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Clearing The Queue

Mike & Zak

147 episodes

1 week ago

Send us a text Join us for a romp into one of the most unsettling breakup movies of all time! Mark, an Englishman living in West Berlin before the felling of the infamous Berlin Wall, finishes a contract with some nebulously nefarious organization in the world of espionage and returns home to his wife and son. Things are NOT great at home however, and Anna, Mark's Wife, begins to exhibit a disturbing pattern of behavior. Behavior that is only exacerbated by Mark's oppressive need for control....

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Send us a text Join us for a romp into one of the most unsettling breakup movies of all time! Mark, an Englishman living in West Berlin before the felling of the infamous Berlin Wall, finishes a contract with some nebulously nefarious organization in the world of espionage and returns home to his wife and son. Things are NOT great at home however, and Anna, Mark's Wife, begins to exhibit a disturbing pattern of behavior. Behavior that is only exacerbated by Mark's oppressive need for control....

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Episodes (20/147)

Clearing The Queue

Episode 147: Possession

Send us a text Join us for a romp into one of the most unsettling breakup movies of all time! Mark, an Englishman living in West Berlin before the felling of the infamous Berlin Wall, finishes a contract with some nebulously nefarious organization in the world of espionage and returns home to his wife and son. Things are NOT great at home however, and Anna, Mark's Wife, begins to exhibit a disturbing pattern of behavior. Behavior that is only exacerbated by Mark's oppressive need for control....

1 week ago

1 hour 40 minutes

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Episode 146: What are we Watching? (a Different kind of Spoopy)

Send us a text Today we are overjoyed to welcome back, recurring guest on the podcast, Max Minkowitz! Who joins us this week to talk spoopy and to get a little silly. First, we talk about The Python Hunt, a documentary Max saw as part of an LA Beyond Fest. Next Mike shares his feelings about the adaptation of The Long Walk, how it holds up against the book, and how it was successfully adapted to fit more modern themes. then Zak talks about The Toxic Avenger and how it pays homage to the origi...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 11 minutes

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Episode 145: Is Film in LA Dead?

Send us a text This week, Mike and Zak welcome their friend Corey Chaney to join in on a conversation that covers a lot of ground. The film industry has changed so much since these three got their start in Maryland, and after moving to Los Angeles with aspirations of furthering their careers, it seems that production has slowed to a crawl in the city that has long been touted as the cradle of the industry. From the Covid pandemic, the strikes, the implementation of AI, and now pressure from t...

1 month ago

1 hour 49 minutes

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Ep 144 What are we Watching? (Weapons of Mass Dysfunction)

Send us a text This week we have a lot of thoughts on Weapons, but we also talk about Hurry up Tomorrow and the new Naked Gun movie. Come have a listen!

2 months ago

1 hour 23 minutes

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Episode 143 Under The Skin

Send us a text It's August and, as is tradition, Mike and Zak have set their sights on an A24 flick for this dedicated episode. Under The Skin is an uncomfortable science fiction horror film where an alien entity hunts for men on the streets of Scotland luring them back to a black void where they are trapped and fed upon. It's an outlandish tale with a slow burn that pay off big, and in true A24 fashion it is full of twists and turns that leave you with more questions than answers.

2 months ago

1 hour 22 minutes

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Episode 142 What are we Watching? (it's the Whiskey Talking)

Send us a text This Week our friend Rob Wolk sat down with us to talk about the stuff he's been putting his peepers on, and indeed fun times were had by all. If you like what you heard and wanna hear more from us this week, check out our patreon for a whole other hour of conversation!

3 months ago

1 hour 46 minutes

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Episode 141: Born in East LA

Send us a text Today we're joined by Elena Muruato for a a classic comedy, written and directed by Cheech Marin. When Rudy, a mechanic from east LA, gets caught up in a Warehouse raid by the LAPD, things take a turn for the worst when he is deported to Mexico without his ID. After failing to cross back into the United States, Rudy's life gets a lot more complicated as he finds a way to get back home, by any means necessary.

3 months ago

2 hours 2 minutes

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Episode 140 What are we Watching? (We're Baaaaaack)

Send us a text Mike and Zak welcome Back long time friend of the podcast Max Minkowitz for our triumphant return to sharing our thoughts about what we've been putting our peepers on! This Episode we have a lot of stuff to cover after the break so buckle up buttercup, let's talk movies!

