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ELF, Jon Favreau's holiday blockbuster that launched Will Ferrell's film career, has gone from a cute alternative to stodgy Christmas fare to an inescapable juggernaut. Does the movie still hold up or is it getting overexposed? We answer that, while also playing the forgotten 2004 Game Boy Advance adaptation!
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Home Alone  

Yippee-kay-ay, everyone! We're climbing into the ducts to cover the timeless, indisputable Christmas classic and ur-text for modern action films, 1988's DIE HARD! John McTiernan's classic revitalized the entire action genre and made an instant superstar out of Bruce Willis, and it's earned it's place in many people's yearly tradition. We're also digging into the unusual video game franchise that spawned from this series, including the surprisingly faithful NES version and the dated-but-fun arcade action of DIE HARD TRILOGY! 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Elf 

Punch your ticket and hop onto our one-way trip to the Uncanny Valley, because we're kicking off an entire month of Christmas movies with THE POLAR EXPRESS! Robert Zemeckis' expensive, high-tech animated feature highlights some cutting edge motion capture but an unavoidably creepy style. We'll break it down before playing the PS2 game adaptation that casts a surprising new villain for it's minigame-driven antics. 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Die Hard 

We're concluding our deep dive into the ALIEN franchise this week with a look at 1997's ALIEN RESURRECTION, the weirdest, goopiest, kinkiest movie in the franchise to date! Sigourney Weaver returns with an entirely new take on Ripley, and while your mileage may vary on how successful it is, it's undeniably fascinating. We're also playing our first PlayStation 1 game this week, with the long-delayed first-person shooter adaptation that was surprisingly groundbreaking for it's time. 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: The Polar Express

Strap into your power loader and get ready for the ride of your life, because this week we're taking on James Cameron's ALIENS! One of the most influential action movies of all time, this film has an outsized impact on video games in particular, with more game adaptations than any other title we've covered so far! We narrowed it down to the 1990 arcade version and the 2011 Nintendo DS game ALIENS: INFESTATION! 
The ALIEN series gets down and dirty with the visionary, divisive sequel ALIEN 3, the directorial debut of David Fincher! This movie can be off-putting in it's nihilistic tone, but its also an admirably bold and effective movie that takes some really big swings. We'll also be talking about ALIEN 3: THE GAME on Super Nintendo, an action game with an interesting early open-world system and about four times the guns as the movie. 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Alien 3

Strap into your power loader and get ready for the ride of your life, because this week we're taking on James Cameron's ALIENS! One of the most influential action movies of all time, this film has an outsized impact on video games in particular, with more game adaptations than any other title we've covered so far! We narrowed it down to the 1990 arcade version and the 2011 Nintendo DS game ALIENS: INFESTATION! 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Alien 3

Light your flamethrowers and check your ducts (ducks?), because we're kicking off our longest and slimiest miniseries yet with our look at the ALIEN franchise! We're starting with Ridley Scott's terrifying 1979 masterwork, ALIEN, with it's iconic creature design, tense atmosphere, and the proper debut of the great Sigourney Weaver as Ripley! We're also looking at two games: the 1982 Atari 2600 adaptation ALIEN, and ALIEN: ISOLATION, a 2014 horror game that reunites some of the original cast members for a special DLC adventure set aboard the Nostromo. 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Aliens 

We bid a fond farewell to spooky season this week with a look back at the seminal indie film sensation THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT! Love it or hate it, it's impossible to deny the huge impact this movie had on pop culture. We're also playing the 2019 game adaptation, BLAIR WITCH, a first-person survival horror game that features a real good boy named Bullet. 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Douglas McCambridge 
Email: cinemarcadepodcast@gmail.com 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Alien 

The 1989 horror flick WARLOCK was slow to build it's audience, but it found a dedicated cult thanks to it's witchy atmosphere and great performances from Julian Sands and Richard E. Grant. Today, we're talking about the original film, plus the long-delayed tie-in game for the SNES! The awesome Christian Lewis subs in for Justin this week to talk about all the lightning-shooting, child-eating silliness. 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Doug McCambridge 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: The Blair Witch Project

Puppet Master and video games in the same room? What is this, a crossover episode?! This week, Jarrod Hornbeck, Steve's co-host on Puppet Masters / Castle Freaks, joins the gang to talk about PUPPET MASTER, the direct-to-video icon that launched the expansive Full Moon universe of horror! We're talking over the original film, and then playing the new indie horror game, which lets puppets take on humans for control of Toulon's secrets to eternal life. 
Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 
Logo by Doug McCambridge 
Instagram/Threads: @cinemarcade_podcast 
YouTube: @CinemArcade 
Next week's episode: Warlock