Podcasts by Reels

Rebel Without a Cause with Patric Fransko from 2023-09-18T14:58:04

James Dean had a short career as a movie star and died tragically before his fame was in full effect. Rebel Without a Cause is a stand-out for Dean, but we delve into his personal life to talk a...

Riding Bean with Derek Williams from 2023-07-05T17:05:31

Derek Williams - Comedian, voice talent, expert gamer and Anime lover - is back on Reels and Wheels and he has a great Anime for us. 

The obscure(ish) Riding Bean! 

This one kind o...

The General with Brett Stillo from 2023-03-20T21:35:57

Ready for a very unique episode of Reels and Wheels?! For the first time, (and it's about time!) we talk locomotives! This is the 1926 classic Buster Keaton silent film, The General.

Join...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles from 2022-12-23T16:21:18

Happy Holidays from Reels and Wheels! For this episode, Sid & James get into the holiday season with Planes Trains & Automobiles - a John Hughes classic about the worst attempt at holiday travel...

Halloween with Mike Moran from 2022-10-31T14:24:58

It's Halloween, so let's talk Halloween! This 1978 John Carpenter really kickstarted the slasher genre - and it was 1978, so there we plenty of scary malaise era cars to talk about.

Joini...

The Betsy with Joe Ligo from 2022-09-09T19:44:55

It's a car movie starring a young Tommy Lee Jones as a sex symbol. And it's not Black Moon Rising. We already did that one. No, this movie is MUCH MUCH WEIRDER. The Betsy pretends to be a car mo...

48 Hrs with Derek Williams from 2022-07-08T15:22:30

It's 1982. It's Eddie Murphy's first acting role. It's Nick Nolte when he was still considered a handsome leading man. It's a time when a 1964 Cadillac was considered a shitbox.

Sid and J...

Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with Matt Cole from 2022-06-01T23:48:14

Reels and Wheels is back! And by request, Matt Cole, our resident Nicholas Cage expert, has returned to talk about the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds!

This movie definitely has some ba...

Knight Rider 2000 from 2022-03-10T21:41:12

In 1991, an attempt was made to reboot Knight Rider with a new Pontiac Banshee-inspired version of KITT. It failed. 

However...

It's worth a second watch. Is it good? Not really. D...

Ghostbusters Afterlife with George Plank from 2022-01-13T14:09:22

Ghostbusters Afterlife tries to strike the right balance between appealing to a new generation and diving into rich nostalgia for old-school Ghostbusters fans.

Joining Sid and James for t...

Get Shorty with Amanda Marks from 2021-10-21T14:02:39

Get Shorty is a very 90's movie. And it features the Cadillac of minivans, the Oldsmobile Silhouette!

Joining us for this episode is Amanda Marks of the Sis & Tell Podcast!

The Big Lebowski with The Gutterballs Podcast from 2021-08-10T20:17:27

How many movies can you name that started a religion? The Big Lebowski brought us Dudeism. It also happens to be an awesome movie, however... Get ready for an off-the-rails episode of Reels & Wh...

Big Fish with David Tracy of Jalopnik from 2021-06-11T18:13:58

Is reality all it's cracked up to be? Does the value of fiction outshine real life? This is Big Fish. 

Joining us to discuss this Tim Burton masterpiece is Jalopnik's resident wrencher, a...

Con Air with Matt Cole from 2021-05-07T15:22:13

James and Sid are joined by the biggest Nicolas Cage resource around. He's an actor, improv comic, and podcast host - Matt Cole!

This episode is hard to describe in a couple of paragraphs...

The Wages of Fear with Remi Treuer (Part 2) from 2021-03-11T15:13:22

In part two of our episode on Clouzot's Wages of Fear, we discuss its along with its remake, Sorcerer.

The Wages of Fear with Remi Treuer - Part 1 from 2021-02-17T18:06:15

Clouzot's 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear was a groundbreaking movie and was later remade into Sorcerer, a favorite movie of ours.

Joining Sid and James once again is Remi Treuer, comedia...

Gung Ho with Jason Torchinsky from 2020-12-03T14:25:16

Can American auto workers get along with their new Japanese bosses? That was the big question in the mid-1980's as Ron Howard's Gung Ho, inspired by real events, tried to tackle the subject as a...

