If you've got any legal troubles in space, our next guest can surely help you out - Melanie Scrofano is coming to Open Pike Night! Ask about Captain Batel's career, what it's like to be a statue, or those fussy Gorn babies! Deadline for calls is Tuesday, January 27th at 12pm EST #StarTrek

One of my earliest forays into cinematic anime and my introduction to "Fan Service" was #VampireHunterD. He strolls into town, kills vamps with his ridiculously long sword, then leaves town. What's not to love? youtu.be/6HbW39vawMs

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 327 - MONSTERS, INC. Animation Season 2026 kicks off with Pixar's fourth feature! The production involved significant technological advancements for Pixar, especially in clothing, fur and snow animation. And bizarrely, also tentacles. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Fuck everyone who voted for this, who continues to support it and who remain silent. Y'all can stay the fuck away from me because I have no respect for you and your cowardice and your bullshit, you fucking bootlickers. Get fucked.

Do you think the driver of the Planters Nutmobile has ever been in an accident? It would be fun to call Planters and report, “I just busted a nut.”

I'm excited about this first episode of 2026. It's been in the making for a long time. I knew what I wanted to say, but not exactly how I wanted to say it. Now it's here: a comparison between The Running Man movies and the novel that inspired them. #therunningman youtu.be/zOxer45Tlgo?...

Hello to all of our recent new followers! If you're looking for a #StarTrek podcast that puts you directly in touch with the people who make it, look no further! Here's a list of some of the guests we've had - give us a listen on your favorite podcast app!

A lot of years were supposed to be “my year.” Some were. Most were lessons. Every crossed-out year still mattered. 2026 feels focused. Ready. Happy New Year. #2026 #KeepGoing #Growth #LongGame

Happy New Year! It's been a challenge for many people for various reasons. Hopefully, we will come together and put right what once went wrong. There's a little of Sam Beckett in all of us!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! How did you spend Christmas? I baked some food and watched some movies with friends & family. One of those was Violent Night with David Harbour. That film was so delightful that I had to talk about it on the show! #ViolentNight #HappyHolidays youtu.be/zmww5r40gsY?...

Most people know that Jim Carrey became everybody's problem because of how much he hated the makeup he had to wear for How The Grinch Stole Christmas, but did you know that Mariah Carey wrote one of the songs for this film? Find out more this episode! #Christmas #HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas

What were two of Mel Brooks' favorite gags in Spaceballs? Check out the latest episode to find out! youtu.be/MBV2mj32Vqs?...

🎁BRAND-NEW EPISODE🎁 Episode 324 - JINGLE ALL THE WAY Howard Langston is a great salesman, but a not-so-great father. When his disappointed son tells him he wants a Turbo Man doll, Howard springs into action on Christmas Eve, only to find every store out of stock. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

The scene with Dark Helmet playing with his dolls wasn't scripted. It was envisioned by Mel Brooks and improvised by Rick Moranis. #Spaceballs

White sky. First snow.

Did You Know: Carrie Fisher complained to George Lucas that her costumes in the Star Wars franchise weren't feminine enough. This let to the beloved metal bikini. #StarWars

Did you know: Mark Hamill had to bang his head 16 times on the ceiling of Yoda's hut before director Irvin Kershner was satisfied and that, @mystreamingbubble, Jenn, is back to share her memories of Empire?!? #StarWars

Jenn is a fantastic colleague and it was great having her back on the pod!

Thanks again to @backlookcinema.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about one of the greatest sequels to sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. Hope everyone enjoys listening to it as much as I enjoyed talking about it 😊

And now it's time for our time honored tradition of our annual viewing of the Star Wars Holiday Special. What do you mean that you don't watch it every year? This week I consider why this isn't anybody's favorite holiday special. #TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial

I'm covering a series of Star Wars movies this month and, along with that, it seems that the oft forgotten gem: #HardwareWars should be recognized! May the Farce be with you!!!

We've reached 200 EPISODES!!! Huge thanks to Rod & Karen from TBGWT! By the way, George Lucas showed an early cut of #StarWars to his director friends. All of them, including Brian De Palma predicted failure. Only Stephen Spielberg thought that it would blow the doors off the box office!

Producer Dino De Laurentiis hated the werewolf design, but he was overruled by director Daniel Attias and writer Stephen King.King's. #SilverBullet is a great entry point for the wee tikes just getting into horror! #happyhalloween #happyallsaintsday #happyallsoulsday #felizdiadelosmuertos

#ChristopherWalken at cloves of raw garlic before he walked on the set. He didn't say why, but it is suspected that he did it to make his co-stars uncomfortable. He's playing the rebellious Angel of Death in the 1995 cult classic #TheProphecy after all.

