Bad Movies We Love

Hello and welcome to the first Bad Movies Monthly! This time out, we are going over some announcements, updates, and calls to action. Then we look back at what we covered in January and February, and what new movies from 2026 could end up on the show in the future. Click here to Support the Show : Join the Resistance: Frontlines for just $5 a month and get access to members' exclusive episodes, an...

It's been a long time coming, but thanks to Everett from Watch This Film , the wait is over. So, pull up a chair, grab a pair of binoculars, and fix your sights on the California desert for Quentin Dupieux's absurdist masterpiece: Rubber (2010) A homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession. Written...

I've had them both on the show individually, but for the first time, Ben and Seth Vargas donned the samurai armor for an epic Bad Movies We Love and joined forces to send some psychic shockwaves to some unexpected places. Blood Beat (1983) A young woman accompanies her boyfriend to his family's rural Wisconsin home for Christmas, where the spirit of a Japanese samurai begins wreaking havoc on them...

It's been two years in the making, but Stephen from The Stacks podcast is finally back! And he's here to talk about another title from the infamous Video Nasties list. Join us for the faceplanting, face mauling, facemasks, and foul play of Mexican giallo: Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) A doctor tries to save his son's life through a complicated heart transplant operation, the involuntary donor be...

In this Filmmaker in Focus episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with writer/director Wes Clark to talk about his beginnings in filmmaking, artistic inspirations, controlling your own distribution, and how that all applies to his new film: How to Start a Cult in 5-Easy Steps. Join the Resistance: Members Only for just $5 a month and get access to members' exclusive episodes, an invite to the...

We are a few days removed from Valentine's Day and, since we are still in the middle of celebrating horror month here at the show, Joel, Miranda, and from Weekend and Deckard's are here to take a look at what's been called the most expensive break-up song ever. Sticking with adaptations of the Colorado Cannibal story, we pop the cork on the first Good Movies We Love with Trey Parker and Matt Stone...

We are kicking things into high gear for horror month here at the show, as my friend and prolific horror author Jonathan Janz joined me for a harrowing trek through the Sierra Nevadas to talk about the wit, the whimsy, and the wonderfully weird world of Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1999) In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission whi...

This is a teaser of the new Resistance: Frontlines show for members only, Rom-Com-a-Thon! My wife Christen will be taking me on a journey through her favorite romantic comedies and, somewhere down the line, I'm hoping to surprise her with a few of my own. In the latest episode, we took on the zany The Family Stone (2005). Please enjoy the preview. Sign up for The Resistance: Frontlines . For just...

It's February! So, that means it's officially horror month here on the show, and I was joined by Jamie Ray from Fave Five From Fans to help with the transition from sci-fi month and break the seal as we go whichever way the wind blows with Glen Coburn’s Blood Sucker’s from Outer Space from 1984! Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984) Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers. Written & D...

My wife Christen is back on the main show to break in the first "official" On The Bubble Pick. We talk about our different upbringings, the theme of inattentive parenting that seems to pop up in all the movies we talk about, and the casual portrayal of family-friendly AI in the 1980s, as we dive into the Disney Channel TV Movie: Not Quite Human (1987) Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, a...

For this Spotlight Session episode, broadcaster, musician, actress, multimedia artist, and director Sook-Yin Lee is our Filmmaker in Focus. We talk about working with John Cameron Mitchell, free love, unconventional approaches to filmmaking, and the process of developing her ex-boyfriend's graphic novel on sex work into her latest feature film, Paying for It . Paying for It lands in the US at The...

My partner in sci-fi is back, this time on the main show, to talk about one of the only Denzel Washington movies that even qualifies as "bad", Kaley Cuoco's debut, and the movie that put Russell Crowe on the map. Join us in a round of "Kapow!" as we take on the wild and wonderful: Virtuosity (1995) When a virtual reality simulation created using the personalities of multiple serial killers manages...

I've been counting the seconds until Betsy & Trent from the Never Seen It podcast joined the show to play time cops with me. We talk about the concept, the conviction, the cool cars, and the Cillian Murphy of it all in Andrew Niccol's: IN TIME (2011) In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation i...

