DeRazzled

Whadaya mean it's been a while? Didn't we just post on Halloween? We're jumping back in and keeping that energy going by trying to define just what makes that spooky spirit that we feel during our favorite time of the year. Look, if people can do Christmas in July, then we can do this. We break down various movies, shows, and cultural phenomenon, present our own 31 Days of Halloween li...

We wrap up Spooky Season activities by wrapping up our coverage of 2016's Ghostbusters: Answer The Call! Special guest and Ghostbusters-superfan Matt (AKA Toaster) walks us through the lengthy development hell that got us from Ghostbusters II to now, Jack presents his fix for this film, we get sad about celebrity deaths that had particularly large impacts on us, and we have a thorough discussion a...

This year for SPOOKY SEASON, we decided to do something a little different. Instead of talking horror movies or covering a Razzie-winner, we decided to let a friend talk us into covering something particularly controversial -- 2016's Ghostbusters: Answer the Call! Our friend and life-long Ghostbusters superfan Matt (AKA Toaster) joins us to talk about what did and didn't work about this Pa...

For the first 2nd Unit episode of the season, we brought back friend, collaborator, and IATSE-member Scott McGrath to talk about the latest regarding the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Did we record this a long time ago and have to splice in a more relevant update? You bet! Plus Jack pitches us an idea for the Unofficial Willem Dafoe Bad Art Short Film Festival! Join us for a story pitch, a lesson abo...

We wrap up our season premiere and coverage of Mike Myers' 2008 Worst-Picture winner, The Love Guru! Joe's mom joins us once again as Jack recounts the legal trouble that impacted Myers' career leading up to this movie, somehow hallucinates parts of Jean-Claude Van Damme's Sudden Death , and shows us how it's possible for a movie to be too stupid to be culturally insensitive. J...

WELCOME TO SEASON 3! We kick things off with a good ol' fashioned Razzie-winner for Worst Picture, 2008's The Love Guru . Joining us to inaugurate the season is our favorite Mike Myers fan, Joe's mom Linda! We talk about our favorite Mike Myers films, Joe gets forced to do some impressions, Jack learns about hockey and the very real Toronto Maple Leafs, and Jack tells Joe to pound sand...

If you're listening to this episode, then YOU DID IT! YOU HEARD EVERYTHING SEASON 2 HAS TO OFFER! Check out the last of our S2 deleted scenes, in which we discuss state university fire alarm protocols and off-campus housing shenanigans, critical crying techniques to preserve your makeup, birds with impeccable comedic timing, Antonio Palacios' experience in filmmaking and the DVD censorship...

As part of our break before season 3, we have more deleted material from season 2 to share with you! We talk action figures that look like they're covered in lube, Dario Argento's Dracula being watched at work, horse noises run amok, bots attempting to scam our stream, Adobe Premiere shortcuts, a grossly unethical use of AI, white actors with good and bad Mandarin pronunciation, how great...

We wrap up season 2 by wrapping up our coverage of 2022's Blonde , the Netflix production directed by Andrew Dominik based on the creatively-embellished "bionovel" by Joyce Carol Oates. We address those responsible for the production, touch on the history of films based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Jack discusses theater training and culture, Joe upholds our standards of scientific...

The end of season 2 begins! We finally begin our coverage of the latest winner of Worst Picture, 2022's Blonde! We pick apart what worked and didn't work about Andrew Dominik's bewilderingly problematic take on the "bionovel" originally written by Joyce Carol Oates. We break down some of the biggest historical fabrications in this story, Jack tells us some theater stories, we...

The Writers' Guild of America is on STRIKE! What does that mean? What's happening with the Directors' Guild and Screen Actors' Guild? We delve into all the ins and outs with our friend, fellow Ramming Speed Pictures collaborator, and card-carrying IATSE member Scott McGrath. We discuss the history of WGA strikes, the demands being made, the interplay between the different unions&#3...

We return to address some of the nerdier and more bizarre aspects of 2016's Assassin's Creed and the game series that it is based on! We explore the idea of epigenetic memory more closely (or as closely as two artsy dudes who know science-minded people possibly can), consider possibilities for other time periods this series could visit, explore the genuinely weird truth of what's going...

