DISASTERPIECE

This week, the boys interrupt their regularly scheduled programming to dive into the meme-factory disasterpiece that is 2025’s War of the Worlds. Like an actual alien invasion, this Amazon ad masquerading as a “screenlife” sci-fi/horror film came out of nowhere and left a trail of devastation in its wake. Justin and Steve may never recover after enduring some of the laziest, cheapest filmmaking th...

The Disasterpiece Podcast is a year old! And we’re celebrating our big Number 1 by looking at a GIGANTIC Number 2 — BIRDEMIC 2: THE RESURRECTION Once again, we forced three-peat guest host Rollie Williams ( Climate Town ) to watch this even worse installment of James Nguyen’s climate disaster/romantic thriller trilogy. What’s the difference between the first and second Birdemic movies? Not much! H...

This week, Justin and Steve welcome Paul Ramsdell back to the podcast to talk about the original CHEERS spin-off you probably didn’t know existed: THE TORTELLIS. A show for anyone who watched CHEERS and said to themselves, “I like this, but I want to see more of the characters' ex-spouses, especially if they’re terrible people.” It’s hard to imagine anyone being able to love Nick Tortelli, or how...

The shack is back? More like "The shack is whack!" Justin and Steve head to the links for another round of Sequel Summer and tee up some very hot takes on Caddyshack II . This completely unnecessary follow-up to one of the most beloved sports comedies of the '80s forgets one important element that made the original a classic… sports! Because why should a movie called Caddyshack II have anything to...

How do you make a spin-off of one of the most popular TV shows of all time while the original is still on the air?
You show the audience what happens… at night. This week, Justin and Steve trade in their swim trunks for leather jackets and binoculars to explore BAYWATCH NIGHTS. David Hasselhoff shows us another side of everyone’s favorite lifeguard, Mitch, as he starts a beach-centric private eye...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s... Duckie from PRETTY IN PINK? 
No, wait! It’s SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE! To gear up for the release of SUPERMAN, Steve and Justin are talking about the fourth installment of the original Superman film series—and Christopher Reeve’s final flight in the world’s most famous Speedo. And who better to take the reins for the big finale than Cannon Films, who, in t...

Yes. This episode is about Stephen Baldwin, the party-boy actor who became a born-again religious grifter and the cringiest man on TikTok, and who also happens to be the worst installment in the Baldwin quadrilogy. Steve and Justin take a look at the man through his faith-based YouTube special, HEAVEN, HOW I GOT HERE: THE STORY OF THE THIEF ON THE CROSS.
They’ll discover that all it takes to chang...

This week, DISASTERPIECE celebrates the 50th anniversary of JAWS by taking a look at its worst sequel, JAWS: THE REVENGE … A movie so crazy and misguided that a shark seeking personal revenge on the Brody family is the least of its problems. Join Steve and Justin as they navigate a sea of insane decision-making that includes (but is not limited to): a magic shark that can roar, Michael Caine in sh...

Justin and Steve are here to podcast and chew bubble gum. And we’re all out of bubble gum… It’s time for DISASTERPIECE to cover their first-ever video game sequel: DUKE NUKEM FOREVER , the worst entry in a beloved—and wildly offensive—first-person shooter franchise. A game in development for so long that many of the teens who weren’t allowed to play the original had kids by the time it was release...

The weather’s getting nicer and the multiplexes are packed with IP, which can only mean one thing… It’s SEQUEL SUMMER! Justin and Steve are spending the next three months exploring some of the worst #2s of all time—starting with the infamous cult disaster: Highlander II: The Quickening . “There should have only been ONE!” pretty much sums up how the boys feel about it, especially since they got th...

What is DIVX?? It’s a super convenient way to rent movies without rentals or late fees. Simply go to Circuit City, buy a DIVX disc and DIVX DVD player, connect the player to your phone line, call to activate the disc for 48hrs, call back if you want to watch it again for a fee, call back a third time if you want to purchase your movie for an additional fee, or just go all the way back to Circuit C...

It’s high art! It’s shlock trash! It’s maybe a money laundering scheme?! It’s AFTER LAST SEASON, a true oddity of a film that manages to simultaneously be the most abstract and literal-minded movie you’ve ever seen. This week Justin and Steve meld their brains to explore the mind of filmmaker Mark Region. Not only is this director surrounded by mystery, but the boys have reason to believe he doesn...

Steve & Justin are here in NYC to shed some light on SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK. The multimillion-dollar Broadway musical-Disasterpiece that flopped so hard it should have killed the movie musical adaptation trend before it even started. Unfortunately, all it killed was its producer, even if it didn’t stop trying to end the lives of various cast members. Can the boys weave their way through...

