Travolting

Don't say it a third time! Jeff and Stuart finally reach Winona's modern era opus film, a sequel to a 1988 Tim Burton cult classic that includes the return of Keaton, O'Hara, and adding to the gang Jenna Ortega as Lydia Deetz's daughter. While Jeff, Stuart and special guest Trina Mulligan all have different opinions on the success/achievement of Beetlejuice 2, none of them deny the benchmark this...

Coming out a year before Beetlejuice 2, Winona is given a single scene cameo in this movie that doesn't seem to be scary enough or funny enough to justify its existence.

Originally called "The Cow" for... reasons... but this is Winona's first major top billed role in a real movie in over a decade. Jeff and Stuart remark the similarities between this movie and Zach Cregger's "Barbarian" except Gone in the Night takes a few unexpected twists and turns which leave the boys giggling at the sillyness of it all. That all being said, there is a tinge of hope for Winona a...

Everything is not fine. This is a 50 minute Netflix TV special that was made in the height of Covid-19 and the 2020 election... so we're not okay after watching this.

He's back folks. Keanu Reeves in his fourth collaboration with Winona Ryder. This time, the pair are off to a wedding together, neither of whom wish to attend, and through their misery both internal and external, somehow form a relationship?

The Fraser's Edge returns with Brendan's latest release, Brothers, starring Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin. While the movie was made before Killers of the Flower Moon but released on Amazon Prime last week, Jeff and Stuart both agree that in this mediocre, by-the-numbers film, Fraser is the one who shines with his comedic force.

At this point in Winona's career, she's gone from zero to... pretty okay? The boys go back and forth on the rebuilding of Winona's career status in Hollywood and where it will lead her in the future.

In 1961, infamous psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial experiment that answered the question: "Would good people do horrible things so long as they were just following orders?". This movie explores the life and career of Milgram as he tries to distance himself from the controversial experiment.

Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy), a retired MI5 agent hiding from the law in the Turks and Caicos islands, comes upon a plot between MI5 and the CIA in which he uses his position to broker a deal that would leave every party involved in a happy enough place to which he could return to his home country in peace. Confused? So were the boys as this movie is the second movie of the "Worricker Trilogy.

Jason Statham plays the role of Phil Broker: family man who's a retired DEA/FBI/CIA agent (we still don't really know) who moves away from his chaotic and destructive life to live in peace with his daughter in New Orleans. This peace is interrupted though when Meth Dealer James 'Gator' Franco arrives on the scene to wreck havoc. Jeff and Stuart are joined by special guest Dan Gutierrez who actuall...

Not a spin-off movie starring Shawn Ashmore about his Bobby Drake character from the 2003 and 2006 X-Men movies, but rather a Michael Shannon movie about one of the most notorious mob hitman who allegedly killed over a hundred people and kept their bodies on ice. Where is this scum bag from you ask? You guessed it... New Jersey...

You've probably gathered by now that the shorter the episode, the worse the movie is. If Stuart had his way, this episode would be two minutes long.

Winona reunites with Tim Burton for their third (but not last) collaboration after 20 years apart. First she played a child in Beetlejuice, then she played a teenage girl in Edward Scissorhands; now after 20 years, Winona will be voicing... another child! Wait a second... Joined by special guest, Savannah Olson

So here's our dilemma... Jeff and Stuart have covered 44 movies spanning more than 20 years of Winona Ryder's career... and she hasn't done a Vince Vaughn comedy yet!? Joined by our very special guest who worked on the movie: Tyler Ventura.

Natalie Portman, the young and ambitious ballet dancer, takes on her first lead role as the Swan Queen in the classic ballet, Swan Lake. Portman steps into the spotlight, taking the place of the character Beth Macintyre, the once famous and favorited dancer of them all, now being tossed aside as her youth begins to fade. Take a wild guess which actress is covering that role...

Winona joins the realm of Hallmark movies with this particular film about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon.

FINALLY! We've reached the timeline where Winona is in a GOOD MOVIE AGAIN!

Jeff, Stuart and returning guest Alex Wilson discuss a movie about a man's fever dream of returning to high school in his mid 30's and being the most popular guy in school who gets the hot 18-year-old... we must restate this though... IN HIS THIRTIES.

This 2009 "discover yourself" kind of flick stars Robin Wright who is married to Alan Arkin (30 years her senior). We get some small action by our beloved Winona as well as reoccurring guest, Cole Bradley and Keanu Reeves!

This movie apparently at one point was suppose to have vampires in it? Well the boys regret to "inform" you that there are no vampires in this movie and that this movie is another big sleeper for Winona's filmography.

Continuing down Winona's popularity collapse, The Last Word is a movie about a man named Evan who gets hired to write people's suicide notes. We thought about reaching out to him after we made it through watching this movie.

Alright class settle down! Time for our very first instructional episode on Sex and Death 101, starring... Winona Ryder as Professor Death Nell who will be your instructor for today. Our first lesson... this movie sucks.

Paul Rudd teaches us a lesson. Actually... TEN LESSONS! And they are all based on the ten commandments. Before you think this is going to be some "God's Not Dead" level religious film, we regret to inform you that it could not be further from the truth.

Another early post-sabbatical takes Winona to Richard Linklater in A Scanner Darkly. A Phillip K Dick novel adaptation about the a not-to-distant future where America has lost the war on drugs and the police surveillance state goes to a whole new "almost Minority Report" level. Winona is in another small role along side Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, and Woody Harrelson.

This quasi-student film is one of Winona's first movies after her shoplifting scandal and it's probably for the best that you've never heard of it.