Forgotten Cinema

The Mike's are watching this week's film from the back of a station wagon as they discuss the 2013 film The Way Way Back , starring Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, and Toni Collette. Listen as Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss this coming-of-age comedy/drama. From the great dialogue from Rockwell's character to the story and it's adherence to the main character's point of view. This movie carries alo...

Mike Field and Mike Butler are joined by Chris and Dan from Film Trace podcast as they discuss the 2008 film, Role Models , directed by David Wain , and starring Paul Rudd , Seann William-Scott , Elizabeth Banks , Christopher Mintz-Plasse , and a breakout role for Bobb'e J. Thompson . Role Models tells the story of two thirty-something losers (Rudd & William-Scott) who must enroll in their cit...

The Mikes are about to make millions, but first they just have to catch that mouse that's been running around the house...if they don't kill each other first. That's basically the plot of Forgotten Cinema in a nutshell, but ALSO the plot of the 1997 film, Mousehunt ; the first feature film by director Gore Verbinski . In the film, brothers Ernie ( Nathan Lane ) and Lars ( Lee Evans ) are down on t...

The Mikes are teaming up with Pat Whalen once again for a trip into a Native American Reservation in Wyoming to investigate a mysterious death. Or...I mean, talk about other people doing that; not them. They just talk movies...not solve murders, like in the 2017 film Wind River . Cory Lambert ( Jeremy Rener ) is a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian re...

The Mikes are a couple of conmen placing a multimillion dollar bet on a boxing match for the ownership of a town...nope, wait...I was thinking of James Woods and Louis Gossett Jr. in the 1992 film, Diggstown . In the film, just released from prison, smooth-talking con man Gabriel Caine (Woods) and his partner in crime, Fitz ( Oliver Platt ), travel to a town named Diggstown. Upon arriving, Fitz an...

"Take their mics, take their PCs, take them where there are no podcasts, they don't care, they'll still watch movies, you can't take the cinema from them." If you ever watched the very short-lived, but super beloved TV show Firefly you tried terribly to match those lyrics to the theme song. The Mikes are podcasters, not lyricists. Speaking of podcasters, the Mikes are joined by fellow podcaster Jo...

Mike Butler and Mike Field are teaming up with Ben Affleck to fight mercenaries and math on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as they discuss the 2016 action thriller, The Accountant , directed by Gavin O'Connor. Also starring Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, and Jon Lithgow, the films centers on Christian Wolff, a genius accountant who falls on the autism spectrum. Using a small-town CPA...

The Mikes are playing America's favorite past-time with their guest this week; Pat Whalen from the Yet Another MCU Podcast as they discuss the 2001 romantic sports comedy, Summer Catch . Taking place in Cape Cod and about players on their Chatham A's baseball team. The film centers on local player, Ryan Dunne ( Freddie Prinze Jr. ) who meets and falls for Tenley Parrish ( Jessica Biel ), the daugh...

The Mikes are going back to 1980's Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall to do some spy stuff with Charlize Theron in 2017's Atomic Blonde . Directed by David Leitch of John Wick fame, this film also stars James McAvoy as a partner/foil for Theron's deadly agent, as East and West Berlin spies race to find a secret list of undercover agents and find the identity of a double agent working again...

It's the Season 13 finale! Get your sick sticks ready! Mike Butler and Mike Field are discussing the 2002 hit Minority Report , directed by a small indie director named Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise in what is surely now the last Tom Cruise film we haven't covered...seriously though, this is our sixth Tom Cruise film! We might have a problem. Field gives you the facts, Butler tells you...

The Mikes are getting into the "funny papers" this week, as they discuss the 2005 comedy musical Reefer Madness , starring Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Steven Weber, Ana Gasteyer, and Alan Cumming. Mike Butler and Mike Field enjoy this raunchy, hilarious musical, that is a farcical "remake" of a ridiculous anti-marijuana film from the 1930's. The film is also adapted from the same stage play...

The Mikes are running afoul of the Russian mob as they check out David Cronenberg's 2007 crime film, Eastern Promises , starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts. Mike Field and Mike Butler discuss the how underrated both Mortensen and Cronenberg are in terms of general audiences, the infamous bathhouse fight, and what worked and what didn't in terms of the story such as choices that Watt's charact...

