If this is not your first time listening to this show, there is ZERO chance that Movie #4 of The Butler Did It month would be anything other than Guy Ritchie's ROCKNROLLA from 2008. (If it IS the frist time listening to us, boy, is there a back catalog for you to five into!) Along with month's namesake Gerard Butler is a sea of talent that riiiight…

Kickstart #4 of April. BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT from HAT & BEARD PRESS! SECOND SIGHT'S DAWN OF THE DEAD 4K at AMAZON UK! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a look at the link below and maybe make a donation: Entertainment Community Fund ht…

Movie #3 for The Butler Did It brings us to most recently released of our movies this month with 2023's Plane. But don't let that seemingly bland and unexciting title fool you. This is a good one. Along with Captain Gerard Butler is Mike Colter, and a bevy of character actors including Tony Goldwyn! From IMDB: A pilot finds himself caught in a war …

Karate in the Garage's love letter month to Gerard Butler THE BUTLER DID IT's Movie #2 dropped last week, and we couldn't of been more excited to share it with you. This Wednesday, Movie #3 will drop on Patreon, with it hitting all public platforms on Friday. ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as wel…

Movie #2 for The Butler Did It keeps us in 2009 with Neveldine/Taylor's GAMER. Along with Gerard Butler is Michael C. Hall, Terry Crews, and Ludacris. From IMDB: In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty se…

April showers bring May flowers FOR REALZ. Karate in the Garage's love letter month to Gerard Butler THE BUTLER DID IT's Movie #1 dropped last week, and we couldn't of been more excited to share it with you. This Wednesday, Movie #2 will drop on Patreon, with it hitting all public platforms on Friday. KING KONG (1976) 4K STEELBOOK from PARAMOUNT PI…

IT'S APRIL. SO. RING. THE. BUTLER. Our theme this month is Gerard Butler movies all day, everyday. We kick it off with F. Gary Gray's 2009 thriller Law Abiding Citizen, a movie that harkens back to the 1990s when mid-budgeted movies like this flooded your local multiplex. From IMDB: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after …

April showers bring May flowers. It also brings you a new month theme and Movie #1 dropping here on Wednesday! The links will be filled in later as it took me (Corey) almost 2 hours to get home Sunday night. ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, pl…

Kickstart #4 is the last of the month! The next time a new KS drops, we'll be a full quarter into 2024. Good thing it's March because that's MADNESS! Bitch Slap was March Madness Movie #2, dropped last week. This Wednesday, we will drop the LAST of our Tubi Or Not Tubi epsiodes. It wasn’t talked about in the episode, but Mending the Line (the movie…

Well, the Tubi bots have gone and done it this year. We may only have three March Madness movie episodes this year, but they still gave us what may be 2024's Snake Eater 3. It's 2009's BITCH SLAP! rom IMDB: Three bad girls travel to a remote desert hideaway to steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin. ENJOY! YES. SAG-AFTRA …

Kickstart #3 for March Madness! Last week, we dropped the first of our Tubi Or Not Tubi epsiodes DOA: Dead or Alive. So if you haven't dove into that yet, it's in the wild. March Madnes Movie #2 will drop this Wednesday on Patreon, and Friday for the general public! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA…

March Madness has returned. Tubi or Not Tubi. The bots are alive. They're here to lead us or enslave us. But before they can decide out fate, we had to pick a movie and watch it before Tubi could choose the next movie. DOA: Dead or Alive is our kindling to start this fire. Based on the videogame franchsie of the same name, DOA drops nonsensical act…

Ahoy, maties! We be pirate ghosts--er, I mean we be some kind of ghosts not of the pirate variety! Why? Only the producers know, so don't ask us. We're just lonely leperatic ghosts who haunt an island becaue they screwed us over. We're also here to confuse you with missing plot points and other shenanigans! This week, we have the 2005 remake of Joh…

March Madness Kickstart #2 for your aural pleasure. UPDATES FOR VIDIOTS!!! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a look at the link below and maybe make a donation: Entertainment Community Fund https://entertainmentcommunity.org/support…

