Old v. Gold

Hidden Deadly

The podcast that holds your fond childhood memories up to the harsh light of today.

  1. 03/24/2015

    Old v. Gold 222: The Empire Strikes Back

    Season finale and conclusion of our 2-part Star Wars smackdown video spectacular! We move on to 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back" as H.P. Mendoza and Mark Del Lima rejoin us for our second tour of the Star Wars universe, which ends, as many family vacations do, with a really awkward father-son moment. After our usual vote, we then take on the question: which is the better film, "Star Wars" or "Empire"?

  2. 03/17/2015

    Old v. Gold 221: Star Wars

    Part 1 of our 2-part Old v. Gold Season 2 finale spectacular takes on a movie that's as old and yet as omnipresent as The Force: "Star Wars." This edition of the podcast comes in two flavors: the usual audio and our first video version. Returning podcast panelists H.P. Mendoza and Mark Del Lima of Ersatz Film join us as we try to look past all the tinkering that's been done since the movie 1977 release to see if there's really a good film underneath our voracious nostalgic appetite for this sci-fi landmark. The audio version of the podcast extends the discussion to include the lovability of stormtroopers, more on the film's avoidance of emotion, and, as required, a reference to the dreaded Holiday Special. Next week, the second contender in our Star Wars smackdown: "The Empire Strikes Back."

  3. 03/03/2015

    Old v. Gold 220: Alien

    We hide behind our space couches and revisit the horror of 1979's "Alien," the (only) Ridley Scott movie about space predators (worth talking about). Tom Skerritt, the white male captain and thus surely ultimate survivor, leads a small crew of industrial tow-jockeys against a clingy, gooey menace. Also Sigourney Weaver is there.

  4. 02/24/2015

    Old v. Gold 219: Contact

    In Robert Zemeckis' 1997 film "Contact," a child raised in a single-tragedy household grows up to be Jodie Foster and a scientist listening for signals from extraterrestrials, which are tough to hear over all the mansplaining directed at her. Last year's "Interstellar" reminded us of this movie in a lot of ways, good and bad, and not just in both films' McConaugheyness.

  5. 02/17/2015

    Old v. Gold 218: Earth Girls Are Easy

    This week, we hit the 1988 quasi-musical "Earth Girls Are Easy," starring the Blum! And also Geena Davis, and pre-"In Living Color" Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. Watch music-video director Julien Temple pretty much hijack a few great and funny Julie Brown songs and turn them into a collection of carefully composed shots that might possibly be considered a movie.

  6. 02/10/2015

    Old v. Gold: Babylon 5, Season 1

    The year is 1994. A new science-fiction series with groundbreaking computer graphics and not much budget at all debuts in syndication. It carries a secret, revolutionary agenda of long-form serialization. It also carries some dubious acting and set design. The name of the show is "Babylon 5."

  7. 02/03/2015

    Old v. Gold 216: Poltergeist

    Out of the TV static left when 1982 signed off comes Steven Speilberg's-- um, Tobe Hooper's "Poltergeist," which among its many frights and delights also raises a killer tree of unanswered questions: What is the light and do we run toward it or away from it? What's up with the daughter's secret sex life? Who the hell dyes their hair while bathing? Did the movie really expect us to buy that Zelda Rubenstein's spiritual-guide character was named "Tangina"? And come on, who really directed this?

  8. 01/27/2015

    Old v. Gold 215: Akira

    The 1988 Japanese animation classic "Akira" blows up our screen - and, of course, Tokyo - bringing us, yes, plenty of yelling, but also plenty of action, cinematic vision, trippy cosmic plot developments, reflections of the state of mind of an entire damaged nation, and a surprising but welcome lack of sailor-skirted little girls.

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The podcast that holds your fond childhood memories up to the harsh light of today.

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  • Creator
    Hidden Deadly
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2015
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Hidden Deadly 2013
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