Your Stupid Minds

Your Stupid Minds returns to its Episode One roots and tricks you once again into think we've reviewed a Marvel movie that hasn't come out yet. But alas, this isn't the Benestrange Cumberdoc version you're thinking, but rather a 1978 made for TV movie extended pilot made for CBS (and was never picked up). The Nameless One, a demon puppet from the nether region, commands his subject Morgan LeFay (p...

Your Stupid Minds delves into October with what you might expect: a 1980s horror sequel! Tom Skerritt ( Picket Fences ), Nancy Allen ( RoboCop ), Heather O'Rourke ( Poltergeist ), and Lara Flynn Boyle ( Twin Peaks ) star in this far-beyond-its-prime sequel, Poltergeist III ! Carol Anne (O'Rourke) from the previous Poltergeist movies now lives with her aunt (Allen) and step-uncle (Skerritt) in a hi...

Your Stupid Minds returns to two of its most favorite loves: buff dudes and Golan-Globus films. It's 1983's Hercules starring The Incredible Hulk 's Lou Ferrigno! Director Luigi Cozzi (hiding his intense Italianness behind the pseudonym Lewis Coates) brings Hercules to the big screen for the 80th and definitely not last time. When the gods are hanging out on the moon and incredibly bored, Zeus (Cl...

YSM returns to the erotic thriller genre with the 2015 classic The Boy Next Door ! Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez, in her third appearance on the podcast), is a pathetic high school classics teacher with a broken garage door and a cheating ex-husband when a buff-armed 28-year-old "boy" Noah (Ryan Guzman, apparently playing a 19-year-old) moves in next door. The two bond over their mutual love of...

Your Stupid Minds goes back to basics with your standard sci-fi sexy police robot thriller. It's 1994's T-Force starring Jack Scalia, Erin Gray, and Vernon Wells. This is brought to you partially by Cinema Terriblé , Austin Texas's premier bad movie meet up. T-Force was part of a recent double feature at the monthly get together and was a smash hit. T-Force, a team of autonomous robots called "Cyb...

It's a special guest episode of Your Stupid Minds featuring Kaitlyn "Nick's Sister" Nobel, a devoted fan of the podcast and resident Toyota Previa expert. Kaitlyn's pick this time around is for a 1996 movie starring Tom Arnold, David Paymer, and Rhea Perlman: Carpool ! Out a few years after Tom Arnold's massive alimony payout from Rosanne, as well as his modicum of success in True Lies , Arnold de...

This is it, the big finale of our "great directors making horrible films" summer concludes with Walter Hill (credited as Thomas Lee)'s Supernova ! Nick Vanzant (James Spader) is a newcomer to the crew of the Nightingale 229, a medical ship populated by actors on their way to television superstardom (in a decade). Nick and Dr. Evers (Angela Bassett) hate each other but then love each other, but a r...

Your Stupid Minds continues its "great directors making terrible films" series with Richard Donner and Richard Pryor's unfortunate The Toy ! Down on his luck Jack Brown (Pryor) is a reporter who can't get hired by the one newspaper in town because it's owned by a racist multi-millionaire (Jackie Gleason). After getting fired by Gleason after attempting to work as a "cleaning lady," Pryor does a ph...

Continuing our loose theme of Not-So-Good Movies by Great Directors, we have 1981's sequel to the Roger Corman classic Piranha . It's Piranha Part Two: The Spawning ! Or Piranha II: The Spawning . Or The Spawning . Or Piranha 2 . Or Piranha II: Flying Killers . "Directed" by James Cameron! In actuality, Cameron was brought in as a patsy and quickly fired so writer and producer Ovidio G. Assonitis...

You demanded it and we delivered! Actually, no one requested this movie, and we may catch some flak for reviewing it. Francis Ford Coppola slums it in the cash grab maudlin 90s with 1996's Jack ! Robin Williams (also slumming it) plays Jack, a ten year old boy with a fictional medical condition that causes him to age at four times the normal rate. This gives Williams ample opportunity to utilize h...

Your Stupid Minds finally covers one of the A-listers in the schlock movie pantheon: Andy Sidaris's Hard Ticket to Hawaii . Sidaris was a sports director who decided to jump over to 1980s sexploitation flicks. With muse and former Playmate of the Month Dona Speir, he went on a quest to create the most bonkers action films of the decade. Donna (Spier) and Taryn (Hope Marie Carlton) are buxom drug a...

It's Your Stupid Minds' Bonus 100th Episode Clip Spectacular! Featuring some of our (and your) favorite moments from the last 100 episodes. Don't expect a breakdown of each clip because we don't want to right now! We hope you enjoy this compilation of what we think our our best bits, skits, discussions, and songs from the last four years. See you at again after episode 200!

