96 Greers

This episode of 96 Greers is notable for documenting a moment in time when TikTok the Gray had died, but had not yet made its dramatic return as TikTok the [tool of] White [supremacy].  It's also notable as fan service for anyone who may fondly remember the episodes of Director's Club where Barry helped out with the song parodies (and by anyone, we mean Jim).  It is not notable for the movie that...

It's 2025, whether we like it or not!  And as the old saying goes:  new year, new Greer.  Patrick and Barry (fka Reg) are stroking their beards and nodding seriously at the Adam Goldberg-directed I Love Your Work.  This dark tale of Hollywood delirium may be the closest that we get to being able to discuss a Hitchcock movie on this podcast.  Or David Lynch.  Or Jacques Demy.  It's a whole lot.  Ot...

We got Christmas out of the way early with our last episode, now we're on to the next big holiday that speaks to what really matters in This Country:  mid-season pilots!  Reg and Patrick focus test The TV Set, a 2006 film by the guy who made Red One.  Will they feel comforted by over-the-top performances and stock characters, or intimidated and annoyed by sardonic humor that definitely isn't satir...

Yes, it's mid-November 2024 and we are covering a "faith-based" movie.  No, we don't talk about the election.  Yes, "faith" is a euphemism for Christian.  No, we haven't been "saved."  Yes, my use of quotation marks around "saved" is meant to be sarcastic.  No, I'm not playing an ad hoc improv game with myself in the description field of my podcast, why do you ask.  Yes, we talk about Judy Greer a...

It's Halloween Kills, and everyone is entitled to one good podcast.  Or something.  We've waited a whole year to return to Haddonfield for the 2021 legasequel sequel to 2018's Halloween, the legasequel to Halloween.  We talk comparisons to another big-name legasequel trilogy and discover that we see a lot of ourselves in some of Michael Myers' victims.  Who did the better Loomis impression?  Our c...

Don't turn out the light, listener, because you're about to hear (a plot summary and criticism of) a G-G-G-Ghost Story!  From the twisted mind of Justin Long-- yes, the guy who played relatable nerds in 00s comedies and also got turned into a manwalrus in that one movie-- comes a harrowing tale from the land of Tampa, Florida! It’s Lady of the Manor, a stoner-buddy-spooky comedy.  Like any good my...

Reg and Patrick make a podcast, and in this episode, they're getting deep inside The Amateurs.  This "indie" comedy about a small town group of slackers who decide to make a porno features some red hot meta-humor and an orgy of acting talent, and you know Judy Greer is right there among them.  After this scintillating conversation, don't be surprised if you find yourself searching "babaloos" on Re...

The Summer of Greer has one more episode before we move onto the First Day of School of Greer.  Is it another installment in a sprawling sci-fi franchise?  Yes.  Is JG a mom?  Yes.  Does she, as we hoped, get the best role we're see all summer?  What I can tell you is that "A Fish Called Selma" is the nineteenth episode of the decent season of The Simpsons.  Summer days, drifting away, but oh! Tho...

The Summer of Greer marches on, hurrah hurrah!  Another mid-2010s big budget action movie, another underwritten mom role for Judy Greer.  Reg and Patrick have the dubious honor of digging into the MCU with 2015's Ant-Man.  Gabe Powers from Genre Grinder makes a special appearance as the wise comic book expert who provides the necessary exposition for our adventure searching for traces of the lost...

Fun fact:  this is the third movie we have covered so far where Judy Greer plays a Karen.  Not a Karen-Karen, just a mom named Karen.  Well, she might be a Karen-Karen;  we don't get enough information about her, for all we know there's a version of the script out there where she's writing a hate-filled screed on Facebook about transgender GMO dinosaurs.  And why would Karen be writing a hate-fill...

The year was 2015, and Judy Greer's film career saw her journeying through the Land of Big-Budget Franchise Movies.  Reg and Patrick are setting the air conditioner on high and expectations on low for a mini-series we are calling The Summer of Greer. Brad Bird's theme-park-turned-two-hour-family-friendly-action film Tomorrowland taught that scientific ingenuity and gumption are the key to solving...

We did it again!  But... wait.  Did we?  What if we didn't?  What if we did something else?  What if we did something so long ago that, sitting here today, I can't even remember the names of one of the things, but we pretended like it was just done yesterday?  And what if Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was set in a dystopian future and the main character was a magic DJ in an underground rave culture/resi...

