Filmshake - The ‘90s Movies Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Blessed non-religious secular holiday celebration! Our gift to you is a two-hour long Batman Returns episode! What present could be better than the ultimate Filmshake experience, where Nic essentially equates a 1992 film where the lead character dresses like a bat and another dresses in a leather catsuit with the best works of Fritz Lang, while Jorda...

Send us Fan Mail Stardate...2021...Jordan Courtney and Nicholas Loup watch 1991's... Star Trek VI .. .The Undiscovered Country . One of the two is a Trekkie, but the other...just...doesn't...care. Beam yourself up to some classic Filmshake goodness, even if you don't know the difference between a Klingon and a Klingoff. Also, set phasers to soft, gauzy lighting because the punishmen...

Send us Fan Mail Here's the sitch: this episode, Filmshake's covering 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer ...the movie, not the TV show, NIC! To kick things off, Nic reports on his punishment film, the 1993 Cory Haim comedy Just One of the Girls , where Haim dresses up like a cheerleader to evade his high school bullies. We then naturally segue into more cheerleading and back to some bl...

Send us Fan Mail Ready for your deadtime story? It's Halloween, so of corpse we're covering some horror flicks. This slime, it's the two Tales From the Crypt Presents films, 1995's Demon Knight and 1996's Bordello of Blood . To chop it off, we've got an episode-ending trivia battle, featuring two special pests. This is an episode you won't want tomb miss! Music f...

Send us Fan Mail If you're starving for some 90's Movies goodness, Filmshake's full of forbidden delights. The main course this episode is Antonia Bird's slab of delicious 1999 cannibal goodness, Ravenous . Gorge yourself upon our dulcet tones, as we welcome Reel Talk 's Wes Jones to our bacchanalian cinematic feast. Chew on the tender flesh of our opening segment appetize...

Send us Fan Mail Join Filmshake, as we venture into ancient history with a 90’s Michael Crichton adaptation. No, not THAT one! Instead of dinosaurs, we’re talking the Vikings, bear monsters, beheadings, and Arab poets of 1999’s The 13th Warrior . Does this epic box office flop deserve its bad wrap, or does it deserve to take its place as a useful servant of cinema? Also, for at least the first ten...

Send us Fan Mail Have to fly, have to fight, have to crow, HAVE TO LISTEN TO FILMSHAKE’S NEW episode on 1991’s Hook . We asked our patrons to pick the flick for this episode, and Hook was the winner. NeitherJordan, nor Nic was looking forward to watching and talking about Robin Williams’ trip to Steven Spielberg’s  Neverland, but then, over the course of this two-hour conversation…something bangar...

Send us Fan Mail Filmshake is so cool. Filmshake IS so cool. Filmshake is SO cool. And we're covering 1993's True Romance , directed by Tony Scott and written by, apparently the man who killed Nic's dog, Quentin Tarantino. If you were around in the 25th Frame days, you know what you're in for. If you weren't, and you love Quentin Tarantino like Alabama loves Clarence, then...

Send us Fan Mail Filmshake could never find time for love. It's too heavy. It's an anchor that drowns a man. Besides, we've got the sky, the smell of jet exhaust, and our bike...which we own. We've also got our good friend, Doug McCambridge, from the stellar Good Times Great Movies, to talk with us about the classic 1991 spoof, Hot Shots! That exclamation point might be in the...

Send us Fan Mail This episode, Jordan and Nic drench themselves in 1998's Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman-starring  Hard Rain . Is it a soggy mess, or is the water fine? Is this flick a deluge of delight, or a fearsome flood of mediocrity? And why wouldn't the producers let Minnie Driver wash our ears with her delightful British accent, instead of drowning us in...okay, enough with t...

Send us Fan Mail Our podcast don't want none, unless it's 1997's Anaconda . What other movie features 40-feet long cross-eyed snakes, J Lo working studiously on a laptop, Eric Stoltz sleeping, Ice Cube doing nothing until the last ten minutes, and Jon Voight making up an entirely new version of the English language like this one? Probably none! Also, Hisstory is made, when Jordan un...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we cover 1995's Mortal Kombat , 1997's Mortal Kombat: Annihilation , and 2021's Mortal Kombat , which totally ripped off the title of the first film. Yes, "FILM" because these movies are cinema of the highest or lowest order. SHRIEK IN DELIGHT as Jordan recalls every plot point of '95's Mortal Kombat down to the most minute detai...