Hello Bad Movie Lovers! This is the first 15-ish minutes of the Members-Only show: Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con with my co-host Stephanie Kennerly. If you enjoy what you hear and want more, you can check out the full episode (as well as Bad Movie Futures and Rom-Com-a-thon) by becoming a subscribing member of The Resistance: Members Only . It's just $5/month and gets you access to the exclusives, automatic e...

Keeping the sci-fi train rolling in the most absurd way possible, I was joined by Sam Panico from B and S About Movies and Groovy Doom YouTube to cut the choice meats of Italian cinema and talk about the 1983 caveman/comic book adaptation/sci-fi mashup from Antonio Margheriti: Yor: The Hunter From the Future (1983) Director : Anotnio Margheriti Screenplay by : Robert D. Bailey and Antonio Margheri...

It's Season 5 of Bad Movies We Love! And this time, my first-ever guest and my friend Donnie is back to lead us on a deep space rescue mission 3432 light-years away. On our journey, we unpack all the messy secrets of Supernova. Plus, a special announcement!! Supernova (2000) A deep space rescue and recovery spaceship with a crew of 6 receives a distress call from a mining operation 3432 light year...

Hello and welcome to Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con!! If you pressed play on this, that's because you are an enlisted member of the Bad Movies We Love Resistance, so thank you! Stephanie and I keep our sights set on celestial bodies as we go from meteors to comets, taking a long look at Adam McKay's political satire sci-fi flick: Don't Look Up (2021) Directed by : Adam McKay Screenplay by : Adam McKay Story by...

What does it mean to be a fully independent production in the modern cinema landscape? I sat down with writer/director Alex Kugelman to answer that question, learn about fundraising and distribution efforts, and talk about going from short films to his first feature, Don't Trip, which is streaming now on TUBI . Make sure to follow Alex and Don't Trip on Instagram for updates! While you're here, ch...

It's a very NicVember Christmas as I was joined, once again, by my Christmas co-hort, Scott Cole, to take a look at one of the more forgotten holiday films. As it turns out, there may be good reason for that. We're talking George Gallo's: Trapped in Paradise (1994) Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve. Written & Directed by : George...

This is a teaser of the new Resistance Members-Only show, Rom-Com-a-Thon! My wife Christen will be taking me on a journey through her favorite romantic comedies and, somewhere down the line, I'm hoping to surprise her with a few of my own. So, in the inaugural episode, we decided to start things off with a film that's fitting for the season. Nancy Meyers' The Holiday. Please enjoy the preview. If...

Hello Bad Movie Lovers! This is the first 15-ish minutes of the Members-Only show: Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con with my co-host Stephanie Kennerly. If you enjoyed what you heard and want to hear more, you can check out the full episode (as well as Bad Movie Futures and Rom-Com-a-thon) by becoming a subscribing member of the resistance at The Resistance: Members Only . It's just $5/month and gets you access t...

Happy December to Remember! This is certainly one that you're not soon to forget. Jeff Bulmer from Classic Movies Live and Contra Zoom Pod joined the show back in July to get us in the holiday spirit early, and now it's finally time to put it out into the world in the name of Christmas Spirit. We are talking about Jim Carroll's religious time-travel flick: Assassin 33 A.D. (2020) While doing resea...

Hello and welcome to Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con!! If you pressed play on this, that's because you are an enlisted member of the Bad Movies We Love resistance, so thank you very much for being here! Stephanie and I survived the alien invasion and the frigid temperatures of Antarctica, but we could not say goodbye to David Duchovny just yet. So, we looked at the star maps and plotted a course for Ivan Reitma...

This is going to be a December to remember here at Bad Movies We Love, as we kick things off with a special episode I've been holding in reserve for months! Vanya from Revue Cinema brought her friend, filmmaker Evan Rissi, to the show to play in the sandbox and talk about his film Going In , and drawing from creative inspiration from the style of: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th D...

Happy Thanksgiving!! Vanya is back for a bonus holiday episode because it's cuffing season, and she'll be hosting a very special 35mm screening at Revue Cinema . We talk about the sweat, the seduction, and the surprisingly moralistic nature of James Bridges' Perfect (1985) A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight. Director:...