Uncanny Cinema

The panel beholds the musical cult film The Apple in all its confounding, excruciating glory. Trust us on this one - you can enjoy this ep without having seen the flick. In fact, you're better off. Panelists: Catie, Chris, Dusty

Wendy, the 2020 Peter Pan reworking by Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin, vanished like a troublemaking shadow, all due to COVID. The panel takes a look at its beauty, ambition, missteps, and big monster fish. Panelists: Eric, Jack, Jess

Our Bob Dylan experts tackle the sorta biopic about his life, I'm Not There., a fragmented, impressionistic painting of a film that features loads of great music. Panelists: Matt, MJ

The Guns of Navarone is our focus this time out, an early men-on-a-mission film featuring giant guns, Greek folk dancing, and Gregory Peck's magnificent eyebrows. Panelists: Jimmy, Eric, Devin

In this super-sized episode, we launch our first-annual April Fool's Day Switcheroo, looking at the immensely famous pop culture masterpiece Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Panelists: Jack, Eric, Jimmy

Play-turned-film Sleuth features Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier going at each other for two hours, great dialogue, and, Jack's favorite, lots and lots of puppets. Panelists: Jack, Eric

The little-seen film The Beast of War is our focus this time. Originally a play, the film features a lot of strong performances and dialogue, and might be the best tank-based movie ever made. Panelists: Doug, Devin, Jimmy

We take our sinking boat and point it home to Once, the lo-fi Irish musical that features romance, indecipherable accents, and some of the best songs you've heard in a good while. Panelists: Chris, Carolyn, Jess

If J.D. Salinger had night terrors and did a lot of whippets he might have made something like The Evil Within, a movie whose production and content is even crazier than what I just described. Trigger warning (for Jack): puppets. Panelists: Dusty, Tim, Layla

The considerable charm of Rowdy Roddy Piper is pushed to its limits in Hell Comes to Frogtown, a weirdo post-apocalyptic Mad Max riff that contains no flaws whatsoever. Panelists: Jack, Doug, Isabel

As one of our panelists put it, "The things I do for this podcast." That includes watching movies like Sir Billi, the hideous CGI cartoon that served as Sean Connery's final film! Panelists: Eric, Ryan

The panel takes the waters by way of A Cure for Wellness, the underseen Gore Verbinski horror film. Trigger warning: eels. Panelists: Jack, Colin

Mom and Dad Save the World delivers up a zany adventure full of mushroom monsters, death rays, goldfish women, and Dr. Seuss haircuts. Plus, if you're one of the 8 people who wanted to see Jeffrey Jones as a leading man, you're in for a big treat! Panelists: Eric, Fabs, Steve

The panel tackles the funny, poignant, and criminally underseen film Booksmart, a movie destined for cult if not classic status. Cue musicless dancing. Panelists: Jess, Fabs, Jack

The 1995 erotic-sci-fi-horror-thriller Species is notable for its nudity, Ben Kingsley chewing the scenery like Bubblicious, and creating a "real-world" monster, and the panel looks at all of it. Panelists: Nate, David

We serve up a heaping helping of commentary on the 1985 satirical horror film The Stuff, a movie that tends to leave us wanting more. Panelists: Tim, Emily

The panel searches for some fortune and glory in Secret of the Incas, a 1950s Charlton Heston-led adventure film that has some very familiar aspects. Panelists: Steve, Jack, Jimmy

For our New Year's Eve film, we take a look at Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, a cyberpunk noir that feels very timely. Panelists: Jimmy, Tim

Our Christmas gift to you is the heinous (and wonderful) major motion picture Elves, a film so bad it is likely what God kept in the Ark of the Covenant to melt people's faces off. Enjoy. Panelists: Jack, Eric, Dusty

We take a look at internet phenomenon Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared, a surreal, dark, and very funny parody of children's shows that one of our panelists called "heavy on the soul." Panelists: Eric, Jack, Jess

Ready for a Ku Klux Klan pie fight? Neither were we! Check out our ep on The Toy with Richard Pryor, the weirdest movie Richard Donner ever made. Panelists: Tim, Fabs, Ryan

Our musical lovers take a look at the dark and unusual film Pennies from Heaven starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. Panelists: Chris, Catie, Carolyn

Our cohort of comic fans dissects the never-released 1994 Fantastic Four movie and marvels at how no one but Pixar can get this property right. Panelists: David, Nate

We strap into our Jaegers to take on Stuart Gordon's B-movie extraordinaire Robot Jox. Recommended for fans of mechs, Alaskan statehood, and big, brash Texans. Panelists: Jimmy, Doug, Devin

The panel either shared a collective fever dream or watched the incredibly beautiful film The Fall. It's also possible we're the first humans to have ever laid eyes on it. Panelists: Jack, Eric, Jess