Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

Send us Fan Mail Flash and the gang face off against the glorious villain Ming the Merciless (who could easily take Thanos's lunch money). There's ridiculous special effects, very short Hawk-Men shorts, and a Queen soundtrack that will crush your face.  We promise this will be the best 52 min, 28 sec of your day.

Send us Fan Mail One episode couldn't do this one justice, so the boys present a special two-parter in order to squeeze in all the pew pew pews, the red sateen, the tiny tiny Hawk Men shorts, and more cheese than we deserve.  Plus, we share our takes on some famous ambiguous endings in film.

Send us Fan Mail There's a scene where Corey Feldman, dressed as Michael Jackson, does a 4 minute dance routine in a gym and its not even the worst scene in the movie.  The worst of the 80s in on full display as the gang entertain a listener request this week.  We love our audience, but this one put us through the proverbial ringer.  Dated humor, misogyny, hair mousse, and the most disconnect...

Send us Fan Mail Even our bombs bombed bigger in the 90s.  With the 2026 summer blockbuster season folding like Superman on laundry day, we thought we'd go back 33 years (yikes) to reveal how they used to fail back in the day. Arnie does his best to try to keep this flaming dog poo bag burning, but a clunky script, forced self-referential humor, and possibly the most annoying 90s kid ever to...

Send us Fan Mail Five years in and we've yet to talk about the Muscles from Brussels.  This ends here.  In one of our most serve-serving episodes to date, we decide to completely disregard our audience and instead cover a movie just for our own warped cinematic fetishes. The stereotypes and misogyny are in full bloom throughout this film's measly 92 minutes, but somehow everything works...

Send us Fan Mail Being the grumpy jerks we are, we're guessing you can simply stay home this weekend and listen to this podcast instead of braving theatres to see Disclosure Day.  Steve made the perfect UFO movie fifty (gulp) years ago so we invite you to ward off the inevitable disappointment.  But, we hope we're wrong.

Send us Fan Mail Come listen as two brutes scratch their heads and furrow their brows as the try to review an art house film.  Having nary a special effect and nor not even one explosion, your hosts are forced to find new ways to find fault.  They are not up to the challenge.  This one is an adorable change of pace for your grumpy crew so make sure you tune in to see how they fare.  Plus, we talk...

Send us Fan Mail The boys go back to the golden era of brain rot to explore our long obsession with the video game.  From Pong to XBOX, these consoles were our baby sitters, our pacifiers, and our rage generators. So grab your quarters and prepare to relive the days where an Italian-American could clobber a monkey with a big hammer and no one raised an eyebrow.

Send us Fan Mail You Send Our Podcast to the Hospital, We Send Your Podcast to the Morgue. That's the Grumpy Nostalgia Way.  The boys go full OG this week reliving Brian De Palma's 1987 classic.  In a time when Americans couldn't drink, we learn that baseball bats, police brutality, and casual Italian-American racism could deliver us to moral clarity.  Fresh new face, Costner, nearl...

Send us Fan Mail Mandalorians and Grogus are fine, but us 80s kids would rather see some stop motion terror and a galactic build-a-bear workshop taking down the Empire.  The country is gonna remember why they like Star Wars in the next few weeks so we shamelessly dust off one of our favorite episodes from a long time ago and a galaxy blah blah blah and get a head start.  Show favorite Aron joins t...

Send us Fan Mail This week's brand new episode features what we call a "thinking man's Sci-Fi" movie.  Generally, that's code for boring. And there's some of that to be fair, but for the most part this one is pretty good. If you can buy McConaughey as a priest, you can pretty much believe anything.  Even the existence of little green men (which there are none here eit...

Send us Fan Mail Resident show punching bag Costner writes, directs, stars, and even sings the ending credits song!  Way to hog the movie, K!  An extended spring break kept the boys out of the studio this week, so we humbly ask our overly patient audience to give this episode another listen.  Not a lot of y'all heard this one the first time and we understand.  This movie is a letter bomb.  We...

