Forbidden Cinema

Join us as we go deeper on the Class of 1990 Hollywood Walk of Fame.  Who made the cut and who got a trading card?  We go deep on Julia Robert's butt double and George from Seinfeld being a creeper.  We discuss the tragic life of Carole Lombard and the wild history of the Lotus Esprit.  We look at obscure 5th century Sanscrit plays and also spend some time on the tragic life of John Ritter.

Hold on to your thigh high boots, it's time to dive into Pretty Woman.  Join us as we go all the way back to 1990  and discuss Jenny's clandestine viewing of this classic romantic comedy.  We wonder how George from Seinfeld ever recovered from being such a sleaze and this.  If you have been spending your entire life wanting someone to do a detailed comparison between the junk grabbing techniques o...

Brace yourselves, we go too deep in this one.  Zack has all the sales numbers for Madonna's Sex book and describes it staring at him on the bookshelves for months.  We throw down the gauntlet and challenge the Razzies.  We find out that the writer of this movie also wrote the #2 movie on Zack's forbidden pantheon.  Zack tries to translate a 9th century Persian medical text to find out if you can s...

Join us as we go back to the very beginning of this podcast.  We go into the genre that we were aware of, but was completely banished from our homes as children.  Double whammy, this one also has Madonna who was also not allowed in our homes growing up.  We saw the movie Body of Evidence, or should it be called Body the Murder Weapon.  Guys, this is a court procedural about a woman literally being...

The holidays are over and hopefully we all survived.  We went deeper than should be expected on Christmas Vacation.  We as the question, "Who is National Lampoon?"  We talk about family gatherings, action figures, and 8mm porno.  We talk about how ubiquitous racist depictions of AAPI are in holiday movies an how happy we are that this didn't have them... then we read the source material... frowny...

Welcome to the nuthouse, we watched Christmas Vacation to get in the holiday mood.  Join us as we look back and ponder how this fits into the established Vacation cannon.  We ponder the little things, little things, like you.  We skewer Santa and talk about the porno section of the local video store.  We rent movies from the library long before that was a thing.  Zack admits to past crimes and det...

Join us as we go back to 1988 and go deeper on our unanswered questions from Scrooged.  We try to figure out why Jenny's mom dislikes Bill Murray so much and go on a tangent about his random late night calls to writer Mitch Glazer.  We take a look at the wacky budget for this film compared to others of the time.  Zack finds an internal memo about the amount of service calls that Xerox attributes t...

Grab some eggnog and get into the holiday spirit.  We saw Scrooged, a film that was completely off the radar at Jenny's due to her mom's heeby-jeebies about Bill Murray and kept of the table by Zack's parents because of nipples.  We unpack this thing and go for longer than ususal.  We talk, we tangent, we wonder, and we just generally try to get into that holiday spirit early this year.  Happy Hol...

We are your reckoning, Batman.  Join us as we go deeper on the unanswered questions regarding our Batman Returns episode.  We try to find the line in the sand on who should not get a Happy Meal toy.  We go back to 1992 to determine if Zack could have seen this for his birthday in July and whether Bill Clinton was assaulting women on a national or local level at the time.  We go a little true crime...

Join us as we talk about the movie that Jenny's mom straight walked the family out of at less than 3 minutes of watching.  We tackle the sexier than expected Tim Burton film Batman Returns.  Michael Keaton got rich doing this, Danny Devito got gross, I was a 13 year old boy who learned to spell Michelle Pfeiffer.  We get in to the wild physics and tone for this.  We One-der who in the world this w...

Join us as we talk about all the things we forgot and left unsaid in both Poltergeist and Wild Things.  We talk about the trope of the native burial ground.  Zack gets really confused when trying to figure out how to count fake boobs.  We go deep on advertisements for fragrances in 2004 Playboy.  Zack tries to call Playboy to order a chainmail dress featured in 2004 for Jenny.  Is the 800 number s...

