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Travolting

Jeff Sweeney & Stuart Elmore

A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.

tv & film film history

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42:31

The Survivors

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2025/01/22

Jeff and Stuart barely "survived" watching this movie. Marketed as a two-hander between Robin and Walter Matthau, this movie nails the jokes just as well as the plot: fast and unintelligible.

86:36

The World According to Garp

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2025/01/15

Considered to be Robin Williams' first dramatic role, this Forrest Gump-like movie showcases the life of T.S. Garp, a man born out of wed lock with no father figure around being raised by a woman who becomes a feminist icon. With a name like Garp, you would think the movie would allow Robin to be funny... it does not.

126:40

Popeye

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2025/01/08

Robin's spiritual first film where he channels his inner cartoon character to portray THE cartoon character. That's right... POPEYE! Robin, Shelley Duvall, and many other characters fully commit to the animated style of this Robert Altman musical.

44:38

Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?

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2025/01/01

Travolting's Season 4 subject, Bobbin for Robin, kicks off with Robin Williams first starring feature role; Pop-- Wait what? You mean to tell me Popeye wasn't Robin's first movie? You mean to tell me Robin Williams was in this low budget comedy sketch movie that was 99% college humor sex jokes called 'Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses'?? Oh... okay...

68:14

A Very Travolting Christmas 4: The Epcot Candlelight...

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2024/12/25

The Candlelight Procession is a christmas musical event that Disney hosts in both of its parks with various celebrity narrators to guide us through the nativity story of Jesus. Well in 2023 in Disneyworld's EPCOT, our boy Brendan Fraser makes a return to the land of Orlando Florida where we will once again talk through a live viewing of the 2023 EPCOT Candlelight Procession.

57:02

Nostalgia Queen Era (Recap Episode)

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2024/12/18

The final recap episode for this season of Travolting as the boys round up their experience studying and investigating the career of Winona Ryder. What's Winona's deal? Where is she heading from here? Are we optimistic?Tune in for the full episode where we reveal our Season Four Subject!

142:43

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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2024/12/11

Don't say it a third time! Jeff and Stuart finally reach Winona's modern era opus film, a sequel to a 1988 Tim Burton cult classic that includes the return of Keaton, O'Hara, and adding to the gang Jenna Ortega as Lydia Deetz's daughter. While Jeff, Stuart and special guest Trina Mulligan all have different opinions on the success/achievement of Beetlejuice 2, none of them deny the benchmark this film is for Winona's post-Stranger Things comeback to fame.

99:00

Haunted Mansion

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2024/12/04

Coming out a year before Beetlejuice 2, Winona is given a single scene cameo in this movie that doesn't seem to be scary enough or funny enough to justify its existence.

71:18

Gone in the Night

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2024/11/27

Originally called "The Cow" for... reasons... but this is Winona's first major top billed role in a real movie in over a decade. Jeff and Stuart remark the similarities between this movie and Zach Cregger's "Barbarian" except Gone in the Night takes a few unexpected twists and turns which leave the boys giggling at the sillyness of it all. That all being said, there is a tinge of hope for Winona after watching her performance in this movie which if anything, offers some great thriller vibes in the

31:21

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

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2024/11/20

Everything is not fine. This is a 50 minute Netflix TV special that was made in the height of Covid-19 and the 2020 election... so we're not okay after watching this.

63:46

Destination Wedding

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2024/11/13

He's back folks. Keanu Reeves in his fourth collaboration with Winona Ryder. This time, the pair are off to a wedding together, neither of whom wish to attend, and through their misery both internal and external, somehow form a relationship?

85:19

Brothers

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2024/11/06

The Fraser's Edge returns with Brendan's latest release, Brothers, starring Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin. While the movie was made before Killers of the Flower Moon but released on Amazon Prime last week, Jeff and Stuart both agree that in this mediocre, by-the-numbers film, Fraser is the one who shines with his comedic force.

47:54

The Rebuild Era (Recap Episode)

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2024/10/30

At this point in Winona's career, she's gone from zero to... pretty okay? The boys go back and forth on the rebuilding of Winona's career status in Hollywood and where it will lead her in the future.

60:59

Experimenter

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2024/10/23

In 1961, infamous psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial experiment that answered the question: "Would good people do horrible things so long as they were just following orders?". This movie explores the life and career of Milgram as he tries to distance himself from the controversial experiment.

67:00

Turks and Caicos

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2024/10/20

Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy), a retired MI5 agent hiding from the law in the Turks and Caicos islands, comes upon a plot between MI5 and the CIA in which he uses his position to broker a deal that would leave every party involved in a happy enough place to which he could return to his home country in peace. Confused? So were the boys as this movie is the second movie of the "Worricker Trilogy.

114:54

Homefront

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2024/10/09

Jason Statham plays the role of Phil Broker: family man who's a retired DEA/FBI/CIA agent (we still don't really know) who moves away from his chaotic and destructive life to live in peace with his daughter in New Orleans. This peace is interrupted though when Meth Dealer James 'Gator' Franco arrives on the scene to wreck havoc. Jeff and Stuart are joined by special guest Dan Gutierrez who actually worked on the film!

113:06

The Iceman

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2024/10/02

Not a spin-off movie starring Shawn Ashmore about his Bobby Drake character from the 2003 and 2006 X-Men movies, but rather a Michael Shannon movie about one of the most notorious mob hitman who allegedly killed over a hundred people and kept their bodies on ice. Where is this scum bag from you ask? You guessed it... New Jersey...

37:14

The Letter

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2024/09/25

You've probably gathered by now that the shorter the episode, the worse the movie is. If Stuart had his way, this episode would be two minutes long.

113:54

Frankenweenie

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2024/09/18

Winona reunites with Tim Burton for their third (but not last) collaboration after 20 years apart. First she played a child in Beetlejuice, then she played a teenage girl in Edward Scissorhands; now after 20 years, Winona will be voicing... another child! Wait a second...Joined by special guest, Savannah Olson

157:26

The Dilemma

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2024/09/11

So here's our dilemma... Jeff and Stuart have covered 44 movies spanning more than 20 years of Winona Ryder's career... and she hasn't done a Vince Vaughn comedy yet!? Joined by our very special guest who worked on the movie: Tyler Ventura.

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