Every now and then a film turns you into a bored child, screaming and pleading as mom searches the racks of another discount clothing store. Jess Franco drags me through aisles of low cost boobs and spider puppets in "Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula" - containing all the excitement of an old Doris Wishman film, and so much less.

I recently talked to Mike Zawacki, Detroit area film maker, about cultural fiction, zombies, and turning ideas into movies. Plus, catheter jokes. Information on Mike Zawacki's current projects may be found at http://www.thoughtcollide.com and at http://www.myspace.com/thoughtcollide .

Manless moon maidens! Gold for the taking! And Big Damn Spiders! The Web of the Big Damn Spider returns with a discussion of what it means to be a real man on the moon, and a paranoid conspiracy theory linking John Hughs to the war on terror, as a small exploratory crew face the "Cat-Women of the Moon"! Plus, no few than two microphones, and the addition of a robotic rant alarm!

See how much a film student and an English major can read into a science fiction movie. It's all about aliens and the human condition as Tim Lehnerer and I discuss "Brother from Another Planet".

Sorority girls, escaped lunatics, and a shopping mall... It must be a slasher film! I talk to Zack Handlen about cookie-cutter cut-em-ups as "The Initiation" makes the expected bloody splash on the Web of the Big Damn Spider.

I catch up with Chris Holland (of Stomp Tokyo and The Cult Movies Podcast) for that elusive B-Fest interview and attempt to penetrate the mysteries of B-Fest scheduling and uncover the secret plans of Stomp Tokyo. Plus, we discuss food and booze.

At the end of January, I went to B-Fest in Evanston, IL. There I spent 24 hours (well, 23.5 - it ended early) in an increasingly smelly auditorium watching movies that should never be screened again. In this special double-sized episode, I recount the events of that weekend and attempt to rationalize my excitement at the thought of doing it again next year.

What's more fun than a surf filled with flesh-eating microbes? A microbial collective storming the beach! Take a trip to the Isle of Professor Bartell, as we review "The Flesh Eaters."

There's nothing like a meteorite and big damn spiders to make a girl want a bath, as we sit close to the screen for a peek at "Arachnia". Much less music and most of Alexxus Young this time at the Web of the Big Damn Spider.

HG Wells turns over in his grave in Bert I Gordon's "The Beginning of the End" and "Village of the Giants". Plus, celebrity dancing, obscure references, and one Big Damn Spider, all in the inaugural podcast of Web of the Big Damn Spider.