The CineMEH Podcast

Calling Dick Tracy, calling Dick Tracy! Big Boy is on prowl and can't no copper 'cept you bring him down! This week on The CineMeh Podcast , Josh and Ryan take on the underworld next to the banana raincoat and fedora hero of the early 30s in the 1990 fever dream classic, Dick Tracy. With a cast of mob movie heavies and Warren Beaty at the helm, plus a stunning, unique visual style, this fi...

Fire on A-4! MISS! Fire on G-7! HIT! YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP! With these classic words, an entire dynasty of gaming was born. Helen's face may have launched a thousand ships, but 'You Sunk My Battleship' has launched millions. So, naturally, someone had to come along in the mid-2000s and make a Transformers-inspired movie about a game inspired by tactical naval warfare. Instead of a cla...

This one comes from a land, from a faraway place, where the caravan camels... oops, that was almost a copyright infringement, and so is a lot of this movie! This week on The CineMeh Podcast , Josh and Ryan rip into one of the worst examples of cultural appropriation and ill-conceived casting ever devised in a video game movie. 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time stands up as a perfect e...

Do you have that adrenaline momentum? Are you thinkin' it's time to go get 'em?! They ain't gonna know what hit 'em! Not when Eddie Brock and his symbiote are on the scene, anyway! This week on The CineMeh Podcast Josh and Ryan are taking on Spiderman's greatest nemesis: Venom! Except... except that Spiderman isn't in this movie... and that's actually kind of a prob...

What happens when a video game company blatantly plagiarizes Indiana Jones but is too deep in the coding process to change the entire game? They make the hero a woman, and a new cultural icon is born! Naturally, there had to be a movie. This week on The CineMeh Podcast , Josh and Ryan are discussing the 2001 action-adventure movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider , staring Angelina Jolie as the titular Lar...

It's not often that one film functions as the audition real for a cast of actors to eventually go on to bigger and better roles, but that's exactly what this week's movie does. Daredevil , otherwise known as Ben Affleck's audition for Batman, otherwise known as John Favreau's audition for Happy Hogan, otherwise known as Colin Farrell's audition for Fright Night, is one of t...

Does Bustin' Make YOU Feel Good? Is There Something Strange In YOUR Neighborhood? Then answer the call! It's time for Ghostbusters 2016! This week on The CineMeh Podcast , Josh and Ryan take on the world of the supernatural and cultural flashpoints to discuss Paul Feig's SNL super-cast in this rendition of the sci-fi horror classic, Ghostbusters. We dive into the cultural moment, talk...

The sun was coming up with practiced bravado, and a new day of justice was dawning like the first morning after the apocalypse, when Josh and Ryan sat down to review a wildly mediocre, wannabe hard-boiled film noir film from 2008. This week on The CineMEH Podcast , we are reviewing Max Payne based on the 2001 video game of the same name that memorably combined elements of 1940s detective films, gr...

Josh and Ryan are back! Welcome to Season 3 of The CineMEH Podcast! We are kicking off our themed "IP" Season with the 2005 action-horror-scifi classic of mediocrity: DOOM! Based on the groundbreaking 1993 video game about an army of demons from Hell invading a research facility on the Martian moons, this 2005 summer blockbuster? starring The Rock takes a decidedly different turn. Namely...

Josh "The Walls of Jericho" Rigdon and Ryan "The Last Starfighter" Cipriani are back in another gut-busting, side-splitting, hair-raising, thrill-seeking, spy-hunting, rip-roaring, ghost-busting, barn-burning, rock-n-rolling, perfectly mediocre season of The CineMEH Podcast! Tune in Thursday, August 24th 2023 for our illustriously mid return!

What happens when Snow White trades in the Seven Dwarves for Seven Dorks and takes on the wicked witch of Sorority Row? Find out this week on The CineMEH Podcast! In our Season 2 Finale, our very own host, Josh Rigdon, recounts his adventures on film sets when he co-starred in the 2007 teen comedy Sydney White starring Amanda Bynes. We discuss the culture of child stardom, what it's like to in...

Do you love the movie The Lucky Number Slevin? Do you love the movie 3000 Miles to Graceland? Do you love the movie Snatch, or Leon the Professional, or Kill Bill or Reservoir Dogs?! What if I told you that there was one cinematic masterpiece that combined flavors from everyone one of those films into a single, schlocky, mediocre mess? This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan are breaking d...

