96 Greers

In the winter of our discontent, let necessity be the mother of invention.  As in, we are discontent with America: the Motion Picture and needed to be inventive about recording while Barry was out of town for a week and a half.  Join us in an audio festival of contempt for this animated comedy's poorly-written jokes that rely on the premise "anachronisms = funny" over and over and over.  This podcast would like to humbly submit the...

The stars have finally aligned, two in-theater episodes in a row!  Barry and Patrick headed back to the realm of 8 dollar fountain drinks for Dead of Winter, a sparse backcountry thriller where Emma Thompson and Judy Greer have conflicting goals regarding a teenager who is bound and gagged in a basement.  (I told you, it's sparse!)  Stick around for an Other Segment that keeps Barry unwisely spending $.40/ounce on a beverage that r...

Two momentous episodes in a row!  For the previous episode, we knew the halfway mark was going to come eventually.  But we did not know when we would get to see JG in a movie in theaters that other people would actually go see.  Barry and Patrick recorded this episode two weeks ago and, holy crap, The Long Walk is still in theaters!  Better and more popular film podcasts are talking about it!  But don't listen to them.  Or do.  Bar...

Honored ear-guests: we've half-done it.  With this episode, we reach the halfway mark of the journey to 96 Greers.  We mark this special occasion with a special movie in the Judy Greer filmography:  2004's 13 Going on 30.  That's right, Barry and Patrick have taken this ode to Gen X's childhood and given themselves permission to be even more nostalgic than usual about the late nineties/early oughts.  Pull on your Uggs, update your ...

Before Octavia Butler and Taraji P. Henson were in Hidden Figures, before Ben Schwartz was Sonic the Hedgehog, and before Judy Greer stuck ping pong balls to her body and pretended to mother a baby chimpanzee, they were all in a family dramedy? TV pilot? Lightly fictionalized autobiographical video essay?  They were all in Peep World, a motion picture from the twisted mind that brought you The Key Man.  Come for the criticism, stay...

I love the spell of ape film in the morning.  Smells like a new episode of 96 Greers!  Last summer, Patrick and Barry watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, followed by a whimsical Other Segment-- and a harrowing Judilization.  This year, they're being called back to the combat zone, for one last entry in an iconic, decades-spanning science fiction  franchise:  War for the Planet of the Apes.  Do the philosophical questions asked ...

It's the Summer of Greer REDUX!  We're back in the MCU, grappling with more important-sounding Proper Nouns that are of no consequence to either of us!  Luckily we have Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder to get us caught up on the three years between Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp.  We puzzle over missing character arcs, the fine-line-removing potentials of the quantum realm, and sneak in a sub-atomic review of Guardians of the Galaxy ...

After our road trip episode, we bring you: another road trip episode!  But this time the road trip is in the movie.  Kind of.  For a few scenes.  But it's mostly a gay drama about a South Carolina family in the early 70s.  Think Tennessee Williams on quaaludes.  Written and directed by HBO showrunner extraordinaire, Alan "Tennessee Williams on Quaaludes" Ball, Uncle Frank inspires Patrick and Barry to consider queer representation ...

Finally, someone made content for children about first responders and the cast isn't a bunch of CGI dogs (and oesn't-day eature-fay the ops-cay ;)).  But the cast does include the comedy talents of Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo, and everybody's favorite pro wrestler-turned-actor!  No, not Dave Bautista.  The other-- no, not Dwayne Johnson.  All right, it's your third favorite-- what?  You think Hulk Hogan's cameo i...

Content note: folks with misophonia may want to skip the Other Segment (01:08:00-01:37:00)

Who can say no to an indie film with regionally-specific jokes and a protagonist whose attitude and hairstyle could both be described as "Devil-may-care"?  Certainly not us, because Judy Greer is in the cast of 2019's Buffaloed, a scrappy comedy that asks: what if The Wolf of Wall Street was about America's debt crisis? and instead of being w...

Content note: we discuss the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic at length.

If you've listened to any previous episodes of 96 Greers, you may have asked yourself a question.  And there was an answer to that question-- up until this episode, where the answer changed.  And you may doubt that I actually know the question that you asked yourself, and you may be right or you may be wrong, but I'm not going to tell you here, because your...

Richard Linklater is a beloved American auteur with a heart as big as his Texas homeland and a colorful Boomer childhood (that almost assuredly included experimenting with psychedelics) to influence the stories he tells.  So it stands to reason that he would be the ideal writer/director for a film adaptation of a novel about a Los Angeles vanguard architect turned Seattle stay-at-home mom played by iconic ice queen Cate Blanchett--...

Zig-a-zig ha, cinephiles!  We're rolling back to 1997-- or at least, we're rolling back to 2010 rolling back to 1997, with Love and Other Drugs!  Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, the director of Glory and The Last Samurai?  That's the best trio since romcoms where two prickly assholes shack up, social issue dramas that assign blame to nobody, and raunchy sex comedies about boner pills!  Patrick presents a unified theory of Judy Gree...

This episode of 96 Greers is notable for documenting a moment in time when TikTok the Gray had died, but had not yet made its dramatic return as TikTok the [tool of] White [supremacy].  It's also notable as fan service for anyone who may fondly remember the episodes of Director's Club where Barry helped out with the song parodies (and by anyone, we mean Jim).  It is not notable for the movie that we covered, American Dreamz, a come...

It's 2025, whether we like it or not!  And as the old saying goes:  new year, new Greer.  Patrick and Barry (fka Reg) are stroking their beards and nodding seriously at the Adam Goldberg-directed I Love Your Work.  This dark tale of Hollywood delirium may be the closest that we get to being able to discuss a Hitchcock movie on this podcast.  Or David Lynch.  Or Jacques Demy.  It's a whole lot.  Other layers of reality in this episo...

We got Christmas out of the way early with our last episode, now we're on to the next big holiday that speaks to what really matters in This Country:  mid-season pilots!  Reg and Patrick focus test The TV Set, a 2006 film by the guy who made Red One.  Will they feel comforted by over-the-top performances and stock characters, or intimidated and annoyed by sardonic humor that definitely isn't satire?  Stick around for David Duchovny...

Yes, it's mid-November 2024 and we are covering a "faith-based" movie.  No, we don't talk about the election.  Yes, "faith" is a euphemism for Christian.  No, we haven't been "saved."  Yes, my use of quotation marks around "saved" is meant to be sarcastic.  No, I'm not playing an ad hoc improv game with myself in the description field of my podcast, why do you ask.  Yes, we talk about Judy Greer a lot. 

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It's Halloween Kills, and everyone is entitled to one good podcast.  Or something.  We've waited a whole year to return to Haddonfield for the 2021 legasequel sequel to 2018's Halloween, the legasequel to Halloween.  We talk comparisons to another big-name legasequel trilogy and discover that we see a lot of ourselves in some of Michael Myers' victims. 

Who did the better Loomis impression?  Our contact deets are at the end of ever...