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Jen welcomes show regular Bitter Karella and wild card Moodyferret to evangelize a Gore Verbinski flop that didn't deserve the massive shrug it got from the public: the 2016 psychological thriller A Cure For Wellness.
Errata: we all say in the episode that this movie came out in 2016, but it actually arrived in theaters on February 17, 2017 before almost immediately disappearing. Oops! That said, the movie was originally slated for an October 2016 release, which seems to indicate that 20th Century Fox lost their nerve and dumped the film in Fuck-You February.
Fox made a last-ditch effort to hype the film with this Super Bowl teaser, mimicking a pharma company ad. This is the one that Jen vaguely described in the episode.
Every previous Bitter Karella appearance on the show may be found in our collection!
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Jen and Tim look back at an all-star polemic from 1990, The Earth Day Special, a plea on behalf of Mother Earth that made a powerful impression on a young Tim. Also, we better not catch you pouring any old house paint down the drain.
Watch the special at the Internet Archive (and if so inclined, maybe throw them a small donation for collecting all that health data recently purged from US government websites).
According to this recap from Living Life Fearless, soap actor and Teen Witch (1989) star Dan Gauthier played Bachelor #2 in the Dating Game segment. He is apparently uncredited in the special.
Anarchist publication The Fifth Estate provides a leftist perspective on The Earth Day Special in a contemporaneous review, and they ain't wrong:
But the same powers of manipulation continue to function: the chemical manufacturers will plant some trees, and even the “forest products” magnates will, as they generally do, plant some trees. George Bush has called for the planting of a billion trees—but none of the rulers or their allies mention the possibility of refraining from cutting a billion trees (in particular, say the last few remnants of old growth forests, but also anywhere where woods are coming under the developers’ blades). These forces, these institutions are concealing their grisly daily business with a multimedia extravaganza, a spectacle that converts a natural love of what is alive into a pointless civic ritual.
Market Realist has an easily digestible rundown on who actually founded Tesla and who merely came on board shortly afterward to leech off other people's work and push the founders out of the nest like a shitty South African cuckoo.
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The editing is terrible! Tim and Jen howl at the moon, which is an ovoid shape, and critique the amateurish werewolf film Lycan Colony, at least when they can make out what's onscreen. Take a drink every time Tim says the editing is terrible!
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If you've had all your shots and have as much schlock-induced brain damage as Jen, you can see the movie for yourself on Tubi. Tim would surely recommend that you purchase Rifftrax's extremely funny commentary on Lycan Colony at their website instead.
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Jen and Tim hold Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast hostage in order to talk about a holiday musical that really wasn't: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't!
For more of the Worst Possible boys, check out our collection of their guest appearances on the show! And of course you simply must hear The Worst of All Possible Worlds for yourself over at their Patreon!
If you haven't yet laid eyes upon Tim's monumental Myst Island Lego build, go see it at his website and marvel at it, it's really something.
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Tim and Jen cover an unusual holiday movie that features a man beaten down by an uncaring society enough to become a self-appointed assassin. Wait, what year is this? It's 1980 and this is Christmas Evil!
There is a whole ass website about Whamageddon with the ruleset and everything, if you'd like to play or simply to inform yourself. We won't be participating, though, because we love Wham! too much to refrain from listening to them. You could also listen to this "Last Christmas"-free megamix!
Need more gimmicky costumed killers? Listen to our episode on the Terrifier movies, but be warned: we don't care for that clown at all.
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Jen and Tim grit their teeth through Barry Levinson's oppressively whimsical passion project that literally no one liked, Toys. Also, take a drink every time we use a variant of the word "whimsy," but please drink responsibly!
See the (in)famous Toys teaser trailer on YouTube.
Roger Ebert penned a more measured analysis of the film back in 1992:
There's a curious residue of dissatisfaction after "Toys" is over. It opened so well and promised so much that we're confused: Is that all there is?
Listen to Tim's favorite song from the movie, "Happy Workers" sung by Tori Amos.
Does it tickle you when Tim gets a real wild hair about a movie? Check out our collection of episodes with the succinct title Tim Hated It!
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Tim and Jen rope old friend Paul Jay into talking about a very stupid Stephen King shapeshifting energy vampires vs. kitties flick, Sleepwalkers.
Errata: Newsies actually came out April 8th, 1992, but it's probably safe to assume that no one wanted to see it on that date, either.
IGN has a very good interview with director Mick Garris, in which he talks about his work on much better horror properties like The Stand.
Can't get enough of Paul? Listen to the episode where he joined us to discuss Warren Beatty's singular mania, Dick Tracy! Or just mainline all of his guest appearances via this collection!
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Oh God! Oh man! Jen and Tim and Mets devotee David J. Roth square up with Norman Mailer's demented neo-noir, Tough Guys Don't Dance.
Read David's piece on a true American original, B-movie stalwart Wings Hauser. Did you know that he was in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time? Well now you do!
Collider profiled the one and only ersatz Charles Bronson (or the most prominent and successful, we assume), Hungarian actor Robert Bronzi.
Hear Wings Hauser sing the concluding track for Vice Squad, "Neon Slime." His vocals have the same gusto as his average film performance, as you might imagine.
How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer (the documentary Jen wanted to call "How to Be a Cool Fuckin' Guy") provides a breezy overview of the colorful life of the author.
On YouTube: Mailer comes out swinging at Gore Vidal on the Dick Cavett Show, and gets bitch-slapped back by Vidal, Cavett and author Janet Flanner.
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Tim takes the reins to enthuse about a shockingly creepy British TV series for kids (?!), Children of the Stones.
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Watch the entirety of Children of the Stones on YouTube!
Hear the Reese Shearsmith-led podcast adaptation of Children of the Stones over at the Beeb.
Want more folk horror? Sample our collection of same!
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Jen welcomes Darren Herczeg to help her rhapsodize about a movie even director Ken Russell didn't like, Valentino!
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The wonderfully-named Phallic Frenzy gives Russell his due as an audacious filmmaker, and describes Valentino in complimentary terms.
See Nureyev fully commit to the bit by dancing "Swine Lake" on the Muppet Show in 1978.
The book on Fatty Arbuckle that Jen mentioned is called Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood, and it's well worth a read for anyone interested in early Hollywood.
Can't get enough Darren? Check out our collection of his appearances on the show!
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Jen and Tim rationalize David Fincher's unlucky first feature, Alien Cubed (aka Alien³). Turns out that Tim has A LOT to say about Alien movies!
Read a 1992 interview with David Fincher, in which he's quite candid about "the worst thing that ever happened to me"— that is, the production of Alien³.
A helpful fan wiki has provided a transcript of William Gibson's first draft screenplay for the movie.
Love Fincher? Listen to our episode on a movie that people steadfastly refuse to engage with in good faith, Fight Club!
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Tim and Jen are surprisingly hard on Disney's amiable comics-based misfire, The Rocketeer!
See Rondo Hatton in The Brute Man, but let the MST3k crew accompany you through this murky noir.
The Cocoanut Grove fire has been widely covered in media. The Fascinating Horror channel has an excellent recounting of the disaster, in the dispassionate and non-sensationalized style of the best YouTube channels.
This 1979 BBC biography of Errol Flynn offers illuminating interviews with people who knew him, including David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, and his daughter Deirdre.
You can purchase a copy of the Traveller supplement featuring "Vehicle Handbook: Airships of the Imperium" by a certain Tim H. at DriveThruRPG. Intrigued by the endless possibilities of tabletop space travel? Find more resources Tim created for Traveller at his personal website!
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Jen and Tim return to Gumbasia to discuss the legacy of a complicated man: Gumby creator Art Clokey!
The documentary that sparked the discussion, Gumby Dharma, may be viewed free on YouTube via the channel for Bay Area PBS station KQED.
Pay a visit to Clokey Productions to see some behind-the-scenes footage!
Here's an example of that Lego wizard hat thing Tim mentioned. Clever!
If you missed our episode on The Gumby Movie( aka Gumby 1), listen to it here!
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An extra-mellow and profoundly aphasic Bitter Karella steps in to help Jen explicate the other, crappier version of The Warriors: Streets of Fire!
Hear the bangin' soundtrack on YouTube, which includes "Deeper and Deeper" by The Fixx (which you won't see on the Spotify version of the soundtrack even though "Deeper and Deeper" IS on there. Who knows why).
Yes, there are some tidbits about Streets of Fire in this 2003 interview with the immortal Jim Steinman, but the whole thing is worth a read for the Meat Loaf stories alone.
If you would like to experience what Karella surely considers the sexiest Gumby cartoon, "Grub Grabber Gumby" also may be viewed on YouTube.
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Having spoken about their most favorite topics from the last one hundred episodes, Tim and Jen scrape the bottom of the barrel for their worst favorites.
Lexx, Witch Hunt, and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus may all be viewed at the Internet Archive.
The game Jen mentioned is indeed Warlords and you can play it online with those heart-stopping Atari graphics and everything!
Curious about our worst faves from episodes 1-100? Listen here, and find our favorites from the first 100 episodes here!
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Jen and Tim reflect on the last one hundred episodes (holy crap, we made it to 200 and beyond!) and each chooses five favorites from the mixed bag!
On YouTube, you can watch Penda's Fen, The Jericho Mile, and Pavel Klushantsev's delightful Planet of Storms.
Tubi has the taut thriller Money Movers, as well as the unjustly overlooked Heart of Midnight and George Romero's feminist drama Season of the Witch.
We also chose our most and least favorites for the first one hundred episodes— take a further look back with us!
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Tim and Jen invite Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to marvel at Saul Bass's disquieting sci-fi dreamscape, Phase IV!
View the alternate ending that should have been the theatrical ending to Phase IV on YouTube.
A couple of interesting side notes about the Oscar-winning faux documentary Alex mentioned, The Hellstrom Chronicle: it was conceived and executive produced by David L. Wolper, the TV stalwart who shepherded massively successful television miniseries like Roots and The Thorn Birds, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Additionally, Walon Green, the screenwriter perhaps best known for William Friedkin's sleeper masterpiece Sorcerer, co-directed and produced the film.
A quick web search proved that the busty wasp mentioned by Alex isn't real, except perhaps in our hearts.
We alluded briefly to this article at Dennis Cooper's blog discussing film treatments of LSD, with a fabulous collection of acid-related GIFs accompanying.
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Jen and Tim doggedly return to the remnants of Max Knight: Ultra Spy in hopes that it can be archived on a Zip disk and forgotten.
Missed part one of our deep dive? Find it here! Wanna see the movie? "Log in" to the "Information Superhighway" and "point" your "browser" to the Internet Archive!
Too young to have purchased the Trainspotting soundtrack when it first dropped? Even if you weren't, we suggest decompressing from the episode with all 11 minutes of the remastered Born Slippy.
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Tim gets the bit (or byte?) between his teeth and rants about the 90s and the lost promise of the internet, and a little bit about cheapie TV movie Max Knight: Ultra Spy! Jen just tries to hold on as best she can! Oh yeah, and this is part one because we don't know how to shut up!
You can easily tell how white your hosts are by their lack of knowledge of UPN (not the only tell, if we're being honest), which provided a home for black shows and showrunners alike. Or at least it did for a while, before a gradual whitewashing leading up to the network's merger with the WB. The Hollywood Reporter provides a post-mortem.
[Former senior VP of comedy development at Paramount Pictures Television] Rose Catherine Pinkney believes the decision to merge UPN out of existence came down to ad revenue. “Ultimately, you want the most dollars that you can get for your ads,” she says. Though UPN’s Black-led scripted shows (which by the end of UPN’s run included Eve, All of Us, Everybody Hates Chris) were largely popular with audiences, advertisers were evidently less inclined to pay top dollar to support shows targeting Black viewers. Farquhar, co-creator of Moesha and The Parkers, recalls an advertising person saying, “We’re not interested in ‘downscaled demographics.’ ”
They still make Tamogochis, holy shit.
Can't get enough of PCMCIA cards? Here's a helpful explainer!
Popular Mechanics looks back at the V-chip 20 years after it appeared.
Want more 90s TV? Check out our episode on the show M.A.N.T.I.S. with special guest and superfan mugrimm!
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Tim and Jen enlist Gaius of the wonderful Tribunate channel on YouTube to help unearth a Romans-vs.-Picts historical epic that vanished like the Ninth Legion, Centurion.
Jen's personal favorite video from Tribunate is this savage takedown of Cato, but this examination of Roman concepts of race and how radically they differ from ours is another great example of the high caliber of material from Gaius's channel. Also the triggered reactionary crybabies in the comments are extremely funny. Finally, don't miss this compilation of filthy Roman words!
If you perked up your ears when Jen mentioned Carry On Cleo, go check out our survey of the Carry On franchise, featuring the inimitable Bitter Karella!
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Jen puts Tim in an arm bar until he agrees to talk about a backyard martial arts movie from a determined auteur: Fight Ring!
Sean Gallimore had a successful animation career for many years, including many top-of-the-line films for Disney. See a gallery of his artwork, which includes expert 3D modeling work as well as his signature pinups.
See more Gallimore pinups here!
