Cult cinema talk with the edges left on.
Outside the Cinema follows Bill and Chris through cult movies, Patreon picks, old favorites, and oddball streaming finds. The reviews come wrapped in allergies, blizzards, archive chatter, politics, jokes, and the kind of personal digression that somehow still circles back to cinema.
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Outside the Cinema is built around Bill and Chris talking movies as if the record button caught them mid-conversation and the conversation simply refused to behave. The center is cult cinema, but the path there is rarely straight. Episodes can open with allergies, a birthday, a snowstorm, a rough stomach, a protein bottle, archive uploads, Patreon notes, or the general state of American frustration. Recent episodes move through British listener picks, Ms. 45, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Ward, Terminal Choice, Terror Night, Soul Brothers of Kung Fu, Blood Tracks, Last Action Hero, RoboCop 2, Citizen Kane, Cherry 2000, Low, Crazy House, and Exit 8. The range is wide without feeling curated into neat little shelves. Horror, revenge thrillers, martial arts pictures, slashers, classic Hollywood, video-game adaptations, and oddball streaming finds all get handled in the same blunt, memory-heavy style. Bill and Chris grade things, recommend things, refuse to recommend things, and change the temperature of a discussion with one irritated aside. Short jokes land fast. Longer arguments wander through actors, reshoots, bad computer logic, fight scenes, snowy factories, production context, and half-remembered viewing histories. The show is not clean critic prose. That is the appeal. It sounds like two people who have watched enough strange movies to be both deeply fond of them and fully willing to call out the weak parts. Listener participation matters, especially through Patreon picks from people such as Andrew, Donnie, Austin, and Ollie. The show’s own archive also becomes part of the story, with old episodes, missing early material, and long-running references folding back into new discussions. It can be abrasive. It can be affectionate. It can spend real time on a movie’s tone, structure, performance, or genre lineage after several minutes of chaotic banter. Political venting and crude jokes sometimes sit close to sincere film analysis, which gives the show a rougher texture than tidy movie-review formats. Outside the Cinema works best when the listener wants the room tone along with the opinion. It is less about delivering a sealed verdict than hearing Bill and Chris wrestle with what a movie is doing, why it works, why it fails, and why it is still worth talking about.
Made for: For cult-film listeners who like horror, exploitation, martial arts, slashers, strange streaming finds, and cranky long-form banter. Best suited to people who enjoy knowledgeable movie talk that still feels like friends arguing across a cluttered table.
What sets it apart: Outside the Cinema folds listener picks, personal updates, old-show archive lore, political irritation, and specific cult-film memory into the same review format. The looseness is not filler; it is the show’s working method.
Outside The Cinema is a weekly podcast that focuses on to cult movies of all kinds. We feature films running the gamut from Horror to Exploitation to Noir and Matial Arts and back. You know that random video you got on VHS from some random mom and pop video store when you were 12? Yeah, we covered it. So sit back and enjoy the OTC ride.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bill and Chris turn wide-ranging film choices into candid debates grounded in craft, comparison, and clear recommendations.
Outside the Cinema lets Bill and Chris think aloud, disagree freely, and arrive at firm judgments without sanding away the conversation's rough edges.
From Citizen Kane to Blood Tracks, Bill and Chris let your movie taste roam without a dress code.
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A scruffy horror chat that settles into a modest, computer-driven mystery thriller.
Outside the Cinema opens with its familiar shelf-and-protein-drink banter before moving into Austin's Patreon picks, Terminal Choice from 1985 and Terra Knight from 1989, also known as Bloody Movie.
Two cult picks, one loose, lively hang.
Outside the Cinema leans into two cult-movie picks here, starting with a kung fu title the hosts praise for its fight scenes even if the story feels thin, then turning to Blood Tracks, a snowy factory-set slasher about a film crew being hunted by a hidden family.
A snow-delayed reassessment finds Last Action Hero stuck between tones, with Charles Dance as the easy highlight.
Outside the Cinema looks back at Last Action Hero as a Schwarzenegger vehicle the hosts cannot quite get behind. Their read lands on a movie with a wobbly sense of itself: it keeps shifting shape, never holds one tone for long, and carries the uneasy backdrop of reshoots running…
Citizen Kane becomes a sharp argument about how money and power can turn purpose into appetite.
Outside the Cinema treats Citizen Kane as a study in how good intentions can bend under money and power. Bill and Chris follow Kane from a man who wants to speak for the lower classes and back the working man into someone increasingly defined by appetite, control, and the…
Bill and Chris trace The Shout's lethal scream from casual allergy banter to the uneasy open space of Devon.
Outside the Cinema turns a listener pick of two British films into a loose, alert conversation that finds its footing in The Shout's surreal logic and its first shout scene.
A loose cult-film chat finds its footing in grounded sci-fi and the appeal of unseen aliens.
Outside the Cinema starts with a loose detour through YouTube comments, then settles into sharper territory once the hosts compare the featured film with Special Bulletin, which one of them slightly prefers.
Screen nostalgia, argued properly.
Movie arguments with brackets and bite.
Star Wars reactions with sharp fan instincts.
Hosts Bill and Chris discuss two listener-suggested British cult films: the 1978 folk horror 'The Shout' and the 1966 comedy spoof 'Carry On Screaming.' They analyze 'The Shout's' psychological tension and unreliable narration, debating whether its protagonist's deadly shout is real.
Hosts Bill and Chris address a contentious YouTube comment about their political discussion from a previous episode.
The hosts introduce their weekly cult movie discussion podcast, mentioning a poorly-timed movie recommendation amid current events and their preference to avoid YouTube due to excessive ads.
The hosts discuss the podcast's anniversary, listener messages, and upcoming cult movie reviews for the new season.
The hosts of Outside the Cinema discuss their 2025 movie-watching progress, including documentaries and films reviewed on their cult movie podcast.
Outside the Cinema reviews Lloyd Kaufman’s 1979 film Squeeze Play and Roberta Findlay’s 1989 film Band, two comedies built around women’s softball and a possessed musician.
Bill and Chris review Brain Twisters (1991), in which a professor's flashing-light experiments turn students into killers, and grade it a D and a D minus.
This episode of Outside the Cinema features a discussion of Robert's Patreon picks for cult movies, with hosts Bill and Chris engaging in casual banter and promoting their show and merchandise.
This episode features hosts Bill and Chris discussing listener-suggested British cult films while engaging in humorous banter about allergies and birthdays.
The hosts discuss listener Andrew's Patreon picks, including movies like Brian and Charles and Dream Scenario, while mentioning archive completion efforts.
This episode discusses two cult classic films, Ms.
This episode of Outside the Cinema features hosts Bill and Chris engaging in humorous political commentary and banter before diving into their weekly cult movie discussion.
Chris and Bill kick things off in their usual mess of shelves, protein powder, and a stream joke about Twitch and YouTube before Austin's Patreon pick, Terminal Choice from 1985, and Terra Knight from 1989, also called Bloody Movie, take over.
The hosts come in loud, tired, and already halfway into the jokes.
Snow has buried the hosts before they even reach Last Action Hero.
Bill and Chris take on Citizen Kane.
The hosts of Outside the Cinema introduce their weekly cult movie discussion, focusing on reviews of the 1960s pre-Italian giallo film 'Libido' and the 1970s cheap thriller 'Crypt of Dark Secrets'.
The hosts celebrate reaching episode 900 with casual banter about time calculations, family updates, and a personal music trivia story involving the song 'Rebel Girl' by Bikini Kill.