Welcome to Karate in the Garage! We’re two industry professionals that revisit the movies that made us want to be in the business, and discuss if they're Better Remembered or Remembered Better. Along the way, we'll mix it up with newer movies, special guests, as well as our weekly Kickstart show every Monday to start off your week!
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Kickstart #4 for October to close out Witch's OctoBrew 2024! A little extra flavor in your ear for this Monday! BLU-RAYS RELEASES FOR THIS WEEK! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a look at the link below and maybe make a do…
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Movie #4 for 2024 WITCH'S OCTOBREW is EASILY the most 80s movie we've ever covered on Karate in the Garage: 1986's WITCHBOARD with Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols and Todd Allen. From IMDB: When his girlfriend becomes dangerously obsessed with a ghost she contacted using a Ouija board, Jim reluctantly joins forces with her ex-his own estranged childh…
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Kickstart #3 for October 2024! Twenty eight minutes of R&B goodness. BLU-RAYS RELEASES FOR THIS WEEK! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a look at the link below and maybe make a donation: Entertainmen…
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Movie #3 for 2024 WITCH'S OCTOBREW is André Øvredal's THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE! From IMDB: A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the cause of death of a young woman who was apparently harboring dark secrets. ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG,…
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Yeah. It's late. Even later than I said during Kickstart. We hope you dig it! From IMDB: An apprentice witch, three kids, and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II. ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, a…
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Kickstart #2 for October 2024! Thirty minutes of funk. BLU-RAYS RELEASES FOR THIS WEEK! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a look at the link below and maybe make a donation: Entertainment Community Fu…
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Kickstart #1 for October 2024! Short. Sweet. Succulent. We dropped Movie #1 for WITCH'S OCTOBREW last Wednesday here on Patreon, and Friday for gen pop. It was Griffin Dunne's Practical Magic! BLU-RAYS RELEASES FOR THIS WEEK! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, as well …
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We start WITCH'S OCTOBREW 2024 with Griffin Dunne's sophomore effort from 1998: PRACTICAL MAGIC with Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, and Stockard Channing. From IMDB: Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love. EN…
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The FINAL Kickstart for Karate in the Garage's Second Annual SPECTEMBER! Last week, we closed out the Spectember 2024 movies with 1988's Lady in White with Lukas Haas and Alex Rocco, from Writer-Director-Composer Frank LaLoggia! Frank was kind enough to share his site with us that documents his projects with photos from his private collection, and …
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Movie #4 to close out Spectember 2024 is a doozy. It's Lady in White! From IMDB: An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl. ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, as well as other workers in the …
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Kickstart #4 for Karate in the Garage's Second Annual SPECTEMBER! We've got ghosty ghost movies for the entire month of December! Last week, more surprises from us as we covered 1991's SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK with Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, and Robert Rusler! BLU-RAYS RELEASES FOR THIS WEEK! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you…
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Movie #3 for Spectember 2024 is late, but it's here now! From a short story from Stephen King's Night Shift by way of a 1974 short story, we've got 1991's SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK! From IMDB: Teens from hell mark school teacher Jim Norman and his family. ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, as…
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Kickstart #3 for Karate in the Garage's Second Annual SPECTEMBER! We've got ghosty ghost movies for the entire month of December! Last week, we probably surprised a lot of you by covering 1995's CASPER with Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman because NO ONE correctly guessed ANY of the remaining three titles. BLU-RAYS RELEASES FOR THIS WEEK! Last week…
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Movie #2 for Spectember 2024 is here! Just months away from it's 30th anniversary, we dive into one of the best Comic to Animation to Live Action adaptations in the history of cinema: CASPER with Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, and Eric Idle. From IMDB: An afterlife therapist and his daughter meet a friendly young ghost when they mov…
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Kickstart #2 for Karate in the Garage's Second Annual SPECTEMBER! We've got ghosty ghost movies for the entire month of December! We dropped Francis Ford Coppola's B'Twixt Now and Sunrise: The Authentic Cut last Wednesday for Patreon and the gen pub release later that week. Same thing again for Movie #2 this week! BLU-RAYS RELEASES FOR THIS WEEK! T…
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The Return of Spectember has arrived! All month long, we'll be talking about movies that have ghosty ghost themes. We start the month off with one that was slated for later in the month to coincide with the director's latest. But we moved it up because we needed a shorter runtime for Movie #1. Francis Ford Coppola's B'Twixt Now and Sunrise: The Aut…
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Kickstart #1 for Karate in the Garage's Second Annual SPECTEMBER! We've got ghosty ghost movies for the entire month of December! As mentioned in the episode, Vidiots is screeening Sugar Hill (1974) in 35mm! We also said we'd post a link to the movie if it was streaming anywhere, and it is! SUGAR HILL ON PLUTO! THE PSYCHO SCORE ON SPOTIFY! THE PSYC…
