Episode 19

VFW (2019)

Published on: 27th May, 2022

A story about veterans, a ruthless drug lord, a girl in trouble, and kicking ass the American way.

Listen in as me and returning guest Dan put on some ponchos and wade through this splatterfest of violence.

Directed by Joe Begos (Almost Human, The Mind's Eye, Bliss) and written by first-time screenwriters Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle, the A.V. Club called the film "a visceral throwback to the gritty action fare that lined video store shelves in the early ’80s," and Slashfilm said "it's vile, slick with repugnance, and appropriately inhumane." This film is FUCKING AWESOME.

It tells the story of VFW bartender Fred, played by Stephen Lang (Don't Breathe, Avatar), and his fellow veteran friends played by William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist), Fred Williamson (MASH, From Duck Till Dawn), Martin Kove (Karate Kid), and David Patrick Kelly (The Warriors, The Crow), as they fight to protect Lizard, a young woman on the run from a ruthless drug lord and his army of mindless tweakers. It's simple, violent, and absolutely fun. Just watch it!

The film is currently available on Prime Video, AMC+, Blu-ray and DVD.

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The show about the weird, whacky, and downright wrong entries in cinema history.
There are a lot of films out there, so it's only natural that a decent amount of strange content exists. These are the films we examine.

Each week, I sit down with a guest and we take a look a one of these weird, whacky, or downright wrong cinematic entries. Each of them has something about it that makes it special — I call it the "Subversive Sauce" — and that is recipe we try to break down.

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Art started in the podcasting ecosphere back in 2007 with the outrageous, yet short lived, scripted variety show "WBKR: Buckwilde Radio," which claimed listeners from over 20 different countries. After hanging up his headphones and heading west to move to Los Angeles, he kept podcasting in his heart but only made appearances rather than producing or hosting. It only took a global pandemic, boredom, and the pleading from his buddy, Joe, to get back into the mic booth.