After last episode’s icy prison break, Sean and Cody go down under for Pride Month as they load up the bus for a queer road trip into the outback. In The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Australian drag queen Tick (Hugo Weaving) gets a gig to do a show in the remote outback down of Alice Springs, so he teams up with the flamboyant Felicia (Guy Pearce) and transgender widow Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to get a bus to transport them, their costumes and a giant high-heeled shoe...

Sean and Cody, back from an unplanned hiatus, are joined by The Industry podcast host Dan Delgado for a look at the rarest of birds: an actually good film from schlocky 1980s grindhouse studio Cannon Films! In Runaway Train, prison lifer Manny (Jon Voight) is joined by a whiny shoeless sidekick Buck (Eric Roberts) for a poop-scented breakout from Alaska’s most notorious hoosegow. But their brilliant escape goes terribly wrong when the engineer of the freight train they stow away on croaks...

We have a statement that we'd like to make to our listeners. Green Screen will soon be ending its run of regular episodes. There will be three more after this one: Runaway Train, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and the podcast finale, Dances With Wolves. The reasons why we've made this decision are complicated and we'd like you to hear them in depth. This is why we've recorded this special bonus episode. We'll also talk about what we learned, what we got out of this...

Though still weary from that long train trip to the Urals last episode, Sean and Cody board a British Navy sailing ship headed around Cape Horn as they delve into this swashbuckling 2003 adventure/war film, directed by Peter Weir. In Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World, indefatigable Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) can’t think about anything except the French man-o’-war he’s chasing all over the oceans. But his best friend Maturin (Paul Bettany) is so keen on collecting bugs...

Finally having returned from a double-header on Mars, Sean and Cody find themselves on the snowy steppes of Russia in the tumultuous era of the Bolshevik Revolution as they sink into this 1965 epic classic, one of the biggest blockbuster films of all time. In Doctor Zhivago, wistful sawbones and sometime poet Yuri (Omar Sharif) is living his best life with happy wifey (Geraldine Chaplin) and baby, until he suddenly gets the hots for the alluring Lara (Julie Christie) who’s married to someone...

What, they’re still not back from Mars? Sean and Cody are on number two of a double-header (with last episode) as they take on Ridley Scott’s popular 2015 science fiction drama. In The Martian, plucky and somewhat jerky botanist astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) gets the Home Alone treatment as his shipmates accidentally leave him behind on Mars. It’ll be four years until anyone from Earth can rescue him and he’s only got 68 packets of potatoes and some freeze-dried poop. Wait, wasn’t that...

After turning themselves into cartoons last episode, Sean and Cody make a side trip to a mostly fictional version of the red planet on their way back to the real world. In the 1964 space adventure Robinson Crusoe on Mars, white bread astronaut Kit Draper (Paul Mantee) and the monkey he loves crash-land on the titular planet to find the basic tourist amenities such as oxygen, water and food haven’t been restocked in several million years. With only a mid-60s tape deck, an Air Force surplus...

Sean and Cody exchange the gross creatures of the last episode for the dubious charms of an animated, drug-induced alternate universe as they dive into this visionary 2013 dystopian science fiction drama. In The Congress, aging Hollywood star Robin Wright, playing herself, lets a movie studio zap her into a digital clone that they can use to put her into any film for the next 20 years. When her contract is up and it’s time to renegotiate, though, she finds herself hyped on hallucinogenic...

With the pleasant holiday frost fair of the last episode behind them, Sean and Cody lock themselves in Clamp Tower with the titular monsters of this extremely bizarre 1990 film, a sequel to an iconic ‘80s fantasy. In Gremlins 2: The New Batch, the furry pet of cartoonist Billy (Zach Galligan) is kidnapped and taken to a genetic engineering lab, where it spawns a legion of mischievous lizardy creatures. The monsters proceed to take over an urban skyscraper and possibly threaten to destroy the...

Now having healed from their bird scratches and psychological trauma last episode, Sean and Cody settle into some chill digs—literally—as they take apart this visually stunning 1992 queer costume drama. In Orlando, the title character (Tilda Swinton), a twinky nobleman in 1600 England, receives a rich estate from Queen Elizabeth in exchange for a promise never to grow old. But after enduring hijinx at a frost fair on the Thames, a cruel diss from the alluring Princess Sasha, and the boredom...

Bird behavior, algae blooms, nature gone wild and a real life mass bird attack in California are hitting the windshield as we review this 1963 Hitchcock classic.

Evil water-guzzling corporations and ‘90s feminist energy are in the chamber as we examine this 1995 comic book based classic. With guest Jessica Regan.

DDT, the early 1970s ecology craze, Richard Nixon and the EPA, and pollution in the South are the issues spawning as we hop into this 1972 horror film.

In this one-off bonus, we give our thoughts on the Denis Villeneuve version of Dune, the remake of a film from 1984 covered on an earlier episode.

The realities of space as an environment, space junk and orbital pollution and ecological effects of the space program are ready to blast off in this 2013 drama.

Droughts, floods, rains, peasant revolts and imperialism in late 19th century China are about to go over the wall as we feast on this epic but obscure drama from 1963.

The role of cows in the settlement of the West and their relationship to colonialism is milked for all it’s worth as we fry up this 2020 Western.

The late-stage-capitalist dystopia of modern L.A., crime as an environmental issue, and the role of sensationalist media in society are the topics vying for ratings as we get this dark 2014 thriller.

Did evil car companies and real estate barons deliberately destroy L.A.’s transit system? We answer the big question posed by this 1988 classic. Guests: John Dorney, Tom Salinsky.

The Los Angeles “water wars,” ethnic cleansing via urban renewal, and the L.A. river are being investigated in this 1974 noir classic. Guest: Hadley Meares.

This retrospective recaps and revisits some of the highlights of environmental and cinema history that have been covered on Green Screen for the past 38 episodes.

The myth of the “Southern Man,” history of the Maori, and extinct bird species are hiding in the New Zealand bush as we hunt down this 2016 comedy buddy film.

All things sharky, including the Jersey Shore attacks of 1916 and shark-human relations, are chum in the water as we examine this 1975 classic. Guest: Alex Arreola.

This one’s all about invasive species, from rabbits in the Pacific and lampreys in the Great Lakes to xenomorphs on LV-426 as we discuss this 1986 science fiction classic.