Kentucky Fried Critics

This week's episode is maybe a little more adult than usual, we cover the highly controversial and thought provoking film A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick. It's about an ultra-violent, catastrophic future in Britain, where gangs run unchecked and the government wants to control your thoughts. Many thought provoking topics to be explored as we venture into this infamous piece of cinematic hist...

For our episode this week we re-visited Pauly Shore. The first time we covered Son in Law and this time we decided to take it back to the movie that started his movie career and made him a household name, the 1992 comedy Encino Man. Also starring the great Sean Astin and Brendan Fraser, and a whole list of other celebrities popping up for the ride too. It's the 90's at its best. Our beer selection...

We just had to celebrate Groundhog Day by watching the Bill Murray favorite, Groundhog Day (even if it's a day late). It's a comedy full of laughs and existential dread while being stuck in a 24 hour time loop and the struggle to escape it. We of course had to go with the cocktail (?) suggested in the movie, sweet vermouth on the rocks with a twist. While it was certainly the best match to the mov...

This week we decided to stay in the 80's, but with a different vibe. We went with the Brat Pack filled, John Hughes classic The Breakfast Club. A movie that shows that deep down we all aren't that different, and the ridiculousness that is high school social structures. We found an excellent beer to be able to go along with the movie. We chose Founder's Breakfast Stout, it is an amazing double choc...

We decided to keep it punk this week. We watched the 1998 ode to the 80's punk scene, SLC Punk. It's got punk music, vibes, energy and Matthew Lillard with a giant blue mohawk. If you're interest hasn't been piqued already, then this may not be the movie for you. Only posers don't like this movie. Our beer selection was the very aptly named, Punk IPA by Brewdog Brewing. This beer totally lived up...

This week we decided to watch the 1988 John Waters classic, Hairspray. It's a very stylized look into Baltimore in the early 1960's and has a very star studded cast. There's music, dancing, big hair, and race relations all told in a way that only a master of cult cinema could. Our beverage selection this week couldn't have been any more fitting, as we decided to celebrate the original Baltimore bl...

Kicking off the new year with another video game episode. We keep saying we're all around pop culture critics and we've mainly just done movies, so we figured it was time to do the other side of the 16-bit console war. Listen along as we go over some of our favorites from the SNES and why we loved it so much. Our drink of choice this week (after a last minute change up) was Super Delic by Mirror T...

Finishing up our Christmas movie marathon for the month and we end it on a newer title. 8-Bit Christmas starring Neil Patrick Harris and Steve Zahn. It's like the millennial version of A Christmas Story, lots of nostalgia and 80s era mayhem. Closing out our Christmas ale selection for the month is Abita Brewing's Christmas Ale. They change up the recipe every year and didn't give us much to go on...

Keeping the festivities going with our Christmas movie marathon this month. This week we went with something a little more adult, Scrooged starring the one and only Bill Murray. It's an updated darker look at the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. We may have both gotten overly nostalgic (and a little tipsy) and talked a bit longer than usual, but it's just that good of a movie. Our drink...

Another great Christmas movie for our December marathon. This time we watched another 90's classic, The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen. We follow along as he becomes an accidental Santa and stumbles into a world full of Christmas magic. Another Christmas movie and yet another Christmas ale. This week we try something a lot closer to home (literally), we chose West Sixth Brewing out of Kentucky. T...

This week we keep our December Christmas marathon going with the 1970s tv holiday classic by Rankin/Bass, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. A stop motion masterpiece about Santa's orphaned origins and struggle to become the jolly fat man that we all know and love. Our beer selection for this week's episode was Great Lakes Brewing Company's Christmas Ale. This one was a little more "holiday spiced" th...

We're kicking off December and our Christmas movie marathon with the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger/Sinbad holiday favorite, Jingle All the Way. A story filled with the perils of Christmas shopping and the lengths one man will go to get his son the perfect gift. We are returning to our roots and drinking beer for the month and we kicked it off with a good one, Bell's Brewing Christmas Ale, a tradition...

We closed out our Thanksgiving marathon with a 1995 masterpiece, Home for the Holidays. A look at families and holidays and all the stress that comes along with them. We had ourselves some chardonnay to go with the movie, and if you don't know why, you will soon. We both got a little carried away with the wine and had a joyful time talking about the movie, so excuse (or enjoy) the extra time with...