Cobra Kai Season 1 with Tim Loulies from 2020-11-05T19:55:45

Few shows nail nostalgia so perfectly while simultaneously endearing us to new characters. Cobra Kai knocks it out of the park. 

Cars have always been a key part of the Karate Kid franchi...

Convoy with Derek Williams from 2020-09-08T20:12:54

CONVOY!

Hear us out on this one...

As a production, Convoy was a bit of a train wreck. A drug-fueled, past-his-prime Sam Peckinpaw was trying to direct a dark film that made a stat...

The Cannonball Run 2 with Brad McMurran and Sean Devereux from 2020-06-10T17:47:41

In this special, co-branded episode of Reels and Wheels, Sid and James are joined by Brad McMurran and Sean Devereux of The Pushers, hosts of the Nerds of Comedy podcast!

...and what amaz...

Highlander from 2020-04-27T19:57:25

There can be only one!!!

Sid and James tackle the 1986 classic Highlander, the story of an immortal, caught in a centuries-long struggle to claim a prize by beheading other immortals. And...

The Rover from 2020-04-06T15:04:45

David Michod's The Rover is a bleak, Australian post-apocalypse story. Sound familiar? It's definitely not Mad Max. 

Michod's anarchic landscape lacks hope... or even a real hero. The mov...

Ford V Ferrari with Aditya Madhaven from 2020-03-17T14:48:35

This is the movie we've been waiting for. This is a story so crazy we're surprised it took this long to become a movie. This is Ford V Ferrari.

Joining James and Sid is racecar driver Adi...

Stuber with Lovell Porter from 2020-02-13T13:49:20

Stuber is a movie where the hero car is an all-electric Nissan Leaf. It also stars WWE-wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista as a trigger-happy cop with bad eyesight. 

Joining us for this e...

Christmas Vacation from 2019-12-25T21:10:27

Merry Christmas from Reels and Wheels! On this special Christmas episode, James and Sid talk about Christmas Vacation and the bizarre 1989 Ford Taurus wagon with custom wood paneling!

@Re...

Redline with Remi Treuer from 2019-11-26T14:21:57

If there's one thing to be said for animation, it's that the sky's the limit. Whatever craziness is hiding in your imagination - if you're good enough to draw it - can become a movie.

Red...

Night of the Living Dead with Derek Williams from 2019-10-30T14:00:19

It's our Halloween episode! It's become traditional at Reels and Wheels to pick a horror movie with a car or two in it to discuss on Halloween and this year it's the movie that gave us the moder...

The Art of Racing in the Rain with JG Pasterjak from 2019-09-19T13:17:31

Want to cry? Want to be sad? Have we got the movie for you! 

The Art of Racing in the Rain is a sad movie based on Garth Stein's really sad book of the same name. It chronicles all the sa...

The Right Stuff with Josh Horowitz and Brett Stillo from 2019-08-15T12:36:15

Breaking the sound barrier. Going to space. The story didn't require a ton of embellishing to make a great movie. These pilots had the right stuff and speed was their life - from the planes they...

Bumblebee with Gabriel Owens from 2019-07-23T12:51:32

Fans of the original Transformers toys/cartoons finally got the movie they wanted in Bumblebee - the first Transformers movie to diverge from the Michael Bay explosion-fest to bring us back to t...

Black Moon Rising with Christian Lee from 2019-07-01T14:52:48

Did you know that a young, often shirtless Tommy Lee Jones starred in a 1986 heist movie with Linda Hamilton where they had to steal a Knight Rider-esque concept car? 

Neither did we! Tha...

Coming Attractions - Ford vs. Ferrari and The Art of Racing in the Rain from 2019-06-13T12:37:57

In this mini-episode, James and Sid do something different - reviewing the trailers for two upcoming movies, Ford vs. Ferrari and The Art of Racing in the Rain.

Ford vs. Ferrari is basica...

The Dukes of Hazzard - Episode 1 from 2019-05-02T12:53:24

Ask anybody to name the greatest cars in TV history and the list is often topped by the General Lee. Controversy over confederate imagery aside, the Duke boys and their 1968 Dodge Charger someho...

The Lively Set with Steve Lehto from 2019-04-18T12:29:16

Some background on this episode - Last time we had Steve Lehto on the podcast (for Tucker: The Man and his Dream), we started talking about the Chrysler Turbine Car. It was Steve who told us it ...