If you love outsider indie films as much as we do, don't miss our episode on a towering work of queer drama straight from the trailer park: Romeo and Romeo.
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Tim and Jen invite their favorite internet crank Bitter Karella to help them analyze a bewildering major release that no one liked, Argylle. It's so confounding a project, it leads Karella to use the phrase "Brechtian distancing mechanism."
Listen to our Apple TV+ episode, in which we read the entire platform to filth. F*ck you, Tim Apple!
Read this Deadline article about the production and marvel at how out of touch these people sound. At the end, director Matthew Vaughn throws in an enthusiastic endorsement of the Apple Vision Pro.
Read the incisive opinion piece Tim invoked when discussing the sexlessness of Argylle, R.S. Benedict's "Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny" via Blood Knife.
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Jen and Tim just can't figure out why audiences were so lukewarm about this fun pulp adventure, The Phantom from 1996.
Phantom creator Lee Falk enthused about the movie in a 1996 interview, singling out Billy Zane for particular praise.
As Tim mentioned, the Phantom struck a chord with the people of Papua New Guinea. See examples of war shields of the PNG highlands featuring the character.
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Tim and Jen welcome Rifftrax stalwarts Bill Corbett and Sean Thomason to discuss a cheapie high fantasy film that thinks it's a spaghetti western, Hawk the Slayer!
Bill and Sean have brought their Ringheads podcast to a close, but if you crave some Silmarillon chat, find it on Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcast platform.
The Rifftrax version of Hawk the Slayer is free with ads on Tubi, or you can secure your very own copy at the Rifftrax website!
In the Realms of the Unreal does not appear to be streaming as of this writing, but you can find out more about outsider artist Henry Darger at the documentary's official website.
Also, don't miss Bill's previous appearance on our show to chat about the 1979 TV movie version of Captain America, starring Big McLargehuge aka Reb Brown.
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Jen and Tim journey to Gumbasia to experience the vision of a lovable madman, The Gumby Movie, aka Gumby 1!
The story of Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line that bears her name is a remarkable one, encompassing topics of institutionalized racism, scientific ethics, and medical marvels. Adam Curtis made a fine documentary about Lacks and the HeLa line of cells in 1997 for the BBC.
The video for "All The Things She Said" by Simple Minds presents a fine example of the then-cutting-edge video work of filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczyński.
And after you've seen that, really blow your mind with Charles and Ray Eames's head-spinning 1977 short, Powers of Ten!
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Tim and Jen spice up their lives with a fluffy little movie about five assertive young women, Spice World!
Read a contemporaneous account from Rolling Stone of the Spice Girls at the height of their global fame, in which they pick their noses, pee on things, and generally lark about.
The VH1 commercial slamming ELO that Jen mentioned is the first one in this compilation.
Yeah, what was the real Fox Force Five? Since there's a wiki for everything, check the one for Pulp Fiction:
'This premise inspired the theme for the Spice Girls' 1996 music video for their song "Say You'll Be There" in which the girls adopt similar fictional identities.'
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In true user-edited wiki fashion, this one is incorrect about the Code Name: Foxfire series mentioned. There were actually eight episodes that aired from January to April 1985, not just a pilot.
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Jen and Tim mildly disagree on a Sam Raimi film that didn't quite hit with audiences the first time around, the gender-swapped revenge tale The Quick and the Dead.
You can watch some deleted scenes from the film, including the love scene between Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe (or "liebesszene," as it's described here, because it's dubbed in German. A couple of the non-sexy scenes are missing audio, probably because those elements were lost after the theatrical edit was finalized.
Jen raised the notion that women are better shots than men, but there's no real consensus. This study indicates that men and women are equally good at sharpshooting, apart from a slight advantage displayed by men with pistols. Well there goes the whole premise of the movie!!
Yes, Sam Raimi did credit Joss Whedon with helping him on the ending of The Quick and the Dead, but we won't hold that against him.
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Tim and Jen invite the world's greatest Garfield scholar, Bitter Karella, to chat about a TV special inspired by a comic that traumatized a generation, Garfield: His 9 Lives.
Read Misunderstanding Comics, the funniest comic Scott McCloud never wrote, written by Tim and illustrated by Bitter Karella! Make Tim get those copies out of storage!
Have You Seen This...Dirty Cartoon? In case you missed our hilarious riff of Eveready Harton, you can watch it here, since you're a patron!
See some pages from the story Tim enthused about, the 1984 G.I. Joe comic "Silent Interlude."
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Jen and Tim swab the deck with a hygiene film straight from the U.S. Navy, The Story of D.E. 733: Ship of Shame. Actually, turns out it's pretty good, even with all the sores!
See the film in two parts (first reel and second reel) over at the Periscope Film YouTube channel, but be warned that it contains insert shots of male genitalia with symptoms of sexually transmitted infections. Wrap it before you tap it!
Jen says Mike Pence was governor of Iowa when she should have said Indiana. As she is a lifelong coastal elite, the states in the middle of the country just merge into a big blur when she looks at them. Anyway, the HIV outbreak started when Pence balked at funding needle exchanges for injection drug users.
See photos from the wartime U.S. Naval Photographic Services Depot, which produced The Story of D.E. 733.
The song the sailors are singing at the beginning of the film is "Bell Bottom Trousers," which was adapted from an extremely saucy folk ballad called "Rosemary Lane." Wikipedia has the original spicy lyrics.
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Tim and Jen brave the crowdfunded sequel to Showgirls, a mindbogglingly lengthy auteur statement called Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven.
The entire thing is the work of bit-part Showgirls (the original) actress Rena Riffel, who wrote, directed, edited, and starred in...this. Please don't be mad at us Rena we love you
See Rena's pivotal appearance in Tim's beloved Fishmasters, the low-budget but charming San Luis Obispo-area TV show mentioned in the episode.
Geeks of Doom had some hilariously wrong information about the film when the first trailer and crowdfunding appeal droppped:
[T]he film is “about stripper who died from a dose of contaminated cocaine. Her brother comes to Frankfurt to find the responsible and revenge.”
We've seen it, and it's not that. Luna Guthrie at Collider treats the movie much more kindly than we do, if you want a different take.
Finally, please watch Jen's video mashing up R.O.T.O.R. with Midi, Maxi, and Efti, and follow us on YouTube if you're not sick of us already!
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Jen and Tim contextualize the band that ruled Nixon's America, The Carpenters, for Todd Haynes's early dollhouse biopic, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.
Watch the film on the Internet Archive, but don't tell Richard Carpenter you did!
Entertainment Weekly took a look back at the film in the aftermath of the unstoppable cultural juggernaut that was the Barbie movie.
Friend of Todd Haynes and producer Christine Vachon spilled some info on the restoration of Superstar in 2023.
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Tim wisely stays far away while Jen hosts the lovable Worst of All Possible Worlds boys to chat about the worst of all possible musicals, Aladdin from 1990. Yes, it's not the animated version, but it does involve Disney. Listen if you don't believe us!
The moribund website of the Prince Street Players remains online, in case you want to do a deeper dive on the organization responsible for this mess.
Behold the "I Want to be Ninja" lady, but be prepared to apologize to your Asian friends. And yes, she does appear to be milking her dubious viral fame.
Regarding the Barry Bostwick-featuring commercial Jen mentioned, Brian made up a Pepsi product, and Jen believed him! The commercial actually presented Pepsi Twist, with lemon.
Check out Tim's Myst linking book set, and follow him on Instagram to see more of his amazing Lego creations!
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Jen and Tim debate just how much he actually likes movie musicals during their discussion of a mutual fave, the musical comedy Earth Girls Are Easy.
According to her own website, writer and actress Julie Brown is currently working on Earth Girls Are Easy...the musical version! Maybe even Tim will deign to see it!
Vanity Fair covered Angelyne in 2022, post-Hollywood Reporter exposé. According to the article, the producers of the Angelyne miniseries paid their subject for her life rights, although she declined a producer credit.
For more Julian Temple, enjoy the longform music video he directed for David Bowie, Jazzin' For Blue Jean.
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Tim and Jen welcome Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to discuss a concentrated version of the political correctness panic of the 90s, Disclosure.
If for some reason you need to subject yourself to the gross-out video Alex dropped in the chat while we were recording, here you go: Michael Douglas eats an oyster.
From 1995, this Vanity Fair article about Michael Douglas covers some of the production of Disclosure. Also highlighted are Douglas's personal struggles at the time, including a reconciliation with wife Diandra (who'd file for divorce later that year).
If you just can't get enough 90s tech references, check out this history of SiliconGraphics, the company that created a lot of the computer imagery in Disclosure. It's a UNIX system! You know this!
For more Michael Douglas (dunno why you want more, but you do you), listen to our episode about The Ghost and the Darkness!
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Jen and Tim discover the work of Nikos Nikolaidis through his magnum opus, the twisted noir grotesque Singapore Sling. Bring a bucket!
The director's official site provides a great deal of valuable context for his work, which has been little seen in the United States. Among others, you can purchase an HD digital download of Singapore Sling.
Related: Jen asserted that the film was "coming soon" to blu-ray, but it turns out it already made it to a special edition German blu-ray back in 2013. That edition appears to be out of print, but the film can be found if you know where to look.
For more visionary sicko shit, listen to our episode about David Cronenberg's Crash!
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Tim and Jen wrap up their look back at the first one hundred episodes of the show by listing their worst favorites! Yes, you read that right!
Hear about the movies we actually liked in our last episode, in case you missed it.
The lamentable fan film The Return of the Ghostbusters (aka "The Denver Ghostbusters," in the same vein as "Terrifier the Clown") shows no signs of disappearing from YouTube. Your time might be better spent (?) on primo schlock like Godfrey Ho's Crocodile Fury, or the wildest Florida Man story ever shot on video, Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness. And of course there's Romeo and Romeo!
The Doomsday Machine is way more enjoyable when it's riffed by Cinematic Titanic— highly recommended! Watch it free on Tubi.
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Jen and Tim pick their top five favorite subjects from the first one hundred episodes of the show. It was supposed to be their most and least faves, but they just talk too damn much! Looks like they gotta record a whole other episode to air their least faves of the first hundred.
If you watch just one episode of the (sadly few) remaining of the British series Dead of Night, "A Woman Sobbing" should be your pick.
Outsider art enthusiasts: walk, don't run to catch Romeo and Romeo. It truly is something special.
Horror Express is pretty easy to find, but a lot of poor quality versions are out there. This one is quite nice, however.
Threads has grown in reputation such that it often appears on streaming services like Shudder and Criterion Channel, but you can always find it at the Internet Archive.
Ghostwatch, the show that scared an entire country so badly they put it in a lockbox for 25 years, may also be viewed on the Archive!
Part 2, where we name our least favorites of the first hundred episodes of HYST, will be coming shortly, so stay tuned!
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Tim grudgingly assents to a discussion of a shot-on-video thriller from the crusty lower depths of Tubi, 1994's L.A. AIDS Jabber.
Of course you're going to want to rush right over to Tubi in order to enjoy all 78 action-packed, low-resolution minutes of L.A. AIDS Jabber. It's free (with ads)!
Over at The Body, Mathew Rodriguez wrings some thoughtful musings on AIDS stigma and the inversion of the white male savior trope out of the movie.
Rafe Oman interviews director Drew Godderis for Scare Magazine in honor of the blu-ray release of L.A. AIDS Jabber. Can you believe he had never directed a movie before?!
For shot-on-video shlock Tim is actually enthusiastic about, listen to our episode about Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness.
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K. Thor Jensen makes a triumphant return to the show to help Jen and Tim make sense of a nice young man's three-hour-long passion project, That One Amazing Movie!
See the movie for free with ads on Crackle, or rent or even buy it on Amazon!
Watch Deception on Demand, a short documentary laying out several grievances against Adler &Associates Entertainment, the entity which distributed That One Amazing Movie.
"The true story of how the grifters and con artists from Adler & Associates Entertainment hired O.J. Simpson's lawyers, and spent a small fortune, futilely trying to intimidate, harass and rip-off a very determined filmmaker. "
Hear Thor talk about Sass Girls X, the novel (!) from the auteur who brought us That One Amazing Movie, on the I Don't Even Own a TV podcast.
Listen to Thor's first appearance on our show, to discuss a movie just as baffling as the one we talked about in this episode, Wonder Boy.
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Tim wisely goes absent with leave as Jen invites Bitter Karella to the necropsy of a dire children's film from 1998, The Adventures of Ragtime.
Should you wish to self-harm, you can watch the full movie (with helpful timecode) at Showcase Entertainment's channel on YouTube.
Is it crass to post this screenshot of Shelley Long from the movie? Yeah, probably. Has that ever stopped us?
See photos of Ragtime at a very Web 1.0 site that his caregivers appear to have left up as a memorial to the tiny stallion.
For some more grown-up yet still juvenile horse content, listen to our Hot to Trot episode!
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Tim and Jen enlist the help of Bitter Karella to wade through the 22 minutes of treacle that is the forgotten faux-Peanuts special, Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.
See this slab of gelatinous treacle for yourself at the Internet Archive.
