Forbidden Cinema

Welcome to Valentine's Day week and Carnival!  Plus Zack is on Vacation. We had an idea, we are going to try to do as many episodes of Red Shoe Diaries from the early 90's as we possibly can this week.  They are going to be rough edits, but we are going to go until we drop. Come back with us to the early 90s as (a now famous) David Duchovny and Stella the Dog introduce us to a middle aged Jewish m...

Welcome back!  The forbidden crew look into the questions that were best left unanswered from our coverage of Caddyshack.  We are back in 1980, people.  We find newspapers from the week this film came out (the week Zack was born) and see what is going on in the world... spoiler alert... the world sucks in 1980. We pause and take a look at the career of Harold Ramis, a man with 4 films on AFI's top...

Ok, we are in the 80s here, but just barely... We watched the movie that came out when Zack was 6 days old, Caddyshack.  There are old white guys going to 11 at every moment.  Chevy Chase is a creepy golf guru.  RIP Cindy Morgan who plays the siren of the piece.  I'm pretty sure Sarah Holcomb isn't Irish.  Did we mention Rodney Dangerfield is in the movie and is hilarious he dose scare one of our...

Join us as we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about Eyes Wide Shut.  We look at the original novel and how close it is to the film.  We find out that this has not been the first time this has been adapted and look into the films of Mario Bianci who directed such classics as The Erotic Adventures of Zorro. We talk about the Guinness world record grueling shoot for no apparent reason, and...

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals, and a happy new year. We watched the final film of a master film maker, Eyes Wide Shut.  Where do we even start.  This thing took years to shoot.  The tabloids went crazy about the sex and relationships of the stars.  One of the best directors of all time stayed up all night talking to Zalman King to get the vibe just right for a weird dreamlike orgy.  Did we me...

Hello friends, and welcome back to Forbidden Cinema! This week we go deeper and answer the questions we had from our coverage of the late Matthew Perry's R-rated caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards. If you know, you know.  We start with looking into what we were curious about during our main episode on the movie.  Then we look at the time it was released and try to find sources from the day to figu...

The Forbidden Cinema crew take a moment to come out of our normal timeline to pay homage to the late, great Matthew Perry. This week we go all the way in to the distant future of the year 2000 to look at the Bruce Willis / Matthew Perry caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards.  This critically mixed (but must have been commercially valid as there was a sequel) film had it's flaws, but at a brisk 98 min...

Welcome back everyone! We hope everyone had a great October / Halloween / Spooky Season.  As we head into the holidays Zack and Jenny follow up with the questions nobody ever bothered to ask about our coverage of Bram Stoker's Dracula. We threw a little bit of shade by omitting Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in our main episode, so we make sure to give him some love in this one.  We talk about the S...

Happy Halloween family and welcome back to the Jr high lunch table for Bram Stoker's Dracula.  We go back to 1992 for Francis Ford Coppola's wild fever dream featuring so much blood, sex, and religious iconography that we are terrified to think about what would happen if our parent's had ever found out we wanted to see this movie. This one slipped under the radar.  It was always one we wanted to s...

Join us as we answer the questions that nobody ever thought to ask about Scream.  We answer the things that came up in our full episode covering the 1996 horror / slasher classic, Scream.  This movie revitalized a genre, and showed studios that teens were a valid audience.  Come along as 2 church youth group kids grow up, get married, and watch all of the things our parent's wouldn't let us watch....

Welcome to spooky season in 2023 and welcome back to winter of 1996 as we look at the film that revolutionized horror and slasher films, Scream. We take a look at the movie that was on Zack's top 10 for all time wanted to see but couldn't.  We talk about longing and nostalgia.  We look back at the time and welcome Queen Neve Campbell to the 3 timers club along with Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas...

Welcome back, This week we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about our coverage of Jade.  Zack dives deep on this one.  We uncover a surprising link between this movie and Basic Instinct.  We talk about the box office and business of this critical and commercial flop.  Zack gets disappointed when he realizes the "For Strippers Only" album in the iTunes library is research for a class Jenn...

