David Gordon Green and Danny McBride unleash a compelling, confounding massacre that must be seen to be believed
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This week on Isolation Nation, we’re playing No Man’s Sky, watching wackadoo anime, and sinking our fangs into FX’ What We Do In The Shadows
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The Boys joyfully dig into the fragile male ego of Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY, but also have a blast just going along with it all in this surreal, sexy modern tragedy.
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This week in Isolation Nation finds us crashing toy cars, researching the Challenger and Christa McAuliffe, and banging our heads to Deftones.
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This week, the Cinema Chance Cube boys roll the Chance-O-Lantern and come up with the black sheep of the Halloween series. A few other things come up, also. That Tom Atkins is quite a fox, wouldn’t you say?
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This week in Isolation Nation it’s Netflix’s CUTIES, Canada’s Love Junk, Common Descent’s podcast, HBOs Perry Mason, Sans’ Undertale, and the ’80s HEATHERS!
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Fate finally succumbs to the snootchie bootchies, choosing Kevin Smith’s 2001 road trip comedy JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK.
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This week in Isolation Nation, we’re doing grinders on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, listening to Semisonic, and watching bugs take flight at 3200 FPS.
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This week, the chickens come home to roost for members of the Boys and the Seven alike, as agendas are revealed and bonds are tested.
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A week late (with apologies), ISOLATION NATION returns to save your soul from the demons of 2020. We’re talking CPG Grey, TENET, and BILL & TED.
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Amazon’s raucous, raw super-sendup THE BOYS starts back up with a bang, and Ryan’s seen the whole shebang. This week, we’ll talk eps 1-3. Especially now, while racism is being regularly exposed in our institutions like law enforcement, we’re seeing new media unafraid to engage with the reality of our times in interesting ways.
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As Fate would have it, the movie that made Chadwick Boseman an icon, Black Panther, was the randomly selected choice, and we were able to sit down and dig into what an absolute game-changer this film is and was.
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Bill & Ted Face The Music is clearly a labor of love, years in the making and benefitting from an actual script. Longtime friends Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson imbue the proceedings with a wholesome earnestness and a triumphant sense of celebration, which is hilariously and tenderly brought to life by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
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The Cinema Chance Double Dumbass Boys sit down with special guest Adam Bumas, who brings the delicious respite of STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME to the Cube
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This week, the Cubers contend with James DeMonaco’s minor modern classic THE PURGE: ANARCHY, and the Extreme Meth Mountain Dew Energy therein.
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Isolation Nation is featuring more Watsky, the profane verbosity of Deadwood, VFX Artist videos, and incredible Samurai cinema (and Deftones).
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In the final round before the Reload, Kevin, Ryan, and Shannon sat down to a sprawling conversation about John Carpenter’s howl of sociopolitical rage, THEY LIVE.
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20 weeks into a column called Isolation Nation is nothing to celebrate. The writing this week is another story. Tanner’s watching Melville! Diane is a Fall Guy! Zach’s the God of War! Adam, Bumas, is I, Claudius! And Brannon is having an Inquisition in the Dragon Age!
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This week, the Fathers of Justice passed sentence on the Cuberinos, forcing us to enjoy 1995 Stallone vehicle JUDGE DREDD, with special guest Arthur Wyatt!
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This week in Isolation Nation, The mysteries are enthralling, the hallways are filled with tension, the bubblebaths are foaming, and the Gourds are jamming.
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This week of Isolation Nation is chock full of television shows to indulge in, YouTube cooking shows to munch, space battle games, and mysteries to unlock!
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This week, it’s a double dose of Cinema Chance Cube, as we drop episodes on THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE and THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE.
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This week in Isolation Nation, we’re talkin’ ’bout Over The Garden Wall, Gus Johnson’s YouTube vids, Samurai games, and (of course) BUGSNAX!
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This week in Isolation Nation, we’re discussing the French New Wave, The Mountain Goats, the music of Cowboy Bebop, and the brilliance of John Carpenter.
