Interjections: The Undiscovered Decade

For the sixth month of 1996, we reached the apex of 90’s pulp fiction with the final box office bomb in the genre. Kit Walker (Billy Zane) leads a double life masquerading as a jungle vigilante protecting the hidden treasures that lie deep with the tropical caves. When rich and powerful Xander Drax (Treat Williams) send pirates to infiltrate the forests and steal three mystical skulls, Walker must...

For the fifth month of 1996, the trio is joined by a special guest and try to discover if the truth is out there! Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen) and his partner Calvin (Richard Schiff) discover an extraterrestrial radio signal while working as astronomers at a SETI funded lab. When Zane is unceremoniously fired and their work thrown out, it leads him down a path towards something even his wildest d...

For the fourth month of 1996, the boys put on their detective caps to help solve a murder! Gangster squad leader Maxwell Hoover (Nick Nolte) discovers that his latest case involves the death of a former lover, Allison Pond (Jennifer Connelly). With his fellow LAPD detectives, he must uncover the secret plot that led to her demise - involving nuclear scientists (John Malkovich) and angry military m...

For the third month of 1996, we soul-searched alongside some of the best comedians of the past and the future! Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) is hoping to discover more about his origins when he takes up with an adoption agent (Téa Leoni) and embarks on a cross-country mission to find his birth parents. His wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) is along for the ride, as are two federal agents (Josh Brolin &amp...

February 1996 - Mary Reilly & Muppet Treasure Island For the second month of 1996, we double dipped on two vastly different cinematic editions of classic British novels! Julia Roberts plays a maid who finds herself in over her head at her new estate. The master of the house is none other than the infamous researcher Henry Jekyll (John Malkovich). When his experiments start invading their every...

For the first month of 1996, we found our hearts stolen by a romantic comedy unceremoniously dumped in winter! Roz (Sandra Bullock) and Frank (Denis Leary) team up as a pair of art thieves fed up with their itinerant lifestyle. Will they finally settle down after one last job, or is the lure of the game too enticing? Hopefully they don’t get their signals crossed as they realize it’s… Two If by Se...

In the season finale, our hosts sit down in person to review the past year and think about how far they've come. Together they've assembled a top five consisting of some of the best films they covered during the past few months. This is the best of 1995!

For the twelfth and final month of 1995, we watched what the Guinness Book of World Records lists as the biggest box-office bomb in cinematic history! Pirate Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) watches her father die a bloody death on the high seas at the hand of her uncle Douglas Brown (Frank Langella). With a map aimed towards buried treasure, Morgan must enlist a rakish translator named William Shaw (Ma...

For the eleventh month of 1995, the boys contemplate grief, vengeance and redemption in one of the most melancholic tragedies of the 90s! Freddy Gale (Jack Nicholson) is a bereft jeweler whose daughter’s death due to a drunk driver has overtaken his whole life. Vengeance is first and foremost on his mind when the man responsible, John Booth (David Morse) is set to be released from prison after ser...

For the tenth month of 1995, the trio travels back in time to an era of teenage tribulation! Both T.S. (Jeremy London) & Brodie (Jason Lee) have just been dumped, so what else is there to do in suburban New Jersey but go to the mall! There they find an eclectic cast of characters like William (Ethan Suplee) who is obsessed with figuring out a Magic Eye poster, or Shannon Hamilton (Ben Affleck)...

For the ninth month of 1995, the boys head back to the mean streets of Brooklyn! Local drug lord Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo) runs his tiny empire like clockwork - but one of his loyal lieutenants, Strike (Mekhi Phifer) gets cold feet over a killing he must act out. After the homicide detectives intervene and pin the crime on Strike’s brother Victor (Isaiah Washington), it’s only a matter of time...

For the eighth month of 1995, the fellas get into some magical mischief! Private detective Harry D’Amour (Scott Bakula) finds himself in Los Angeles hunting down the disparate members of a desert cult bent on world destruction. Former cultist Philip Swann (Kevin J. O’Connor), now a popular stage illusionist and his wife Dorothea (Famke Janssen) assist D’Amour through his trials against the cult. W...

