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"Man was meant to eat meat. We, all of us, have a little bit caveman in us."
If you missed last week's Rob Zombie goes Haddonfield edition of the show, this week should make as little sense to you as someone watching this movi…
15 hours ago
Required Viewing 02: Waterworld
It was the most expensive movie ever made, the punchline of a thousand headlines, and a flop so infamous it got its own nickname. This week on Requir…
6 days, 14 hours ago
"Behind these eyes one finds only blackness, the absence of light. These are the eyes of a psychopath."
The last thing the world needs in 2026 is yet another Halloween film but, to be fair, the last thing the world needed in 2007 was yet another Hallowe…
1 week, 1 day ago
"God's not gonna let us die here."
From suburban horror to the back end of the Cretaceous, the American genre picture keeps finding new ways to burn down the cul-de-sac. The End of Oak…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Required Viewing 01: Sideways
Season 1 Episode 1
Two guys, a week in wine country, and a whole lot of avoidance. This week on Required Viewing, we uncork Alexander Payne's Sideways (2004) and study …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Required Viewing 00: Syllabus
Required Viewing: A 360° Film Study is a brand new sub-feed within The Kulturecast main feed where Dr. David D. Perlmutter and The Kulturecast's Doct…
1 month ago
"One time in the fourth grade, I messed around with a lab frog. I figure this is my punishment."
From Train to Busan to the far-flung future with cloning and fascism, Korean cinema spans the genre gamut. Mickey 17, the latest film from Parasite’s…
1 month ago
“Are you Peter Parker, or are you Spider-Man?”
As the MCU barrels towards the inevitable ultimate crossover event that is Avengers: Doomsday, we must first check in on everyone's friendly neighbor…
1 month, 1 week ago
"That was some new John Wayne shit, Staff Sgt."
Battle Los Angeles is one of those forgotten sci-fi films that toed the line between war and alien invasion, doing something that few films since hav…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
"You wanna be great, you need to sacrifice. And the more painful the sacrifice, the greater you'll be."
While it may be simplistic to say that the Blackberry died at the hands of the iPhone, it wouldn't be entirely inaccurate. That death, however, was a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago