Random Thoughts of a Movie Insomniac : May 2020 Edition

Hello Everyone.    Back on my old site (The Vern's Video Vortex).  I used to write up these short reviews of movies I have seen called, Random Thoughts of a Movie Insomniac.  There are even some episodes on the podcast page too. 

Well now here is one for our YouTube site.  I, The Vern give short movie reviews to these four flicks. 
Terminator Genisys
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Salo or 120 Days of Sodom
John Carpenter's Village of the Damned

Movies That Changed My Life

I'm presenting a new series where I talk about movies that had a major impact on me.   These are not just ones I like.   It will focus on films that have made me experience raw emotions that no other film has    Here is what's in the series so far.


Fantasia (1940)

Ghostbusters(1984)

Irreversible(2002)

Josie and The Pussycats (2001)

Today's episode is on the 2001 cult classic, Josie and The Pussycats.  Joining The Vern to talk about this feature is Daniel Lackey of TV Good, Sleep Bad Podcast.   Listen to them discuss their favorite moments and how many critics just did not get the satire it was going for

Listen to show below.

The Vern talks about RoboCop & THX 1138 on Pop Art Podcast w/ Howard Casner

The Vern was recently a guest on Pop Art Podcast with Howard Casner(whom you heard on our previous episodes) to discuss to two dystopian Sci Fi features.  RoboCop and THX 1138.

Check it out on link below

 Episode 6: RoboCop/ THX 1138

and be sure to visit Howard's website as well.

https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

LaserDiscs: The Future of Entertainment.

Hello again everyone.

Ahh LaserDiscs.   This outdated format was very big among film geeks like myself.  So I thought it would be fun to show you some key titles from my collection in this short video.  What I love best about this format is that whenever I put one in.  I feel like I'm watching a movie that is being projected via film instead of digital and yet it's a digital source that helps produces the image.  But since the image is coming from an analog video or film.   You get those little scratches and dusts that were on the film itself from a 35mm print.  But now with a digital soundtrack.  I also just made myself sound very old because I enjoy movies that don't have a 4K super HIFI 1080 clearest capacity look to them.   Anyway's I hope you enjoy the video that does cut off a good portion of my face but it's better off that way.

You can watch the video  by clicking the link below and be sure to check out some of the other videos on our YouTube channel as well    Thanks for watching

I'm in a Band ( A Few Scale of None tracks)

So Since there won't be a new episode til much later this week.  I thought I would share with you videos of a band I recently joined called Scale of None.  Well to be fair I have been friends for many years with the bassist and lead guitarist before we started this project.  We have a another guitarist (who also is a long time friend) who wasn't able to join us for these songs, but he will be in future videos I will post on here.

I'm only posting a few tracks.  Let me know what you think

Our Favorite Movie Trailers

On this episode, The Vern is joined by Michael Scott one of the co hosts of The Dana Buckler Show. (http://www.thedanabucklershow.com/) They get into a good discussion about movie trailers and near the end.  List the ones they feel are the most iconic.

Listen Below on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.