Interjections: The Undiscovered Decade

For the seventh month of 1994, we let some anger out in Beantown! Boston bomb squad leader Jimmy Dove (Jeff. Bridges) is haunted by his past, where he participated in IRA terrorism alongside pal Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones). Now escaoed from prison, Gaerity tracks Jimmy down and completely dismantles his life. While Gaerity dispatches his squad one by one, Jimmy must stay one step ahead and keep...

For the sixth month of 1994, we had some basic training with the Bard! Danny DeVito returns to the podcast to play Bill Rago, a disgraced ad man who finds himself in the position to teach some upstart army brats about the works of William Shakespeare. While he gets these soldiers into shape, he learns just enough about his own life lessons. After all, this will make him a…. Renaissance Man!

For the fifth month of 1994, we reversed course and went to the prehistoric era! Adapted from the beloved animated sitcom about cavemen best friends Fred and Barney, this live-action edition finds Fred fooled by a quarry executive out for some easy money. Set up as the fall guy, Fred must enlist his best friend Barney and their wives Wilma and Betty in order to outsmart the nefarious administrator...

For the fourth month of 1994, we jumped ahead to the dystopian future of 2022! Ex-marine John Robbins (Ray Liotta) finds himself imprisoned on an island populated with vicious bands of rogues and killers, led by either the enigmatic Father (Lance Henriksen) or the chaotic Marek (Stuart Wilson). Will Robbins ever find his way off the island, or will he choose to live out his days fighting to surviv...

For the third month of 1994, we looked back at one of Tristan’s childhood favorites! Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage) is tasked with looking after former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine) in her stately Ohio home. While he wishes he were in more active duty, he’ll quickly learn that not everything comes so easily while…. Guarding Tess!

For the second month of 1994, we take a rare look inside Hollywood! Hopeful actor Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte) is trying to make it on the silver screen, but between aimless producers and bombing screen tests, he discovers that he must take care of his young daughter Jeannie (Whittni Wright). What once was a brilliant musical with songs by Prince and Carole King ended up as a bomb at the box office und...

For the first month of 1994, we take to the high seas! Fancy lad Nathaniel Mayweather (Chris Elliott) finds himself in the adventure of all adventures after mistakenly boarding the wrong ship. Where he was meant to reach his father's Hawaiian hotel, this ship full of scurvy sea dogs is set for deep sea fishing. Desperate to return to shore, Nate and the crew get into several weird mishaps before c...

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 1993!

For the twelfth month of 1993, we take a look at An American Legend! Geronimo has become a mythic figure in American society, one that we marvel at for his warrior status, while we contemplate our place in the decimation of the native people. Through the eyes of Cavalry Lieutenant Britton Davis (Matt Damon), we witness the uneasy peace between General George Crook (Gene Hackman) and the Apache lea...

For the eleventh month of 1993, two titan directors team up to act in a cat and mouse thriller! When career criminal Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) escapes from prison, he haphazardly finds himself on the run with a child hostage (TJ Lowther) named Phillip. With Texas Ranger Red Garnett (Clint Eastwood) hot on his heels, Butch expounds life lessons on his captive cohort. Will the trio make it out of...

For the tenth month of 1993, we ask ourselves what we would do if we witnessed a murder? Four childhood friends (Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr, Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff) attempt to have a night out for once, intending to attend a boxing match. Instead, after taking a detour through a Chicago ghetto, they find themselves on the run because they witnessed a drug lord murder one of his minion...

For the ninth month of 1993, we take a look down into the supposed bottom of the barrel for Bruce Willis’ career! Homicide detective Thomas Hardy (Willis) is taken down a peg when he blows the whistle on corruption within his precinct. Years later, he finds himself patrolling the three rivers that surround his city, when a serial killer rises from the ashes of a past case and threatens to kill eve...

