The Movie Loft Podcast

Tony, Phil, Thom
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The Movie Loft Podcast features three Boston boys, Tony, Phil and Thom, in an old barn loft talking about '80s movies and memories. The name and premise is also a nod to a titular Boston institution, The Movie Loft, featuring Dana Hersey, which ran on WSBK TV-38 throughout our formative years. This project started as an excuse to capture our conversations for posterity. Highlighting a different movie in each episode, we revisit some long forgotten memories, and in the process weave together a documentary of our salad days. The point of this show is not to walk anyone through a movie scene by scene - we’re well aware you’ve been watching these flicks for decades. The aim is to discuss our deep appreciation for what it took to get each picture made, where we were when we experienced them, and how they’re a part of the zeitgeist of their times. Sure, we have some opinions, maybe even a few “hot takes”, but we’re really just here for your entertainment. Hopefully you’ll finish each episode feeling like you had a seat at our table.

  1. JAN 21

    The Malden Chronicles — Death Wish

    Send us a text Another brotherly tale of 28 and 36 Spring Street lore. Go ahead and google map it for reference. Maybe you can even follow the foot chase a little.

    7 min

  2. JAN 9

    Beat Street Breakdown

    Send us a text This is a minisode on one of my favorite films. One that feels so real for my age and station at the time that I feel like I could walk right into it. Just deserved a revisit. Hope it doesn't put you to sleep.

    19 min

  3. 12/17/2025

    Home Alone 1990

    Send us a text A John Hughes/Chris Columbus joint, Home Alone is the heartwarming tale of an upper-middle-class family who go to Paris and accidentally leave their youngest child behind like an extra carry-on they didn’t feel like paying for. Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister—played by a pint-sized, eyebrow-acting Macaulay Culkin—responds to this minor hiccup by eating junk food, watching gangster movies, and turning his house into a suburban Saw trap for two burglars whose crime is mostly being too stupid to quit. Those burglars are Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, delivering what may be cinema’s most sustained assault on human skulls outside of a cartoon. In a way, Home Alone is basically It’s a Wonderful Life if George Bailey wished everyone away and immediately started committing war crimes against local criminals. While Catherine O’Hara panics her way across continents and John Heard quietly realizes he’s a terrible father, Kevin learns that family matters… but also that you can permanently disable two grown men with household items. It’s Christmas magic, but with more concussions and far fewer angels getting their wings.

    1h 22m

  4. 11/30/2025

    The Malden Chronicles — Robbin' Hood Trees Remix

    Send us a text 'Twas the week before Christmas, when all through our house Not a creature was stirring, not even that big mouth Our stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that the MPD would stay in the Square The renters were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of alchy bums danced in their heads And mummy in her Star Market smock and I in my head spin hat Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter Away to the window I flew like a flash Tore through the plastic and threw up the sash The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave a lustre of midday to objects below When what to my wondering eyes did I see But a rented U-haul and my brotherly thieves With their friend Paul as the driver so lively and drunk I knew in a moment this was more than a funk More rapid than eagles these coursers they came And one whistled, and shouted, and gave them all aim  To the top of the porch and to the back driveway wall Now stash away! Stash away! Stash away all! As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly If police should appear, they'll slip away sly So up to the back of the house the coursers they flew With a truck full of trees, and all those wreaths too And then, in a twinkling, I heard all the proof The prancing and pawing of each Chippewa boot As I drew in my head, and was turning around Down Spring Street came the throngs with a bound They weren't dressed in furs, but heard something afoot And their money was crisp as in our hands it was put Departing with a bundle of pine they had flung on their back Bought from the neighborhood peddlers open round back Their eyes—how they twinkled! Their dimples, how merry! Their cheeks were like roses, their noses like a cherry! Their droll little mouths drawn up like a bow While bolt cutters and work gloves lay muddied in snow Held was the stump of a lead pipe tight in his hands To make them believe the trees were shorn from our own Robbin' Hood land Some even sold by a broad with a slim little face Our mother the matriarch known to put all in their place The chubby and plump, the blind and the deaf And we'd chuckle when at our back door she'd offer a right or a left As occasionally with a wink of an eye and a tilt of a head Some renters were left on sidewalks thought to be dead Jamie spoke not a word, but went straight to his work Knocking out redwood Big Bob; without even a smirk Now back to the telling of our story at hand, the one of the boys selling trees minus the brand  Rarely giving a wave, from the peak of back porch stairs Knowing the close shave averted from one of their dares He reached for his pocket, to his team he gave a bundle Knowing those fine trees were now homed with the humble Then I heard him exclaim, ere he walked out of sight— “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good fight!”

