Fumbling Through Film

Episode Theme: Tubi Originals The Fumblers seek revenge on the perpetrators of a frat hazing prank gone wrong when they watch Terror Train. One of us is the clown, and you'll be surprised to find out who. Terror Train 2022 - TV-MA - 1h30m It follows a college student as she boards a party train for Halloween, and ends up fighting for her life when a mysterious assailant begins killing the people o...

Episode Theme: Foodie Films Wild Card The Fumblers kick and chop their way through another Wild Card with Lone Wolf McQuade. One of us gets buried alive in our car and then drives to freedom, and which one of us it is will surprise you. Lone Wolf McQuade 1983 - PG - 1h47m After helping the local police with some horse thieves, a Texas Ranger aims at a drug lord with arms trade as well. They're int...

Episode Theme: Foodie Films The Fumblers answers an unassuming sexy ad in the local paper and watch Eating Raoul. One of us jumps in a hot tub with a couple dozen swingers and it's electric. Which one of us dares to cram in a hot tub may surprise you. Eating Raoul 1982 - R - 1h23m A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaur...

Episode Theme: Foodie Films The Fumblers park their truck in front of a little ramen shop and watch Tampopo. Two of us seductively pass an egg yolk back and forth from our mouths and which two of us may surprise you. Tampopo 1985 - 18 - 1h54m A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the...

Episode Theme: Foodie Films The Fumblers pull up to the table with wide eyes and hungry tummies for a heaping helping of Big Night. One of us awkwardly walks into a flower case rather than talk honestly with another person and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to learn who. Big Night 1996 - R - 1h49m New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a ri...

Episode Theme: Genre Defining The Fumblers find themselves amongst some immortals that want to study us and our boners. We watch Zardoz and it really gets the blood flowing. One of us finds love with the immortals and who it is might surprise you. Zardoz 1974 - R - 1h45m In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves h...

Episode Theme: Genre Defining The Fumblers are back on the case after they find a body in their boot and drag it into their basement to hide it. While waiting for the police we watch Blood and Black Lace. One of us falls off the roof onto an awning and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised who. Blood and Black Lace 1964 - NR - 1h28m A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scanda...

Episode Theme: Genre Defining The Fumblers stumble upon a shiny sword sticking out from what appears to be a Styrofoam boulder. We fail to retrieve the sword, so we do the next best thing: watch Excalibur. One of us is tricked into sleeping with our sister to produce an evil offspring and which one of us it is will surprise you. Excalibur 2008 - PG - 2h20m Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendrago...

Episode Theme: Genre Defining The Fumblers find themselves the subject of bizarre experiments being conducted by an oppressive government and they are left with no choice but to turn to evil to save ourselves and our friends. One of us does mutate into a hideous body horror blob and I think you'll be surprised to find out who. Akira 1988 - R - 2h4m A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo whe...

Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors The Fumblers get wild and wacky with a new wild card episode. Our adventures lead us down the path to the scary and hip The Faculty. One of us snorts some caffeine and are exposed as a water loving alien freak. I think you'll be surprised to find out who. The Faculty 1998 - R - 1h44m When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the m...

Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE SINNERS The Fumblers venture out to the theaters to check the new Ryan Coogler vampire flick. One of us refused to eat the garlic butter popcorn or drink the holy Aquafina and who it is may surprise you. Sinners 2025 - R - 2h17m Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their home...

Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors The Fumblers continue on their adventure with actors that are double dipping in the same movie with Adaptation. By the end we find out one of us is simply a character we created to get us here so we can kill them off. It may surprise you to find out which of us it is. Adaptation 2002 - R - 1h55m A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adap...

Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors The Fumblers face off against their younger, more deadly selves and take on Ang Lee's Gemini Man. Which of us is real and which of us is CGI, the answer might surprise you. Gemini Man 2019 - PG-13 - 1h57m An over-the-hill hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself. Director: Ang Lee Writer: David Benioff, Billy Ray, Darren Lemke Stars: Will Smith, Mary Eliz...

Episode Theme: Baseball The Fumblers get together at the first chime to square off over the underrated Sam Raimi Western, The Quick and the Dead. Which one of us will be left with a grapefruit sized hole in us? The answer may surprise you. The Quick and the Dead 1995 - R - 1h48m A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort t...

Episode Theme: Baseball The Fumblers must kill the Queen. The Naked Gun 1988 - PG-13 - 1h25m Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. Director: David Zucker Writer: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, OJ Simpson Thanks for listening to Fumbling Through Film! New episodes drop...

Episode Theme: Baseball The Fumblers take a swing at another Kevin Costner baseball movie. Was it an error? Risk Nothing, Gain Everything For Love of the Game 1999 - PG-13 - 2h17m After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there. Director: Sam Raimi Writer: Michael Shaara, D...

Episode Theme: Baseball The Fumblers venture to tobacco country to check out one of Kevin Costner's many baseball movies. They find out about the Clown Prince of Baseball and their lives may be changed forever. Bull Durham 1988 - R - 1h48m A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him. Director:...

Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers The Fumblers check out De Niro's first attempt at a more light hearted action movie, they talk about lock picking, weird types of cameras, and read a review that will change the way you think about reviews. Midnight Run 1988 - R - 2h6m A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob...

Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers The Fumblers endure the best from 80 years ago as Terry is duped by the title and they discuss Vikings, murder hornets, and the Osmonds along the way. The Snake Pit 1948 - Approved - 1h48m Virginia Cunningham can't recall how she landed in an asylum. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms. She remains in mi...

Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers The Fumblers debate the merits of bearing it all to make a few grand and check out the Oscar nominated comedy about hard steel and weird butts. The Full Monty 1997 - R - 1h31m Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity. Director: Peter Cattaneo Writer: Simon Beaufoy Stars: R...

Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers The Fumblers tackle an Oscar nominated move starring Jack Nicholson. Is Five Easy Pieces easy watching? Five Easy Pieces 1970 - R - 1h38m A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. Director: Bab Rafelson Writer: Carole Eastman, Bob Rafe...

Episode Theme: Reptiles The Fumblers do some extreme fumbling with this week's Wild Card Movie. XXX has it all: skiing in the jungle, murder with satellite, and everything else that Vin Diesel thinks is awesome. XXX: Return of Xander Cage 2017 - PG-13 - 1h47m Xander Cage, left for dead after an incident, is recruited back into action for a new assignment, leading a team of death-defying adrenaline...

Episode Theme: Reptiles Derek, Terry, and Keith go on a walk about and revisit the nearly 40 year old Oscar nominated Rom-Com, Crocodile Dundee. Will it hold up or should it be left for the crocs? Crocodile Dundee 1986 - PG-13 - 1h37m American reporter Sue Charlton travels to the Australian outback to meet eccentric poacher Mick "Crocodile" Dundee and invites him to New York City, where...

Episode Theme: Reptiles Keith, Terry, and Derek hunker down for some surreal comedy horror with the ultra horny White Worm. The Lair of the White Worm 1988 - R - 1h33m When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences. Director: Ken Russell Writer: Ken Russell, Bram Stoker Stars: Amanda D...

Episode Theme: Reptiles Terry kicks off our Reptile month with Alligator and the Fumblers take a big bite out of this 80s comedy, horror monster movie. Alligator 1980- R - 1h31m A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have...