Pop Culture Purgatory

Wwwwwwwweeeeeellllllcccccccooooommmmmmeeeee back sports fans!!!! This week it's Tron's pick with Bad News Bears from 1976 written by Bill Lancaster and directed by Michael Ritchie!!! The movie stars Walter Matthau/, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, Alfred Lutter III, Chris Barnes, Erin Blunt, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Jaime Escobedo, Scott Firestone, George Gon...

Wwwwwweeeelllllcccccooooommmmeeee back all you sports fans to purgatory!!!! This week it's Mike's pick Major League from 1989 Written & Directed by David S. Ward!!! The movie stars Charlie Sheen, James Gammon, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton, Rene Russo, Dennis Haysbert, Charles Cyphers, Chelcie Ross, Andy Romano, Bob Uecker and Stacy Carroll!!! Thanks for checkin...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! Pop Culture Purgatory welcomes you to SPORTS MOVIE MONTH!!!  We are gonna jump into every type of sports movies as possible this month starting of with Jeremy's pick Any Given Sunday from 1999 written by Daniel Pyne, John Logan & Oliver Stone also directed by Oliver Stone. The movie stars Al Pacino, Cmaeron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, Ma...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!! This week the boys are back with more music and them music videos!!! Please go out and support all these incredible musical artists, check them out and spread the word!!!   Our dear friend Slaygoth has asked us to pass the word around for a great friend of his Aubrey. She's battling a very rare aggressive form of cancer and she is in real need of help for medical bill...

Welcome back to ppppuuurrrgatory!!! We finish out our Kitty Kitty Fang Fang month with a sweet sort of a banger with Secondhand Lions from 2003 written and directed by Tim McCanlies!!! The movie stars Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Nicky Katt, Josh Lucas, Michael I'Neill, Deirdre O' Connell, Eric Balfour, Christian Kane, Kevin Haberer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Adam Oztu...

Welcome back to pppppppuuuuuurrrrrrgatory!!!! Meow this is gonna be a good time! We jump back into big cat month with 2022's Beast Directed by Baltasar Kormakur and written by Jaime Primak Sullican and Ryan Engle!!! The movie stars Idris Elba, Kazi Khuboni, Leah Sava Jeffreies, Iyana Halley, Sharlto Copley, Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Danil Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi, Mduduzi, Chris Gxalaba, Tafar...

Welcome back to pppppppuuuuuurrrrrrgatory!!!!! The boys are back and with a theme month that's....very different, may be the weirdest month on the pod, we are talkin about lions...that we are calling Kitty Kitty Fang Fang!!! We start off the month with a banger, an underrated classic from 1996 The Ghost and The Darkness directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by William Goldman and based off of re...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!! Once upon a white moon there was a smell of a beloved dissolved girl who was a windowlicker for the man who sold the world! The boys are back with more music & music videos!!! Sit back, relax, hang out and have some fun with us! We hope you dig these incredible bands and their amazing music, please go out and support them and if dig them then deep dive!!! Thanks f...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!! Get ready to count the ways to desire and regulate them dirty boyz and their Caribbean Queen!!! The boys are back with more music and music videos!!! Sit back, relax, hang out and have some fun with us! We hope you dig these incredible bands and their amazing music, please go out and support them and if you dig them then deep dive!!! Thanks for checkin us out and if y...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! Get ready to sweat, croon, headbang and ding dang!!!  The boys are back with some more music and more music videos!!! Sit back, relax and hang out and have fun! We hope you dig these incredible bands and their amazing music and please go out and support them and if you dig them then deep dive!!! Thanks for checkin us out if you would like to find our past and more rece...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! The boys are happy to report that the month of The Cost is over and we are happily moving on and sitting down and just listening/watching some of our favorite tracks and music videos, going back to the old school ways of the pod, we hope ya'll enjoy it as we did and we hope some of the bands we recommend here you guys and gals will go out in check them out and support...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! This week oof...yeah so we are finally done with The Cost...at least for now and with this he has shat himself to the highest of proportions. So, come along with us as we stare into the sun, gamble our lives and our brain cells in a desolate dry, slow and over bloated mess that is Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1, where scenes happen, people act on screen, vague mot...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!! Grab your one hundred year old TV Magazine, talk about how many channels you got with Bill The Mule, perform a shitty Shakespearean play with Bill, make sure to lie to everyone and pretend you are someone else even to children, impregnate a woman who doesn't love or like you, dodge all responsibilities, don't grow up, get a bunch of kids killed and make sure you are p...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! Sip on some pure fookin hydro, keep a fat stack of chits in the pocket of your fishnet crop top, turn your piss into agua for you lime tree as we sail above a dead civilization in Waterworld from 1995!!!! Directed by Kevin Reynolds and written by Peter Rader & David Thowy!!! The movie stars Kevin "The Cost" Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Dennis Hopper,...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! Ninety-Nine will die...Denver nine... This week Tron is on a family vacation so Jeremy and Mike venture on and cover something maybe forgotten to time, a little conspiracy theory thriller called The Mothman Prohecies from 2002 and adapted for the screen by Richard Hatem based on the novel by John A. Keel and directed by Mark Pellington. The movie stars Richard Gere, De...

