Tim and Jen scratch their heads over an incest-filled nightmare of a David Cronenberg movie, Maps to the Stars!
Hey remember that Mysteries and Scandals show on E!? They did an episode about Jon-Erik Hexum! (Whatever happened to A.J. Benza?)
The poem by John Cooper Clarke that so moved Tim, “Evidently Chickentown,” may be heard here. 2022-06-12 23:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi al!
With close to 140 episodes under our belts, we think we’ve finally gotten the hang of this thing! We’re so thankful to everyone who has supported the show. Your subscriptions have ensured that we can keep making episodes about some of the weirdest, dumbest, and/or most unfairly overlooked movies of all time.
Starting June 1st, we will be limiting access to bonus episodes to the $5 tier. The $2 tier will become a “support” tier going forward. So if you want to ...
2022-06-01 00:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim welcome back Josh of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcastto discuss the Oliver Stone version of the Eric Bogosian play, Talk Radio from 1988.
Jen got the date of the crash of Air Florida flight 90 wrong— it happened in January of 1982.
“The comment that brought Howard Stern his most notoriety during his time on Washington, DC radio in the early ‘80s was the infamous Fou...
2022-05-29 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen get locked in with a raw adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s sensational play, Short Eyes!
Go here for a bio of Piñero, the trailblazing Nuyorican playwright, as well as a list of his works.
BTW, there’s a documentary called The Survivor’s Guide to Prison that is slick, well made, and narrated by Danny Trejo as well as many other cultural icons. You can watch it for 2022-05-22 22:20:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim take a look at an exploration of trauma anchored by an incredible Jennifer Jason Leigh performance, Heart of Midnight!
The writer/director, Matthew Chapman, wrote the screenplay for Color of Night, but don’t hold that against him! See some of his unproduced material at The Blacklist.&nb...
2022-05-18 04:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Our next bonus episode will be delayed due to technical issues, but we're recording in person Sunday night and you can look forward to our HEART OF MIDNIGHT episode on Tuesday, 5/17! In the meantime, you can watch this curious little thriller for free with ads on Tubi.
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Tim holds forth on the mind sickness that led to short-lived streaming service Quibi before diving into a review of short-form horror anthology 50 States of Fright. Jen just tries to keep up!
This AV Club article is pretty emblematic of the unkind response to the first episode of the series, “The Golden Arm.”
Have You Seen…All Possible Worlds?! Tim and Jen team up with Josh and Brian of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss a wretchedly stupid British horror film starring Roddy McDowall called It! No, not that one. This one came out in 1967 and involves a golem that looks like a wet trash bag.
Listen to The Worst of All Possible Worlds wherever you listen to us, or at their website!
Jen and Tim take a bite out of cult cannibal Western flick Ravenous, with the help of Bitter Karella!
“The Windigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death. When it sees something, it wants to own it. No one else can have anything. This illness feeds on a spiritual void. Canada and US are presently in an advanced stage of...
2022-04-11 02:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen effuse about an early Michael Mann joint for television, the prison story The Jericho Mile!
You can buy a beautiful blu-ray of the film from Kino Lorber, but if you just can’t wait to see it, it’s on YouTube. And we highly recommend it!
The 1977 film Short Eyes, based on Miguel ...
2022-03-28 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim host Bitter Karella, who is a witch, to discuss a very witchy cult horror movie, Eyes of Fire! Also, if you were dying to know Jen’s thoughts on Midsommar, they’re in there.
Jen misidentified the actor who plays Will Smythe as “Douglas Lipscomb.” She of course meant Dennis Lipscomb.
Severin Films included Eyes of Fire in their recently released 2022-03-21 01:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron.
The official Bruce Lee website
If you’re not familiar with Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, just watch!
The 17th century samurai, philosopher, and artist 2022-03-14 01:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim enlist favorite guest Bitter Karella to explicate the inexplicable Dan Aykroyd/Gene Hackman buddy cop comedy, Loose Cannons!
Not to get all fact check dot org on you all, but the Dissociative Identity Disorder website has science-based information on what was misrepresented as “multiple personality disorder” in the movie.
Tim and Jen make hay out of the 1988 comedy Hot to Trot, which killed Bobcat Goldthwait’s career for two decades. The horse was unscathed.
Tim confused God Bless America with Red State (and Jen did not catch the error, shame on her) — the other movie from 2011 with a divisive title and middling revi...
2022-02-23 03:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim reflect on one of the great neo-noir films of Hollywood’s second golden age, Night Moves.