Send us Fan Mail How about a little wager? Winner gets the Filmshake Dodge Neon. Can Nic watch all three Cruel Intentions movies and keep his grasp on sanity? Can Jordan watch even one Cruel Intentions movie and keep his? We think "no," and that is because we are Nic and Jordan, and we did just do that, and we did not. We can't even pronounce "Phillippe." I guess we'l...

Send us Fan Mail It's been said the set of 1994's The Crow  was cursed, and after the last month of working on our troubled episode centered around it, count us as believers. Still, despite the hardships, and the fact that Jordan's audio makes him sound like the vocalist for a Riot Grrrl band, Filmshake is proud to present its Crow episode, focusing on Alex Proyas' first film i...

Send us Fan Mail Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, it's an episode Nic's Irish ancestors would be proud of, as he and Jordan discuss the incredibly culturally accurate Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997) and main feature, Patriot Games (1992). Apparently, Nic's kinsmen really want to either marry a magical space princess so that they can take over the galaxy, or murder Harrison For...

Send us Fan Mail It's ANARCHY!, as Filmshake's two resident punks not only break down 1998's indie classic, SLC Punk! , but reminisce about their own history as punk rockers.  This episode gets personal, and if you don't like what we have to say here, just keep in mind that our next episode is going to, in some capacity, involve a leprechaun. Also, Nic reports back on SLC Punk!...

Send us Fan Mail The most 90's movies-dedicated merry men are back with a look at 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves .  Jordan's still got a lot of angry arrows in his quiver for Kevin Costner, but at least he's got the incredible Alan Rickman, Christian Slater, Morgan Freeman, and literally every other cast member to tide him over. Meanwhile, when Nic isn't defending Co...

Send us Fan Mail Jordan and Nic can't even agree on how to PRONOUNCE Waterworld . How divided will their opinions be on the actual 1995 post-apocalyptic film, and its gilled, web-footed star? Also, Nic reports back on his trivia-loss punishment, Hulk Hogan's 1993 romp, Mr. Nanny , and has so much fun, he decides he might just lose at trivia every episode. But will Jordan let him? All tha...

Send us Fan Mail On exactly the 23rd anniversary of Titanic's release, it's serendipitously the topic of Filmshake's 23rd episode! Nic tries to philosophically sail the seas of the film's cultural importance, but there's an iceberg straight ahead! That iceberg is Jordan Courtney's unwavering HATRED for Titanic! Listen as one man tries to use a film as a metaphor for h...

Send us Fan Mail The Filmshake dudes are ready to ROCK AND ROLL with 1994's Airheads . Is there no limit to this film's quotable moments? Is this the best casted film of the 90's? Are you a cop if you pick Van Halen in the Van Halen-David Lee Roth split? Is Brendon Fraser wearing a wig?! How were the  Airheads -hating critics of 1994 so wrong?! Find the answers to all this and more!...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Filmshake Halloween, with very special guest, Doug McCambridge, from Good Times Great Movies. Doug, Jordan, and Nic first discuss the 1994 insectoid spectacle, Mosquito , attempting to answer these hard-hitting questions: How did these mosquitos get so large? Why do they hate volleyball? And most importantly, how is it sexy to "play mosquito?" Then it's...

Send us Fan Mail The dudes tackle their first romantic comedy with 1990's Joe Versus the Volcano . Strangely, the dude who claims to not like romantic comedies sure seems to like this movie more than the dude who doesn't claim to not like romantic comedies. And speaking of volcanoes, this episode's trivia battle is so seismically violent, Jordan and Nic have to add a new element to...

Send us Fan Mail The dudes are back with their first bonus episode in a long TIME to discuss the most excellent Bill and Ted Trilogy. Every film gets its due, including the all new final chapter, Bill & Ted Face the Music . This episode is non, non, non, non...Non-heinous! Songs featured in this episode: "In Time" -- Robbie Robb "God Gave Rock and Roll to You" -- Kiss &quot...

Send us Fan Mail In August of this year, Nic decided Filmshake should watch 1995's Congo , so the show could have a tribute episode to author, Michael Crichton. But "this year" is 2020, and things did...not go as expected. Why the hell does Nic hate Congo so much? Why does Jordan love Congo so much? Does Congo have naked pictures of Jordan? Did Congo murder Nic's father? Ration...

Send us Fan Mail It's the definitive Alien³ podcast! This is a deep dive, featuring a dissection of this exponentially-titled film's themes, comparisons between the original and assembly cuts, thoughts on its place in the Alien franchise...and also Nic breaks out into a 20-minute monologue about nihilism. For those who wish a podcast that covers films like Wild Wild West would give their...