Forbidden Cinema

"I live my life a quarter mile at a time" We are finally their.  We just hit the highest rated episode of the early 90's Showtime erotica series, Red Shoe Diaries.  Talk about things we were not allowed to see as kids.  This is full of fast cars, insane Tony Scott level editing, sex, speed, and power plays. As usual, Jenny finds the whole thing a bit ridiculous, and Zack is along for the ride.  Th...

Thanks for coming along on this journey through early 90s cable erotica with us.  This week we take on the episode, Another Woman's Lipstick.  Hang on, it's going to be a bumpy ride. We have got lipstick stains, more of Zalman King's women-with-a-moustache cliché, and a wild dance with a full on floor lamp. We watch the things that were forbidden in our conservative childhoods and teenage years an...

Guys...  Joey is in this one. That's right, welcome to the podcast Matt Leblanc.  We are assured he is a loyal listener, but this time he is in the show we are watching.  We simply can't imagine what it must have been like to be him or David Duchovney at this time.  Both were making cable erotica for ladies but were just about to achieve superstardom. This was a fun one.  There were bike messenger...

Ok, guys, this show has redeemed itself with this episode.  We were on board, and then last week really turned us off.  We open in a dive bar on a wet t-shirt contest, hop in a super 90s muscle car, and then listen to 30 minutes of a guy in a mullet try to convince a woman to love him without stopping so long as to take a breath. Stay with us, here.  This sounds ridiculous, but somehow they manage...

Whoa boy... here we go... buckle up and pull over, people (wait does that even make sense, why bother buckling up if you are pulling over, oh well).  Guys we are venturing in the the sexy, erotic themes of police misconduct???  This thing is wild and has aged... poorly. This episode stars Denise Crosby of Star Trek TNG fame as a police officer who names off every male body part imaginable for 5 mi...

We had so much "fun" watching an episode of Red Shoe Diaries for our last episode that we decided to spend a quick mini-season watching this early 90s erotic anthology show hosted by David Duchovny at the same time he was making the X-Files.  How are those words even a thing. Join us as we watch the first episode, Safe Sex, which starts out as a second draft of 9 1/2 Weeks and then just gets weird...

Alright people, it is time to get 90s horny. That's right, Zack just left streaming on upstairs and the algorithm decided that we should watch Red Shoe Diaries.  Did we mention that David Duchovny was in 6 seasons of this weekly erotica show at the same time he was in the X-Files.  That is a thing that happened. Get ready for sexy fax machines, ladies starting to wear black underwear, lots of pear...

Welcome back as we look at the questions nobody thought to ask about National Lampoon's Vacation.  We find out more about the careers of the child actors that I could ever have imagined.  BDA's (Beverly D'Angelo) history is so much more interesting than we would have figured.  And we hit tangents on everything from Conan the Barbarian to Mr Mom.

Pull over, folks... Zack has never seen this movie.  We watched the original Vacation from back in 1983.  Hold on, this movie has 80s racism, jokes about gun violence, animal cruelty, policing in need of reform, a lady we know only as a classic holiday film mom whipping her boobs out, cigarette machines, Harold Ramis as the voice of a moose, Anthony Michael Hall, Chevy Chase being mostly likable,...

Greetings everyone.  Sorry for the silence for a few weeks.  We hope your holidays were amazing, but if they were a nightmare like ours, we feel for you.  Ours were full of overwork, family drama, sick pets, and another round of COVID-19.  Nowhere to go but up from here. Join us as we recap the questions no one thought to ask on Gremlins and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.  We wrap up 2022 and lo...

Welcome to our Holiday Season kickoff episode that is dropping on New Years.  It is amazing how optimistic we are about how our work, life, and families are not going to be a living nightmare.  Well, that didn't happen.  Anyhoo, come back with us to 1984 as we watch and discuss the Spielburg, Collumbus, Dante collaboration, Gremlins.  This movie brings Zack back to so many specific places and time...

Welcome to the holiday season.  We start off with the only Thanksgiving banger, Planes, Trains and Automobiles...  yes we all noticed the missing comma.  Welcome Steve Martin, John Candy, and John Hughes to the podcast.  This week we discuss the movie that was not so much forbidden as told, you wouldn't like it. We talk about how much as adults we absolutely loved this classic and can't wait to ge...

