Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

Send us Fan Mail One of the greatest movies ever filmed, but only of you get it.  Easily the worst if you don't. But we don't want to hang out with those people anyway.  In this odd continuation of the Evil Dead series, charismatic Ash is transported back to the 1300's to fight the nasty Deadites, gnarly pit witch hags, and Mr. Pitt's glued on beard.  The gruesome action violen...

Send us Fan Mail The cool thing about 80s horror was...well, everything.  However some of these films made their mark in other ways.   This one included super cool pre-goth teen vampires wearing full length leather dusters on the beach.  Throw in an extremely oily saxophone player and a couple of Coreys and you got yourself and very iconic, yet ultimately cringey, horror classic.  Your hosts aren&...

Send us Fan Mail After a summer full of poopy movies, we decided to do the natural thing and explore the origins of cinematic feces and what better place to start than with Edward D. Wood's masterclass of manure, Plan 9 From Outer Space. But we slowly realize that this is easily more fun to watch than any 2026 summer blockbuster. Super bitchy male aliens, catatonic zombies, and a Swedish pro...

Send us Fan Mail With the depressing release of Netflix's Wonka-themed reality show member berry this week, we decided to perform a public service by releasing one of our favorite episodes ever. Listen to this instead of supporting this streaming service AI-generated abomination. Your Snozzberries will thank you.

Send us Fan Mail We're finally taking our audience's advice and going to Hell.  Turns out it's not as nice as advertised.  This movie is one we're betting most of you forgot about.  Congrats for that.  A horribly miscast Arnold heaves his way through this trope-heavy plot but somehow manages to beat the devil's face in a few times before saving the world.  A hundred millio...

Send us Fan Mail This movie is why your parents were laughing so hard in the other room.  Easily one of your hosts favorite comedies of all time.  This special revisit was a no-brainer (see what we did there?).  Nonstop jokes, ridiculous sight gags, and Wilder's performance all remind us that there was a time in American cinema where you could dare to cross a few lines to make people laugh. A...

Send us Fan Mail After a brutal summer full of bombs, the gang gleefully review a great 90s thriller that exemplifies why our generation's movies were so much better. This neo film noir classic introduced an original script, laden with mystery and varied interpretations that would make a modern audience over-google themselves.  With unique characters, brutal violence, and a story that makes y...

Send us Fan Mail GenX boys were strange little creatures (still are by all accounts). Back when you couldn't use the internet to fight your battles, some of us actually had to take matters into our own hands.  We personally were not these people, but Ed and Brad certainly were.  Criminally misunderstood in it's original run in theaters, this prophetic movie warned us where the world was...

Send us Fan Mail Headbangers Hamlet! Things go crazy this week as Mike's absence throws the Grumpy Nostalgia studios into disarray. But every crisis is also an opportunity. Therefore, the show's resident music expert @aron_gagliardo is called in to cover a movie we know Mike wouldn't touch even with a ten foot Gene Simmons tongue. The ABC Network gave the band KISS two hours of prim...

Send us Fan Mail Drop by the Double Deuce to see an amazing tale that somehow manages to be wonderful and vile all at the same time.  We could not get enough of this one the first time through and neither could our audience so we gladly put this stinky treasure back on the airwaves to help beat the summer heat. Never have ripped out throat scenes been more enjoyable. Oh, and Kelly Lynch! Hell yeah...

Send us Fan Mail We wrap up our brutal "Bombs Away" summer series with some real teeth.  We travel back to 1983 to revisit the gimmicky, yet somehow still boring, Jaws 3D. Besides the multitude of tiny shorts, trucker hats, and mustaches, there's all the 3D content the producers added in a desperate attempt to get us back in the theater to see another movie about an angry fish.  A c...

Send us Fan Mail We swear we will cover a good movie eventually, but this week do not. But that doesn't mean for even a second that we didn't completely love revisiting this intergalactic pile of Psychlo Poo. Did we mention its bad? (Grumpy Nostalgia - always first with breaking news)

Send us Fan Mail Pirate songs and horrible puns litter this podcast as the boys get their peg legs stuck knee high into this infamous pile of poo.  When a movie loses $187 million dollars, there's more going on than just a bad script and thankfully we found a lot of it.  So hop aboard land lubbers, time to get seasick!

