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Episode 350 - Frankenhooker

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2025/10/28

Join us for a look at the underrated Troma classic from 1992, Frankenhooker! What could a movie called Frankenhooker possibly be about, you ask? Don’t be stupid, it’s literally about a STEM weirdo from New Jersey who loses his girlfriend in a freak accident, only to bring her back by sewing her head onto a body stitched together from the parts of dead prostitutes. Duh. And it is one of the more astoundingly entertaining things we have all watched in months! Like, stupidly entertaining. Like, more

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Episode 349 - Bram Stoker's Dracula

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2025/10/24

This week, we view Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)—a film that dares to ask: what if Dracula were horny, operatic, and deeply confused about accents?With Keanu Reeves giving the most unintentionally British performance ever committed to celluloid (bless him, he tried), Winona Ryder looking vaguely confused but still cashing checks, and Gary Oldman chewing scenery like it’s soaked in blood and Oscar nominations, this movie is a visual fever dream you almost forgive for being a

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Episode 348 - John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness

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2025/10/13

What do you get when you take a creatively brilliant director, give him all the leeway he wants, resulting in a film that is a commercial failure but a sleeper hit? You get a very pissed off John Carpenter is what you get. Despite a career of culturally significant awesomeness - “Starman,” “The Thing,” being Adrienne Barbeau’s husband - all it took was some big trouble in Little China for funding to dry up. With that comes the shot-on-a-shoestring horror classic, “Prince of Darkness.” It is an

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Episode 347 - Best Onscreen Duos

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2025/10/06

We’re gonna Thelma & Louise the shiznit out of this show with our picks for Best Onscreen Duos! That’s right, from Abbott & Costello to Matthau & Lemmon to Rick & Morty and everything in between, it’s a quasi-intelligent chat about our favorite duos from film and television. What makes a duo dynamic? Which duos are garbage? And how can we possibly cram a reasonable number of onscreen duos into one podcast without making it seem like we came utterly unprepared and instead shout out listicles? From

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Episode 346 - No, the GOOD Casino Royale

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2025/09/29

James Bond is on the menu this week, as Brian winds down his journey to watch every canonical movie in sequential order. That means we finally hit up the first appearance of Daniel Craig in the 2006 throwback/reboot/reset adaptation of the very first Ian Fleming novel - Casino Royale! Or did we do the very terrible star-studded psychedelic comedy trainwreck from 1967? Or maybe the Americanized, made-for-TV version from 1954? Confused yet? You won’t be once you listen to our take on the GOOD

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Episode 345 - The Weirdest TV Shows in History!

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2025/09/21

Ever watch a TV show and simply think, WTF? Oh, sure, there are plenty of new programs out there that make you go hmmmmm…. But we’re focusing more on the ones from further back in the historical record that have managed to become part of the zeitgeist despite (or because of?) their best and weirdest efforts not to. These are the shows that may not have aged well, may not make any sense using a modern context, or simply have no clue how amazingly weird they really are. For every Hill Street Blues,

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Episode 344 - Death of a Unicorn

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2025/09/15

This week, we dissect Death of a Unicorn, the 2025 indie-horror-fantasy-corporate-satire you didn't know you needed. Follow the bizarre journey of a father-daughter duo who hit a unicorn—yes, an actual one—and are promptly dragged into a corporate scramble over who gets to exploit the thing’s magical healing powers first. Because what better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than weaponizing purity, bottling it, and selling it to shareholders?It beats reality anyway. Also, Alien Earth and more

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Episode 343 - Sinners

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2025/08/29

Episode 343 - SinnersWe finally take a look at Ryan Coogler’s dynamic, thematically-dense social critique of how the Jim Crow South refuses to die, and the skepticism towards big tent progressivism on certain cultural groups in America. Or maybe Sinners is just a basic vampire tale? We’ll be the judge of that! Just don’t invite any strangers in, or you’ll be sorry. Unless it is us. In which case, you will likely still be sorry. Sinners… it’s good. See it. 0:00 - Intros 7:30 - The Truth About

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Episode 342 - The Muppet Movie is the Good Mood You...

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2025/08/18

Do the Muppets even carry the same cultural heft now as in their 70s heyday? Who cares? Because there is no movie as pure and joyful and fun as The Muppet Movie, so say us. Jim Henson and Co. took what was best about their TV show and turned it into a road-comedy with heart, an erstwhile origin story of how the Muppets became THE MUPPETS. With lots of classic, catchy bangers by Paul Williams thrown in among the (now dated?) cameos by stars you may not even remember if you are younger than 50.

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Episode 341 - Solo: A Star Wars Story: Was It Realy...

