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We’re in our last week for our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM and we had to hit up a flick with our Asshole Theme Mascot, John Wayne. Why not hit up one of the most beloved John Ford/John Wayne westerns ever. Yep, we’re talking about the 1956 classic “The Searchers” starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles and a young Natalie Wood. The character of Ethan Edwards is quite the racist so yo...

The central assholes featured in our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM keep getting riper and riper. They’re gaping more and more. It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a movie that makes our skin crawl but Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance and a sociopathic stringer in Dan Gilroy’s 2014 Neo-Noir “Nightcrawler” was truly grimy. In the ultra cynical world of news and entertainment media you don’t have to...

Assholes can fuck everything up and they can also genuinely love their brother. Today’s entry in month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM is the hectic crime drama “Good Time” by Josh & Benny Safdie and stars Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie & Jennifer Jason Leigh. That security guard will never be right again. They poured so much liquid acid into that guy’s mouth, dude. That’s insane. I’d try it....

We’re finishing up our viewing of Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name/Dollars Trilogy for our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM and we’ve already established that Clint Eastwood’s character of The Man With No Name is a little over the middle of the asshole scale. Bounty hunting and senseless egg yolk breaking make him a contender but probably the least assholey of all the assholes featured in our sele...

For this month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM it’s important that we touch base on assholery amongst artistry. We’re discussing the show’s very first Coen Brother’s film that we recently caught up with for the first time. We’re talking the Coen’s 2013 film “Inside Llewyn Davis” starring Oscar Isaac in a breakout role as a struggling folk musician in the early sixties on the cusp of the Dylan explosio...

This month is ASSHOLES ON FILM for our theme and we’re keeping it vintage this midweek as we explore a Samurai classic that was actually considered a big flop and all production of a follow up ceased after it’s release. Perhaps the Japanese film goers at the time didn’t appreciate Kihachi Okamoto’s interpretation of a popular serialized story but the tale of the stone cold killer, Ryonusuke, stood...

Our vintage selections for our ASSHOLES ON FILM theme this month involve Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME Trilogy and this follow up to the breakout hit maybe has our lowest grade asshole this month but Clint did break that telegraph operators egg yolk and you just don’t do that. We’re talkin’ the 1965 spaghetti western “For a Few Dollars More” starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Clef, Gian Maria Volo...

It’s ASSHOLES ON FILM month and should it be a surprise that a month full of main character assholes are also some very beloved and well regarded movies? We finally catch up to watching one of Lord Stanley’s films and it also happens be Bob’s favorite of his movies. Those interested in such things are well aware and much has been said of it over the years. We discuss one of our favorite movie assh...

It’s MOVIE ROULETTE REVIEW time!  Angela selected from a hat the category “Tammy” and, sure enough, we landed on the 2014 comedy “Tammy” starring Melissa McCarthy and directed by her husband Ben Falcone. This comedy was actually a hit, believe it or not! It’s only hard to believe because, while it did do well at the box office, nobody seems to speak of this movie. It’s star studded (Susan Sarandon...

ASSHOLES ON FILM is our theme this month and our Monday vintage selections will be westerns. We will be featuring an iconic trilogy in the “spaghetti” kind of western. We’re discussing Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME films starting with the 1964 hit that put Clint Eastwood on the map, “A Fistful of Dollars” which is really just a western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” that was release the pr...

NEW MONTH. NEW THEME. We’re pumped for September’s theme as we dive into some films that truly embody the nature of “the asshole”. ASSHOLES ON FILM is what we’re slipping into and we’re starting off with a movie chock full of assholes. Brimming with asshole cunts. We’re discussing Martin McDonagh’s worthy 2008 debut film “In Bruges” starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Two hitmen are ordere...

APOLOGIES FOR THE MICROPHONE DISTORTION IN THIS EPISODE. We cut out several minutes with way too much static but what is left is audible and is what we were able to salvage. Apologies again for the obnoxious pops. We think we fixed the issue for next time. Goodbye ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY. You were an interesting theme this month. We say goodbye with a movie that was highly anticipated and we cred...