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Last week, UF_OH MY GOD Month for August with 1989's Communion! As spoken about in today's KS, Movie #3 will be delayed a week due to life being life. BLU-RAY RELEASES for 8/20/2024! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of WGA, SAG, IATSE, as well as other workers in the entertainment indus…
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U-F-OHHHHH Month continues with a late 80' entry for Movie #2: 1989's Communion with Christopher Walken and Lindsay Crouse. From IMDB: On December 26th Whitley Strieber has a strange nightmare. In the following days, plagued by painful headaches, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Later, under hypnosis, he realizes that his dream was not a …
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KS #2 for August 2024! Last week, we started our UF_OH MY GOD Month for August with the Godfather of alien contact movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind! This week, Movie #2 will drop on Wednesday for Early Access Patreon folks, and hits the public streams Friday wherever you enjoy your podcasts! This is going to be ALL tiers of fun this month!…
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It's YOU EFF OHHHHHHH MONTH! (For the sake of brevity, we'll call it U-F-OHHHHH for the rest of the month.) For Movie #1, it's the Godfather of all alien contact movies. It's Steven Spielberg's follow-up to 1975's JAWS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. FROM IMDB: Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life tur…
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KS #1 for August 2024! Last week's KS was an Easter Egg movie episode to close out Shark Month 2024, Jaws 3-D. A movie so infamous that Universal completely ignored it when they made Jaws: The Revenge. THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES ON PEACOCK! BLU-RAY RELEASES for 8/6/2024! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your supp…
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The FINAL Kickstart for July 2024! Shark Month wrapped last week with 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, the 2020 sequel to Johannes Roberts' original from 2018. BLU-RAY RELEASES for 7/30/2024! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, ple…
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Movie #3 for SHARK MONTH 2024 brings us our first (and only?) sequel. It's Johannes Robert's 2019 follow-up to his own 2017 original 47 Meters Down: 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED! From IMDB: Two sisters diving in a ruined underwater city quickly learn they've entered the territory of the deadliest shark species in the claustrophobic labyrinth of submerge…
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Kickstart #3 for July 2024! Shark Month continues this week Movie #4 dropping here on Wednesday, with the general public release on Friday. Movie #3 last week was Netflix's Under Paris, which you can listen to here in two flavors: SPOILERY and (mostly) SPOILER FREE. You can hit those directly below: UNDER PARIS SPOILER FREE UNDER PARIS SPOILERY BLU…
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THIS IS THE SPOILER FREE VERSION OF THIS EPISODE. IF YOU'VE SEEN THE MOVIE AND WANT TO HEAR IT UNCENSORED, IT'S ON OUR PATREON. GET TO IT BY CLICKING THIS Movie #2 for SHARK MONTH 2024 is as new as any movie we've covered before. From IMDB: To save Paris from a bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark app…
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Kickstart #2 for July 2024! CAN’T BUY ME LOVE FULL MOVIE ON YOUTUBE! LISTEN to ME FULL MOVIE ON YOUTUBE! DEJA REVIEW LINK for THE END PHANTOMS in 4K from SHOUT! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! BARNES and NOBLE'S 50% SALE OF CURRENT CRITERION COLLECTION RELEASES (THRU 7/28) ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA a…
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It's July, so you know Shark Week is upon us. But we're upping the game and making it Shark MONTH! Movie #1 is 2011's Shark Night 3D! From IMDB: A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to shark attacks. VFX Breakdown with VFX Supervisor Petar Jovovic from Crater Studios. ENJ…
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We're back from our hiatus! Planned or otherwise, we both appreciated the break. While we did enjoy the breather, we did miss you all, and we're glad we're back! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! SHARK ATTACKS IN TEXAS! THE MACALLAN - TIMELESS SPIRIT FEATURING TENNANT, EMELI SANDIE, and OLLIE GREEN BARNES and NOBLE'S 50% SALE OF CURRENT CRITERION COLLECTION R…
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After many technical challenges, here is Movie #4 for THREEQUELS this year! (Leave it to the robots to wreak havoc while talking about them...) The Wachowski Sisters completed their trilogy of The Matrix with today's movie The Matrix Revolutions. From IMDB: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fi…
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It's Kickstart #4 and the FINAL KS for June 2024! Our THREEQUELS Month continued with Friday the 13th: Part III! This week, the final Movie #4 will drop here this Wednesday for those on The Dojo tier, and for the public on Friday wherever you reel in your pods. THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for …
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The Rule of 3s in effect for June 2024! IT'S THREEQUELS MONTH! All this month, Karate in the Garage is delivering you FOUR Threequels from all walks of life and decades! With Movie #3, we may have the most recognizable and popular THREEQUEL of all time: FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART III! Director Steve Miner is back at the helm with the one that cements Ja…
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It's Kickstart #3 for June 2024! Our THREEQUELS Month continued with Bad Boys for Life last week! This week, Movie #3 will drop here this Wednesday for those on The Dojo tier, and for the public on Friday wherever you reel in your pods. DEJA REVIEW PLAYLIST on SPOTIFY!!! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your su…
