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Jen and Tim look at Mazes and Monsters, a slapdash TV movie with roots in moral panic. Oh and it was also the first feature role for Tom Hanks, wow.
We drew heavily on William Dear’s book The Dungeon Master. Dear is also the author of a book arguing that Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were actually killed by O.J. Simpson’s son.
For more nostalgia TV, check out our episode on Marlo Thomas’s brainchild, Free to Be…You and Me!
Josh Lewis of the Sleazoids podcast guests to discuss evangelical nightmare propaganda The Burning Hell.
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In episode 057, Josh also fills us in on the state of movie exhibition in 2019!
Jen and Tim talk with animal expert Emma Bowers about Roar, a movie which stars 50 or 60 mostly wild animals and a handful of terrified humans. The movie was produced by Hitchcock blonde Tippi Hedren and her insane husband Noel Marshall, who also play the hapless chew toys masquerading as characters. The film flopped on its initial release. However, in 2015 Drafthouse Films picked it up and cemented Roar’s place in cult movie history.
As of 2020, Roar producer/star Tippi Hedren still runs her her wild cat sanctuary, Shambala. As well as wildlife advocacy, Hedren is also known for being the godmother of the nail industry in the United States. In the 70s, Hedren worked with Vietnamese refugees in California. She hit on the idea of encouraging them to learn the art of the manicure and open nail salons. Today, people of Vietnamese descent own and operate about half of all nail salons in the United States.
If you enjoyed Emma’s appearance, check out our episode on the Animal Planet series Fatal Attractions!
Jen and Tim welcome visionary documentary filmmaker Felix Biederman! We discuss the most successful Turkish movie of 2006, Valley of the Wolves: Iraq.
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Felix first joined us to discuss Steven Seagal’s On Deadly Ground.
Jen and Tim welcome a mysterious podcast newbie to praise a magnificent work of queer cinema to the skies: Romeo & Romeo. We’re not kidding, you need to watch this movie, and how fortuitous that it’s on YouTube!
No seriously, you absolutely have to watch this movie. Here’s a clip:
For more outsider cinema, why not try our episode on Canadian horror classic Things?
Jen and Tim are completely confounded by a lackadaisical sci-fi (kinda?) TV series called Gemini Man. This one emerged from the most cursed decade for television, the 1970s.
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Jen and guest Mike Rosen finally get back around to silent classic Häxan! Mike brings his expertise in witch-hunting manuals, proto-MGTOW inquisitors, and torture devices of the early modern period (not joking).
For more Mike, listen to our episode on Marlo Thomas’s Free to Be…You and Me!
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!
Gretchen has a Patreon; go support her if you love horror writing!
For more on some top-notch British filmmaking, listen to our episode about Alan Clarke’s The Firm (we also talk about the remake, but don’t hold that against us).
Mike Rosen returns to vituperate Jonathan King’s unasked-for sequel to Vile Pervert: The Truth Awakens!
Listen to our discussion of the original Vile Pervert: The Musical here.
He’d probably tell you that they were bought and paid for, but we still recommend looking at victim statements from Jonathan King’s 2001 trial. We will also remind you that he served four years of a seven-year sentence for sexually abusing teenage boys. He continues to bitch about how unfairly he was treated to this day (we did yet another episode on him in 2020, because he keeps making videos).
Jen, Tim, and guest Kristian Boruff dissect something even more pointless than Funko Pops: a Ghostbusters fan film from 2007! It’s called Return of the Ghostbusters, and Kris does not care about burning bridges in this episode.