The Hamster Factor

It's time to dust off your dart guns and your Michael Winslow autographs, as AJ and Mike talk about 1982's "Tag: The Assassination Game." This vehicle for Robert Carradine and a young Linda Hamilton is two parts horror/thriller, one part parody, and all parts nonsensical. Next Film: Gothca! (1985)   Be sure to check out the Ramblecast, as advertised in the beginning of this podcast! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theramblecast   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

The guys talk through Alfonso Cuarón's tense dystopian thriller "Children of Men," all in one take! Well, they technically had a scrapped version where all they did is talk in the third person like Syd. Next Film: Tag: The Assassination Game (1982) FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike properly gas up their car as they drive through the ominous rural rouds of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," which served as the birth of many films about death. Next Film: Children of Men (2006) FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

The guys talk the groundbreaking 1984 cult film "Night of the Comet," as AJ theorizes on which pieces of pop culture it inspired, and Mike unceremoniously tells the film to eat his own dust. Next Film: Night of the Living Dead (1968) FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike gush over Jeff Bridges' reactions and Michael Jeter cameos, respectively, as they dig into Terry Gilliam's 1991 film "The Fisher King," a film as delicious as a slippery dumpling. NEXT FILM: Night of the Comet (1984) FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike put a bookend (and not of the horsehead variety) on their crime trilogy as they take out the trashy horror parody film "Student Bodies." NEXT FILM: The Fisher King (1991) FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike are anything but (Benson)mum as they crack itno the mysterious case of the 1976 parody film "Murder by Death." NEXT FILM: Student Bodies (1981) FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike dust off their powdered wigs and remove the cigars from their canes as they crack into the 1957 surprise-filled legal drama "Witness for the Prosecution." NEXT FILM: Murder by Death (1976) FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike try to get their footing down to learn whatever the heck the Bogo Pogo is as they take a look at Baz Luhrmann's 1992 debut "Strictly Ballroom." NEXT FILM: Witness for the Prosecution (1957)   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

Mike is bloodthirty after AJ shocked him with another horror film in the form of the 2007 Spanish found footage "zombie" thriller "REC." NEXT FILM: Strictly Ballroom (1992)   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike take a break from slaying minotaurs, turning beans into peas, and trying to identify 43 species of (dead) parrots to discuss Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits." NEXT FILM: [REC] (2007)   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ and Mike break out the colored chalk to write out everything that went wrong in the Melissa Joan Hart-starring thriller "Nine Dead." NEXT FILM: Time Bandits (1981)   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

Get some popcorn from your patented plastic duck popper and listen to AJ and Mike go wall-to-wall in their coverage of the 2007 Spanish film "Fermat's Room." NEXT FILM: Nine Dead (2010)   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

Hang up your fur coat and skateboard and dial into this episode of The Hamster Factor, where AJ and Mike talk through the 1995 cult classic "Hackers." NEXT FILM: Fermat's Room (2007)   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)

AJ Holmes and Dr. Bloomson join forces to solve their toughest mystery yet: The Case of Why "Young Sherlock Holmes" Bombed at the Box Office! NEXT FILM: Hackers (1995)   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! AJ: @AJMass Mike: @AMikeBloomType   Intro/Outro Music: "Traveling Man" courtesy of Purple Planet music (http://purple-planet.com)