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A bit delayed this week, but in Isolation Nation, we’re talking video games, McElroys, Spider-Man, and Alex Garland’s series DEVS. Check it out!
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It’s a short week, which means it’s a shorter column. Inside we’re talking Avatar, YouTubers, Edgar Wright, Underrated boxing movies, and BEER.
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In Isolation Nation Volume 13, we’re digging into the music of Failure and Watsky, the online developments in Smash Bros Melee, and Fringe!
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For week 12 of Isolation Nation, we’re back with Mister Rogers, Borderlands sequels, Genndy Tartakovsky’s big robots, and Canadian rocker Matt Good
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This week in Isolation Nation is a doozy! Post-Apocalyptic Novels! Current-Apocalypse-Adjacent TV! Narrowly-Avoided-Apocalypse Rock! Also Watsky!
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In a difficult week for this nation and this world, we want to offer some comedy, some music, delightful video games, and some love to Black Lives Matter.
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This week in ISOLATION NATION, Shannon talks BEYOND SKYLINE, Alfredo is playing Roguelikes, Trey is creeped by ALAN WAKE, and Jared’s solving X-FILES.
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We’re back to a bigger format this week in ISOLATION NATION, featuring pieces from Diane on Wynona Earp, Jared on Dune, and David on Spider-Man!
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In a very short entry this week, David gives love to the farting corpse of SWISS ARMY MAN, while Ryan just keeps it together by the record player.
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This week in Isolation Nation, we talk about Monster Hunting video games, Monster Making podcasters, audio engineering YouTube channels, and the absolutely wonderful Netflix show Kim’s Convenience!
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As the weeks blend and blur, Isolation Nation returns to introduce you to workouts, meat rubs, podcasts, old TV favorites, and more! Nice to meat you!
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This week on Isolation Nation, we’re jamming to a lot of disparate tunes, cooking up a storm, and riding the ranges of Red Dead Redemption, as we drive down hazy memory lane.
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Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, but this week for Isolation Nation, Shannon talks TV’s Community, and Ryan talks about Aquaman and … podcasting with Shannon.
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This week in Isolation Nation, we talk about THE MARTIAN, YouTuber Tom Scott, Bill Withers, and a very lovely little movie called MAD MAX.
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Lewton Bus launches a new regular column about the things that are keeping us sane while the world goes crazy
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In dimension-altering news, film icon Sam Raimi has agreed to take on directorial duties for DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS for Marvel Studios. Truly miracles come in all shapes and sizes
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Ryan tries his damnedest to stick to 10 of his favorite films from 2019, a year that turned out better for movies than it had any right to.
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The new trailer for Todd Phillips’ JOKER movie proves that we all go a little mad sometimes. Case in point: the people who greenlit Todd Phillips’ JOKER
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After 8 films, the FAST & FURIOUS series has created its first spinoff. Sometimes cartoonish and messy, Hobbs & Shaw is still an uppercut to the face.
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With KING OF THE MONSTERS, Michael Dougherty crafts an emotional, hilarious celebration of the Heisei GODZILLA films that will delight fans and bewilder your dad.
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Michael Dougherty and company seem to know exactly what Godzilla fans want out of GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, and with this soundtrack they seem hellbent on delivering it.
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This week for Off The Beaten Path, Ryan talks about the second album by Swedish Popmeisters The Cardigans; 1995’s LIFE. These Cardies came to party.
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Ryan dives into the The Cardigans’ debut album EMMERDALE, and opens his sweet, shriveled black heart to the Lords of Despair-Pop.
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The wait for our first solid look at the action in GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS is over, as the second trailer offers our best look yet at the colossal stakes in this monstrous sequel.
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Ryan dons his boxing gloves and flattering shorts to stand toe-to-toe with the newest installment in the Rocky/Creed series. Is it a contender or a bum? Turns out it’s a mostly worthy successor to the title.
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In the penultimate episode of JACK RYAN, the pieces of Suleiman’s plan fall into place, as Jack, Greer, and Cathy must decide where they can place their trust.
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