Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

Send us Fan Mail Gobble Gobble, y'all.  We're so caught up in the holiday excitement preamble, we are using our precious studio time to wrap gifts and browse thru the Sears Christmas catalog making our lists for Big Red. In the meanwhile, please revisit this lost episode that no one really bothered listening to the first time.  We really never got over that.  Please give this one a liste...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we're diving into the 1990 Dick Tracy movie. Remember this one?  Of course you dont. Imagine Tim Burton’s Gotham got hit with a color filter that only understands primary colors and then added... a whole lot of questionable choices. Warren Beatty is no Michael Keaton (sorry, buddy), but he does give it his best shot. And Pacino? Well, let’s just say he was definite...

Send us Fan Mail We dare you admit you didn't watch this on HBO at every pizza-fueled sleepover in the 80s. It's a fun mix of horror, comedy, and well-meant gratuitous gore and nudity, just like the eighties.  Your gang had a blast checking this one out again. To end both the 4th season and their month long horror spectacular, the boys finally reveal their favorite horror films after spe...

Send us Fan Mail Our final trip down memory lane is last year's retrospective of Wes Craven's original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Creative, original, and generally icky, just like your hosts. Stick around to the end where the gang talks about their favorite (and least liked) Halloween candy.

Send us Fan Mail Back in the 70s, most things were designed to ruin children. Jarts, doctors smoking in the exam room, steel playgrounds, and television movies about kids getting killed. So naturally, we decided to review the most egregious of these, Salem's Lot. Mostly tame by today's standards, this Stephen King vampire classic broke our little brains and we're pretty bitter about...

Send us Fan Mail Horror, dread, and misery. And that's just Keanu's accent. Gary Oldman is serving generous amounts of holiday ham in this campy, unintentionally hilarious 90's horror classic. Not to be outdone Anthony Hopkins goes full batcrap crazy here too.  But it's all okay because our Sweet Winona looks over us all. The best part for your grumpy hosts however is the prese...

Send us Fan Mail We're bringing our Dominos pizza and a two liter Coke downstairs to the rumpus room for another late night viewing of the greatest cult horror comedy ever made.  Violent, gross, disturbing, yet never not hilarious. Even better, everyone's favorite veterinarian, Dr K. joins the gang to offer some ridiculously astute and off the wall observations that our hosts have never...

Send us Fan Mail Cool teen vampires? No way!  We're going back to the glorious 80s this week when a movie like this one would be celebrated by the masses. Is it as good in the rear view mirror? Well sadly, one of your hosts gets violently and copiously sick reliving this one if that's any indication.  See if you can guess which one! After some mopping up and apologizing, the gang test th...

Send us Fan Mail To honor last year's Halloween BooNanza, we've decided to re-release those spooky episodes every Saturday this October to introduce them to our new friends while still managing to annoy our regular fans. This one features our favorite vinyl archivist, @aron_gagliardo as we violate our tender sensibilities reviewing this 1974 Tobe Hooper classic. Bitch hogs unite! 

Send us Fan Mail This week the boys review this adorable story of American entrepreneurship, love, and pelicans. Al Pacino's iconic, if not over-the-top, performance has developed its own archetype of cinema that's often imitated, rarely duplicated.  Show favorite, Michelle Pfeiffer owns the screen only with a few eye rolls and the lethal combo of Brian DePalma and Oliver Stone do the re...

Send us Fan Mail Is it finally happening?  Did a Yoko-type infiltrate and cause the inevitable break up we all saw coming since Twister released in 2022? In a word: nah We simply wanted to let you know about some upcoming show news and a slight schedule change for this fall. No, we're not skimping out on any episodes.  You're still gonna get all the episodes you paid for.  Hey.  Wait a m...

Send us Fan Mail Bereft of new ideas, Hollywood has again taken another of our classic movies to reintroduce it to a new audience and we're starting to take it personally.  These are our movies, damn it.  Make up your own ones! Okay, tantrum over. This time were going back to the glorious original, Betelgeuese from 1988. Keaton is cool and Winona is cute. And that was all we needed. Stick aro...