We’re wrapping up CATASTANIC by going back out to sea with TITANIC II. It’s not a sequel to 1997’s TITANIC, but the creative minds at The Asylum film company sure want to trick your Nana into thinking it is. Wave goodbye to Justin and Steve as they board the maiden voyage of a ship that has less of a chance of crossing that ocean than a cruise liner made of concrete. This D-tier action thriller is...

It’s TITANIC: THE BOARD GAME: THE DISASTERPIECE EPISODE!! It’s still smooth sailing for us as we continue to celebrate CATASTANIC, a month-long look at the craziest Titanic-inspired disasters. And this week, with the help of Ellen Gutoskey and Paul Ramsdell, Justin and Steve roll the dice on a board game that wants all of the namesake that comes with the Titanic, but none of the tragedy. And it en...

We’re back with more CATASTANIC! A month-long exploration of Titanic-inspired pop culture disasters. This week, it’s one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the history of Hollywood… Who spiked James Cameron's TITANIC's entire cast and crew with PCP?? And why did they put it in a chowder? And how does NO ONE remember what kind of chowder it was? Was it revenge against the megalomaniac director? W...

it’s April and we’re launching CATASTANIC! A month-long exploration of the craziest TITANIC-inspired disasters in pop culture. And we’re starting with the 1999 Italian/North Korean (!) produced animated film THE LEGEND OF THE TITANIC. An animated movie that dares to ask the question: “What if, like, no one died on the Titanic, and it had, like, talking animals, magic moon-beam tears, and a shakr j...

IT’S TIME TO SLAM!! This week Justin and Steve break out the knee pads and mouth guards to take a look at SLAMBALL, a combination of basketball and gymnastics that was the greatest hybrid sport since some nerd combined frisbee and golf. So what happens when you put trampolines on a basketball court? Many people get hurt and viewers like to tune in to watch it once. From its humble inception drawn...

FATAL DEVIATION is the only 100% Irish Kung Fu movie. Starring and Directed by the lean, mean, and green Jimmy Bennet. He’s here to kick arse and chew scenery, and he’s all out of scenery. Steve and Justin wish you Céad Míle Fáilte as we celebrate St. Paddy’s day a week late with one of our favorite DISASTERPIECES of all time. A movie trying so hard to rip off KICKBOXER and HARD TARGET that its st...

WISEAU. BREEN. VERSACE. DOUG. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, DISASTERPIECE has dredged up another candidate for the ‘Mount Rushmore of Weird Directors’ with Doug Burke’s SURFER: TEEN CONFRONTS FEAR. This experimental, coming-of-age sports-drama spy-thriller is made up of long surfing montages, 30-minute monologues, flubbed takes, magic sea lions, a real dead whale, conf...

The Oscars may have been last night, but around here, Award Season isn’t over until the Brass Balls are given out. This week Justin and Steve look back at The SPIKE TV GUYS CHOICE AWARDS—an awards show that honors everything guys love from boobs to breasts. Join the boys as they walk the red carpet and discuss an awards ceremony so dated, crass, and ultimately silly, you won’t believe it aired les...

Is STAR TREK: OF GODS AND MEN a fan film if the fans who made it are prolific Star Trek actors?? Steve and Justin are going where (at the time of this release) only six Letterboxd users have gone before… Tim Russ’s (Star Trek Voyager) non-canonical Star Trek universe. Can an all-star Star Trek cast including Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Ethan Phillips, Alan Ruck, and Garret Wang save this low-...

Steven Seagal has finally made it to the pod and Rollie Williams (Climate Town) is back! ON DEADLY GROUND is not only our first Seagal movie, it’s also an environmentally-charged action movie, and the only movie DIRECTED by the man himself. So the boys called up their own climate badass, Rollie Williams, to fly in and help extinguish this flaming turd. Is Seagal’s character a good guy? An anti-her...

FOOTBALL meets WRESTLING?? The XFL was created when the WWE’s Vince McMahon looked at the NFL (one of the most successful sports leagues of all time) and said “I can do this better”. Steve Ward and Justin ‘Red’ Dodd travel back to the attitude era of the early 2000s to intercept all of the info they can find about what was supposed to be the next evolution of American football. But after trying ev...

Oh, Canada. Did you know that Toronto had a crack-smoking, foul-mouthed mayor named Rob Ford? And would you believe that this all went down only ten years ago?? This week Justin and Toronto’s own Steve Ward look back at Canada’s most infamous dynasty as the Ford boys, Rob and Doug, get involved in scandal after scandal and try to justify it all on their short-lived YouTube show ‘Ford Nation’. It w...