Not Funny Guys Presents Off the Reels

Episode 126: Wes Anderson, Take 11: Smart Kids in the Middle of Nowhere This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. This time we get caught inside a play that is being remembered in a TV program about a lonely desert place called Asteroid City where super smart kids come to town, so does the military, and an alie...

Episode 125: Wes Anderson, Take 10: Four Random Stories for a Paper No One Read? This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. This time we follow an all star cast as they paint us images of apparently what living in France is like. Sorry France. Apparently it is full of busy city life, troubled artists, beautiful...

Episode 124: Wes Anderson, Take 9: Dogs, Cats, and Japanese Politics...Oh My! This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Isle of Dogs is Wes Anderson's second go at animation. Improved. Follow an all-star all-team voice cast as they take us to Japan, in the future, and navigate the relationship between man and h...

Episode 123: Wes Anderson, Take 8: Intrigue, Murder, and Love in the Life of a Hotel Concierge This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Grand Budapest Hotel takes us into the complicated lives of working in a posh hotel. Such lovely scenery and story with the addition of new actors to the Wes Anderson such Ral...

Episode 122: Wes Anderson, Take 7: Young Lovers Running Away from a Pseudo-Military This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Moonrise Kingdom from 2012 where we visit a fantastical New England Island in the 1960s. Young love, pen pales, social services, lawyers, troublesome kids, puberty...oh my!!! Frances McD...

Episode 121: Wes Anderson, Take 6: Deadbeat Dad Can't Stop Doing Crime! This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's first go into stop motion animation with George Clooney leading the way as the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Find out what we think, listen in! Our Political Podcast is ba...

Episode 121: Wes Anderson, Take 6: Deadbeat Dad Can't Stop Doing Crime! This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's first go into stop motion animation with George Clooney leading the way as the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Find out what we think, listen in! Our Political Podcast is ba...

Join the Not Funny Guys, Casey, Jon, and Eric, in our special: The LOTS of News From Comic-Con 2024 Episode! So Big! So Long! Enjoy! Follow us, like us, comment, share and MORE!!! Questions? Email us at: NotFunnyGuys. OffTheReels@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @not_funny_guys_presents Follow us on Twitter: @NotFunnyGuysPod Want to chat? Casey: Twitter @vash_maxwell Hive @caseyfranklin Jon: Lett...

Episode 120: Wes Anderson, Take 5: Brothers In Mourning for Father Seek Runaway Mom This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Now join us in watching The Darjeeling Limited as there brothers, Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrian Brody), and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) mourn the passing of their father as they take...

Episode 119: Wes Anderson, Take 4: Washed Up Jacques Cousteau Wants a Legacy This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Now join us in watching Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) come to terms with his life not being as memorable as he wanted it. See him take in a young man, Ned (Owen Wilson) and try to chase down fame...

Episode 118: Wes Anderson, Take 3: A Family in Disfunction, A Bad Dad Too! This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Now join us in watching of Family of Geniuses implode as they grow up and have to grapple with the dark realities of failure, love, pain, and the return of an neglectful father who is desperate t...

Episode 117: Wes Anderson, Take 2: Formal Launch Into Prep School This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Now join us at a school, set like a play where we meet Max Fisher (J ason Schwartzman ) face off in a love rivalry with Herman Blume ( Bill Murray ) over an older woman. Will Max be expelled. Witness as w...

Episode 116: Wes Anderson, Take 1: Fail to Try Again This week on the Not Funny Guys take a hard left turn into a realm Casey didn't want to go and that is the brain of Wes Anderson. Before the trend and tropes, there was his first film, adapted from a short film he made with college roommate Owen Wilson and his brothers: 1996's Bottle Rocket. So, join us on our mind bending trip into the idiosync...

Episode 115: Knee High Terror Rides Again...at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week on the Not Funny Guys we find out what it all has been for with Chucky...as a TV show... Chuck, Season 3. More kill counts, more back story, more moves to make all the crazy crap from the movies make sense. An actual Voodoo Doctor, aging, and the origins of all origins!! Our Political Podcast is back! Take a listen ove...

