DISASTERPIECE

We’re back with more CATASTANIC! A month-long exploration of Titanic-inspired pop culture disasters. This week, it’s one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the history of Hollywood… Who spiked James Cameron's TITANIC's entire cast and crew with PCP?? And why did they put it in a chowder? And how does NO ONE remember what kind of chowder it was? Was it revenge against the megalomaniac director? W...

it’s April and we’re launching CATASTANIC! A month-long exploration of the craziest TITANIC-inspired disasters in pop culture. And we’re starting with the 1999 Italian/North Korean (!) produced animated film THE LEGEND OF THE TITANIC. An animated movie that dares to ask the question: “What if, like, no one died on the Titanic, and it had, like, talking animals, magic moon-beam tears, and a shakr j...

IT’S TIME TO SLAM!! This week Justin and Steve break out the knee pads and mouth guards to take a look at SLAMBALL, a combination of basketball and gymnastics that was the greatest hybrid sport since some nerd combined frisbee and golf. So what happens when you put trampolines on a basketball court? Many people get hurt and viewers like to tune in to watch it once. From its humble inception drawn...

FATAL DEVIATION is the only 100% Irish Kung Fu movie. Starring and Directed by the lean, mean, and green Jimmy Bennet. He’s here to kick arse and chew scenery, and he’s all out of scenery. Steve and Justin wish you Céad Míle Fáilte as we celebrate St. Paddy’s day a week late with one of our favorite DISASTERPIECES of all time. A movie trying so hard to rip off KICKBOXER and HARD TARGET that its st...

WISEAU. BREEN. VERSACE. DOUG. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, DISASTERPIECE has dredged up another candidate for the ‘Mount Rushmore of Weird Directors’ with Doug Burke’s SURFER: TEEN CONFRONTS FEAR. This experimental, coming-of-age sports-drama spy-thriller is made up of long surfing montages, 30-minute monologues, flubbed takes, magic sea lions, a real dead whale, conf...

The Oscars may have been last night, but around here, Award Season isn’t over until the Brass Balls are given out. This week Justin and Steve look back at The SPIKE TV GUYS CHOICE AWARDS—an awards show that honors everything guys love from boobs to breasts. Join the boys as they walk the red carpet and discuss an awards ceremony so dated, crass, and ultimately silly, you won’t believe it aired les...

Is STAR TREK: OF GODS AND MEN a fan film if the fans who made it are prolific Star Trek actors?? Steve and Justin are going where (at the time of this release) only six Letterboxd users have gone before… Tim Russ’s (Star Trek Voyager) non-canonical Star Trek universe. Can an all-star Star Trek cast including Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Ethan Phillips, Alan Ruck, and Garret Wang save this low-...

Steven Seagal has finally made it to the pod and Rollie Williams (Climate Town) is back! ON DEADLY GROUND is not only our first Seagal movie, it’s also an environmentally-charged action movie, and the only movie DIRECTED by the man himself. So the boys called up their own climate badass, Rollie Williams, to fly in and help extinguish this flaming turd. Is Seagal’s character a good guy? An anti-her...

FOOTBALL meets WRESTLING?? The XFL was created when the WWE’s Vince McMahon looked at the NFL (one of the most successful sports leagues of all time) and said “I can do this better”. Steve Ward and Justin ‘Red’ Dodd travel back to the attitude era of the early 2000s to intercept all of the info they can find about what was supposed to be the next evolution of American football. But after trying ev...

Oh, Canada. Did you know that Toronto had a crack-smoking, foul-mouthed mayor named Rob Ford? And would you believe that this all went down only ten years ago?? This week Justin and Toronto’s own Steve Ward look back at Canada’s most infamous dynasty as the Ford boys, Rob and Doug, get involved in scandal after scandal and try to justify it all on their short-lived YouTube show ‘Ford Nation’. It w...

It’s a mutiny in space! SPACE MUTINY! The most 70s sci-fi movie to come out of the late 80s. A rip-roaring Star Wars ripoff that’s chock-full of reused footage from a much better Star Wars ripoff, Battlestar Galactica. Steve and Justin beam aboard the Souther Sun and discover one of the craziest production histories this side of the moon. From a director on their deathbed to locations that look AB...

Can the magic of the most beloved family film of all time be replicated in an 8-bit format? E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 answers that question with a resounding NO. This week Justin and Steve boot up the most notorious video game ever programmed and tell the story of how it was created in mere WEEKS. They’ll try to get everyone’s favorite little buddy home by falling into holes, r...

