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Jen and Tim look back at “the Cybertruck of prestige novel adaptations,” Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein! Most of this interview with Frank Darabont is about The Shawshank Redemption, but at the tail end he gives his unvarnished thoughts on what a hash Branagh made of his screenplay for Frankenstein. “That movie was his vision entirely. If you love that movie you can throw all your r...

Tim and Jen haze Bitter Karella over her inexplicable defense of a Halloween-themed anthology film, Trick 'r Treat! As of 2024, filmmaker Michael Dougherty is threatening a sequel to Trick 'r Treat. Be still my heart. See What's Your Problem? (What is Wrong With You?), one of Jen's favorite pieces of public television ephemera. Want a horror anthology that's actually good? Check out our episode on...

Jen welcomes back Julie ( chimericalgirl.bsky.social ) to discuss a criminally underseen coming-of-age film directed by Adrian Lyne, Foxes. Read an interview with Kandice Stroh, in which she talks in detail about playing the part of Deirdre in the film. "I learned it from watching you!" Watch a 2003 documentary on the Camarillo State Hospital, which was made shortly before its closure. The grounds...

Tim and Jen aren’t scandalized by infamous teen gross-out comedy Porky’s, it just kind of makes them scratch their heads. Someone compiled every Siskel and Ebert review of a Bob Clark film from Murder By Decree to one we actually covered on the show, Loose Cannons. Only the Judd Nelson-starring From the Hip is missing. Maybe they didn’t bother. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Jen and Tim invite Patrick Cosmos back to the show to discuss the woeful sequel to Rock ’n’ Roll High School! Please drop us a line at info@haveyouseen.us if you understand the refrigerator bit. Filmmaker Adan Gonzales obviously produced Forever: The Untold Story of Rock ’n’ Roll High School Forever as a labor of love, and audio issues aside, it’s a charming look at a movie that I guess some peopl...

Tim and Jen welcome Chris Person of the Aftermath website to discuss John Waters’s favorite film, Joseph Losey’s big swing at Tennessee William’s first flop, Boom! We highly recommend the worker-owned and reader-supported Aftermath , especially this incredibly detailed and helpful article about specialized industrial cleaners (well, Jen really liked it). Listeners may also enjoy this conversation...

Jen and Tim get around to a cute cult film about exploitation and capitalism, Josie and the Pussycats! Get Russ Burlingame’s love letter to the film, Best Movie Ever! for 30% off with discount code SEENTHIS over at JosieBook.com ! This comprehensive oral history of the film covers the beloved source comic, the production of the film, and the fierce devotion it inspired and continues to inspire in...

Tim and Jen host the freakiest guest they know, the lovable Bitter Karella of Midnight Pals fame, to chat about one of the freakiest movies she knows, Dr. Caligari! Screen Anarchy has a wonderful gallery of Caligari director Stephen Sayadian’s work, going all the way back to his earliest days as an editorial illustrator. Included are some reminisces about Dr. Caligari! Read a 2024 interview with C...

Jen and Tim unearth one of the most famous unproduced screenplays of all time, Clair Noto's dark sci-fi tale The Tourist. Read the Clair Noto interview that reminded Jen that this screenplay exists! Read the screenplay itself at the Internet Archive— highly recommended . You can watch the BBC Moving Picture s segment on The Tourist, featuring the screenwriter herself, on YouTube. See more of Giger...

Tim and Jen experience a stodgy treatment of Hollywood avarice, The Oscar. Friend of the show Josh Olson does indeed appreciate the corniness of this movie— so much so that you can hear him join comedian Patton Oswalt and filmmaker Erik Nelson for the audio commentary on the Kino Lorber blu-ray! If you’re dying to read an academic paper on The Oscar, have at it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Jen and Tim unearth a cursed relic: the television show cancelled before the final credits even rolled, Turn On! Thank you, SoapsNThings on YouTube, for archiving so many episodes of Peyton Place. The offensive Aussie show Jen alluded to that also got cancelled during the first episode was "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos." You can see the singular episode at the Internet Archive! Finally, Gers...

Tim and Jen ride along with a taciturn Ryan O'Neal for Walter Hill's sinuous neo-noir, The Driver! Walter Hill spoke with Deadline in 2024 about his influences, Tony Scott's idiot brother, and of course, westerns. Hill also talked about the controversy surrounding The Warriors in an interview for Esquire : I think the reason why there were some violent incidents is really very simple: The movie wa...

Jen and Tim examine some D-tier David Mamet: the by-the-numbers heist flick, uh, Heist. Chris Person of the worker-owned tech news site Aftermath dug up the previously unavailable special Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants in pristine broadcast resolution and made it available to the world once again. Read an interview with Person about the process and the importance of archiving conducted by David J...

