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Better in the Dark

Summary: Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

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 Episode 110. Director's Court: The Case of Mel Brooks | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:59

After a long hiatus, court is back in session, and The Guys Outta Brooklyn put the man who singlehandedly created the modern movie spoof in the docket. Join Tom and Derrick as they explore their conflicted feelings about this great, great man. A man whose early work is as groundbreaking and amazing as his later work is sad and unpleasant, and how Mel Brooks' sense of humor remains timeless when many of the people who followed in his footsteps date within minutes of their films' release. And if that's not enough, tremble as your hosts go on a rampage against the DCnU reboot, and the state of comics in general! You know it's a French Mistake, so get to clicking!

 Episode 110. Director's Court: The Case of Mel Brooks | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

 Episode 109. Hail to the Chin! A Bruce Campbell Celebration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:20:23

The Summer of Great, Great Men begins here! Join Tom and Derrick as they spend the next three months celebrating some of the great, great men they admire, starting with a freewheeling discussion about a man like no other (and a man who shares the same birthday as Tom... look, it was either Bruce or Uwe Boell, so shut up!), the Chin himself! The Guys Outta Brooklyn discuss Bruce Campbell's entire career, dissecting all of his hits on the big and small screens, and try to explain why Campbell deserves to be revered as a true genre movie icon. Plus Tom and Derrick discuss their recent travels to such places as Pulp Ark and Larry Fine's Birthplace, somehow end up in a digression where they sing the praises of Doctor Who's Rory, and manage to sing from memory the theme song for Jack of All Trades! It's groovy, baby, so get to clicking!

 Episode 109. Hail to the Chin! A Bruce Campbell Celebration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

 Episode 108. Spanish Leather and American Blood: The Mytic West of Sergio Leone | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

 Episode 108. Spanish Leather and American Blood: The Mytic West of Sergio Leone | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:04:36

The Guys Outta Brooklyn continue to celebrate great, great men in 2011 by turning their sights on an Italian director who wanted to express his frustration with the American Western, and ended up revolutionizing cinema worldwide! Join Tom and Derrick as they discuss the all-too-small body of work of Sergio Leone, from The Dollars Trilogy to his handful of uncredited turns behind the typewriter and camera to his grand crime epic Once Upon a Time in America. The guys also spend some time discussing the other great filmmaker of the modern Western: Sam Peckinpah. They also talk about how Leone taking a chance on the television actor Clint Eastwood was integral to his success, and answer listener mail about anime and whether certain superheroes are inherently ludicrous. You can make fun of our mule... or you can get to clicking!

 Episode 107. Bad Equinox Equilibrium Effects of Special Gymkata Horror | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:41:26

It's that time of the year again, when Tom and Derrick sit down and come up with a six pack of films that, for one reason or another, are obscure and tell you about them! This year The Guys Outta Brooklyn cover two films featuring unique martial arts, a dialog-less vision of Lynchian proportions, a bromantic thriller, a stop-motion nightmare full of flood pants, and a film Oliver Stone doesn't think you'll see. All this, plus the silliest martial arts weapon in the history of chopsocky cimema, a park ranger you have to avoid, and how being banned from New York City didn't stop Larry Cohen. You don't want to ban emotions, so get to clicking!

 Episode 107. Bad Equinox Equilibrium Effects of Special Gymkata Horror | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

 Episode 106. Black and White in Shade of Grey: The Career of John Frankenheimer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:30

In one of their earliest episodes, Tom and Derrick promised they were going to do an episode about one of their favorite directors. And now, five years later, an hour-long celebration of the man behind "The Paranoia Trilogy" is here! The Guys Outta Brooklyn talk about why they love John Frankenheimer, discuss their favorite films from his career (and their least favorite), and recommend the films you need to see to begin your Frankenheimer education. Plus the return of The Bagel in the Briefcase! You don't want to play a game of solitaire, so get to clicking!

 Episode 106. Black and White in Shade of Grey: The Career of John Frankenheimer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

 Episode 105. Tom and Derrick Versus the Alien-Fighting Marines, the Smart Drug, the Eight-Minute Alternate Timeline, Natalie Portman's Bow, the Douche with the Gas Gun, and the Dissociative Stripper... or Is She a Ballerina? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:17:52

After a brief hiatus, The Boys Outta Brooklyn are back with a massive review episode! Tom and Derrick cover eight films, including the final word on The Green Hornet, Limitless, Frankie and Alice, Unknown, and The Life of Death (our first screener). Plus listener mail, why Kevin Smith needs to buck up, we pay our respects to Liz Taylor and Sidney Lumet, Derrick rethinks his "no Natalie Portman" rule, and a revival of the most divisive argument from the Gilt-Edged Bonds series. You know it's going to be funny ha-ha as opposed to funny weird, so get to clicking!

 Episode 105. Tom and Derrick Versus the Alien-Fighting Marines, the Smart Drug, the Eight-Minute Alternate Timeline, Natalie Portman's Bow, the Douche with the Gas Gun, and the Dissociative Stripper... or Is She a Ballerina? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

 Episode 104. Rivals of Bond: Dr. Goldfoot and Diabolik | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:28:48

The Boys Outta Brooklyn return to their survey of the people who tried to give 007 a run for his money with not one, but two spy series connected by the participation of a great, great man: Mr. Mario Bava. First they'll examine a pair of films featuring a peculiar, robot-making mad scientist played by Vincent Price as he menaces a pair of former teen idols. Then Tom and Derrick will talk about the wild adaptation of a French comic book featuring John Philip Law's eyebrows and what may very well be the single hottest woman in the history of cinema. Plus, the Boys read listener mail, try to figure out why evil masterminds always want Australia when they outsource, and how we would change the Super Bowl halftime show! It'll explode with a kiss, so get to clicking!

 Episode 104. Rivals of Bond: Dr. Goldfoot and Diabolik | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Better in the Dark is a podcast hosted by Thomas Deja and Derrick Ferguson. Every two weeks, Better in the Dark provides commentary, opinon, and the occasional rant on film and pop culture. So sit back and listen, as two guys outta Brooklyn, tell you why things are always better in the dark.

 Episode 103. BITD Autopsy on... The Human Target | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:35:17

Last year The Human Target was the favorite new show of The Boys Outta Brooklyn, now they can hardy stand to look at it. So, to usher in their new segment, Tom and Derrick go in depth to dissect and discuss the Mark Valley "hour-long action movie every week," and try to figure out what went wrong. Join them as they reveal how a new show runner took everything unique and good about the adventures of Christopher Chance, Winston, and Guerro and turned it into just another generic TV show. Plus, Charlie Sheen inspires a talk about the state of the American sitcom, why the world would be a better place with more Nicole Sullivan in it, and the guys play fantasy booker and plot out what they'd do if they were the show runners for Season Three. You don't wanna know, dude, so get to clicking!

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