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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.
Tim wouldn’t be caught dead watching the musical version of Lost Horizon from 1973, so Jen entices friend of the show Darren Herzceg to visit Shangri-La!
Here are a few of the links mentioned in the show, for enthusiasts (mostly Jen):
Ken Anderson’s discussion of the film
And don’t miss the often-exquisite Bacharach/David soundtrack
For more of Darren, check out our episode on David Cronenberg’s Crash!
Just in time for Halloween, Tim and Jen attempt to make head or tail of a 1989 homebrew Canadian movie called Things! Possibly one of the worst and most inexplicable movies ever made, Things went direct-to-video…and straight to our hearts.
Don’t miss these outtakes and bloopers from Things, posted by the writer/producer himself, Barry J. Gillis!
Our friends at Severin Films have Things on DVD! Yes, that specific thing called Things, the movie from 1989! Third base!
For more incredibly stupid horror, listen to our episode on Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness.
Mike Rosen returns to discuss Marlo Thomas’s most lasting work, Free to Be…You and Me! Listen to find out if gender stereotypes actually ended in 1973 and we all missed it.
For more Mike, listen to our episode on silent classic Häxan!
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.
For more Sean, try our episode on the Warren Beatty comedy Bulworth!
Jen and Tim are honored to speak with martial arts cinema legend Cynthia Rothrock! 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. And more!
For another industry interview, try our episode with Dutch filmmaker Ate de Yong!