Forgotten Cinema

The Mikes are taking a trip through a fantasy world to stop an evil queen from killing a baby equipped with...acorns?! That's right! Just in time for its sequel series premiere on Disney+, Mike Butler and Mike Field are discussing the 1988 George Lucas created fantasy film, Willow , starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer . Listen in as the Mikes talk about how this is a film that seems to be made w...

The Mikes have achieved the highest score at their local liquor store arcade game and have been recruited by aliens to save the universe! That's, right Forgotten Cinema is taking a look at the 1984 film, The Last Starfighter ! Listen in as Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss this cult classic and realize that it maybe doesn't hold up quite as well as a lot of 80s nostalgia would have you believe. F...

The Mikes are going to Panama to blackmail a tailor into giving them some juicy political information on the Panama Canal...and maybe a couple of nice suits as they discuss the 2001 film The Tailor of Panama on this episode of Forgotten Cinema ! Listen in as Mike Butler and Mike Field talk about how this film is not really a spy film, but a conman film that just so happens to involve spies. The Mi...

The Mikes are getting into the Komodo Dragon business with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando this week at they discuss the 1990 comedy, The Freshman . Listen in as Mike Field and Mike Butler give you some facts about the making of the film as well as their take on the film. Does Butler not like Broderick as an actor anymore; or is his character so poorly written that it actual affects Butler's o...

The Mikes are headed to Slagtown this week to hunt down a killer who also happens to be selling a detergent looking drug, to his fellow sour milk drinking, beaver eating alien immigrants circa 1991. That's right, it's 1988's Alien Nation , starring award winning actors James Caan and Mandy Patinkin . Listen in as the Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss the way the film builds its world of these "Ne...

Mike Butler and Mike Field are taking round trip through Hell, via a spaceship on the final episode of Forgotten Horror ! Join the Mikes as they discuss the 1997 sci-fi horror film, Event Horizon , directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill . They'll talk about the original 130 minute cut of this film and how due to a delay in James Cameron's Titanic , this film w...

Can a movie survive multiple viewings when you already know the twist? The Mikes are about to find out as they discuss the 2001 gothic-horror film, The Others , starring Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston on the penultimate episode of Forgotten Horror! Listen to the episode as Mike Butler and Mike Field talk about how knowing the big twist at the end of the film harms this film in many ways,...

The Mikes are bitten by something worse than a werewolf...studio interference!!!! It's (technically) Wes Craven 's aptly titled Cursed on this next instalment of Forgotten Horror! In this 2005 werewolf film, Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg play brother and sister who after a car accident involving a werewolf, start to feel themselves change and have to figure out a way to stop their curse befo...

Mike Butler and Mike Field are joined by John Doolan of the You Can't Sit With Us podcast for the premiere of the fourth annual Forgotten Horror! What's in the coffin tonight? The 1975 television horror special Trilogy of Terror starring Karen Black in three (or four) distinct roles and an especially violent Zulu warrior doll. Listen in as the three discuss Karen Black ability to become numerous d...

The Mike's are watching this week's film from the back of a station wagon as they discuss the 2013 film The Way Way Back , starring Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, and Toni Collette. Listen as Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss this coming-of-age comedy/drama. From the great dialogue from Rockwell's character to the story and it's adherence to the main character's point of view. This movie carries alo...

Mike Field and Mike Butler are joined by Chris and Dan from Film Trace podcast as they discuss the 2008 film, Role Models , directed by David Wain , and starring Paul Rudd , Seann William-Scott , Elizabeth Banks , Christopher Mintz-Plasse , and a breakout role for Bobb'e J. Thompson . Role Models tells the story of two thirty-something losers (Rudd & William-Scott) who must enroll in their cit...

The Mikes are about to make millions, but first they just have to catch that mouse that's been running around the house...if they don't kill each other first. That's basically the plot of Forgotten Cinema in a nutshell, but ALSO the plot of the 1997 film, Mousehunt ; the first feature film by director Gore Verbinski . In the film, brothers Ernie ( Nathan Lane ) and Lars ( Lee Evans ) are down on t...

The Mikes are teaming up with Pat Whalen once again for a trip into a Native American Reservation in Wyoming to investigate a mysterious death. Or...I mean, talk about other people doing that; not them. They just talk movies...not solve murders, like in the 2017 film Wind River . Cory Lambert ( Jeremy Rener ) is a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian re...