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2025/08/10

This week, when they go low… we go Solo! I hate myself for writing that. I truly do. I think this is why people try to avoid me in public. When I try to make small talk in an elevator I just get so many eye rolls and heads shaking…. I should be taken out back and shot for that. “Solo?” Ugh. Puns. WhatEVER. Oh, and we also dissect “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” along with a slew of superhero crap we’ve been watching. There is no WAY anyone is still reading this.0:00 - Intros 8:30 - Agatha All

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Episode 340 - I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

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2025/07/28

1988’s “I'm Gonna Git You Sucka,” directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, was a sleeper hit at a time when there weren’t a lot of sleeper hits yet. This had a cast of greats from the 70s blaxploitation era, as well as future comedy legends only just getting their first job on a movie. In our ongoing search for comedies from decades ago to see if they’re still funny, we pick this movie apart in painstaking detail. We also talk about James Bond, the MCU, Amazon’s “Heads of State,” and all sorts of cultural

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Episode 339 - Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans

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2025/07/14

Michael Mann helped create the 80’s neon-noir & pastel music video aesthetic in TV and films with Miami Vice,Thief and Manhunter. Obviously this would lead to his 1992 movie adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans, a very dull and nigh-unreadable 19th Century adventure romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It’s a costume drama set during the French and Indian War starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, a white dude raised by the Mohicans who gets embroiled in the conflict to save the woman he loves

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Episode 338 - Eagles: The Most Successful Most Hated...

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2025/07/02

So how does a band like Eagles have such a bad reputation for sucking… and sell THIS MANY ALBUMS!?! The mind boggles. The Beatles sold a lot of records, and people still love those guys. Michael Jackson sold a lot of records, and people forgave him for some really awful stuff I won’t mention lest I get some kind of “flag” from Apple. I’ll just say, “Jesus juice.” Google it. Anyway, Eagles (not “The” Eagles, because reasons,) didn’t interfere with any children, but people hate them all the same these

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Episode 337 - The Station Agent

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2025/06/23

Let’s quiet things down a bit and hit some introspective vibes with 2003’s indie comedy-drama, The Station Agent. It is the breakout role for Peter “Don’t Call Me Tyrion” Dinklage, as a loner who just wants to remain alone but doesn’t because other humans are around who eventually become his friends… or something. Not a lot happens in this movie, to be honest, but so what? It is supposed to be quiet and sweet and why do you have to make it so difficult to forge new relationships in adulthood? Huh

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Episode 336 - The Long Kiss Goodnight

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2025/06/15

So there’s this movie about a woman who’s a spy and kicks a lot of ass and kills people. No, not “Atomic Blonde.” No, not “Ballerina.” And not “Alias” or “Red Sparrow” or “Black Widow” or… okay, maybe not the most original concept. But before all of these things there was “The Long Kiss Goodnight” - the Geena Davis/Renny Harlin attempt to keep working despite one of Hollywood’s most disastrous bombs the year before (Cutthroat Island). Like all of our shows, it’s a wild ride this week! We also cover

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Episode 335 - 200 Cigarettes

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2025/06/09

It may not be the day-in-the-life movie we wanted, but it was the one we deserved. A 90s-era nostalgia trip to the early 80s, “200 Cigarettes” is notable mostly for its cast of future stars. We also talk about dead parents, nuclear war, James Bond and shooting people to Lionel Ritchie. Because we’re just that freakin’ good.4:40 - Gen Alpha linguistics professor 7:00 - McCurdy, Jennette - I’m Glad My Mom Died (book) 13:10 - Jacobsen, Annie - Nuclear War: A Scenario (book) 18:00 - Peter Hook and

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Episode 334 - Ruthless People Got Memory-Holed

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2025/05/26

Ruthless People is a hilarious gem from the 80s that gets the bizness this round! The last comedy directed jointly by the Airplane! guys, from a script by the guy who wrote Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and My Cousin Vinny, with one of the strongest casts you will ever have the pleasure of seeing perform, it should have become an instant classic. So why did this one get so unceremoniously memory-holed? Is it because, in spite of its tight script and screwball antics, that it happens to also be one of

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Episode 333 - Pitch Black

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2025/05/07

Back in the year 2000, before Vin Diesel exploded into worldwide superstardom with all those car movies, he did a mid-budget B-movie sci-fi oddity called Pitch Black. It’s sort of like if someone remade Aliens with Snake Plissken as the main character, but definitely not as cool as a movie with that description. Oh don’t get us wrong… it has moments of pure fun, to be sure,and it is made well. Faint praise, to be sure. However, it knows exactly what it is at every step of the way, and that is

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Episode 332 - The Jerk

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2025/04/28

This week, we turn our attention to one of the most gloriously idiotic masterpieces ever committed to film: Steve Martin’s The Jerk (1979). It's a story of rags to riches to rags to a thermos, starring a man who was born a poor Black child and somehow got even more confused from there. We revisit this iconic comedy that launched Martin from stand-up absurdist to full-blown movie star, and unpack why a film this aggressively stupid remains so brilliantly sharp.From Navin Johnson’s wide-eyed journey

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Episode 331 - The Death of Stalin Is Totally About...

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2025/04/21

In this episode, we take a lighthearted stroll through the charming, not-at-all-horrifying political farce that is The Death of Stalin (2017). We explore how the film hilariously—and totally hypothetically—shows the chaos, sycophancy, and moral collapse that can follow when absolute power meets absolute fear. Good thing nothing like that could ever happen in a modern democracy, right? Right.Join us as we unpack Armando Iannucci’s dark comedy, where top Soviet officials scramble like cockroaches in

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