We end our vintage selections for our month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY with a pirate picture that also stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and our main man Basil Rathbone. That shit-assed King James sent the good Dr. Blood and a bunch of scalawags to Port Royal to be slaves. It just so happened that all of these guys have experience manning some type of a ship and they all free themsel...

We’re sneaking in one more Batman movie for our month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and we’re doing it in homage to the late Kevin Conroy who voiced Batman/Bruce Wayne in the beloved 90s Batman cartoon “Batman: The Animated Series” The series had a theatrical venture in a critically well regarded animated movie done in the “Animated Series” style and it might the most well crafted Batman sto...

It’s that time of the month. You know what we’re talking about. It’s time for our RANDOMLY GENERATED REVIEW and at the end of our last randomly generated episode we selected and movie we didn’t even know existed based on the Charles Dickens classic. We’re talking the 2005 film “Oliver Twist” and it’s not directed by Kenneth Branagh like we so confidently, and blindly, assumed. No, this perfectly f...

For this month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY we’re going to the adventurous roots of characters and actors that inspired some later interpretations of costumed heroism. The spotlight is on Errol Flynn for the rest of this month’s vintage ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and we’re hitting up Errol’s most prolific hit film from 1938, “The Adventures of Robin Hood” directed by Michael Curtis of “Casabl...

We round out week two of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme with “Batman Returns”, the most Burtonesque of the Tim Burton Batman films and there’s a lot of wacky, but also horny and disturbing, shit to behold here. It’s easily the horniest superhero movie of all time. Even the penguin is extremely horny. Will Catwoman ever find her Irving? Oh, and it’s a Christmas flick too. This stars Michael Kea...

It can’t be overstated how much of a pop culture phenomenon Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman” movie was. People were losing their bat-obsessed mind. The skepticism of the Michael Keaton casting quickly fell off. Jack Nicholson entrenched himself as a cinema icon. Airbrush T-shirt shops were popping up in strip malls hocking any article of clothing with the Batman logo on it. We couldn’t get enough. Unles...

For this month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY we’re spending our Mondays looking at the film roots of today’s ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and the character of Zorro is a fine place to start. Dual identities, protector of everyday citizens, son of wealth. Hey, Zorro sounds like he might be kind of influential to that one guy in Gotham City with the ears. The sword on sword action goes pleasantly...

Week one of our theme, ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY, ends with an obvious follow up to last Wednesday’s episode with “Superman II” but not just any Superman II. After Richard Donner got fired during production of Superman II, they brought in Richard Lester to reshoot some stuff and finish it off leading to the classic theatrical release of the movie. Twenty six years later, Richard Donner was backed u...

We’re watching some of the earliest Superman movies for week one of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme and we felt comfort but got all melancholy watching Richard Donner’s 1978 smash hit adaptation of the comic book icon, “Superman” starring the late Christopher Reeve and the late Margot Kidder. Hell, Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando are dead too. I guess Brando would definitely be gone by now. Mort...

August’s theme is “ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY” which means we’re FINALLY getting to a Superhero movie theme, but we ain’t gonna be watching some “Age of Ultron” shit yet because we’re getting to the godfathers of where we’re at today as well as adventure film influences from even earlier times. It’s Superman week and we’re revisiting the classics and starting with the first ever Superman feature fil...

It’s time we got around to our next installment in our ongoing MOVIE ROULETTE REVIEW series. Angela picks a movie category from a hat. Each category has a list of movies and we randomly select a number from those categories and thus fall upon what we will be reviewing next. Last time Angela selected “Exsanguinators” and fell upon one of her favorite movies of all time and it set a high bar for vam...

We get back to the movies to discuss Christopher Nolan’s epic “Oppenheimer” starring Cillian Murphy as the man who became death, destroyer of worlds. We call him “Oppy” because it’s cute. There could be no tomorrow so you might as well be cute today. Did they successfully build an atomic bomb? Don’t worry. We won’t spoil that for you. This movie is loaded with stars. Including Benny Safdie who get...

We end July, and it’s co-theme of “Catching Up”, by finally getting to the 2023 Academy Award Winner for best picture, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” by Them Daniels. It stars the legendary Michelle Yeoh, the lovable Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis as an IRS Karen. It’s a hopeful, reality bending ride that really struck a chord with those that saw it last year. Is the hype real or has this s...