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A movie podcast for people who grew up in an analog world of VHS tapes and rabbit ears and evolved into a digital landscape. We’re just regular dudes who watch a whole lot of movies, talk about movies, and use them as touchstones throughout our lives.
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There are a few years that are landmarks in cinema for the sheer volume of awesomeness that was released in theaters between January and December. One of those years...is 1987.
Yes we have another one of those mysterious occurrences from the 1990s where two movies with extremely similar subject matter tackled in very different ways were released right on top of each other: Dante's Peak and Volcano, both from 1997. Which movie about molten magma spurting from the earth's core did it better?
The Terminator film series is a wild mess of continuity, but this super interesting fan theory only focuses on the original The Terminator (1984) and also helps explain away some of the weirdness of the legendary Terminator 2. And most importantly, the theory actually holds up and doesn't require a whole bunch of extra explanation or other BS, just what's in the movie we have. So...is it possible that the Sarah Connor we know — pla...
We were having a weird day and bounced around from a tribute to the late Michael Madsen to potential new James Bonds, William S. Burroughs, and weird old biker movies, and a new one, too. Sometimes, we're just, like, not super focused or whatever.
"What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"
"Whaddaya got?"
People have been making movies about vampires literally since the advent of the medium, and they've been reinvented and the stories retold with different twists and turns and takes, and sometimes, even some originality, through every era of film. Sinners is the latest and extremely welcome entry in the bloodsucker canon, but the 1980s and 1990s were a fertile feeding ground for the undead. Let's take a tour through the best vampire...
Whether it's a strange old man's DeLorean or Superman flying around the globe backwards, time travel mechanisms were a big deal in the movies of the 80s and 90s. So of course we have to pit one of the best — Back to the Future — against one of the...least adored — TimeCop. Sort of. And we get into a bunch of other time travel flicks and TV, too.
Everyone has THEIR Batman, depending on which one they grew up with. For our parents, it was the goofy, campy, weird, and sometimes extremely creepy Adam West groovy Batman. For a lot of us, there will be none other than the 1989 Tim Burton Batman with Michael Keaton in the batsuit. For a precious few, Val Kilmer is the defacto Caped Crusader. Then there's George Clooney. For others, nobody will replace Christian Bale's Batman in t...
For eons, the Star series knew their place. Trek was serious sci-fi, and there was a lot of it, and a huge amount of it was kinda lousy. Comparatively, for a long, long time, there were only three Star Wars movies — and then six — and most of them were pretty great. But times have changes. The Star Wars universe has been diluted by a new, awful trilogy, and myriad TV series — the majority of it all sucks. So, have the scales tilted...
From Tyrone Power, to George Hamilton, to Antonio Banderas, and from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner to Russel Crowe, they're two classic characters that have been on the silver screen since the beginning of film, and they both played a big part in the 1990s movie landscape.
If you know the particular hell of working retail, or if you're currently in said hell, this episode is for you.
What is there to say...it's one of, if not the greatest piece of American cinema ever made. It changed the way movies were made and how people thought of the organized crime in the 1940s and 50s, while also weaving one of the greatest family sagas ever put to film. Find out what it's like for some to watch this gem for the first time after 40!
A shitsplat town where the biggest attraction for the young locals is a dilapidated demolition derby track run by a super young Jamie Lee Curtis, who is in a semi-sordid love triangle with Patrick Swayze (who is married to Jennifer Jason Leigh) and C. Thomas Howell playing an 18-year-old HS grad ready to sow his oats and figure out what he wants to do with his life. That's the deal in Grandview, USA (1984).
Oh, and the local hick-...
This year is the half-century mark — the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's original summer blockbuster: Jaws. You can hear the music, can't you? It changed the way we watch movies and the way movies were made. It was full of happy accidents and success out of necessity — and it was followed by three astonishingly bad sequels, establishing yet another firm American cinematic tradition. We're talking about our love for JAWS, and...
Sometimes a director's cut is the filmmaker's vision more fully realized, sometimes it's just a bunch of lousy alternate takes and extended scenes cut back into a movie that was well paced and tight, and other times, it adds some seriously moral ambiguity that makes you feel a little queasy, even when you watch the regular version. We're talking about the child-hitman-in-training classic, Leon (The Professional). So crack that caps...
Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win, for somebody who wouldn't let us win! Then I come back to the world, and I see all those maggots at the airport, protestin' me, spittin', callin' me a baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me?! Huh?! Who are they?! Unless they been me and been there and know what the hel...
Back in the heydey of TV movies — flicks with low budgets and no cursing with "adult themes" that aired on ABC or CBS late at night. As a kid you would see them, or parts of them, and be irrevocably scarred. Here, we examine the TV movie classic Buried Alive (1990) starring Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and William Atherton (the dude who played Walter Peck from Ghostbusters) that gave plenty of 90s kids a deep fear of being.....
They came out fairly close together, and both tackle the subject of synthetic realities, simulations in which a society of people are living without being away of their situation. One takes the techno-futurist route — The Matrix (1999), and the other takes a more surrealistic sci-fi approach, and made way less money — Dark City (1998). But the latter did become a cult favorite. But how much does The Matrix owe to Dark City, and wha...
Two of Paul Verhoeven's most revered films of the 1990s, Total Recall (1990) and RoboCop (1987), got horrible, shitty, utterly forgettable remakes in the 2010s. But can we learn something more about these beloved originals by examining some of the many ways in which the remakes absolutely sucked? We're gonna find out.
It was a thing, for a while. Back in the ol' 1990s. Filmmakers got so turgid with the cheapo possibilities of early CG that they went mad and made a spate of giant killer animal movies. Giant gorillas, giant alligators in misnamed features, giant snakes vs. JLo...and so many, many more.
He was one of the biggest movie stars of the 80s and 90s, and the roles he played have left a lasting impact on movies and the people who grew up with them. From playing Madmartigan in Willow and outshining Tom Cruise as Iceman in Top Gun, to resurrecting Jim Morrison and hunting lions with Michael Douglas, we take a tour through the career of the recently passed and much missed Val Kilmer.
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