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One of the most subversive films of the last twenty years, Starship Troopers tells the story of Robert Heinlein's controversial sci-fi novel.

We're looking at Woody Allen's Love & Death from 1975. It's a mix of The Marx Brothers and Fyodor Dostoevsky. We're joined by special guest co-host Keith Gordon.

More of our interview with Keith Gordon about the current state of Hollywood, his project with Christopher Nolan, and his upcoming work on Dexter.

We return to Argento-land with this fan favorite, Deep Red. We're joined by Badasses, Boobs, and Bodycounts podcast host Mike Murphy and feature interviews with Goblin's Claudio Simonetti, professor Elena Past, and film critic Maitland McDonaugh.

Michael Powell's landmark serial killer film, Peeping Tom, is an exercise in terror and voyeurism. Rob and Mike talk about scopophilia, the role of the viewer in cinema, and "the children of Mark Lewis."

We start off 2013 right with a discussion of Nick Castle's The Last Starfighter, in which a young man conquers a video game only to find him recruited into an interstellar war.

The year wraps up with Eyes Wide Shut, the final film from director Stanley Kubrick. We're joined this week by Lex of Love & Sex with Lex as we talk about this tale of frustration and deception.

One of the most unusual Westerns ever made, Django Kill! is a gothic horror film cum surrealist shoot 'em up. We're joined this week by Kevin Grant, author of Any Gun Can Play: The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns.

Alan Arkin stars as Simon, a blowhard scientist who gets recruited by a brain trust that secretly runs the world. They convince him that he's an alien in order to see how the world will react.

Four friends visit their professor friend in the remote woods. The professor has used an ancient book to unleash a terrible evil that will torment the two couples. The Evil Dead? No, Equinox -- a low-budget precursor to Sam Raimi's hnoxorror classic.

Mothra, one of a long line of kaiju (giant monster) films from Japan. This one deals with nuclear testing, religion, primitive cultures, and a big friggin' moth.

Say, do you love Satan? Ricky Kasso did. Writer/director Peter Filardi based Ricky 6 on the Kasso case. We're joined this week by Arkham Film Society's Josh Gravel as we talk about "satanic panic," backward masking, and the finer points of devil worshiping.

Edouard Saroyan plays piano in a rinky dink honky tonk in Paris when he used to tickle the ivories in the best concert halls. We see his fall from grace and into the icy hands of fate in this adaptation of David Goodis's Down There by François Truffaut.

Shuji Terayama's Pastoral - To Die In Country / Den-en ni shisu is the eclectic filmmaker's second feature film. It's the story of a filmmaker telling the tale of his young life and revising it on the fly in a highly stylized, artful work that should not be missed.

Celebrate your freedom with this episode on Robert Altman's Secret Honor -- a film made in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Secret Honor is a one-man film starring Philip Baker Hall as Richard Nixon. Don't forget to vote!