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Send us Fan Mail Tonight on Films & Fermentation, we're celebrating Halloween by doing what Hollywood does best: taking perfectly good movies and replacing the actors with people who have absolutely no business being there. 🎃 Each of us has chosen a horror or Halloween classic to recast, but with one terrifying twist: we must decide whether our new stars will be actual human beings or a bunch...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re celebrating the 45th anniversary of Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part I, the movie that finally taught us everything our history teachers were apparently too cowardly to cover. From cavemen and the Roman Empire to the Spanish Inquisition and Louis XVI, Brooks proves that thousands of years of human civilization were really just an elaborate setup for dick jokes...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re looking at football players who traded first downs for first takes, proving that apparently getting tackled by a 300-pound lineman is excellent preparation for Hollywood. 🏈🎬 From Jim Brown and Carl Weathers to Bubba Smith and Terry Crews, some of these guys left the gridiron and built acting careers that became almost as famous as their football ones. Others disco...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re celebrating the glorious days when movie monsters were made of rubber, spaceships were hanging from wires, and blowing something up meant somebody actually had to blow something up. From prosthetic creatures and miniature cities to animatronic dinosaurs and stunt performers questioning their career choices, we’re drafting the greatest practical-effects movies from a...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re celebrating one of the rarest achievements in cinema: making a movie Roger Ebert believed deserved absolutely nothing. Mike and Kev will try to identify twelve movies that earned the dreaded ZERO STARS, ranging from infamous cinematic disasters to a few choices that may cause us to question Roger’s usually impeccable judgment. Along the way, we’ll revisit some of Eb...

Send us Fan Mail Sixty years ago, Star Trek boldly went where no television show had gone before, although it took two pilots, two captains, and a network saying “maybe try that again” to actually get there. 🖖 Tonight, we’re heading back to the beginning with The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before to see how Captain Pike’s strange trip to Talos IV eventually evolved into Kirk, Spock, and the E...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re celebrating the greatest movie monologues of all time, because sometimes shutting up and letting one actor cook is the best special effect Hollywood has. From Quint ruining ocean vacations forever to Colonel Jessup explaining that apparently none of us can handle the truth, these are the speeches that stopped movies dead in their tracks and made audiences listen. We...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re digging through the dusty attic of television history to uncover the live-action TV shows time forgot, programs so bizarre you’ll swear they were fever dreams brought on by bad pizza and unrestricted access to the remote. We’re talking crime-fighting animal shapeshifters, computerized superheroes, talking orangutans, nuclear-apocalypse sitcoms, and yes, that time NB...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re cranking the amps to eleven as we rank the greatest fictional bands in movie history, where musical talent is optional but dramatic backstage arguments are apparently mandatory. From Spinal Tap and Stillwater to The Wonders, Sex Bob-Omb, and bands whose members include escaped convicts, prep-school children, and occasionally Muppets, cinema has given us groups that...

Send us Fan Mail Hollywood loves an origin story... right up until the sequel. Tonight we're talking about the actors, actresses, and directors who burst onto the scene with a first movie so good that studios were practically throwing money at them, only to discover lightning doesn't always strike twice. Some became cautionary tales, some became cult legends, and a few are probably still pitching...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we’re looking at movies you probably assumed sprang fully formed from the mind of a screenwriter, only to discover they were hiding in a book, comic, memoir, or suspiciously short piece of fiction all along. This is not Harry Potter, where the source material arrives carrying its own theme park and gift shop. We’re talking A History of Violence, Die Hard, Mean Girls, and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Films and Fermentation's Shark Week Special, where we're testing not just our movie knowledge, but humanity's ability to distinguish between actual shark movies and fever dreams that somehow got greenlit. In Real Plot or Not: Shark Week Edition, we'll read outrageous shark movie plot summaries, and our contestants have to decide whether Hollywood really made them... or...

