Your Favorite Bad Movie Podcast

Discord Dawg Gloria Yip joins us to discuss the Hong Kong cult-classic Future Cops (1993).  This Wong Jing action-comedy is in the tradition of Airplane!, but is the story of three officers from the future trying to save a judge.  The crucial thing to know, though, is that most of the characters are actually fighters from the video game Street Figther 2.  It’s gonna get strange, it’...

Anna is up to bat for our last employee pick and the choice is Picture Perfect (1997).  After lying about being engaged just to get a promotion, Jennifer Aniston finds that her web of deception might also land her Kevin Bacon in the process.  Which is weird because the audience should be rooting for her to get together with faux-fiance Jay Mohr, but it’s a confused Rom Com.  While i...

Chris has our second Employee Pick with an obscure, kung-fu drama: City Dragon (1995).  Directed by Philly native (we assume) “Philthy” Phil Phillips and starring MC Kung Fu, this is a homegrown effort that also has some musical numbers in it.  No one’s calling it a musical, however, nor does anyone really know what to call it other than Pure Entertainment.  It takes a wild second a...

It's time for Employee Picks and Greg’s up first with the bonkers musical Xanadu(1980).  Despite the talents of Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck and also many others behind the scenes, this mash-up of big band music and the roller-disco fad landed with a resounding thud.  However, ELO’s contribution would drive the soundtrack to platinum in multiple countries, searing this ca...

Alice Ebenhoe is back and has brought in another historical adventure film: The 13th Warrior (1999).  This one stars Antonio Banderas and pretty much nobody else, though it was directed by McTiernan and is based on a Crichton novel. It’s a plausible (but fictional) retelling of the origin of the epic poem Beowulf from a spectator’s point of view. Audiences didn’t take to a film whose main cha...

Michael Darling is back and he’s brought in a barnburner: Playing With Fire (1985).  This, frankly wild, made-for-TV message film stars Gary Coleman as a young, troubled arsonist.  Mr. Coleman burns down a number of things, Cicely Tyson chews through a therapist’s office, Yaphet Kotto doesn’t need warrants, because he’s the fire chief and then Ron O’Neal eventually becomes something simi...

Al Bates is back in the hot seat and he’s brought a giant conundrum of a film: the 2024 flop that is Megalopolis.  This film took 40 years to come to the big screen and it was completely funded by Francis Ford Coppola himself.  The cast is packed as well with Adam Driver Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito and far too many more to list. Driver stops time, LaBeouf shaved h...

Preston Spurlock is back with another rare gem, the passion project/musical Human Highway (1982).  This Neil Young and Dean Stockwell directed film also stars Dennis Hopper and Devo and is largely set in a diner.  It’s hard to pin down: part music video, part comedy, part apocalypse film. It took decades for it to be released to a wider audience after puzzling viewers in the 80s and has...

Anti-folk hero Brook Pridemore is with the crew this week and they’ve brought an entry from a now classic horror series, Paranormal Activity 4 (2012). This found-footage film stars Kathryn Newton and an Xbox Kinect Camera, and who can forget that demon child?  It’s classic horror action as the panel cracks into the genre as a whole and takes a look into other documentary work by the directors...

Musician and good friend of the show Pete Speer brings a forgotten video-store gem with Addicted to Murder 2: Tainted Blood.  This shot-on-VHS horror movie from 1997 is thoughtfully made and inventive, but nearly impenetrable if you’ve not seen the first film and Chris and Greg haven’t.  However, everyone enjoys it’s vibes-based plot, fun details and playful vampire lore.  Then it’s...

Good friend and cohost of Dr. Gameshow Manolo Mareno stops in with a whopper of a tale: Lady in the Water (2006) by M. Night Shamalan.   It’s a fantasy film in which Paul Giamatti stutters, Byrce Dallas Howard shivers, people prep for an eagle visit and they all use a lot of nonsense words.  It’s also based on an improvised children’s story.  Anna gives a detailed breakdown of...

Get ready because Your Favorite Bad Movie Podcast is celebrating its first anniversary and Stefa Nunes is back with a cable classic, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991).  Stefa’s brought a guest herself, Victoria, so it’s a full crew as they discuss how this Christina Applegate vehicle has somehow become a part of them all.  And there’s a new game full of fun names.  Join th...

