relations Story Corner (as ever, sponsored by Oven Mitts), and the usual talkety-talking so many have grown to tolerate. You should listen! Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38348335

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 411 09/18/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 411 Good morning, Baltimore (and everywhere else fine podcasts are downloaded)! El'Ahrai and John are here this week to share reviews of "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues" and "Bambi: The Reckoning"! Plus awards from Toronto and strange doings afoot in corporate boardrooms on the West Coast. Listen, and you might just learn something before it's done! If we get any more white people in here, this is gonna be a suburb. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38261155

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 410 09/11/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 410 Guess who's back? No, not Generalissimo Francisco Franco, he's still dead. We've got someone much better than him: the Blonde in Front, Cati Glidewell has returned to join John and El'Ahrai as they review "The Roses", "The Conjuring: Last Rites", "Dangerous Animals", and "Twinless"! Sounds like a rip-roaring good time! You should listen! There's sinning in my heart, there's evil in the world but when I got no one, I talk to God. I ask for strength, I ask for forgiveness, not peace at the end of my days when I got no more life to live or no more good to do but today, right now... What's your heaven? /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38175120

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 409 09/04/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 409 Like a spurned lover, September is here to wreak its vengeance. Before the axe falls, El'Ahrai and John are here to supply you with their lists of the Top 5 Movies They're Anticipating Until The End of 2025! (More airtime than is really warranted for "Five Night at Freddy's 2"? History will be the judge of that.) Plus! Reviews of "Caught Stealing" and "Eenie Meanie"! You should listen! PMS isn't real Needy, it was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem like we're crazy. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/38080980

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 408 08/28/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 408 Summer is aging. Let us exult with reviews of films! This week, John and El'Ahrai review "Highest 2 Lowest" and "Monster Island" (which is not actually a peninsula)! Plus a bit of news, video picks, and, y'know, more. Listen and you might even learn something! I am to be described as "robust" and "healthy." /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37991585

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 407 08/21/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 407 In this world of woe and wonder, isn't it nice to know that there's a new Neon Movie Bunker episode this week? El'Ahrai and John are here to review and discuss "Nobody 2" and "Alien: Earth"! Doesn't that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? It doesn't? Well, the episode is still happening. You should listen! Ollie, you know my feelings about arming morons: You arm one, you gotta arm 'em all, otherwise it wouldn't be good sport. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37898985

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 406 08/14/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 406 There are big titles on the horizon this week, as John and El'Ahrai talk "Weapons" and "Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story"! You can bet there's some good stuff there, Gladys! Plus newsbits and the other stuff. Look, I'm not a crackhead! I'm someone who's escaped being captured! What do you want me to say? /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37810815

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 405 08/07/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 405 Well, they went and did the thing again: El'Ahrai and John have reviewed movies into a microphone and expect all y'all to listen. Are you going to put up with that? "The Naked Gun" and "In the Lost Lands" are up for examination. Plus newsbits, video picks, a minor correction, etc. So listen! I can live almost with the artwork. I mean, if Charles Manson needed a personal muralist, you'd be the guy. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37713110

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 403 07/31/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 403 Too soothe the fire of your desire, the Neon Movie Bunker has returned! El'Ahrai and John are here to rock you with reviews of "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" and "Happy Gilmore 2", and it's not too much of a stretch to say one is worthy of praise and the other should disappear. Plus video picks, Comic-Con newsbits, and more! Listen, or face your doom! You know what Albert Einstein said: if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37615540

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 402 07/24/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 402 Now that last week's...unpleasantness...is over, Cati Glidewell stops by to talk "Superman", "Eddington", and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" with John and El'Ahrai! Doesn't that sound terrific? Plus newsbits, home picks, and more! You should listen! Frank, what! I didn't know I wasn't supposed to kill him. I mean, I'm just learning, you have to teach me these things. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37528730

Whoops! No Episode! 07/17/2025

Whoops! No Episode! So the fan club of a certain two-time back-to-back Best Director hacked our systems and tried to ransom our newest episode. We ain't letting that happen, so we'll be back next week. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37436740

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 401 07/12/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 401 We sit at (just about) the midpoint of 2025. As is their wont for this time of year, El'Ahrai and John have selected lists of the Top 5 Movies of 2025! (Topping both lists? You guessed it: "Dog Man".) Plus! Reviews of "Jurassic World: Rebirth" and "Bring Her Back"! Also all the other stuff. Listen, you should listen. Why does the devil walk in human form anyway? I have no idea. Maybe he doesn't know either. Maybe he passes on from body to body, down through history, waiting for the perfect fit. But I know one thing, on Earth, he's weak. His powers are limited. He needs emissaries to do his dirty work, so he finds them or makes them, using his greatest power: the power of the deal. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37382695

