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Can it be that the first Ken Russell movie we're covering is ALTERED STATES? I guess we're holding our Ken Russells close to our chest. Enjoy the episode covering Russell's most mainstream movie from 1980: ALTERED STATES.

It makes sense to have nudity in a werewolf movie. Is the full-frontal particularly good? NO! Is this one of the best werewold movies? Definitely not! But the film has a cute dog named Thor and it made Laura cry. So, let’s watch it anyway! Don’t worry, Thor survives.

We picked this up as a blind buy at the most recent Barnes & Noble Kino Lorber sale, and it didn't disappoint! This is our first foray into Pat Rocco's work, and arguably, his most accessible. Definitely looking forward to getting into the rest of his catalogue. But for NOW, let's dive into his 1974 feature DRIFTER! 

It's football season, so let's get back into the locker room and slap each other with towels. We're covering Oliver Stone's ANY GIVEN SUNDAY. 

SUPER TROOPERS was an indie comedy gem back in 2001, and since then, it has produced two sequels. Some might say one is better than the rest, but we'll leave that to you. Maple syrup, liters of cola, weddings, boners, snake bites, and many many bottles of Molson later, it's time for SUPER TROOPERS.

Only one thing drew us to pick this film, and his name is Sam Neill. The late, great Sam is in this film, and even though he's not the MAIN subject, we like it nonetheless. Well, kind of. Enjoy our chat about SIRENS! 

After enjoying The Dreamers for the last episode, we really did think that we needed something more…GAY. And we found it. And it’s great. Rotting in the Sun (2023), directed by Sebastián Silva, is funny, thrilling, and has a LOT of full-frontal male nudity. So much so that I don’t think we even cover it all during this episode.

THE DREAMERS seemed surprisingly embraced after the incredibly problematic experience of LAST TANGO IN PARIS (which we cover in brief but will tackle at a later date). It’s a really well-made piece of filmmaking, which marks the film debut of Eva Green (discounting her uncredited appearance in Haneke’s THE PIANO TEACHER) alongside Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel playing the other young “dreamers” in...

DRIB. “The true story about a fake energy drink” is how this is described. Kristoffer Borgli’s screaming feature debut is about the viral star and the attempts of an ad agency to make them the spokesperson for an energy drink company. Does it sound too outlandish to be true? Whether it’s real or not, that doesn’t really matter.  DRIB.

Bob Geldof didn’t like Mondays. Garfield didn’t like Mondays. We’re all out here living for the weekend…or so I have been told. And that is what this film really is: a bunch of eventful weekends spliced together in cinematic form. MONDAY is a 2020 drama romance film starring Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough, directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos, set in beautiful Greece. You get your laughs. You ge...

Oh. My. Goodness. Are YOU in for a treat!? Hopefully, you’re more hopeful than Roger Ebert, who rated this as the worst film of 1988. Fancy a game of top Tom Berenger action? Because it’s here!  It’s a primetime slice of New York cheesecake coming your way from Donald P. Bellisario, the creator of MAGNUM PI and AIRWOLF. Some say this is his one and only film, others would say he directed AIRWOLF:...

There’s nothing like a bit of Father/Son bonding to really bring a family together in times of grief. However, in this case, after the unfortunate passing of the family matriarch, these two men decide to explore something far less conventional and far more controversial. Each other! Just kidding...kind of...

Harmony Korine, you may know him from such sad movies as GUMMO or KEN PARK. Well, this one was made to feel like "PURE JOY". We recently went to Key West, Florida, on holiday and wanted to go back at least in our minds. Enjoy our episode covering THE BEACH BUM!

Isn’t it great being a young adult in the 90’s? From the king of “coming of age” Richard Linklater, we’re covering the film adaptation of the Eric Bogosian play SUBURBIA about a bunch of white suburban teenagers figuring out their futures while hanging outside a corner-store gas station. Starring Giovanni Ribisi, Amie Carey, Steve Zahn, Parker Posey, Nicky Katt, and Jayce Bartok. A darkly comic dr...