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The Rule of 3s in effect for June 2024! IT'S THREEQUELS MONTH! All this month, Karate in the Garage is delivering you FOUR Threequels from all walks of life and decades! With Movie #2, we've jumped from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, to 2020 with the return of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence for a third time in Bad Boys For Life! From IMDB: Mia…
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It's Kickstart #2 for June 2024! Our THREEQUELS Month started last week with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome! This week, Movie #2 will drop here this Wednesday for those on The Dojo tier, and for the public on Friday wherever you reel in your pods. FREDDY SAW BILLY JOEL LAST SATURDAY! (Photos can be seen on our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/karatepod.…
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The Rule of 3s in effect for June 2024! IT'S THREEQUELS MONTH! All this month, Karate in the Garage is delivering you FOUR Threequels from all walks of life and decades! We start things off with George Miller's 1985 classic Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson returning as Max Rockatansky. Along with Mel, after a year of making one of the big…
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It's Kickstart #1 for June 2024! Which also means that we'll be starting a new theme for this month., which will be revealed on Wednesday when Movie #1 drops on Patreon! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a loo…
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And here we are. Movie #5. The FINAL movie for the inaugural theme of May Be... This month of MAY BES was an interesting one to say the least. These are the May flowers that Gerard Butler's April rain has gifted you. LET'S DO THIS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the en…
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May Be Month is coming to an end this week ! This week, the fifth and final movie episode will drop here on Patreon this Wednesday with general public release landing on Friday. THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please ta…
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May Be Movie #4 is here. As it notes in the title, this may be Die Hard. Possibly. This whole month is gonna' be MAY BES. Surprise MAY BES. No hints. You have to listen to the episode to find out what movie we actually cover. These are the May flowers that Gerard Butler's April rain has gifted you. LET'S DO THIS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd …
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May Be Month continues! Last week, we dropped May Be Alien...! This week, Movie #4 will drop here on Patreon this Wednesday with general public release landing on Friday. THE UNTOUCHABLES 4K REVIEW! DISNEYLAND PARADE and CHARACTER PERFORMERS to UNIONIZE! THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S MEGAPOLIS TEASER TRAILER! ENJOY! ----------------…
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May Be Movie #3 is here. As it notes in the title, this may be Alien. Possibly. This whole month is gonna' be MAY BES. Surprise MAY BES. No hints. You have to listen to the episode to find out what movie we actually cover. These are the May flowers that Gerard Butler's April rain has gifted you. LET'S DO THIS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd lik…
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May Be Month continues! Last week, we dropped May Be Jaws! This week, Movie #3 will drop here on Patreon this Wednesday with general public release landing on Friday. THE LATEST AT VIDIOTS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a look a…
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May Be Movie #2 is here. As it notes in the title, this may be Jaws. This whole month is gonna' be MAY BES. Surprise MAY BES. No hints. You have to listen to the episode to find out what movie we actually cover. The List of Natural Horror Films on Wikipedia! These are the May flowers that Gerard Butler's April rain has gifted you. LET'S DO THIS! EN…
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Six days into May, and we've got your first Kickstart of the month! We started MAY BE Month with MAY BE RAIDERS (of the Lost Ark) last Wednesday here on Patreon, with the public getting the unsupported version on Friday on the usual podcast platforms. Movie #2 is recorded, and it too will drop for Early Access on Wednesday for Patreons! This one is…
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Here we are in May 2024. Movie #1. This whole month is gonna' be MAY BES. Surprise MAY BES. No hints. You have to listen to the episode to find out what movie we actually cover. These are the May flowers that Gerard Butler's April rain has gifted you. LET'S DO THIS! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA…
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And April 2024 has come to an end. (As far as our show goes, anyway.) (THIS IS WHERE THOSE PICS ARE TALKED ABOUT, BUT ARE ONLY VISIBLE ON PATREON.) Heather Wixson and Patrick Bromley's written companion to David A. Weiner's documentary series In Search of Darkness, can be purchased here: IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS from AM Ink Publishing! In between all …
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If this is not your first time listening to this show, there is ZERO chance that Movie #4 of The Butler Did It month would be anything other than Guy Ritchie's ROCKNROLLA from 2008. (If it IS the frist time listening to us, boy, is there a back catalog for you to five into!) Along with month's namesake Gerard Butler is a sea of talent that riiiight…
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Kickstart #4 of April. BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT from HAT & BEARD PRESS! SECOND SIGHT'S DAWN OF THE DEAD 4K at AMAZON UK! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a look at the link below and maybe make a donation: Entertainment Community Fund ht…
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Movie #3 for The Butler Did It brings us to most recently released of our movies this month with 2023's Plane. But don't let that seemingly bland and unexciting title fool you. This is a good one. Along with Captain Gerard Butler is Mike Colter, and a bevy of character actors including Tony Goldwyn! From IMDB: A pilot finds himself caught in a war …
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