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 400 07/03/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 400 In what can only be taken as proof of the indifference of the universe, we've hit a milestone! John and El'Ahrai celebrate their 400th episode this week! And they've got reviews, they do! "F1" and "A Minecraft Movie" come under the patented Neon Movie Bunker Microscope! So many exclamation points! Plus! A best of the century (so far) list, home video picks, and...thank yous?! You should listen! Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes I'd tell them the truth and they still wouldn't believe me, so I prefer to lie. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37267520

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 399 06/26/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 399 It's another show packed with goodness this week, as El'Ahrai, John and frequent contributor/bonne vivante Cati Glidewell talk "28 Years Later", "Bride Hard", and "Elio"! Plus! A nice, meaty discussion of the 50th anniversary of "Jaws" and the impact it had! Plus all the usual silliness. Listen in! These children haven't been properly parented in many years. They're practically feral. That's why I was brought in. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37156755

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 398 06/20/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 398 Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the podcast feed, John, El'Ahrai, and special guest star Cati Glidewell are back to tear up and digest "Life of Chuck", "Predator: Killer of Killers", and "Materialists"! Plus all the other usual stuff you know, you love, you cannot live without. Listen. l've been thinking. Maybe Venezuela can use some trained whales. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/37091340

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 397 06/12/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 397 The arrival of a new Wes Anderson film is always cause for optimism. Will that optimism be fulfilled? Find out on this week's show, as El'Ahrai and John review "The Phoenician Scheme" and "Rosario"! Plus bits of news and all the rest. You should listen! In my loneliness, and perhaps because of it, I've learned not to judge people, to take people as I find them, not as others find them. And most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/36965565

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 396 06/05/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 396 A light breather in the relentless summer movie schedule allows John, El'Ahrai, and everyone's favorite special guest star Cati Glidewell to take a look at a couple of smaller pictures this week. "Friendship" and "Until Dawn" come under the tripartite microscope! What a thrill! Plus home picks, questions, answers, and other stuff! You should listen! I have to be honest, though. I have all the hope and ambition in the world. But, when I think about the future, the truth is, I--am--really--scared. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/36857495

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 395 05/29/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 395 Cannes is over (if you want it)! El'Ahrai and John report and comment on the various award winners (and non-winners--we see you, American cinema!). But wait, there's more! We also have reviews of "Mission: Impossible--The Final Reckoning" and "Fear Street: Prom Queen"! (Seems a very colon-y episode). Plus all the other stuff. Listen and maybe even learn something. It's so bad, that I keep fantasizing that one of us is dying of cancer, so that I don't have to break up with her. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/36763750

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 394 05/22/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 394 Ahoy there, matey! I offer ye a choice: voluntarily submit to an hour of service on HMP Neon Movie Bunker, or find yourself shanghaied into an hour of service on that selfsame vessel. But, oh, there are delights herein! John and El'Ahrai provide reviews of "Final Destination: Bloodlines" and "The Damned"! Plus talk from Cannes, Kevin Costner has issues, and more! So sign the muster roll and listen! And that's why, in a straight fight, a shark would probably beat a Dracula. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/36664920

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 393 05/15/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 393 The boys have referred to the second weekend of May as the "death slot" more than once in the past. This week, the crop El'Ahrai and John see fit to review are "Clown in a Cornfield" and "Paddington in Peru"! (Ooh, alliteration!) Plus a newsbit or two, some other idle discussion, a bit of foolishness, that sort of thing. Listen and enjoy! Hey, its all about the hair. Don't you forget that. Especially when you become some big hotshot lawyer. Those professional types think its all about brains and ability and completely ignore the do. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/36572700

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 392 05/08/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 392 Well, the summer movie season has arrived in its inexorable way. As such, John and El'Ahrai are here, with reviews of "Thunderbolts*" and "Andor: Season 2"! Yay? Plus tariff talk, a review of a format, and all the rest! So download and listen! Or stream and listen! Just...just listen, OK? Listen, you hormonal vulgarian, that woman deserves your respect, not your erotic speculation. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/36479895

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 391 05/02/2025

The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 391 But, soft! What light through yonder Zoom window breaks? It is the east, and Cati Glidewell is the sun. Yes, the Blonde in Front joins El'Ahrai and John this week to talk about "Sinners" (yes, again), "The Accountant 2" and "The Legend of Ochi'! Plus: an unexpected sequel arises! all this and more are waiting for your ears, so listen! I haven't been anywhere. Well, Cancun--not my proudest moment. /episode/index/show/neonmoviebunker/id/36406730

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