Slop Culture

In a very special episode of Slop Culture, the podcast talks about its very first film featuring America's favorite morally-dubious, spiritually-lugubrious, gun-toting, chain-smoking, grizzled gizzard son of an onion, Clint Eastwood, in The Gauntlet, a film that is brave enough to tell you that you can solve at least some of your problems with a bus.

The boys revisit the joys of Hong Kong cinema with the spectacularly gory, spectacularly ridiculous, spectacularly beefy opus that is Riki-Oh, the story of one man's passionate desire to bring about prison reforms by punching through walls and making peoples' skulls explode. Put your face in this bad English dubbing and breathe deep, brother.

Today on Slop Culture, Will and Sam journey to the moment where the Terminator franchise stopped and the Terminator Cinematic Universe began. Join us for a thoughtful discussion on what makes a character, what makes a plot, what makes a human--also, like, six or seven jokes about Florida. Maybe eight.

This week, the boys investigate a piece of Argentinian Cinematic History in the form of the extremely violent, extremely low-budget, extremely body-hairless legendary film, Deathstalker. Join us for a discussion of pop culture history, Will's beef with whales and whether or not Pedro Pascal is to blame for Vesuvius erupting.

On the inaugural session of Sloppy Seconds, the boys talk about horror film sensation, THE BACKROOMS, one of Sam's very favorite settings and, now, one of his very favorite movies. Also included in this episode: bad endings to good shows, the twitching carcass of Star Wars and how badly you'd have to offend Pedro Pascal before he finally came after you.

Today, the boys take a look at Charlize Theron's spectacular Cold War thriller, Atomic Blonde--the ONLY movie where you can get a stunning 1980s soundtrack, John Goodman in a suit and a verifiable chorus of Eastern European dudes getting whacked in their Lyndon B Johnsons with firehoses. What part of the body is "Lyndon B Johnson" a metaphor for? You'll have to listen to find o...

The boys take a course in Early Keanu History with his action-filled role as FBI agent Johnny Utah, playing opposite the chillest sociopath you'll ever meet in Patrick Swayze. Thoughtful deep dives into the relationship between action and romance, lingering studies of high-stakes tension, discussions on the nature of sadism--all this and more are ruined by Sam bouncing his knee and making the...

The boys talk about one of the most foundational films to the martial arts genre, defining many of its most treasured tropes--secretive high-stakes tournaments, fists soaked in gore, the burning warrior spirit and dudes threateningly making their pecs bounce like a couple of evil hams.

Today, Will and Sam enjoy a monster movie for a new era. Jason Statham turns in a mostly-hairless performance as a deep sea rescue specialist hired by a multinational team of scientists to dive to the bottom of the ocean and punch the hell out of some sea life. And speaking of deep dives, we finally get to the bottom of why the nation of Japan is so pissed at Joe Jonas.

This week, Will introduces Sam to his favorite movie that has been or ever will be--Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt, which is a name that sounds like a dude who has been involved in numerous last stands and is linked to at least two different civil wars. 

The boys talk about Antoine Fuqua's take on a classic western action flick starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and more in a sprawling study of what it means to be a man who can't move beyond his past and the best he can do with the curse of violence he's been burdened with--also would you accept infinite power from an eldritch Matthew McConaughey if it meant you had to watch Sa...

The boys take a moment to pour a glass of classic Kurt Russell and savor the heady aroma of a classic commando story about what happens when politics are decided via guys with eyepatches and New York is finally allowed to live its authentic self as a supermax prison for community theater actors.

In a very special episode of Slop Culture, Will and Sam pay attention and homage to one of the earliest and most ambitious attempts at fantasy cinema: Krull. The boys discuss what it means to be a creative flop that laid the groundwork for classics to come and also what if Stan Lee kidnapped your family? What then?

Will and Sam do more glazing than a donut factory over James Cameron's action movie touchstone in which Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis show off the fun, quirky and romantic side of brazen misappropriation of government resources and shadowy institutions accountable to no one.

This week, the boys journey to pay their respects at the shrine of New Zealand's patron saint, Karl Urban, in his gritty dystopian action flick, Dredd. Included inside: slasher bars, crucial updates on how Sam's curry turned out, and so much glazing a donutsmith envies.

In honor of our 22nd episode, Slop Culture is proud to present its thorough critical analysis of one of the most profound entries into the most sacred wings of cinema's hallowed halls: 2 Fast 2 Furious. Enclosed within: how to run a zoo as a mafia front, drift racing in the Hague and whether you can or cannot legally make a car your wife. And if you can...should you?

This week, Will and Sam take a look at Sylvester Stallone's Expendables 2, a thoughtful and nuanced study of the relationship between masculinity, intimacy and conflict. Also, Jason Statham dresses up like a priest and stabs a dude and says "I now pronounce you man and KNIFE" and it's totally sick, you've got to watch it, bro.

Today, Will and Sam take a look at one of Heath Ledger's last performances as a fairy tale-obsessed conman who gets asked to help Matt Damon beat up a horse that spits spiders in the action-fantasy-buddy-comedy-horror-action-comedy-thriller-fantasy-horror-action-action-buddy-buddy-comedy-fantasy movie, the Brothers Grimm.

In the name of international relations, the boys have a look at District B13, the only movie that dares to ask what if the Fast and the Furious franchise was about parkour instead of cars and was about saving the Eiffel Tower from nukes and also Vin Diesel is French and so is everyone else. 

Join the boys as they journey back in time to the primitive 1990's, where computers were magical and the only thing cooler than ninjas were the people who knew how to use them (the computers, not the ninjas). The People of Japan v. Macaulay Culkin, the masculine urge to be socially awkward, jetski escort services and more on today's episode about Hackers.

Will and Sam go digging for 80's gold in this action-heavy, logic-light that dares to dream of a world where ninjutsu-practicing individuals can lead long, full lives with meaningful contributions to international government and artistic heritage. Come for the shuriken, stay for the ninja Seinfeld pitch.

The boys celebrate the legendary career of Denzel Washington by watching a film in which he enjoys a soul-healing vacation to scenic Naples, Italy and connects deeply with the local culture in between scenes of overwhelmingly horrifying psychopathic violence. Plus--pitching Conan O'Brien as an action comedy star, harmful depictions of supernatural assassins and what's the proper amount o...

To celebrate America's fourth-favorite corporate holiday, the lads decide to flex their creative writing muscles by writing opposing erotic video game fanfiction to see whose chops for crafting stories of pixelated pounding is superior. There are only two rules: only the strong survive and if you laugh, you drink.

This week, the boys get into the works of Christian "Chrissy" Bale with a look at a movie that features the only martial art designed by geometry students and the only social dystopia designed by Reddit moderators. Also featured: Taye Diggs glazing, gamer Richard Gere and the only protein supplement that makes you red.

Will and Sam take a look at cinematic universes that never were in this Taran Egerton-led heist flick that dares to ask the question "what if someone did the Nolan Batman trilogy but it was not as good and also Batman had a gatling bow?"