Our hosting switcheroo continues as Joe helms a full analysis and fix of 2016's Assassin's Creed, Justin Kurzel and Michael Fassbender's attempt to adapt the hit video game franchise to the silver screen. It didn't win any Razzies, but Jack got to do Caligula . In this 1st part, we breakdown what did and didn't work about the film, explore the connections between the film and g...

Stay tuned to the end of this one, because you won't want to miss the announcement we have for you! We find ourselves in a Freaky Friday situation as Jack takes over the 2nd Unit to share a decade-and-a-half long obsession of his: Richard Williams' animated passion project, The Thief and The Cobbler ! Never truly finished by Williams and released in a variety of cuts from different compani...

CW: This episode delves into the coercion, harassment, and sexual assaults committed by Harvey Weinstein throughout his career. If you wish to skip this portion of the episode, coverage starts at timecode 30:54 and ends at timecode 1:01:09. Further warning for sexism. We continue our deconstruction of Joe Esterhaz's An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn , the winner of the 19th Annual Gold...

We get back to covering actual Worst Picture Winners with 1998's An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn , winner at the 19th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards! You can tell how excited we were to talk about this one by how long we talk about whether Batman's a fascist in the opening. We break down what did and didn't work about the movie, marvel at how anyone could possible cast Harv...

We bring the 2nd Unit back to dip our toes into Development Hell once again...kind of! As a pseudo-sequel of our Superman Lives episodes, we dig into the history of what was supposed to be Justice League: Mortal, the short-lived but fascinating first attempt at the superhero team-up. Directed by George Miller, written by Kieran and Michelle Mulroney, and starring a surprisingly young cast includin...

CW: Sexual content, pornography, incest, violence, consent, sex work, frank discussion of human anatomy, murder, matricide, urine We conclude our coverage of 1979's Caligula with special guest Antonio Palacios of The Cultworthy Cinema Podcast! We hear more about the wild world of 5-star Amazon reviews, beg for you to sign Joe's petition to get Caligula into Kingdom Hearts instead of the on...

One of the new features we wanted for season 2 is for us to pick something we want to cover regardless of it being a Razzie movie. Jack picked 1979's Caligula , which should be completely unsurprising if you've been listening to our show. To help us with this herculean task, we enlisted (perhaps conscripted) our friend Antonio Palacios (The Cultworthy Cinema Podcast, The Cultworthy Classic...

In our efforts to add some more variety to the show, Jack leads us on a whirlwind historical tour through the directorial works of acclaimed Monty Python member Terry Gilliam and his likely unprecedented run of just absolutely horrendous luck. We cover his entire non-Python feature filmography: Jabberwocky (1977) Time Bandits (1981) Brazil (1985) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) The Fishe...

The winners of the 43rd Annual Golden Raspberry Awards have officially been announced! Which movie will serve as our season finale? Will the Razzies' historical animus toward Sylvester Stallone continue? Will Morbius morb all over itself and somehow get released in theaters a third time? Will Andrew Dominik's weird issues with women in Blonde get their just desserts? Can Tom Hanks avoid Razzies co...

We wrap up our coverage of Mac And Me , everyone's favorite late-'80s legally-dissimilar E.T. brought to you begrudgingly by McDonalds! We say favorite because, somehow, it's not the only one. Before Jack can get to his fix for Mac , Joe dusts off our Lapsed Academic segment to break down 1987's South African late-Apartheid nightmare, Nukie . We dig into Mac And Me 's production, break down who wa...

We fulfill our very first listener request by tackling the movie no one would know about if it weren't for Paul Rudd committing to a bit for like 30 years on Conan O'Brien: Mac And Me ! It turns out this is more than just a single scene and is actually an entire ripoff of E.T. meant to benefit the Ronald McDonald House. That feels like a Mad Lib. We break down what did and didn't work about this m...

We completely forgot when the newest crop of Razzie nominations would be announced, so we're a bit late getting this episode out. As is tradition, we did our damnedest to avoid the actual nominations until we recorded to capture our real-time reactions. As a palette cleanser, we also talked about this year's Oscar nominations. Joe makes some predictions about the nominations before the reveal, we...

We continue breaking down Josh Trank's Fantastic Four (god, I really don't want to type Fant4stic ) and attempt to fix it! Well, kinda. Instead of fixing this script, Jack pitches a page-one rewrite that should make longtime comic fans very happy. We go over some of Marvel's First Family's weird changes and variations through history, cover more details about Trank's Twitter drama, bemoan the foll...