Send us Fan Mail Season 12 of Films and Fermentation kicks off with a fan-favorite tradition as we dive into our 15th edition of Movies That Time Forgot, uncovering hidden gems, overlooked classics, and films that deserved far more love than they ever received. Joining us for the celebration are our unofficial fourth co-host, the delightfully erudite Cthulhu Jack, and special guest Matt Brooks, in...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Fourth of July from Films and Fermentation! This week, we're settling one of the most gloriously unnecessary debates in cinematic history by crowning the most American movie ever made in a 32-film tournament packed with underdogs, explosions, baseball, freedom, questionable decisions, and at least one bald eagle in spirit. Will Rocky go the distance, will Top Gun buzz the to...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we're celebrating the wonderfully weird, wildly talented, and utterly unforgettable career of Tim Curry. From a sweet transvestite from Transylvania to a terrifying clown lurking in the sewers, Curry somehow managed to traumatize and delight entire generations at the same time. We'll revisit his most iconic roles, debate his greatest performanc...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we're trading movie reviews for a draft board as we assemble the ultimate roster of sports movies. From underdog boxers and miracle hockey teams to baseball dreams and football legends, no athlete, coach, or inspirational locker room speech is safe from selection. Will strategy prevail, or will someone panic and spend a first-round pick on a mo...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we're tackling one of cinema's most important questions: are some movies actually better after a few drinks? From cult classics and glorious train wrecks to action movies that somehow become masterpieces at beer number three, we're ranking the films that improve with a little liquid assistance. We'll debate whether this is a testament to the mo...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we're diving into the legendary music of John Williams and attempting the impossible: ranking our five favorite scores from a career that basically soundtracked modern cinema. From sharks and space wizards to dinosaurs, superheroes, and archaeologists with questionable workplace safety habits, Williams has spent decades living rent-free in our...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we’re taking some of our favorite movies of all time and committing the ultimate act of cinematic chaos: recasting them with modern actors. Each of us secretly picked one legendary film we wish we could experience again for the first time, then rebuilt the cast from scratch like Hollywood executives with too much confidence and a dangerous amou...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we’re talking about the movies we wish we could experience again for the very first time. You know the ones: the films that stunned us, broke us emotionally, melted our brains, or left us sitting silently through the credits questioning reality and possibly our life choices. From shocking twists to unforgettable finales, we’re revisiting those...

Send us Fan Mail One podcast to rule them all, one podcast to find them, one podcast to bring them all and in the laughter bind them. This week, Films and Fermentation journeys back to Middle-earth to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the film that convinced an entire generation to suddenly care deeply about second breakfast and New Zealand geogra...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we’re celebrating 40 years of Pixar—the studio that made us believe toys have feelings and that yes, we can cry over a imaginary friends disappearing. From groundbreaking animation in films like Toy Story to emotional gut-punches like Up and Inside Out, we’re diving into the movies that defined generations. We’ll revisit the classics, debate th...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Films and Fermentation, we’re jumping into a galaxy far, far away for another round of Sequel Wars, as we debate Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope vs. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. Is the original film’s perfect hero’s journey enough to hold off one of the most acclaimed sequels of all time, or does Empire’s darker tone and iconic twist give it the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome, dear friends, to Films and Fermentation, Where cinema meets wit and bold libation. This week we dare to tread where few have gone, Through Shakespeare’s tales now cast on silver screen. From star-cross’d lovers doomed by hasty hearts, To kings undone by whispers in the dark, We ask: doth Hollywood do justice fair, Or twist the Bard for box office delight? Fear not, for we...

Send us Fan Mail come back to Films and Fermentation, where this week we settle a debate more intense than a lightsaber duel in a thunderstorm… the greatest movie trilogy of all time. We’ve built the ultimate bracket, packed with iconic franchises, questionable matchups, and at least one pick that will absolutely start a fight. From epic sagas to perfectly crafted three-film arcs, only one trilogy...