Opening Weekend

Chest hair, diapers, road trips, Guttenberg and...wait, those aren’t pillows!!! It’s November 25th, 1987 and the boys take PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES to see THREE MEN AND A BABY on Episode 26 of Opening Weekend !If you thought Fred’s questioning of his sexuality reached a fever pitch with Hugh Grant on Episode 25, then wait until you hear him positively SWOON over Tom Selleck! Oh, the swoonin...

The British prove their superiority once again as the boys revisit November 14, 2003 and the UK imports LOVE ACTUALLY and MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (as well as America’s contribution to the cultural conversation - sigh - LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION)! Romance is in the air for classic screen couples like Hugh Grant and his secretary, Paul Bettany and an animatronic tortoise,...

“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you; three, four, Jon Cryer slept with Demi Moore; Five, six, George Burns is one hundred and six…” It’s November 16th 1984, and with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, OH GOD, YOU DEVIL, and NO SMALL AFFAIR, the boys are sure to haunt your dreams on Episode 24 of Opening Weekend! What’s that terrifying sound, like blades scraping against a rusty pipe? Is it Freddie Krueger...

Comics spying! Comics reindeer-flying! Comics getting embroiled in phone-sex scams, smashing windows, buying pudding and crying! November 2nd, 2002’s PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, I-SPY, and THE SANTA CLAUSE 2 had it all and we’re not lying! It’s all here on Episode 23 of Opening Weekend! Breakups, credit card debt, and near asphyxiation by gold spray-paint; man, the boys were really LIVIN’ back in November o...

“Trick or treat, smell Dan’s feet, give Don Dokken something good to eat!” The boys are back with a super-sized spooooooky Halloween episode where they dive into John Carpenter’s 1978 horror game-changer HALLOWEEN and their very own Top Ten Halloween Movies! Don’t open the door! DON’T OPEN THE DOOR!!!!! Opening Weekend Episode 22 is coming to GET YOU!!! Slashers, psychos and sweet tranvestites; go...

Feather back your Heavy Metal mullet, throw on your Cavariccis, and hop into your IROC Z for a trip back to October of 1988 when, according to Alien Nation, the Republican Party LOVED their immigrants! What’s funnier: Fred in a homemade condom costume or Tom Hanks and Sally Field performing stand-up comedy? Trick question! EVERYTHING IS FUNNIER THAN TOM HANKS AND SALLY FIELD PERFORMING STAND UP CO...

A tragic plane crash, the brutal murder of a millionaire’s wife. Pshaw! That’s nothing compared to the carnage reaped by AHNULD and a handful of  bad one-liners! It’s October 4th, 1985 and the boys revisit COMMANDO, JAGGED EDGE, and SWEET DREAMS on Episode 20 of Opening Weekend! 1985 provided plenty of sweaty musclebound behemoths causing maximum damage…and that was just on Dan’s bedroom wall!  Wh...

Zombies…  Aliens… American Presidents… Anxiety-inducing monsters of ALL stripes haunt the major releases of September 24, 2004 as the boys revisit SHAUN OF THE DEAD, THE FORGOTTEN, and FIRST DAUGHTER! Episode 19 of Opening Weekend has arrived! When the new Batman’s girlfriend plays the old Batman’s daughter, one wouldn’t expect Jason (of all people) to fall asleep halfway through the proceedings,...

What’s in the box? Plot? Nuance? Strong dialogue? Only one way to find out... Join the boys as they revisit September 22, 1995, and unpack SE7EN, SHOWGIRLS, and EMPIRE RECORDS! Get ready for the ultimate exercise in frustration! Visit a music store where nobody seems to like or care about music! Enter a world of taboo sexual desire in which the greatest taboo is the fact that nothing sexy or desir...

This week the boys enter autumn with some Hollywood tearjerkers from September 18, 1998: ONE TRUE THING starring Meryl Streep, SIMON BIRCH starring the kid from “Simon Birch”, and - saddest of all - the parade of misery that is Brett Ratner’s RUSH HOUR...  In the Olympics of Suffering that is this week’s trio of middling movies there are glimmers of hope to be sure - Meryl Streep’s brilliant actin...

This week the boys share their Top Ten favorite “Back-to-School” movies after revisiting September 3, 1982 and the raunchy student bodies of FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and ZAPPED! Forget Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmatic - this week’s films are all about “the three S’s”: Scatman, Salami, and Spicoli! Sean Penn’s mesmerizing comic performance in Fast Times is indeed one for the ages, but in the spi...

Figuring that Baby’s Day Out had its charms (at least when compared with the likes of She’s The One and Disorderlies) the boys RETURN to the summer of 1994 to see what Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Sweeney, and Tommy Lee Jones’s hairdo are up to in the August 26 releases CORRINA CORRINA, IT’S PAT, and NATURAL BORN KILLERS! This week’s films are a triangular conundrum befitting Tommy Lee’s old pal The Rid...

