The Remedial Film Class Podcast

George and Dan not have seen The Cell. Travis brought this to their attention as the guys explore the Early 2000s Serial Killer genre... (Also known as the "Nine Inch Nails period of Modern Horror") And Dan shares a new insight into the Psycho shower scene... ! Will George find himself happily whisked away to a dreamscape in a mindscape while standing on desert landscape? Can Travis convince Dan t...

George loved the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. But while he enjoyed The Ring, he didn't love Saw. Will the "Early 2000s" vibes of the Michael Bay-produced remake do the trick? (It was directed by the same guy as the Friday the 13th remake that George loved!)  Will George enjoy the beefed up Jason-clone nature of the new Leatherface or will he miss the femininity of the original? Will Travis c...

George has not seen The Ring. Will PG-13 horror put the heebie in his jeebies or does he need the gore of a Hard R to get the willies... willying? Tune in to find out if George managed to make it through the movie without jumping. Did Travis make it through the Japanese (original) version despite the subtitles? Will Dan ever find the answer to his "where did I see this scene?" question?  And after...

George and Travis had never seen Saw. And they didn't think that pun was any good. Thank you for siding with Dan on that one. Will George be able to handle the first Torture Porn? Will Travis be surprised by the twist ending, even though he knows Tobin Bell is the killer? Will Dan be able to convince the guys WHY Seven seems less gratuitous than Saw? Tune in to find out! And after the episode, che...

Richard Oliver, from the Chasing Tone Podcast, returns to discuss one of his favorite 80s Science Fiction classics. George hasn't seen The Fly. In fact, he hasn't seen the old one, either. Heck, he hasn't seen Jeff Goldblum in anything since Jurassic Park (and hasn't seen that movie in years!) He wasn't ready. Oddly enough, Dan hasn't seen The Fly either. He's seen the original from the 50s but he...

The Batman, you say? But that is still in theaters! Indeed, we made George go out into the world and watch a film the way our grandparents did... in public!  Will George find a new favorite Batman scene? Can Travis literally blow Dan's mind with interview trivia? Did Dan really make a super-cut of dialog with That Scene with THAT scene?? Join us on the first Remedial Film Class Field Trip and find...

The guys are going back to one of George's oldest and most favorite movies to see if the Remedial Film Class is having any effect on his ability to see films for more than face value. And what better trip down memory lane than David Fincher's gritty grimy slimy serial killer classic: Sev-Seven-en? 12 Monkeys-Era Brad Pitt, Jason Goes to Hell-era New Line Cinema. David Fincher's first "not a music...

George knows The Joker character from The Dark Knight. He has seen The Joker from Batman 1989. But is he ready for what Joaquin Phoenix brings to the early 80's aesthetic? If you browse the usual channels looking for Joker content you will find references to 3 specific movies. Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy and The Network. But Dan brings a new contender to the table and answers "where did THAT p...

Dan was an extra in The Dark Knight Rises. Was it fun? Did he die? Find out in this mini bonus episode! And after the episode, check out the Extra Credit Discussion group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/remedialfilmpod Did you know we are now on YouTube? Find extra video goodies and subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/c/RemedialFilmClassPodcast Theme song recorded by The Hungry Seven...

George has seen The Dark Knight Rises... but has he really SEEN it? Our journey through the Nolan Dark Knight Trilogy ends with Travis and Dan walking George through all the details he missed the first time.  Will George find the best of times, or the worst of times? Did Travis just have his "The Dark Knight is Julius Caesar" moment with the "exhile or death!?" scene? Will Dan talk incessantly abo...

Put away your swords and sandals, we are done with the Roman roots of The Dark Knight and now we are on to a more traditional study of the influences and experience of watching the movie as George: Experienced Movie Watcher. Will George remember the actor from Heat that makes an appearance in The Dark Knight (as the same character, essentially?) Will Travis manage to stay one step ahead of Dan in...

George has seen The Dark Knight a few times. (I mean who hasn't!) But because it is one of his favorite movies we spent the last 3 episodes looking at movies that directly influenced The Dark Knight. And now it is time to get down to business and look at how he sees The Dark Knight through the eyes of a guy who has now seen like 85 movies and knows that older movies influence newer movies. In many...