Star Trek - A Piece of the Action from 2019-04-04T12:28:56

An episode of Reels and Wheels about Star Trek? Thanks to the classic gangster episode from season 2, absolutely!

James and Sid let out their inner Trekkie and geek out for the Cadillac V...

Ant Man and the Wasp with Ed Carden from 2019-02-28T13:35:59

This is our first episode covering a movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and joining us for the occasion is one of our favorite guests, Ed Carden - a resident MCU expert and member of the ...

The Junkman with Ethan Tufts of Hello Road from 2019-01-24T19:17:12

It's a movie about the guy making the movie that references his other movies. H.B. Halicki gave us the classic movie "Gone in 60 Seconds." That gave him enough movie to film himself crashing car...

A Christmas Story from 2018-12-25T14:29:51

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

A Christmas Story - It's a silly movie about a very real family dynamic. It's also a tale of a love/hate relation...

Weird Science with David Obuchowski from 2018-11-29T23:04:08

The 80's was all about exploiting our fear of the power of computers and Weird Science, another John Hughes classic, is a modern-day Frankenstein playing to our fear of keyboards, CRT monitors a...

Death Proof from 2018-11-05T18:58:35

Reels and Wheels celebrates Halloween by sitting down on Halloween night and talking about Quentin Tarantino's tribute to classic Grindhouse movies, Death Proof!

Death Proof is a Horror/T...

White Lightning with JG Pasterjak from 2018-10-11T13:47:38

On this episode Reels and Wheels pays tribute to the late Burt Reynolds with a great movie - White Lightning. Joining us once again is racer, writer & comic JG Pasterjak!

White Lightning ...

Diamonds are Forever with Brett Stillo - Reels and Wheels from 2018-09-07T12:04:41

Diamonds are Forever! It was Sean Connery's last official James Bond movie (not counting the non-Eon Never Say Never Again) and it was an interesting mixture of classy and campy; providing a pre...

Raising Arizona with Kyle Phalen - Reels and Wheels from 2018-08-16T16:35:04

Son, you got a panty on your head.

Raising Arizona - a masterpiece of a comedy/satire from the Coen brothers is a memorable, quotable and purely enjoyable movie from a time when Nicolas C...

How it Ends - Reels and Wheels from 2018-07-19T15:54:07

Netflix made a movie! And it's got Forrest Whitaker in it! And it sucks!

We love post-apocalypse movies at Reels and Wheels, so we had high hopes for How it Ends, the Netflix original tha...

Cobra with Matthew Carter - Reels and Wheels from 2018-07-05T12:54:47

Cobra (1986) is an 80's cop movie that you can absolutely love (in theory) if you get past how reprehensible it is. Sylvester Stallone is a cop who plays by his own rules. His peers don't like t...

The Karate Kid - Reels and Wheels from 2018-06-14T19:42:50

Wax on, wax off! The Karate Kid (1984) is a classic that still inspires people today and is still talked about - and it's a great car movie to boot.

From Mrs. Larusso's Chevelle wagon to ...

Damnation Alley with James Roach - Reels and Wheels from 2018-05-31T12:18:24

The apocalypse happens. Jan-Michael Vincent is pretty chill about it. George Peppard suggests driving from southern California to Albany, New York in an armored all-terrain vehicle. They do that...

Knight Rider 2010 with Ed Carden - Reels and Wheels from 2018-05-10T12:30:41

Remember when they did a post-apocalyptic pilot for a new Knight Rider series that never got picked up? Probably not. Knight Rider 2010 was part of a group of attempts at syndicated shows called...

The Fast and the Furious with Kristen Lee of Jalopnik - Reels and Wheels from 2018-04-26T15:57:33

It's the movie that kicked off the most prolific car movie franchise ever - The Fast and the Furious. It's a wake up call to the world - the tuner community has arrived and it's time to accept i...

Battle Truck - Reels and Wheels from 2018-04-12T12:15:01

On this episode, James and Sid tackle Battle Truck. It's a movie about a TRUCK that's (get this...) equipped for BATTLE.

This post apocalyptic Max Mad/The Road Warrior wannabe actually ha...

