Rants From The Black Lodge is a film retrospective podcast hosted by film critic and pop culture enthusiast Brandon A. Lane with a guest commentator every month.
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In celebration of the 9th Anniversary of the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast we countdown our respective top ten favorite films from the greatest decade for cinema, the 1970s.
“Terrible” Travis Lassiter challenges “Beautiful” Brandon A. Lane for the championship of the world at the Showcase of the Podcasting Immortals- RANTAMANIA!
The month of March brings to mind many things ranging from Leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day festivities but to sports fans this month is special because of March Madness where Division 1 college teams duke it out for basketball supremacy... Here at the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast we love our heavy metal and 2023 will continue our new tradition in the style of the famed NCAA single elimination tournament with a hard rockin’ twist. Tonight the Rant Army will album by album, song by song whittle down DIO’s stellar catalog to decide which head banging anthem will reign supreme. Album by al
Join us on the red carpet as we bring you the first annual Rantie Awards, celebrating all the best in horror media from 2025 as voted for by you, the Rant Army! Featuring appearances from popular Twitch streamer Kintinue, Scream Queen Morrigan Milam, Eddy and Travis from Wrestling Recommendations, Phatpuk Scott, Brian Zane from Wrestling With Wregret, owner and founder of Project Louder TJ Bowser, star of Society, Pumpkinhead and Silent Night, Deadly Night 5 Brian Bremer, Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and 4 Production Designer Mick Strawn and a live performance by rap legend S-Money.
Brandon and Fat Tony pay their respects to the fallen Prince of Darkness and discuss his career from Black Sabbath, his stellar solo career and the final Back to the Beginning concert. However, with the passing of Ozzy Phatphuk Scott not only returns to the Black Lodge to pay tribute to the Ozzman the Rant Army were graced with presence of Slayer and Exodus guitarist, Gary Holt. RIP OZZY- We’ll see you on the other side
Don’t do fear the reaper but do fear what the Rant Army have to say in this commentary for the polarizing 5th entry of the long running Halloween series, The Revenge of Michael Myers.
I gotta say, it does not feel like we’ve been at this nonsense for 8 years but… here we are. That being said, we’re gonna be celebrating by doing something completely different than our normal in-depth movie retrospectives or a watch-a-long commentary- tonight we’re traveling back to our least favorite decade to discuss our favorite films from the 1990s. However, nobody knows nostalgia better than Doug Walker aka The Nostalgia Critic who dropped by the Black Lodge to give us his top 10 favorite flicks from the 90s as well.
It’s that time of year again where we celebrate sex, violence and a side of hockey . This episode we will be doing a watchalong commentary for the final Paramount entry of the Friday the 13th series with its 8th outing infamously known as Jason Takes Manhattan.
They say that April showers bring May flowers but tonight we’re bringing you something a little less attractive. This episode Brandon and Fat Tony bring the Rant Army a watch-a-long commentary for the red headed step-child of Leatherface known as Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.
This month the Rant Army travel back to World War II Italy, where four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of torture… or maybe it’s just April 1st.
The month of March brings to mind many things ranging from Leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day festivities but to sports fans this month is special because of March Madness where Division 1 college teams duke it out for basketball supremacy... Here at the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast we love our heavy metal and in 2024 will continue our new tradition in the style of the famed NCAA single elimination tournament with a hard rockin’ twist! Tonight the Rant Army will album by album, song by song whittle down SLAYER’S stellar catalog to decide which head banging anthem will reign supreme and wi
It’s that special time of year again where love is in the air and we invite all you out there in the Rant Army to spend Valentine’s Day with the man of your dreams… or in this case- nightmares! To celebrate the Rant Army are providing a running commentary track for the divisive return of Freddy Krueger to the silver screen in 2010’s Nightmare On Elm Street remake.
The Rant Army invite you to listen along as Brandon and Fat Tony watch the beloved rubber little monster movie sequel to end all little rubber monster movie sequels… or a Ghoulie will bite your asshole
Autumn leaves fall to the ground as the smell of oven roasted turkey wafts in the cool November air when suddenly a pilgrim decapitates unlucky youths… that’s right it’s turkey time again and in this LIVE episode of the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast Brandon and Fat Tony were granted the awesome opportunity to carve up some conversation with the cast of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving courtesy with the folks at Frankencon.
