Total Reboot with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos

TOTAL REBOOT SCREENAGERS CLASS OF 2021! WE MADE IT! After some of the best memories we've ever made together we toss our caps in the air and graduate from the Screenagers miniseries. We wrap it up by reminiscing about all the good times we had, what we learned about teens on screen and talk about all the good films that didn't make it into this season (but could very well make it when we inevitabl...

We've come to the final film in our Screenagers festival, we're closing out with what may well one day be known as a classic of the genre... BOOKSMART! Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... During the Screenagers miniseries, we're going year by year picking our favourite films from when we were in high school. SI GN UP FINDING DESPERADO - Subscribe on A...

On Screenagers this week we’re drawing dongs and trying to see if we can actually get a teen to buy us alcohol for a change. We’re joined by Ben Russell ( Hug the Sun ) to talk about SUPERBAD, one of the most McLoved modern teen classics. Static Vision: Dreamscapes Sydney Film Festival 14th-17th May ($5 off with code "filmnotamovie") Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off...

On it's 30th Anniversary we discuss Boyz n the Hood, the iconic classic from 22-year-old director John Singleton about three teen boys and their life in South Central LA. Static Vision: Dreamscapes Sydney Film Festival 14th-17th May ($5 off with code "filmnotamovie") Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... During the Screenagers miniseries, we're going ye...

We're finally talking about one of the coolest films in the history of teens, DONNIE fricking DARKOID. Static Vision: Dreamscapes Sydney Film Festival 14th-17th May ($5 off with code "filmnotamovie") Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... During the Screenagers miniseries, we're going year by year picking our favourite films from when we were in high sch...

Director Amy Heckerling redefined teen cinema with Fast Times and then did it all over again with CLUELESS! We're joined by Concetta Caristo and Lauren Bonner from the new podcast BIG NATURAL TALENT CAM'S Sydney Comedy Festival Show TICKETS HERE THE FORMAL - the tiktok teen comedy series Alexei directed WATCH HERE Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... D...

This podcast is just like warm apple pie. We take a nostalgic look back at one cinema history's most groundbreaking comedies... AMERICAN PIE! CAM'S Sydney Comedy Festival Show TICKETS HERE THE FORMAL - the tiktok teen comedy series Alexei directed WATCH HERE Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... During the Screenagers miniseries, we're going year by yea...

We're joined by Australian pop music royalty Ben Lee to hang out and chat about The Rage in Placid Lake, a beloved Australian teen classic he stars in alongside Rose Byrne & Garry McDonald. WEIRDER TOGETHER - Ione Skye & Ben Lee's show at Giant Dwarf TICKETS HERE CAM'S Sydney Comedy Festival Show TICKETS HERE Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT......

We're talking about one of the horniest and most chaste abstinence campaigns in the history of film TWILIGHT! We're joined by Naomi Higgins and Hum Mahbub the creators of Why Are You Like This (on ABC NOW and Netflix around the rest of the world April 16) to witness this modern camp classic sparkle in the sun. CAM'S Sydney Comedy Festival Show TICKETS HERE Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get...

We're not worthy! No hyperbole, Say Anything is the best teen film of the 1980s and we can't believe we got to talk to Ione Skye about the making of that iconic film and what it is like being a real-life screenager. WEIRDER TOGETHER - Ione Skye & Ben Lee's show at Giant Dwarf TICKETS HERE CAM'S Sydney Comedy Festival Show TICKETS HERE Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spi...

Francis Ford Coppola adapted two of S.E. Hinton's beloved Tulsa set YA novels for the big screen in 1983. Rumble Fish is the weirder/cooler of the two, a bit of a forgotten Coppola masterpiece and a very sincere attempt at creating arthouse cinema FOR teens. Perfect movie to discuss on our SCREENAGERS miniseries. NEXT: Catherine Hardwicke's TWILIGHT Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access...

HOT episode of the Screenagers miniseries served Chicago style today! We couldn't talk teens on-screen without serving up some John Hughes so we're talking about his best film, FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF! NEXT: Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... During the Screenagers miniseries, we're going year by year picking our f...

For the SCREENAGERS miniseries, we're sailing away with Eighth Grade, the directorial debut of comedian Bo Burnham (and we're just so rapt about it a comedian roughly our age has made a movie this good! Not bitter at all. Please tell your friends about this podcast). NEXT: Ferris Bueller's Day Off Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... During the Screena...

