Forbidden Cinema

Welcome to the first Forbidden Cinema Lightning Round.   We are back from Mexico and have finished binging How to Build a Sex Room.  It occurs to us that there are many movies that may be problematic or forbidden, but we have watched them so often as adults that we may not be able to truly view them with a fresh eye.  Not wanting to eliminate them completely we decided to do a 10 minute lightning...

Here.  We.  Go.   In this episode we finish How to Build a Sex Room.  We talk about how to relate to our friends who are swingers, apparently.  We discuss the ethics of polyamory and why only the women of color get stripper poles.      

Ok guys, if you haven't started binging Netflix's new hit show How to Build a Sex Room, you should stop right now and go do it.  When you are done with the first couple episodes, come on back and let's unpack it. While it is a bit of a departure from movies we couldn't watch as children, we are enjoying going on these detours to cover fun, sexy, entertainment for adults. Join Melanie (or Maggie as...

***We spend several minutes talking true crime style about Paul Dennis Reid's spree killing that affected us greatly when we were growing up.  If this is a trigger for you you can skip ahead to about 30 minutes when we get there***   This is the week the podcast goes off the rails. It's been a weird couple of weeks, guys. This week we delve deeper into Madonna's Truth or Dare, but get really sidet...

Madonna... is... amazing... Why were we not just a little older when this happened?  We feel like we know that Madonna was a popular singer in the 80s and 90s, but had no idea about how fabulous this tour actually was. Come with us as we view our first concert film.  We get to see a lot of people in their early 20's being really terrible to each other in black and white and then... Boom... Brillia...

Welcome back to Forbidden Cinema.  On our going deeper episodes, Zack goes into deep research mode to find the answers to questions you never thought to ask.  Sometimes the answers are fascinating.  Sometimes they are so horrifying that you wish we hadn't bothered. This week we look start to look at the career of Warren Beatty, but get distracted by how many famous lady's he had affairs with.  The...

Join us as we wrap up our "What were they thinking" series looking at movies with which our parent's had no objections, but had content that looking back seems a little crazy.  This week we looked at Warren Beatty's 1990 passion project, Dick Tracy. This is a movie Zack saw at the drive-in theater.  We have trading cards and movie props from the film in our collection.  This movie was so dark that...

Engineering school time!!! Zack takes Kevin Bacon's hair length and nudity and tries to determine if there is a statistically significant correlation.  There are graphs.  You should probably check social media, I don't think this translates very well in audio.  Zack also calculates the number of animals required for a stampede.  The best thing about science is it has to give you an answer.  If you...

This week the forbidden couple take a time out from their "What were our parents thinking" series to pay homage to the great Fred Ward.  We dig into a film that was a staple of Jenny's adolescence, but was completely forbidden from Zack.  This is a movie that Zack can specifically remember the moment in which it was turned off by his aunt. We watched the 1990 film, Tremors.  Come along with us as...

Welcome back to Forbidden Cinema.  This week we go deeper on the 1994 action film, Speed.  We figure out the Keanu timeline, try to place his accent, and try to figure out why Sad Keanu is so sad and how to make him happy again.  Showgirls, Dolly Parton, and Alice Cooper all show up in some form or another.  We discuss briefly the tragic story of River Phoenix. We mythbust the crap out of some of...

Pop Quiz - What were our parents thinking.  Zack's parent's turned off Spaceballs and Jenny's family turned off A Knight's Tale, but both of us were completely allowed unlimited viewing of Speed when we were 13-14 years old.  We start a short series about movies our parents were completely ok with, but we wonder if they should have been forbidden. In this series we talk about nostalgia and how it...

We end our year with a bang going deeper on Showgirls.  Join us as we do extra credit and watch You Don't Nomi and try to figure out if this movie was better than our first impressions.   Zack spends a lot of time looking at the history and physical demands of being a showgirl.  Zack spends too much time looking into bananas strip club laws around the country.  Zack spends way too much time lookin...