Welcome back to Going Deeper.  This week we take a look at the questions nobody thought to ask on the 1990 film, Ghost.  We look into the people involved in making it and discover it was one of the biggest movie hits of all time at the box office when it was released.  We also look into newspapers and magazines from around when the movie came out to get a feel of what the world was like. Tangents...

Spooky season is officially over for the year.  We have decided on a palate cleanser before we get into the holidays.  As a nod to our recent trip to New Orleans and the multiple ghost encounters we have decided to go back to 1990 for the blockbuster film, Ghost.  Patrick Swayze is at his shirtless best and Demi Moore joins Michael Douglas and Madonna in the Three Timers Club on our podcast.  Have...

We are back from our spooky New Orleans Halloween trip and ready to answer the questions that nobody thought to ask while watching Interview with a Vampire from 1994.  We look at the culture and the box office of the day to see where this fit in.  It turns out this episode is actually dropping on the 28th anniversary of this film hitting theaters, Happy Birthday!!! Diversions and tangents abound. ...

Welcome to our spooky season wrap up.  For this week we look at the movie that is Jenny's first forbidden experience.  We wonder what our parents were up to during these times.  We spend a lot of time talking about who the intended audience was for this movie and about the time of the mid 80s where we have lived for a while now.  Welcome to the podcast Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell, 2 actors Z...

Join us in October as we prepare for Halloween.  This week we take a look at a classic that Zack remembers from being on a tape with a Batman Forever.  We take a look at the nostalgia of having 3 movies on a tape that had nothing to do with each other.  We remember rewinding and checking to see where we were on the VHS and coming upon something we were not meant to see. The Forbidden Cinema journe...

Brace yourself as the Zack and Jenny tackle the questions nobody thought to ask in the  1987 supernatural thriller Angel Heart.   Zack crunches the numbers of movie rentals to decide if this thing made back it's budget.  We also look at the top grossing films of 1987 and wowza what a curve ball.  Coming off a year when Top Gun and Crocodile Dundee(not a typo) battled neck and neck for the top spot...

"Sixty Nine, Dudes!" Can you believe we have made it this many episodes.  This week we start Spooky Season 2022 off with a bang with the 1987 flick, Angel Heart.  This movie stars Mickey Rourke and features a fresh off The Cosby Show Lisa Bonet.  Also Robert Deniro is in this for only a small role, but steals the entire movie. This thing has it all.  There are gruesome killings, steamy sex, trippy...

Welcome back to the fold.   Soooooo... Zack bought a first edition of the book and has read it since the last episode.  We go into the differences and look at the making of the film.  Did you know "You Can Leave Your Hat On" was not a stripping song before this movie.  News to us. As always we look at news media of the time.  Did you know Joan Rivers was a late night host?  This is wild.  We also...

Whoah, buckle in folks, this one is going to be a doozy.  This week we tackle the 1986 erotic drama, 9 1/2 Weeks.  Content warning, this one has some coercive control and consent evocative of almost 40 years ago. That being said, welcome to the podcast to Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger.  There is some icky and sticky stuff happening, but these two heat up the screen with sex appeal and chemistry. ...

Join us and Zack answers the questions nobody thought to ask about 1981's steamy thriller, Body Heat.  We try to figure out who this JA Preston guy is and should we know him.  Tangentially from there we figure out that Kim Zimmer "Mary Ann Simpson" has been in almost 2500 episodes of TV entertainment.  We hit the career of Ted Danson and the unusual slow burn that was Cheers. We take a trip down F...

Go watch this movie.  Spoiler Alert.  You want to watch this before listening.  There aren't many movies we have done on this podcast that we recommend more than this. Come back to 1981 with Zack and Jenny as we watch the origin of the Erotic Thriller and the Neo Noir genre all in one.  Kathleen Turner and William Hurt steam the place up and things get murdery.  Oh, did we mention Ted Danson is tu...

Join your hosts as we go deeper on the questions nobody wanted answered on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.  Zack reaches his hand into the dark, insect ridden hole of the internet, pulls the lever, and figures out what opens up. This week we try to figure out what the world was like in the 80 days between this movie and the first PG-13 movie ever to be released.  We find out that the Iran-Co...

Gather around children.  Today we are watching the gross-fest that Jenny's parents kept out of the house.  Zack first saw this when he was 8 and didn't know any other Indiana Jones until much later.  This was a film so violent that it basically led to the creation of the PG-13 rating.  Watching back, Zack goes back to being a little boy again and Jenny just kind of sighs at the gross stuff. If you...