Send us Fan Mail What if Evel Kneivel and and Ed Wood had a baby? Broken Arrow, that's what.  Travolta is a proper cured Virginia ham in this John Woo action adventure and we cant get enough of it.  Long admired behind the scenes, the boys let there feelings out with extreme prejudice.   Inspired by cute, little Samantha Mathis, we also talk about our favorite ingenues of the 80s and 90s. Thi...

Send us Fan Mail Why go to a theater to see an 8th sequel of Alien, when you can simply revisit the franchise from the comfort of your own ear buds?  Inspired by the new release of Alien: Romulus, the boys remastered their early take on the Alien series with new content, new audio, and new embarrassing discourse!  Only about a dozen of you heard this the first time so we don't wanna hear any...

Send us Fan Mail Just when we thought we were out.  The boys get a chip on their shoulder this week, defending this often maligned finale.  By today's standards this movie could easily sweep the Oscars, but back then, a bunch of film school drop-outs had a serious case of sour grapes and the rest was history. We suppose they practiced  trolling Sophia Coppola to later refine their skills for...

Send us Fan Mail We finally hit 88 miles an hour this week, with a look back at this 80s classic. It's as good as you remember, but, true to form, the boys manage to find just enough cringe to make you feel slightly embarrassed. (hey, it's what they do).  Jammin music, awesome cast, and one of Hollywood's most perfect scripts, there's really no reason to not listen to this one,...

Send us Fan Mail Get a head start on the upcoming (and questionable) AppleTV reboot by porting back to this 1981 fever dream of a movie.  There's too much weird to count here, but the boys slog through this confusing, but often hilarious Python-based scifi adventure. For your pleasure, the boys wrap up this episode with another look back at the pop culture exposures we saw as kids that scarre...

Send us Fan Mail Despite all our rage we are still going back to Nic Cage.  This one seems a little more tolerable in that its more an extended music video rather than a movie.  But hey!  It's too hot to do anything else right now so why not? Fast cars, loose dialogue, a blond, dread-locked Angie and more stereotyped characters than you can count.  What more do yo need?  Plus, this time the b...

Send us Fan Mail We're taking a look at Spielberg's masterpiece this week.  Not usually the first movie you associate with Steve, but arguably his best.  Plus, the boys spend some time remembering how great the 70s were for being mischievous little boys. Stick around to the end to make fun of our list of favorite "little green men" movies.

Send us Fan Mail Madhouse, indeed.  The boys go back to the future this week to review the glorious original Planet of the Apes.  Fresh after a recent viewing of the latest Apes movie (in an actual theater) our hosts were inspired to go back to the Forbidden Zone to re-watch this iconic sci-fi classic and, more importantly, take a few more shots at the Tim Burton abomination while they were at it....

Send us Fan Mail Angie's eyebrow is the real star here.  A mish-mosh video game movie set to Matrix music and a lot of titillation. (Pun definitely intended).  Tomb Raider is a neat example of how Hollywood came kicking and screaming into the female action lead era.  Is it good? No.  Has it redeemed itself over time? Also no.  To conclude the "Trail of Tears" mini-series, the boys t...

Send us Fan Mail Who knew the bass player from Dogstar was also an actor? This time the boys go back to the Y2K era to relook at this innovative sci-fi epic.  Bullets are flying and the techno is thumping, but that's not enough for one of our grumpy hosts, who seems to have some legitimate, yet petty issues with this one.  What a jerk! Stick around for the conclusion of "Loser Talk"...

Send us Fan Mail Return to sender.  Think of a movie you dont really like, add 38 minutes, and you have the Postman.  The boys start their "The Trail of Tears" mini-series this week with a look back at yet another post-apocolyptic  world saved by baby Jesus Kevin Costner. He writes, directs, stars, and even sings the ending credits song!  Way to hog the movie, K! Stick around for the end...

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 He'll save every one of us!!  The boys finally cover our favorite 80s HBO mainstay, Flash Gordon.   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 bes...