Episodes
Monday Sep 10, 2018
Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Monday Sep 10, 2018
Monday Sep 10, 2018
TFW you want so much for a movie by the dude who wrote Chinatown to be the great lost Last New Hollywood classic, except it's not, not by a long shot, so you give it the hardest against-the-grain resistant reading in the history of lazy textual engagement, trying to make it that movie you want it to be, practically projecting your imaginary version over it, and . . . in the end, it's still three attractive people doing nothing. So that's what we discuss on this riveting episidode about a film we bet you haven't thought about since "President Bush" meant the old guy who barfed on the Japanese Prime Minister's lap!
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
Red Sparrow (2018)
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
In which JLaw gets bored with the Hollywood doldrums, goes Full Trash Cinema, allegedly divides audience reaction by gender. Do Rizzkel and Strubert follow the pattern? Did Charlotte Rampling know this wasn't a softcore boarding school movie from 1981? Is it?! Only one way to find out.
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Shaolin vs. Ninja (1983)
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Public domain-quality muddiness and a plot that only nominally gestures toward narrative ain't gonna stand in the way of an epic battle between the titular groups! And to think this is but one of ten flicks crammed into a cheap DVD collection, who ever needs Criterion again anyway? Join us tonight for a true Rizzkel vs. Strubert death match.
Friday Jul 06, 2018
Hereditary (2018)
Friday Jul 06, 2018
Friday Jul 06, 2018
Rosemary's Baby for the Trump era? The White Moynihan Report, on all tangled web of white-family pathology? Or just a popcorn-horror chance to chillax as the world burns? Listen, learn, debate, or just scream along with Toni Collette, on this episode.
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
First Reformed (2018)
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Paul Schrader is back, and full of despair! So are your hosts, so join us for a discussion so rousing that one of us forgot to mention his profound loathing of Schrader's last film, Dog Eat Dog. But Christ on the cross was that the worst film of his career. This might be the best. Maybe. But then...
Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
Deadly Hero (1975)
Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
Imagine Dirty Harry, but cheaper and lazier, with great NYC location shooting. Your mental image is precisely accurate, so congrats, you've effectively seen Deadly Hero already! And yet, it has a strange allure...
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
Stanley (1972)
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
South Florida, 1972: where man meets snake, man loves snake, other man kills snake, man kills man. An allegory of settler colonialism and the re-election of Nixon, or just middling drive-in junk? Listen and find out!