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Jen welcomes show regular Bitter Karella and wild card Moodyferret to evangelize a Gore Verbinski flop that didn't deserve the massive shrug it got from the public: the 2016 psychological thriller A Cure For Wellness. Errata: we all say in the episode that this movie came out in 2016, but it actually arrived in theaters on February 17, 2017 before almost immediately disappearing. Oops! That said,...

Jen and Tim look back at an all-star polemic from 1990, The Earth Day Special, a plea on behalf of Mother Earth that made a powerful impression on a young Tim. Also, we better not catch you pouring any old house paint down the drain. Watch the special  at the Internet Archive (and if so inclined, maybe throw them a small donation  for collecting all that health data recently purged from...

The editing is terrible! Tim and Jen howl at the moon, which is an ovoid shape, and critique the amateurish werewolf film Lycan Colony, at least when they can make out what's onscreen. Take a drink every time Tim says the editing is terrible! Do you love podcasting? Do you love clicking on links? Well here's one that's related to both of those things! Zencastr features an incredible suite of podca...

Jen and Tim hold Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast hostage in order to talk about a holiday musical that really wasn't: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't! For more of the Worst Possible boys, check out our collection of their guest appearances  on the show! And of course you simply must hear The Worst of All Possible Worlds for yourself over at their Patreon! If you have...

Tim and Jen cover an unusual holiday movie that features a man beaten down by an uncaring society enough to become a self-appointed assassin. Wait, what year is this? It's 1980 and this is Christmas Evil! There is a whole ass website about Whamageddon  with the ruleset and everything, if you'd like to play or simply to inform yourself. We won't be participating, though, because we love Wham!...

Jen and Tim grit their teeth through Barry Levinson's oppressively whimsical passion project that literally no one liked, Toys. Also, take a drink every time we use a variant of the word "whimsy," but please drink responsibly! See the (in)famous Toys teaser trailer on YouTube. Roger Ebert penned a more measured analysis of the film back in 1992: There's a curious residue of dissatisfaction after "...

Tim and Jen rope old friend Paul Jay into talking about a very stupid Stephen King shapeshifting energy vampires vs. kitties flick, Sleepwalkers. Errata: Newsies actually came out April 8th, 1992, but it's probably safe to assume that no one wanted to see it on that date, either. IGN has a very good interview with director Mick Garris,  in which he talks about his work on much better horror p...

Oh God! Oh man! Jen and Tim and Mets devotee David J. Roth square up with Norman Mailer's demented neo-noir, Tough Guys Don't Dance. Read David's piece on a true American original,  B-movie stalwart Wings Hauser. Did you know that he was in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time? Well now you do! Collider profiled  the one and only ersatz Charles Bronson (or the most prominent and suc...

Tim takes the reins to enthuse about a shockingly creepy British TV series for kids (?!), Children of the Stones. Tip us at ko-fi.com/hystpod! Watch the entirety of Children of the Stones on YouTube! Hear the Reese Shearsmith-led podcast adaptation  of Children of the Stones over at the Beeb. Want more folk horror? Sample our collection of same! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Jen welcomes Darren Herczeg to help her rhapsodize about a movie even director Ken Russell didn't like, Valentino! Tip us at ko-fi.com/hystpod! The wonderfully-named Phallic Frenzy  gives Russell his due as an audacious filmmaker, and describes Valentino in complimentary terms. See Nureyev fully commit to the bit by dancing "Swine Lake"  on the Muppet Show in 1978. The book on Fatty Arbu...

Jen and Tim rationalize David Fincher's unlucky first feature, Alien Cubed (aka Alien³). Turns out that Tim has A LOT to say about Alien movies! Read a 1992 interview  with David Fincher, in which he's quite candid about "the worst thing that ever happened to me"— that is, the production of Alien³. A helpful fan wiki has provided a transcript of William Gibson's first draft screenplay  f...

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Tim and Jen are surprisingly hard on Disney's amiable comics-based misfire, The Rocketeer! See Rondo Hatton in The Brute Man , but let the MST3k crew accompany you through this murky noir. The Cocoanut Grove fire has been widely covered in media. The Fascinating Horror channel has an excellent recounting of the disaster,  in the dispassionate and non-sensationalized style of the best YouTube...