Are you even joking right now.  We just hit 100 episodes. It's time for our most requested episode ever, the 1995 Joe Esterhas / William Freidkin collaboration with the guy from NYPD Blue, the femme fatale from The Last Seduction, and that guy from The Sopranos who has the awesome restaurant who I think did A Bronx Tale. We hit up the least erotic and least thrilling erotic thriller of the 90s.  T...

Join us as we deep dive the behind the scenes of True Lies.  There are Oscar winners besides Dame Jamie Lee.  We discover that Tom Arnold isn't as trash as we originally assumed. This was the most expensive move ever made and is high on the list of the top grossing R rated films ever, but didn't make all that much money. We also deep dive Dame Tia Carrere's 36yo newly single mother of 2 appearance...

We are back and we are talking about True Lies. Welcome to the podcast, Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold.  How have we made it to 98 episodes without either of you getting on board.  Both of you will be back... see what I did there. Jenny and Zack are a married couple who grew up in the most conservative purity culture church around and are now unpacking what that meant by watching the movies that were...

Welcome back to our first deeper dive into the history and time behind Cruel Intentions.  It's been a while since we have done a Going Deeper episode.  Zack has got his research hat back on and Jenny has been drinking Rose.  Come along as we talk about the 2 adaptations of Les Liaisons Dangerous that were released back to back in the 80s.  Zack was today years old when he realized Cyrano de Berger...

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony that's life... sucker love is heaven sent..."   Holy 1780's erotica Batman, we just did Cruel Intentions.  Zack loved this movie so much he owns most of the wardrobe from the filming.  Jenny is vaguely aware of it.  Come along with us as we dive back in 24 years later and see if it holds up.  Spoiler alert... some of this is problematic at best, but there are som...

Buckle up, folks, this is going to be a long one.  Zack and Jenny return to the world of feature length films after our season of TV shows.  And boy do we do it with a bang!   This is where it all started.  This made for Showtime pilot walked so that Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and Game of Thrones could fly. Join us as we discuss all of the dick grabbing techniques in play.  We get to see our...

God save the Queen of Dicks!!!   Minx is back!!!   Pandemics, network changes, and buyouts couldn't kill this show.  We are back to recap the last season and move forward into the next.  

Ok, here it is.  We have finished Season 1.  It is back to standard def if we want to watch any more. Come back with us to the Ramada Inn for a Dominatrix workshop.  Our protagonist surprises the staff with her whipping technique and craziness ensues.  This one is quick and to the point.  We have figured out a formula and now we are running with it. We have Indiana Jones whip sounds.  We get to se...

We are almost at the end of our journey through the first season of this groundbreaking show.  This one has it all.  Two pool hustlers find each other and go on a journey of self discovery, shouting at each other, overly intense power games, and steamy sex. This episode has biker bars in the middle of the day, pool contests at a strip club, apartments that are way too nice for the jobs people have...

Hey everybody, we are rounding the corner and coming to the end of our dive into the 1992 first season of everybody's favorite ladies cable erotica show starring Mulder and Joey. This episode is wild... Four badass soldier ladies have the weekend off from armying and go to a dive bar in ball gowns and things go off the rails... Is this the origin story of the Nashville bachelorette party? This epi...

We are almost done with the first season of the 1992 Showtime erotica series, The Red Shoe Diaries.  David Duchovny and his trusty dog Stella have taken us on a journey through the secret desires of women in the early 90s.  It has been a blast! This episode we have some action, some guns, some knives, a lot of handcuffs, bad guys straight from the dust bowl, a Matrix lady in a power suit, lots of...

Join us as we head down the home stretch on covering the early 90's cable erotica series for women, Red Shoe Diaries.  Zack and Jenny are a married couple who grew up in conservative youth group together and watch things that were not allowed in our youth.  This podcast is dedicated to nostalgia, film history, a peak behind the forbidden curtain, and a healthy dose of retrospection. Guys... Welcom...

Ok guys, here is the one that Jenny wanted.  We finally get to Jake's story.  We finally figure out who he is and what makes him tick.  Record scratch---- nope, that is the movie.  Jenny is pissed. In this episode we get to see David Duchovny actually interact in the narrative.  He has his own Red Shoe Diary.