WELCOME TO THIS SEASON'S CAGE MATCH! ON THE DOCKET, WE'VE GOT: a polite little romantic dramedy about a New York City cop who splits a $4 million lottery ticket with a down-on-her-luck waitress that served him coffee one time. This week on The CineMEH Podcast Josh and Ryan are serving up It Could Happen to You . Full of absolutely dated 90s styles, references and cultural norms, and with a...

There's nothing more important than Family... except for Witches. Witches are important and they gotta go. At least that's Vin Diesel's outlook in this Dungeons and Dragons inspired urban fantasy. This week on The CineMEH Podcast , Josh and Ryan are discussing The Last Witch Hunter, a blink and you missed it entry in the pantheon of gritty, city-centered fantasy films. With a villain t...

Check under your shoes for nitro and make sure you're using THREE carabiners, not just two, because where we are going, danger lurks around every corner and under every haphazardly kept explosives container! This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan are scaling the Everest of late 90s films, Vertical Limit . Tenacious D may have climbed K2, but after watching this movie, we don't thi...

Who knows that mediocrity lies in the hearts of movies? JOSH AND RYAN KNOW! Grab your scarf and hat and throw on a big black trench coat, there's crime to fight! This week, on the CineMEH Podcast , Josh and Ryan are taking on the 1994 adaptation of a golden-era comic and radio crime drama, The Shadow. Prepare to be hypnotized by our deep referential commentary and mysterious 1930s references....

Coming to you LIVE, it's The CineMEH Podcast starring Josh Josh and Ryan Josh, and this week we are bringing you the greatest cultural achievement of the entire 20th century... Super Mario Brothers! This week on CineMEH Josh and Ryan and going down the pipes and checking every castle for the princess as we discuss the very first video game movie adaptation, 1993's Super Mario Brothers. Rec...

Some projects are so big, they change the landscape of cinema forever. Some projects are so big they are remembered as the triumphant classics of their time. And some projects are so big they bankrupt the studio that produced them and put hundreds of people out of work. Enter Titan AE , the last act of Fox Animations and one of the most... existing? adult animation films to ever... exist. Taking p...

We're pulling a Panama!  Light your cigar and cut the fuel line; Josh and Ryan have a high-octane adventure for you this week... and they're not in Panama!  They're in the Sahara! On this episode of CineMEH! we're on the trail of a long-lost Civil War ironclad stuffed with confederate gold dubloons, and we've brought along a couple ex-Navy treasure hunters for company!  Thrill! &nbs...

Mount your fire mare, pack your glaive, and double-check all your friends for signs of being a changeling!  This week Josh and Ryan are headed to the mystical, faraway planet of Krull in the film aptly titled... well... Krull.  And if you were expecting creativity from this sword and sorcery cult classic, you might find yourself sorely disappointed.  A derivative, plodding mess that...

She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went!  Unless the money went into magical crabs that imbue the people around them with the ability to cook, in which case we know EXACTLY where the money went.  This week on The CineMEH Podcast , Josh and Ryan delve into the realm of magical realism, Tribeca real estate deals, and distractingly loud soundtracks in 1999's "Simply Irresisti...

What happens when you recycle the cast, production team, plot, and general cinematography of "Top Gun" but with NASCAR instead?  You get Days of Thunder , that's what happens!  Join Josh and Ryan this week as we go two hundred laps on this Tom Cruise 'vehicle' (eh, eh?) from 1990.  This episode has it ALL.  Fast cars.  Rival drivers.  Ridiculous budgetary issues and a...

It's Season 2!  Josh and Ryan are climbing back out of the sewers to bring you a slice of 90s culture with extra cheese!  We're ninja-kicking off season 2 with a nod to season 1's running in-joke: everyone's favorite mutated teenage turtles!  That's right!  It's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze"!  We'll be asking the important questions.  Is Ti...

It's a clips episode!  That's right: Josh and Ryan have gotten so massive and successful, working late nights out of an $11 million studio, that they are releasing an episode of behind the scene conversations from season 1!  (Certain aspects of the previous statement cannot be verified and may represent opinion, conjecture, and gross exaggeration).  Tune in this week for their thoug...

Put this podcast ON!  NOW!  To get you into the holiday spirit and bring you a little seasonal joy, Josh and Ryan ride a one-horse open sleigh of comedy straight into your podcast feed.  Join us as we chase Arnold Schwarzenegger through the streets of Minneapolis on a quest to find the mythic Turbo Man doll in 1996's "Jingle All the Way"!  Whether you find yourself fending off...