William Conant Church, brother of Francis Church, did indeed help found the NRA in 1871, in an effort to improve marksmanship amongst the broader American militia. He and brother Francis co-founded several news publications, including the New York Sun, and he also co-founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Additionally, Frank Church was not the volcel depicted in the Yes, Virginia special— he was married to a woman named Elizabeth Wickham. In spite of Tim's joshing, it appears that Church did not have a severe yet shapely assistant who browbeat him into publishing the editorial addressed to Virginia O'Hanlon. The O'Hanlon letter was passed on by Edward Page Mitchell, the real-life editor-in-chief of the Sun.
Karella alluded to the "Season's Greetings" meme drawn from Douglas Dixon's Man After Man, a kind of speculative art book about possible evolutions of Homo sapiens. If you want to see more of the weird art, the book is free to browse at the Internet Archive.
Finally, if you want to pretend that it's 1974 again and you're spinning some 45s, you can hear the theme song for the special sung by a piercing li'l Jimmy Osmond.
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Jen and Tim are doing misogyny again! They DO NOT support women...filmmakers who make bloodless, smarmy takes on rape-revenge flicks. Kind of like Promising Young Woman!
Abel Ferrara talked with Rotten Tomatoes a while back about the superior Ms. 45 when it made the rounds of revival houses.
And of course, don't miss our gleeful takedown of another helping of plastic feminism: listen to our episode on The Love Witch.
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Tim and Jen finally give the departed William Friedkin a proper sendoff with a discussion of his once-maligned masterpiece, Sorcerer. Guest Darren Herczeg provides his usual able assistance.
To clear up an anecdote Jen related during the episode: she says that Paramount president Charles Bluhdorn freaked out when he spotted himself in the group photo of oil company executives in a scene from Sorcerer. The source of this story is screenwriter Walon Green, who describes Bluhdorn as having had a "shit hemorrhage" during the screening. However, a review of the offending scene reveals only other Gulf+Western execs, not Bluhdorn.
"To me, they looked like a bunch of thugs," Friedkin said (as quoted in Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls).
Catch the documentary Friedkin Uncut on Tubi, where the man himself evokes Hitler in the first five minutes. We'll miss you, Billy.
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Jen and Tim suffer through the half-baked hippie whimsy of the Beatles' first major creative cock-up, Magical Mystery Tour.
If you're curious, you can watch the Pet Shop Boys' head-scratcher of a longform music video, It Couldn't Happen Here, at the Internet Archive. It looks like it was ripped from someone's VCD copy of a Hong Kong laserdisc, but it still has plenty of bops!
The Anton Corbijn-directed Strange (A Black and White Mode) incorporates all those songs that Tim says you know from Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses. You can watch it right now on YouTube, but a restored DVD and Blu-ray release will arrive in December.
Still mad at Paul McCartney? Listen to our Give My Regards to Broad Street episode with special guest Jane Altoids.
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Tim and Jen seek aid from wacky funster Bitter Karella to explain a film series as British as lousy weather and inedible food: the Carry On series! Also, Tim positively bursts with Carry On-related research.
The Carry On series is so popular that you're spoiled for choice when it comes to documentaries about them. A Perfect Carry On Documentary is relatively lighthearted, but for more dirt, start with What's a Carry On? - The Story of the Carry On Films and 40th Anniversary Reunion and finish (ooh-err!) with the incredibly bleak Carry On Darkly. The latter two delve into the financial straits and personal problems of many of the most beloved cast members from the series.
If you’re not familiar with the canon and want to sample the world of Carry On for yourself, stop by the Internet Archive. Be warned, though: if you’re as susceptible to broad comedy as Tim seems to be, you might end up Carry On-pilled too! Cor blimey!
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Jen and Tim do a deep dive into the canned pumpkin pie filling that is Shudder's Ghoul Log! Are we serious with this shit? You tell us! However, all of the usual outlets appear to trick-or-treat it with the same gravitas afforded to, say, the latest Terrifier installment. To wit:
Comicbook.com anticipates the Night of the Ghoul Log:
"While some fans might be disappointed that this year hasn't embraced a specific horror property, it still marks a great way to capture the atmosphere of Halloween night." - Patrick Cavanaugh
All Hallows Geek covers Tippett Studios's Mad God edition of the Ghoul Log
SlashFilm on the Trick 'r Treat-themed edition:
"It's charming, but it's also a bit distracting. If you want the Ghoul Log to serve as background filler – as I do – this isn't the way to go, as the constant interruptions will pull you away from whatever it is you're doing." - Chris Evangelista
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Tim and Jen bring back one of horror’s heaviest (lol) hitters to talk about a movie William Friedkin couldn’t be bothered to mention after he made it, The Guardian!
Tim’s quip about Q’s on Wilshire refers to a 2000 incident in which screenwriter and director Eric Red plowed his Jeep into a crowded bar following a fender bender, killing two people, then attempted to slit his own throat with a piece of glass. The linked LA Weekly article draws some tenuous conclusions between Red’s work and the bloody mess at Q’s, but as of 2023 he appears to have stayed out of trouble and written several novels.
KCRW memorializes Deirdre O’ Donaghue’s incredibly influential playlists with its Bent By Nature podcast.
The ballerina clown of Venice remains in situ, where it has been since 1989. Presumably, it makes the CVS underneath it easy to find for out-of-towners.
Do you love Tim and Bitter Karella, but have had enough of Jen? Hear the former two discuss a beloved childhood favorite in our Ernest Goes to Camp episode!
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Jen is pleasantly surprised when Tim suggests a horror movie that's actually pretty good: the eerie anthology with a twist, Ghost Stories. Also, Tim gives an impromptu lecture on the deeper meaning of American zombie movies.
Read an interview with Ghost Stories co-writer Derren Brown about his new stage show. He also confesses that he used to be a cape guy ("a bit intense, and a bit socially maladroit," according to the article. No surprise there! He also has a YouTube channel if you would like to see him hypnotize people into giving him their wallets.
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Tim and Jen look at Peter Jackson’s transition from splatter king to mainstream whizbang effects filmmaker, The Frighteners.
Check out part one of The Frighteners blooper reel! Part two may be viewed here. Damn, that’s a lot of blooperin’!
In 2018, Germain Lussier wrote a positive reappraisal of the film for Gizmodo.
Lussier does not appear to be alone in liking the film, since a recent post from MSN claims that Universal intends to remake The Frighteners. Maybe we’ll get that franchise after all!
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Jen and Tim come to a tenuous agreement about a once universally loathed Martin Short comedy, Clifford. Also, Tim punches down ruthlessly on a twenty pound miniature pinscher.
The Slate article about Martin Short that riled everyone up may be found here, but if you want to skip right to the synchronized swimming sketch from SNL, you can watch it on Vimeo.
The Vulture oral history of the making, the release, and the eventual cult fandom around Clifford is as exhaustive a history of the film as one may be expected to tolerate.
DNA specialists identified the Boy in the Box as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, 65 years after his death (be careful if you search for info on the case; the police distributed postmortem photos shortly after he was found in an attempt to generate leads).
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Tim and Jen head back to the pre-prestige-TV cable well with a failed spinoff of Tales From the Crypt called Perversions of Science. Throughout, you can really tell that your hosts would rather be watching a certain Canadian/German co-production.
Jen was slightly off when she said that HBO has existed since “the mid-to-late 70s”—it launched in 1972.
Mic mentions the Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown kerfuffle in this article about depictions of abortion on American television. And then there’s Maude!
In 1992, Vanity Fair covered the speculation around the circumstances of the death of Hitler’s niece. (Jen thinks he did it.)
If you love Skinemax Farscape as much as we do, listen to our Lexx episode!
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Jen enlists show stalwart Bitter Karella to help offend nearly every single person in the Czech Republic by providing an honest review of Goat Story: The Old Prague Legends.
See the intro for the show Jen and Karella saw in Switzerland, Kommissar Rex. That's what I call a good friend!
If you would like to see the "Roy Orbison in clingfilm" stories for yourself, you can do so here, but keep in mind that the site owner has "ceased answering mail" because of "weirdos." However, the film and television rights to his long-awaited Roy Orbison in clingfilm novel are still up for grabs!
Hear our Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure episode, also featuring Bitter Karella!
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Jen and Tim quibble over Bobcat Goldthwait’s directorial debut, the seedy comic tale of Shakes the Clown. Also, Jen drops some hard truths about Robin Williams.
Patton Oswalt tells his story about the world’s worst party clown to Conan O’Brien.
Are you new to Have You Seen This? Have you yet to hear the good news about Pervy the Clown? Tune your Roku to B-Movie TV every Friday at midnight!…if you dare.
Or, if you’re subscribed to our Patreon at $5 and up, direct your Pervy-related questions to your hosts in the show Discord!
Apropos of nothing, apparently the children’s show Little Clowns of Happytown was developed by Chuck Lorre, the guy who went on to runaway success with a bunch of sitcoms that Jen hates with every fiber of her being.
Can’t get enough clownin’? Listen to our episode about the Terrifier franchise!
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Tim and Jen look at the creepiest Charles Bronson film not directed by Michael Winner, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects.
Regarding Jill Ireland leaving then-husband David McCallum for Bronson, longtime rumor says that Bronson reportedly told McCallum to his face, “I’m going to marry your wife.” However, McCallum disputes this, and apparently didn’t hold a grudge:
“‘I never hated him, Charlie was always a good friend,’ he says. ‘I find that when problems come along, worrying about them and getting anxious and negative is quite unnecessary. You can solve them, usually amicably. That’s what happened.’”
-McCallum to the Daily Mirror, 2016
Whatta guy!
Lateral move, really
CBR has the rundown on Cannon’s ersatz entry in the Macross/Robotech saga, the optimistically titled Robotech: The Movie. This archived Robotech fansite goes into even further detail on what went wrong. Please direct any further questions to our Robotech expert, Tim.
For more Cannon/Bronson (and J. Lee Thompson!), listen to our episode about 10 to Midnight, the movie with a nude serial killer.
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Jen and Tim get mad enough to talk about All Hallow’s Eve and Terrifier (the first one) for almost two hours!
Jen really punted when she said that scary clowns go back to John Wayne Gacy— according to Smithsonian Magazine, clowns have been creepy (and annoying) for centuries!
This Bloom County strip from the story arc Jen mentioned illustrates the one-time societal loathing directed at mimes pretty well.
For that previous mime discussion, listen to our Eat and Run episode with special guest Bitter Karella!
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Tim and Jen review a film of great technical genius and great vacuity of story: Natalie Wood’s final film, Brainstorm. But Jen liked at least half of it. Also, please send Tim all of your uneaten candy corn.
There’s a rundown on the Showscan process originally intended for Brainstorm from Douglas Trumbull himself on YouTube. Too bad it’s in 360p. This fine Japanese documentary on Trumbull is in much higher quality, though.
If you’re super into the dialectic and want to go beyond Noguchi’s and Lambert’s account of the death of Natalie Wood, former prosecutor Sam Perroni has written a well-researched look into the case called…Brainstorm!
And if you want more mind-bending visuals that weren't appreciated by the public at the time, listen to our episode on the Wachowskis' update of Speed Racer!
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Jen and Tim struggle to understand the newly-minted cult status of a flop from Keanu Reeve’s himbo era, the cyberpunk thriller Johnny Mnemonic. They also put on hazmat suits and and delve into the horror that is the comment section on Dina Meyer’s website.
Director Robert Longo talks about the rationale and process that led to his black-and-white edition of Johnny Mnemonic over at Screen Slate.
Screenwriter and god of cyberpunk William Gibson reflects on the film shortly after its U.S. release.
For more Dina Meyer discussion, listen to our The Evil Within episode!
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Tim and Jen dutifully cover the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell, the Paul Schrader (!)-directed Witch Hunt.
Jen erred and called Schrader’s 2022 film Master Gardener “Master.” Was she thinking of the Paul Thomas Anderson film The Master? Who knows!
Be sure to watch Tim’s webseries Assignment Unexplained! And visit his website! And follow timtoonstudio on Instagram!
Tim alluded to the disappearance of Bill Ewasko, which you can learn more about in episode 47 of Adam Walks Around.
View the miracle of electrical kitchen appliances as filtered through the horny fixation of a teenage girl in a short riffed for Mystery Science Theater 3000, Young Man’s Fancy. Damn, that girl is SO squishy. Was it even legal to be that squishy in the 1950s?!
Speaking of sexuality and decades long past, here is the paper Jen was talking about that debunks the myth of "hysteria treatments" for women in decades past. Author Hailie Lieberman warns that the spurious paper is “a cautionary tale for how easily falsehoods can become embedded in the humanities.”
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Jen and Tim try to say something nice about a pay cable attempt at Lovecraftian horror/comedy, Cast a Deadly Spell. Also, Jen tries and fails to remember the time she massively insulted Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid out of nowhere.
Jen is so dumb she forgot to mention who directed Witch Hunt, the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell: Paul fucking Schrader. Will we watch it? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Tim confused Peter Scolari of Bosom Buddies with Mark Linn-Baker in Perfect Strangers, or maybe he was thinking of Bronson Pinchot. Does it matter?
