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Jen and Tim journey to Gumbasia to experience the vision of a lovable madman, The Gumby Movie, aka Gumby 1! The story of Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line that bears her name is a remarkable one, encompassing topics of institutionalized racism, scientific ethics, and medical marvels. Adam Curtis made a fine documentary  about Lacks and the HeLa line of cells in 1997 for the BBC. The...

Tim and Jen spice up their lives with a fluffy little movie about five assertive young women, Spice World! Read a contemporaneous account from Rolling Stone  of the Spice Girls at the height of their global fame, in which they pick their noses, pee on things, and generally lark about. The VH1 commercial slamming ELO  that Jen mentioned is the first one in this compilation. Yeah, what was...

Jen and Tim mildly disagree on a Sam Raimi film that didn't quite hit with audiences the first time around, the gender-swapped revenge tale The Quick and the Dead. You can watch some deleted scenes  from the film, including the love scene  between Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe (or "liebesszene," as it's described here, because it's dubbed in German. A couple of the non-sexy scenes are m...

Tim and Jen invite the world's greatest Garfield scholar, Bitter Karella, to chat about a TV special inspired by a comic that traumatized a generation, Garfield: His 9 Lives. Read Misunderstanding Comics , the funniest comic Scott McCloud never wrote, written by Tim and illustrated by Bitter Karella! Make Tim get those copies out of storage! Have You Seen This...Dirty Cartoon? In case you missed o...

Jen and Tim swab the deck with a hygiene film straight from the U.S. Navy, The Story of D.E. 733: Ship of Shame. Actually, turns out it's pretty good, even with all the sores! See the film in two parts ( first reel  and second reel ) over at the Periscope Film YouTube channel, but be warned that it contains insert shots of male genitalia with symptoms of sexually transmitted infections. Wrap...

Tim and Jen brave the crowdfunded sequel to Showgirls, a mindbogglingly lengthy auteur statement called Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven. The entire thing is the work of bit-part Showgirls (the original) actress Rena Riffel, who wrote, directed, edited, and starred in...this.  Please don't be mad at us Rena we love you See Rena's pivotal appearance  in Tim's beloved Fishmasters, the low-...

Jen and Tim contextualize the band that ruled Nixon's America, The Carpenters, for Todd Haynes's early dollhouse biopic, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Watch the film on the Internet Archive,  but don't tell Richard Carpenter you did! Entertainment Weekly  took a look back at the film  in the aftermath of the unstoppable cultural juggernaut that was the Barbie movie. Friend o...

Tim wisely stays far away while Jen hosts the lovable  Worst of All Possible Worlds  boys to chat about the worst of all possible musicals, Aladdin from 1990. Yes, it's not the animated version, but it does involve Disney. Listen if you don't believe us! The moribund website of the Prince Street Players  remains online, in case you want to do a deeper dive on the organization respon...

Jen and Tim debate just how much he actually likes movie musicals during their discussion of a mutual fave, the musical comedy Earth Girls Are Easy. According to her own website, writer and actress Julie Brown is currently working on Earth Girls Are Easy...the musical version! Maybe even Tim will deign to see it! Vanity Fair covered Angelyne in 2022, post-Hollywood Reporter exposé. According to th...

Tim and Jen welcome Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to discuss a concentrated version of the political correctness panic of the 90s, Disclosure. If for some reason you need to subject yourself to the gross-out video Alex dropped in the chat while we were recording, here you go: Michael Douglas eats an oyster.   From 1995, this Vanity Fair article about Michael Douglas covers some o...

Jen and Tim discover the work of Nikos Nikolaidis through his magnum opus, the twisted noir grotesque Singapore Sling. Bring a bucket! The director's official site provides a great deal of valuable context for his work, which has been little seen in the United States. Among others, you can purchase an HD digital download of Singapore Sling.  Related: Jen asserted that the film was "coming soo...

Tim and Jen wrap up their look back at the first one hundred episodes of the show by listing their worst favorites! Yes, you read that right! Hear about the movies we actually liked in our last episode , in case you missed it. The lamentable fan film The Return of the Ghostbusters (aka "The Denver Ghostbusters," in the same vein as "Terrifier the Clown") shows no signs of disappearing from YouTube...

Jen and Tim pick their top five favorite subjects from the first one hundred episodes of the show. It was supposed to be their most and least faves, but they just talk too damn much! Looks like they gotta record a whole other episode to air their least faves of the first hundred. If you watch just one episode of the (sadly few) remaining of the British series Dead of Night, "A Woman Sobbing" shoul...

