Is it a dream? Is it about a dream? Is it a TV pilot? Is it the greatest film of the 21st century? In any case, Leslye Headland returns to the podcast to talk about David Lynch’s endlessly fascinating 2001 masterpiece MULHOLLAND DR. We ...
2024-11-17 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🍔🍔🍔📰📰📰In 2022 we visited a seemingly forgotten place. A place that had been left to fend for itself for 4 long years. A place that only those with special knowledge could find their way to. A place known only as Burgerlopolis. No...
2024-11-11 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We apologize in advance if you had a profound emotional experience with the new Robert Zemeckis joint - HERE felt like more of a “Here?? What???? Why?” to us. Dinosaurs, Benjamin Franklin’s cuck son, a man dying from laughter, a horny couple...
2024-11-10 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Walt Disney Pictures Presents A Film By David Lynch. And what a beautiful, expectation-defying, G-rated, cold-glass-of-beer film it is. Dana Stevens joins us to talk about 1999’s The Straight Story, a film that showcases Lynch’s fascination wi...
2024-11-03 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
✝️🌟 BLA-ANK CHECK 🎶 SPECIAL FEATURES 🎶 WATCH A-LONG, AS WE WATCH A-L-DUB 🎶 (To the tune of the chorus of Jesus Christ Superstar, you know how it goes) 🌟✝️
We’re kicking off our Sir Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber stage-to-s...
2024-11-01 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
1997’s Lost Highway - is it (as David Sims wrote on Letterboxd), “a movie about headache”? Is it David Lynch’s most visually beautiful film? Is it a dry run for Mulholland Dr? A radical reimagining of Bill Pullman’s screen presence? A ps...
2024-10-27 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🎲🏰🐉 To wrap up our Tabletop Games series, we are discussing the Blank-Check-beloved 2023 film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 🎲🏰🐉
Topics include: Pining for Pine, the saga of eOne, Gummy-Griff, David baby scoldi...
2024-10-21 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
What if they made a sequel to the Joker movie that was pretty much the finale of Seinfeld but it’s also a half-assed jukebox musical, and EVERYONE hated it? What if Michael Keaton had a 35-year-old pregnant daughter, but he also had precocious 9...
2024-10-20 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the more harrowing films we’ve covered on the podcast (and the second film we’ve covered in 2024 with a memorable “gobble gobble” line), 1992’s TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME was not the quirky, enjoyable plotline wrap-up fans of T...
2024-10-13 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s Been…… One Month?? (In Twin Peaks)!!! For our Lynch bonus ep Griffin, David, Ben and Twin Peaks Expert Connor Ratliff discuss Twin Peaks Season 2 in its entirety.
Topics include: Season 2 Comps, Lots of Lost discu...
2024-10-11 04:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
If we told you this was the first time we’d covered a Nicolas Cage movie on the podcast - would you believe us? Well, baby - it’s true. And what a movie it is! The luminous Tatiana Maslany returns to talk about David Lynch’s smokin’ hot ou...
2024-10-06 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🕯️🕯️🕯️ Unsuccessful in using the Ouija board to contact Stiles White and figure out what he was doing with Ouija, BC:SF tap into the board’s powers once mo...
2024-10-01 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
For a brief shining moment, Middle America went crazy for the surreal soap opera stylings of David Lynch and Mark Frost. We’re talking ABC, primetime, airing against “Cheers”-level mainstream. And then it all came crashing down. Listen as we...
2024-09-29 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Lend us your (severed) ears! This week, we’re jumping back into our Lynch series with a trip to Lumberton, USA, as our beloved Jamie Loftus joins us to chat about 1986’s BLUE VELVET. We’re going deep on the star persona of Kyle MacLachlan, D...
2024-09-22 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🕯️🕯️🕯️ BC:SF attempts to contact the other side, or at least the ghost of Stiles White’s directorial career as we discuss 2014’s Ouija. 2024-09-21 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re taking a break from David Lynch to answer one of the year’s biggest questions - Is Burton Back, Baby? Ummmm…kind of! Grab your “Handbook for the Recently Deceased” commemorative popcorn tin and join us as we attempt to untangle the...
