Category Archives: Silver Linings Playback

Silver Linings Playback 228 – Mazes and Monsters (ft. Dr. Wendy Fonarow)

Dungeons and Dragons, Featured, Podcasts, Satanic Panic, Silver Linings Playback, Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. It’s October, so it’s time to panic … with a month full of Satanic Panic films!

Joel and Andy are joined by anthropology professor Dr. Wendy Fonarow. Together, they discuss Mazes and Monsters, a made-for-TV movies from the 80s where a thinly-veiled Dungeons and Dragons type RPG makes Tom Hanks go crazy.

Mazes and Monsters (1982) 
Directed by: Steven Hilliard Stern 
Written by: Tom Lazarus (teleplay), Rona Jaffe (novel) 
Starring: Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wysocki, 
Chris Makepeace, Lloyd Bochner

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 227 – Next

Featured, Philip K Dick, Podcasts, Silver Linings Playback, Tory Kittles

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. And it’s September … which means it is once again Nicolas Cage Month!

Joel and Andy close out the month with Next, a film where Nicolas Cage has the ability to see a few minutes into the future who must use this power to stop a terrorist attack. 

Next (2007) 
Directed by: Lee Tamahori 
Written by: Gary Goldman and Jonathan Hensleigh and Paul Bernbaum
 (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (novel) 
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas 
Kretschmann, Tory Kittles

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 226 – Left Behind

Cassi Thomson, Chad Michael Murray, Featured, Jordin Sparks, Lea Thompson, Nicky Whelan, Nicolas Cage, Podcasts, Silver Linings Playback

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. And it’s September … which means it is once again Nicolas Cage Month!

This week, Joel and Andy watch Left Behind, a film where Christians are raptured and Nic Cage is a pilot who is … you guessed it, left behind.

Left Behind (2014) 
Directed by: Vic Armstrong 
Written by: Paul Lalonde & John Patus (screenplay), 
Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins (novel) 
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson, 
Nicky Whelan, Jordin Sparks, Lea Thompson

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 225 – Trespass

Ben Mendelsohn, Jordana Spiro, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Podcasts, Silver Linings Playback

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. And it’s September … which means it is once again Nicolas Cage Month!

This week, Joel and Andy watch Joel Schumacher’s home invasion film Trespass, which sees Nic Cage and Nicole Kidman squaring off against a chaotic group of thieves. The two hosts also accidentally write the soon-to-be-classic folk ballad “You Can’t Take It With You When You Been Died.”

Trespass (2011) 
Directed by: Joel Schumacher 
Written by: Karl Gajdusek 
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Ben Mendelsohn,
Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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Silver Linings Playback 224 – The Retirement Plan

Ashley Greene, Ernie Hudson, Featured, Jackie Earle Haley, Nicolas Cage, Podcasts, Ron Perlman, Silver Linings Playback, Thalia Campbell

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. And it’s September … which means it is once again Nicolas Cage Month!

Joel and Andy kick things off with The Retirement Plan, a 2023 film where Nic Cage plays a retiree with a particular set of skills who must protect his granddaughter from the bad men sent to kidnap her.

The Retirement Plan (2023)
Directed by: Tim Brown
Written by: Tim Brown
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene, Thalia Campbell, Ron Perlman,
 Jackie Earle Haley, Ernie Hudson

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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