Send us Fan Mail Before Yellowstone made the gangster western cool, our cowboys from the 90s were shootin', drinkin' and acting all over the place.  We go back a few years to revisit one of our favorite episodes that never fully got the attention we truly feel it deserved. Stick around to the end where the boys talk about their favorite cowboys of all time. Its a rootin tootin rodeo of c...

Send us Fan Mail If you love duck puns, bad special effects, and crimping irons we have the film for you. It's been 40 years since this turkey (not duck) graced our movie screens courtesy of George Lucas no less. We guess someone told him those annoying Star Wars movies were played out and to focus on an intergalactic duck instead.  Well played.  This gem kicks off our special summer series c...

Send us Fan Mail Flash and the gang face off against the glorious villain Ming the Merciless (who could easily take Thanos's lunch money). There's ridiculous special effects, very short Hawk-Men shorts, and a Queen soundtrack that will crush your face.  We promise this will be the best 52 min, 28 sec of your day.

Send us Fan Mail One episode couldn't do this one justice, so the boys present a special two-parter in order to squeeze in all the pew pew pews, the red sateen, the tiny tiny Hawk Men shorts, and more cheese than we deserve.  Plus, we share our takes on some famous ambiguous endings in film.

Send us Fan Mail There's a scene where Corey Feldman, dressed as Michael Jackson, does a 4 minute dance routine in a gym and its not even the worst scene in the movie.  The worst of the 80s in on full display as the gang entertain a listener request this week.  We love our audience, but this one put us through the proverbial ringer.  Dated humor, misogyny, hair mousse, and the most disconnect...

Send us Fan Mail Even our bombs bombed bigger in the 90s.  With the 2026 summer blockbuster season folding like Superman on laundry day, we thought we'd go back 33 years (yikes) to reveal how they used to fail back in the day. Arnie does his best to try to keep this flaming dog poo bag burning, but a clunky script, forced self-referential humor, and possibly the most annoying 90s kid ever to...

Send us Fan Mail Five years in and we've yet to talk about the Muscles from Brussels.  This ends here.  In one of our most serve-serving episodes to date, we decide to completely disregard our audience and instead cover a movie just for our own warped cinematic fetishes. The stereotypes and misogyny are in full bloom throughout this film's measly 92 minutes, but somehow everything works...

Send us Fan Mail Being the grumpy jerks we are, we're guessing you can simply stay home this weekend and listen to this podcast instead of braving theatres to see Disclosure Day.  Steve made the perfect UFO movie fifty (gulp) years ago so we invite you to ward off the inevitable disappointment.  But, we hope we're wrong.

Send us Fan Mail Come listen as two brutes scratch their heads and furrow their brows as the try to review an art house film.  Having nary a special effect and nor not even one explosion, your hosts are forced to find new ways to find fault.  They are not up to the challenge.  This one is an adorable change of pace for your grumpy crew so make sure you tune in to see how they fare.  Plus, we talk...

Send us Fan Mail The boys go back to the golden era of brain rot to explore our long obsession with the video game.  From Pong to XBOX, these consoles were our baby sitters, our pacifiers, and our rage generators. So grab your quarters and prepare to relive the days where an Italian-American could clobber a monkey with a big hammer and no one raised an eyebrow.

Send us Fan Mail You Send Our Podcast to the Hospital, We Send Your Podcast to the Morgue. That's the Grumpy Nostalgia Way.  The boys go full OG this week reliving Brian De Palma's 1987 classic.  In a time when Americans couldn't drink, we learn that baseball bats, police brutality, and casual Italian-American racism could deliver us to moral clarity.  Fresh new face, Costner, nearl...

Send us Fan Mail Mandalorians and Grogus are fine, but us 80s kids would rather see some stop motion terror and a galactic build-a-bear workshop taking down the Empire.  The country is gonna remember why they like Star Wars in the next few weeks so we shamelessly dust off one of our favorite episodes from a long time ago and a galaxy blah blah blah and get a head start.  Show favorite Aron joins t...