Tim grudgingly assents to a discussion of a shot-on-video thriller from the crusty lower depths of Tubi, 1994's L.A. AIDS Jabber. Of course you're going to want to rush right over to Tubi in order to enjoy all 78 action-packed, low-resolution minutes of L.A. AIDS Jabber. It's free (with ads)! Over at The Body, Mathew Rodriguez wrings some thoughtful musings on AIDS stigma and the inversion of the...

K. Thor Jensen makes a triumphant return to the show to help Jen and Tim make sense of a nice young man's three-hour-long passion project, That One Amazing Movie! See the movie for free with ads on Crackle , or rent or even buy it on Amazon ! Watch Deception on Demand , a short documentary laying out several grievances against Adler &Associates Entertainment, the entity which distributed That...

Tim wisely goes absent with leave as Jen invites Bitter Karella to the necropsy of a dire children's film from 1998, The Adventures of Ragtime. Should you wish to self-harm, you can watch the full movie (with helpful timecode) at Showcase Entertainment's channel on YouTube. Is it crass to post this screenshot of Shelley Long from the movie? Yeah, probably. Has that ever stopped us? See photos of R...

Tim and Jen enlist the help of Bitter Karella to wade through the 22 minutes of treacle that is the forgotten faux-Peanuts special, Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus. See this slab of gelatinous treacle for yourself at the Internet Archive.   William Conant Church, brother of Francis Church, did indeed help found the NRA in 1871, in an effort to improve marksmanship amongst the broader Am...

Jen and Tim are doing misogyny again! They DO NOT support women...filmmakers who make bloodless, smarmy takes on rape-revenge flicks. Kind of like Promising Young Woman! Abel Ferrara talked with Rotten Tomatoes a while back about the superior Ms. 45 when it made the rounds of revival houses. And of course, don't miss our gleeful takedown of another helping of plastic feminism: listen to our episod...

Tim and Jen finally give the departed William Friedkin a proper sendoff with a discussion of his once-maligned masterpiece, Sorcerer. Guest Darren Herczeg provides his usual able assistance. To clear up an anecdote Jen related during the episode: she says that Paramount president Charles Bluhdorn freaked out when he spotted himself in the group photo of oil company executives in a scene from Sorce...

Jen and Tim suffer through the half-baked hippie whimsy of the Beatles' first major creative cock-up, Magical Mystery Tour. If you're curious, you can watch the Pet Shop Boys' head-scratcher of a longform music video, It Couldn't Happen Here , at the Internet Archive. It looks like it was ripped from someone's VCD copy of a Hong Kong laserdisc, but it still has plenty of bops! The Anton Corbijn-di...

Tim and Jen seek aid from wacky funster Bitter Karella to explain a film series as British as lousy weather and inedible food: the Carry On series! Also, Tim positively bursts with Carry On-related research. The Carry On series is so popular that you're spoiled for choice when it comes to documentaries about them. A Perfect Carry On Documentary is relatively lighthearted, but for more dirt, start...

Jen and Tim do a deep dive into the canned pumpkin pie filling that is Shudder's Ghoul Log! Are we serious with this shit? You tell us! However, all of the usual outlets appear to trick-or-treat it with the same gravitas afforded to, say, the latest Terrifier installment. To wit: Comicbook.com anticipates the Night of the Ghoul Log:   "While some fans might be disappointed that this year hasn...

Tim and Jen bring back one of horror’s heaviest (lol) hitters to talk about a movie William Friedkin couldn’t be bothered to mention after he made it, The Guardian! Tim’s quip about Q’s on Wilshire refers to a 2000 incident in which screenwriter and director Eric Red plowed his Jeep into a crowded bar following a fender bender, killing two people, then attempted to slit his own throat with a piece...

Jen is pleasantly surprised when Tim suggests a horror movie that's actually pretty good: the eerie anthology with a twist, Ghost Stories. Also, Tim gives an impromptu lecture on the deeper meaning of American zombie movies. R ead an interview with Ghost Stories co-writer Derren Brown about his new stage show. He also confesses that he used to be a cape guy ("a bit intense, and a bit socially mala...

Tim and Jen look at Peter Jackson’s transition from splatter king to mainstream whizbang effects filmmaker, The Frighteners. Check out part one of The Frighteners blooper reel! Part two may be viewed here. Damn, that’s a lot of blooperin’! In 2018, Germain Lussier wrote a positive reappraisal of the film for Gizmodo.   Lussier does not appear to be alone in liking the film, since a recent pos...