This week the boys travel back to August of 1996 and a movie that explores a mysterious and horrific world filled with barely human oddities: Ed Burns’s SHE’S THE ONE. Then, later on, they also talk about THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. (> Needle scratch <) “Everyone’s always talking about Dr. Moreau. It’s Dr. Moreau this, and Dr. Moreau that... Moreau, Moreau, Moreau! I’m a person too, y’know!” ...

The Village Bath Club must die! Long live the Manhasset Country Club! This week, Jason, Fred, and Dan travel back to August 14, 1987 and revisit CAN’T BUY ME LOVE, DISORDERLIES, THE MONSTER SQUAD, and NO WAY OUT! Much like the Iran-Contra hearings that dominated the summer of ‘87, this week’s episode isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions! Questions like: ...If three Fat Boys fall in an elderly m...

This week, the boys travel back to August 6, 1999 and the release of three very scary movies (for very different reasons): THE SIXTH SENSE, MYSTERY MEN, and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. While Haley Joel Osment saw dead people, all Jason, Dan, and Fred could see were Pierce Brosnan’s butt and Rene Russo’s boobs...again and again and again. Thomas Crown Affair? More like Thomas Crown’s Got A PAIR! You t...

The weekend of August 2, 1985 was a great one for moviegoers... provided that those moviegoers were 14 years old! Or 4 years old! Everyone else was pretty much out of luck. Join the boys as they wax nostalgic about WEIRD SCIENCE, FRIGHT NIGHT, and SESAME STREET PRESENTS: FOLLOW THAT BIRD! What do Chris Sarandon and his vampiric sidekick have in common with Bert and Ernie? Who was the more statuesq...

This week, the boys travel back to July 25, 1980, and revisit what might very well be the most quotable comedy of all time: CADDYSHACK! Join Jason, Fred, and Dan as they take a deep dive into the lore of Bushwood and chat about the making of the film with Angie D'Annunzio himself, Peter Berkrot! Rarely have three grown men been this excited to talk about anything! From Dan’s love of Ted Knight’s d...

This week, the boys travel back to July 15, 1988, and a pair of sleeper hits about robberies gone wrong that stole the summer box office: DIE HARD and A FISH CALLED WANDA! From Kevin Kline’s Oscar-winning sadism to Alan Rickman’s career-launching terrorism, this week’s episode is full of great actors doing terrible things that sickos like Jason, Fred, and Dan just LOVE to watch! Is Die Hard the gr...

This week, the boys travel back to July 13, 1990, and the release of two very different “New York Stories” — the year’s biggest hit, GHOST (starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg), and Bill Murray’s directorial debut, QUICK CHANGE (starring Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid).  Onscreen it was a week of deadly muggings and botched getaways, but offscreen, the boys saw their own...

This Fourth of July, the boys travel back to 1994 and celebrate their independence from logic, comprehension, and good taste with a trio of holiday head scratchers -- BABY’S DAY OUT, BLOWN AWAY, and THE SHADOW! ...If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a baby crawled across a highway, then you don’t know how highways work! Neither does BABY’S DAY OUT! ...If you’ve ever assumed that Irish peo...

Things get dark and gritty this week as the boys travel back to June 25, 1982 to reappraise a couple of sci-fi classics, and to ruminate on the most dystopian vision of them all: Barry Bostwick in a Lycra jumpsuit… It’s Opening Weekend’s first quadruple bill — BLADE RUNNER, JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING, MEGAFORCE, and MONTY PYTHON LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL! LEARN…  all about the new dance craze swe...

Tonight we’re gonna dance with the devil in the pale moonlight and party like it’s 1989 as Jason, Fred, and Dan fire up the Batmobile (and power up the um… shrink machine thingy, I guess?) to revisit the two big releases of June 23rd: BATMAN and HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS! The weekend marked the dawn of many now-common cinematic occurrences: It was the first time Disney flicks and superhero movies r...

If you throw us the idol, we’ll throw you the whip! OPENING WEEKEND returns as Jason, Dan, and Fred travel back to grade school and reminisce about their hopes, their fears, and - in Fred’s case, at least - their many, many lies as they revisit the three big theatrical releases of June 12, 1981 — CLASH OF THE TITANS, HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I, and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK! The 80’s were known for...

OPENING WEEKEND returns as Jason, Dan, and Fred power up their proton packs and revisit the three big theatrical releases of June 8, 1984 — GHOSTBUSTERS, GREMLINS, and BEAT STREET! Which of the boys was on a breakdancing crew, and which was scared of the song “White Lines”? Which is more disturbing - Phoebe Cates’s monologue about her dead father, or the idea of Dan performing a strip tease to it?...

OPENING WEEKEND returns as Jason, Fred, and Dan travel back to their carefree college days and feel their achey-breaky-hearts burn for the three major releases of May 28, 1993 — CLIFFHANGER starring Sylvester Stallone and John Lithgow, MADE IN AMERICA starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, and SUPER MARIO BROS . starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, and an army of animatronic dino...