Forbidden Cinema

So we bought some wine featured in The Craft.  Zack thought it would be a clever idea to do a tasting.  We had to buy a half a case to get free shipping.  The reviews are not that kind, but we thought it would make a good laugh.  Turns out the joke is on us.  One of the bottles just exploded in our kitchen while we were cooking dinner.  Oh well, I guess it might as well be time for a tasting.  

Join Zack and Jenny as we discuss what a remake of this lovely mess of a movie would look like.  We go deeper and explore some of the unanswered question brought up in the main episode.  And we dive deeper than any podcast into a Pennsylvania newspaper from the time of this film's release.

Join us as we go back to the steamy summer and watch middle age men drool over underage girls.  This movie is wild.  This thing is full of stars who should have known better, I think they might have all signed on to the movie as an excuse to spend a couple months in Rio.  Join us as we see Michael Caine ogle more breasts (in a city where topless sunbathing is not tolerated in real life) than I thi...

Join us as we go deep and answer all the questions left from our viewing of the classic teen witchcraft flick, The Craft.  We hit up Tower Records at midnight for a new release on a Tuesday.  Zack has a disturbing and mostly pointless deep dive on the career of two actresses who aren't even in this movie.  Jenny goes 400 years deep on urban legends.

Join our hosts as we find the one thing our parents and youth groups thought was more dangerous than sex, dark magic!!!  We saw The Craft and unpack the hell that is being a teenage girl

Join us as we look back and go deep on our Risky Business episode.  We get into John Hughes's seedy cousin and the timeline of the 40 year meta cinematic universe based on Dudley "Booger" Dawson.  We talk about how everybody on the planet knew a movie we both enjoyed from the early 2000s was just a remake of Risky Business.  We smash through the thin blue line when we try to forensically locate ou...

This week we go way back to a movie filled with Tom Cruise going full Cruise in an iconic cinema moment.  We have Hi-Fi systems, Tangerine Dream, Porsche abuse, sex work, Dudley "Booger" Dawson, and Balky.  Where has this movie been all of our lives.  We delve into some of the most fun we have had watching something that was so off limits as teenagers that neither of us have ever even seen it.

Join us as we Go Deeper on Romancing the Stone.  In this episode we examine similarities to Indiana Jones, the actors in the opening scene from the film, "leave the room" scenes, Jenny's mom's patented censoring technique fails, the late great Carrie Fisher, and other unanswered questions from our episode.

Travel with us back to 1984 to watch the "sexy" version of Indiana Jones.  We saw Romancing the Stone which while PG and on the same VHS as family movies in both of our households growing up was off limits.  This film won a Golden Globe in a year where Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop were also nominated.  Join us as we dive into this movie that may not have earned a place in pop culture like so...

1, 2 Freddy's coming for you... We get into Rogue from the X-men, Gatlinburng TN in the 90s, VHS taping culture, and the differences between watching naughty flicks at 8, 12, and 40.

Grab a cup of coffee, a crucifix, and some aloe vera gel.  Join us as we explore the pop culture phenomenon that haunted the dreams of every child in the 80s.

We had the time of our lives.  Now it is time to discuss the questions left unanswered, unpack psychological baggage around the life and death of Patrick Swayze, and prepare ourselves for our next film.  This one will take a decidedly darker turn.

It's 1963, by way way of 1987, and we are watching in 2021.  Was this too sexy for any of those times?  Find out with us, either way, we had the time of our lives.

In this recap episode we wrap up Basic Instinct, go down a rabbit hole discussing fashion and grooming in the early 90s, and preview our next episode.

In our first episode we examine a prototypical example of forbidden cinema.  Basic Instinct is a movie that we both associate with being completely out of the question when it comes to family viewing.  So what is really there when we unpack it.  It this a movie about sex, ice picks, and leg crossing or is there something else.  It this actually a smart film noir movie that is fun, sexy, and danger...

Join hosts Zack and Jenny as they set out to revisit the films from our youth that were too scandalous to be allowed to watch.