We’re back! And what better way to start 2025 than going deep into Vitaliy Versace’s BORN INTO MAFIA. This Francis Ford Nope-ola of a director tells his sprawling crime drama with no script, no real actors, no authentic locations, or any sense of how movies or time works. But, somehow, he delivers one of the biggest cop-out endings in movie history. Steve and Justin can never get enough Vitaliy an...

It’s the DISASTERPIECE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL!! Starring our special guest, writer/director Paul Ramsdell! With the contractually-obligated Mark Hammil, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher! Featuring a pubescent Wookie, a 100lb rat, too many songs, and a whole bunch of old people! Join us for the least Star Warsy Star Wars property ever made. That, almost unbelievably, was 50% of t...

KIRK CAMERON'S SAVING CHRISTMAS is the worst movie we have ever seen. Happy Holidays Watch it here if you hate yourself Follow us on Instagram to keep updated about our monthly live shows! Check out more from Justin here: justindodd.rocks Check out more from Steve here: stevejhward.com drinkgenies.com

DEADLY CRUSH is a softcore porno about a lady who has a bunch of sex with a ghost. And we know the guy whose childhood home it was filmed in! And he’s our special guest this week! Max Kohl joins the boys in the studio to reveal all of the secrets of the best paranormal erotica ever made, AND tell the tale of how his dad was duped into renting out their home to the production company. Is Max’s chil...

What makes DOLLMAN the most dangerous cop in NYC? He’s a 13-inch alien with the most powerful gun in the universe. This week, Steve and Justin look through the microscope and try to make sense of Albert Pyun’s 1991 sci-fi classic starring the Clint Eastwood of B-movies, Tim Thomerson (TRANCERS). And even if it all comes up short, there are shockingly few dick jokes for a movie about a ‘13-inch man...

Like a dream-within-a-dream, the GEICO CAVEMEN TV SHOW was a 30-minute commercial with ad breaks. Justin and Steve look back at the Nick Kroll starring sitcom adaptation of one of television's most beloved ad campaigns. A sitcom that would also become a part of television history, but for the exact opposite reasons. Was the show just ahead of its time? Did CAVEMEN walk so TED LASSO could run? All...

HAWK JONES is a cop, a hero, a lover, a loner, a fighter, and most importantly- he’s a six-year-old kid. And so is EVERY OTHER ACTOR in this 80s cop thriller set in the fictional city of Minitropolis. Why? Who cares when you have 90 minutes of kids in mustaches slinging one-liners and fighting crime? So gear up, grab a lollipop, and join Justin and Steve as they breakdown one of the oddest odditie...

Office Max made a Punk’d-style reality show with The All-American Rejects. Yes. That’s a real sentence. On this episode of DISASTERPIECES, Steve and Justin examine SCHOOLED, the Office Max commercial that pretends it’s an hour-long TV special. Why does this thing exist? Did it actually help a failing school-supply retailer sell more printers? And is it ethical to absolutely torture real school chi...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s FLYIN’ RYAN! The terrible family movie brought to you by Heelys, yes the shoes with wheels in them. Actor/comedian Anne Hogan swoops in to help Justin and Steve breakdown a movie where a child literally has the power of flight but no one really seems to care. Concrete answers may be sparse, but giggle fits will be bountiful. Just don’t forget your skateboard. Follow...

Candy Corn. It’s sweet, silky, and has been a staple of the candy store during the last THREE CENTURIES. So why does everyone hate one of the best-selling sweet treats of all time? Steve and Justin rip open a bag of the divisive tri-colored devils to get to the bottom of America’s love/hate relationship with Candy Corn… even if it spells doom for their tummies, and forever ruins the concept of ‘ed...

You know what this is. Say it. THE LAST VAMPIRE ON EARTH. The most egregious TWILIGHT rip-off of all time. Comedian Emily Panic joins the boys and lends some of her paranormal expertise to help break down a vampire movie that arguably might not even have a real vampire in it. And with an IMDB summary like this: ‘ A second-hand report of a man vomiting after eating chicken leads a preacher to belie...

The BBC television special GHOST WATCH is unironically amazing—like it’s really, really good. So why are Steve and Justin talking about this paranormal phenomenon from 1990? Because the aftermath of this fake live broadcast is one of the worst and most tragic disasters they have ever covered. It's a story that has to be heard to be believed. So turn out the lights, get cozy in your glory hole, and...

Hoff Matthews joins the boys in the ring to face off against Uwe Boll’s ALONE IN THE DARK. Is this VERY LOOSE video game adaptation starring the poorman’s Jack Nicolson (Christian Slater) and the poorman’s Christian Slater (Stephen Dorff) really as bad as its reputation would have us believe? Or will the boys be too afraid to criticize it since the director LITERALLY beats up his critics? Either w...