Come back with us to 1998 where we discuss a movie whose lurid details were discussed in hushed tones at the lunch table.  Imagine it is senior year.  Half of the class is over 18 and can get into the movie and share forbidden tales of sex, money, betrayal, and murder to the rest of the class.  We watched Wild Things.  This was a movie who's marketing said "Come for the girl-on-girl action, stay f...

What better mashup than the ET Guy and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre guy.  Surely that will work.  Strangely it does and creates one of the best haunted house movies ever made.  We go way back to 1982 and watched Poltergeist for the first time for either of us.  We delve into what would be done with a forbidden film in our respective households.  We talk about how much of a debt one of our favorite...

Your oh so humble narrators dive deeper into the why behind the how of The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.  We look at the physics of the greenhouse murder trap and the picket fence impalement.  We skew way off into Breakfast at Tiffany's and  Walter Matthau.  Things get wacky as we look at the major film releases around this time and avoid discussing Tori peeing herself at slumber parties.

We did it!  We went back to our local theater from when we were children that has recently reopened.  Most of the theater has been converted into other businesses, but the lobby and snack bar are still exactly the same.  The sense of nostalgia was almost overwhelming.   At the theater we watched The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.  This creepy thriller was off limits as kids.  We discuss why we even t...

Join us as we attempt to answer our questions from our review of Carrie.  We start by going deeper on the book and then quickly go off the rails talking about high school lunches and mobile hot tubs.  We diverge into fashion, Grey's Anatomy, and the Top 20 hits from the time this movie came out.  We hit at the feminine message in this film. *This episode mentions a line from an older movie that co...

Join hosts Zack and Jenny as they go way back in the Forbidden timeline to the 1976 classic, Carrie.  We try to look at how the flick gels with our upbringing and our current life path.  We wonder about John Travolta and are concerned that De Palma may be a creep.  We talk about high school being fun, but also being hell.  Reach out to us and let us know how you are feeling and what you think abou...

Welcome back as Zack and Jenny unpack all of the questions left unanswered from our discussion of American Pie.  We dig up property records and interviews with local coffee shop owners around the opening of the first Starbucks in TN.  We dive unnecessarily deep into the brief cameo of Blink182 in this film.  We wonder what is up with Natasha Lyonne and unfortunately spend a little time googling Je...

Join Jenny and Zack as we push the Forbidden Timeline as far in the future as it will probably ever go.  We watch 1999's American Pie, a film we were both legally able to see.  Jenny talks about self censorship and Zack goes deep on Baptist Guilt.  The movie makes us a bit homesick for our high school years and we take several tangents into our backstory.  We hope you have as much fun as we did.

This week we try to record a follow-up episode to Teen Wolf while our new kitten, Bowie, wreaks unimaginable havoc on our sound quality... sorry audiophiles.  We make sure to clear up the timeline on 1985 being the year of Michael J Fox.  We talk about our high school nicknames and take some time to track down our patron saint.  We also spend a pretty serious tangent on the Nifty Fifty stocks in t...

Greeting Dicknoses, join Zack and Jenny as we unpack the Michael J Fox classic, Teen Wolf. In this episode we spend a lot of time looking at the things Jenny’s parents censored, and even more at the things they didn’t. We also ask the age old question, how big of a star was MJF in 1985

Once more into the fray, we look mostly at the careers of our 3 main stars and where they went from here.  We also get quite distracted along the way.

Join us as we don’t really talk much about the movie, but go deep on 1993. We also talk about how great Zack is in missing the point and how we have to read 30 year old Vanity Fair back issues because we aren’t “getting what we need” out of Playboy.

Hold on to your butts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.  We saw Indecent Proposal, a movie full of actors we love playing characters we don't want to meet.  This is a movie where some of the most talented and sexy people in the early 90s came together to make a film that, dare we say, defined what it meant to be sexy for a time in pop culture.  Join us as we strap in and get into a movie where nothing...