The Mikes are a couple of conmen placing a multimillion dollar bet on a boxing match for the ownership of a town...nope, wait...I was thinking of James Woods and Louis Gossett Jr. in the 1992 film, Diggstown . In the film, just released from prison, smooth-talking con man Gabriel Caine (Woods) and his partner in crime, Fitz ( Oliver Platt ), travel to a town named Diggstown. Upon arriving, Fitz an...

"Take their mics, take their PCs, take them where there are no podcasts, they don't care, they'll still watch movies, you can't take the cinema from them." If you ever watched the very short-lived, but super beloved TV show Firefly you tried terribly to match those lyrics to the theme song. The Mikes are podcasters, not lyricists. Speaking of podcasters, the Mikes are joined by fellow podcaster Jo...

Mike Butler and Mike Field are teaming up with Ben Affleck to fight mercenaries and math on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as they discuss the 2016 action thriller, The Accountant , directed by Gavin O'Connor. Also starring Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, and Jon Lithgow, the films centers on Christian Wolff, a genius accountant who falls on the autism spectrum. Using a small-town CPA...

The Mikes are playing America's favorite past-time with their guest this week; Pat Whalen from the Yet Another MCU Podcast as they discuss the 2001 romantic sports comedy, Summer Catch . Taking place in Cape Cod and about players on their Chatham A's baseball team. The film centers on local player, Ryan Dunne ( Freddie Prinze Jr. ) who meets and falls for Tenley Parrish ( Jessica Biel ), the daugh...

The Mikes are going back to 1980's Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall to do some spy stuff with Charlize Theron in 2017's Atomic Blonde . Directed by David Leitch of John Wick fame, this film also stars James McAvoy as a partner/foil for Theron's deadly agent, as East and West Berlin spies race to find a secret list of undercover agents and find the identity of a double agent working again...

It's the Season 13 finale! Get your sick sticks ready! Mike Butler and Mike Field are discussing the 2002 hit Minority Report , directed by a small indie director named Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise in what is surely now the last Tom Cruise film we haven't covered...seriously though, this is our sixth Tom Cruise film! We might have a problem. Field gives you the facts, Butler tells you...

The Mikes are getting into the "funny papers" this week, as they discuss the 2005 comedy musical Reefer Madness , starring Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Steven Weber, Ana Gasteyer, and Alan Cumming. Mike Butler and Mike Field enjoy this raunchy, hilarious musical, that is a farcical "remake" of a ridiculous anti-marijuana film from the 1930's. The film is also adapted from the same stage play...

The Mikes are running afoul of the Russian mob as they check out David Cronenberg's 2007 crime film, Eastern Promises , starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts. Mike Field and Mike Butler discuss the how underrated both Mortensen and Cronenberg are in terms of general audiences, the infamous bathhouse fight, and what worked and what didn't in terms of the story such as choices that Watt's charact...

The Mikes are mumbling their way through some strange songs and even stranger characters on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as they discuss Robert Altman's 1980 musical-comedy Popeye , starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duval. Mike Butler is not a fan of this very odd children's film based on the popular cartoon character. From the unfunny dialogue, the slow pacing of the first third of the film,...

Be better than the Gap! It's time for Ryan Gosling to teach you and a down-on-his-luck Steve Carell how to be a better man...or at least a better player in 2011's Crazy Stupid Love . Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss how this quirky romantic dramedy is actually a generally great movie, that is well acted, well written, and well directed. This film has many branching storylines and although they a...

It's life in prison on a desert...followed by life in prison stranded on an exotic island that just happens to be right next to a desert? Sorry, the Mikes still haven't wrapped their heads around that one. The Mikes are talking No Escape from 1994, directed by Martin Campbell and starring the late Ray Liotta, Lance Henrikson, Stuart Wilson and Ernie Hudson. Listen in as Mike Butler and Mike Field...

You walk by a phone booth in New York City. The phone suddenly starts ringing. You turn around in disbelief..."Whoa! There are still phone booths in this country?!" you say to yourself out loud as you ignore the ringing phone that clearly isn't for you, because if it was for you, they'd be calling your cell phone! And even then, you ignore the call, because let's face it, if it's not a text it's p...