Welcome to Season 2 baby! In honor of Nicolas Cage’s birthday we begin our special Cage Series! And to kick off the festivities we watched the very strange and entertaining Vampire’s Kiss! This week friend and Vampire’s Kiss expert Austin Reheiser joins the boys to shed some light on this wonderfully weird movie. The boys are also joined by a surprise secret guest that gives some context to the origins of this film. Listen and enjoy!
Happy New Year! To celebrate the end of Season 1 we present you some of the funniest outtakes and bloopers from the past year. Featuring Mike Roberts, Ben Gelber, and Rob Goldman. Listen and enjoy!
It’s our final bonus back catalog episode! This week the boys tackle The Greasy Strangler with good friend Austin Reheiser. This film is not for the faint of heart, but my god is it entertaining. Listen to us try to decipher just what this film is about, and try to figure out how to contact Elijah Wood for answers. This insane and hilarious film is a lot of fun, and we have a great time talking about it. Listen and enjoy!
This week the boys are all in studio together for the first time ever! Listen to us examine Russ Meyer’s titillating film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! This master class in exploitation leave the boys salivating over all the scantily clad details. We also discuss the ridiculousness of John Travolta in the film Gotti, and the truth behind the Errol Morris film Vernon, Florida. Listen and enjoy!
It’s another bonus back catalog episode! This week listen to one of our earliest recordings (it sounds rough, we know) and experience a piece of our origin story. In this episode we sit down with Coby McGraw to discuss John Carpenter’s 80’s classic Prince of Darkness! We also discuss season 1 of Mind Hunter, the final season of The Leftovers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and much more! Listen and enjoy!
This year for Halloween we have another episode from the back catalog! In this blast from the past the boys talk about the fine line between good movies and bad movies, how the hell Gary Oldman hadn’t won an Oscar before 2018, the sexual nature of the Dracula story, and much more. Watch, listen, and have a happy Halloween!
The boys are back! This week’s conversation begins with Dan’s involvement in the community of filmmakers in Gainesville, FL called Cinemadrome. Alan has a guessing game for all you listeners so play along why don’t cha? And then the boys catch back up to the second edition of the Giallo series with Dario Argento’s Deep Red. Considered to be the height of the genre itself, this film has great camerawork, kills you can feel, and a soundtrack that has influenced many of the horror themes we adore today. Watch and listen!
The Coming of Age series is coming to a close with Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho. Before the boys dive into the Shakespearian story of the sleepy hooker, they talk of all the things they've seen in the past week. The roster involves the action-packed Jack Ryan, Dan & Alan's detrimental neglect of The Wire & Oz, Polanski's Carnage, Hardy's Venom, and all things Charlie Manson! Once that's out of the way, we can all find out together if River Phoenix comes of age or wastes away. Watch and Listen!
This week Coby McGraw joins the podcast! A childhood martial arts movie discussion is sparked by Cobra Kai. The boys talk Castle Rock, Rosemary’s Baby, and shows coming back to HBO. From the Conchords of New Zealand to the Dark Place of Great Britain, eventually they land on Richard Ayoade, the director of Submarine. This movie is nearly perfect in every single way. And Noah Taylor RULES! Watch and Listen!
Is it City slickers? Or Swingers? How old is Alec Baldwin’s daughter? How do you pronounce John Glaser’s last name? Is Party Down bad for first dates? Is Steven Spielberg okay? IS THIS MOVIE EVEN COMING OF AGE? Well, that’s the name of the show. We’ll find out together if Empire of the Sun fits the genre in part two of our namesake series. P.S. It doesn’t.
This week is the beginning of our namesake month! The boys sit down with their good friend Ben Gelber to discuss Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade and coming of age films in general. They get into the history of the genre, it’s influences, and how it’s evolved over time. Also, the boys go over the lackluster Deadpool 2, a spider that will give you a dangerous erection, how bad the English dub sounds on Netflix’s Dark, and the genius of Bo Burnham. Listen and enjoy!
This week the boys welcome to the podcast for the “first time”, good friend, Ben Gelber. Ben talks of the Cleveland balloonfest of 86’ and the boys get into Eric André’s roles outside of his own show. Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy was cancelled! Yay! And Chase gets into a couple of Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet’s impeccably titled films. After all that, we get into our double feature review of Upgrade and Cronenberg’s The Brood. Watch and listen!
This week the boys find out Chase is a simulation and his doppelgänger is the host of Dark Tourism. They marvel over some web interaction with Henry Zebrowski & Thomas Middleditch, talk franchise films, and dive into some new trailers. After all that, it’s a fat race with the feature film La Grande Bouffe. This French-Italian cult film is a red-blooded comedy that satirizes consumerism and makes for quite an uncomfortable date night at the movies. Watch and Listen!
Ever tried yam infested boar intestine? Sounds heavenly right? Well Japanese director Juzo Itami might have a way to curb that desire. Tampopo is a one of a kind, genre-bending classic, and the only film the boys know to be categorized under “ramen western”. Mike “Big Sugar” Commins joins them on the cast today as they explore what makes Tampopo so perfect. Of course, the boys try to get Mike on the Ru Paul band wagon and admire an Anthony Hopkins life moment before jumping into the broth. Watch and listen!
Who says heavy drinking and podcasting don’t mix well?! This week the boys start off the Food & Sex theme with good friend Travis Dutton. Before getting to the feature, they talk a little German television with The Same Sky miniseries. Alan is baffled by the connective tissue of Adventure Time and Chase defends Amy Adams career with Sharp Objects. Then on to Soylent Green! Watch and Listen!
Here's another episode from the back catalogue of Coming of Age! This is the 2nd episode the boys ever recorded, following Castle Freak. Right off the bat, they talk Blade Runner 2049 before getting into Chase's Fast & Furious marathon and some TV horror. Then we plunge into the world of Sutter Cane in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. This psychological & Lovecraftian horror movie stars Sam Neill and is a ton of fun! Watch and Listen!
Dan is in trouble! He's on the verge of gettin' "green mile'd" on his end of the mic this episode. SPOILERS - He makes it...and have we got an episode for you! Full of laughs, Owen Wilson transformers, AIDS bears, childhood, and a little content talk sprinkled in. When the boys finally get to Body Double, the comfort is real and the jokes keep flying. This Brian de Palma film is a lot of fun to watch with friends so definitely watch and listen!
This week the boys have the wonderfully witty Dan Jopling back for another episode. His second Click reference to date sends all three down an Adam Sandler rabbit hole. They talk about the controversy surrounding Morgan Freeman, and a little Charlie's Angels, but you're clearly here for Klaus Kinski. The movie Crawlspace prompts many breeds of the German accent, and a short documentary from the director answers why everyone wants Mr. Kinski dead. Schau und hor zu!
