Travolting

Continuing down Winona's popularity collapse, The Last Word is a movie about a man named Evan who gets hired to write people's suicide notes. We thought about reaching out to him after we made it through watching this movie.

Alright class settle down! Time for our very first instructional episode on Sex and Death 101, starring... Winona Ryder as Professor Death Nell who will be your instructor for today. Our first lesson... this movie sucks.

Paul Rudd teaches us a lesson. Actually... TEN LESSONS! And they are all based on the ten commandments. Before you think this is going to be some "God's Not Dead" level religious film, we regret to inform you that it could not be further from the truth.

Another early post-sabbatical takes Winona to Richard Linklater in A Scanner Darkly. A Phillip K Dick novel adaptation about the a not-to-distant future where America has lost the war on drugs and the police surveillance state goes to a whole new "almost Minority Report" level. Winona is in another small role along side Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, and Woody Harrelson.

This quasi-student film is one of Winona's first movies after her shoplifting scandal and it's probably for the best that you've never heard of it.

This 2004 film tells the story of Jeremiah, a young boy who bounces in and out of the care of his drug-addicted neglectful mother and explores the trauma and hardship a developing mind experiences while living life on an unstable road. This film is based on the book with the same title written by JT Leroy. There's almost no drama or exciting facts regarding the backstory of the making of the film...

Jeff and Stuart recap the height of Winona's career from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Age of Innocence, Little Women and many more masterpieces. The boys also talk about the trajectory her career is heading towards at the point and the professional and personal events that lead Winona down this path.

Not to be confused with the 1936 Frank Capra movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" or the 1939 Frank Capra movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", this 2002 Adam Sandler comedy is one of the many Sandler movies that dominated the early 2000's comedy film industry. Winona Ryder, who is on a bit of a popular decline, practices her comedy chops and keeps up with the hilarious slap stick humor this movie thriv...

In the year 2002, film director Viktor Taransky played by Al Pacino asks the question: "What if we replaced actors with artificial intelligence?" and he gets laughed off the metaphorical stage of hollywood; over 20 years later SAG-AFTRA and the WGA go head to head with AMPTP on the question: "What if we replaced actors with artificial intelligence?"

But for real.... why male models?

One of the many movies that was made to be released in 1999 when y2k and the end-of-days talk was all the hype, except this movie got delayed and was released late 2000.

A romantic drama about a young woman diagnosed with a terminal illness falls in love with an older bachelor. None of that is really that important. The major thing you need to know is J.K. Simmons is in this movie at some point.

Our main man Travolta is back and he's back with a....nother boring movie.

In a movie where Winona Ryder plays a depressed teenager committed to a mental institution, it's Angelina Jolie who steals the show as the sociopathic girl that "interrupts" Winona's treatment. Jeff, Stuart and special guest Ross Wood had a fun time with this one.

In a film about a wayward writer in New York who tries to sleep with as many women as he can, Jeff and Stuart have some problems talking about this film directed by the infamous director Woody Allen.

Recorded on Easter Sunday, the boys celebrate the second (fourth?) coming of our lord and savior Ellen Ripley played by the amazing Sigourney Weaver. Directed by french film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, this fourth installment in the Alien franchise goes turbo mode when Weaver and Ryder team up to escape a military research station swarmed with xenomorphs.

Hey folks! Quick little announcement about this episode. Halfway through recording a lovely two and a half hour episode on The Crucible, a witch came into our studio and casted a spell on our recording gear, making the second half of our episode possessed by the devil and corrupted. We apologize for the distracting audio quality that begins about half-way through the episode but hope you can enjoy...

To be.... or not to be... Al Pacino making a passion project about how much he loves Richard III and how he understands Shakespeare better than anybody else.

This movie sucks. Don't watch it. But please listen to this episode where more than half of what is discussed is how Dune 2 is one of the best blockbusters of the post-Marvel/superhero era.

How to make an American Quilt, is not an instructional video on how to make a quilt, but rather, how to stitch and patch the turmoils of young and old love.

There's not a lot of women, just a little women.

Set in the grunge 90's, Winona Ryder and her roommates try to make sense of life after college. This coming of age story is a time capsule for the trials and tribulations of young adults in the mid 90's. Directorial Debut for a theatrical feature film for Ben Stiller, who is also in this movie.

If a movie began showcasing a young girl living in Chile performing supernatural abilities such as telekinesis and clairvoyance, you would think that's what the movie would be about right? Wrong. If that said movie than began hinting at a possibility of a lesbian love affair between a young Meryl Streep and her sister-in-law Glenn Close, you'd think "okay that must be what this movie is about, rig...

After acting in a victorian age period piece where she's caught in a love triangle, Winona Ryder goes on to perform in a guilded age period piece where she is also caught in a love triangle. Winona's collaboration with Scorsese in The Age of Innocence gets her a Best Supporting Actress nomination and proves even more so the talent and skill this young actress is capable of.

The first movie into a different era for Winona Ryder also takes to a different era in the world of cinema. Grouped with acting giants like Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu "John Wick" Reeves himself; Ryder strides in this 1992 gothic horror/love story between a victorian bride and Count Dracula.