Good friend of the podcast Mark Hensley talks with Chris and Greg about the 2020 action thriller Money Plane.  It contains all three Lawrence brothers (with Andrew directing), Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane, Denise Richards and WWE’s The Edge (Adam Copeland).  It delights Chris, exasperates Mark and confuses Greg so it’s largely a success. It also sends Chris down an interesting rabbit hole...

Raconteur Saul Rosenbear has brought in a doozy today for Chris, Anna and Greg.  It’s a confusing yarn from 2006 called Southland Tales.  A film starring the Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Timberlake and many others in a plot that involves energy as drugs, constipation and the Iraq war, amongst so many other things.  This follow-up to Donny Darko didn’t land with quite the same...

Burgeoning filmmaker Grant Levron takes the podcast to new teritorty: the cinematic mind of Neil Breen. This film this week is Twisted Pair (2018) and it's said to have a plot, but it's actually just made of stock footage and confidence. Also, Chris is a true hero and braves the five-hour Neil Breen Five Film Retrospective. Don't do that to yourself, just tune in.

Podcaster Extraordinaire Kev Koeser (Talking Trek to You, Total Massacre, Tasting Menu) is sitting down with the crew to spotlight Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999).  This Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical stars Donny Osmond as the titular Joseph, but the narrator should be mentioned as she’s maybe the most important character in the film.  And our intrepid crew...

Real person and talking hat Steph Metzger has brought in The Covenant (2006).  It’s the story of four New England witch boys who mostly look pretty and perform parlor tricks with their addictive powers.  There’s also a young Sebastion Stan in the mix. Not much occurs, but that doesn’t stop the panel from constantly plumbing its depths in search of something.  What did they find… &nb...

Comedy Dynamo and all-around good guy Andy Rocco has brought to the podcast a piece of himself in the form of Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989).  This classic tale of high-seas adventure claims to be based on a story by one Edgar Allen Poe.  That’s not verifiable, but the fact that it was once four hours long shines through.  Is it a beautiful fever dream or a slow-motion nightmare?&n...

Chris and Greg welcome Tyrice Nock to the podcast and he’s brought a childhood favorite, Cool As Ice (1991).  It’s a film about Vanilla Ice finding love in small-town America with plenty of musical numbers and some serious cinematography.  A movie for the Vanilla Ice fan and small boy that exists inside us all.  Tune in and then regress to childhood with the crew when we watch it th...

Returning guest Shelly Walston has brought a surprise for Chris and Greg: the 1984 film Rhinestone starring Dolly Parton and Sly Stallone.  Never heard of this Romantic Comedy Musical?  There are many good reasons for that which will all be discussed. The film certainly inspires lots of lively discussion, largely about Sylvester Stallone and his choices.  It’s full of good conversat...

Chris, Anna and Greg sit-in with our favorite sex therapist, Julie Setting, who has brought Get Over It (2001) to discuss. It’s a horny, maximalist, teen rom-com that was part of the larger Shakespeare-to-screen trend of the 90s and beyond.  It’s also full of surprises, strong performances and a loaded cast including Kirsten Dunst and Ben Foster.  Don’t let this one slip under your radar...

Tyler, from Skylight Books' Better Than The Movie Podcast, joins Chris, Anna and Greg and they unravel the conundrum that is Gotti (2018).  Is there something in John Travolta’s mouth?  How many dead people's clothes are worn in the film?  How did this even get made?  Are these reviews honest? Who’s the real villain here?  Tune in for a lot of laughs and good amount of spe...

Chris and Greg are joined by long-time collaborator and friend Toby Goodshank, who shines a light on the unfortunately forgotten Mr. No Legs (1978).  It's a film that holds many delightful surprises, just like Mr. No Legs hides the shotguns in his wheelchair. It’s a quadruple-barrel blast of action and fun that’s definitely not depressing, or at least only depressing in that distinctly 70's w...

Chris and Anna welcome fellow couple Briar Ripley Page and Flann Delaney to discuss their pick, the 2001 film “Shallow Hal.”  This Romantic Comedy by the Farrelly brothers attempts to show that beauty is more than skin deep, by being not actually romantic, nor very funny, and reveling in only surface-level commentary and thought.  So it’s pretty bad, but can we find some good in talking...

Chris and Greg are joined by Erin Finnegan to talk about the Godzilla meta-movie, All Monsters Attack! The Big G takes on all your favorite Z-list monsters with the help of his son Minilla and a little boy who may be dreaming up the whole thing to grapple with Japan becoming an industrial hellscape filled with bullies and kidnappers! It's kaiju fun for all ages from Ishiro Honda, the director of t...