Tim and Jen suffer through a patchwork spy pastiche, Casino Royale. Errata: Jen attributed the anecdote about producer Charles K. Feldman removing the pay-offs to the jokes in the script to Joe McGrath, but it actually came from another director credited on the film, Val Guest. Speaking of, you can look through some of superagent-turned-producer Feldman's personal papers courtesy of AFI. R obert V...

Jen sends thousands of robots to compel Tim to discuss a film "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's writings, I, Robot! The creepshot photographer Jen couldn't remember the name of was Miroslav Tichý. You can see many of his surreptitious and admittedly beautiful works at ArtNet. Speaking of Czech artists, we neglected to mention that Alex Proyas is currently working on an adaptation of Karel Čapek's 1920...

Tim can barely hold back his excitement about a movie that (kind of) has Cynthia Rothrock in it: Prince of the Sun! View the (kind of) English dub of the film at the Internet Archive. Jen forgot that her Letterboxd list was called "Anti-Girlboss Movies," and any movie starring Mai certainly qualifies for it. (Protip: there's also a list of every single movie we've talked about on the show, and som...

Jen invites comedian Kath Barbadoro to enjoy Psycho Kickboxer, the martial arts schlock movie that put Virginia Beach on the map!* Hear more of Kath on the Lie, Cheat, & Steal and What a Time to Be Alive podcasts. She also riffs movies with Master Pancake Theater! Look for them on Twitch. When in Virginia Beach, visit the Hot Tuna , as seen in Psycho Kickboxer! Read Daisy Thursday's Sex Change...

A mysterious stranger returns to the show to evaluate a weak Disney stab at a dark sci-fi blockbuster: The Black Hole! Zencastr gives you flawless audio, crystal-clear video, and effortless editing. Spend less time juggling tools, more time making great slo— uhh, content! T he Hollywood Reporter looked back on the production of The Black Hole in 2019, including interviews with Joseph Bottoms, dire...

Jen welcomes Jesse Hawken of the venerable  Junk Filter podcast  to help her detox from the bad trip that is Otto Preminger's Skidoo! See Preminger host his own trailer for Bunny Lake is Missing , and you better not show up late or he'll open up a can of Vienna-sausage-in-chicken-broth whoop-ass on you. Preminger and singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson appeared on  the August 30th, 1968...

Jen welcomes musician and poster par excellence Patrick Cosmos to chat about a fun little movie with tongue firmly in cheek, Blood Diner! Find Patrick at veryimportant.lawyer on Bandcamp  and Bluesky , and get his Tonal Rotors album at Big Sleep Records. Sadly, Carl Crew's California Institute of Abnormalarts is no more. Read an archived article from LA Bizarro about the venue. Keyboardist Do...

Jen blasts off with Bitter Karella in search of the meaning of an artifact from 2011: the motion-capture kid's flick Mars Needs Moms. We glibly refer to the film as "one of the biggest box office bombs of all time," as well as THE biggest, but narrowing down the actual Failure of All Failures is tough. Wikipedia has an unranked list of box office disasters. Bitter Karella guested on the show for t...

Jen and Tim suffer through an ill-starred attempt at an international caper, Shanghai Surprise! Podcast like a pro with Zencastr! Life With My Sister Madonna  is a delightfully juicy read penned by her late brother, Christopher Ciccone. (And of course she's hairy, she's Italian!) Madonna has denied that Sean Penn physically abused her during their relationship, but rumors still abound regardi...

Tim and Jen welcome living legend Hollywood Steve Huey  to discuss a Quaalude overdose of a film, FM from 1978! The core creators of Yacht Rock (both series and genre classification) host the delightful Yacht or Nyacht podcast , in which they rate the yachtiness of user-submitted songs. Highly recommended! See Bob Odenkirk narrate the story of Disco Demolition Night on Drunk History. The...

Jen and Tim wicky-wicky-watch a mostly loathed tentpole film from 1999, The Giant Mechanical Spider Invasion, aka Jon Peters' Wild Wild West (come on, it might as well have his name right above the title). We are sponsored by Zencastr, the best way to podcast! Mel Magazine has  a retrospective article on the production of the film  (good luck trying to read that link on mobile, though)....

Tim and Jen spend a LOT of time picking over a mid-tier Ridley Scott-directed actioner: Black Rain from 1989! Errata: Jen says "Tanpei Monogatori" when she meant "Tantei Monogatari," the detective TV show starring Black Rain's antagonist, Yūsuku Matsuda. All those wasted years as a weeb and she still can't pronounce Japanese words properly. Sad! For a much clunkier (read: Cannon Films) take on Eas...