Year: 2020
Peacock: NBC’s Streaming Service Offers Classics and Retro-Themed Originals
If you haven’t heard by now, NBCUniversal is entering the streaming wars with their own service. Peacock will first be offered to Comcast subscribers exclusively on April 15 with a nationwide release scheduled for June CONTINUE READING…
Recurrent Events: Ghostbusters Afterlife Details, Alex Cross Streaming Series, Funko Soda Collectibles
Recurrent Events is here again to give you the latest retro pop culture headlines from this past week. Listen to the upcoming TRN Podcast for our takes on several stories including several Disney projects and CONTINUE READING…
SequelQuest | A Sequel to Plan 9 (From Outer Space) | EP114
In 1959 Ed Wood made Plan 9 From Outer Space, a movie so bad it lived in infamy for over 50 years as the worst film ever made. Now the SequelQuest podcast dares to return CONTINUE READING…
Picard S01E01: “Remembrance” Recap and Review
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from Star Trek: Picard S01E01 An admiral comes out of retirement Eighteen years after his last appearance in a Starfleet uniform, Patrick Stewart returned to the screen this week as CONTINUE READING…
Wax Pack Flashback: Action Packed NFL Football (1990)
In this episode of Wax Pack Flashback, Mickey tears into a pack of Action Packed Football cards from 1990. Watch along and comment if you remember these cards.
Ed Wood: The Worst Filmmaker of All Time
From the time he was only 7 years old, Ed Wood wanted to make movies. After seeing the 1931 movie Dracula, he started spending as much time at theaters as he could. He got CONTINUE READING…
Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of January 22, 1983
This Week In 1983: January 22nd Men At Work are still holding strong this week at #1 with “Down Under”. In fact, all the songs in the top ten are the same, just shuffled a CONTINUE READING…
Remembering 3-2-1 Contact
Forty years later and still arguably the best theme song in the history of PBS. From a strange era in between glam rock and disco. In between men wearing short shorts and women wearing short CONTINUE READING…
Recurrent Events: Quantum Leap May Return, Super Nintendo World, Rock Hall Inductees
Recurrent Events returns to give you the scoop on all the retro pop culture headlines from last week. Our Recurrent Events segment on this week’s podcast features some talk about the new Peacock app from CONTINUE READING…
ESPN+ Is Your Ticket To Classic Sports
If you are on the fence of subscribing to ESPN+ (or the Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle,) here are some reasons that might tip the scale for classic sports fans. I’ve been a Hulu subscriber for a few CONTINUE READING…
SequelQuest Rewind | A Sequel to The Room (Really?!) | EP42
(From May 2017) Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 film, The Room is infamous for it’s no holds barred assault on decent filmmaking. Nonsensical dialogue, dozens of dropped plot lines and an otherworldy performance by the lead actor have made it CONTINUE READING…
Wax Pack Flashback: Saved by the Bell (1992)
In this episode of Wax Pack Flashback, Mickey is opening a pack of Saved by the Bell trading cards.
RD’s Detention Episode 12: The Simpsons
RD is a detention “lifer” at Memory Meadows High. He passes the time in detention by discussing his favorite things with you… a fellow detainee. All the while, he tries to avoid getting into any CONTINUE READING…