    13 min

  5. 11/23/2025

    Planes, Trains and Automobiles 1987

    Send us a text It’s Thanksgiving, and we're carving up some Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and it’s not just as a holiday classic, but as a masterclass in comedic discomfort delivered by two legends at the peak of their powers: Steve Martin and John Candy. Martin is a symphony of simmering fury. A brilliant performance of the slow-motion dissolution of a WASP executive’s sanity. Meanwhile, Candy's a bulldozing force of good-natured, oblivious optimism. Martin’s precise, explosive rants are only possible because of Candy’s seismic, childlike sincerity. Elevating what could have been a simple road trip comedy into a biting, yet ultimately heartwarming, testament to the fact that even the most insufferable human beings deserve a little mercy... but only after they’ve endured absolute hell.

    1h 32m

  6. 11/12/2025

    The Monster Squad 1987

    Send us a text The Monster Squad (1987) is what happens when a bunch of middle school monster nerds decide to take on Dracula, the Wolfman, and the rest of Universal’s greatest hits — armed mostly with sarcasm, bike helmets, and the power of friendship. The film was unfairly dismissed when it came out, possibly because audiences weren’t ready for a movie where a kid yells, “Wolfman’s got nards!” and somehow, it becomes cinematic poetry. Over the years, The Monster Squad has crawled out of its coffin and earned its cult status — a true hidden gem for anyone who loves practical effects, 80s charm, and kids who apparently skipped all adult supervision. It’s equal parts monster mash and love letter to classic horror, proving that sometimes the movies we ignored at the box office are the ones that stick around in our undead hearts forever.

    1h 33m

  7. 10/31/2025

    The Malden Chronicles — The Hook

    Send us a text Another pull from one of The Malden Chronicles episodes that's worth a revisit.

    9 min

  8. 10/21/2025

    Jacobs Ladder 1990

    Send us a text Jacob’s Ladder is part psychological horror, part spiritual breakdown, and all sweaty paranoia. Tim Robbins nails it as a Vietnam vet whose post-war life turns into a fever dream of demons, flashbacks, and truly bad subway etiquette.  It's the kind of movie that makes you question reality, mortality, and why anyone would trust a chiropractor named Louis with existential advice.  Come for the psychological trauma, stay because you can’t tell what’s real anymore.

    1h 1m
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The Movie Loft Podcast features three Boston boys, Tony, Phil and Thom, in an old barn loft talking about '80s movies and memories. The name and premise is also a nod to a titular Boston institution, The Movie Loft, featuring Dana Hersey, which ran on WSBK TV-38 throughout our formative years. This project started as an excuse to capture our conversations for posterity. Highlighting a different movie in each episode, we revisit some long forgotten memories, and in the process weave together a documentary of our salad days. The point of this show is not to walk anyone through a movie scene by scene - we’re well aware you’ve been watching these flicks for decades. The aim is to discuss our deep appreciation for what it took to get each picture made, where we were when we experienced them, and how they’re a part of the zeitgeist of their times. Sure, we have some opinions, maybe even a few “hot takes”, but we’re really just here for your entertainment. Hopefully you’ll finish each episode feeling like you had a seat at our table.

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  • Creator
    Tony, Phil, Thom
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    106
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Movie Loft Podcast
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