Link to the show: Young Adult Movie Ministry Episode 20 on Substack
Release date: November 21, 2020
Movie of the Week
Hoomania (1985), directed by Rick Garside (a 37 minute direct-to-video short)
[Digital rental on Christianbook.com]
Who the Hosts Are This Week
Sam is critic for NBC News, reporter-at-large, and a shambling monster assembled from the stitched-together corpses of other reporters and critics in defiance of God’s will. Alissa is a dodo bird.
Other Mentions
- The Gerbert series (another Christian direct-to-video TV show)
- Adventures in Odyssey
- Jumanji (the book)
- Chris Van Allsberg (author of Jumanji and other terrifying kids’ books!)
- The Neverending Story (the book)
- Pilgrim’s Progress
- LEGO Batman (the movie)
- Porky in Wackyland (a very racist Looney Tunes short)
- Davey and Goliath (Sam was right – it was produced by the Lutherans)
- John Mulaney appears to be the source for the bit Alissa quoted about being led to believe that quicksand would be a bigger challenge in his adult life
- McGee and Me (discussed on YAMMPOD Episode 4)
- Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman animated film)
- The Milgram Experiment (Sam mistakenly called this the Milford Experiment, being performed on tomatoes in this movie)
- Feature Films for Families (now distributed via a YouTube channel!)
- Christian Book Distributors (still around; I dunno if they still send out the huge catalogs any more or not, though)
- Scholastic Books
- Square One TV – One Billion Is Big
- Coraline (the book) by Neil Gaiman
- P. G. Wodehouse novels
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
- Transformers: The Movie (the one with Orson Welles)
- The Magic Bicycle books by John Bibee
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Don Hertzfeld’s graphic novel The End of the World
- Don Hertzfeld’s World of Tomorrow animation series
- …and his Rejected cartoon
- …and his Billy’s Balloon cartoon