We continue our series examining the influences of Christopher Nolan's 2008 epic The Dark Knight. Consider this the atrium to the Dark Knight episode. It is warmer in here than outside, you can smell the kitchen from here and you would be silly to try to get around it without coming in! We cover Julius Caesar on its own merits. Then Dan fills in George and Travis on the historical context of the s...

George had no idea what Heat was. We've been teasing him for weeks that he was going to watch a movie called Heat, which influenced the Dark Knight. And yet, from his initial impressions it seems he saw none of that upon his first viewing. My goodness, this dude. Nevertheless, join us as we shed light on how Michael Mann's heist-filled classic inspired the look and content (and cast!) of Black Haw...

Troy Howarth returns to The Remedial Film Class Podcast for his first non-italian (and non-horror) film discussion. As we trace the roots of Nolan's film The Dark Knight, we begin with an early heist noir movie from a fresh faced upstart filmmaker who very shortly would go on to the highest artistic plane. Stanley Kubrick is no stranger to the show, and George is no stranger to his later works, bu...

Travis wasn't able to record this week, so we are putting Heat on the Back Burner and circling back to look at the comic influences on Batman Begins to fill in the gaps in George's Ra'sducation. Thanks to the magic of HBO Max, he was able to quickly find the direct-to-video movie version of Year One as well as classic Ra's episodes from the Animated Series.   How will George handle the contrast of...

OK, we have to level with you guys. George has seen this movie. Multiple times. He's seen all of the Nolan Trilogy of Batman films. But he only saw them during the dark times. When he was a cave dweller passively viewing shadows on the cave wall. Now that he has been (somewhat) successfully edumacated by the RFC, he is going back to Nolan to see how much more (or less?) he appreciates these classi...

George really enjoyed his Philadelphia Experiment... ahem... I mean he really enjoy Punch-Out: The Movie... I mean... George finally watched Rocky and now we are making him watch Rocky II! Twice the Rocky, half the calories.   How did George handle the softer side of Rocky? Will Dan and George bill Travis for his time on the Shrink's Couch? Why did Dan disagree with the titling of this movie? Tune...

George is from Philly. Travis is from Philly. Actually, they are both from New Jersey but like... the Philly part.   George has never seen Rocky, but he knows that Philadelphia is an underdog kind of town. A city known for being the little brother to New York and always having to fight up hill. Or... does George really only know the identity that Philadelphia appropriated from Rocky?   Why does Ap...

Season 2 Finale!   George loves politically incorrect humor. Dude can't get enough of it. Travis has been pointing to Porky's as the flagship for "they can't make movies like THAT anymore..." It is a match made in heaven!   Did Travis manage to convince George and Dan that the principal's office scene was worthy of a bout of incontinence? Did Dan manage to connect A Christmas Story, Black Christma...

George has seen Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. And until recording this episode he did realize he was missing one final piece in the "standard narrative of how we got slasher movies." So, in honor of the Christmas season and the gap in George's movie knowledge, we travel back to 1974 for a cozy little movie from the same director as A Christmas Story.   Will George enjoy dissecting...

The rumors abound as to how John Hughes and company might have been inspired by Deadly Games. We covered this topic in depth on Wednesday but Dan left everyone with a cliff hanger: Another movie might have been just as influential to the writers of Home Alone and no one talking about it.  Welcome to the cutting edge, folks. Please note that this is a Part 2 to the original episode on Home Alone an...

George loves Home Alone. It is the first movie we have found for which he had childhood nostalgia. So we revisited it so he could see the movie through the eyes of a movie watcher. Will it be better? Will it be worse? Will he find new depth in old characters? Tune in to find out. Then we have to address the elephant in the room... Home Alone is a ripoff of a French movie from the year before. Or a...

  Jamie Lee Christmas may be over, but regular run-of-the-mill Dickensian Christmas is here to stay! George has seen the Muppets' Christmas Carol but was he ready for Bill Murray and Karen Allen to bring the laughs and the feels with this "modern" adaptation for a cynical late-80's crowd? Christmas Break begins! George compulsively lists movies that made him cry while Travis lists off famous actre...

George is on a red-eye trip to Australia, for a cult classic Hitchcockian riff. Kangaroos? We got em. Guitar murders? Heck yes. Jamie Lee Christmas comes to a close with Road Games. A rated-PG (80s PG, so PG-13?) romp through the outback with a tour-de-force performance from Stacy Keach and a great supporting Jamie Lee Curtis. Will George wax eloquently about tuning guitars and sideboob? Will a la...