90 Under 90

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 01/09/2020 Beatlemania exploded in 1964 thanks in part to this strange film by Richard Lester that gave us a peak into the lives of the Beatles for 36 hours.  It's not a documentary.  It's not a mockumentary.  It's a genuine work of art imitating some twisted version of life.  We Skype with Ian Simmons (with fucked up audio on Jer's end) to talk about "A Ha...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 01/02/2020 We kick off a brand new season of 90 Under 90 the same way we started our first: by dissecting a film by ol' Meathead himself Rob Reiner.  Only this time, the film in particular isn't a beloved classic, but rather a movie that one Roger Ebert hates.  Like hate hate hate hate hate HATES!  We chat with Katie Binkley about the 1994 flop "North" starring...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 12/24/2019 It's a Christmas miracle again this year!  Not just because we have a bonus episode of "90 Under 90" but also because this particular episode was previously lost!  We unwrap this missing episode with Katie Binkley to dissect Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" from all the way back in December 2017!

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 11/21/2019 It's our final episode in our first wave of 90, and Jer and Dan have a special treat (mostly for themselves).  Jer was able to recover a lost episode featuring their late father Ron Eden.  It was the first episode they all recorded together: 1984's concert film "Stop Making Sense" directed by Jonathon Demme and featuring the performance of Talking Heads.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 11/14/2019 It's movies like this week's title that are perfect for this podcast.  It's a movie we may never have chosen to watch otherwise and it doesn't take up too much of your time.  Kevin Kirchman returns to talk about an indie thriller that didn't get much love, but quite possibly deserves a good amount: 2019's "The Fanatic" directed by Fred Durst and starring J...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 11/07/2019 The 90's were the best time for old sitcoms to be turned into movies, and perhaps the crown jewel is 1995's "The Brady Bunch Movie" directed by Betty Thomas and starring Shelly Long as a lovely lady, Gary Cole as a man named Brady, and Michael McKean as a villain in a track suit.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 10/31/2019 Happy Halloween!  We conclude our scary movie month by returning to Elm Street with our good buddy Mike Klappauf.  This year we discuss the somewhat boring, watered-down fifth installment in the series: 1987's "A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child" directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring everyone's favorite killer cut-up Robert Englund as Freddy Kru...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 10/24/2019 Ian returns for his final episode in our first wave of 90.  We discuss the 1987 original "Child's Play" directed by not-Spider-Man Tom Holland.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 10/17/2019 Kaitlin returns to the show, and since she's already done two documentaries and one documentary-style comedy, it seems only fitting that she discusses ANOTHER documentary-style movie: the 1999 found footage genre-creating "The Blair Witch Project" directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 10/10/2019 Jay Drumm is back for a bit of an early birthday episode to talk about Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" from 2012, the stop motion remake of his original live action short film.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 10/03/2019 We kick off October by dipping our toes in the spooky lagoon with Disney's 2003 attraction-turned-movie "The Haunted Mansion" directed by Rob Minkoff and starring Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, and Jennifer Tilly.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 09/26/2019 Kaitlin is back because Jer forced her to join in on the discussion of Amy Heckerling's "Look Who's Talking Too" from 1990 starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, featuring the voice acting of Bruce Willis and Roseanne Barr.  They are about to have their second kid, so it seemed only appropriate that they talk about this parental sequel.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 09/19/2019 Katie Binkley is back for her final episode in this first wave of 90!  We discuss the 2000 comedy "Dude, Where's My Car?" directed by Danny Leiner, who would take this general format of two idiots to the next level with Harold and Kumar.  Instead we get a couple of white dudes at their early peaks (Seann William Scott and Ashton Kutcher.)

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 09/12/2019 We conclude our Halloween appetizer run with a gripping indie film by Patrick Brice: "Creep" from 2014, co-starring the director himself and Mark Duplass.  We chat with Mike about this aptly-titled film that you cannot turn away from once it begins!

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 09/05/2019 We chat with Ian Simmons about future Batman director Matt Reeves' found footage sci-fi horror "Cloverfield" from 2008 in our first ever listener recommended episode!

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 08/29/2019 Pat Lewandowski is back to completely screw up the natural flow of movies!  We jump straight to the third movie in the Evil Dead trilogy: 1992's "Army of Darkness" directed by Sam Raimi and starring the B-movie mascot himself Bruce Campbell.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 08/22/2019 Madalyn Mattsey returns to talk about a raunchy female-driven comedy nearly 10 years ahead of its time, despite its flaws: 2002's "The Sweetest Thing" directed by Roger Kumble and starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Jason Bateman, and everyone's favorite homeless dad Thomas Jayne.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 08/15/2019 Tom Zarnowski returns to discuss another classic cannabis comedy: "Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke" from 1978 directed by Lou Adler and starring...well Cheech and Chong, of course.  But also Stacy Keach!

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 08/08/2019 It's Katie's birthday, so we gave her carte blanche to choose whatever title she wanted to discuss this week.  Thankfully she chose the GREATEST DISNEY MOVIE EVER MADE: 1995's "A Goofy Movie" directed by Kevin Lima and starring the voice talents of Bill Farmer, Jim Cummings, Jason Marsden, Kellie Martin, Rob Paulsen, Wallace Shawn, and Pauly Shore.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 08/01/2019 Jer and Dan welcome new guest host Jay Drumm to talk about a movie he had never seen prior to joining the show, but he then watched four times!  We discuss the indie dramedy "Jeff, Who Lives At Home" directed by the Duplass Brothers Jay and Mark, and starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer and Susan Sarandon.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 07/25/2019 How a movie like "Beethoven" spawned 8,000 sequels is beyond us, but we sit down with Mike to talk about the original "Beethoven" from 1992 starring Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, and a giant Saint Bernard with eery puppet eyes.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 07/18/2019 Another week, another Disney reboot.  We talk with Kaitlin about the OG Lion King from 1994, the movie that encapsulates the Disney-ssaince of the early 90's.  Featuring the voice talents of James Earl Jones, Matthew Broderick, Jonathon Taylor Thomas, Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane and Cheech Marin.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 07/11/2019 Jer and Dan welcome new guest host Madalyn Mattsey to the show as they discuss a perfect sleepover movie: 1999's "Lake Placid" directed by Steve Miner and starring Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson and Betty White.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 06/27/2019 This week is the opposite end of the animation spectrum, as we move from the lush, smooth depth of CGI to the simplest form of construction paper cutout style cartoons.  Celebrating its 20th anniversary, we sit down with Ian to talk about Trey Parker's "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", the R-rated series elevation from 1999.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 06/20/2019 With its fourth chapter hitting theaters today, we look back on the original Pixar classic that started the second greatest film franchise of all time: 1995's "Toy Story" directed by John Lasseter and made possible by a barebones creative team. With an all star cast including Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, we discuss Kaitlin's personal connection to the movie and whether...