Tim and Jen welcome living legend Hollywood Steve Huey to discuss a Quaalude overdose of a film, FM from 1978!
The core creators of Yacht Rock (both series and genre classification) host the delightful Yacht or Nyacht podcast, in which they rate the yachtiness of user-submitted songs. Highly recommended!
Jen and Tim wicky-wicky-watch a mostly loathed tentpole film from 1999, The Giant Mechanical Spider Invasion, aka Jon Peters' Wild Wild West (come on, it might as well have his name right above the title).
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Mel Magazine has a retrospective article on t...
2025-02-23 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen spend a LOT of time picking over a mid-tier Ridley Scott-directed actioner: Black Rain from 1989!
Errata: Jen says "Tanpei Monogatori" when she meant "Tantei Monogatari," the detective TV show starring Black Rain's antagonist, Yūsuku Matsuda. All those wasted years as a weeb and she still can't pronounce Japanese words properly. Sad!
For a much clunkier (read: Cannon Films) take on East-meets-West culture clash, listen to 2025-02-16 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen welcomes show regular Bitter Karella and wild card Moodyferret to evangelize a Gore Verbinski flop that didn't deserve the massive shrug it got from the public: the 2016 psychological thriller A Cure For Wellness.
Errata: we all say in the episode that this movie came out in 2016, but it actually arrived in theaters on February 17, 2017 before almost immediately disappearing. Oops! That said, the movie was originally slated for an October 2016 release, which seems to indicate that 2...
2025-02-09 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim look back at an all-star polemic from 1990, The Earth Day Special, a plea on behalf of Mother Earth that made a powerful impression on a young Tim. Also, we better not catch you pouring any old house paint down the drain.
Watch the special at the Internet Archive (and if so inclined, maybe throw them a small donati...
2025-02-02 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Just a quick update for you all— we're planning our upcoming slate of episodes and wanted to give you a sneak peek at just a couple of them. Can you guess the topics?
Also, Jen is booking some new-to-the-show guests we're very excited to bring to you all, so stay tuned!
2025-01-27 07:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The editing is terrible! Tim and Jen howl at the moon, which is an ovoid shape, and critique the amateurish werewolf film Lycan Colony, at least when they can make out what's onscreen. Take a drink every time Tim says the editing is terrible!
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Our episode scheduling has been a bit up in the air lately, since your hosts both live in the greater LA area (cross fingers, we've both been fine so far!) We are tentatively planning to record an episode this Friday to release on Sunday, the 19th. However, we'll let you know if anything comes up and we need to reschedule. Stay safe out there, friends.
2025-01-13 20:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim hold Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast hostage in order to talk about a holiday musical that really wasn't: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't!
For more of the Worst Possible boys, check out our collection of their guest appearances on the show! And of course you simply must hear The Worst of All Possible Worlds for yourself over at 2024-12-30 04:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen cover an unusual holiday movie that features a man beaten down by an uncaring society enough to become a self-appointed assassin. Wait, what year is this? It's 1980 and this is Christmas Evil!
There is a whole ass website about Whamageddon with the ruleset and everything, if you'd like to play or simply to inform yourself. We won't be participating, though, because we love Wham! too much to refrain from lis...
2024-12-22 23:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim grit their teeth through Barry Levinson's oppressively whimsical passion project that literally no one liked, Toys. Also, take a drink every time we use a variant of the word "whimsy," but please drink responsibly!
See the (in)famous Toys teaser trailer on YouTube.
Roger Ebert penned a more measured analysi...
2024-12-08 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen rope old friend Paul Jay into talking about a very stupid Stephen King shapeshifting energy vampires vs. kitties flick, Sleepwalkers.
Errata: Newsies actually came out April 8th, 1992, but it's probably safe to assume that no one wanted to see it on that date, either.
IGN has a very good interview with director Mick Garris, in which he talks about hi...
2024-11-24 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh God! Oh man! Jen and Tim and Mets devotee David J. Roth square up with Norman Mailer's demented neo-noir, Tough Guys Don't Dance.
Read David's piece on a true American original, B-movie stalwart Wings Hauser. Did you know that he was in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time? Well now you do!
Tim takes the reins to enthuse about a shockingly creepy British TV series for kids (?!), Children of the Stones.
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Watch the entirety of Children of the Stones on YouTube!
Hear the Reese Shears...
2024-10-27 01:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Jen welcomes Darren Herczeg to help her rhapsodize about a movie even director Ken Russell didn't like, Valentino!
The wonderfully-named Phallic Frenzy gives Russell his due as an audacious filmmaker, and describes Valentino in complimentary terms.
See Nurey...
