Episode 86: Drinking & Drive-ins - Mad Dog Time

Madcap Mobsters!

This week, Faults in the Vaults pauses to bring you another installment of Drinking & Drive-ins - the segment where we kick back and revel in some of the very best cinematic exploitations from the heyday of the local drive-in to the birth of the multiplex and beyond. .. So settle in, grab a drink and enjoy Larry Bishop's star-studded and surrealistic mobster mess, Mad Dog Time (1996)!

Josh goes Digging Up The Docs and sings the praise of Alex Gibney's latest TV docu-series, Dirty Money (2018), about greed and corruption throughout the economy.

Mitch takes us to contemporary Hong Kong China to check out Wong Kar Wai's stylish cinematic feast that is Fallen Angels (1995) in this week's Where in the World Cinema?

Also in this episode, Atlanta trips and other Parks doc news, Virtual Reality hangouts, and more!

Soapbox B-Roll #8: Road Worn and Weary

#ParksDoc

We again bring you another installment of Soapbox B-Roll as we find ourselves on the road to Texas!

B-Roll is an audio bridge of sorts between full episodes of Soapbox Office, featuring extra or expanded discussion left out of prior episodes in addition to brand new unedited conversation covering a wider range of topics and general day to day operations...

On this week's episode, we chronicle the journey from Los Angeles, CA to Austin, TX with weary tales of travel including broken teeth, broken windshields, and broken spirits. We also unofficially debut the official first installment of our newest segment --- Leader Ladies by talking to producer, travel companion and hardest working woman in show business, Olivia Roush!

As a special surprise, this episode is available in Soapbox-O-Vision! Watch three people get irate at one another after living in such close proximity for a week on the road!!!

Episode 73: Drinking & Drive-ins - Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper Tribute!

This week, Faults in the Vaults pauses to bring you another installment of Drinking & Drive-ins - the segment where we kick back and revel in some of the very best cinematic exploitations from the heyday of the local drive-in to the birth of the multiplex and beyond.

This time, we pay tribute to the passing of another icon of genre cinema, the great Tobe Hooper, director of such classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, Salem's Lot, and Poltergeist! Kick back with one of our customized cinema cocktails and listen as we take a look back at his epic Sci-Fi/Horror space oddity, Lifeforce (1985)...

Josh goes Digging Up The Docs to introduce the initiated to the world of theatrical music composition with Matt Schrader's Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016).

The Soapbox Rant takes issue with the erasure of established sequel continuity in film franchises.

Also in this episode, Josh takes ill while Mitch takes issue with David Lynch and Christopher Nolan, Kingsman reviews, and plenty of love for Scream Factory!

Episode 57: Drinking and Drive-In's- The Happening

Michael Parks Tribute

This week we sideline Faults in the Vaults in order to celebrate, praise, and pay tribute to one if the greatest actors to ever grace the planet, Mr. Michael Parks. Last Wednesday we lost Michael and Mitch and I were lucky enough to work with the man on several projects.

In Drinking and Drive-In's, we cover one of the rare, over-the-top comedic roles that Parks ever took, the 1967 screwball comedy The Happening. Part old Hollywood, part new, this oddly touching movie is one of the rare examples of the changing of the guard that took place in late 60's cinema. If you're having trouble finding a copy of the film, look no further than this link.

Also in the episode we have the unique privilege of interviewing his son James Parks, a man who is an amazing actor in his own right and can currently be seen in AMC's The Son. We talk Parks' family history, inspirations, and James performs the Dylan Thomas poem that Michael made him memorize before he would sign off on his joining the acting world, "In My Craft or Sullen Art". Thanks for coming on sir.

In Slippin' Through the Tracks, we spotlight Long Lonesome Highway, the kinda-sorta soundtrack (and brilliant album) to the amazing 1969 show, Then Came Bronson. In Diggin' up the Doc's, we cover the Parks documentary that never was (but might still be) also titled, Long Lonesome Highway. For those interested in seeing the pitch-video we cover in the episode, here is the video.

Episode 44: The Aviator If You Can

DiCaprio Showdown: Scorsese v. Spielberg!

This week, Faults in the Vaults pits a pair of (mostly) true tales from two of the greatest storytelling Masters of our time: Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, both of which star Leonardo DiCaprio! The flights are grounded for 2004's The Aviator, in order to chase after 2002's Catch Me If You Can.

Another exciting chapter of Grecian competition presents itself from within The Mailbag. Josh goes Digging Up The Docs to spotlight the spoils and perils of counterfeit wine with Reuben Atlas and Jerry Rothwell's Sour Grapes (2016).

Mitch takes a turn Slipping Through The Tracks to showcase the unconventional and vastly underappreciated score to Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), composed by the universally beloved master, John Williams!

Also in this episode, Mitch and Josh take a trip to the Arclight, mourn the circus, and get silly for the folks at Raleigh Soapery!

Episode 38: Drinking & Drive-ins- ThanksKilling

ThanksKilling!

Faults in the Vaults again gets side-lined as we journey once more to the year 2008 to bring you yet another pairing of devilishly delectable cocktails and one very strange movie about a murder-happy turkey! We're talking of course about the one and only, Thankskilling!

A dig into The Mailbag proves to us that we need to start checking our Facebook messages! Also in this episode, Josh apologizes for doing something unspeakable to Mitch's mother, and we talk of the pure beauty that are purposefully made, bad movies. This week's Diggin' Up the Doc's is about the wonderful Martin Scorsese documentary The Last Waltz and Mitch sings a little bit of The Band.

