Category: Episodes

031 – Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure

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.

Babette the Doll from Raggedy Ann and Andy

For more of Mike, listen to our Nothing But Trouble episode!

030 – Francesco with Will Menaker

Will Menaker blesses us with his presence to discuss Francesco, a biopic of St. Francis of Assisi starring…Mickey Rourke?!

Mickey Rourke fucks a pile of snow in Liliana Cavani's Francesco (1989)
That’s not cocaine, believe it or not

Will also joined us a few episodes back to talk about a problematic fave from a problematic fave: William Friedkin’s Cruising!

029 – The Fountainhead

Jen and Tim pick apart King Vidor’s demented vision of Ayn Rand’s equally demented novel, The Fountainhead.

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Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, both total marks for Ayn Rand

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For more libertarian lunacy, listen to our episode on The Wizard of Speed and Time!

028 – YouTube algorithm hell world

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

Peppa Pig, Doritos, Mountain Dew, John Cena with a blunt

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!

027 – Tarantino Ripoffs with Matt Christman

Renee Zellweger aims a gun in Love and a .45 (1994)

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.”

025 – Wonder Boy

Wonder Boy (2010) title screen, with writer credit for Robin Morningstar

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!

023 – The Canyons

Sean Morris (@saneiscrazy) rejoins Jen and Tim for a postmortem of the Paul Schrader/Bret Easton Ellis mishap, The Canyons. This movie stars James Deen so uhhh trigger warning for discussion of rape I guess

Read the New Yorker article that spilled the tea on the ill-starred production.

For more Sean, listen to our episode on Bulworth!

022 – The Evil Within

Jen and Tim take a look at a singular auteur statement: a movie called The Evil Within. It’s a nasty little film made by a reclusive oil fortune heir on his own dime. Turns out it’s…pretty good!

Watch the trailer for The Evil Within:

People Magazine covered the story of filmmaker Andrew Getty soon after The Evil Within’s posthumous release in 2017.

For more weird horror, listen to our episode on Dutch anomaly The Johnsons!