For the eighth month of 1993, our prodigal son returns along with some ghosts from his past! Robert Downey Jr stars as Thomas Reilly, a playboy foreclosure banker who is plagued by four invisible friends - actually ghosts who were tied to him when they died having unfinished business at the moment of his birth! Along for the ride are Julia (Kyra Sedgwick), Harrison (Charles Grodin), Penny (Alfre W...

Former highlighted stars Wesley Snipes ( King of New York ) and Sean Connery ( The Hunt for Red October ) play LA detectives forced to team up in order to discover the truth behind the murder of a call girl. After she’s found dead at the top of a high-rise headquarters run by a Japanese company, the pair must dodge cover-ups and close calls before the next morning. Hopefully the truth will bring t...

For the sixth month of 1993, we looked at some counter programming to the biggest film of the year:If dinosaurs and chaos theory don’t work for you, surely failing at poker and indentured servitude might! James Spader plays down-on-his luck swindler Jack Pozzi who meets his match against two impossibly rich businessmen. To pay back his debt, Jack and his bankroller friend Jim (Mandy Patinkin) are...

For the fifth month of 1993, we took on a whole genre of hidden gems:Looking back at the 90s, we noticed a bygone comedy style that we missed. Gone were the days of the spoof, the parody, led by such luminaries as Mel Brooks and the trio of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. For May, we felt we had to highlight one of Abrahams best films, starring Charlie Sheen as a thinly veiled Rambo type, in a sequel...

For the fourth month of 1993, we snuck in yet another hidden gem:Young Jack Leary must navigate his new Oakland neighborhood following the tragic death of his mother. Blossoming love, dealing with his father’s alcoholism and facing off against Nazi loving child kidnappers, it’s a unique coming of age tale for…. Jack the Bear!

For the third month of 1993, we snuck in yet another hidden gem:When crime scene photographer Wayne Dobie (Robert De Niro) becomes entangled with the mafia by way of saving the life of mob boss Frank Milo (Bill Murray), he finds himself in an ethical crisis. Milo’s thank-you gift is the services of his best girl Glory (Uma Thurman), who Dobie promptly wants to save. Will they make it out alive, or...

For the second month of 1993, we snuck in yet another hidden gem: Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) appears back home at his farm after presumably dying a prisoner of the North in the American Civil War. What he doesn’t expect is that his beloved wife Laurel (Jodie Foster) has moved on. Can he prove his worth to his hometown that left him behind? Can he prove that he even is who he says he is? This is...

For the first month of 1993, we took the time to represent yet another hidden gem: When filmmaker Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) wants to test out some new theatrical gimmicks for his B pictures like Mant! and The Shook Up Shopping Cart , he sets his sights on Key West, Florida - the common folk down there just want to see a good light-hearted action film to distract them from the imminent danger...

In the season finale, our quartet of hosts sits 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 1992!

For the twelfth month of 1992, we took the time to represent yet another hidden gem: When congressman Jeff Johnson passes away unexpectedly, con man Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) takes advantage of name recognition and blind oblivion, winning the vacant seat. He brings his team of grifters up to the capital in order to take on the nefarious sitting senators, including Dick Dodge (Lane Sm...

For the eleventh month of 1992, we attempted once more to track down yet another hidden gem: Classic novel Dracula was adapted once more by the cinematic maestro Francis Ford Coppola. Assembling an all-star cast that includes Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Anthony Hopkins, Coppola pushed the envelope with what to expect from the gothic horror. His love of early visual effects played a...

For the tenth month of 1992, we attempted once more to track down yet another hidden gem: When prison psychologist Willis Embry (Jeff Daniels) is told by a dying inmate of a cache full of buried Mafia money in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, he leaves his job behind in order to search for it. Little does he know that the conversation was overheard by two career criminals (Chazz Palminteri & Jonathan...

For the ninth month of 1992, we attempted once more to track down yet another hidden gem: Security expert Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) finds himself entangled in a mysterious grift involving old friends and new enemies that threaten to topple the world order. Will his team of hackers (Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn and River Phoenix) be able to stop them? Find out if they are inde...