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O.K. Video Batch 2 Episode 1 FeardotCom  Welcome to Batch 2 of OK Video!  This batch focuses on selections from the Franchise Pictures catalog, a studio notorious for bad movies and malicious bookkeeping, resulting in lawsuits that shuttered the studio in 2007.  Our first film is FeardotCom, a tale of evil websites, vengeful spirits and domain name registration issues. Just in time for Halloween! This movie does fall under the "torture" sub-genre so some grim and morbid things come up in the discussion, but we try to focus on how absurd this movie gets before rendering our verdicts and crowning MVPs. If you have any questions or feedback, email us at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca (or both).  - N

  O.K. Video Episode 9 Ranking Batch 1 That's it for Batch 1, Monster Movie Remakes. Nathan and Ryan organize this season's films in order of preference and discuss the relative pros and cons one last time.  Thanks for joining us for our first season at O.K. Video. We are working on batch 2 and hope to sort out the last headaches with podcast services before we start posting them, hopefully at most a couple of weeks. We tease the topic of batch 2 at the end of this week's episode. If you have any questions or suggestions send us an email at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca - N 

  O.K. Video Episode 8 Mary Reilly It’s the final movie of the first batch! Thanks for joining us for our inaugural season of O.K. Video.  This week we are looking at a posh costume drama directed by Stephen Frears, starring future Oscar Winner Julia Roberts, the inimitable John Malkovich, marble-voiced maestro Michael Gambon, and a puckish young Michael Sheen, amongst many other familiar faces. That’s right, Mary Reilly is our eight and final feature and in case you can’t tell from the title, this is Jekyll and Hyde for the 90s y’all! Ryan and Nathan puzzle over this one a bit as it adopts a new vantage point on the classic tale but doesn’t seem that interested in being monstrous until it does all of the sudden. Hark, is that a Howie scream I hear? (90% sure I forgot the actual name of moviedom’s second-most famous scream during the recording). Anyway, next week is our batch one finale where we rank this season’s films.   Thanks again for listening, and if you want to gi...

  O.K. Video Episode 7 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Toast of the West End, Kenneth Branagh, directed a big, bold and certainly boisterous take on Mary Shelley's definitive work, Frankenstein , back in 1994. Surely a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, Helen Bonham Carter and the aforementioned spiritual reconstitution of the Bard himself won the hearts of the Academy and all who saw it, but the O.K. Video guys will determine exactly how high it should rank in the hall of cinematic masterworks.  If you want to ask us any questions about John Cleese's teeth or anything else, you can reach us at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca Thanks again for being part of our first batch of shows. We are hopefully on the verge of appearing on at least one major podcasting platform. Technology. What a miracle. It gives life to inanimate corpses and spreads audio data far and wide via scripts and codes and metadata and whatnot. If properly formatte...

 O.K. Video Episode 6 Wolf A Jack Nicholson passion project. A bizarre departure for Mike Nichols. Another "is this a remake?" for the O.K. Video staff to puzzle over, Wolf  is a film that dances between genres and has a lot of strange 90s pleasures to fawn over.  Thanks for joining us again for our sixth episode in this batch of movies focusing on monster movies derived from older monster movies that happened to come out when we were young and impressionable.  I've had some struggles with podcatchers and RSS feeds and default emails this past week so we are still a secret, direct link show for now. Hopefully that will change before batch's end.  Enjoy! - N

  O.K. Video Episode 5 Body Snatchers Five, the magic number for RSS feeds. With any luck our humble little show will start to appear on podcast platforms in the near future.  For magic number five we get into this remake (or is it a sequel?) of the classic paranoid tale of invasion and body swapping, Abel Ferrara's severely underexposed Body Snatchers . This movie barely saw the light of a projector's booth when it first came out in 1993 but thanks to video tapes and television, it eventually found an audience.  Don't listen to Meg Tilly, there are at least a few people like you left here at O.K. Video. If you want to email us a question or concern we can be reached at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca Thanks again for listening as our pod slowly grows into a fully formed creature.  - N 

O.K. Video Episode 4 : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Protect your neck and gird your loins, as we jump into the sensual and mesmerizing world of vampires! This week we are taking a look at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. This is the first bonafide hit we've covered on the show so far. Coppola takes us through a history lesson in film making to create this gorgeous film. As always if you have any questions you want answered on the show you can email us at either ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca. Until next time! -R

O.K. Video Episode 3 Memoirs of an Invisible Man You know what they say, third time's the smarm.  Former comedy juggernaut Chevy Chase supplies that smug charm or "smarm" in this week's movie, Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Directed by John Carpenter, this movie is a weird  blend of thriller and comedy that only barely meets our criteria as a Monster Movie Remake in that it is based on a conceit from that Golden Age of creature features but with an 80s yuppie twist of citrus that may be too much for Ryan and Nathan to handle.  If you have any questions you want answered on the show you can email us at either ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca Thanks again for being part of the soft launch of the podcast. Hope you enjoy.  - N

O.K. Video Episode 2 The Blob   Alright, time for Episode 2 of O.K. Video where we weigh in on Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont's 1988 take on The Blob  starring Kevin Dillon as Brian Flagg. If you have any questions you want answered on the show you can email us at either ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca We're still filling the feed up for eventual posting on listening applications so once again you are part of a select group, thanks again for joining us. - N

O.K. Video Episode 1 The Fly Welcome to O.K. Video, a new podcast hosted by two Canadian video store clerks. Well, former video store clerks as that industry has profoundly changed in the past decade and change. We still had the thirst for movie categorization, however, so we've assembled a batch of Monster Movie Remakes for our inaugural season.  This first episode is a tad longer than we aimed for so expect somewhat shorter episodes going forward as we work out the formula.  If you have any questions you want answered on the show you can post them here or email us at nathan@okvideo.ca or ryan@okvideo.ca We hope to have the podcast up on major listening apps later in the batch so if you are getting this here you are in a select group. Well done.  Hope you enjoy. -N