Wife and husband duo Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson join forces to bring to life an incredibly popular book from the early 2000s that has had its fair share of controversy. But what do we care? Sam has her husband strip down and dance in the opening sequence.  Joined by beloved actors Giovanni Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, Charlie Hunnam, David Dastmalchian, Billy Bob Thornton (I could go on), this film w...

Sub? Dom?  What’s your preference?  Who knows?  Who cares? That and many more questions will be asked and answered in Harry Lighton’s exploration of Gay biker subculture in the UK and the dynamics of that in PILLION. Starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling, the relationship between Ray and Colin is a romantic comedy that transcends. All made for about $1 million. It’s fun. It’s enjoyable. I...

We cannot escape the tempting clutches of Peter Weller, it seems. Unfortunately, this time, we are at a loss.  Elmore Leonard's CAT CHASER, adapted by Abel Ferrara (covered when we uncovered BAD LIEUTENANT), starring Weller and Kelly McGillis. What could go wrong? A lot supposedly. A troubled script process. Warring co-stars. Abel Ferrara.  For a film that depicts mostly a bunch of conversations i...

Dropping you into a modern rendition of Tolstoy, like it's the early 2000's, here we are with Bernard Rose's IVANSXTC.  A breakthrough in "digital filmmaking," it became the first feature to be shot on digital HD, revolutionizing what became a very popular aesthetic, especially in television. Starring Danny Huston, we follow the death and final days of Ivan, a popular talent agent in Hollywood who...

Before SURVIVOR was popular, people in the 1920's would find themselves on an isolated, inhospitable island, driven by survival and searching for that one piece of personal peace and salvation. Ron Howard's EDEN kinda does that with a bunch of sexy actors enacting the true story of a group of people setting up life in the Galapagos Islands. What ensues is a pinch of madness. A crumble of humanity...

You might tell fairly quickly that we're all a bit sad at this one. Liliana Cavani's THE NIGHT PORTER makes you ask certain questions. Makes you feel certain things. Makes you feel awful.  Equally bleak. Equally grim. Equally sad.  Yeah, "sad" is the word of the day. You won't enjoy yourself unless you like the idea of seeing a version of this with an "ALL PUPPET CAST" to give us some well-needed...

Writing this blurb is difficult. I've tried rewriting it at least three times, and I'm at the point of failing to explain myself, my partner, and the guy who's putting the film on at Sunray Cinema in Tampa on Saturday, January 17th, 2026, as part of Uncomfortable Brunch! We should all be disgusted with ourselves for enjoying it. Speaking of Uncomfortable Brunch, friend of the podcast Josh Martin j...

Happy New Year, Geeks!  What better way to start the New Year than with the neo-noir, psychological thriller by master Guillermo Del Toro: NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Based on the novel of the same name from 1946, this is a new adaptation of the source material. And Bradley Cooper is actually good! Ha!

What's more Christmas-y than celebrating one's birthday? Brian just so happens to share the same birthday with someone else we might know, on Christmas Day, many, many moons ago.  It seems almost to explain what this film is, because who hasn't seen this and enjoyed it? I mean, it was controversial upon its release and was banned by many councils, even to this day, but who hasn't heard or seen LIF...

Christmas can be a hard time of year for folk, especially writers... Anyway, here we are, taking a look at Lynne Ramsay's MORVERN CALLAR: her second feature film about a young woman, her fiancé, her pal, and a quick trip to Spain in the New Year. You're probably thinking to yourself, "This sounds like LOVE ACTUALLY or something," but let's be real, this is LYNNE RAMSAY we're talking about here.  I...

You know when one of your reviews is "I'm not sure if Kenneth will break into song at any moment", you're either getting something that's gonna be awesome or bordering on disaster.  This film is a mixed bag, which is ironic, because MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN, directed and starring Kenneth Branagh, is about a mad scientist who takes a bunch of dead bodies, stitches them together and brings them b...