Jerry Smith over at Certified Forgotten makes a fan’s case for the movie, so we’ll include it as a concession to an imaginary genre podcast Fairness Doctrine.
Finally, for more throwback horror, try our episode on the first Kolchak telefilm, The Night Stalker!
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Tim is too cool to talk about a nerdy British kid’s coming of age story, so Jen and special guest @bitterkarella step in to talk about cult BBC teleplay Penda’s Fen.
BFI did indeed release Penda’s Fen on blu-ray in 2016, but it’s also available on YouTube!
The 2010 post that originally turned Jen on to the film may be found at John Coulthart’s excellent art blog, Feuilleton. At the time of writing, Penda’s Fen was almost impossible to see, as a home video release was far in the future.
As for Penda’s Fen, whenever a TV executive tries to argue that television hasn’t dumbed down I’d offer this work as Exhibit A for the prosecution. Rudkin and Clarke’s film was screened at 9.35 in the evening on the nation’s main TV channel, BBC 1, at a time when there were only three channels to choose from. A primetime audience of many millions watched this visceral and unapologetically intelligent drama; show me where this happens today. - John Coulthart
Jen mangled the words to the Bonzo Dog Band’s “Sport” a little bit (“Sport, sport, masculine sport / equips a young man for society”), but you get the idea.
Also, be sure to listen to our discussion of the Alan Clarke-directed The Firm, along with its inferior remake.
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Jen and Tim welcome reproductive rights expert Mellie to discuss an exhaustive documentary on A BIG COMPLICATED ISSUE: Tony Kaye’s overview of abortion in the US, Lake of Fire.
Looper has the rundown on Tony Kaye’s battle with New Line Cinema (and Edward Norton) over the final cut of American History X.
The Nation has a pretty good overview of the intertwining of anti-abortion activism and white supremacy in the United States.
Randall Terry is still alive, unfortunately, but Paul Jennings Hill, John Burt, John Salvi, and Norman Weslin are not.
Be sure to listen to Mellie’s first appearance on the show, where we picked apart the anti-abortion propaganda film The Silent Scream.
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Tim and Jen have a mild and cordial disagreement about Truman Show screenwriter Andrew Niccol’s flop first feature: Gattaca.
The Cinemaholic has an explainer for the ending, just in case you’re stupid.
The studio attempted to sell the film as a sci-fi thriller, going by the trailer. See it in 4K over at YouTube. Am I crazy, or is that Richard Kiley narrating for a touch of educational-television believability? Guess they spared no expense!
In an interview snippet, Gattaca cinematographer Slawomir Idziak talks about working on an episode of Krzysztof Kieślowski's televised masterpiece, Dekalog.
Finally, if you want to hear our episode on George Romero’s Martin, stop by our website! But first come to our Discord and talk to Tim about Traveler.
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Jen and Tim welcome @bitterkarella to talk about a tWisTeD comic book movie, the Spawn before Spawn, Faust: Love of the Damned!
Read an interview with director Brian Yuzna to learn more about Fantastic Factory, the production company that brought you that titty inflation scene. He also talks about The Guyver!
If you found yourself confused by our reference to ”Two Wet Bears,“ you can watch it on YouTube. It’s an attempt to pass off a pencil test as a finished animated short, and features almost every year at Jerry Beck's Worst Cartoons Ever panel at Comic-Con. (Also listen to our episode with Jerry about the Monkees’ sole feature, Head!)
This is the Sara Matthews Bitter Karella was talking about, by the way. Apparently she was uncredited in Repossessed, in spite of her memorable appearance. For shame!
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Tim and Jen scratch their heads over a Japanese musical that’s positively infested with cats, Cats on Park Avenue. It has nothing to do with New York or the musical Cats.
Complex has the story on how Disney literally killed five golden retriever puppies while making Snow Buddies, a direct-to-video follow-up to Air Bud.
Marty Stouffer became popular with his Wild America series on PBS. A few of his ex-employees alleged that he staged many scenes in the show, which he denied.
You can watch the scene from Sledge Hammer! that Tim mentioned, and after that you can watch the whole series on YouTube, because it’s right there and it’s a great show!
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Paul Jay returns to talk with us about Warren Beatty’s greatest love! No, not women— by all evidence it’s Dick Tracy. Also, we are interrupted by a dog.
View one of Beatty’s rights-maintaining Dick Tracy specials, in which he’s interviewed by Leonard Maltin while in character as his favorite comic strip detective.
We’ve talked about Warren a couple of times before on the show— once with beloved recurring guest Sean Morris for Bulworth, and once to inagurate the whole dang podcast with our Ishtar episode!
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With Tim AWOL (Absent With Overabundant Lego), Jen invites wrestling expert Darren Herczeg to discuss a half-assed wrestling comedy, Body Slam!
You can read Dirk Benedict’s idiotic whining about the female Starbuck over at the Internet Archive.
For a peek into the primordial soup of reactionary mass media, read this piece about Wally George and his UHF televison show, Hot Seat. More proof that the worst place God created is not the Nefud desert, but Orange County, California.
Speaking of shock TV, watch a representative clip of The Richard Bey Show! Bey later claimed that his show was cancelled because he aired an interview with Gennifer Flowers, one of several women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. #ClintonBodyCount
Finally, don’t forget to follow the world’s greatest Instagram account, a veritable museum of weird gimmicks and jobbers, @hamandeggers. Our special guest Darren does, so shouldn’t you?
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Jen and Tim talk about a truly weird musical fantasia from the mind of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss— The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
So much of this episode wouldn’t exist without the superlative work of Seuss biographer Brian Jay Jones. His book Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisl and the Making of an American Imagination highlights Geisl's creativity and enduring legacy in popular literature. Jones talked in depth about the life of Dr. Seuss on the Our American Stories podcast (listen to our show first though lol).
The charming animated short Gerald McBoing-Boing may be viewed on YouTube.
Jen mentioned the Australian child murderer (and worse) Mr. Cruel— see the legitimately terrifying police sketch of the suspect at Wikipedia, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.
And yes, we highly recommend that calendar Rifftrax short we mentioned, whether you like to laugh, or if you’re just genuinely confused about how to use a calendar!
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Tim and Jen discuss a beloved epic whose time has come, the Peter Weir masterpiece Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World!
The GQ article mentioned appears to be yet more proof of the widespread affection for this film.
The doctor who pioneered sanitary practices in medicine was Ignatz Semmelweiss, although these ideas didn’t take hold until the time of Joseph Lister. Additionally, other medical men (like Oliver Wendell Holmes, for one) arrived at similar notions independent of Semmelweiss. The latter, in fact, refused to publish anything about hand washing because he believed these practices to be “self-evident.”
If you want to read about Grover Cleveland getting surgery at sea and see some icky-yet-illumunating photos, the New York Academy of Medicine has a good blog post about it. If you want more, the book Jen mentioned is called The President is a Sick Man, and author Matthew Algeo answered questions about it in this C-SPAN presentation.
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Jen is defeated by the ostensible low point of Lindsay Lohan’s onscreen career, I Know Who Killed Me, while Tim cuts right through the Gordian knot that is the movie’s storyline. Also Jen vents her disappointment over a director she actually likes(?), sorta.
Someone actually tracked down the screenwriter, Jeff Hammond, and got him to open up a little about the production:
I avoided reading most of the reviews; however, it was impossible not to be aware of the negative consensus. I forced myself to read the ones that mentioned me by name (linked from Google notifications). That made for a handful of ugly reads. It’s a difficult thing for a writer to be accused in print of being tone-deaf.
His account is interesting, but there’s no revelatory info about the “themes” or “story,” because these things are about as one-dimensional as you might have guessed.
Charles Bramesco also made a case in the Guardian for the movie. You can probably chalk that up to personal preference more than a love of great cinema.
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Tim and Jen host steadfast friend of the show mugrimm to talk about a pervasively influential TV movie that spawned the cult series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Also, in this episode you can learn more about Pervy the Clown…if you dare.
If you love Kolchak’s sad little hat, you can get one!
The Slate article quibbling about Fletch (the 1985 film starring Chevy Chase) may be read here, if you enjoy the Slate brand of whiny crap.
For mugrimm's previous appearance on the show, check out our episode on the M.A.N.T.I.S. TV movie!
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Jen and Tim jack freely over a rote 1992 sci-fi action thriller, Freejack, starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger. Your hosts kind of forget to talk about Jagger, but Tim does reminisce fondly about Four Loko.
Jen says “Psycho Ninja” when she was actually thinking of Psycho Kickboxer. The latter film is absolutely delightful, by the way.
If you’re curious about the gory details of Denise Richards’ divorce from Charlie Sheen, you can read them here, directly from the court document.
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Tim and Jen remain in the 90s for a look at a dire courtroom drama leavened with gauzy sex scenes, the 1992 Madonna vehicle Body of Evidence.
There are no page numbers in Madonna’s book Sex, but it doesn’t take long to flip through on the Internet Archive if you want to see her eating pizza in the nude!
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers beat Jen to it with a panoply of fake erotic thriller names during the credits for Outlaw [of Gor], episode 519. A personal favorite: “Murder Most Moist.”
The Julianne Moore face Tim was talking about
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Jen and Tim nineties nineties nineties nineties Denzel Washington nineties nineties virtual reality, nineties Russell Crowe nineties, nineties nineties nineties Virtuosity nineties!
Read the AV Club interview with Kelly Lynch where she describes Denzel’s motive for doctoring the script for Virtuosity, as mentioned in the episode.
Per Tim’s recommendation, you could do a search on the World Wide Web, or you can check out an article about Kai’s Power Tools if you’d like to see some screenshots of that bonkers interface!
Also, if you missed it the first time around, listen to our episode about The Lawnmower Man, another cheesy 90s film from the director of Virtuosity.
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Tim and Jen enlist animal expert Emma Bowers (Hyenas and Gin on YouTube) to explain why the fascinating story of two man-eating lions resulted in a boring movie called The Ghost and the Darkness.
Watch a 1996 documentary about the man-eaters of Tsavo, which includes brief interviews with stars Kilmer and Douglas and director Stephen Hopkins. One interviewee theorizes that the local lions’ taste for human flesh stems from generations of slave traders who left injured or dying captives to their fate in the bush.
This 1996 Entertainment Weekly article sums up how bad Val Kilmer’s reputation got to be in Hollywood.
As Richard Stanley, who directed Kilmer for three days in The Island of Dr. Moreau before being fired, recalls, “Val would arrive, and an argument would happen.” Says John Frankenheimer, who replaced Stanley: “I don’t like Val Kilmer, I don’t like his work ethic, and I don’t want to be associated with him ever again.” And Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher calls his onetime star “childish and impossible.”
Entertainment Weekly, May 31st, 1996
You can watch the tiger attack video Tim mentioned, with added context. Rawr!
There’s even a mineral named Tsavorite which was discovered in Tanzania and named in honor of the area.
Finally, listen to our episode on the shockingly ill-conceived movie Roar, with special guest Emma!
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Jen and Tim welcome returning guest Darren Herczeg to go to bat for an almost universally loathed Netflix feature, Blonde. Naturally, the trio revel in the film’s grotesque and overt misogyny while twirling their mustaches.
Jessica Kiang’s review of Blonde over at Film Comment sums up the critical reaction well:
Dominik’s film is a technical marvel, but it’s cold and not a little sinister. It’s also an utterly heartless hoodwink.
There’s no word on whether or not the French documentary that revealed the identity of Marilyn’s biological father will screen in the US. However, according to Variety, an English-language version exists and has been sold to international distributors
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Tim and Jen try and fail to recall the name of Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps as they discuss Olympian gymnast Kurt Thomas’s sole feature film, Gymkata.
Jen’s half-assed inaccurate anecdote about Phelps being considered to play Tarzan is actually true, albeit not the way she told it. Producer Jerry Weintraub (no relation to Gymkata producer Fred Weintraub) believed that he’d found the new Johnny Weissmuller in Phelps. However, the swimmer’s appearance on SNL in 2008 immediately disabused him of that notion, as Phelps appeared to Weintraub as little more than a “goon.”
Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Mark Spitz has only five minor credits on IMDb, incidentally, none of which involve starring in a feature film. In case you were wondering.
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Jen and Tim welcome Speed Racer evangelist Paul Jay to talk about, uh, the 2008 flop Speed Racer.
Over at culture blog The Sundae, Dean Buckley makes a case against Speed Racer as “art film” and for the Wachowskis as purveryors of schlock (in a positive way). Agree or disagree, it’s a thoughtful piece.
The Daily Beast has details of Emile Hirsch’s attack on a Paramount executive at a Sundance party, although the headline’s assertion that he “starred” in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a slight exaggeration (he had a small part as man-about-town hairdresser and murder victim Jay Sebring).
The documentary Riding Balls of Fire: Group B, The Wildest Years of Rallying presents a nice overview of that brief era of rally car racing, plus it’s free on Tubi!
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They just can't stop witchin'! Tim and Jen continue the unending spooky season with a franchise entry that pleased no one, Halloween III: Season of the Witch!