October 31st is here and for your sake we hope you’re not a nubile babysitter because Brandon and Fat Tony are headed to Haddonfield to track the exploits of the boogeyman with an in-depth retrospective of the 1978 John Carpenter classic, Halloween.
Tonight we celebrate the (2nd*) holiest of slasher holidays we’re gonna be praying at the alter of Jason Voorhees by watching the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th. Specifically the Killer Cut because… why the fuck not!? So, Listen along as Brandon and Tony chat about all things Jason Voorhees, debate the best slasher remakes and rank the top 5 best breasts in the Friday the 13th series.
Pack your bags, load up on bug spray and for the love of god don’t engage in any premarital sex because we’re celebrating the 7 year anniversary of the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast by heading back to the bloody shores of Camp Crystal Lake with an in-depth retrospective of 1988’s seminal slasher, Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back is an adrenaline fueled romantic comedy for the ages about a jacked up soldier of fortune attempting to get her groove back from a technologically advanced alien creature who might be in love with her or something. Blah, Blah, Blah… Happy April Fool’s Day.
As we inch closer to the release of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire we’re gonna satiate our ectoplasmic lust by revisiting the previous entry Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Join Brandon and Fat Tony as they share their love for the Ghostbusters fandom.
The month of March brings to mind many things ranging from Leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day festivities but to sports fans this month is special because of March Madness where Division 1 college teams duke it out for basketball supremacy... Here at the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast we love our heavy metal and in 2024 will continue our new tradi- tion in the style of the famed NCAA single elimination tournament with a hard rockin’ twist! Tonight the Rant Army will album by album, song by song whittle down OZZY OSBOURNE’S stellar catalog to decide which head banging anthem will reign supre
It’s that special time of year again where love is in the air and we invite all you out there in the Rant Army to spend Valentine’s Day with the man of your dreams… or in this case- nightmares! This has been a tradition we’ve held since the beginning but tonight we’re also celebrating the 40th anniversary of “A Nightmare Elm Street” with an in-depth retrospective of the inaugural exploits of everyone’s favorite dream slasher, Freddy Krueger. Joining us in the Black Lodge this month we have “Razor’s Edge” author Blake Best with an ode to his love for Nightmare 1. Not to be out done but we also
Happy 2024, Rant Army! Here’s to another great 365 days, 52 weeks and 12 months. Speaking of 12 months, that’s gonna important to what we have going on tonight. I am constantly being asked by you out there in the rant army for movie recommendations and It always gets my brain cells a churning as to what to recommend to our listening audience. It’s simply impossible to whittle the cavalcade of excellent possible options so fuck it- why do it when you can over do it instead !?! So, I’m gonna give you not 1 recommendation, I’m gonna give each and every one of you out there in the rant army 12 rec
If you took the surreal nature of a David Lynch film threw it into a blender with a dash Monty Python-esque sketch comedy, a dollop of meta humor ala Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and copious amounts of mind altering hallucinogenics you might just get a series like we will be discussing this episode- the BBC4 cult classic, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Listen along as Brandon and Fat Tony, dive deep into all six episodes of the award winning but under appreciated series.
Here at the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast we love horror movie, we love heavy metal and we love big breasted women with loose morals and low standards. However, despite that often times its unwatchable crap- we still love professional wrestling. Many a night has been spent in the Black Lodge debating all aspects of the squared circle but one burning question has been debated time and again with no clear answer… that ends tonight. This episode Brandon and the guys from Wrestling Recommendations will wrestler by wrestler whittle down and all-star roster to decide once and for all which wres
October season bring the anticipation of thrills and chills but rather than watch a bonafide classic the Rant Army are delving deep into the hugely polarizing and controversial Halloween II directed by Rob Zombie. Listen along as Halloween 2 is picked apart, damned and occasionally praised for how bonkers it is. Happy Halloween!