Episode 114: Philip Seymour Hoffman and 1970s Porn Industry This week on the Not Funny Guys we begin our finish our trilogy, a three pack, of Philip Seymour Hoffman's 1997 role in Boogie Nights. The movie that brought to light the reality of porn. Watch parental abuse that leads to porn. Watch failing parents, surrogate parents, and messed up drug abuse go CRAZY! Our Political Podcast is back! Tak...

Episode 113: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rock and Roll This week on the Not Funny Guys we begin our first part of a trilogy, a three pack, of movies starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. This week is Eric's choice: Almost Famous. See PSH play gonzo rock journalist Lester Bangs. Watch as a 15-year-old kid tags along with drinking and drugging rock band in the 1970s. Oh, and Kate Hudson is there too... Ou...

Let us begin by checking in our “We’re fucked counter” that currently stands at:  30 Now, let us get into the topics. As determined by a random roll of the dice. It DOESN'T MATTER. We are talking about the Trump Guilty Verdict Topic 1: Right Wing Responses to Trial Topic 2: Will this help the Democrats? Topic 3: Will Justice Actually Happen for Trump? Come and subscribe to us in our new feed:...

Episode 112: Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Dude This week on the Not Funny Guys we begin our first part of a trilogy, a three pack, of movies starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. This week is Dr. Jon's choice, 1998's Cohen Brothers The Big Lebowski. Welcome to bowling and noir, sex and murder, and all the weirdness of Hollywood around the time of the first Gulf War. Our Political Podcast is back! Tak...

Episode 111: Knee High Terror Rides Again...In Duplicate! This week on the Not Funny Guys we find out what it all has been for with Chucky...as a TV show... Chuck, Season 2. More kill counts, more back story, more moves to make all the crazy crap from the movies make sense. Our Political Podcast is back! Take a listen over at Not Funny Politics Next Week: The Big Lebowski Follow us, like us, comme...

You have absolutely no idea what you're about to get yourself into, but it will be funny. This special episode comes to you courtesy of the right-wing obsession with porn and Not Funny Politics. Join the Not Funny Guys as we take a look at what 2023 was like in the world of porn according to Pornhub.com. Keep in mind, this episode is not safe for young children and the closed minded. Please use ca...

Episode 110: Great Scott, Ridley What Did You Make, Part 3 We rolled the dice and found ourselves picking Ridley Scott films. For part 3 we get to 2005's Kingdom of Heaven. It is an ahistorical and aspirational film layered on to real historical events. Directors Cut or Theatrical Release, it is an expansive and visually engaging film like none other! Oh, and Edward Norton is in it too! Our Politi...

Episode 109: Great Scott, Ridley What Did You Make, Part 2 We rolled the dice and found ourselves picking Ridley Scott films. For part 2 we get into Thelma and Louise, this early #MeToo and screw the patriarchy caper of bad decisions. See a young Brad Pitt and ponder whether Tarentino was cribbing notes on it too! Our Political Podcast is back! Take a listen over at Not Funny Politics Next Week: K...

Episode 108: Great Scott, Ridley What Did You Make, Part 1 We rolled the dice and found ourselves picking Ridley Scott films. For part 1, Casey has decided we should watch the Tim Curry and Mia Sara vehicle and Tom Cruise train wreck we call 1985's Legend. Our Political Podcast is back! Take a listen over at Not Funny Politics Next Week: Thelma and Louise Follow us, like us, comment, share and MOR...

Episode 107: Armageddon Really Plagiarized James Cameron, Minus Aliens Seriously, did Michael Bay rip this off? Aliens, deep seas, deep sea oil rigs, crazy Navy seals, nuclear submarine wreck and WATER! Lots of WATER! Join us in the abyss as it stares back into your soul. Our Political Podcast is back! Take a listen over at Not Funny Politics Next Week: Legend, the beginning of a Ridley Scott 3 Pa...

Episode 106: Knee High Terror Goes Back to Hackensack to Corrupt Some Kid Souls This week on the Not Funny Guys we find out what it all has been for with Chucky...as a TV show. Chuck, Season 1. Finally, I feel a little less awful. Our Political Podcast is back! Take a listen over at Not Funny Politics Next Week: The Abyss! Follow us, like us, comment, share and MORE!!! Questions? Email us at: NotF...