Cinema Chop Shop

S2E20: Bump and Grindhouse

This week on Cinema Chop Shop, Travis, Shawn and Hilary break out the popcorn and soda for a look at some drive-in theatre classic grindhouse movies. First up they are seeing red with Dario Argento's Susperia 1977. After the break it's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite grinhouse films: The Girl from Starship Venus (1975), a Briish softcore sci-fi satire.

S2E19: Cinema Chop Shop Customs: Son of a Pitch

It's Customs week at Cinema Chop Shop as Travis, Brew Boss Shawn, Andrew Te and Joey Poole pitch some new ideas for films they'd like to see. Shawn starts us off with Steve Carell in a heartwarming film with a big imagination, then Travis goes time travelling with Riley Keough and Alan Ruck in a comtemporary political thriller. After the break, Andrew ushers in the era of the Dogvengers Cinematic universe, mashing up the Avengers franchise with Wes Andreson's Isle of Dogs, where TV and cinema's greatest canine heroes team up to fight one bad cat. Joey Poole rounds out the program with Melissa McCarthy as Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a conspiracy-minded political comedy. Check out our Twitter and Facebook to vote for your favorite pitch!

S2E18: Nerdwatching

Travis, Brew Boss Shawn and Joey Poole get together on Nerd Pride Day and celebrate their geekiness by talking about a few movies for the intellectually inclined.  First up is Real Genius (1985), a comedy where engineering students are tasked with developing a sinister weapon, a story that Joey Poole retrofits for our modern times.  After the break, it's Lucas (1986), a movie about high school love which was the film debut of Winona Rider.  The guys get real relating the often mysogynistic nerd culture developed in films like this from the 80s with some of the social issues we face today. To cap it off, we honor the original, archtypical nerd in this week's Honey Roast.

S2E17: Peak Bigness

Travis and Brew Boss Shawn celebrate the birthday of the iconic actor-singer-model-producer Grace Jones by taking a modern look at a pair of her movies. First it's her mainstream debut in Conan the Destroyer (1984) where Shawn and Travis find they're thinking alike on their picks, followed by a round of Conan trivia. After the break we get our Bond on with A View to a Kill (1985) after which we take a moment to recognize the late Roger Moore in the Honey Roast 

S2E16: The Mother's Day Special!

Happy Mother's Day to all of our listeners! This week, Travis, Brew Boss Shawn and Hilary get together to recast a pair of films featuring mother-daughter relationships in Hollywood. First up is Mommie Dearest (1981) featuring an introduction from friend of the show Dr. Bobb from the Checkered Past podcast. After the break, it's Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine in Postcards from the Edge (1990). Then we dive in to the responses from the Chop Shopper Challenge film Mermaids, and give a Honey Roast for one of America's all-time great sitcom moms Florence Henderson. 

S2E15: The Star Wars Extravaganza

Travis & the Brew Boss Shawn are joined by newcomers Jacob Suggs of Frame By Frame and Bryan Fisher of Seminar Brewing for a look at Star Wars past and present. First we talk a bit about what Star Wars means to us and where what we might see in the future from this franchise, and Bryan tells a few stories from Skywalker Ranch. Then for the recast we shop around a few names for a hypothetical modern remake of the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977).  After the break, Andrew stumps the guests with some Star Wars trivia, and we do our best for the Honey Roast of Hayden Christensen 

S2E14: Lin-Manuel Miranda's Lin-Manuel Miranda

It's musical theatre week at Cinema Chop Shop, as Andrew Te, Brew Boss Shawn and his wife Alley are joined by Alex Ewald of the Broadway Babies podcast to cast the hypothetical movie adaptation of a pair of Tony-winning shows. First it's Dear Evan Hansen, where a young man suffering from social anxiety fabricates a lie in the wake of a tragedy to find a way to fit in. Then it's Lin-Manuel Miranda's In The Heights, a story about the days in the life of Hispanic-American residents of New York's Washington Heights neighborhood. The gang answers trivia questions about movies turned to musicals and weigh in on the prospect of a film adaptation of one of the most succesful musicals in recent memory, Hamilton. Alex reports back from his trip to New York and we celebrate one of our greatest performers on the stage in the Honey Roast.

S2E13: I'm Stumbling Over That Word Because I Think I Made It Up

Travis, Brew Boss Shawn, Hilary and Gouge gather in the shop on 4/20 to talk about "Potsploitation" movies. First up is PCU (1994) a film that has aged poorly, but has enough potential in the premise for an interesting modern adaptation. Then we take a look at Cheech & Chong's film debut Up In Smoke (1978). Finally, we throw a little Woody on the fire for this week's Honey Roast.