Ah yes, we're here. The second installment of the series. Sarah learns that one of the tropes of this franchise is the obscene number of undercover agents each movie reveals. You choose which is more bel...
2020-04-06 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Free Will? More like free William Shakespeare! I'd say it's 50/50 whether you liked that joke. If you do flip a coin and it ends up heads: we're very sorry, you may be in a simulation.
You ha...
2020-04-03 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael Swaim looked in the mirror for 7 hours, called Sarah and Bridgett and demanded a second appearance on Rough Stuff. This episode is wild guys. You might want to lock your door, get real alone and ...
2020-03-27 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2020, making a mid-range budget film is nearly impossible. Unfortunately, Abe has brought his spreadsheets to examine 2012's Dredd and how its cult influenced the way we make non-Disney action-adventu...
2020-03-23 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We are joined by Alex Shifman, host of the science show "Science: The Show," once again. This time he gets the Sarah and Bridgett treatment. We get the low brow down low on the politics of farting, Skyli...
2020-03-20 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Abe are joined in this early access Frame Rate by David Bell! Remember when Chris Evans told us that babies taste the best? Remember when that director/writer won an Oscar for Best...
2020-03-16 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's all about family in The Fast & Furious franchise. Bridgett, a long-time admirer of the saga, wouldn't be doing her duty if she neglected to sit Sarah down and watch the entire run of the cinemat...
2020-03-13 16:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Death to the Coen Brothers Brothers! Long live the Kings of King! The first episode of our new deep-dive podcast. Abe and Michael start their dissection of all things Stephen King with The Shining. We fi...
2020-03-11 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news, everyone! We've had a super secret project we've been working on and many of you didn't even guess it. And you, our beany little beans get early access to our 23 minute sketch comedy extravaganza. You hear that beans?! You are the bean-elite! The tip of the bean pod! The boom of the le...
2020-03-07 18:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam is here?! Adam is here! How has this not happened before? Ganser joins Michael and Abe to talk about the Polish-French-Swiss art house film, Three Colors: Red. It's like listening to three cavemen d...
2020-03-02 17:33:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Abe's back with his opinion on fight scenes and how directors succeed and fail at keeping our attention. He inspects the tempered approach of Ip Man 2 and how it crafts a spectacular and memorable fight sequence. Also, look at Donnie Yen's face in that one shot. Seriously, look.
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2020-02-28 15:54:57 +0000 UTC View Post
BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by 2020-02-24 15:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In the next week and a half, we will be off-lining the Small beans store for a while. Not making enough to pay for itself; we'd rather funnel every bit of patronage into beans.
Consider this ...
2020-02-20 02:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, Swaim, the gate-keeper of gaming who dictates who is a real gamer and the special knowledge they alone are therefore privy to! Art is only for the chosen!!!!!
2020-02-18 23:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam brings a new angle to the Paul Verhoeven's 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct, and it is indeed erotic. Removing layer after layer of why this cult classic is actually a meta-narrative about privat...
2020-02-17 14:23:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This time Cody Johnston of Some More News and one-of-our-best-friends fame joins us to tackle the prophetic film Brazil, directed ...
2020-02-14 14:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, the Rough Stuffers have done it again! In this episode, they cast their spell and dispel the shell of David Bell who in his...
2020-02-10 19:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Get your parenting tips from three comedians, two of which do not have children! Fortunately, Billy Wayne Davis, a parent, stops on by to inform us that he's got this whole parenting thing figured out. S...
2020-01-31 16:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm in the mood. The mood for DOOM.
2020-01-27 22:55:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Abe takes the reigns this time to make the case that this jaunty, joust-y film is the jam. Why do we take old stories and dress them up in modern clothing? What's the point? Adam is also there. Sometimes...
2020-01-24 14:14:50 +0000 UTC View Post
As some of the concepts we at one time kicked around inevitably age to the point of being not a thing anymore, we here at the Small Beans Beanateria & Beanporium like to share our failed pitches and proposals with our BeanFriends, since one of the goals of this feed is to give you transparent...
2020-01-24 02:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Abe conclude their examination of the Coen Brothers' films. They also rank them. They announce the topic of their next deep-dive series. Feels like they would record all that within two hours...
2020-01-21 13:24:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I could only resist turning into a purely novelty rapper for so long. NSFW*
Music by Kelsey Hudgins.
*Nasty Stuff, Foul, Wanton
2020-01-20 04:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty elf-explanatory. Just a demo, over the classic track "Ghostwriter" by RJD2.
2020-01-19 20:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Tom Week! Another one with Tom! This patreon-only early access release gives you Michael, Abe, and Tom Reimann yappin' about the absolutely batshit insane movie "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and H...
2020-01-17 18:10:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Improvised by Abe Epperson and Michael Swaim.
2020-01-10 17:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Although that title was too long, so Swaim titled it something about 'Gen Z' instead, and is now getting savaged in the comments for being an old dude trying to Poochie his way into a Gen Z space and shill Sonic. That's not at all what the video's about, but this IS Swaim typing in the third pers...
2020-01-10 02:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Suspense and Surprise have always gone hand in hand for directors. For the most part, Spielberg isn't a horror or thriller director, but that's all in how you frame it.
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2020-01-07 14:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Abe and Michael do their dance with the 2008 Israeli animated documentary film, its inspection of how we're hardwired to design our own past memories, and its thoughts on the nature of war. Tons of jokes...
2020-01-03 14:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post