The World's Only Podcast™ about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media
Jen and Mike 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.
Sure, you could watch Lasse Hallstrom’s polite middlebrow films, or you could enjoy all the videos he made with ABBA over on their official YouTube channel! We suggest the latter!
For more musical confusion, listen to our episode on Under the Cherry Moon!
Jen and globetrotting co-host Tim discuss a boilerplate Charles Bronson film, 10 to Midnight.
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.
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: Gene Davis, who made a cameo as a trans sex worker in Cruising, plays the naked killer.
Speaking of, why not check out our Cruising episode, which features special guest Will Menaker?
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.
For more Sean, listen to our episode on the unloved Michael J. Fox drama, Bright Lights, Big City!
Jen and guest Paul Jay discuss a true relic of the 70s: the Paul Lynde Halloween Special! [Toccata and Fugue sting; ghoulish scream]
You can watch the whole goddamn thing at the Internet Archive, if you want to see Roz “Pinky Tuscadero” Kelly flirting with Paul Lynde’s chest wig.
Paul also joined us to pick over the weird auteur project, The Wizard of Speed and Time!
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.
For more Dutch film, listen to our episode on unique horror film The Johnsons!
Jen and Yfke talk to Dutch filmmaker Ate de Jong! de Jong directed the cult classics Highway to Hell and Drop Dead Fred. Here, he discusses the production of Highway to Hell, and shares some wisdom from his long and still ongoing film career.
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.
For more British horror, listen to our episode on the controversial 1992 special, Ghostwatch.
Jen is joined by Mike Rosen 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 available for free on YouTube, if you’re a masochist or love demented music as much as Mike does.
Our other episodes about the, uh, work of Jonathan King may be heard here and here.
Jen is once again joined by Mike Rosen 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.
For more Mike, try our episode on The Day the Clown Cried!
This week’s episode will be delayed at least a day, sadly. I recently switched my Adobe software from CS4 (!) to CC, and I’m having to learn an entirely new audio mixing process. In the meantime, why not enjoy the trailer for the subject of episode 8?
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Your host, Jen