Category: Episodes

072 – Captain America (1979) with Bill Corbett

Jen and Tim welcome Mystery Science Theater 3000/Rifftrax alum Bill Corbett to the show! We talk about the Quaalude version of a Marvel superhero— a TV movie version of Marvel’s beloved Captain America. Reb Brown, most famously of Space Mutiny and Yor, the Hunter From the Future, stars, sort of.

Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!

Bill has a Tolkien podcast with fellow Riffrax writer Sean Thomasen called Ringheads, and of course you can always find him at Rifftrax!

For more mellow 70s nonsense, try our episode on the very dumb Ben Murphy TV series Gemini Man!

071 – Threads

Threads (1984) title screen

Tim speaks cogently on the world’s most depressing nuclear apocalypse drama, Threads, from 1984. Jen tries not to fall into a well of despair.

We’re not kidding; Threads is possibly one of the bleakest films ever made, and everyone should see it at least once. Severin Films offers it on region-free DVD.

For a slightly lighter British horror telefilm, try our episode on the controversial faux documentary Ghostwatch.

070 – The Jesco White Saga

Jen welcomes Marvin K to discuss a triptych of documentaries about the dancin’-est outlaw alive, Jesco White, and his fractious extended family.

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We talked about Dancing Outlaw, Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood, and The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Purchase them on DVD or in downloadable MP4 format here!

Visit the official Jesco White website! And get merch!

There’s really nothing else like the Jesco White saga. But for another film brought to us by a listener, there’s our episode on the inept 80s horror flick The Sleeping Car!

069 (nice) – Ken “Ace” Brewer of B-Movie TV

Tim and Jen welcome the founder of our fave streaming channel, B-Movie TV, for a conversation about curating the finest trash and dealing with small fish in small ponds.

B-Movie TV has everything: martial arts action, horror and slashers, vintage skin flicks, zombies (if you like that sort of thing), and some of the weirdest shit we’ve ever seen! Do have a Roku, and do you love trash cinema as much as we do? Add B-Movie TV to your lineup!

Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!

068 – Breaking Glass

Tim and Jen argue about cult rock movie Breaking Glass in a surprisingly contentious episode!

Breaking Glass star Hazel O’Connor did a revealing interview with Music Republic Magazine in 2017. As it turns out, she earned nothing from her movie role, sadly.

For more cult 80s cinema, listen to our episode on Weird Al Yankovic’s lone feature, UHF.

067 – Fatal Attractions with Emma Bowers

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 called Fatal Attractions.

Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!

Fatal Attractions is currently vieweable on Amazon Prime.

For more of the delightful Emma, listen to our episode on the truly ill-conceived lion-based thriller Roar.

066 – Ghostwatch

Jen and Tim discuss a program aired and then disappeared by the BBC for being too spooky. Ghostwatch is one of the most controversial television programs that ever appeared on British television, and it still has the power to creep audiences out.

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The good people at the Internet archive have preserved Ghostwatch, but if you prefer physical media and have a region-free player there’s also a DVD available from 101 Films.

If you want to hear about a British production that’s even scarier, why not sample our episode about the terrifying vision of nuclear apocalypse, Threads?

065 – Broken

From the Broken movie by Nine Inch Nails, a black and white medium shot of someone restrained in head-to-toe latex and with a pipe going into their mouth, from which little jets of water are leaking

Tim takes charge in order to bend your ear, and Jen’s, about Trent Reznor’s cute little home movie, Broken! That Nine Inch Nails soundtrack still goes the fuck off, by the way.

Watch the Broken movie at the Internet Archive, or you can hunt on the official Nine Inch Nails website for it!

For another movie that was formative to young angry Tim, here’s our episode on The Lawnmower Man!

063 – The James Nguyen-verse with Conor Lastowka

Jen and Tim are joined by Rifftrax writer/producer and author Conor Lastowka to examine one of the only true auteurs in cinema. He’s James Nguyen, and he’s given us movie masterpieces like Birdemic, Julie and Jack, and Replica, as our guest knows all too well!

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Tim and Jen are both fans of Conor’s podcast with Rifftrax/MST3k alum Michael J. Nelson. It’s called 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back, and it’s highly recommended to anyone who’s ever thrown a book across the room because it was so bad.

Rifftrax fans will also want to hear our Captain America episode with Bill Corbett!