We're sinking back into Total Reboot with the first film in our SCREENAGERS: Teens on Screen miniseries with the ultimate nostalgia film, Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused. NEXT: Eighth Grade (2018) Sign up to our Patreon for just $5 to get access to our spin-off TOTAL RESPECT.... During the Screenagers miniseries, we're going year by year picking our favourite films from when we were in hi...

Starting from next week TOTAL REBOOT returns and it will be slightly rebooted itself! We're going to be focusing on doing bigger miniseries investigating larger topics in film. We're talking themes, genres, subgenres and all the big juicy talking points in movies. We could do anything from series on heist movies to movies about how computers offer us a terrifying glimpse into society's future. But...

In our final episode of the year we're joined by Aaron Chen to discuss one of the best and most beloved remakes in the history of cinema, say hello to our little friend which is the Brian De Palma directed film Scarface starring Al Pacino as the titular character. FINDING DESPERADO - Subscribe on APPLE PODCAST or SPOTIFY or listen on ABC SUBSCRIBE to the official NETFLIX podcast hosted by Alexei T...

You'll be fricking shocked to find out how much the Scarface you're familiar with takes from the original 1932 classic NEXT: SCARFACE (1983) FINDING DESPERADO - Subscribe on APPLE PODCAST or SPOTIFY or listen on ABC SUBSCRIBE to the official NETFLIX podcast hosted by Alexei Toliopoulos THE BIG FILM BUFFET Listen to us on The First Ten Pages Talking about the script for Austin Powers on SPOTIFY or...

Dial up that modem and download this beautiful episode of Total Reboot that is dedicated to two of the greatest romantic comedies of all time. Nora Ephron's YOU'VE GOT MAIL and the film that inspired it Ernst Lubitsch's SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. NEXT: SCARFACE (1932) & SCARFACE (1983) FINDING DESPERADO - Subscribe on APPLE PODCAST or SPOTIFY or listen on ABC SUBSCRIBE to the official NETFLIX pod...

We're joined by renowned empath Naomi Higgins (Batch Bitch) to help us get inside the mind of the Rat and discuss RED DRAGON, the final film of a Hannibal miniseries NEXT: Follow us on social media to find out what movie is up on next week's ep (we haven't decided yet at time of upload basically) FINDING DESPERADO - Subscribe on APPLE PODCAST or SPOTIFY or listen on ABC SUBSCRIBE to the official N...

Aunty Donna's Zachary Ruane join us to talk about Ridley Scott's HANNIBAL! Where Hannibal Lecter hits up Italy and becomes a cannibal lecturer. Do yourself a fricking favour and watch Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun on Netflix NEXT: RED DRAGON FINDING DESPERADO - Subscribe on APPLE PODCAST or SPOTIFY or listen on ABC SUBSCRIBE to the official NETFLIX podcast hosted by Alexei Toliopoulos THE BIG...

To celebrate the release of our new mystery investigation series FINDING DESPERADO we're taking a look at a film series that was some what of an influence on it... the films based on Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter. We're joined by our dear friend Maria Lewis to discuss THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS on of the very best films of all time. NEXT: HANNIBAL FINDING DESPERADO - Subscribe on APPLE PODCAST or l...

To celebrate the release of our new mystery investigation series FINDING DESPERADO we're taking a look at a film series that was some what of an influence on it... the films based on Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter. We're beginning with the first cinematic adaptation of RED DRAGON, Michael Mann's MANHUNTER starring Brian Cox as Dr Lecktor. NEXT: the Silence of the Lambs FINDING DESPERADO - Subscrib...

Where Finding Drago ended... FINDING DESPERADO BEGINS. We're so excited to bring you into the world of this new mystery. Finding Desperado is a 6 part popular culture based investigation of an elusive filmmaker who held a Guinness World Record that we believed was fraudulent. A new episode of this 6 part miniseries comes out every Friday. Subscribe on APPLE PODCAST or listen on ABC TOTAL REBOOT is...

The First Thing came from outer space... this thing comes from 2011. We talking the reboot/prequel of the Thing that sucked shit. NEXT: The Chronicles of Hannibal Lecter... Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon... all big creative influences on Finding Desperado. Our new podcast. Subscribe to FINDING DRAGO ... the mystery investigation pod that Cam & Lex made with the ABC b...

We're talking about John Carpenter's beloved classic horror remake THE THING and guess what bucko? We're riffing the whole way through. NEXT: THE THING from 2011 SUBSCRIBE to the official NETFLIX podcast hosted by Alexei Toliopoulos THE BIG FILM BUFFET Subscribe to FINDING DRAGO ... the mystery investigation pod that Cam & Lex made with the ABC because a new season is coming out very soon Sign...