Jen and Tim come to a tenuous agreement about a once universally loathed Martin Short comedy, Clifford. Also, Tim punches down ruthlessly on a twenty pound miniature pinscher.
The Slate article about Martin Short that riled everyone up may be found here, but if you want to skip right to the synchronized swimming sketch from SNL, you can 2023-09-25 02:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen head back to the pre-prestige-TV cable well with a failed spinoff of Tales From the Crypt called Perversions of Science. Throughout, you can really tell that your hosts would rather be watching a certain Canadian/German co-production.
Jen was slightly off when she said that HBO has existed since “the mid-to-late 70s”—it launched in 1972.
Our next episode is expected to drop tomorrow and will feature our return to the pre-prestige cable era! Can you guess the series?
Jen enlists show stalwart Bitter Karella to help offend nearly every single person in the Czech Republic by providing an honest review of Goat Story: The Old Prague Legends.
See the intro for the show Jen and Karella saw in Switzerland, Kommissar Rex. That's what I call a good friend!
If you would like to see the "Roy Orbison in clingfilm" stories for yourself, you can do so 2023-09-10 21:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim quibble over Bobcat Goldthwait’s directorial debut, the seedy comic tale of Shakes the Clown. Also, Jen drops some hard truths about Robin Williams.
Patton Oswalt tells his story about the world’s worst party clown to Conan O’Brien.
Are you new to Have You Seen This? Have you yet to hear the good news about Pervy the Clown? Tune your Roku to 2023-09-03 22:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Due to a family medical emergency, we are postponing the release of the next free episode to next Sunday, the 3rd. Thank you all so much for your patience and continued support!
2023-08-28 04:57:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen look at the creepiest Charles Bronson film not directed by Michael Winner, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects.
Regarding Jill Ireland leaving then-husband David McCallum for Bronson, longtime rumor says that Bronson reportedly told McCallum to his face, “I’m going to marry your wife.” However, McCallum disputes this, and apparently didn’t hold a grudge:
“‘I never hated him, Charlie was always a good friend,’ he says. ‘I find that when problems come al... 2023-08-20 20:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim get mad enough to talk about All Hallow’s Eve and Terrifier (the first one) for almost two hours!
Jen really punted when she said that scary clowns go back to John Wayne Gacy— according to Smithsonian Magazine, clowns have been creepy (and annoying) for centuries!
This Bloom County strip from the story arc Jen mentioned illu...
2023-08-14 05:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen review a film of great technical genius and great vacuity of story: Natalie Wood’s final film, Brainstorm. But Jen liked at least half of it. Also, please send Tim all of your uneaten candy corn.
There’s a rundown on the Showscan process originally intended for Brainstorm from Douglas Trumbull himself on YouTube. Too bad it’s in 360p. This fine Japanese 2023-07-31 05:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim struggle to understand the newly-minted cult status of a flop from Keanu Reeve’s himbo era, the cyberpunk thriller Johnny Mnemonic. They also put on hazmat suits and and delve into the horror that is the comment section on Dina Meyer’s website.
Director Robert Longo talks about the rationale and process that led to his black-and-white edition of Johnny Mnemonic over at 2023-07-24 01:13:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen dutifully cover the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell, the Paul Schrader (!)-directed Witch Hunt.
Jen erred and called Schrader’s 2022 film Master Gardener “Master.” Was she thinking of the Paul Thomas Anderson film The Master? Who knows!
Be sure to watch Tim’s webseries 2023-07-17 03:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim try to say something nice about a pay cable attempt at Lovecraftian horror/comedy, Cast a Deadly Spell. Also, Jen tries and fails to remember the time she massively insulted Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid out of nowhere.
Jen is so dumb she forgot to mention who directed Witch Hunt, the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell: Paul fucking Schrader. Will we watch it? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Tim ...
2023-07-02 19:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim is too cool to talk about a nerdy British kid’s coming of age story, so Jen and special guest @bitterkarella step in to talk about cult BBC teleplay Penda’s Fen.
BFI did indeed release Penda’s Fen on blu-ray in 2016, but it’s also available on YouTube!
Dearest patrons, up until now you've only been getting the premium, exclusive content available nowhere else and must be sorely disappointed to learn you are not also getting the ordinary muck that we give out for free!
To fix that, we will be posting our back catalog of publicly-available episodes here every Thursday, so you can catch up on all the episodes that we weren't able to charge money for.
So starting next week, buckle up and enjoy the episodes from our back catalog, sta...
2023-06-22 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim welcome reproductive rights expert Mellie to discuss an exhaustive documentary on A BIG COMPLICATED ISSUE: Tony Kaye’s overview of abortion in the US, Lake of Fire.
Looper has the rundown on Tony Kaye’s battle with New Line Cinema (and Edward Norton) over the final cut of American History X.
Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawk or maybe Jude Law
Tim and Jen have a mild and cordial disagreement about Truman Show screenwriter Andrew Niccol’s flop first feature: Gattaca.
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Jen and Tim welcome @bitterkarella to talk about a tWisTeD comic book movie, the Spawn before Spawn, Faust: Love of the Damned!
Read an interview with director Brian Yuzna to learn more about Fantastic Factory, the production company that brought you that titty inflation scene. He also talks about The Guyver!
If you...
2023-06-03 23:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Well! We blew our self-imposed deadline for the release of our Faust: Love of the Damned episode (which I know you were all waiting for with bated breath), so first of all we must apologize to our subscribers. We recorded on Tuesday night with your friend and mine Bitterkarella, but we're still waiting on the final edit because things are chaotic at the Albright household due to remodeling.
2023-05-26 18:27:54 +0000 UTC
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Due to conflicting schedules, our next bonus episode will be slightly delayed. We will be recording it tomorrow night (with our best dressed guest!) and you may expect it to drop by Tuesday. And yes, the accompanying photo is a clue but we will be astonished if you can identify the movie.
2023-05-21 01:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen scratch their heads over a Japanese musical that’s positively infested with cats, Cats on Park Avenue. It has nothing to do with New York or the musical Cats.
Complex has the story on how Disney literally killed five golden retriever puppies while making Snow Buddies, a direct-to-video follow-up to Air Bud.
Marty Stouffer became popular with his Wild A...
2023-05-14 22:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul Jay returns to talk with us about Warren Beatty’s greatest love! No, not women— by all evidence it’s Dick Tracy. Also, we are interrupted by a dog.
View one of Beatty’s rights-maintaining Dick Tracy specials, in which he’s interviewed by Leonard Maltin while in character as his favorite comic strip detective.
We’ve talked about Warren a couple of times before on th...
2023-04-30 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
With Tim AWOL (Absent With Overabundant Lego), Jen invites wrestling expert Darren Herczeg to discuss a half-assed wrestling comedy, Body Slam!
You can read Dirk Benedict’s idiotic whining about the female Starbuck over at the Internet Archive.
For a peek into the primordial soup of reactionary mass media, 2023-04-24 02:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim talk about a truly weird musical fantasia from the mind of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss— The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
So much of this episode wouldn’t exist without the superlative work of Seuss biographer Brian Jay Jones. His book Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination highlights Geisel's creativity and enduring legacy in popular literature. Jones ta...
2023-04-10 03:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen discuss a beloved epic whose time has come, the Peter Weir masterpiece Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World!
The GQ article mentioned appears to be yet more proof of the widespread affection for this film.
The doctor who pioneered sanitary prac...
2023-04-02 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen is defeated by the ostensible low point of Lindsay Lohan’s onscreen career, I Know Who Killed Me, while Tim cuts right through the Gordian knot that is the movie’s storyline. Also Jen vents her disappointment over a director she actually likes(?), sorta.
Someone actually tracked down the screenwriter, Jeff Hammond, and got him to open up a little...
2023-03-27 05:06:52 +0000 UTC View PostHey fans!
With both of your hosts still in a self-imposed crunch time (Jen's being commissioned-based, while Tim's involves, as always, Lego), we have pushed the date of our next episode back. The plan is to record tonight and release the episode sometime during the week. You'll be excited to hear that, in light of a supposed 2023-03-19 18:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen host steadfast friend of the show mugrimm to talk about a pervasively influential TV movie that spawned the cult series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Also, in this episode you can learn more about Pervy the Clown…if you dare.
If you love Kolchak’s sad little hat, you can get one!
The Slate article quibbling about Fletch (the 1985 ...
2023-03-13 06:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim jack freely over a rote 1992 sci-fi action thriller, Freejack, starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger. Your hosts kind of forget to talk about Jagger, but Tim does reminisce fondly about Four Loko.
Jen says “Psycho Ninja” when she was actually thinking of Psycho Kickboxer. The latter film is absolutely delightful, by the way.
If you’re curious about the gory details of Denise Rich...
2023-03-01 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen remain in the 90s for a look at a dire courtroom drama leavened with gauzy sex scenes, the 1992 Madonna vehicle Body of Evidence.
There are no page numbers in Madonna’s book Sex, but it doesn’t take long to flip through on the Internet Archive if you want to see her eating pizza in the nude!
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers beat Jen to it with a panoply of fa...
2023-02-16 03:08:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
We have recorded our next episode about the supremely silly "erotic" "thriller" Body of Evidence, but due to boring un-fun day job commitments, we're expecting it to drop Wednesday of this week. We're still on target to bring you two more episodes this month to make up for last month's gaps, so stay tuned! Thank you all so much for your patience and for hanging in there with us!
- Jen and Tim
P.S. In the meantime, feel free to stop by our Discord ...
2023-02-13 21:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post