Off the Film Path

If you pay through the nose to go to some high end spa/treatment center, you'd think they'd do more than surround you with water, inside and out. But I guess customs are different over in Europe. As are, apparently, their perceptions of what an adult woman looks like. Anyway, here's our spooky movie coming out nearly two weeks after Halloween because we forgot to plan far enough ahead. Content War...

Oh boy, this one's a doozy. Sophia can't keep names straight, Matt does an incredible Pete Davidson impression, and Kyle is also there. Very mixed feelings on this Hulu original. But also, dumb enough that we can goof around talking about this. IMDB JustWatch Pop Culture Pop Outs: Blood Mercenaries , Blood Red Sky , and Saudi Soccer Team Find Kyle Online Find Sophia Online

Found us another indie darling. We take a trip back to the 70s for this immigrant story. Can you believe this was partly funded through Kickstarter? We had a lot fun but a big thank you to Sophia for making the record in the midst of moving. Warframe songs: Sleeping in the Cold Below and We All Lift Together IMDB JustWatch Pop Culture Pop Outs: Story Break , Hoof Care Find Kyle Online Find Sophia...

Sometimes people will buy gifts for others that are actually just for themselves. This may or may not be the most extreme example of that, where many men give their wives kids so that they can use those sons as a means to race toy cars about 10 years later. How we managed to pull anything worthwhile out of this middling movie was a greater effort than anyone gave on set. IMDB JustWatch Pop Culture...

As an extra episode to make up for the scheduling delays, friend and fan of the podcast, Danielle, recorded a live reaction to our most recent movie. This is nearly unedited and was recorded prior to the release of our episodes. There's of course some overlap, but the differences are great to hear, both on broad points that the other didn't cover, as well as the conclusions regarding some of those...

The thrilling conclusion of an extra long episode. Lots to say in the analysis but this movie makes it easy for us. IMDB JustWatch Pop Culture Pop Outs: Hades , Jessica Smucker , Alex Meyers Find Kyle Online Find Sophia Online

Surprise! We're leftists! This episode we take a look at class structure as well as its intersection with race. Kyle was slightly sick during recording so he's got a brand new voice. This episode ran extremely long so we broke it into two parts. Analysis and Pop Culture Popouts will be in part 2. IMDB JustWatch

For one family, butter sculpting and politics is their bread and butter. The butter sculpting is the bread and the politics is the butter. For another, butter sculpting makes a young foster girl melt together with her new family. Lot of Iowa-centric politics discussion in this one as well as politics at large. Sorry, not sorry. IMDB JustWatch Pop Culture Pop Outs: This Body's Not Big Enough For Bo...

Seems we're headed back to the UK with this one. Lots of baking to be had, and in more ways than one. This one made us very hungry for some specific foods. We also spent more time than usual on Jewish tangents. Would recommend the movie even if you are not Jewish. Mercy Baguma article 1 and article 2 , Grenfell Tower Fire WTYP video and article IMDB JustWatch Pop Culture Pop Outs: Dungeons and Dad...

Is it a coming of age allegory or a coming out metaphor? Very likely  both! This Netflix produced movie crammed as many unicorns and rainbows  into each shot as they could. So many of these characters ended up being  way more interesting than they had any right to be. Side note, this  movie may very well also be evidence in a harassment suit against Gary. IMDB JustWatch Pop Cul...

We've all had that college experience where we're driving there for our first semester and on the way, you pick up a manic Greek man much older than you. Alternatively, we've all had that life experience where things aren't going our way but then you hitch a ride with a nervous art student on his way to college who definitely subscribes to r/im14andthisisdeep. Either way, your mind's gonna get a l...

Huge Content Warning for sexual situations, some of which have dubious to no consent.  Trusting Parker and Stone to talk about the porn industry is a big ask. But the 90s were a different time. We get the bizarre result from combining "Mormons" and porn. Much like real porn, most of the people kind of phone it in. But a few breakout performances really help the comedy. We also have our first...

This movie kicks off with some real world events, the death of Don LaFontaine, a voice actor who coined the phrase "in a world..." Just about every single character has horrendous social skills. Sophia geeks out on linguistics. Kyle recites multiple filmographies. Both of us do some accent work of varying quality. A nice Sundance indie darling that is overall quite enjoyable to watch. Lock, Shock,...

To some, David Hasselhoff has kind of a punchable face. But for one desperate club owner, he'd go so far as to kill the Hoff. This is a pretty solid comedy with a surprising amount of themes to discuss. We also start numerous conversation threads that we do not have time to get into. Note: Sophia refers to a reference document of sources but we realized we couldn't insert that into the notes so th...

We're taking a trip across the pond for this week's film. What happens when a murder suspect will only talk to a television detective? You unfortunately have to bring in the washed up actor. We take the piss out of Richard Thorncroft almost as much as the movie itself. This movie attempts to tell three stories at once and kinda falls flat. But in doing so, becomes far greater than the sum of its p...

We watched an incredibly pretentious movie so you don't have to. Its the ever relatable story about going to see your old professor for his retirement party, only to end up in an uncomfortably close relationship with a college student 16 years younger. Somehow, we didn't make a single reference to Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff but solely refer to Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby.  Content Notice...