Knight Rider - The KARR Episodes - Reels and Wheels from 2018-03-29T12:45:14

Ok, maybe it doesn't make sense to leave an unstable prototype alone in a warehouse where anyone can reactivate it without at least taking the wheels off, but dammit KARR was awesome.

The...

Cars 3 with Derek Williams - Reels and Wheels from 2018-03-08T15:18:39

Cars 3... Is it a shameless cash grab to sell toys or an homage to the fans of the first movie? 

The answer is probably both. The Cars universe expands quite a bit with plenty of great ne...

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - Reels and Wheels from 2018-02-15T13:08:21

Sure, it's a stoner movie. But it's a stoner movie with character growth, literary significance, great dialogue and some insightful car choices. Heck, how often do we get to do an episode of Ree...

Overdrive - Reels and Wheels from 2018-01-25T13:07:52

Hey, look! It's a new movie that is supposed to be like "The Fast & The Furious" but in France! Let's watch it and talk about it on Reels and Wheels!

...and that's where things went downh...

Days of Thunder with Andie Albin - Reels and Wheels from 2018-01-11T13:31:40

How do you bring NASCAR to a mainstream audience in movie form? Tom Cruise, I guess. I mean, it beats Stroker Ace. Days of Thunder was actually the last of an era - the last time producers Jerry...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - Reels and Wheels from 2017-12-28T13:10:59

Sid and James are joined by their good friends Josh Horowitz and Brett Stillo of the "5 Minutes of Banzai" podcast for a quintessential cult classic - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across th...

Tucker - The Man and His Dream with Steve Lehto - Reels and Wheels from 2017-12-14T14:07:02

It was the car of the future! In the late 1940's, a charismatic man named Preston Tucker got America excited about his innovative, futuristic car design...

Sid and James welcome Steve Leh...

Phantasm with Reggie and Gigi Bannister - Reels and Wheels from 2017-11-30T14:05:30

Phantasm is a brilliant horror movie that bends reality and deals with heavy situations of confronting mortality and loss. It's also got a kick-ass 1971 HemiCuda that went on to become a mainsta...

MASK - Reels and Wheels from 2017-11-09T13:27:59

Wouldn't it be great if there was a line of toys that took everything you loved about your other toys and mashed them all together?! Like if you could have the best of Transformers AND GI Joe AN...

Evil Dead 2 with Alan Vannucchi - Reels and Wheels from 2017-10-26T13:11:56

Could this be the greatest movie ever? At Reels and Wheels, we don't need to spend a lot of time extolling the virtues of Evil Dead 2 - Sam Raimi's brilliant directing and visuals, Bruce Campbel...

The Rock from 2017-10-12T16:25:22

This week, Sid and I review the 90s Blockbuster spectacular, The Rock.  Starring Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, and Ed Harris, a Humvee, a Ferrari, and hours of helicopters.

We are joined b...

Thelma and Louise with Holly Owens - Reels and Wheels from 2017-09-28T13:04:20

In 1991, Ridley Scott took a break from directing stuff like Alien and Blade Runner and allowed himself to be convinced to helm Thelma and Louise - and that was history.

Joining Sid and J...

Knight Rider - Knight of the Phoenix with Christian Lee from 2017-09-14T12:34:05

If you were anywhere near childhood in the 1980's, KITT was probably your hero and Knight Rider was probably the greatest TV show EVER. At least, that's how Sid & James felt then and still feel ...

GoldenEye with David Beck - Reels and Wheels from 2017-08-31T13:01:12

GoldenEye was a turning point for the James Bond Franchise - both in terms of actors and cars! After years of delay, Pierce Brosnan was finally able to step into the roll he was born to play in ...

Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby with Tim Loulies from 2017-08-17T12:50:32

Ok, we admit it. This is a super fun movie. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby features Will Ferrell in full Will Ferrell mode. In retrospect, the guy is extremely funny. What really kn...

Smokey and the Bandit II - Reels and Wheels from 2017-08-03T12:30:32

A touch of creativity and the help of a good writer COULD HAVE produced a noteworthy sequel to one of the greatest car movies of all time, Smokey and the Bandit. Instead, everybody failed. Our h...

Baby Driver with Ed Carden from 2017-07-20T12:45:30

Edgar Wright has created a masterpiece. This kick-ass car movie isn't just set to music... it's part of the music. Baby Driver goes a step beyond when it comes to car chase choreography and it's...

