96 Greers
From horror franchises, to romcoms, to the Christmas movie where Michael Shannon pretend to be Bigfoot, America’s Best Friend Judy Greer’s prolific film career spans over 20 years. Join Reg Linn (they/them) and Patrick Ripoll (he/him) as they podcast through her filmography, one movie at a time. Theme song: ”96 Tears” written by Rudy Martinez, performed by Reg Linn and Patrick Ripoll
Episodes
Our wife told us not to record this podcast. But Reg and Patrick are back to offend everyone and ask the tough questions about BARRY MUNDAY, a typical Boy-Loses-Testicles-and-Forgets-He-Met-Girl comedy, such as:
Has there ever been an actually funny scene set at a support group?
Will 96 Greers become a Patrick Wilson fancast?
Can one third of the screenwriting team behind Rock of Ages successfully channel the universal unconscious...
In February, we asked a deeply inane question: What Do Women Want? In March, we asked an even more inane question: What Do Children Want? Two dozen episodes into Judy Greer's filmography, and we have yet to cover a work aimed specifically at children (unless you count Rusty's Learning to Listen: Part 8). As a pair of childless film snobs who find themselves out to sea, we dip our toes into the family move genre with the latest...
STOP! Are you aware that you are currently on the Internet? When's the last time you even looked up from that screen? Are you even aware what's happening to The Children? Or maybe you yourself are so enthralled by this terrible technology that you are already lost in the dark labyrinth of mild BDSM fantasies, horny housewives in baggy sweaters, photos of skinny white girls, photos of skinny white girls in WIGS, and Carl Sagan. ...
Join Reg and Patrick as they live, laugh, and love through the Nancy Meyers written and directed rom-com What Women Want. What do women want: a living wage, professional relationships built on mutual respect, and bodily autonomy? Maybe, but have you considered: Mel Gibson? Reg and Patrick have, because he's the protagonist of this movie! They didn't have a choice.
Content note: suicidal ideation
Prepare your earholes, because 96 Greers is coming in hot with a Lemon party. Reg and Patrick bare it all: their feelings on 2017 dark comedy Lemon, director Janicza Bravo's other work (including 2020 Twitter-plotted sensation Zola), and the use of unlikable characters and cringey situations to create comedy. After exploring multiple positions, the Other Segment finds them spitting and swallowing with a lemon-flavored taste test...
Well met, gentle friends, and harken to another discourse with Reg and Patrick, spirited to you through your enchanted box of wonders! On this fine day, we turn our thoughts to a fanciful tale spun by M. Night Shyamalan, entitled The Village. If you know not wherefore this missive is written in such a manner, perchance you would benefit greatly from watching The Village first, as this discussion teems with bedeviling spoilers. L...
Holy sibling rivalry Batman, it's another mumblecore episode! Well, it's a Duplass Brothers episode. Perhaps those two descriptors aren't quite as interchangeable as Patrick and Reg had assumed. Jeff Who Lives at Home has us pondering the physics of sinking cars, business communication trends of 2010, and what Ed Helms is like when he goes full Hollywood. Save your ear-fork for the Other Segment, we're serving up a best movies ...
This episode is being published a little late, but don't worry, we weren't giving you the Shaft. More recent roles have seen the ever-Super Fly Judy Greer playing a White Mama, but on this episode we go back to 2003's action comedy The Hebrew Hammer, a blaxploitation homage with a Jewish twist. Pour yourself a cup of Coffy and listen to Patrick and Reg get a little Uptight as they navigate the punching-down tendencies of oughts c...
Reg and Patrick go on an adventure to the Chicago International Film Festival to see the premiere of Eric LaRue, the directorial debut of Judy Greer's Pottersville co-star Michael Shannon and focuses on the emotional aftermath for parents whose children were involved in a school shooting. We talk about our expectations going in and then time warp to the day after the screening to see if those expectations were met. And then we ti...
It's damn near impossible to be a prolific Hollywood actor in the 21st century without being in a franchise or two. Judy Greer plays Laurie Strode's daughter Karen in David Gordon Green's Halloween, a sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween. Reg and Patrick talk about the inevitable teenage drama plot lines in slasher movies, stan Lumpy, and attempt to convince themselves that podcasters make for interesting movie characters.
Conten...
Get ready for an unhinged episode of 96 Greers that delves into the bewildering world of Elizabethtown, the film that inspired the phrase "manic pixie dream girl." Reg is hopped up on goofballs! Patrick is calling out other film podcasts by name! Porn keyword search jokes! Experiments on children without institutional review board approval! Rate, review and subscribe-- if you dare....
On this PODCAST, we BELIEVE:
- abortions in movies are better without conflict
- gay cowboys are real
- Alan Alda and Alan Arkin should just have the same name, sheesh
- Jane Campion's 2021 Western drama The Power of the Dog and Laurie Anderson's 2015 cinematic meditation on grief Heart of a Dog should just have the same name, sheesh
We also find time to talk about the 2015 indie dramedy Grandma, featuring Judy Greer as Lily Toml...
Spoiler Alert! We got a sneak preview of Aporia and we do discuss the entire plot of the movie. If you don't want spoilers for the third act, stop listening before 44:00.
Temps are high, sfx are low, and sci is fi when Reg and Patrick discuss Aporia, an empathetic and intellectual timeline-bender in which Judy Greer heads up an excellent cast. Other topics include the WGA/SAG AFTRA strike, when it pays to ignore logical inconsis...
Dig it: 70's Greer! That's... all that Reg had prepared coming into this episode. 2011 indie crime film The Key Man doesn't have a lot going for it, but it does have Judy Greer. Our intrepid Greer fans discuss queer-coded villains, what makes a bad movie bad, the screenwriter's favorite poem, and more!
For that all-important eleventh episode, Reg and Patrick do something a little different, a little special. With Judy Greer starring in a world premiere play less than an hour's journey from 96 Greers headquarters, there was no excuse not to throw Reg's carefully planned episode schedule out the window and focus on Kate Arrington's play Another Marriage, in its world premiere run at Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theater.
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single podcast in possession of a cinematic theme must be in want of a Nicolas Cage episode. And Adaptation gives you two Cages for the price of one! Two elder millennial film snobs return to this early-oughts Charlie Kaufman metafilm for the first time in years and go way over time talking other movies with dual Cage performances, adaptations of nonfiction books, slow film, financia...
In 1999, beloved actress Natasha Lyonne teamed up with director Jamie Babbitt to make the queer cult classic But I'm a Cheerleader. In 2015, Lyonne and Babbitt teamed up again for the indie caper Addicted to Fresno, bringing along with them Judy Greer. And a rockabilly pet cemetery. And a bin full of jiggly purple dildos. Reg and Patrick discuss the problematic implications of incarceration as a plot point, when mean-spirited c...
Before Guardians of the Galaxy... before the Office... James Gunn and Jenna Fischer teamed up for a no-budget comedy that satirizes celebrity charity endeavors in an #epic edgy comedy style that only the mid-00's could bring you. It may shock you to learn that James Gunn isn't the only JG in the cast!
Judy Greer meets Totoro!
Okay, not exactly, but she was part of the English dub cast of Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns, a fantasy spin-off of their 90s slice of life film Whisper of the Heart. Reg and Patrick talk about fatphobia on film, get a little Jungian, and create fursonas.
Referenced in this episode: Sarah Kate Istra Winter's Girls Underground project
Not quite mumblecore, not quite Dogme 95, In Memory of My Father definitely has Judy Greer in the cast. Reg and Patrick bravely soldier forth in their completionist goal with this indie dramedy about a film producer's family reacting-- or not-- to his death.
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