Chris Evangelista defended the movie over at SlashFilm, as part of that site's The Unpopular Opinion series.
Let’s all thank Sean for his partial preservation of hotep public access show Spearman’s Addiction.
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Jen and Tim attempt to purge the lingering memory of a certain occult-y art film with a viewing of an early George Romero work, Season of the Witch.
In case you had no idea what he was getting at, Tim’s latest thing is calling Chantal Akerman’s feminist classic Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles “the Jean Teasdale movie.”
Marxist art critic John Berger’s analysis of western media, Ways of Seeing, is available on YouTube. He casts a critical eye on the depiction of the female nude in European oil painting in the second episode.
Men dream of women, women dream of themselves being dreamt of. Men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at. Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors, reminding them of how they look, or how they should look. Behind every glance is a judgement. Sometimes the glance they meet is their own, reflected back from a real mirror. - John Berger, Ways of Seeing
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Your hosts range widely and freely on the topic of horror: specifically, found footage horror. The films discussed are The McPherson Tape, The Blair Witch Project, Backrooms, and Horror in the High Desert.
Watch The Backrooms short we talked about here on YouTube.
Director Dean Alioto talked with the Found Footage Critic about UFO Abduction and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, aka The McPherson Tape:
In 1989 Dean Alioto shot his first film, UFO Abduction, for a meager budget of $6,500—the master copy of the film was subsequently destroyed and thus the movie was never widely released. Ten years later Dean Alioto pitched UFO Abduction to Dick Clark Productions, who picked up the idea and gave Dean Alioto a $1.2 million budget to shoot a remake for television. In 1998, the remake was released entitled Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (a.k.a. The McPherson Tape).
Over the years the names of these films has resulted in a great deal of confusion. Even to this day, both UFO Abduction and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County are referred to as “The McPherson Tape.”
Found Footage Critic
An explorer named Tom covered the tragic story of the Death Valley Germans at his blog, OtherHand.
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Tim and Jen are dumbfounded by a universally praised and vacantly pretty auteur statement, The Love Witch!
Rotten Tomatoes shows The Love Witch to be a darling of critics with a rating of 95% (audiences were more lukewarm, with their rating sitting at 61%). One of the few negative reviews calls it “dawdling, hollow and kind of awful, really:"
Some of the movie comes close to camp or just falls in, as when Elaine is assaulted by former friend Trish (Laura Waddell in the film’s only genuine performance), whose husband Elaine has stolen. “Skank! Whore!” Trish yells, slapping Elaine while wearing a wig cap — the movie helpfully provides its own drag-show re-enactment. A sequence in which Elaine is confronted in a bar by a mob of superstitious goofballs (“Burn the witch!”) is frankly terrible and staged with incredible clumsiness. The Love Witch will be worshipped as a fetish object by a certain breed of film nerd who luxuriates in its DIY retro aesthetic, but it isn’t really a movie — it would have to move first, and the pacing is leadfooted. The plot’s pairing Elaine with a stolid detective (Gian Keys) just leads to a handfasting scene at a local ren faire that seems to go on for six, maybe seven years.
-Rob Gonsalves
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Jen and Tim enjoy a silly 1990 comedy with startlingly good practical effects, Spaced Invaders!
Director/writer Patrick Read Johnson’s long-gestating nostalgia trip, 5-25-77, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 22, 2022. In the meantime, you can read Karina Longworth’s review of a cut of the film in 2008 from the now-defunct Sprout Blog. The director left a comment rebutting some of her criticism there (thank you, Internet Archive).
This Slate article sums up the probable facts behind the “War of the Worlds mass panic” myth quite well.
The song from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds that Jen was talking about is “The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine.” Ulla!
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Tim and Jen start spooky season early with a shockingly dark release from Disney, Return to Oz.
Jen forgot to mention that the main reason the film does not resembles the MGM film from 1939 apart from the Ruby Slippers™ is because all of the trappings of the MGM version were and are copyrighted. In fact, Disney had to shell out to use that plot device in the film. Hence, while Walter Murch’s desire to make a moive closer in spirit to the L. Frank Baum material is admirable, it most likely played second fiddle to the demands of copyright law.
Additionally, the movie finally made a profit from a 1949 re-release, not “like twenty years later” or whatever Jen glibly claimed.
Animator Doug Aberle made a video where he talks about his process for animating the demise of the Nome King. Plus, he includes interviews with the late Will Vinton.
If you want more details about the drama between Sarah Polley and Terry Gilliam, you can read an excerpt from her memoir here.
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For their one hundred and fiftieth episode (!), Jen and Tim welcome animation expert Jerry Beck to talk about the worst cartoons ever made and the Monkees’ super freak out, Head!
Visit Jerry’s website for all the animation news and discussion you can eat.
You can watch Two Wet Bears and Sam Bassett, Hound For Hire on YouTube, if you dare. You can also see the first episode of Jerry and Frank Conniff’s nightmare children’s show parody, Cartoon Dump!
Someone else remembers WBAI’s collage radio show, “Techie Time!”
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Jen hosts the delightful Jane Altoids of Pacino Pod to perform an autopsy on one of the worst vanity projects ever made: Give My Regards to Broad Street!
Director Peter Webb’s BAFTA-winning short Butch Minds the Baby is up at the Internet Archive. Give it a watch so Paul McCartney’s cinematic abortion doesn't define Webb's onscreen legacy.
I couldn’t dig up the Macca/Siskel interview Jane mentioned, but Paul is very pissy in this live chat from the film’s premiere. Better, though, is this South Bank Show documentary about the making of the film’s music which opens with Paul and legendary producer George Martin composing the number one hit “No More Lonely Nights.”
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Tim and Jen defend a movie you either love or hate, Darren Aronofsky’s mother!
See crybaby Kyle Smith’s review of mother! at the world’s worst magazine if you want to know what kind of thing gets your hosts into a theater to see a movie.
Jen whiffed the explanation of the bad blood between Satoshi Kon and Darren Aronofsky. The situation is way more complicated than the latter purchasing the rights to Perfect Blue (which never happened, incidentally). The Animation Obsessive Substack did a deep dive.
Looking for an exploration of the meaning of the pelican-in-her-piety from someone way more informed than Jen? The nice people at the St. Mary Magdalen School of Theology have you covered.
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Jen and Tim finally tackle one of their shared albatrosses— the Robocop before Robocop, R.O.T.O.R.!
Isadora Fox wrote a piece in memory of actress Margaret Trigg for New York magazine back in 2004. The article details her struggles with disordered eating and poor mental health, but also serves as a eulogy for a legitimately talented person gone too soon.
You can also watch an entire episode of Aliens in the Family, the unlamented sitcom Trigg starred in for 8 episodes. By the way, Aliens in the Family was co-written by everyone’s least favorite “satirist,” Andy Borowitz.
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Tim gets a little treat this month— we talked about one of his personal favorites, Gaspar Noé’s trippy version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Enter the Void!
Read an interview at Den of Geek with a voluble Noé about Enter the Void.
Towards the end, the weird trip turns into a bad trip, like sometimes mushroom trips or acid trips turn into bad trips. But a bad trip can be very rewarding, because when you come out of one, it’s like coming out of a bad dream where you get killed or something, and the moment you wake up, you still feel the presence of that reality and the dream, or the nightmare, is always real. But you feel so safe coming back to the real world, and some people said when they came out of this movie that they were still scared. – Gaspar Noé on Enter the Void
The Hype Williams-directed video Tim got so mad about is for Kanye West’s “All of the Lights.” Honestly a pretty pallid copy of the title sequence Tim loves so much.
See Paz de la Huerta crash the shooting of Louis Theroux’s Scientology documentary.
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Jen and Tim marvel at the cursed, ill-conceived, bloated sequel to Chinatown, The Two Jakes.
Errata: Jen was wrong and Polanski fled the country in February of 1978, not 1977.
The Two Jakes derailed the Robert Towne/Jack Nicholson friendship, which had been forged in the early 60s while both worked for Roger Corman, for at least a decade. Towne admitted as much in Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. However, in a 2006 interview, Towne parries a question about the film thusly:
Well, in the interest of maintaining my friendships with Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans, I’d rather not go into it, but let’s just say The Two Jakes wasn’t a pleasant experience for any of us. But, we’re all still friends, and that’s what matters most.
Robert Towne
So, you know, awwwwww.
The History Channel website has the cold hard facts about Jack Nicholson’s 1994 road rage incident, in which he attacked another motorist’s car with a golf club.
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Tim and Jen host Jacques of the Seeking Derangements podcast so they can hold forth about a personal favorite: Fatal Beauty starring Whoopi Goldberg!
Jacques somewhat confused the timeframe of Whoopi’s brief relationship with Ted Danson. They had an affair on the set of the 1993 film Made in America, and the infamous Friars Club blackface bit occurred in the fall of that same year. Ted and Whoopi dated until 1994; they moved on with Mary Steenbergen and Frank Langella(!), respectively.
Several stories exist on the origin of Whoopi’s stage surname, incidentally. The anecdote about “Goldberg” being her mother’s suggestion so she could appear Jewish enough to succeed in show business has not been confirmed. Hilariously, noted treat boy John Podhoretz once wrote an editorial for the New York Post demanding that she drop her adopted surname, in light of some wild-ass comments about the Holocaust Whoopi made on The View.
If you don’t recall the story of Big Lurch, we told it on our Disco Godfather episode.
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Jen and Tim fight to a standstill over a comedy that flopped in theaters, Wet Hot American Summer.
Tim incorrectly identifies co-writer Michael Showalter as director. It was David Wain, not that Tim gives a fuck.
The five episodes of sketch comedy show The State produced by MTV have been preserved on the Internet Archive!
The children’s TV special Jen struggled to name is The Night Dracula Saved the World, aka The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t. We highly recommend the Rifftrax version!
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Tim and Jen welcome Doug Waugh of B-Movie TV and the Slashers podcast to discuss an overlooked Australian heist film that’s heaps good: Money Movers!
Purchase Umbrella Entertainment’s blu-ray of Money Movers at their website!
Urban Dictionary has a detailed entry on the Australian slang term “toecutter,” if you’re curious.
The “Barge Arse” clip Tim referred to may be viewed here.
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No truer words were spoken about this movie than “So Fucking What.” Jen and Tim welcome Bryan Quinby of Street Fight Radio to talk about a justly forgotten 90s something-or-other called S.F.W.
Trace the history of the beer ball!
If you want to revisit that scene we mentioned from Sleep With Me, watch it here.
Jen was wrong about Juliet, incidentally— she was intended to be about 13 or 14.Romeo was 16 or 17, though, so obviously the play is problematic due to the age gap and Shakespeare is still cancelled.
The name of the teenaged girl school shooter Jen failed to recall is Brenda Spencer.She committed the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in 1979, and she is still incarcerated.
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Tim and Jen scratch their heads over an incest-filled nightmare of a David Cronenberg movie, Maps to the Stars!
Hey remember that Mysteries and Scandals show on E!? They did an episode about Jon-Erik Hexum! (Whatever happened to A.J. Benza?)
The poem by John Cooper Clarke that so moved Tim, “Evidently Chickentown,” may be heard here.
Jen pointed out a mention of another poet, Anne Sexton, in the movie. Interestingly, while Sexton’s daughter reported credibly in her memoir Looking For Mercy Street and elsewhere that her mother sexually abused her, Sexton’s own memories of abuse have been called into question due to the methods her psychiatrist used to unearth them. However, Sexton’s history of dissociation, psychotic breaks, and eventual suicide seem to point to some kind of trauma.
Finally, if you missed our Crash episode, listen to it here!
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Jen and Tim welcome back Josh of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss the Oliver Stone version of the Eric Bogosian play, Talk Radio from 1988.
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Jen got the date of the crash of Air Florida flight 90 wrong— it happened in January of 1982.
“The comment that brought Howard Stern his most notoriety during his time on Washington, DC radio in the early ‘80s was the infamous Fourteenth Street Bridge Incident. As morning man at ‘DC101’ WWDC, Stern was reacting to the Air Florida flight that crashed into the bridge in February 1982. ‘What’s the price of a one-way ticket from National to the Fourteenth Street Bridge?’ he asked. ‘Is that going to be a regular stop?’”
Via insideradio.com
Also Stern did not call the actual Air Florida ticket counter, because as most of us know, talk radio prank calls are faked. Just ask Bryan of Street Fight Radio! In fact, you can hear a deep dive into shock jocks for a pledge as low as $1 over at the Street Fight Patreon!
Shortly after his murder by white supremacists, a memorial piece about shock jock Alan Berg appeared in Rolling Stone. The author of the piece, Stephen Singular, later expanded this piece into the book Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg. You can read the original Rolling Stone article here.
And don’t miss our freewheeling episode with the TWOAPW guys about a sad little fake Hammer film, IT! starring Roddy McDowall!
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Tim and Jen get locked in with a raw adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s sensational play, Short Eyes!
Go here for a bio of Piñero, the trailblazing Nuyorican playwright, as well as a list of his works.
