Secret Handshake

For our latest barrage of bad takes, Cody thinks Chris Nolan's high-minded action movie COVID bomb is "dumb", causing Jacob and Marten to clutch their pearls.

What's your favorite scary movie? Jacob and Marten go long on their love for Wes Craven, wrestle with their feelings about the SCREAM franchise as a whole, and then tackle the latest installment in the murderous trials and tribulations of Sidney Prescott, Gail Weathers, Deputy Dewey, and Ghostface.

To celebrate one of their favorite directors, Jacob and Marten commit almost three hours to Paul Thomas Anderson's operatic San Fernando Valley melodrama, MAGNOLIA. But why is Marten so resistant to the auteur's BIG emotions? Find out now.

And that's a wrap on Secret Handshake's first year of existence. But what were the boys' favorite films of 2021? Jacob and Marten compare notes on the modern movies they watched in-between ingesting every cult classic under the sun.

For the final episode of 2021, Jacob and Marten wax on about the ultimate movie bromance: Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham. But why is the life of a Hollywood stuntman so thrilling? Crack some cold Coors and find out.

Our 20th spine number sees wild tentacle abortion monsters being added to the Secret Handshake canon, as Jacob and Marten explore the slimy wonders of THE KINDRED, as well as the rest of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's low budget horror output.

Y'all musta thought it was White Boy Day, huh? Cody's back in town for Thanksgiving and we're talkin' Tony Scott! The master of '90s disaster gets the Secret Handshake treatment as we dive into his timeless Tarantino collaboration, TRUE ROMANCE.

Room service motherfuckers! This week, Jacob and Marten head to Abel Ferrara's grimy vision of New York City to watch Chris Walken battle cops and rival gangs as the iconic Frank Black. Get the shower ready, this is real gutter cinema.

In the second installment of the Bad Opinions Podcast, Marten attempts to justify why he hates the seminal Stephen King prison picture. Cody and Jacob disagree.

The boys travel to beautiful Phoenixville, Pennsylvania and experience 25 hours of 35mm horror madness. With Special Guest Simon Abrams!

The antithesis of "Secret Handshake", "Dealbreakers" covers the movies opinions your friends hold that make you rethink your entire relationship. Kicking it off: Jacob says Zombie's slasher sequel is a masterwork. Cody and Marten do not concur.

This week, Marten assigns Jacob a ton of homework as they explore the Ranown Cycle of Westerns that saw Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott and Burt Kennedy churning out some of the best matinee gunfighter fare in the history of cinema.

This week, Cody returns to the pod and brings out the inner Goth teenager in both Jacob and Marten by making them revisit '90s supernatural revenge staple THE CROW.

An early audible in Season Two sees Jacob and Marten tackling MIDNIGHT MASS and the terrifying film career of Mike Flanagan. Is this the best Stephen King adaptation (that's not actually based on a King novel?). Find out in super-sized Spine #15.

The start of a new Secret Handshake: Jacob and Marten usher in the series' second season with SHAKEDOWN, James Glickenhaus' ultraviolent NYC Grime two-handed buddy cop action extravaganza. Grab your Uzi, this one goes off the rails.

For the season finale, Jacob, Cody and Marten go long on Craig Denney's tough-to-see masterpiece of DIY outsider art. Psychedelia and Moody Blues tunes abound.

Fair is fair! Jacob, Marten and Cody tackle the very best teen movie in existence and dissect how it might also be the very first #metoo movie ever. Helen Slater. Christian Slater. Keith Gordon. Fire up your motor scooters, we're headed to Texas! (Programming Note: this episode was originally recorded as "Spine #7" before we called an audible and did THE EMPTY MAN with David Prior at the last minu...

The boys took a few months off due to "life complications", but are back with one of the best action movies ever made: Kathryn Bigelow's mystical, violent, and utterly brilliant 1991 surfer/bank robber opus, POINT BREAK.

Jacob, Marten and Cody pick up Rutger Hauer and are subsequently terrorized by this stone classic of vehicular horror. Buckle up for two hours of deep dive analysis, Robert Harmon love, and bonus Vin Diesel trivia.

Spine #9 is all about slasher movies, as Marten introduces Jacob and Cody to one of his deep cut dead teenager favorites. But is the body count high enough to warrant Face Melter status? Find out over the next 100 minutes.

For the eighth spine number in the Secret Handshake collection, Marten, Jacob and Cody choose their own weapons and duel to the death over Battle Royale: Kinji Fukasaku's extreme cinema classic that's still infamous to this day. Get ready for a bonkers verbal throw down that shows no mercy.

Jacob, Marten and Cody begin the back half of Season One by tossing out a programming curve ball: 2020's deathdrone epic, THE EMPTY MAN. But does David Prior's mishandled supernatural mystery already belong in the pantheon of great underseen art? Or did Fox and Disney do the right thing burying this idiosyncratic oddity? The boys hash it out.

Jacob and Marten beamed a bunch of fest movies into their eyeballs and then spit out as many opinions as they could muster in a little over 100 minutes. What were some of their favorites from the fest? What did they hate? Is fest hype still a thing in the all-digital era? Find out now!

The midway point of Season One brings a super stylish serial killer thriller from Michael Mann. But is this the best Hannibal Lecter adaptation to ever make it to the big screen screen? Jacob, Marten and Cody investigate.

For Spine #5, Cody picks Berry Gordy and Michael Schultz's Motown-funded Blaxploitation martial arts epic. If you don't dig it, you can kiss our Converses.