Send us Fan Mail After 35 years, most things tend to degrade.  We certainly did.  But this is not the case for one of the greatest psychological horror films of all time.  Join the gang as they revisit the culinary curiosities in this amazing Jonathan Demme classic. Rural Appalachia, oversized panties, homemade Halloween masks, and a well-placed tuck are just the start. Our only regret is that we...

Send us Fan Mail With Silence of The Lambs returning to theaters this week for it's 25th Anniversary, the boys decide to spoil the party by reviewing the film where it all started, Michael Mann's stylish Manhunter from 1986.  Heavy handed and completely free of any levity at all, it's a bit of a chore to sit through, but we knew the risks when we took the job.  Bereft of any other o...

Send us Fan Mail The Artemis crew WISHES they could be as cool as the goofy miners-turned-astronauts in this ridiculous Michael Bay extravaganza from 1998.  Grab your animal crackers and settle in for nearly 3 hours full of space dementia and good old America saving the world yet again.  Oh, spoiler alert: Gruber doesn't make it (whoever the hell he was).

Send us Fan Mail We're going full icky this week by covering a film by the recently deceased Hollywood icon Chuck Norris.  Yes, we tried to avoid memes and jokes and, yes, we failed.  Over 120 gratuitous kills and zero sleeves. Not a bad ratio for a movie in the 80s.  Oh, and an armadillo out-acts most of the cast.

Send us Fan Mail With  The Mummy Returns  returning to theaters for a special 25th-anniversary this weekend, we thought it prudent to dust off our own take on the franchise from several years ago. Though not a well preserved as a mummy, this episode still has some life in it and quite frankly we're too busy getting next Monday's release ready to do our job as podcasters properly.  Until...

Send us Fan Mail This week we go back to a big one, but as we learn, size doesn't matter.  In fact a few minutes we wont even be matter.  Come back to glorious 1997 where movies were bigger, better, and could star Will Smith without the audience wanting to punch him in the face. Speaking of jerks, stick around to the end when the boys explore other celebs that we used to admire, but now not s...

Send us Fan Mail With Studio Ghibli releasing 1989's Kiki's Delivery Service in IMAX this week, the gang decided to dust off this awesome episode featuring a collab with the gals from 2nd Hand Nostalgia. Mucho Manga 

Send us Fan Mail An 80s fantasy adventure with scorpions, gorgons and gratuitous boobs. A recipe for the best Saturday night ever.  Laurence Olivier is here for some credibility and Ursula Andress is here for two more things.  The nostalgia hits harder than the Kraken as the boys end the episode talking about their other favorite early HBO movies that seemed to be on every day, all the time.

Send us Fan Mail Why does everyone forget that this is their favorite movie? The boys get sentimental this week by revisiting this 1986 Rob Reiner masterpiece.  Recent events notwithstanding, this one reminds us why we go to the movies in the first place.  A billion dollar CGI Marvel movie is good and all, but these types of movies carry their own magic when they're done right, and this is no...

Send us Fan Mail Grab a diablo sammitch and a Dr. Pepper and join the gang as they go back to the glorious morality-free movies of the 70s by viewing Smokey and the Bandit.  There's CB radio-talk, casual misogyny, and more car crashes than you can shake a stick at.  Bandit's Trans Am overstimulates the hosts to the point where they feel compelled to talk about their favorite movie cars. ...

Send us Fan Mail In a world with no screens, no safety, and no gas mileage, many a family would venture into our great country to explore tourist traps and dirty gas stations.  This is their story. Stop touching me!

Send us Fan Mail This 80s brat pack weren't your standard yuppie romantics, they were hardened killers. Swayze puts his Roadhouse kill count to shame in this cold war thriller that scared the crap out of us, but taught us the only good commie was a dead commie.  Wolverines!

Send us Fan Mail The movie that bravely pooped in its hand and flung it at the audience.  The boys short circuit after their viewing of this Burton remake of one of their favorite childhood movies.  Ape puns, unwarranted cynicism, and nervous breakdowns are only the start in this infamous episode from years ago.