Old Movies For Young Stoners

Cannabis comic and activist Ngaio Bealum joins us for our SEASON TWO PREMIERE, and he's selected two movies that are real gateway drugs to classic cinema. Both films are tense AF depictions of desperate men trying to pull off that one last score. Both movies were also made by domineering filmmakers, so, as Ngaio says, this could have been our asshole director episode. First up, is THE KILLING (195...

It's the first ever Old Movies for Young Stoners Holiday Special! Bob, Cory, Philena and Greg are back to spread some holiday cheer, or maybe just baffle and amuse you. First, we discuss the new "Sight and Sound" 100 Greatest Films of All Time list that just dropped last week. Does "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" deserve the top spot? Should "Citizen Kane" reign in perpetuity...

It's our Halloween episode AND our season one finale which begins with a visit to the Old Witch's lair where every bong rip could be your last. Big thanks to Tigger Franklin for her witchy cackle. It's a family affair here on OMFYS--a Franklin family affair. Our two films come from the 1930s, possibly the greatest decade for horror, but is it? We get into that before we get into our movies and wee...

Technological disruption wasn’t just dreamed up by annoying tech bros in Silicon Valley. Fortunes have been made and lost over advances in technology ever since the stone age gave way to bronze. And Hollywood has definitely seen more than its share of it over the past 100 years or so with talking pictures, television, home video and streaming all bringing on one form of creative destruction or ano...

With superheroes dominating today's multiplexes and streaming channels, we look back at the 1960s, when people got way into superheroes for two years and then got the hell over it. First, we've got the superhero as a metaphor for American imperialism, racism and police brutality in MR. FREEDOM (1968), a savage satire produced in France and directed by American expat William Klein. In "Mr. Freedom,...

In our terrific tenth episode, we delve into the hallucinogenic possibilities of the most surreal movie genre of them all -- the musical! And as strange as the musical is, it was the most normie form of entertainment for a good chunk of the 20th Century, and is still capable of giving us the utter batshit weirdness of CATS from time to time. For our first film, we go back to the height of MGM and...

Floyd Webb of the Blacknuss Network joins us as we blast off to the stars for two wildly and weirdly different cinematic visions of space travel in a sprawling but mellow talk that goes from usual movie and weed convo into the mysterious deaths of NASA's Black astronauts, Floyd's experiences with Melvin Van Peebles, and so much more. This episode takes small steps and giant leaps PLUS it's droppin...

Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS is upon us, so it is now time for OMFYS' ELVIS EPISODE! First, Elvis Presley himself is a karate-chopping, motorcycle-riding, rock and roll rebel with a big chip on his shoulder who falls in with a traveling carnival in ROUSTABOUT (1964). Only Elvis' singing can keep the carnival from being gobbled up by a sideshow conglomerate, so it's up to carny queen Barbara Stanwyck (!) t...

Special guest Justin Wiese of Torn Light Records and the Esquire Theatre in Cincinnati joins us as we go DARK AF. We begin with the inescapable fatalism of director Edgar Ulmer's film noir classic DETOUR from 1945 where Tom Neal as sadsack Al Roberts is thrust into a tragedy of errors as he thumbs a ride across the country. Just when things couldn't get any worse, they do when he hooks up with Ann...

Godzilla and Ray Harryhausen! We've got dudes in rubber suits AND stop-motion animation going on. We're taking a break from the trippy Euro art films we've been featuring on OMFYS lately and going back to basics with some goddamned MONSTER MOVIES! First up, we have 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957) from special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. Thrill to a giant space dinosaur from Venus rampaging th...

Sex vampires! Demonic possession! The burning of heretics! Sexual awakenings! Polecats! They're all right here in a pair of full color fantasias from Europe. First, young Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) finds her journey into womanhood fraught with grotesque vampires, pervy priests and vicious polecats in the Czech new wave weirdness of Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970). Then, Italian maestro...

OMFYS goes back to the beginning of cinema itself for The Infernal Cauldron (1903) and The Old Hag AKA The Witch (1906), a pair of trippy AF shorts directed by Georges Méliès, the French magician who invented special effects and directed the first sci-fi film. We follow this up with a deep discussion of the equally hallucinatory technicolor madness of The Red Shoes from the esteemed filmmaking duo...

Cory, Greg and Bob journey to the magical kingdom of Disney+ for a pair of the most psychedelic propaganda films ever produced. First, Donald Duck flies through Latin America on a magic sarape in The Three Caballeros, and then join Walt and his clunky robot pal Garco for a major dose of tripped-out space triumphalism in the Ward Kimball masterpiece, Mars and Beyond. The movies are all on Disney+ a...

Horror icon Vincent Price getting wigged out on heavy narcotics was once a thing--at least in a few of his movies--and we have two of them here in our second episode of Old Movies for Young Stoners. First, there's Dragonwyck--a haunting gothic romance from 1946 where Price hides in an attic and tokes opium to escape from the sounds of a ghostly harpsichord that plays in his family estate. Then we...

For episode one, Bob, Cory and Greg recommend what kind of weed to smoke with The Misfits (1961)--the tragic last film for Hollywood legends Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe--and The Intruder (1962), a jarring film from Roger Corman with a young William Shatner spouting horrible, racist bile that even the Mirror Universe Kirk wouldn't dare say. If you're following at home, The Misfits is streaming o...