The Love Bug with Jason Torchinsky from 2017-07-06T12:38:09

The Love Bug... Cute Disney movie? Yes. Awesome racing movie? Even more so, yes! Sid and James are joined by Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik to talk about the movie that started the Herbie franchis...

Warlock - Reels and Wheels from 2017-06-22T13:00:51

Ah, the glorious world of late 1980's horror. In Warlock, a witch hunter doing battle with the titular Warlock in colonial America follows his adversary forward in time to the 1980's in order to...

Spaceballs with CB Wilkins - Reels and Wheels from 2017-06-08T12:22:35

YES IT'S A CAR MOVIE! Sorry. We've already had that question a few times before people even knew we were recording this episode. Comedian/Member of Plan B Improv and friend of the show CB Wilkin...

Mini Episode - Smokey and the Bandit - Reels and Wheels from 2017-06-02T13:53:21

Celebrating 40 years of Smokey and the Bandit, Reels and Wheels recently hosted a meetup at a screen of one of the greatest car movies of all time. James was joined by a group of autocrossers wh...

Sorcerer with Jeff Davis from 2017-05-25T12:20:35

William Friedkin directed The Exorcist and The French Connection. If you ask him which film he considers to be his magnum opus, his will proudly name his biggest box office failure, Sorcerer! Listen

Winning with Heyward Wagner - Reels and Wheels from 2017-05-11T16:25:41

Paul Newman was a fixture in the car racing universe. How did it happen? Winning. Newman saw the script for the 1969 movie about a car racer and his love life and decided to make sure it was ele...

Cars 2 with Derek Williams - Reels and Wheels from 2017-04-27T12:37:31

So you need a sequel to your exciting car racing movie, but your Disney overlords want you to sell tons of toys and give them more Larry the Cable Guy... Do you blow them off or go all in?

Animal House with Rick Bruner - Reels and Wheels from 2017-04-13T14:33:27

Animal House. It invented the view of fraternities in movies. Heck, it could be argued that it even reshaped the fraternity experience on college campuses nationwide (even though it was based on...

Transformers with Gabriel Owens - Reels and Wheels from 2017-03-30T12:19:57

In 2007, Transformers returned to the big screen. A new generation was turned on to new versions of the toys that made it so fun to be a kid in the 1980s, but now Michael Bay was in charge.

American Graffiti with Brett Stillo - Reels and Wheels from 2017-03-16T12:26:48

On this episode of Reels and Wheels, Sid and James tackle another essential car movie... the 1973 classic, American Graffiti! They are joined by Brett Stillo of the 5 Minutes of Trouble podcast....

Better Off Dead with Alicia Camden - Reels and Wheels from 2017-03-02T14:23:01

Love... The International Language! Love abounds on Reels and Wheels Podcast's  new episode as we discuss the classic 1985 romantic comedy, Better Off Dead!

Sid and James are joined by Al...

Back to the Future 2 and 3 with Doug DeMuro - Reels and Wheels from 2017-02-16T16:49:30

It's back to Back to the Future for Reels and Wheels! On this episode, James and Sid cover Back to the Future Part 2 and 3! (Kind of. Part 3 didn't have much to talk about when it came to cars)<...

Risky Business - Reels and Wheels from 2017-02-02T13:20:46

Risky Business: It made Tom Cruise a star and and it also made a star out of Porsche. The Porsche 928 went against the grain - front engine, rear wheel drive, V8 power wasn't what Porsche was kn...

Bachelor Party with Ed Carden - Reels and Wheels from 2017-01-19T13:32:14

How obnoxious was your group of friends? On this episode of Reels and Wheels, James and Sid are joined once again by Ed Carden of The Pushers to talk about 1984's Bachelor Party, a movie where T...

Drive with JG Pasterjak - Reels and Wheels from 2017-01-05T13:44:34

Drive (2011) stars Ryan Gosling. Sid hates it. James loves it. JG Pasterjak of Grassroots Motorsports returns to join James in liking the movie. 

A part time movie stunt driver/mechanic/g...

Gremlins - Merry Christmas from Reels and Wheels from 2016-12-22T14:59:14

What better way to celebrate Christmas than to kick back with a new episode of Reels and Wheels, a podcast hosted by a Jew and an Atheist!?

In celebration of the holidays, Sid and James a...

