Craft Disservices

This week, impressive computer magic can do anything as we hit the slopes (and the streets) to save the reputation of Superman III!Writer and podcaster Joe Mazel joins the show to talk about the probably not as bad as you remember third installment in the Christopher Reeve Superman franchise. With Lois out of town and things quiet in Metropolis, Clark Kent takes an opportunity to r

This Halloween, Craft Disservices rises from the dead for a discussion about an early comic book film so underrated it's scary: 2005's "Constantine"!Film critic and author Darren Mooney of the Escapist joins the show to talk about the only recently remembered film adaptation of the classic Vertigo comic "Hellblazer". Post-"Matrix" Keanu Reeves stars as the blue-collar warlock Const

Come for the Disney name, stay for the treachery, death by misadventure, and rampant tobacco use . . . we're battening the hatches and diving to "Atlantis: The Lost Empire!"Blogger, podcaster, and critic Noel Thingvall joins the show to talk about the ambitious Disney film that failed to reach a broader audience but succeeded in showing what animated features could accomplish. Milo

Everybody get up, it's time to slam as we do a real jam on 1996's “Space Jam"!Musician and podcaster Gooey Fame joins the show to talk about the classic basketball/Looney Tunes/Michael Jordan comeback film that launched 1000 Hot Topic t-shirts! His Airness has gone from dunkin' on faces to running the bases but when the Looney Tunes find themselves facing slavery on Moron Mountai

We're done playing games this week as we jump into the first video game movie adaptation, 1993's “Super Mario Bros."!Author and returning guest Melissa “Frickin” Olson is back to talk about another ground-breaking film project swallowed by its own ambitions. Mario and Luigi Mario just want to fix pipes and beat the Scapellis, but when Daisy is kidnapped into an alternate vers

Craft Disservices makes its belated return in style as we reflect on Orson Welles's 1948 noir classic "The Lady From Shanghai"!Writer and game designer Robin D. Laws joins the show to talk about another near-masterpiece from the iconoclastic actor/director. Michael O'Hara thought he knew about trouble, but when he falls for the beautiful wife of a bitter, ruthless lawyer, he finds

It's our first pièce de résistance this week as we present a film whose merits were evident on its release, but the movie industry had to catch up before it was heralded as a classic. Just in time for Halloween, it's 1979's Alien!New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling Author and film critic David R. George III visits the show to talk about a film that's more than a monster mov

Join us on a new series of shows that look at forgotten masterpieces of cinematic history!Fritz Lang is the Godfather of film noir, the police procedural, and the modern thriller, and M is the film that cemented his status as one of early cinema's greatest visionaries and innovators. A child killer stalks the streets of Berlin, and the city is gripped by fear and ready to explode.

Grab a warm Hawaiian Punch and fix yourself up a couple of DOGS as Craft Disservices returns to go where Roger Ebert feared to tread . . . Valkenvania!Author and film critic Mark McPherson is back on the show and he's brought "Nothing But Trouble" with him! When four New York yuppies take a leisurely drive upstate, they figure a minor traffic ticket is the least of their worries. B

Join us on a new series of shows that look at forgotten masterpieces of cinematic history!Haskell Wexler is arguably one of cinema's greatest cinematographers, but his debut feature, Medium Cool, is all but forgotten. Against the backdrop of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Medium Cool blends scripted scenes with documentary footage with chilling and poignant results. Just