In the bottom of the show, the boys try their bloody hand at making ThanksKilling movie-themed drinks! Mitch chooses to invoke the powers of the gin infused drink The Dead Turkey while Josh chooses a play on the classic Bloody Mary titled, Gobble, Gobble Bloody Fu*ker!


Meanwhile, in our Soap-Bit, we address the weird sexuality of turkey's and all about what we're truly the most thankful for, our sponsor Raleigh Soapery!

So join us as we take a look at the fourth edition of Drinking and Drive In's!

Episode 28: District Mine

SCI-FI ODD COUPLES!

This week, Faults in the Vaults goes from the slums of Joburg, to the far reaches of space as we take a look at science fiction films depicting alien races at odds. We're handing an eviction notice to Neill Blomkamp's District 9 (2009) in order to stage a rescue for Wolfgang Petersen's Enemy Mine (1985).

The guys forgo The Mailbag in order to highlight some of their best 5-star reviews while The Soapbox Rant this week takes aim at the flagrant misuse of Auteur Theory.

Mitch goes Diggin' Up the Docs to highlight that truth is stranger than fiction with the riveting tale of a French con artist who gets himself entangled in a missing person's case in Texas in Bart Layton's The Imposter (2012).

Josh goes Slipping Through the Tracks to remind listeners about just how great the soundtrack to 1972's The Harder They Come is, featuring tracks by Jimmy Cliff and Desmond Dekker!

Also, don't forget, we're running our Batman v Superman: Dawn of Brooding contest until 9/19/16!

Episode 21: Mannhunter

Michael Mann Magnificence!

This week's Faults in the Vaults takes a look at a pairing of crime thrillers from the prolific oeuvre of the director. Specifically, we're sticking to the discipline and walking out the door on 1995's Heat in order to pick up the old scent of 1986's Manhunter!

Mitch emerges from the depths of The Mailbag with a question about films that make you cry. In Diggin' Up The Docs, Josh forays into the world of the Beat movement with Chuck Workman's The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999).

The Soapbox Rant stokes the fires as the guys make time to take down generational coveting. Mitch takes a turn Slipping Through the Tracks and chooses to champion composer Elliot Goldenthal's genre-bending score to Julie Taymor's Shakespeare adaptation, Titus (1999).

And in Total Recast, Mitch & Josh wax hypothetical and ponder some cinematic casting scenarios that could have been. This time, Mitch imagines a Pacino-less Heat, while Josh finds himself a different Midnight Cowboy!!!

Episode 20: Independence Day Arrival

Alien Invasions Abound!

The boys are uploading a virus to Roland Emmerich's Independence Day in order to boost the signal for David Twohy's alien conspiracy sleeper, The Arrival. That's right, this week we're talking the year the aliens invaded earth, 1996, in Faults in the Vaults.

In Diggin' Up The Docs, Josh and Mitch gush about a mutual love of the band The Descendents in the form of 2013's documentary Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All.

The Soapbox Rant gets the guys riled up as they take the offensive against internet spoilers while Josh takes a turn Slipping Through the Tracks and draws attention to the punk rock/bluegrass sounds of Mark Lanegan with the Lawless soundtrack (2012) .

And in Total Recast, Mitch & Josh wax hypothetical and pick their cinematic Presidents to lead the nation against imminent alien invasion!

Episode 17: The Fugitive Mosquito Coast

Harrison Ford Films!

Faults in the Vaults with a Harrison Ford double bill. We're setting up roadblocks and bringing in the U.S. Marshals to take down Andrew Davis' big screen adaptation of The Fugitive (1993), then we're packing up and heading South to raise up Peter Weir's adventure drama, The Mosquito Coast (1986).

Mitch cracks open The Mailbag to respond to an intriguing business proposal. Josh once again delivers a Digging Up The Docs, to present Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, the feature length documentary adaptation about the rise of The New Hollywood, from the bestselling book by Peter Biskind.

In The Soapbox Rant, the guys shoot down the negative reactions toward the age old tradition that is -- the Hollywood remake. For Slipping Through the Tracks, Mitch rises to the occasion and submits an under-praised score by Ashe & Spencer from the little seen supernatural-tinged drama, Stay (2005).

Finally, in Total Recast, the guys give Harrison Ford a chance to showcase his acting range as they are tasked with inserting him into classic dramatic films in order to ponder some What If... casting alternatives that could have rewritten cinema history!

Music by Cam Mosavian

Episode 16: Drinking & Drive-In's- A Bucket of Blood

Buckets of Blood Abound!

Drinking & Drive-In's returns once again and this time it's bringing with it a pairing of delectable cocktails and one very entertaining and under-praised black comedy from the King of Exploitation himself, Roger Corman. We're filling up A Bucket of Blood from 1959, starring the great Dick Miller!

The Mailbag is emptied again as the guys cull through listener mail and afterward, Josh & Mitch shake a finger at the act of hater shaming for The Soapbox Rant. The new segment, Diggin' Through The Doc's is unveiled! Each week we're going to highlight a lesser known documentary. This week's was Trumbo suggested to us by our friend Andrew Heaberlin!

Drink Recipes

Once again, it's Josh's turn on Slipping Through the Tracks, and for it he showcases Tom Waits' soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth. In this week's Total Recast, the guys take noted "That Guy" Dick Miller and ponder some What If... casting alternatives that could have rewritten cinematic history!