4 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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Episode 139: Red State

Send us a text Three teenage boys are lured into the evil clutches of a christian extremist cult, things take a turn for the apocalyptic.

6 months ago

1 hour 41 minutes

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Episode 138: Dogma

Send us a text Bethany Sloan is your average Turn of the Century Catholic woman, struggling to rely on her faith in an ever changing world. Until one night, when the forces of heaven charge her with a holy quest to stop a couple of renege angels from defying God's holy decree and thus unmake the universe. With the aid of two unlikely profits from Redbank New Jersey, the 13th Black Apostle, and a Muse called Serendipity, they travel across the county to stop what may well be the end of existen...

6 months ago

2 hours 1 minute

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Episode 137: What are we Watching? (For the Kids)

Send us a text This week Mike and Zak discuss the precarious position of the Looney Toons cartoons amidst the release of The Day the Earth Blew Up. Then they go on to talk about Death of a Unicorn, Black Bag, and round things off with the Flying Lotus feature Ash.

7 months ago

51 minutes

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Episode 136: Orlando

7 months ago

2 hours 3 minutes

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Episode 135: What are we Watching? (The Trouble with the Troubles)

This week the boys are talking Mickey 17, Companion, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, and The Black Cat. A wild collection of movies to review for wildly different reasons!

7 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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Episode 134: The Brother from Another Planet

An alien crash-lands on Earth looking to escape a life of slavery in outer space and find himself in the heart of Harlem in the 1980s. Though he appears to be a mute black man, he has three toes, the distinguishing characteristic of his alien heritage. He also has a unique ability to fix broken or malfunctioning electronics and heal people's injuries. He immediately begins to use these powers to the benefit of his newfound community, until two mysterious men claiming to be government agents s...

8 months ago

1 hour 28 minutes

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Episode 133: What are we Watching? (Monkey Business)

This week, the boys kick things off with their thoughts on The Monkey, I'm Still Here, Captain America: Brave New World, and Bring Them Down. An unlikely group of movies, but hey, that's our wheelhouse!

8 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes

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Episode 132: Space is the Place

A little Afro-Futurism for your consideration. Join Mike and Zak as they journey into space and then back to earth circa the grooviest of decades, the good ol' 1970s. Glimpse the inner workings of renowned Jazz musician and composer Sun Ra as he recruits earthlings for his new space program.

8 months ago

1 hour 24 minutes

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Episode 131: What are we Watching? (Oscar Noms & Other Bombs)

This is our First "What are we Watching" of the new year, and Mike and Zak are still picking the meat from the corpse of 2024. Things get rolling with Mike's thoughts on Flight Risk, and then things heat up with Zak's hot take on the academy nominated Emilia Perez. Then Mike gushed a bit over Presence before Zak brings us into the home stretch with some ruminations on The Last Showgirl.

9 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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Episode 130: Tickled

When New Zealand journalist David Farrier reaches out to a production company about potentially doing an interview on the subject of their competitive tickling endurance videos, he receives a slew of emails wherein he is attacked for being homosexual. Needless to say, the tickling videos certainly appear to be aimed at a homosexual audience, featuring exclusively male participants and ticklers. This sparks an interest into what exactly IS going on with this production company, and the deeper ...

9 months ago

1 hour 21 minutes

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Episode 129: David Lynch Tribute

Love him or Hate him, you cannot deny the power of his work. The Godfather of Avant-Garde filmmaking, the King of the uncomfortable sequence, and the Sage of strange truths. David Lynch was a storyteller unlike any other, and his absence will be felt long after his passing. Rest in Peace, you will be missed.

9 months ago

1 hour 29 minutes

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Episode 128: Exit Through the Gift Shop

Our First dedicated episode of the year and it's our first time covering a Documentary! People think of this Doc as: "the Banksy Doc" BUT it's actually about a fella who goes by the sobriquet "Mr. Brain Wash" and the beginning of the street art movement. The story unfolds through the lens of an eccentric but passionate Frenchman who became an overnight success.

9 months ago

1 hour 36 minutes