Have You Seen This?

Jen and Tim come to a tenuous agreement about a once universally loathed Martin Short comedy, Clifford. Also, Tim punches down ruthlessly on a twenty pound miniature pinscher. The Slate article about Martin Short that riled everyone up may be found here , but if you want to skip right to the synchronized swimming sketch from SNL, you can watch it on Vimeo.   The Vulture oral history of the ma...

Tim and Jen head back to the pre-prestige-TV cable well with a failed spinoff of Tales From the Crypt called Perversions of Science. Throughout, you can really tell that your hosts would rather be watching a certain Canadian/German co-production. Jen was slightly off when she said that HBO has existed since “the mid-to-late 70s”—it launched in 1972. Mic mentions the Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown kerfuff...

Jen enlists show stalwart Bitter Karella to help offend nearly every single person in the Czech Republic by providing an honest review of Goat Story: The Old Prague Legends. See the intro for the show Jen and Karella saw in Switzerland, Kommissar Rex . That's what I call a good friend! If you would like to see the "Roy Orbison in clingfilm" stories for yourself, you can do so here , but keep in mi...

Jen and Tim quibble over Bobcat Goldthwait’s directorial debut, the seedy comic tale of Shakes the Clown. Also, Jen drops some hard truths about Robin Williams. Patton Oswalt tells his story about the world’s worst party clown to Conan O’Brien. Are you new to Have You Seen This? Have you yet to hear the good news about Pervy the Clown? Tune your Roku to B-Movie TV every Friday at midnight!…if you...

Tim and Jen look at the creepiest Charles Bronson film not directed by Michael Winner, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects. Regarding Jill Ireland leaving then-husband David McCallum for Bronson, longtime rumor says that Bronson reportedly told McCallum to his face, “I’m going to marry your wife.” However, McCallum disputes this, and apparently didn’t hold a grudge: “‘I never hated him, Charlie was always...

Jen and Tim get mad enough to talk about All Hallow’s Eve and Terrifier (the first one) for almost two hours! Jen really punted when she said that scary clowns go back to John Wayne Gacy— according to Smithsonian Magazine , clowns have been creepy (and annoying) for centuries! This Bloom County strip from the story arc Jen mentioned illustrates the one-time societal loathing directed at mimes pret...

Tim and Jen review a film of great technical genius and great vacuity of story: Natalie Wood’s final film, Brainstorm. But Jen liked at least half of it. Also, please send Tim all of your uneaten candy corn. There’s a rundown on the Showscan process originally intended for Brainstorm from Douglas Trumbull himself on YouTube. Too bad it’s in 360p. This fine Japanese documentary on Trumbull is in mu...

Jen and Tim struggle to understand the newly-minted cult status of a flop from Keanu Reeve’s himbo era, the cyberpunk thriller Johnny Mnemonic. They also put on hazmat suits and and delve into the horror that is the comment section on Dina Meyer’s website.   Director Robert Longo talks about the rationale and process that led to his black-and-white edition of Johnny Mnemonic over at Screen Sl...

Tim and Jen dutifully cover the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell, the Paul Schrader (!)-directed Witch Hunt . Jen erred and called Schrader’s 2022 film Master Gardener “Master.” Was she thinking of the Paul Thomas Anderson film The Master? Who knows! Be sure to watch Tim’s webseries Assignment Unexplained! And visit his website ! And follow timtoonstudio on Instagram! Tim alluded to the disappearance...

If you enjoy this episode, subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month and access to our Discord! Jen and Tim try to say something nice about a pay cable attempt at Lovecraftian horror/comedy, Cast a Deadly Spell. Also, Jen tries and fails to remember the time she massively insulted Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid out of nowhere. Jen is so dumb she forgot to mention who di...

Tim is too cool to talk about a nerdy British kid’s coming of age story, so Jen and special guest @bitterkarella step in to talk about cult BBC teleplay Penda’s Fen. BFI did indeed release Penda’s Fen on blu-ray in 2016, but it’s also available on YouTube!   The 2010 post that originally turned Jen on to the film may be found at John Coulthart’s excellent art blog, Feuilleton. At the time of...

Jen and Tim welcome reproductive rights expert Mellie to discuss an exhaustive documentary on A BIG COMPLICATED ISSUE: Tony Kaye’s overview of abortion in the US, Lake of Fire. Looper has the rundown on Tony Kaye’s battle with New Line Cinema (and Edward Norton) over the final cut of American History X. The Nation has a pretty good overview of the intertwining of anti-abortion activism and white s...

Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month and access to our Discord! Tim and Jen have a mild and cordial disagreement about Truman Show screenwriter Andrew Niccol’s flop first feature: Gattaca. The Cinemaholic has an explainer for the ending, just in case you’re stupid. The studio attempted to sell the film as a sci-fi thriller, going by th...

Jen and Tim welcome @bitterkarella to talk about a tWisTeD comic book movie, the Spawn before Spawn, Faust: Love of the Damned! Read an interview with director Brian Yuzna to learn more about Fantastic Factory, the production company that brought you that titty inflation scene. He also talks about The Guyver! If you found yourself confused by our reference to ”Two Wet Bears,“ you can watch it on Y...

Tim and Jen scratch their heads over a Japanese musical that’s positively infested with cats, Cats on Park Avenue. It has nothing to do with New York or the musical Cats. Complex has the story on how Disney literally killed five golden retriever puppies while making Snow Buddies, a direct-to-video follow-up to Air Bud. Marty Stouffer became popular with his Wild America series on PBS. A few of his...

Paul Jay returns to talk with us about Warren Beatty’s greatest love! No, not women— by all evidence it’s Dick Tracy. Also, we are interrupted by a dog. View one of Beatty’s rights-maintaining Dick Tracy specials, in which he’s interviewed by Leonard Maltin while in character as his favorite comic strip detective. We’ve talked about Warren a couple of times before on the show— once with beloved re...

With Tim AWOL (Absent With Overabundant Lego), Jen invites wrestling expert Darren Herczeg to discuss a half-assed wrestling comedy, Body Slam! You can read Dirk Benedict’s idiotic whining about the female Starbuck over at the Internet Archive.   For a peek into the primordial soup of reactionary mass media, read this piece about Wally George and his UHF televison show, Hot Seat. More proof t...

Jen and Tim talk about a truly weird musical fantasia from the mind of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss— The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. So much of this episode wouldn’t exist without the superlative work of Seuss biographer Brian Jay Jones . His book Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisl and the Making of an American Imagination highlights Geisl's creativity and enduring legacy in popular literature....

Tim and Jen discuss a beloved epic whose time has come, the Peter Weir masterpiece Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World! The GQ article mentioned appears to be yet more proof of the widespread affection for this film. The doctor who pioneered sanitary practices in medicine was Ignatz Semmelweiss, although these ideas didn’t take hold until the time of Joseph Lister. Additionally, other...

Jen is defeated by the ostensible low point of Lindsay Lohan’s onscreen career, I Know Who Killed Me, while Tim cuts right through the Gordian knot that is the movie’s storyline. Also Jen vents her disappointment over a director she actually likes(?), sorta. Someone actually tracked down the screenwriter, Jeff Hammond, and got him to open up a little about the production:   I avoided reading...

Tim and Jen host steadfast friend of the show mugrimm to talk about a pervasively influential TV movie that spawned the cult series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Also, in this episode you can learn more about Pervy the Clown…if you dare. If you love Kolchak’s sad little hat, you can get one!   The Slate article quibbling about Fletch (the 1985 film starring Chevy Chase) may be read here , if yo...

Jen and Tim jack freely over a rote 1992 sci-fi action thriller, Freejack, starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger. Your hosts kind of forget to talk about Jagger, but Tim does reminisce fondly about Four Loko. Jen says “Psycho Ninja” when she was actually thinking of  Psycho Kickboxer.  The latter film is absolutely delightful, by the way. If you’re curious about the gory details of Den...

Tim and Jen remain in the 90s for a look at a dire courtroom drama leavened with gauzy sex scenes, the 1992 Madonna vehicle Body of Evidence. There are no page numbers in Madonna’s book Sex, but it doesn’t take long to flip through on the Internet Archive if you want to see her eating pizza in the nude! The Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers beat Jen to it with a panoply of fake erotic thriller...

Jen and Tim nineties nineties nineties nineties Denzel Washington nineties nineties virtual reality, nineties Russell Crowe nineties, nineties nineties nineties Virtuosity nineties! Read the AV Club interview with Kelly Lynch where she describes Denzel’s motive for doctoring the script for Virtuosity, as mentioned in the episode. Per Tim’s recommendation, you could do a search on the World Wide We...

Tim and Jen enlist animal expert Emma Bowers ( Hyenas and Gin on YouTube ) to explain why the fascinating story of two man-eating lions resulted in a boring movie called The Ghost and the Darkness. Watch a 1996 documentary about the man-eaters of Tsavo , which includes brief interviews with stars Kilmer and Douglas and director Stephen Hopkins. One interviewee theorizes that the local lions’ taste...