For our 50th episode join the hosts as we tackle our most requested, and probably the most forbidden of the 90s.  Guys, this thing is wild.  If you had asked me what this was before I saw it, I would have said the guys who made Basic Instinct got back together with a lot of drugs and hired the girl from Saved By The Bell to spend 1/3 of the movie nude in a spectacle of flesh and grit/glam of Vegas...

Join us as we break down all the unanswered questions from our discussion on Weekend at Bernie's.  We take time to try to understand the reviews, box office, and reason for a sequel for this move.  We discuss but don't really get to a finishing point on why this movie is so poorly reviewed, only a modest financial success, but has entered into the lexicon to where everybody knows the premise. We t...

Welcome back to Forbidden Cinema, Spring Break Edition.  This week we tackle Weekend at Bernie's from 1989.  This is a movie that Zack saw in his friend's rec room at 10 or 11 years old, had on VHS, and spent many hours hoping his parent's never took the time to watch it to see what was in it.  This is one of those PG-13 movies from the 80s with content not catering to children, but jokes that nob...

We are dropping this in the main feed because Apple is taking a bit.   We go deeper on Episode 2 - Au revoir, le double dong of HBO Max's Minx.  Off to the country club for some hijinks with the Bottom Dollar crew.  Come along with us as we get lost in this fantastic 70s dream of erotica for ladies.

Minx has landed on HBO Max and it is awesome. Join your hosts as we branch off in an entirely new direction.  We have spent the last year podcasting about movies our parent's wouldn't let us watch and Zack has been elbows deep in explicit print journalism from the 70s, 80s, and beyond.  In the midst of all of this, HBO Max releases a new show about a new erotic magazine from women in the 70s... an...

Here we go.  Guys, the Chicken Ranch was real.  This whole thing is based on a true story.  Zack buys the books, reads the newspapers from the time, and finds local news coverage from the time.  The true story is almost crazier than the musical.  All the wondering we did about why Dom Delouise didn't get his comeuppance is finally answered.  He is based on a real person who became a local legend a...

"Have you ever just been reading Playboy magazine from the mid-80's and saw a picture from a movie and thought let's go watch that and had this much fun?" We watched The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.  This thing is an R Rated musical.  We knew Burt Reynolds would show up eventually, but I don't think that this is how we assumed.  Also, have we mentioned that St Dolly Parton is in this thing.  W...

This week we look back at the unanswered questions from our discussion of the 1981/82 film Porky's.  Zack goes a little funny trying to figure out where the fictional town of Angel Falls really is and where Porky's would have to be located in order for the geography all to work out.  This is a tough one, because most of the questions we asked had really simple answers that didn't lead down deep da...

Wow...  This one...  Things are different 40 years later.  In this episode we look back at a film that Zack turned off on basic cable because he was afraid it was too dirty.  This is a film that was a huge commercial success that basically made A Christmas Story able to happen.  It is racist, homophobic, and has a view on women that would have been outdated even in it's setting.  But it also made...

Buckle in people, we are all over the place in this one.  We start off detouring into our Valentine's Day date at the Forbidden Ballet.  We talk about the history of filmmaker, Adrian Lyne (the first 2 time director on our list, but we will see him again).  We talk about the year's awards season and Jenny can't figure out the difference between Empire in the Sun and The Last Emperor.  Zack deep di...

We return once again to 1987 and to Michael Douglas as we evaluate Fatal Attraction for this Valentine's Day Week.  We go deep on Donald Ducking Douglas and some of his fashion choices.  We spend an inordinate amount of time talking about how good of a boy Quincy the Dog is and how scared we are for his well being.  We divert into the best high school lunch trade and talk about times where somethi...

Welcome back to Going Deeper with your Forbidden Cinema crew.  Today Zack gets into the weeds looking at the careers of some of the minor cast members of the film.  We actually find some opinions on diverse representation in the film from the time it was released.  Zack goes crazy deep looking at the career of the Crystals and our favorite wacky murder producer Phil Spector.  We also look at some...

Come back with us to 1987 where an early example of the PG-13 movie first introduced a generation of children to the concept of men's magazines and a certain word starting with the letter F.  We look back at how the world has changed in the time since the release and continue our path of nostalgia.  We try to figure out who this movie was really for and what a 17 year old would reasonably be able...