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After Misha Barton left The O.C, she found herself in "horror" films like Homecoming (2009), directed by Morgan J. Freeman (not to be confused with Morgan Freeman the actor everyone knows). Follow our guest comedian Frankie McNair on Instagram. Follow Truly Rotten Potatoes on: ⁠ Facebook ⁠ ⁠ Instagram ⁠ ⁠ Youtube ⁠ Or send us an email: trulyrottentomatoes@gmail.com Originally published 3...

2007 brought the subprime mortgage crisis and the subsequent financial crash and global financial crisis. In a directly connected way, it also brought this Fast and the Furious knock-off: Redline.  ARIA award winning rapper Seth Sentry joins us to talk everything Redline - the cars, the excess, Daniel Sadek the producer and who is credited as writing the story - and happened to be a subprime mortg...

In 2008, there was a US remake of a popular Takashi Miike Japanese horror film about people getting a phone call from themselves 3 days in the future that foreshadows their own sudden death. This is that film: One Missed Call (2008) It's kinda like Final Destination meets The Ring. A young Ariel Winter (pre-Modern Family) has a role. As well as Margaret Cho, Ed Burns and Megan Good. Follow Tru...

The gang was reunited to nearly watch the wrong movie and then eventually watch the right movie: Scar 3D (2007) This is a low-budget grungy horror film, in a similar vein to Saw. The only actors we recognised were Christopher Titus and Angela Bettis (from the 2002 Carrie TV movie) and Devon Graye (who played Teenage Dexter in Dexter) It was in old-school red and blue 3D. An early review said someo...

Mike Myers writes and stars in the 2008 movie that derailed his career as a force of character comedy. Hot off the heels of Austin Powers - but without his director Jay Roach who wanted to move more into political films - this would become the only director credit for Marco Schnabel who now works on NCIS. Also starring Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Verne Troyer.  P.S Mitch has been fired.  F...

In this episode, Canberra's smartest film reviewers tackle 2004's Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 directed by Bob Clark and the sequel to 1999's Baby Genuises. Here's the plot: A group of smart-talking toddlers find themselves at the center of a media mogul's experiment to crack the code to baby talk. The toddlers must race against time for the sake of babies everywhere. This movi...

Gold Diggers is a 2003 movie that marks one of the many teen comedies put under the National Lampoon's brand. It stars Chris "The Sherminator" Owen and Will "Eric Matthews from Boy Meets World" Friedle with Renee "Fran Fine's mother in the Nanny" Taylor and is directed by Gary Preisler, who never directed another film. It ran in cinemas for one week. Follow Tr...

We lost this episode then found it again in way worse quality. With guest Putri McMurray, we talked about 2002's live action Italian version of Pinocchio, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. Sorry for how bad the audio is, feel free to skip this one.  Originally published 24 January 2021.

The boys go off the official list to hold their first ever live show, at the 5th anniversary screening of indie oz-zom-com "Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse" in Canberra. With special guest Dan Sanguineti, producer of the movie. This film stars Alex Williamson, Jim Jefferies, Greg Fleet, Adele Vuko and Andy Trieu and may or may not have been written/directed by Declan from the po...

The gang refuse to subject a guest to Merci Docteur Rey (2002), a comedic French film about a gay man trying to find the killer of his estranged father. This marks the first potato that the boys all watched together and then recorded the podcast immediately after. Written and directed by Andrew Litvack. Follow Truly Rotten Tomatoes on: ⁠ Facebook ⁠ ⁠ Instagram ⁠ ⁠ Youtube ⁠ Or send us an email: tr...

Scott Owen from legendary rock band The Living End joins the gang via mobile phone to talk through Adam Sandler's first Netflix movie "The Ridiculous 6" (2015) - A comedy western about 6 half-brothers who find out their father is a notorious robber. The brothers are played by Rob Schneider, Terry Crews, Luke Wilson, Jorge Garcia and Taylor Lautner. The father is played by Nick Nolte....

As we veer off the 0% list to satiate our first return guest, filmmaker Michael Shanks (NOT the actor from Stargate) convinces us to watch a film with 16% positive reviews. Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst writes and directs this... thriller? The Fanatic (2019) stars John Travolta as an on-the-spectrum super-fan who breaks bad and stalks a B-list actor with bloody consequences. It's kinda like...

