Screening Roomers, our resident Midnight Movie Mavens, the writing team of Kevin Burke and Doc Wyatt (Stranger Things: Tales from '85 & Ninjago), return to bring us another Midnight Movie in the morning! And this one has everything! A killer comet... piles of pink dust... uzi packing cheerleaders... flesh-eating mutant zombies... empty Los Angeles freeways... psychotic stock boys...and a post-apocalyptic mall shopping spree to "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"! Intrigued? Then join us as we celebrate one of our favorite Midnight Movies - the genre-bending post-apocalyptic sci-fi 1980's teen comedy - 1984's NIGHT OF THE COMET!

Huddle up Screening Roomers, now that the Lombardi Trophy has been awarded... and all the nachos have been eaten... we bring you a surprise post-Big Game Special as the award-winning radio voice of the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals and University of Cincinnati Bearcats football, Dan Hoard, joins FM and his other special guest, Emmy Award winning writer/producer, Jack Thomas (Dreamworks Dragons & Fairly Odd Parents) to share their favorite football movies! 1971's Brian's Song, 1993's Rudy, 2006's Invincible and more... find out which ones they consider cinematic touchdowns or fumbles!

Screening Roomers, they're not necessarily midnight movies... but they are movies that take place after midnight... one set in Los Angeles... the other in NYC... and both released in theaters only months apart in 1985! So, join FM and his special guest this week, actor/impressionist - Piotr Michael - for some late night fun in the morning as they talk stolen jewels... Elvis impersonators... and papier-mâché bagels... to celebrate the 40th Anniversaries of the John Landis directed INTO THE NIGHT and the Martin Scorsese directed AFTER HOURS. Surrender, Dorothy! (IYKYK)

... this episode is dedicated to the memory of Catherine O'Hara

IT'S ALIVE!!! ALIIIIIIIVE!!! Our first Cable Box Classics segment of 2026! And this month actor Yuri Lowenthal (Naruto/Spider-Man) returns to the Screening Room to help celebrate the 40th anniversaries of a pair of teen genius Cable Box Classics that premiered in theaters only 5-days apart in 1985- WEIRD SCIENCE & REAL GENIUS. So, grab yourself a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray and we'll supply the popcorn (popped via space laser in Professor Hathaway's home) as we kick-off season-2 by dropping a little science!!!

Screening Roomers! You asked for it... and you got it... "NIC F**************KING CAGE!!!" It's the return of fan favorite "unCAGEd"... and this season we're celebrating Nic Cage's 67th birthday (and from this day forward hereby dubbing January 7th Nic Cage Day across the universe) by bringing you volume 2 - THE CAGE COMEDIES. So, actor, TMSR regular and Nic Cage authority Yuri Lowenthal joins FM once again to un-cage more Cage - 1987's RAISING ARIZONA... 1992s HONEYMOON IN VEGAS... 2003's MATCHSTICK MEN... 2019's MOM AND DAD... and 2022's THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT. They'll discuss what makes a great Cage movie and a memorable Cage performance. And they'll also rate Nic in each of these films with the return of their state-of-the-art Cage-o-Meter... which has undergone a massive upgrade - a highly advanced cAge-I!!

IT'S THE SEASON PREMIERE OF SEASON 2!!!

AND IT'S ALSO SHERLOCK HOLMES' BIRTHDAY!!!

And the game is afoot, Screening Roomers, as we are honored to kick-off season 2 with legendary writer, director, producer and author, Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / Time After Time). And Nicholas is joining us in the Screening Room to help ring in the new season and celebrate Sherlock's 172nd... as we deep dive into all things Holmes, Watson & Moriarty with Nicholas taking us behind the scenes of the writing of his 7 Holmes-related novels including The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, the basis for the 1976 film (and a Best Screenplay Oscar nom for Nicholas) up to his latest tome - Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing... as well as thoughts on what makes a great Holmes movie and performance... and on-the-set recollections of his other classic films like 1982's Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, 1979's Time After Time, 1983's The Day After and more! Elementary, my dear Screening Roomers... ELEMENTARY!

IN PART TWO OF AN INTERVIEW THAT COULDN'T BE CONTAINED TO JUST ONE EPISODE... Director/Editor/Writer/Producer Jeff Kanew (Revenge of the Nerds/Troop Beverly Hills) tells us about his film collaborations and friendship with Kirk Douglas... working with another Hollywood legend - Burt Lancaster... plus, takes us behind-the-scenes of his '80s films 1984's Revenge of the Nerds, 1985's Gotcha! (Happy 40th Anniversary) and 1989's Troop Beverly Hills... plus, the drama behind a classic coming-of-age dramedy that almost was... WHAT A WAY TO END SEASON ONE!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR, SCREENING ROOMERS!!!

IN PART ONE OF AN INTERVIEW THAT COULDN'T BE CONTAINED TO JUST ONE EPISODE... Director/Editor/Producer Jeff Kanew (Revenge of the Nerds/Troop Beverly Hills) takes us through the beginnings of his incredible career... starting as a singer in a 1960's vocal group... through editing trailers for historic films such as The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and more... into his directorial debut... brushes with legends including Paul Simon and Muhammad Ali... and finally, his experience editing 1980's Best Picture Winner - Ordinary People - and working with that film's director, the late Robert Redford!