The World's Only Podcast™ about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media
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!
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!
Will Menaker blesses us with his presence to discuss Francesco, a biopic of St. Francis of Assisi starring…Mickey Rourke?!
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!
Jen and Tim welcome cartoonist and cultural commentator Matthew Hurwitz (dangerburger.com) to discuss internet phenomenon Lasagna Cat! Yes, Jen watched all five hours of the Lasagna Cat sex survey!
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.
Jen and Tim welcome an expert in the study of lunkheads, Felix Biederman of Chapo Trap House! We dissect the themes of environmentalism and masculinity in Steven Seagal’s cri de coeur, and also stumble across evidence that Felix may be a long-lost Seagal relative.
For more Felix, don’t miss our episode on the truly demented Turkish actioner Valley of the Wolves: Iraq!