Your Stupid Minds celebrates its 100th episode by filling out Neil Breen's current oeuvre. Before the imminent wide release of his most recent film Pass Thru (which we wanted to watch but is not reasonably available in the state of Texas), we reviewed Neil's first feature film, 2005's Double Down ! Neil Breen is war hero and elite hacker terrorist inventor Aaron Brand (who will forever be referred...

Fans of truly execrable cinema are in for a treat as we review 1984's Bolero . Can the film that gave MGM an excuse to end its shameful partnership with the Cannon Group/Golan-Globus be that bad? What if I told you it also won the Razzie award for Worst Picture, Worst Actress (beating out Faye Dunaway in Supergirl !), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst New Star? For once, everything you'v...

Joan Severance lays out some vigilante justice in the Roger Corman produced comic book inspired Showtime original movie Black Scorpion ! The movie also resulted in a sequel and Sci-Fi Channel original series. Darcy Walker (Severance) is a girl raised by her murderous cop father Lt. Stan Walker (Rick Rossovich) with a scorpion infatuation. Stan stops methed out maniac at a hospital by gunning him d...

Note: This episode is a rebroadcast from April 3, 2014 to gear up for our 100th episode spectacular. Your Stupid Minds celebrates its FIFTIETH episode. In keeping with our status as a cutting edge resource for all things camp, cult, genre, b, and otherwise considered bad movies, we went on a special podcast field trip to the Alamo Drafthouse for a special midnight screening of the newest entry int...

Your Stupid Minds finally makes its Hammer podcast debut with a film that strays a bit from the usual Hammer formula. We don't see a traditional horror monster, and Christopher Lee is cast as the hero. A creepy, occult-obsessed Dracula-looking hero, but a hero nonetheless. When Nicholas, Duc de Richleau, (Lee) and his friend Rex Van Ryn (Leon Greene) visit their friend's son Simon (Patrick Mower,...

Travel with Your Stupid Minds back to the swinging 60s and their idea of a dystopian future in: The 10th Victim ! In the future, war has been eliminated by the creation of a game show/Hunger Games-type scenario. All violent people are recruited into playing "The Great Hunt," a contest where an individual is designated either hunter or victim. If they can successfully kill their opponents ten times...

Your Stupid Minds returns to its roots with a vigilante revenge movie: 1989's Ghetto Blaster ! But don't be fooled by the title. Yes, it does feature an exploding boombox, but it's also a double entendre about a white guy murdering people of color! Richard Hatch (both Battlestar Galactica s) stars as Travis, a good honest dude just like you and me who returns to the neighborhood where he grew up t...

Despite our protestations in the last episode, Your Stupid Minds has, by somewhat coincidence, decided to make January a Worst of 2015 theme. We review our second Fantastic Four movie with one that for some reason was actually released, 2015’s Fantastic Four . Featuring a hip new cast of Oscar nominees and hopefuls, gritty teal and orange cinematography, and a rushed, nonsense final product with 3...

As part of Your Stupid Minds’ Worst of 2015 week, we have a single episode highlighting an appropriately forgotten lemon of the previous year. To call Accidental Love a 2015 film, however, is somewhat unfitting. Originally titled Nailed and helmed by prestige Oscar bait director David O. Russell, this film went through production hell following the recent 2008 financial crisis. Filming proceeded f...

Your Stupid Minds reviews another Christmas classic with Terry “Hollywood Hulk ‘The Hulkster’ Hogan” Bollea (a.k.a. Hulk Hogan) in Santa with Muscles ! Hogan takes a break between exhibition bouts in Japan to film this family classic about a large man using physical violence to bond with orphans. Blake (Hogan), during one of his regular paintballing jaunts with his personal staff, gets mistaken fo...

Christmas season in high gear, and that means we'll be looking at less-than-stellar Holiday movies in the month of December. Our first foray into the genre is Ron Howard's brazen cash grab live action remake of the Dr. Seuss classic with How the Grinch Stole Christmas (a.k.a. Grinch 2000 ). Jim Carrey cranks it up to 11 with his manic interpretation of the Grinch that is 60% Richard Nixon, 3% Jerr...

Your Stupid Minds transitions from Halloween season into Renaissance Festival season with the 90s low-budget medieval fantasy movie Prince Valiant ! Based on the boring, overwritten comic strip from the Sunday newspaper’s back page that your grandparents never read, this film adaptation eschews the sweeping ongoing medieval tale and instead opts for a trim 90 minute action movie with swords instea...

A scary monster movie is in order on Halloween for this episode of Your Stupid Minds. Recommended by friend and listener of the podcast Brendan McNamara (who also guest hosts on this episode), it’s It! The Terror from Beyond Space . This 1958 space horror flick bears a striking resemblance to Ridley Scott’s Alien , and some comparison to Scott’s most recent film The Martian (in that it involves Ma...