We've got Part 2 with Brent Simons today, and it's the Filmnesia portion of the chat. With Derrick Borte, we visited the 80s with Angel Heart and the 90s when Whitney Anne Adams chose Bram Stoker's Dracula. What decade did Brent's movie choice brought us to? The 1970s with the original Rocky from 1976. From IMDB: A small-time Philadelphia boxer get…

It's Kickstart #1 for March Madness! THE UPDATED VIDIOTS SCHEDULE!!! MEGAMIND VS THE DOOM SYNDICATE ON PEACOCK!!! MEGAMIND RULES! ON PEACOCK!!! CODE 8 ON NETFLIX!!! CODE 8: PART II ON NETFLIX!!! ENJOY! ------------------ If you'd like to show your support for members of the WGA as well as other workers in the entertainment industry, please take a l…

OLLO! We're starting off March Madness with Part One of a two part chat with Screenwriter-Producer Brent Simons! You know his work as one half of the writing team (along with his partner-in-crime Alan Schoolcraft,) behind the Dreamworks Animation classics Megamind and Penguins of Madagascar! Also, starting March 1, 2024 on Peacock, Megamind RETURNS…

The last KS of February. We just wrapped FEB-BRU-BURIED last week with Walter HIll's Last Man Standing. Next stop? MARCH MADNESS! (OR TUBI OR NOT TUBI, which ever you prefer). The bots are returning in March to recommend followups to our chosen Tubi-centric movie. And it's a DOOZY CRIMSON PEAK 4K from ARROW!!! BOY KILLS WORLD TRAILER!!! We don't sp…

We close out FEB_BRU_BURIED Month with a return to crime and sand with Walter Hill's Last Man Standing. Bruce WIllis leads a top flight cast full of Hill regulars and a ton of faces you know well. From IMDB: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost to…

We threw everyone a curve ball last week for Movie #3 in FEB-BRU-BURIED with Feast! We hope everyone enjoyed the epsiode. We don't mention it during today' KS but ALL THREE Feast movies are on Tubi (as of 2/18/2024), so check them all out there. FEAST on TUBI FEAST II: SLOPPY SECONDS on TUBI FEAST III: THE HAPPY FINISH on TUBI VIDIOTS SCHEDULE AS O…

Un. Deux. Trois. Number #3 to BREAK the mold for FEB-BRU-BURIED we have the final result of Season 3 of Project Greenlight: John Gulager's FEAST! From IMDB: Patrons locked inside a bar are forced to fight monsters. ENJOY! YES. SAG-AFTRA HAVE FINALLY JOINED THE WGA, AND HAS COME TO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE AMPTP. IT'S BEEN A VERY LONG AND UPHILL BATTLE…

It's KICKSTART #2 for February! Last week, we dropped Flashpoint as part of our FEB-BRU-BURIED MONTH on Patreon last Wednesday, and the general public on Friday, per usual. The feedback we've gotten on both is a mixed bag of "I love that movie!" and "I've never seen xxxxxx. but now I reallt want to." Music to our ears... Catch But I'm A Cheerleader…

It's the DOS entry of this month's FEBUR-BURIED theme where we venture out into the vast wasteland that is movies that take place in the desert. This week, it's 1984's Flashpoint with Kris Kristofferson, Treat WIlliams, Kurtwood Smith, and, once again, a bevy of supporting players that were in the early stages of their career. From IMDB: Two U.S. b…

It's Kickstart #1 for February 2024! We started our new movie series last week FEB-BRU-BURIED with White Sands. If you haven't had a chance to listen to it yet. what are you waiting for?!? JOE DANTE'S MOVIE POSTER COLLECTION ON EBAY!!! HOLLOW MAN STEELBOOK EXCLUSIVE AT WALMART!!! OTHER EXCLUSIVE STEELBOOKS AT WALMART!!! ENJOY! YES. SAG-AFTRA HAVE F…

It's a new month and a new theme. "Predictable", you say? How dare you?!? We've got something that would've never guessed we were doing: IT'S FEB-BRU-BURIED. All movies that take place in the desert! Kicking things off in the New Mexican desert is Roger Donaldson's White Sands with Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L.…