BTW, there’s a documentary called The Survivor’s Guide to Prison that is slick, well made, and narrated by Danny Trejo as well as many other cultural icons. You can watch it for free with ads on Tubi, or on Kanopywith a library card. In other words, it’s perfect for sending to your normie friends who haven’t been hipped to the cause of prison abolition yet!
NYC Urbanism has historical information on the setting of Short Eyes, the Manhattan Detention Complex, aka The Tombs.
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Jen and Tim take a look at an exploration of trauma anchored by an incredible Jennifer Jason Leigh performance, Heart of Midnight!
The writer/director, Matthew Chapman, wrote the screenplay for Color of Night, but don’t hold that against him! See some of his unproduced material at The Blacklist.
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an excellent treatise on what we know about trauma, the human brain, and addressing the treatment needs of people suffering from people with PTSD. Visit van der Kolk’s website to read an interview about the book.
For some insight into Jennifer Jason Leigh’s process as an actor, read her conversation with John Turturro for Interview magazine in 1996.
OH SHIT we totally forgot to mention in the episode that the film’s score is by Yanni. Do people remember Yanni? It’s a pretty good score, too!
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Tim holds forth on the mind sickness that led to short-lived streaming service Quibi before diving into a review of short-form horror anthology 50 States of Fright. Jen just tries to keep up!
This AV Club article is pretty emblematic of the unkind response to the first episode of the series, “The Golden Arm.”
Watch Tim’s video work over at YouTube! Hit Like and Subscribe!
Oh I almost forgot to post the funny dog fart video
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Have You Seen…All Possible Worlds?! Tim and Jen team up with Josh and Brian of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss a wretchedly stupid British horror film starring Roddy McDowall called It! No, not that one. This one came out in 1967 and involves a golem that looks like a wet trash bag.
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Atlas Obscura has an article about the Metropolitan Museum forgeries evoked in the film.
Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph’s A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies is a fascinating read about the days of analog movie bootlegging, a must for any film buff. Read an excerpt about the Roddy McDowall film piracy case over at ScreenAnarchy (you can also buy the book directly from University Press of Mississippi). And yes, to answer Josh’s question from the episode, the MPAA (now the MPA) was one of the driving forces behind the crackdown as a proxy for the major film studios.
The documentary Jen failed to remember the name of is Recorder, which is the story of an activist named Marion Stokes who obsessively taped the news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and thus amassed a library of 70,000 cassettes.
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Jen and Tim take a bite out of cult cannibal Western flick Ravenous, with the help of Bitter Karella!
“The Windigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death. When it sees something, it wants to own it. No one else can have anything. This illness feeds on a spiritual void. Canada and US are presently in an advanced stage of the ‘Windigo Psychosis.’”
Sample a scholarly paper about Windigo psychosis thanks to the Internet Archive.
You can buy Shawn Smallman’s Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History directly from the publisher online.
As mentioned during the episode, John Coulthart’s Feuilleton blog is highly recommended!
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Tim and Jen effuse about an early Michael Mann joint for television, the prison story The Jericho Mile!
You can buy a beautiful blu-ray of the film from Kino Lorber, but if you just can’t wait to see it, it’s on YouTube. And we highly recommend it!
The 1977 film Short Eyes, based on Miguel Piñero’s incendiary play, is free with ads on Tubi.
For more Michael Mann, check out our episode on The Keep!
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Jen and Tim host Bitter Karella, who is a witch, to discuss a very witchy cult horror movie, Eyes of Fire! Also, if you were dying to know Jen’s thoughts on Midsommar, they’re in there.
Jen misidentified the actor who plays Will Smythe as “Douglas Lipscomb.” She of course meant Dennis Lipscomb.
Severin Films included Eyes of Fire in their recently released All the Haunts Be Ours folk horror boxed set. If your interest in Eyes of Fire isn’t quite up to that $170 price tag, you can of course watch the film on Shudder’s excellent streaming service.
For more on the genre, Folk Horror Revival offers a generous repository of knowledge.
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Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron.
The official Bruce Lee website
If you’re not familiar with Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, just watch!
The 17th century samurai, philosopher, and artist Miyamoto Musashi is considered a kensei— a “sword saint”— in Japan. Read a short Bruce Eder essay on the first installment in the Samurai trilogy of films, in which Toshiro Mifune played Musashi.
If for whatever reason you crave more of what Tim’s smoking, visit the Patreon of the Mega Dumb Cast, or purchase a PDF of the Palladium game Ninjas and Superspies.
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Jen and Tim enlist favorite guest Bitter Karella to explicate the inexplicable Dan Aykroyd/Gene Hackman buddy cop comedy, Loose Cannons!
Not to get all fact check dot org on you all, but the Dissociative Identity Disorder website has science-based information on what was misrepresented as “multiple personality disorder” in the movie.
Busy Inside is a compassionate documentary about people with DID.
Read an article about the Southern California Sorcerers, a writer’s group which included future Loose Cannons scribe Richard Matheson and some other guys like Rod Serling, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison. Excelsior!
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Tim and Jen make hay out of the 1988 comedy Hot to Trot, which killed Bobcat Goldthwait’s career for two decades. The horse was unscathed.
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Tim confused God Bless America with Red State (and Jen did not catch the error, shame on her) — the other movie from 2011 with a divisive title and middling reviews about a gun-toting ingenue.
On his blog, script doctor Andy Breckman reminisces unkindly about working on the screenplay.
Listen to the Q&A we discussed in the episode, in which Goldthwait puts the screws to the interviewer for opening with a question about Hot to Trot.
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Jen and Tim reflect on one of the great neo-noir films of Hollywood’s second golden age, Night Moves.
Senses of Cinema has a thoughtful essay on the film by Bruce Jackson.
We didn’t get a chance to talk about the film’s writer, Alan Sharp, who said his own screen work embodied “moral ambiguity, mixed motives and irony.” Matthew Asprey Gear describes the protracted gestation of Night Moves and illuminates some biographical details about Sharp in an article for Bright Lights Film Journal.
Read Alan Sharp’s obituary at the Guardian.
For more Melanie Griffith, check out our episode on Roar, the absolutely wrong-headed movie project inflicted on her by mom Tippi Hedren and stepdad Noel Marshall.
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Tim and Jen welcome back Sean Morris to discuss one of Spike Lee’s most fascinating and controversial trainwrecks, Bamboozled.
Per Sean’s recommendation, check out the official video for “Lovin’ It” from Little Brother’s “too intelligent” album The Minstrel Show.
If you’re curious about the camera Spike Lee used to make Bamboozled, you can read a history of the Sony DCR-VX1000 here.
In 2005, Dr. David Pilgrim wrote a powerful essay about the collection that became the foundation of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. In “The Garbage Man: Why I Collect Racist Objects” he reflects on the emotional toll collecting exacted on him, as well as the anger and sadness the objects still inspire and the lingering stain of anti-black bigotry in the United States.
Watch the Levi’s 501 button-fly jeans commercial directed by Spike Lee and starring…Rob Liefeld lol
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Jen and Tim are joined by Darren “Sebebe” Herczeg to reassess Michael Mann’s profoundly flawed fantasy/horror film, The Keep!
Kit Rae’s exhaustive fansite may be the definitive document on The Keep at this point, but there’s also a documentary more than ten years in the making on the same subject. You can follow the filmmakers for updates on Twitter!
Read Michael Mann’s original screenplay for The Keep!
Watch the ending cut from the theatrical release and inexplicably appended to TV versions of the film.
And after you’ve done that, watch Mann’s wonderful telefilm The Jericho Mile so Jen will finally shut up about it.
When you're sick of The Keep, join Sebebe for the online I Swing, You Swing game.
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Tim and Jen are overwhelmed by the raw charisma of Jacques from the Seeking Derangments podcast in a truly chaotic episode nominally about the chaotic 1977 film House!
Via Senses of Cinema, read a retrospective on Nobuhiko Obayashi’s career that also serves as a defense of his filmmaking style.
You can see a sampling of Obayashi’s commercial work on YouTube. Don’t miss the MANDOM spot starring Charles Bronson.
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Jen and Tim revisit an old favorite, Peter Hyams’s “High Noon in Space,” aka Outland!
Jen is incorrect when she asserts that John Wayne was considered for the part of Marshal Will Kane in High Noon; Kramer and screenwriter Carl Foreman wanted a hot young star like Brando or Gregory Peck. Wayne, along with other Hollywood reactionaries including Hedda Hopper, did pressure Gary Cooper into withdrawing from a proposed production company headed by High Noon screenwriter and HUAC target Carl Foreman.
The story of High Noon and Carl Foreman is told at length in Glenn Frankel’s book High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. You can read an excerpt on the Vanity Fair website.
By the way, you can browse the Outland press kit!
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Tim and Jen shred a selection of programs from awful neolib also-ran streaming service, Apple TV+!
Jen alludes at one point to the “Unicorn Killer,” Ira Einhorn. He claimed to have helped found Earth Day, but his account has been disputed. Conservatives still love to evoke him as emblematic of leftist depravity. He died in prison in 2020.
Jen also touched on the much-muddied concept of "emotional labor," as originally described by sociologist Arlie Hochschild. Read Sharmin Tunguz's article on how the term has been misappropriated.
When emotional labor has left the professional sphere and has entered the domestic realm; when it is used to describe a household list of domestic chores, whether or not those chores are done happily or grumpily, it has become diluted to the point of being in danger of losing its meaning. Yes, women do tend to shoulder more emotional labor in the workplace, and more attention on its health and professional repercussions means more attempts to alleviate it. But when contexts morph, and meanings change, are we still talking about the same thing?
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Jen welcomes Julie once again to talk about the historical background of a phantasmagoric Ken Russell favorite, Gothic!
The movie Jen fails to identify is, of course, Catherine Breillat’s 2004 Anatomy of Hell, starring Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi.
Hear Steve Hackett’s cover of “The Devil is an Englishman” from his 2003 album, To Watch the Storms.
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Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!
Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard.
'The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, retrieving “the richest cream fat in the world”, that’s been siphoned out of the obese, and rendering it into red soap tablets they then flog to exclusive boutiques. It’s unbelievable any film would dare use, even as such a sick gag, a sequence reminiscent of that chapter of the Holocaust in which Nazi thoroughness rendered the Jews down into similar, no doubt less pricy soap bars. But Fight Club has no reticence, no memory, no shame.'
The performance artist Tim mentioned is Emma Varker.
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Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!
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You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Bitter Karella aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter!
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Jen welcomes Julie (@ chimericalgirl1 on Twitter) to celebrate an almost entirely forgotten erotic thriller with art house ambitions, Siesta, from 1987. This one’s quite overlooked in spite of a stacked cast that includes Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Grace Jones, and Alexei Sayle.
We admit, this one’s hard to track down unless you’re willing to hunt for PAL and/or bootleg DVDs, but you can hear some of the sultry Miles Davis/Marcus Miller soundtrack!
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Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Bitter Karella to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin.
Some exciting news that broke the day we recorded this episode— the 3-hour black-and-white director’s cut of Martin has been found!
Check out Karella's satirical horror microfiction account Midnight Pals on Twitter, as well!
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Jen and Tim discover two Arkansas originals: The Town That Dreaded Sundown from 1976, and indie film pioneer Charles B. Pierce!
Amanda Squitiero, daughter of Charles B. Pierce, corrects some misconceptions about him in this fine article from Filmmaker magazine.
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Tim and Jen confront the most infamous mondo film of all time, Faces of Death!
Faces of Death may be viewed in its entirety on Tubi.
Echoing Jen’s experience in high school auto safety, two students were traumatized after their math teacher showed the film in class in 1985:
“The people at the table,” says Forget today, “beat this monkey over the head with a hammer until it died. Then they cut the top of its head off and ate its brains.” As an animal-lover, she found the film deeply disturbing and asked to leave. Mr Schwartz said no and when Feese also tried to go, he forced her to sit down, grabbing her chair and spinning it aggressively towards the screen.
Schwarz was disciplined, but with only a 15-day suspension without pay.
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Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss!
Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours at Andrew Hearst’s blog.
https://andrewhearst.com/blog/2008/05/the-scandalous-origins-of-martin-scorseses-after-hours
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Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration.
View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.
Watch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at YouTube.
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Jen and Tim revisit the greatest unfairly-cancelled single-season sci-fi western TV series of all time: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.! If you thought we were going to say “Firefly” you have obviously never listened to our show before. Also Jen is finally able to air her feelings about Dixie for a mass audience. Spicy!
Check DVDTalk for information on the complete series on home media.
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/22466/adventures-of-brisco-county-jr-the-complete-series-the/
Whether you lived through it or not, you can peruse the 1993-94 prime-time television lineup for yourself.
http://www.inthe90s.com/prim9394.shtml
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Tim and Jen welcome a special guest to discuss a fan edit of a beloved horror classic, The Wicker Man: The Summerisle Cut! Listen for yourself and decide if you want to leave angry comments on archive.org!
View the Summerisle Cut at the Internet Archive.
Visit the Wicker Man site mentioned by our guest, which describes all of the different cuts of the film in detail.
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Jen and Tim agree and disagree on an also-ran Nicolas Roeg movie, Eureka! Jen really gets the bit between her teeth in this one and Tim demonstrates almost saintly patience while she babbles.