2024-09-15 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For our September bonus ep we are discussing the short films of David Lynch. And then Beavis and Buttheads return!! Get ready because we have a selection of David Lynch-directed music videos for your enjoyment! TP for my bunghole?! more like Twin ...
2024-09-11 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The sleeper must awaken. The filmography must contain a flop. We’ve arrived at the Planet Arrakis aka the Desert Planet aka DUNE (1984) - David Lynch’s attempt at wrangling Frank Herbert’s space epic into a single studio blockbuster. Did it ...
2024-09-08 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🛳🚢🛥 ⛴🛳 Man your battle stations as BC:SF boards the USS Hosley and attempt to make it through Peter Berg’s 2012 film Battleship 🛳🚢🛥 ⛴🛳
Topics include: Title drop timing, “The Rihanna S...
2024-09-01 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re getting in touch with our emotions this week, as Alex Ross Perry joins us to talk about Lynch’s deeply-felt, sensitively-rendered 1980 classic THE ELEPHANT MAN. Is this the most “normal” movie in Lynch’s filmography? What does “n...
2024-09-01 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In heaven (and in podcasting), everything is fine. Welcome to TWIN PODS: FIRE CAST WITH ME, a series on the films of David Lynch - former Eagle Scout and totally normal human man. With his 1977 debut feature ERASERHEAD, Lynch burst on to the scene...
2024-08-25 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🎲🏰🐉 This is your Dungeon Master speaking! BC: SF rolls for initiative to see if they have what it takes to make it through 2000s Dungeons & Dragons: “The best movie we’ve ever covered” 🎲🏰🐉
Topics include: T...
2024-08-21 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Welp, our Kevin Costner series ends not with a bang, but a whimper. With the pulling of Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 from theaters, we are left to only speculate what the future holds for Costner’s self-funded crazy passion project. Wha...
2024-08-18 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s time to get WET!!! For our Costner bonus ep Griffin, David, Ben and Comedian Joe Kwaczala discuss “The most famous expensive move ever made”, “Fishtar”, “Kevin’s Gate”….. 1995’s Westwo….shit…..Waterworld.
T...
2024-08-11 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
You know the Butcher? That freakin' nutjob that goes around just chopping people up? Well, we’re about to spend nearly three hours talking about him! Join us as we unpack TRAP - the devilishly entertaining new thriller from M. Night Shyamalan, w...
2024-08-11 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Free-grazers and CR-heads - this is your week. The icon, the legend, the Ringer’s own Chris Ryan joins us to talk about Kevin Costner’s understated 2003 western OPEN RANGE. We’re finally doing a deep-dive on the Taylor Sheridan empire (aka C...
2024-08-04 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
?🟣?⚪️?🟢?🔵?🔴?🟡? I’t s a BC:SF Whodunit? And Whattheydunit With??? And a Friggin’ Murder Mystery. Try and figure it out with us a we kick off our Tabletop Game commentary series with 1985’s Clue ?🟣?⚪️?🟢?🔵?🔴?...
2024-08-01 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This week’s movie has everything - fake teeth on Giovanni Ribisi, a mule performing Shakespeare, Tom Petty, Kevin Costner’s irresistible sperm…you read that correctly. This film has a major plot line that revolves around Kevin Costner’s sp...
2024-07-28 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🐢🍕We have reached the end of our Turtle Trip as we discuss 2023’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 🐢 🍕
Topics include: pillow purchases, multiple homages to Out of the Shadows, when should...
2024-07-21 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In a first for Blank Check, we’re covering a filmmaker who has acted alongside our own Griffin Newman! In our premiere episode covering the directorial career of Draft Day co-star Kevin Costner, we’re unpacking his 1990 Best Picture winner, DA...
2024-07-21 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post