Senses of Cinema has a thoughtful essay on the film by Bruce Jackson.
We didn’t get a chance to talk about the film’s writer, Alan Sharp, who said his own screen work embodied “moral ambiguity, mixed motives and irony.” Matthew Asprey Gear descri...
2022-02-14 02:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen welcome back Sean Morris to discuss one of Spike Lee’s most fascinating and controversial trainwrecks, Bamboozled.
Per Sean’s recommendation, check out the official video for “Lovin’ It”from Little Brother’s “too intelligent” album The Minstrel Show.
If you’re curious about the camera Spike Lee used to make Bamboozled, you can read 2022-02-02 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim are joined by Darren “Sebebe” Herczeg to reassess Michael Mann’s profoundly flawed fantasy/horror film, The Keep!
Kit Rae’s exhaustive fansite may be the definitive document on The Keep at this point, but there’s also a documentary more than ten years in the making on the same subject. You can follow the filmmakers for updates on 2022-01-23 22:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen are overwhelmed by the raw charisma of Jacques from the Seeking Derangments podcast in a truly chaotic episode nominally about the chaotic 1977 film House!
Via Senses of Cinema, read a retrospective on Nobuhiko Obayashi’s career that also serves as a defense of his filmmaking style...
2022-01-17 02:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim revisit an old favorite, Peter Hyams’s “High Noon in Space,” aka Outland!
Jen is incorrect when she asserts that John Wayne was considered for the part of Marshal Will Kane in High Noon; Kramer and screenwriter Carl Foreman wanted a hot young star like Brando or Gregory Peck. Wayne, along with other Hollywood reactionaries including Hedda Hopper, did pressure Gary Cooper into withdrawing from a proposed production company headed by High Noon screenwriter and HUAC targe...
2022-01-03 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sending love to our loyal subscribers and best wishes for the new year!
2021-12-25 21:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen shred a selection of programs from awful neolib also-ran streaming service, Apple TV+!
Jen alludes at one point to the “Unicorn Killer,” Ira Einhorn. He claimed to have helped found Earth Day, but his account has been disputed. Conservatives still love to evoke him as emblematic of leftist depravity. 2021-12-20 05:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen welcomes Julie once again to talk about the historical background of a phantasmagoric Ken Russell favorite, Gothic!
The movie Jen fails to identify is, of course, Catherine Breillat’s 2004 Anatomy of Hell, starring Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi.
Thomas Dolby enlisted vocalist Timothy Spall (!) for a song inspired by the film Gothic, 2021-12-14 04:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!
Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard.
‘The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, retrieving “the richest cream fat in...
2021-11-29 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, big influx of new patrons! Thank you all for joining us, and whether your stay with us is brief or extended, we're so grateful for your support. In the meantime, please check out our 50-and-counting bonus episodes, with guests including Chapo good boys Matt, Will, and Felix, martial arts legend Cynthia Rothrock, Dutch director Ate de Jong, screenwriter Josh Olson, Bill Corbett and Conor Lastowka of Rifftrax, and more! Just hit the bonus episode tag and enjoy!
2021-11-22 22:03:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!
Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Factory.
You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Bitter ...
2021-11-22 03:43:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen welcomes Julie (@ chimericalgirl1 on Twitter) to celebrate an almost entirely forgotten erotic thriller with art house ambitions, Siesta, from 1987. This one’s quite overlooked in spite of a stacked cast that includes Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Grace Jones, and Alexei Sayle.
We admit, this one’s hard to track down unless you’re willing to hunt for PAL and/or bootleg DVDs, but you can 2021-11-16 03:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Bitter Karella to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin.
Read a 2020 interview with lead actor John Amplas, in which he reminisces about Romero and working on Martin.
Some exciting news that broke the day we recorded this episode— 2021-11-01 03:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Tim discover two Arkansas originals: The Town That Dreaded Sundown from 1976, and indie film pioneer Charles B. Pierce!
Amanda Squitiero, daughter of Charles B. Pierce, corrects some misconceptions about him in this fine article from Filmmaker magazine.
2021-10-25 02:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen confront the most infamous mondo film of all time, Faces of Death!
Faces of Death may be viewed in its entirety on Tubi.
Echoing Jen’s experience in high school auto safety, two students were traumatized after their ...
2021-10-18 03:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss!
Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours at Andrew Hearst’s blog.
Listen to our Bright Lights, Big City epi...
2021-09-27 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post