Here is the rare thing to have: a FIFTH Kickstart in the same month! We hope you all enjoyed Moore Moore Moore!!! this month. The new theme starts this week with Patreon's Early Access on Wednesday, and then gen pub on Friday 2/2. COMING TO VIDIOTS IN FEBRUARY!!! CHECK OUT ALL THINGS GREASE 2 from MEGAFAN CRAIG BISHOP!!! ENJOY! YES. SAG-AFTRA HAVE …

We're at the finish line of Moore Moore Moore! We close it all out with Demi in her most baddass as Lieutenant Jordan O'Neill in GI Jane from Director Ridley Scott. Along for this tour of duty is a slew of 1990s character actors doing what they do best. From the likes of Morris Chestnut, Scott Wilson, David Vadim, Kevin Gage, and legend Anne Bancro…

Four on the Floor Kickstart for ya'! We hope everyone is enjoyiong Moore Moore Moore!!! this month. Last week, we dropepd the underappreciated and often misremembered Striptease from 1996. If you haven't heard it yet, it's out there in the wild. If you've never seen the movie before (or it's a really long time since you did), watch it on Tubi now b…

MOORE MOORE MOORE!!! rambles on down to Florida to dive into 1996's Striptease! With what may be the most well rounded supporting players of the four movies we're covering this month, we've got Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames, and Robert Patrick as Demi Moore's dirtbag ex-husband. From IMDB: A stripper and single mother gets dragged into…

Wow! Here we are already starting our THIRD week of this new year! As Steve Miller always used to say "time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future..." The Gloriousness of Vidiots This Week! OZARK on NETFLIX! ENJOY! YES. SAG-AFTRA HAVE FINALLY JOINED THE WGA, AND HAS COME TO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE AMPTP. IT'S BEEN A VERY LONG AND UPHILL …

We're BACK with MOORE, MOORE, MOORE!!! with Movie #2 DISCLOSURE! Demi Moore continues her reign of owning the 1990s with a powerhouse performance from her as Meredith Johnson stepping into a company and becoming former lover Michael Douglas' boss, nabbing a job her was expecting to get. Along with those two leads, Director Barry Levinson assembles …

This episode was recorded back in early March 2022 before Freddy headed to Atlanta for One Fast Move. We've got 2001's Josie and the Pussycats starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, and Tara Reid as the rockin' trio just waiting for their big break while playing huge gigs like the local bowling alley. Along for the ride, and playing their nast…

We're 8 days into this new year, and we still can't wrap our heads around that it's 2023. But, here we are. Last week, we dropped 1991's Mortal Thoughts to kick off our Moore, Moore, Moore!!! theme, and the consensus is we picked a movie a lot of people hadn't seen yet. That's as exciting as anything when we turn people onto something they hadn't s…

Hey, all. It’s 2024’s bloom. It’s January. But unlike last year’s January Dumping Ground theme, we have what some would call the Queen of the 90s. Demi Moore. All month long. It’s Moore Moore Moore! Movie #1, in what maybe one of boldest film choices after blowing up with Ghost the year before, we have Mortal Thoughts. Along with Demi, Glenne Headl…

2024 starts today. So we're gonna' chat about our 2023 and what we enjoyed doing, as well as Freddy's updates on what's hitting Vidiots this month! ENJOY! YES. SAG-AFTRA HAVE FINALLY JOINED THE WGA, AND HAS COME TO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE AMPTP. IT'S BEEN A VERY LONG AND UPHILL BATTLE FOR NOT JUST THE MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES OF BOTH UNIONS, IT HAS…

We're closing out Failed Franchises for 2023 with the movie that shook the tree and told Freddy "this would make a great theme", and, boy, has it ever! We have Stephen Sommer's 2004 return to the Universal Monsters after dropping two hits in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing. Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale are the fearless vampire hunt…

2023 is drawing to a close. We have one more movie episode coming for Failed Franchises. It will drop for Patreon on Wednesday, and rhe general public on Friday. This will also be our last movie ep for the year, but we will have an extra large Kickstart for Christmas morning. ENJOY! WHILE IT'S TRUE THE WGA STRIKE IS OVER, AND EVEN IF SAG GETS THEIR…

Today, we have the 3rd Failed Franchise movie, and this one was supposed to do what Iron Man did for Marvel. But, it didn't quite get DC and Warner Brothers to the promised land. It's Green Lantern with Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, and Tim Robbins. FROM IMDB: Reckless test pilot Hal Jordan is granted an alien ring that…