Big Trouble in Little China with Josh Horowitz - Reels and Wheels from 2016-12-09T13:21:25

You just take my advice on a dark and stormy night when the wind is howling and the rain is coming down in sheets thick as lead... Tune into Reels and Wheels as James and Sid are joined by Josh ...

Thanksgiving Movie Picks - Reels and Wheels from 2016-11-24T15:33:02

In this mini-episode of Reels and Wheels, Sid and James give their top ten movie picks for Thanksgiving. Looking for the perfect car movie for your specific Thanksgiving situation? We've got you...

Dazed and Confused - Reels and Wheels from 2016-11-10T13:46:19

Muscle cars, classic rock and not much else. On this Reels and Wheels, James and Sid take a look a Dazed and Confused, an early 1990's movie that literally provided a snapshot of high school lif...

Killdozer! with Randall Rutledge - Reels and Wheels from 2016-10-31T12:30:36

Happy Halloween from Reels and Wheels! Today's episode is about the horror masterpiece, Killdozer! Actually, everybody but Sid hated it and technical difficulties kept this podcast shorter than ...

Tokyo Drift with Mark Baruth - Reels and Wheels from 2016-10-13T12:21:39

Automotive journalist and racer Mark Baruth (AKA, Bark M) joins Sid and James because he really wanted the hosts of Reels and Wheels to watch The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. 

Toyko...

Used Cars with Thomas Maddin - Reels and Wheels from 2016-09-29T13:33:46

Used Cars (1980) is a film with no good guys in it at all. Every character - even the dog - behaves reprehensibly. And it's funny. James and Sid are joined by actor/comedian Thomas Maddin (who a...

My Cousin Vinny - Reels and Wheels from 2016-09-15T12:30:39

On this peculiar edition of Reels and Wheels, James and Sid are joined by... James. Yep, Co-host James Rodatus doubles up as the guest this time as he puts his experience as a lawyer to work so ...

National Lampoon's Vacation with Jim Seward - Reels and Wheels from 2016-09-01T12:16:57

The original 1983 National Lampoon's Vacation is considered one of the greatest comedies of all time, and it is. The centerpiece of this saga about a family trip gone horribly wrong is the Wagon...

Initial D First Stage with Derek Williams - Reels and Wheels from 2016-08-18T14:08:49

Initial D is the go-to Anime about street racing in Japan, so James and Sid once again welcome comedian Derek Williams to talk about the show. Derek is a huge Anime fan and has plenty of experie...

Ghostbusters with Chris Balissone - Reels and Wheels from 2016-08-04T12:49:17

The original Ghostbusters - most will agree it's one of the greatest movies of all time. At Reels and Wheels, we love it because of Ecto-1 - a 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteor conversion turned into ...

Stroker Ace with JG Pasterjak - Reels and Wheels from 2016-07-21T16:27:09

Reels and Wheels continues its odd relationship with favorite director Hal Needham, talking about what in retrospect was one of his most disturbing movies - Stroker Ace!

Sid and James are...

Megaforce with Tim Loulies - Reels and Wheels from 2016-07-07T13:42:56

Why did you do this to us, Hal Needham? We loved you for Smokey and the Bandit and the Cannonball Run. But Megaforce?!

Barry Bostwick leads a team of caricatures in strange "high tech" as...

Cars with Christian Lee - Reels and Wheels from 2016-06-23T12:13:43

Father's Day just happened, so James and Sid thought it would be fun to cover a movie that a father and son could watch together, Pixar's Cars! Joining us for the ride on this one is the host of...

Body Slam with Derek Montilla - Reels and Wheels from 2016-06-09T13:36:50

On this episode of Reels and Wheels, Movies and cars collide with professional wrestling! Sid and James are joined by Derek Montilla of The Steel Cafe Podcast to discuss Body Slam - a glorious m...

The Italian Job with Steven Duckworth - Reels and Wheels from 2016-05-26T13:44:32

Who knew mafia intrigue, large scale robbery, massive traffic jams and reckless endangerment could be so fun?! The Italian Job takes it all on with tongue planted firmly in cheek as Michael Cain...

Rain Man with Kyle Phalen - Reels and Wheels from 2016-05-12T15:44:24

Rain Man was a movie based roughly on a real person that brought attention to the challenges faced by an autistic savant. An unfortunate side effect is that the character came of as silly and le...

