Tag: Special Guest

087 – Serial

Screenwriter Josh Olson brings us a movie that he swears is actually funny and good! It’s the little-seen Serial from 1980! Featuring Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, violent gay bikers, Sally Kellerman’s boobs, casual homophobia, Tommy Smothers in a headband, hot tubs, est probably, psychologically disturbed children whose acting out is played for laughs, etc.

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For the curious, here is the full Kevin Thomas review of Serial from 1980 that we mentioned on the episode:

Kevin Thomas shreds Serial

You can also hear more of Josh with Dave Anthony on The West Wing Thing, or with Joe Dante on The Movies That Made Me, or check out our episode on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls!

080 – Into the Night

Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer in John Landis' Into the Night (1985)

We dissect John Landis’s first flop, Into the Night from 1985, with returning guest Sean Morris.

If you can get your hands on a copy, you must read Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case by Steve Farber. Farber provides a definitive case of the infamous Twilight Zone movie disaster. Try your local library!

For more of Sean, listen to our episode on the weirdest hit of 1998, Bulworth!

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.

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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!

070 – The Jesco White Saga

I Jesco nuts for gonzo documentaries

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!

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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.

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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.

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!

057 – The State of Movie Exhibition, 2019

Jen and Tim ask Josh Lewis of the Sleazoids podcast (@thejoshl on Twitter) to provide his insight as a film programmer in a wide-ranging discussion of the dire state of movie exhbition.

Josh also joined us to discuss an evangelical nightmare of an exploitation film, The Burning Hell!

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