Watch a short documentary on the inspiration for Jack McCann, the gold millionaire Sir Harry Oakes.
Buy Charlotte Gray’s very engaging bio of Harry Oakes, Murdered Midas, on Alibris.
For more British filmmaking, listen to our episode on The Firm and its 2009 reboot!
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Cool World is not cool. Emma Bowers (@hyenasandgin) returns to commiserate with Tim and Jen about a very bad animated feature. Turns out this movie did significant psychological damage to young Tim.
Watch Emma's Full Metal Alchemist video!
Compare and contrast: this interview with Ralph Bakshi, and this one with writer Michael Grais. Bakshi claims malfeasance from producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. (to the point of violence). Grais calls Bakshi a liar, essentially. What's the real story? Who knows?
Bakshi puts in this pissing stuff, and toilet stuff. I didn't like that sex attitude in it very much. It's like real repressed horniness; he's kind of letting it out compulsively.
R. Crumb on Ralph Bakshi and the Fritz the Cat feature film
The Tex Avery doc Tim alluded to is called Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons.
If we haven't dissuaded you, you can watch Ralph Bakshi's most recent animated work, The Last Days of Coney Island, on YouTube.
For more animated shite, listen to our episode on Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure!
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What if Black Panther had been the pilot for a TV show, but when they went to series they took out Wakanda and most of the black people? You'd have M.A.N.T.I.S.! HYST superfan mugrimm joins Tim and Jen to talk about what was lost when the Sam Raimi/Sam Hamm/Rob Tapert pilot became a politically toothless show with white sidekicks.
The documentary Jen couldn't remember the name of is Call Me Lucky, and it was directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. It's an account of the life of satirist and activist Barry Crimmins.
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Jen and Tim look at two takes on football hooliganism called The Firm. The 1989 version is a masterpiece, the other, not so much!
The 20-minute documentary Alan Clarke: His Own Man is a nice intro to the director. Also, many of his works can be found on YouTube, so happy hunting!
https://vimeo.com/473362397
Jen referred to a film called “WarGames” when she actually meant The War Game, a 1965 dramatization of nuclear warfare against England that the BBC withdrew from broadcast until 1985. It did not star Matthew Broderick or Ally Sheedy.
https://archive.org/details/TheWarGame_201405
She also sorta muffed the description of Ken Loach’s teleplay Cathy Come Home, which horrified the British public with its account of a homeless couple (to little material effect, according to Loach). This short article describes the production and draws from some of the news coverage of the time.
https://www.gale.com/intl/archives-explored/cathy-come-home-a-landmark-in-british-political-television
Also, “If you know what’s good for you…Weetabix!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNanhjGs6rQ
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Bitter Karella returns to fight Tim on the merits (or lack thereof) of cult 80s sci-fantasy film Krull! Krull hit screens in 1983 and failed to make its money back, although it is beloved by the kind of people who liked Ready Player One.
For exhaustive contemporary coverage on Krull, visit the Internet Archive’s scanned copy of Starlog issue 76.
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-076/page/n51/mode/2up?view=theater
Special effects makeup artist Nick Maley seemed to enjoy making the film, judging by his reminisces.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020331025842/http://1001resources.com/hosting/users/cinesecrets/pmKrull-Intro.html
One valiant effort to market the movie: Krull-themed weddings! To our knowledge, none of the brides or grooms have come forward to admit to their participation. But it's hard to see how the movie missed with marketing concepts this good:
‘One [marketing gimmick] suggests approaching the local bakery about creating special pastries in the shape of the Glaive and dubbing them the punny ‘Krullers’. “Everyone knows what a cruller is…a tasty glazed donut. Now comes the Kruller…a tasty Glaived donut.’’'
-Tim Kirk via The Moving Arts Film Journal
https://web.archive.org/web/20100819044450/http://themovingarts.com/“krull”-weddings-the-awkward-teenage-years-of-movie-marketing/
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Tim and Jen return to Soviet filmmaker Pavel Klushantsev’s optimistic world of space exploration for 1962’s Planet of Storms!
ERRATA: Jen speculates in the episode about the reason for the lack of cultural impact the film made in the United States, but it turns out there's a good reason: Planet of Storms didn't arrive in the US in official and unadulterated form until some time in the 90s, on home video. As we mentioned, the film was cannibalized for two different American productions. One was Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, with new footage directed by eventual New Queer Cinema trailblazer Curtis Harrington. The other, as we mentioned in the episode, was Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. They both suck.
The original film is available on YouTube with English subtitles. If you're curious about the 1955 Disney short Man in Space, you can watch it here, but you won't actually learn much about the historical origins of rocketry.
The Sally Ride tampon thing is true, by the way.
If you missed our Road to the Stars episode, listen to it here!
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Jen and Tim are astounded by one of the most pompous auteur statements ever made— Craig Denney’s The Astrologer from 1976!
The Astrologer had a theatrical run from at least 1976 through part of 1977, but was considered lost for many years. It eventually resurfaced in 2021 on YouTube. Paramount appears to have a copyright claim on the picture (amazing that they’d even want it), but that doesn’t mean it can’t be seen if you know where to look.
The story of auteur Craig Denney is as mysterious as it is surprising.Jim Vorel has a good rundown at Paste Magazine. Long story short, Denney made a bold play for notoriety, only to disappear sometime in the 80s. No one knows when he died, if he’s actually dead, or even his real birthdate!
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Screenwriter Josh Olson returns to share a Russ Meyer phantasmagoria and to make it clear that he did NOT write Gigli
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Tim attempts to convey the charm and innovative spirit of Soviet filmmaker Pavel Klushantsev to his lazy, lazy cohost!
We mentioned the Klushantsev documentary The Star Dreamer, but don't miss the original films! We loved the dog in a spacesuit in Mars.
For the exact opposite of Klushantsev's optimistic vision, check out our episode on Paul W.S. Anderson's space-based nightmare, Event Horizon!
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Tim introduces Jen to the other, cheaper, hornier Farscape!
Want to time-travel to a simpler time online? Check out this perfectly preserved Lexx fansite!
For a more dismal brand of horny sci-fi, try our episode on The Doomsday Machine!
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Jen and Tim talk about everything BUT the movie, including the vexed question of Ron Howard!
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For a SUPERSIZED one hundredth episode, Tim agrees with everything Lars von Trier has said and done because they’re both misogynists.
Thank you to all the listeners for supporting us for one hundred episodes and here’s to ONE THOUSAND MORE
For the (swinging) lowdown on Willem Dafoe's gifts, read this article about von Trier's obsession with the actor's wiener.
If you want to see where it all began, you can check out our very first episode, about Elaine May's little-loved Ishtar!
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Jen and Tim note the peculiar similarities between an episode of an obscure British horror anthology and Darren Aronofsky’s debut (NOT Life of Pi!!!!!). Also, Jen seizes an opportunity to talk about Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Hammer House of Horror is free to watch with ads over on Tubi!
If you're looking for more British horror, why not try our episode on the controversial one-off TV special Ghostwatch?
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Bitter Karella joins Jen and Tim to discuss that movie you really liked as a kid and then revisited as an adult and realized it wasn’t that good
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Sean Morris joins Tim and Jen to talk about an underseen movie from Dolemite himself, Rudy Ray Moore!
Disco Godfather is easily viewable for free, and via a very nice transfer, courtesy of our favorite streaming service, Tubi.
For more on the Disco Godfather himself, Rudy Ray Moore, put yo' weight on his official website.
And if you can't get enough of the voluble Sean Morris, check out our episode on the unfairly forgotten Livin' Large!
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Tim and Jen effuse about Ed Wood’s cri de coeur!
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Jen and Tim welcome back Darren Herczeg to discuss one of the most controversial movies of the 90s!
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Tim returns to chug the haterade! Jen weakly defends the movie but she’s no match for Tim’s anti-twee vitriol!
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Jen welcomes special guest Keenan to discuss an ineffectual answer to Jason and Freddy!
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Jen welcomes animal expert Emma back to the show to discuss the documentary that spawned a surprise viral clip.
Once you've see the famous reunion clip, you can also watch the whole movie for free on Tubi!
Ace and John’s memoir, A Lion Called Christian, is available cheap at Alibris. You can also visit their website about Christian.
A very Web 1.0 site with info about George Adamson
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Jen and Tim welcome back Bitter Karella so she can carve up Joss Whedon like the turkey he is and also to discuss an affectionate satire of the slasher genre.
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Tim and Jen (mostly Tim) describe a beloved ersatz-Hammer sci-fi thriller starring the venerable team of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing (plus a sensational appearance by Telly “Kojak” Savalas). Throughout, Tim is like: games games games tabletop Cthulhu saving throw Traveller roll up a character -2 sanity
Get the Horror Express blu-ray from Arrow Films
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Would you like to make a movie and just don’t know how? Why let that stop you? Try concocting a pseudo-spiritual method out of your own failings and refusing to pay your cast and crew! On this episode, don’t miss Jen slipping into mania about Hollywood sex criminals and Tim getting confessional about his own indie filmmaking sins!
We highly recommend perusing Scott Shaw’s website at scottshaw.com, where many of his books are available for purchase. Scroll down for about seventeen hours to find the book we discuss in this episode, Zen Filmmaking!
“If you have too many crew people, they all want silly things like story boards, shot lists, and stuff.” -Scott Shaw
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Tim holds forth excitedly about “the most accurate depiction of virtual reality as a profound concept that is silly in its execution.” Based on the Stephen King lawsuit!
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Screenwriter Josh Olson brings us a movie that he swears is actually funny and good! Featuring Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, violent gay bikers, Sally Kellerman’s boobs, casual homophobia, Tommy Smothers in a headband, hot tubs, est probably, psychologically disturbed children whose acting out is played for laughs, etc.
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Jen and Tim discuss Donald Cammell’s posthumous thriller.
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Tim and Jen return to the comforting mayhem of shot-on-video horror!
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Jen and show MVP Bitter Karella dissect some disgusting works by a disgusting person!
Hear our earlier episodes about Jonathan King’s revolting outsider works:
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Jen and Tim rewrite Glenn Danzig’s stupefying horror anthology!
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The boys take over as Tim welcomes our comrade Bitter Karella to discuss a classic from their youth!
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Do you know what jarts were? Have you ever dialed a rotary phone? Well you’ll love our episode about a Soderbergh(!!!)-directed Yes concert film! With special guest Julie of the Rabin-esque blog!
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We dissect John Landis’s first flop with returning guest Sean Morris.
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Bitter Karella returns to discuss a good-natured B-movie about an alien who eats Italian people, and also to answer an important question: were mimes so reviled as a class that they were shamed out of public spaces?
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You know how sometimes a movie just sucks and is lazy and stupid and sexist? Bitter Karella joins us to discuss one of them!
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Tim and Jen revisit everyone’s favorite dad-joke heist movie!
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Jen and Tim bring you another extra-stuft episode, this time about a haunting psychological thriller that 100% blames the US government
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Tim and Jen return to the fevered nuclear paranoia of the 80s with a look at one of the most important TV events of the era and one that wasn’t but is still pretty good!
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Jen and Tim cheerlead for a movie about the dangers of joining illegal underground sword-fighting operations
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Tim saves Jen’s bacon by explaining a Frankenstein’s monster of a thriller brought to you by cut-and-paste filmmaker Godfrey Ho.
If you're curious about the auteur, read the interview we mentioned in the episode, in which Mr. Ho/Hall/Chan/Cheung/Lee/Kingsbrook explains himself:
https://www.nanarland.com/interview/interview.php?id_interview=godfreyhovo&vo=1
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Jen and Tim welcome Mystery Science Theater 3000/Rifftrax alum Bill Corbett to the show to talk about the Quaalude version of a Marvel superhero.
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Tim speaks cogently on the world’s most depressing nuclear apocalypse drama while Jen tries not to fall into a well of despair lol
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Jen welcomes Marvin K (@zupzles on Twitter) to discuss a triptych of documentaries about the dancin’-est outlaw alive and his fractious extended family.
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Tim and Jen welcome Ken "Ace" Brewer, the founder of our fave streaming channel, for a conversation about curating the finest trash and dealing with small fish in small ponds.
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Tim and Jen argue about a cult rock film in a surprisingly contentious episode!
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Surprise! You get an extra bonus episode for April! Animal expert Emma Bowers returns to discuss the Tiger King before Tiger King: an Animal Planet reality series about ill-starred exotic pet owners.
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Jen and Tim discuss a program that was disappeared by the BBC after it aired for being too spooky
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Tim takes charge in order to bend your ear, and Jen’s, about Trent Reznor’s cute little home movie!
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Tim and Jen want to know: do you read Sutter Cane?
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Up early for patrons! Jen and Tim are joined by Rifftrax writer/producer and author Conor Lastowka to examine one of the only true auteurs in cinema.
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Tim and Jen revisit an early Paul W.S. Anderson film and discover that he hasn’t always sucked.
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Jen talks with Sean Morris (@saneiscrazy on Twitter) about a drug movie in which the producers were afraid to show the drugs.