Keeping our Thanksgiving marathon moving we decided to take a look at Son in Law, a 1993 Pauly Shore holiday romp in rural America. This time we take on the college Thanksgiving experience, with a touch of California style and midwestern values. Our drink of choice for this week was of course, the college mainstay, the screwdriver. If you know, you know. If you don't take a listen (or just check o...

This week we're continuing with our November Thanksgiving celebration. We watched a holiday road trip classic, Dutch. Join us as we discuss this cross country misadventure from the early 90's that doesn't see the love it deserves. Our drink of choice to go along with this movie was Heineken, a traditional DUTCH pale lager. Sometimes as the hosts we get the privilege of stretching the connection to...

October is over and that means so has our spooky movie celebration, or has it... That's right we are keeping it going, and starting off our Thanksgiving marathon too. That's right we're keeping this marathon of connected movies rolling. We're starting things off with Thankskilling which rides the line of being a b-horror movie and somewhat about Thanksgiving, so we figured it was the perfect trans...

It's our final entry in our our spooky celebration for the month of October and we have a real treat for you. We decided to end our celebration with a bit of laugh and covered Ernest Scared Stupid, a Jim Varney led family Halloween movie. Don't let the family part fool you tough, this movie definitely has a few scary surprises. We enjoyed some Milk Stout by Left Hand Brewing while reminiscing abou...

It's the third week of our October celebration and this week we went with a real classic, Nosferatu, but with a twist. We chose to watch a 90's re-dub of the silent movie classic that overlays music by goth metal band Type O Negative. Nosferatu, an Imperial Red IPA by Great Lakes Brewing, that itself was obviously inspired by the movie as well, was our choice for pairing with this (sort of) update...

Our second movie for our spooky October celebration is Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead. A Norwegian Nazi zombie horror-comedy movie that was something neither of us had seen before and now on both of our favorites list. We made a return to 3 Floyds Brewing and their Zombie Ice for another great pairing for an undead adventure...in the bitter cold. Next week we're going to be enjoying Nosferatu, an Imper...

October means it's time for spooky things. Our first pick for the month is Pumpkinhead, an 80's monster movie classic. Our drink that we had with this movie was also Pumpkinhead, Pumpkinhead Ale by Shipyard Brewing Company. It may have been the obvious choice out of several (Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane) but we both love a good 80's horror movie. Try not to get too scared as we take a trip to the...

For this one we had a plan to do a movie (Sonic the Hedgehog 2), but decided to change it up at the last minute. Join us as we take a look at Sonic & Knuckles (we had to keep the theme for the game) and more broadly SEGA as a whole while drinking on Knuckles Strong Ale by Sawstone Brewing Company. We go a little off the rails, but keep in mind this was all completely unplanned and spontaneous....

This week we tried our best not to geek out too much while talking about Star Trek. I'm not sure how well we accomplished that, but we certainly had a great time. Our beverage of choice this week was Country Boy Brewings Prime Directive and it certainly helped us boldly go on our journey through the final frontier. Get ready to beam yourself up to the Enterprise for a trip through space... and tim...

We took a look at a childhood classic and personal favorite of both of ours, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Get yourself a drink and an everlasting gobstobber or a scrumdiddilyumptious bar and join us as we journey through a land of pure imagination. This episode is a little longer than previous outings, but we just had so much to say, and plenty more that we did say and had to cut. Our be...

This week we tackled another movie that a lot of people may not have seen before, even though it is connected to a massive fandom, Doctor Who: The Movie. It was a made for tv movie from the mid-90's that didn't do very well, but it is still part of a huge franchise that has spanned for decades. If you love Doctor Who, bad movies, and questionable acting choices, you'll love this movie. Next week's...

For this weeks episode we dive into a more obscure title that many of you may not have ever watched, or even heard of, before. Grab a drink and sit with us we explore an 80's zombie flick with just a touch of sci-fi, Night of the Comet. This weeks beer, Zombie Dust, was the perfect compliment to the movie. Next week's drink is going to be Two Hearted IPA by Bell's Brewery, if you've got guesses on...