Annnnnnd we're baaccccck... Kickstart #2 for December 2023. Failed Franchise Month continues. Dredd last week. Movie #3 drops this Wednesday for Patreon and Friday for the general public. VIDIOTS THIS WEEK! ENJOY! WHILE IT'S TRUE THE WGA STRIKE IS OVER, AND EVEN IF SAG GETS THEIR'S TOGETHER, WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE GOING TO BE STRUGGLING FOR…

Movie #2 for Failed Franchise Month, and we're 2 for 2: DREDD. IS. THE. LAW. In 2012, Judge Dredd returned to the big screen in the form of Karl Ubran as Dredd. But this time, it's done RIGHT. Incredibly loyal to the source material by filmmakers that grew up with the comics. And the love they give to it is PERFECT. Along with Urban, Olivia Thirlby…

NEW MONTH. NEW THEME. OLD DESCRIPTOR. Last Wednesday, we dropped the first of our Failed Franchise movie episodes for December Jonah Hex for your fine Patreon folks. (Per usual, the gen pub got their mits on it Friday.) That was a fun one and a GREAT leader into a month we both think will become a theme we do annually. TOMMY'S FAMOUS!!! SILVER BULL…

NEW MONTH. NEW THEME. IT'S FAILED FRANCHISES. (OR LUMPS OF COAL IN YOUR STOCKING IF YOU'RE THE STUDIO EXECS THAT GREELIT THESE TITLES IN HOPES OF RAKING IN THAT PROVERBIAL IP CASH. We're starting off this month right with a movie neither of us had seen due to bad word of mouth, which we have both come to find these claims were unfounded. IT'S 2010'…

Oh, NOIRvember. You may be our favorite month. Thank you to everyone that has written in or shared their favorite noir and neo noir movies. (Some really good ones that we just may cover in 2024!) WINSTON on INSTA! 199. KICKSTART 9/12|2022 VIDIOTS FOR THE WEEK OF 11/27-12/3! JULIANA HATFIELD SINGS ELO!!! DAVE and KRIST on CONAN!!! ENJOY! WHILE IT'S …

We're here. The last episode of our FIRST NOIRvember! (Oh, yeah, and it's like our 300th episode, too, or whatever...) We close out with some neo noir slick from the 1980s: DOA with Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Daniel Stern, and Charlotte Rampling. From IMDB: A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him wit…

Our final Kickstart before our final NOIRvember movie for 2023! We hope you're all enjoying NOIRvember. We dropped Movie #3 last Wednesday for you fine Patreon folks, and the general public got it on Friday. (Yes. Yes, you ARE special...) The goes for the Movie #4! STALAG 17 on 4K from KINO! Dolly Parton's Rockstar! Monarch: Legacy of Monsters! Ben…

Here it is. Karate in the Garage's NOIRvember Movie #3 is a classic: John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, his adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name from W.R. Burnett. It stars Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, and James Whitmore and Marilyn Monroe. From IMDB: A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and so…

It's Kickstart Deuces for NOIRvember! Movie #2 Neil Jordan's 1986 classic Mona Lisa was released last week! Patreon's Early Access and EXTRA LARGE episode (with EIGHT++ extra minutes than the public feed) hit last Wednesday and the public feed on Friday! Movie #3 will be air delivered to Patreon peeps on Wednesday, and Friday for the general public…

Movie #2 for NOIRvember is the first of our two neo noir delights for the month. It's Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa from 1986 starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, and Michael Caine. From IMDB: A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer. ENJOY! YES. SAG-AFTRA HAVE FINALLY JOINED THE WGA, AND HAS CO…

It's the first Kickstart of NOIRvember! This month is going to be a great time. We dropped Night in the City last week (Patreon on Wednesday with an XL episode, and Friday for general public), and the feed back has been you all are digging it! Movie #2 will drop the same way again this week with Early Access on Patreon and the public feed on Friday…

It's NOIRvember! After FIVE LONG years, we're finally dedicating an entire month to noir and neo noir movies! First up, is one that some consider to be among the best in the genre, and it's Night and the City from Director Jules Dassin starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, and Googie Withers. From IMDB: A small-time grifter and nightclub tout tak…