2024-10-20 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim rationalize David Fincher's unlucky first feature, Alien Cubed (aka Alien³). Turns out that Tim has A LOT to say about Alien movies!
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2024-10-13 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen are surprisingly hard on Disney's amiable comics-based misfire, The Rocketeer!
See Rondo Hatton in The Brute Man, but let the MST3k crew accompany you through this murky noir.
The Cocoanut Grove fire has been widely covered in media. The Fascinating Horror channel has an excellent recounting of the disaster,...
2024-09-29 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
To our beloved patrons,
We are grateful to each of you who have supported us for the 200+ episodes we have been making this show. We are both sad and frustrated that the work we've been doing has not reached a broader audience.
Of the three episodes we release a month, most listeners will only hear one. They may never learn about the flamboyant majesty of Romeo & Romeo or have t...
2024-09-24 05:06:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim return to Gumbasia to discuss the legacy of a complicated man: Gumby creator Art Clokey!
The documentary that sparked the discussion, Gumby Dharma, may be viewed free on YouTube via the channel for Bay Area PBS station KQED.
Pay a visit to Clokey Productions to see some behind-the-scenes footage!
Here's an example of that 2024-09-22 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
An extra-mellow and profoundly aphasic Bitter Karella steps in to help Jen explicate the other, crappier version of The Warriors: Streets of Fire!
Hear the bangin' soundtrack on YouTube, which includes "Deeper and Deeper" by The Fixx (which you won't see on the Spotify version of the soundtrack even though "Deeper and Deeper" IS on there. Who knows why).
Yes, there are some tidbits about Streets of Fire in this <...
2024-09-14 21:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Having spoken about their most favorite topics from the last one hundred episodes, Tim and Jen scrape the bottom of the barrel for their worst favorites.
Lexx, Witch Hunt, and 2024-08-26 00:26:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim reflect on the last one hundred episodes (holy crap, we made it to 200 and beyond!) and each chooses five favorites from the mixed bag!
On YouTube, you can watch Penda's Fen, The Jericho Mile, and Pavel Klushantsev's delightful Planet of Storms 2024-08-18 19:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen invite Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to marvel at Saul Bass's disquieting sci-fi dreamscape, Phase IV!
View the alternate ending that should have been the theatrical ending to Phase IV on YouTube.
A couple of interesting side notes about the Oscar-winning faux ...
2024-08-11 19:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim doggedly return to the remnants of Max Knight: Ultra Spy in hopes that it can be archived on a Zip disk and forgotten.
Missed part one of our deep dive? Find it here! Wanna see the movie? "Log in" to the "Information Superhighway" and "point" your "browser" to the Internet Archive!
Tim gets the bit (or byte?) between his teeth and rants about the 90s and the lost promise of the internet, and a little bit about cheapie TV movie Max Knight: Ultra Spy! Jen just tries to hold on as best she can! Oh yeah, and this is part one because we don't know how to shut up!
You can easily tell how white your hosts are by their lack of knowledge of UPN (not the only tell, if we're being honest), which provided a home for black shows and showrunners alike. Or at least it did for a ...
2024-07-28 23:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen enlist Gaius of the wonderful Tribunate channel on YouTube to help unearth a Romans-vs.-Picts historical epic that vanished like the Ninth Legion, Centurion.
Jen's personal favorite video from Tribunate is this savage takedown of Cato, but this examination...
2024-07-22 02:15:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen puts Tim in an arm bar until he agrees to talk about a backyard martial arts movie from a determined auteur: Fight Ring!
Sean Gallimore had a successful animation career for many years, including many top-of-the-line films for Disney. See a gallery of his artwork, which includes expert 3D modeling work as well as his sig...
2024-07-14 22:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen invite their favorite internet crank Bitter Karella to help them analyze a bewildering major release that no one liked, Argylle. It's so confounding a project, it leads Karella to use the phrase "Brechtian distancing mechanism."
Listen to our Apple TV+ episode, in which we read the entir...
2024-06-30 22:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim just can't figure out why audiences were so lukewarm about this fun pulp adventure, The Phantom from 1996.
Phantom creator Lee Falk enthused about the movie in a 1996 interview, singling out Billy Zane for particular praise.
As Tim mentioned, the Phantom struck a chord with the people of Papua New Guinea. 2024-06-24 04:53:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen welcome Rifftrax stalwarts Bill Corbett and Sean Thomason to discuss a cheapie high fantasy film that thinks it's a spaghetti western, Hawk the Slayer!
Bill and Sean have brought their Ringheads podcast to a close, but if you crave some Silmarillon chat, find it on Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcast platform.
The Rifftrax version of Hawk the Slayer is free wi...
2024-06-09 19:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post