Tim and Jen scratch their heads over an incest-filled nightmare of a David Cronenberg movie, Maps to the Stars!
Hey remember that Mysteries and Scandals show on E!? They did an episode about Jon-Erik Hexum! (Whatever happe...
2022-06-12 23:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi al!
With close to 140 episodes under our belts, we think we’ve finally gotten the hang of this thing! We’re so thankful to everyone who has supported the show. Your subscriptions have ensured that we can keep making episodes about some of the weirdest, dumbest, and/or most unfa...
2022-06-01 00:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim welcome back Josh of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcastto discuss the Oliver Stone version of the Eric Bogosian play, Talk Radio from 1988.
Jen got the date of the crash of Air Florida flight 90 wro...
2022-05-29 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen get locked in with a raw adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s sensational play, Short Eyes!
Go here for a bio of Piñero, the trailblazing Nuyorican playwright, as well as a list of his works.
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Jen and Tim take a look at an exploration of trauma anchored by an incredible Jennifer Jason Leigh performance, Heart of Midnight!
The writer/director, Matthew Chapman, wrote the screen...
2022-05-18 04:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Our next bonus episode will be delayed due to technical issues, but we're recording in person Sunday night and you can look forward to our HEART OF MIDNIGHT episode on Tuesday, 5/17! In the meantime, you can watch this curious little thriller for free with ads 2022-05-13 21:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim holds forth on the mind sickness that led to short-lived streaming service Quibi before diving into a review of short-form horror anthology 50 States of Fright. Jen just tries to keep up!
Have You Seen…All Possible Worlds?! Tim and Jen team up with Josh and Brian of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss a wretchedly stupid British horror film starring Roddy McDowall called It! No, not that one. This one came out in 1967 and involves a golem that looks like a wet tr...
2022-04-17 22:18:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim take a bite out of cult cannibal Western flick Ravenous, with the help of Bitter Karella!
“The Windigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing ...
2022-04-11 02:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen effuse about an early Michael Mann joint for television, the prison story The Jericho Mile!
You can buy a beautiful blu-ray of the film from Kino Lorber, but if you just can’t wait to...
2022-03-28 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim host Bitter Karella, who is a witch, to discuss a very witchy cult horror movie, Eyes of Fire! Also, if you were dying to know Jen’s thoughts on Midsommar, they’re in there.
Jen misidentified the actor who plays Will Smythe as “Douglas Lipscomb.” She of course meant 2022-03-21 01:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron.
The official Bruce Lee website
If you’re not familiar with Zatoichi, the blind swordsm...
2022-03-14 01:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim enlist favorite guest Bitter Karella to explicate the inexplicable Dan Aykroyd/Gene Hackman buddy cop comedy, Loose Cannons!
Not to get all fact check dot org on you all, but the Dissociative Identity Disorder website...
2022-02-27 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen make hay out of the 1988 comedy Hot to Trot, which killed Bobcat Goldthwait’s career for two decades. The horse was unscathed.
Tim confused God Bless America with 2022-02-23 03:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim reflect on one of the great neo-noir films of Hollywood’s second golden age, Night Moves.
Senses of Cinema has a thoughtful essay on the film by Bruce Jackson.<...
2022-02-14 02:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen welcome back Sean Morris to discuss one of Spike Lee’s most fascinating and controversial trainwrecks, Bamboozled.
Per Sean’s recommendation, check out the official video for “Lovin’ It” 2022-02-02 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim are joined by Darren “Sebebe” Herczeg to reassess Michael Mann’s profoundly flawed fantasy/horror film, The Keep!
Kit Rae’s exhaustive fansite may...
2022-01-23 22:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen are overwhelmed by the raw charisma of Jacques from the Seeking Derangments podcast in a truly chaotic episode nominally about the chaotic 1977 film House!
Via Senses of Cinema,2022-01-17 02:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim revisit an old favorite, Peter Hyams’s “High Noon in Space,” aka Outland!
Jen is incorrect when she asserts that John Wayne was considered for the part of Marshal Will Kane in High Noon; Kramer and screenwriter Carl Foreman wanted a hot young star like Brando or Gregory Pe...
2022-01-03 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sending love to our loyal subscribers and best wishes for the new year!
2021-12-25 21:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen shred a selection of programs from awful neolib also-ran streaming service, Apple TV+!
Jen alludes at one point to the “Unicorn Killer,” Ira Einhorn. He claimed to have he...
2021-12-20 05:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen welcomes Julie once again to talk about the historical background of a phantasmagoric Ken Russell favorite, Gothic!
The movie Jen fails to identify is, of course, Catherine Breillat’s 2004 Anatomy of Hell, s...
2021-12-14 04:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!
Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard....
2021-11-29 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, big influx of new patrons! Thank you all for joining us, and whether your stay with us is brief or extended, we're so grateful for your support. In the meantime, please check out our 50-and-counting bonus episodes, with guests including Chapo good boys Matt, Will, and Felix, martial arts leg...
2021-11-22 22:03:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!
Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Facto...
2021-11-22 03:43:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen welcomes Julie (@ chimericalgirl1 on Twitter) to celebrate an almost entirely forgotten erotic thriller with art house ambitions, Siesta, from 1987. This one’s quite overlooked in spite of a stacked cast that includes Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Grace Jones, and...
2021-11-16 03:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Bitter Karella to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin.
Read a 2020 interview with lead actor John...
2021-11-01 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim discover two Arkansas originals: The Town That Dreaded Sundown from 1976, and indie film pioneer Charles B. Pierce!
Amanda Squitiero, daughter of Charles B. Pierce, corrects some misconceptions about him in 2021-10-25 02:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen confront the most infamous mondo film of all time, Faces of Death!
Faces of Death may be viewed in its entirety on Tubi.
Echoing Jen’s experience in high school auto ...
2021-10-18 03:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss!
Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours 2021-09-27 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post