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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!
Jen welcomes Mike Rosen to discuss a traumatic event from his childhood: Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure! In other words, an ill-fated animated feature directed by Richard Williams.
The Animator’s Survival Kit website is a fine tribute to Williams, an undisputed master of the animation. This guide for the aspiring animator is possibly his greatest legacy.
Here’s the screencap Jen mentions in the episode. Make of it what you will.
For more of Mike, listen to our Nothing But Trouble episode!
Will Menaker blesses us with his presence to discuss Francesco, a biopic of St. Francis of Assisi starring…Mickey Rourke?!
Jen and Tim pick apart King Vidor’s demented vision of Ayn Rand’s equally demented novel, The Fountainhead.
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For more libertarian lunacy, listen to our episode on The Wizard of Speed and Time!
Tim and Jen take a look at those Youtube algorithm kids videos and learn that Spiderman Elsa puppet finger family bad baby songs buried alive
The Medium article that kicked off the discussion, James Bridle’s “Something is Wrong on the Internet”
Tim’s videos may be viewed at his YouTube channel, timtoon, or you can skip right to Sarcastic Hulk.
For more pure, uncut internet, listen to our episode on Wonder Boy!
Matt Christman returns to talk about that disease unique to the 90s, the Tarantino ripoff! We discuss Killing Zoe and Love and a .45. We also touch on oddball pics like The Immortals and the inexplicably beloved Boondock Saints.
Matt first guested on the show to bring us the awful Larry Bishop pet project, Mad Dog Time. Included in this episode is a Matt utterance that’s might be one of the best descriptions of a bad film ever spoken: “It’s like it all takes place in a coffin.”
Put on your mirrored shades! Jen and Tim welcome back Will Menaker to talk over the often-unfairly-maligned Cruising!
Will also joined us to talk about a St. Francis of Assisi biopic starring Mickey Rourke (!). Listen to our Francesco episode!
Jen and Tim are joined by writer K. Thor Jensen to discuss a true example of an outsider movie, Wonder Boy. It turns out that Uwe Boll is only the second worst video-game-based film director currently living.
K. Thor Jensen’s article on Wonder Boy, which includes a link to the…well, it’s barely a movie: Wonder Boy is the Most Bizarre Video Game Movie Ever Made
Update: As of 2021, the movie has disappeared from YouTube and other video upload sites. But in 2011 someone put it on DVD, we assume the creators.
For more internet madness, listen to our episode on weird algorithm-generated YouTube videos!