WELCOME BACK TO PURGATORY...with Kevin Costner...in hell!!! This month the boy's travel into the seven layers of hell...watching Kevin Costner epic movie failures! Fun! Exciting! Mesmerizing!  We start off with 1994's Wyatt Earp! Directed by Lawernce Kasdan and written by Dan Gordon & Lawrence Kasdan. The movie stars Catherine O'Hara, Jobeth Williams, Mare Winningham, Isabella Rossellini, Anna...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! This week we wrap up our Manbruary month with Michael Mann's 2006 way to serious adaptation of Miami Vice, Mann writes and directs, we focus on the director's cut which adds seven more minutes (not in any way needed). The movie stars Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Naomie Harris, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar, Elizabeth Rodriguez. Gong Li, Ciaran Hinds, J...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! This week the boys continue on with MANBRUARY a celebration of director Michael Mann's filmography. This week we dive into his biographical film from 1999 The Insider. Based off of true events and from an article in Vanity Fair by Marie Brenner in 1996, adapted for the screen by Eric Roth and Michael Mann.  The film stars Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer,...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!! This week we continue our adventure through Michael Mann's incredible filmography with his movie from 1992 The Last of the Mohicans!!! Based off of the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper and written for the screen by Michael Mann and Christopher Crowe!!! The movie stars Daniel Day- Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Steven Waddington, Wes...

Welcome back to purgatory!!! This month we celebrate one of the influential directors on cinema history, Michael Mann!!! We kick off our series Manbruary with Michael Mann's first theatrical film Thief from1981, based off of the novel The Home Invaders by Frank Hohimer, the screenplay is adapted for the screen by Michael Mann and directed by Michael Mann. The film stars James Caan, Tuesday Weld, W...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!!! The boys are back together again and this week we jump into an early 2000's thriller and underrated in our opinions The Hunted directed by the great William Friedkin!!!! The film is written by David & Peter Griffiths and Art Monterastelli!!! The movie stars Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nelson, Leslie Stefanson, John Finn, Jose Zuniga, Ron Canada, Mar...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!! This week Tron is out of town so Mike and Jeremy take a trip to Japan, sell some microchips, slam some sake, fight some ninja assassins and train to be samurai with a little flick from 1995 called The Hunted written and directed by J.F. Lawton!!! The movie stars Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada, Yoko Shimada, Mari Natsuki, Tak Kubota, Masumi Ok...

WHERE'S THE GIRL?! WHERE'S THE GIRL JERRY?! WHERE'S THE GIRL?! Welcome back to purgatory!!! This week the boys are back with another flick that Tron has yet to see, an underrated, forgotten gem Spartan from 2004 written & directed by the great David Mamet!! The movie stars Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, Tia Texada, Lionel Mark Smith, Johnny Messner, Bob Jennings, Tony Mamet, Clark Gregg, Margot Farle...

WELCOME BACK TO PURGATORY!!!! We are...what we eat... This week the boys dine on a somewhat forgotten classic with 1999's Ravenous directed by Antonia Bird & written by Ted Griffin!!! The movie stars Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones, Sheila Toussey, Joseph Runningfox, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies, Neal McDonough, John Spencer and Bill Brochtrup. Thanks for checkin us out!!! You can f...

Welcome back to purgatory!!!! We hope everyone had a wonderful time with family and friends for the holidays!!! This episode we wanted to do during December but it was a little harder to line up everyone but...better late than never. This week the boys are joined by Bryce, Jeremy's kiddo first the first time in a very, very long time and his very first movie commentary!!! The boys jump into one of...