July 1995 - Kids For the seventh month of 1995, the guys think back to their own licentious adolescence ! One of the most controversial films of the ‘90s, Larry Clark took a look at the everyday life of the bored teenager. Sex, drugs and other debauchery surrounds these skateboarding scoundrels. With a cast full of unknowns, we see New York City from their eyes, the ones with hope and promise in t...

For the sixth month of 1995, the boys search for the latest hidden gem…of a film ! Karen Ross (Laura Linney) works for the ruthless RB Travis (Joe Don Baker), whose telecommunications company longs for a very specific diamond that must be mined deep in the rainforests of central Africa. She assembles an eclectic team including mercenary Monroe Kelly (Ernie Hudson), philanthropist Herkermer Homolka...

For the fifth month of 1995, romance is burning everything down around the boys! NBA referee Mickey Gordon (Billy Crystal) and American expatriate Ellen (Debra Winger) meet cute - er, meet rough - when Mickey’s father’s casket is lost at Ellen’s French airport. What follows is an endless back and forth of won’t they or will they, as told by their many friends on the eve of one couple’s recent enga...

For the fourth month of 1995, romance is burning everything down around the boys! There's love in the air, and it's baked into every move Sergio (John Leguizamo) makes. He'll do anything to win over the beautiful Hattie (Sadie Frost), but would he commit arson? His boss (Armin Mueller-Stahl) can't make the payments on his crumbling confectionary, and the pair consider the bleak option…until the ba...

For the third month of 1995, the boys are looking to tip the scales with their latest film! There’s been a mysterious death on a miniature Maine island - the elderly woman’s caretaker (Kathy Bates) is the most likely suspect. The local constable (Christopher Plummer) is convinced she’s done it, based entirely on his suspicion over the equally mysterious death of her husband (David Strathairn) twen...

For the second month of 1995, the boys are looking to tip the scales with their latest film! Gerry Garner (Aaron Schwartz) is forced by his parents to attend fat camp over the summer, but it’s not quite what he expected! Camp Hope is a body positive place, where counselors such as Pat Finley (Tom McGowan) are happy to help you lose weight if it fits your personality. Unfortunately, the fun is shor...

For the first month of 1995, we catch hell for watching our first ever horror film of the podcast! Drifter Frank Brayker (William Sadler) is being pursued by a powerful demon called The Collector (Billy Zane). He’s nearing the end of the road when he holes up in a grimy boarding house in a one-horse town. The eclectic townspeople trapped with him are torn apart one by one when the Collector sics h...

In the season finale, our hosts sit down in person to review the past year and think about how far they've come. Together they've assembled a top five consisting of some of the best films they covered during the past few months. This is the best of 1994!

December 1994 - I.Q. For the twelfth month of 1994, we watched one of our most infamous public figures play matchmaker in a period rom-com! Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan) is a mathematics doctoral candidate at Princeton University who starts to wonder whether her engagement to experimental psychology professor James Moreland (Stephen Fry) is worth it or might bog down her scientific prospects. Her famo...

For the eleventh month of 1994, we looked at the intricacies of professor and student relationships! Carol (Debra Eisenstadt) has come to her professor John (William H. Macy) to fiscuss a failing grade. What follows is a cat and mouse game between two people who have motives that contradict their own moralities. They know there should be boundaries but don’t express them. Will their plans be able...

For the tenth month of 1994, we took a break at the Battle Creek Sanitarium! Entrepreneur John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins) longs to help all sorts of people with their health maladies at his massive Michigan sanitarium. Included among some of his patients are William Lightbody (Matthew Broderick), his wife Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), who cross paths with lesser entrepreneurs such as Charles Ossi...

For the ninth month of 1994, we trek north for a white knuckle adventure! Former river guide Gail Hartman (Meryl Streep) brings her son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) to her old haunts on the Salmon River in Idaho. Not only does Gail have to deal with rough waters, but when her workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn) decides to join them, she has to deal with their rocky marital issues. On top of all...

For the eighth month of 1994, we sashay our way back Down Under! Sydney based drag queen Mitzi Del Bra (Hugo Weaving) is requested to set up a show for a hotel all the way across the country, in Alice Springs. He convinces old friend Bernadette (Terence Stamp) and upstart diva Felicia (Guy Pearce) to join him. Felicia manages to find a bus that will take them across the Outback, christening it Pri...