The Mikes are mumbling their way through some strange songs and even stranger characters on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as they discuss Robert Altman's 1980 musical-comedy Popeye , starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duval. Mike Butler is not a fan of this very odd children's film based on the popular cartoon character. From the unfunny dialogue, the slow pacing of the first third of the film,...

Be better than the Gap! It's time for Ryan Gosling to teach you and a down-on-his-luck Steve Carell how to be a better man...or at least a better player in 2011's Crazy Stupid Love . Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss how this quirky romantic dramedy is actually a generally great movie, that is well acted, well written, and well directed. This film has many branching storylines and although they a...

It's life in prison on a desert...followed by life in prison stranded on an exotic island that just happens to be right next to a desert? Sorry, the Mikes still haven't wrapped their heads around that one. The Mikes are talking No Escape from 1994, directed by Martin Campbell and starring the late Ray Liotta, Lance Henrikson, Stuart Wilson and Ernie Hudson. Listen in as Mike Butler and Mike Field...

You walk by a phone booth in New York City. The phone suddenly starts ringing. You turn around in disbelief..."Whoa! There are still phone booths in this country?!" you say to yourself out loud as you ignore the ringing phone that clearly isn't for you, because if it was for you, they'd be calling your cell phone! And even then, you ignore the call, because let's face it, if it's not a text it's p...

It's time for severed hands, bad accents, and an adorable pit bull puppy on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as the Mikes discuss the 2014 film, The Drop , starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini in his final role before his passing. Mike Field and Mike Butler both very much enjoy the story being told in this film. The writing and the dialogue are very well done. Butler believes tha...

The Mikes are going back to 1983 to sit down and have a long talk and hang out for the weekend. A "Big Chill" if you would. Get it?! That's right; Mike Butler and Mike Field are discussing the Lawrence Kasdan written and directed film The Big Chill , starring Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, Glenn Close, William Hurt, Tom Berenger, JoBeth Williams, Mary Kay Place, and Meg Tilly. What a cast! Field and...

The Mikes are going back in time to the Hundred Years War where these modern men of the 21st century will surely thrive...nah just playing, they'd probably die; quickly and poorly. Mike Field and Mike Butler are instead watching the 2003 time travel film, Timeline , from the comfort of their own homes with all the modern amenities available to them. They'll discuss the differences between this fil...

It's time for some Cruise-on-Cruise action this week as the Mikes discuss the 2013 film "Oblivion" starring Forgotten Cinema's most repeated superstar; Tom Cruise. Mike Butler and Mike Field both truly enjoy this movie, but man does it have some issues when it comes to story. From conveniences in dialogue and character motivation for the purpose of driving the story along to inconsistent or nonsen...

It's two episodes into their 13th season and the Mikes are throwing the party of the century! A real rager! The most kick-ass rockin' in your face....ok I lied; they're just going to watch a movie about that kind of party. It's 2012's Project X . Directed by and starring no one you've ever heard of, this coming-of-age party film went on to make nearly TEN TIMES it's budget back! That's....astoundi...

Season 13 of Forgotten Cinema starts off with The Mikes driving a Soviet tank behind enemy lines by orders of a crazed George Dzundza, as they discuss the 1988 film The Beast of War . After about seven seasons worth of being asked to cover this film, Mike Field and Mike Butler finally discuss this Jason Patric, Stephen Baldwin starrer that takes place during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The...

In the season finale of Season 12, the Mikes are grabbing their bright red wigs and running back to the late nineties to catch up with Lola's terrible, very bad, no good day, in 1998's Run Lola Run. Mike Field loves this low budget flick that brings him back to "the day"; the club music soundtrack typified by artists like Moby and Prodigy thumping throughout, the nonstop pace of the film, the subt...

Roxanne!!!! That's right! The Mikes are talking about a film that they've already been told isn't forgotten. The first Eddie Murphy starrer, 48 Hours. Well jokes on everyone, because neither Mike Field or Mike Butler had ever seen it. Everyone talks about Beverly Hill Cop , it's great and it's repeated all over TV, but 48 Hours is the one that gave Eddie Murphy his start on the big screen and no o...

The Mikes are going to law school in the early 70's! And probably flunking "Contracts" class with Professor Kingsfield. That's right! It's The Paper Chase. Mike Butler believes that you are unlikely to ever see a mainstream film geared more directly at a particular subset of a particular kind of school. To Butler this film is for first year law students (possibly only those in the 70's) and that i...