One of the things that I forgot to mention when I recorded this episode was the fantastic musical score by Danny Elfman. Without exaggeration I believe that the #Beetlejuice soundtrack was one of the best compositions of music for a film ever written and performed!

Last weekend I saw the film #Him. If you want to know if you should watch it this weekend, then check out my spoiler free review. youtu.be/g7YiPuZWUCM?...

I hard lined, like, five episodes in a row to get caught up . . . I was not emotionally ok for about three hours. I was fine by the time we started recording, and I had a ball!

I can not tell you just how quickly I rushed to the Audible app to use my credits to buy this book. I know that it's good sight unseen, and I can't wait to goble it up! My skin is green! #greenskinned

The house that Ritchie Valens buys his mother in the movie La Bamba is across the street from the real house that the real Ritchie Valens bought his mother in real life. #LouDiamondPhillips #LaBamba

The raptors in #JurassicPark were not accurate because, at the start of filming, there were no known velociraptors that were as large as the ones featured in the film. During filming, a new 10 ft. tall species was discovered in Utah: the utahraptor.

Sean Connery would, on occasion, film scenes without wearing pants like he did in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. #IndianaJonesandtheLastCrusade #HarrisonFord #SeanConnery youtu.be/yUWHOzJx-go

@openpike.bsky.social Cheers, mates! youtu.be/7GXjQqpKhdg?...

I'd watch it . . . youtu.be/7GXjQqpKhdg?...

New blog/new podcast episode - exploring #BuckarooBanzai !!! backlookcinema.com/so/68PXtT3XQ...

I saw #FantasticFourFirstSteps One might say that it's one small step for man. Should you see it? Well here's what I think. youtu.be/o3KwSbG9xkc

We're wrapping up Sci-Fi July by going wild for the FLESH! Baboon daddies, elf shoe genitalia, Quaife-ing in harmony and everything is very very wet.Are you scared but kinda hot about it? Well now you know how everyone who's been with Jeff Goldblum felt. It's The Fly this week on Doom Generation!

For the first time in a VERY long time I wrote a blog post. This post is about how Armageddon helped me to discover what an Aerosmith was. www.backlookcinema.com/post/how-i-d...

IT'S A DISASTER! #Arnageddon is out today! Find out why Steve Bushemi took the role of Rockhound and why Bruce Willis refused to work with Michael Bay after this Blockbuster.

@carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social and myself talk baseball, representation, and our idea for Fortnite's next collab as we are all over the field with both versions of #ALeagueofTheirOwn. Thanks for listening & #KeepStreaming! mystreamingbubble.podbean.com/e/leagues-of...

This week, Jenn from @mystreamingbubble.bsky.social & @itsmysandbox.bsky.social from @itsadeanthingpod.bsky.social join Erin to discuss conventions, #KPopDemonHunters, horror-themed burlesque, #ProjectHailMary, #Bones, the pain & joy of a new ship, and the future of TikTok. itsafandomthingpod.com

I saw James Gunn's Superman and I had some SPOILER FREE thoughts; I recorded them for posterity in an audio only format . . . I think that they call it a "podcast" youtu.be/aJf4185Ta2Q

FLASH! AAAHHHHH-aaaaahhhhhhhhh!!! #FlashGordon

Today I play an episode of Retromade hosted by the wonderful Katie. We talked about #TheThing and it was a first watch for both of us!

Ironically, Eddie Murphy had to be in the best shape of his life to carry around the heavy fat suit that he wore as #TheNuttyProfessor

Gordon's ALIVE?

I've had a storybook for this movie that I read over and over again. I probably even had the lunch box . . . Never saw it! I should change that!

On #AmericanNinja, Steve James believed that the star, Michael Dudikoff, was anxious about working with Steve because Steve was a martial arts expert and Michael didn't know any martial arts, like, at all, and didn't want to be shown up on film. This made for a very tense filming environment.

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... Full disclosure, I hadn't read the whole article. The first time I saw Star Wars was a heavily edited silent version on reels that one of my elementary school classmates somehow had possession of. I was fully in love with it back then.

This Monday I'm covering #Lionheart, as it's known in the U.S., but it's also known in various parts of the world as Wrong Bet, A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave, Leon, and Full Contact. #jeanclaudevandamme