The Spy Who Loved Me - Reels and Wheels from 2016-04-28T18:08:10

Ah, the wedge! Remember when the hottest cars in the world were shaped like a wedge?! No? Remember when Roger Moore was all the rage as James Bond? No?

Sid and James are joined by Reels a...

Reels and Wheels - The Road Warrior from 2016-04-14T14:10:34

Since the dawn of Reels and Wheels, James and Sid have been the victim of a vicious curse, the "Mad Max Curse!" All attempts to record episodes about these beloved movies have met with unexpecte...

Reels and Wheels - Bullitt with Christopher Almon from 2016-03-31T13:14:55

This is it. This is the car chase that set the bar. This is the car chase that captured our imaginations and made us love it when two muscle cars duel to the death. This is Bullitt. 

For ...

The Cannonball Run with Derek Williams from 2016-03-17T13:47:24

Ridiculous. Hilarious. Outlandish. Real. The Cannonball Run wasn't the first movie about the legendary illegal cross-country race, but it was the most iconic. Penned by Car and Driver editor Bro...

Reels and Wheels - Repo Man with Ed Carden from 2016-03-03T15:05:28

Punk rock, drugs, 80's fashion and decaying aliens in the trunk. Only 1984's Repo Man could bring such greatness together and contain it on one screen. Joining Sid and James to help understand t...

Reels and Wheels - Dirty Mary Crazy Larry with Dan Ellison from 2016-02-18T13:59:21

In the early 1970's, outlaw culture was at its height and car chase movies with jarring endings were all the rage - Like Vanishing Point and Two Lane Blacktop, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry is a chase ...

Reels and Wheels - Death Race 2000 from 2016-02-04T13:42:40

Rarely do James and Sid agree that both a movie and its cars are awesome. When it comes to Death Race 2000, both hosts give it a thumbs up and that's pretty disturbing. 

Death Race 2000 i...

Reels and Wheels - Pulp Fiction with CB Wilkins from 2016-01-21T15:32:09

Quentin Tarantino never misses a detail, so the vehicular choices of the main characters in Pulp Fiction make for a pretty exciting episode of Reels and Wheels. James and Sid are joined by CB Wi...

Reels and Wheels - The French Connection from 2016-01-07T14:52:44

Another must-see for fans of great car chases, Reels and Wheels talks The French Connection. Based on a true story, The French Connection includes a history, 5-minute car chase that pits a basic...

Reels and Wheels - Corvette Summer from 2015-12-24T16:02:30

As much as we love Star Wars at Reels and Wheels, we can't do much with it since there are no cars (Unless you count the car they used to stand in for the ship that crashed into the Super Star D...

Reels and Wheels - The Graduate from 2015-12-10T14:28:25

Sid and James tackle another excellent movie on the latest Reels and Wheels - The 1967 classic, The Graduate!

Dustin Hoffman's breakout performance is enhanced by a lot of supporting ...

Reels and Wheels - Goldfinger - with Kris Roley from 2015-11-12T13:55:44

It seems like everyone is talking about James Bond now that Spectre is out, so Sid and James decided to call in podcast extraordinaire Kris Roley to talk about one of the greatest Bond movies of...

Reels and Wheels - The Car with Jeff Davis from 2015-10-29T13:08:40

When you run a podcast called "Reels and Wheels," an episode about 1977's "The Car" isn't just appropriate, it's inevitable. The Car is the grandaddy of evil car movies. It's also terrible. It's...

Reels and Wheels - Maximum Overdrive from 2015-10-15T15:42:13

On this episode of Reels and Wheels, Sid gets his revenge on James. Being forced to watch Pretty in Pink for the last episode, Sid fights back the only way he knows how - by having James watch M...

Reels and Wheels - Pretty in Pink from 2015-10-01T16:16:04

Disclaimer: James picked this one. James said "Hey Sid, we're doing Pretty in Pink on our next episode of Reels and Wheels!"

Sid took the challenge seriously and used a request that c...

Reels and Wheels - Two Lane Blacktop with Phil Greden from 2015-09-17T16:19:21

For this episode of Reels and Wheels, Sid and James are joined by legendary automotive journalist Phil Greden, AKA Murilee Martin! 

Two Lane Blacktop is easily one of the greatest car...