Jen and Tim return to Gumbasia to discuss the legacy of a complicated man: Gumby creator Art Clokey! The documentary that sparked the discussion, Gumby Dharma , may be viewed free on YouTube via the channel for Bay Area PBS station KQED. Pay a visit to Clokey Productions to see some behind-the-scenes footage! Here's an example of that Lego wizard hat  thing Tim mentioned. Clever! If you misse...

An extra-mellow and profoundly aphasic Bitter Karella steps in to help Jen explicate the other, crappier version of The Warriors: Streets of Fire! Hear the bangin' soundtrack on YouTube , which includes "Deeper and Deeper" by The Fixx (which you won't see on the Spotify version of the soundtrack even though "Deeper and Deeper" IS on there. Who knows why). Yes, there are some tidbits about Streets...

Having spoken about their most favorite topics from the last one hundred episodes, Tim and Jen scrape the bottom of the barrel for their worst favorites. Lexx , Witch Hunt , and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus  may all be viewed at the Internet Archive. The game Jen mentioned is indeed Warlords and you can play it online  with those heart-stopping Atari graphics and everything! Cur...

Jen and Tim reflect on the last one hundred episodes (holy crap, we made it to 200 and beyond!) and each chooses five favorites from the mixed bag! On YouTube, you can watch Penda's Fen , The Jericho Mile , and Pavel Klushantsev's delightful Planet of Storms . Tubi has the taut thriller Money Movers , as well as the unjustly overlooked Heart of Midnight and George Romero's feminist drama Season of...

Tim and Jen invite Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast  to marvel at Saul Bass's disquieting sci-fi dreamscape, Phase IV! View the alternate ending  that should have been the theatrical ending to Phase IV on YouTube. A couple of interesting side notes about the Oscar-winning faux documentary Alex mentioned, The Hellstrom Chronicle:  it was conceived and executive produced by...

Jen and Tim doggedly return to the remnants of Max Knight: Ultra Spy in hopes that it can be archived on a Zip disk and forgotten. Missed part one of our deep dive? Find it here!  Wanna see the movie? "Log in" to the "Information Superhighway" and "point" your "browser" to the Internet Archive! Too young to have purchased the Trainspotting soundtrack when it first dropped? Even if you weren't...

Tim gets the bit (or byte?) between his teeth and rants about the 90s and the lost promise of the internet, and a little bit about cheapie TV movie Max Knight: Ultra Spy! Jen just tries to hold on as best she can! Oh yeah, and this is part one because we don't know how to shut up! You can easily tell how white your hosts are by their lack of knowledge of UPN (not the only tell, if we're being hone...

Tim and Jen enlist Gaius of the wonderful Tribunate  channel on YouTube to help unearth a Romans-vs.-Picts historical epic that vanished like the Ninth Legion, Centurion. Jen's personal favorite video from Tribunate is this savage takedown of Cato,  but this examination of Roman concepts of race  and how radically they differ from ours is another great example of the high caliber of...

Jen puts Tim in an arm bar until he agrees to talk about a backyard martial arts movie from a determined auteur: Fight Ring! Sean Gallimore  had a successful animation career for many years, including many top-of-the-line films for Disney. See a gallery of his artwork,  which includes expert 3D modeling work as well as his signature pinups. See more Gallimore pinups here! If you love out...

Tim and Jen invite their favorite internet crank Bitter Karella to help them analyze a bewildering major release that no one liked, Argylle. It's so confounding a project, it leads Karella to use the phrase "Brechtian distancing mechanism." Listen to our Apple TV+ episode,  in which we read the entire platform to filth. F*ck you, Tim Apple! Read this Deadline article  about the productio...

Jen and Tim just can't figure out why audiences were so lukewarm about this fun pulp adventure, The Phantom from 1996. Phantom creator Lee Falk enthused about the movie in a 1996 interview,  singling out Billy Zane for particular praise. As Tim mentioned, the Phantom struck a chord with the people of Papua New Guinea. See examples of war shields of the PNG highlands featuring the character. H...

Tim and Jen welcome Rifftrax stalwarts Bill Corbett and Sean Thomason to discuss a cheapie high fantasy film that thinks it's a spaghetti western, Hawk the Slayer! Bill and Sean have brought their Ringheads podcast to a close, but if you crave some Silmarillon chat, find it on Apple Podcasts  or your preferred podcast platform. The Rifftrax version of Hawk the Slayer is free with ads on Tubi...