Choo-choo movie nerds, The 15:17 to Paris is leaving the station!  Legit question for listening Americans:  how do Reg and Patrick abide the 88-94 year old director who fills their TV with 94 minutes of military propaganda while their small audience awaits their opinions?  Can a mostly forgotten Trump-era Clint Eastwood movie share anything in common with Iranian New Wave cinema?  How does Judy Gr...

Our wife told us not to record this podcast.  But Reg and Patrick are back to offend everyone and ask the tough questions about BARRY MUNDAY, a typical Boy-Loses-Testicles-and-Forgets-He-Met-Girl comedy, such as: Has there ever been an actually funny scene set at a support group? Will 96 Greers become a Patrick Wilson fancast? Can one third of the screenwriting team behind Rock of Ages successfull...

In February, we asked a deeply inane question:  What Do Women Want?  In March, we asked an even more inane question:  What Do Children Want?  Two dozen episodes into Judy Greer's filmography, and we have yet to cover a work aimed specifically at children (unless you count Rusty's Learning to Listen: Part 8 ).  As a pair of childless film snobs who find themselves out to sea, we dip our toes into t...

STOP!  Are you aware that you are currently on the Internet?  When's the last time you even looked up from that screen?  Are you even aware what's happening to The Children?  Or maybe you yourself are so enthralled by this terrible technology that you are already lost in the dark labyrinth of mild BDSM fantasies, horny housewives in baggy sweaters, photos of skinny white girls, photos of skinny wh...

Join Reg and Patrick as they live, laugh, and love through the Nancy Meyers written and directed rom-com What Women Want.  What do women want:  a living wage, professional relationships built on mutual respect, and bodily autonomy?  Maybe, but have you considered: Mel Gibson?  Reg and Patrick have, because he's the protagonist of this movie!  They didn't have a choice.   Content note: suicidal ide...

Prepare your earholes, because 96 Greers is coming in hot with a Lemon party.  Reg and Patrick bare it all:  their feelings on 2017 dark comedy Lemon, director Janicza Bravo's other work (including 2020 Twitter-plotted sensation Zola), and the use of unlikable characters and cringey situations to create comedy.  After exploring multiple positions, the Other Segment finds them spitting and swallowi...

Well met, gentle friends, and harken to another discourse with Reg and Patrick, spirited to you through your enchanted box of wonders!  On this fine day, we turn our thoughts to a fanciful tale spun by M. Night Shyamalan, entitled The Village.  If you know not wherefore this missive is written in such a manner, perchance you would benefit greatly from watching The Village first, as this discussion...

Holy sibling rivalry Batman, it's another mumblecore episode!  Well, it's a Duplass Brothers episode.  Perhaps those two descriptors aren't quite as interchangeable as Patrick and Reg had assumed.  Jeff Who Lives at Home has us pondering the physics of sinking cars, business communication trends of 2010, and what Ed Helms is like when he goes full Hollywood.  Save your ear-fork for the Other Segme...

This episode is being published a little late, but don't worry, we weren't giving you the Shaft.  More recent roles have seen the ever-Super Fly Judy Greer playing a White Mama, but on this episode we go back to 2003's action comedy The Hebrew Hammer, a blaxploitation homage with a Jewish twist.  Pour yourself a cup of Coffy and listen to Patrick and Reg get a little Uptight as they navigate the p...

Reg and Patrick go on an adventure to the Chicago International Film Festival to see the premiere of Eric LaRue, the directorial debut of Judy Greer's Pottersville co-star Michael Shannon and focuses on the emotional aftermath for parents whose children were involved in a school shooting.  We talk about our expectations going in and then time warp to the day after the screening to see if those exp...

It's damn near impossible to be a prolific Hollywood actor in the 21st century without being in a franchise or two.  Judy Greer plays Laurie Strode's daughter Karen in David Gordon Green's Halloween, a sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween.  Reg and Patrick talk about the inevitable teenage drama plot lines in slasher movies, stan Lumpy, and attempt to convince themselves that podcasters make for i...

Get ready for an unhinged episode of 96 Greers that delves into the bewildering world of Elizabethtown, the film that inspired the phrase "manic pixie dream girl."  Reg is hopped up on goofballs! Patrick is calling out other film podcasts by name!  Porn keyword search jokes!  Experiments on children without institutional review board approval!  Rate, review and subscribe-- if you dare....

On this PODCAST, we BELIEVE:  - abortions in movies are better without conflict - gay cowboys are real - Alan Alda and Alan Arkin should just have the same name, sheesh - Jane Campion's 2021 Western drama The Power of the Dog and Laurie Anderson's 2015 cinematic meditation on grief Heart of a Dog should just have the same name, sheesh We also find time to talk about the 2015 indie dramedy Grandma,...