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Tim and Jen tell you all about an unironically delightful slasher film made by a literal child!
Yeah I know I said on Twitter (@HYSTpod if you're not already following us) that this would drop Sunday, but hey, I got it done a day early. Enjoy!
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Jen and Tim dig through yesterday’s garbage for a sampling of horror movies shot (badly) on video.
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Tim and Jen make the case for a socialist reading of Weird Al's lone cinematic outing.
So did Current Affairs, as it happens: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/the-radical-egalitarian-politics-of-weird-als-uhf
Also be sure to read the oral history of the making of UHF at the AV Club! https://film.avclub.com/we-got-it-all-on-uhf-an-oral-history-of-weird-al-yan-1798278657
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Jen and Tim ask Josh Lewis (@thejoshl) to provide his insight as a film programmer in a wide-ranging discussion of the dire state of movie exhbition. Be sure to check out our sibling pod, Sleazoids, on Soundcloud!
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The delightful Chapo dad joins us for Death Wish 3, possibly the simultaneous nadir and high point of the Death Wish series.
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Why did we spend so much time on this uneven philosophical road movie? Who the fuck knows! By the way, for this episode Jen was calling from the surface of Jupiter, where she went to get more stupider.
Incidentally, we will have ANOTHER bonus episode for you on the regular date, the second Sunday of the month!
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Niel Jacoby (@fuckinalpamare on Twitter) joins us to ask: wtf, France? Also there's a big fat trigger warning on this one because we spent a lot of time mocking the movie’s incredibly cavalier attitude towards sexual assault.
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We go incredibly deep on a movie that probably didn’t merit it. So much so that you’re getting a two-parter! This one was written by the guy who co-wrote Back to the Future and it’s tailor-made for dads who wistfully scroll through classics dot autotrader dot com on weekends.
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Jen and Tim are joined by author and podcaster R.S. Benedict to discuss one of the few films ever shot entirely in Esperanto, which is the only film ever shot entirely in Esperanto and starring William Shatner.
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Tim and Jen are very excited to have animator, voice actor, and writer Bill Kopp on the show to discuss his career, especially the beloved-but-now-scarce Fox Kids show Eek! the Cat. Sorry we had to record Bill on Edison cylinder lol
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For our 50th episode we go hard af on Leonard Maltin and his stupid movie guide with @MrMattJay
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Thank you to all our patrons for being so patient with us! As your reward, this month's bonus is an extra-stuffed (nearly two hour) episode about a widely reviled mondo slavery documentary. Jen and Tim are joined by T. of the great Champagne Sharks podcast and we all tackle one tough-to-watch but necessary film.
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Jen welcomes special guest Julia Schiwal to discuss a wonderful Thai biopic about a trans woman who becomes a fighter in order to forge her own path.
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Jen is joined by reproductive justice activist Mellie Macker to dissect the mendacious thinking behind a notorious piece of pro-life propaganda.
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Jen and Tim look at a slapdash TV movie with roots in moral panic. Oh and it was also the first feature role for Tom Hanks, wow.
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Josh Lewis of the Sleazoids podcast guests to discuss evangelical nightmare propaganda The Burning Hell.
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Jen and Tim talk with animal expert Emma Bowers about Roar, which stars 50 or 60 uncontrollable wild animals and a handful of terrified humans.
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Jen and Tim welcome back visionary documentary filmmaker Felix Biederman to discuss the most successful Turkish movie of 2006. No, it’s not Turkish E.T.
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Jen and Tim welcome a mysterious podcast newbie to praise this magnificent work of queer cinema to the skies. We’re not kidding, you need to watch this movie, and how fortuitous that it’s on YouTube!
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Jen and Tim are completely confounded by a lackadaisical sci-fi (kinda?) TV series from the most cursed decade, the 1970s.
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Jen and guest Bitter Karella finally get back around to silent classic Häxan, a topic for which Karella is perfectly suited due to his expertise in witch-hunting manuals, proto-MGTOW inquisitors, and torture devices of the early modern period (not joking).
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Jen and Tim are joined by laser-sharp media critic Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable on Twitter) to talk over a movie that close to 50 years later is still too hot for TV: Ken Russell’s The Devils!
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Bitter Karella returns to vituperate the sequel to Vile Pervert, The Truth Awakens!
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Jen, Tim, and guest Kristian Boruff of the Harmontown crew dissect something even more pointless than Funko Pops: a Ghostbusters fan film from 2007!
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Once again Tim refuses to discuss a musical, so Jen entices friend of the show Darren Herzceg to visit Shangri-La!
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Just in time for Halloween, Tim and Jen attempt to make head or tail of a homebrew Canadian nightmare! Possibly one of the worst and most inexplicable films ever made, Things went direct-to-video in 1989…and straight to our hearts.
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Bitter Karella returns to discuss Marlo Thomas’s most lasting work! Listen to find out if gender stereotypes actually ended in 1973 and we all missed it.
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Sean Morris joins Jen and Tim to discuss a favorite forgotten comedy, Livin’ Large, which prefigured “Marxist propaganda” film Sorry To Bother You! We make the connections and also ramble about symptoms of dystopia like SoundCloud rappers.
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Jen and Tim are honored to speak with martial arts cinema legend Cynthia Rothrock! Among many other things, Cynthia talks about the pitfalls of acting with non-sync sound, meeting with A-list directors, and taking her career into the 21st century on YouTube.
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Jen welcomes Bitter Karella to discuss a traumatic event from his childhood: an ill-fated animated feature directed by Richard Williams.
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Will Menaker blesses us with his presence to discuss a biopic of St. Francis of Assisi starring…Mickey Rourke?!
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Jen and Tim pick apart King Vidor’s demented vision of Ayn Rand’s equally demented The Fountainhead.
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Matt Christman returns to talk about that disease unique to the 90s, the Tarantino ripoff! We discuss Killing Zoe and Love and a .45, and briefly touch on oddball pics like The Immortals and the inexplicably beloved Boondock Saints.
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Put on your mirrored shades! Jen and Tim welcome back Will Menaker to talk over the often-unfairly-maligned Cruising!
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Jen and Tim are joined by writer K. Thor Jensen to discuss a true example of outsider filmmaking, Wonder Boy. It turns out that Uwe Boll is only the second worst video-game-based film director currently living.
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Jen and Tim welcome cartoonist and cultural commentator Matthew Hurwitz (dangerburger.com) to discuss internet phenomenon Lasagna Cat! Yes, Jen watched all five hours of the Lasagna Cat sex survey!
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Sean Morris (@saneiscrazy) rejoins Jen and Tim for a postmortem of the Paul Schrader/Bret Easton Ellis mishap, The Canyons. This movie stars James Deen so uhhh trigger warning for discussion of rape I guess
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Jen and Tim take a look at the singular auteur statement, The Evil Within. A nasty little horror film made by a reclusive oil fortune heir on his own dime, it turns out to be…pretty good!
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Jen and Tim welcome an expert in the study of lunkheads, Felix Biederman of Chapo Trap House! We dissect the themes of environmentalism and masculinity in Steven Seagal’s cri de coeur, and also stumble across evidence that Felix may be a long-lost Seagal relative.
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Jen and Tim discuss a GOOD film from 1987 this time: the detective story in a horror universe, Angel Heart. Remember when Mickey Rourke was beautiful?
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Jen and Darren revisit a misfired art film from 1987! Aria is an omnibus film with segments directed by giants of the industry like Godard and Altman and genteel hacks like…Bruce Beresford. Who the hell is Bruce Beresford?
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Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House joins Tim and Jen to discuss the failson-written and directed Mad Dog Time! Oh my god, this movie sucks.
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Will Menaker brings the Chapo Reading Series to HYST! Jen and Will eviscerate a very bad take on Scorsese, and discuss some of Marty’s more infrequently-seen work.
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Jen and Bitter Karella discuss the clean-cut beat of ABBA: The Movie, starring the enduringly popular Swedes and directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Note: this is the second film we’ve discussed that stars a convicted child molester. Hmm.
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Quickie spoiler warning: if you haven’t seen the Netflix doc Making a Murderer and want to avoid story details, skip minutes 23:00 through 23:38.
Jen and globetrotting co-host Tim discuss a boilerplate Charles Bronson film, 10 to Midnight. This one was helmed by the director of the original Cape Fear and written by the guy who gave us Magnificent Seven, but somehow doesn’t quite meet those heights. It does feature a nude serial killer, though!
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Jen and guest Sean Morris revive the Warren Beatty-directed Bulworth just in time for Election Day! Yes, it’s the movie where Warren Beatty raps.
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Jen and guest Paul Jay discuss a true relic of the 70s: a holiday-themed variety special starring Paul Lynde!
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Jen and guests Darren and Yfke discuss Paul Verhoeven’s first American film, Flesh + Blood. This being a Verhoeven film, we have no choice but to talk about rape A LOT with this one.
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Jen and Yfke talk to Dutch filmmaker Ate de Jong, who brought us the cult classics Highway to Hell and Drop Dead Fred. de Jong discusses the production of Highway to Hell and shares some wisdom he’s accumulated during his long and still ongoing film career.
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Jen and Tim discuss a classic and sadly overlooked gem of British horror television, Dead of Night. The series dates from 1972 and thus, emerging as it did during a less enlightened time when it came to archiving, only three of the original seven episodes still exist.
The Paranormal Activity parody written and directed by Tim and starring your hosts (!) may be found on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PDSKT9Pc64
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Jen is joined by Bitter Karella to discuss Vile Pervert: The Musical. This slice of pure internet was made by Jonathan King, a music impresario and TV presenter turned convicted sex criminal. If you’ve been looking for the perfect mix of mobile phone video, Oscar Wilde, and sheer unfettered egotism, this will have to do. The entire movie is freely available on YouTube, if you’re either a masochist or just love demented music as much as Karella does.
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Jen is once again joined by Bitter Karella to suffer through Dan Aykroyd’s sole directorial credit, Nothing But Trouble! We have nothing else to say except that if you Google the Demi Moore picture we allude to, don’t do it at work.
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Jen invites author, artist, and asshole Bitter Karella on the show to discuss Jerry Lewis’s unfinished Holocaust, um, comedy The Day the Clown Cried. Thanks to Flemish TV and Australo-German filmmaker Eric Friedler, enough footage from the notorious project has surfaced for us to discuss it. Shoutout to Friedler and the Library of Congress curator who were too important to talk to us.
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Jen welcomes filmmaker and burger expert <a href=“http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2455854/“>Yfke van Berckelaer</a> (@burgerists on Twitter and Instagram) to discuss one of about three Dutch horror films, The Johnsons! Yfke provides an excellent survey of the Dutch film industry (it’s not just Paul Verhoeven!) and gives some background on the making of the film, which is a bit of an undiscovered horror classic.
And when in Los Angeles, be sure to visit Cinefile Video!
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Jen welcomes special guest Paul Jay (@pauljaycomic) for today’s episode, in which we discuss The Wizard of Speed and Time! We’re a little hard on filmmaker Mike Jittlov, perhaps unfairly— WoSaT producer Richard Kaye allegedly absconded with the film’s completion money, and Jittlov himself considers the project to be only 75% done.
Jittlov started as a math and language major at UCLA back in the 60s, but an animation elective awakened him to his true calling. His breathtaking, award-winning short films led to work at Disney, where he clashed with execs over his desire to be credited for his work. After The Wizard of Speed and Time’’s drawn-out production period, Jittlov worked on some major film projects (including Ghost, in which he was responsible for animating the dark spirits that drag Tony Goldwyn to hell). Later, he spent the 90s making the rounds of conventions and screening his only feature for his devoted fans. He still lives in the LA area, and if anyone knows what he’s up to lately, please drop us a line!
The Night Flight website has an excellent write-up about Jittlov and The Wizard of Speed and Time here: http://nightflight.com/mike-jittlovs-the-wizard-of-speed-and-time/
Mike Jittlov’s personal website: http://www.wizworld.com
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What better tribute to Prince for a movie podcast than to watch the man's directorial debut? Jen and Darren also discuss the Dionysian, the epicene, and how much The English Patient sucks.
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For this episode, HYST welcomes its first guest! Darren Herczeg, CEO of DarrenCorp, is a filmmaker, performance artist, and gentleman of leisure. Watch his film Barbariana: Queen of the Savages here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DarrenCorp
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In this episode, Tim and Jen are unexpectedly charmed and delighted by sci-fi/horror/thriller/schlock/something-or-other Split Second! We discuss the wrong-headed marketing for the film and the delights of mini-guns and cigars shared by two dear male friends.
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What’s left to say about Ishtar? Even the title of the film has become synonymous with Hollywood failure. But is it fair to brand it a one-star fiasco? For the inaugural episode of Have You Seen This?, Jen and Tim dare to travel to Ishtar.
Jumping off from Peter Biskind’s recounting of the production, Jen and Tim discuss Elaine May’s directing style (and missteps), the performances of Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, and whether or not Ishtar is actually funny.
Read Peter Biskind’s post mortem of Ishtar, excerpted from his biography of Warren Beatty: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/02/ishtar-excerpt-201002
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