Kay Ansah AKA Citizen Kay - Canberra rapper and producer - let us into his studio to talk about 2000's LA street comedy 3 Strikes. Written and directed by famed hip-hop producer DJ Pooh, who also co-wrote Friday and directed The Wash with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, this potato tells the story of Rob who has 2 strikes on his criminal record - and 3 strikes now means 25 to life. Leaving prison, he&...

The potato boiz take a break from talking movies to talk about other things; lawsuits, name changes, actors, and (of course) movies. Originally published 22 September 2020.

Michelle Brasier (Aunty Donna, Mad as Hell) joins the gang to talk about 2002's erotic thriller Killing Me Softly starring Heather Graham (Austin Powers) and Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love). There's also an appearance from Ronan Vibert who looks exactly like a short-haired Alan Rickman. It's a very horny and somewhat problematic film, but if you like nudity and passionate sex, ice...

In this episode, the OG (old geezers) get back on the list to discuss the 2002 direct-to-DVD Jean-Claude Van Damme "bioweapons on a train" movie Derailed. And its mysterious end credits song. They also discuss how much money they'd need to be paid to break a finger, the discography of Aussie punk/rockabilly band The Living End and Australian TV commercials from the 2000s, with a part...

The original hosts deviate from the list to talk about this new tomato that ISN'T a 0%, but needed to be discussed. It currently has a 13% critic rating on RT, so it's close enough. Paul Hogan stars as himself, a washed-up formerly successful comedic actor living in LA in his 80s, in this weird comedy that's streaming on Amazon. It also features a cavalcade of guest appearances: Chevy...

Following on from the success of Michael Jordan's SPACE JAM (1996), the world demanded MORE films starring legendary NBA players, specifically from that Chicago Bulls team that won 6 championships. So this is what we got. Dennis Rodman playing a spy in SIMON SEZ (1999), a spy-action-comedy. Alongside Dane Cook. In this episode, we are joined by former Triple J Presenter Lewi McKirdy, now based...

Comedian Lauren Bonner joins the pod to talk about 1997's SHADOW CONSPIRACY, an action thriller that goes to the highest level of the Government! Starring Charlie Sheen (HIV positive), Linda Hamilton (former wife of James Cameron) and Donald Sutherland (HIV negative, as far as we know), this movie cost $45 million to make and is set in Washington, D.C. It made virtually no money back. Follow L...

Wagons East was released in 1994 and is best known for the fact that it killed legendary Canadian comedic actor John Candy. Seriously, the man best known for his roles in Uncle Buck, Cool Runnings, Home Alone and Planes, Trains & Automobiles died during production of this film. They had to finish the film without him. It also stars Richard Lewis and John C. McGinley (who makes his second offic...

Starring a young Bo Derek, Bolero was written, directed and filmed by her husband John Derek and released in 1984. It's an erotic, romantic story about a young wealthy woman who finishes university and wants to travel the world and lose her virginity. Michael Shanks is our guest for this episode - a filmmaker who writes, directs, does visual effects and acts. Years after this episode was relea...

Tom Armstrong from The Roundabout Crew and the Tom and Frenchy Podcast joins us this episode to discuss Keenan Ivory Wayans' auteur effort from 1994. Following his success on In Living Color, but before his smash hit Scary Movie, this tomato pivots from his famous outrageous parody style, instead opting for a serious action film in the vein of Lethal Weapon. It also stars Jada Pinkett Smith. O...

Our main man John Travolta finds his way back onto the list, with 1993's "Look Who's Talking Now," the third in the Look trilogy, also starring fellow Scientologist Kirstie Alley. In the first films, it was babies who talked. Now, it's dogs! Basketballer Charles Barkley is also in this movie. Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton play the voices of some dogs. It's a... romantic c...

Tom Selleck stars in this 1992 "comedy" film about a guy whose Dad is suffering from dementia. Thanks to COVID-19 isolation, we recorded this remotely. The real question is, can we get Malcolm Turnbull on the podcast? Originally published 11 May 2020. Email us at trulyrottentomatoes@gmail.com if you want to get in touch. Or follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trulyrottentomat...

In this episode, the gang figure out what to call their fans and review 1991's Return to the Blue Lagoon, starring a young Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause. This film is the direct sequel to the 1980 film Blue Lagoon, which starred Brooke Shields and explores similar themes of island-stranded teenage lust. Originally published 3 May 2020. Email us at trulyrottentomatoes@gmail.com if you want to...