Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Based on the novel of the same name, Waiting to Exhale (1995) follows the romantic travails of four Black women in Scottsdale, AZ. Sporting a powerhouse lead ensemble with Angela Bassett, Whitney Houston, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon and impressive supporting work from the likes of Michael Beech, Mykelti Williams, Dennis Haysbert and Gregory Hines to name but a few. It has its moments, to be sur...

The biggest movie we've never heard of.

This is one we debated about watching for this month. Mostly we end up speculating on Bronson Pinchot's hobbies. Bob's Burgers Cast improvises a scene | New Yorker Mag +++++ Theme music by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: Das Racist performing Chicken and Meat

Welcome, dear listener, to February. We are starting things of with a film neither of us had encountered before, A Rage in Harlem (1991). Loosely based on the Chester Himes novel of the same name and directed by Bill Duke, it's a love story of sorts, a heist movie, a buddy comedy, and other stuff too! Thoroughly enjoyable throughout. Eduard Bonilla-Silva on CSPAN2 BookTV   +++++ Intro by Profe...

Wrapping on Jameuary we revisit the 90's classic romcom/Western military hegemony, True Lies (1994). Just a lot of misogyny masquerading as romance and uh i guess... spycraft? this film wastes so much of the talents on hand.  To lighten the mood, we touch on such topics as legislative applications of religious doctrine, abuse on set, tales in ID-ing, plus we revisit the Legend of the Sonny Edi...

Here, dear reader, listener, lover, we bring you a movie full of wasted talents. A tale as threadbare and tedious as any we've discussed before. It askes the hard questions of "can a woman with a gun be a victim?" or "can a man get away with it?" and "is murder a justifiable punishment for sexual assault?" So, y'know heavy trigger warnings for this one. Take c...

Get ready to sweat! We welcome back, as we do this time of year, RW to discuss this wild, Rolling Stone-sponsored ride. Strap in, it's a walloper. +++++ Intro by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: Jermaine Jackson performing (Closest thing to) Perfect

Oh shit- it's season 5! and another year! We're starting off with a month of Jamie Lee (become a patron to find out how come) and this little movie that we'd never heard of is nice little bit of turn-of-the-decade upper-middle class paranoia/psychosexual family thriller. Of course, you'll be reminded of Fatal Attraction, Poison Ivy, Single White Female -- basically any other "...

Well dear listeners, here we have come to the end of another season together. To close it out, we bring you a foreign film in a foreign land: Three Fugitives (1989) We find the unlikely duo of Nick Nolte and Martin Short forced to team up to evade police and save Short's little girl. Naturally, many many hijinks are had. We also discuss physical acting theory and Cpt. Janeway's hairpiece....

Heyo- This week we bring you a film that's long been on our list: Postcards from the Edge (1990). Based on Carrie Fischer's semi -autobiographical novel of the same name, the movie follows a middle-aged daughter of a famous actress who is herself an actress struggling to find herself while also navigating addiction, the industry, horrible men and her mother. You will also hear about Keith&...

Greetings sports fans! This week we bring you arguably John Waters' most widely viewed film: Serial Mom (1994). Pitch perfect performances really sell this tale of a middle class white lady from the Baltimore 'burbs who erases anyone that gets on her bad side. Plus, per usual, we shit on some of our favorite Hollywood bastards to hate, reference porn and praise Kathy Bates bravura boobies...

Well, well, will you look at that. Another movie in which a young white person lies to get ahead in the world. Michael J. Fox plays a white kid from Kansas driven to make a bunch of money off the backs of others (aka, The American Dream). But he wants to get to the top on his own merits. That's why he calls in favors to a distant uncle. and then his aunt. whom he's sleeping with. And Helen...

GD it if it ain't another Dysfunctional December ! To start it off we watched Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead (1991). Despite a somewhat cliche failing-upwards/" Fawlty Towers plot " initial premise, it avoids many of the expected tropes and delivers some surprising charm and believable growth for Christina Applegate's lead. As a result, our conversation naturally tu...

Here we are driving a stake through the heart of Nosferatu November with Michael Mann's The Keep (1983). And what a great way to go out! What do you get when you cross the creator of Miami Vice with Nazis at the height of their hubris encountering an ancient supernatural evil in Dracula's homeland? We couldn't tell you. You'll just have to see for yourself. Meanwhile, stay safe and...

After The Addiction, we had a bad taste in our mouths. But this film was a Mentos for the senses! We have Hartley alumni Donovan and Löwensohn plus an impressive supporting cast that includes a surprisingly fun Peter Fonda and an sadly brief Jared Harris. Building on Bram Stoker's source material and set in contemporary NYC, this movie manages be funny, charming, heavy, and technical craftines...

Blah! Our second entry for Nosferatu November is 1995's The Addiction. From the same writer/director team that brought you The King of New York comes this b&w philosophical wank--I mean meditation on the nature of man's relationship to addiction. Only not really. Along the way we weigh in on internalized victim blaming, Natalie Wynn, and I Shot Andy Warhol (again). Your welcome (again)...

Welcome, creatures of the night, to Nosferatu November! We begin with The Lost Boys (1987). In this episode we question whether it's Schumacher movies or vampires that are inevitably disappointing? Plus we reminisce about video rental stores and can't help but touch upon the history of the Coreys. Synergistically, on the same day we finished editing this ep, Minty Comedic Arts published a...

Boo-hoo! It's the final entry of Z & Keith's3rd AnnualDoc Oct ShockRocktoberHollerween Scream-a-long Spook-a-thon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But we are ending on a favorite: Event Horizon (1997) One of the few films in our estimation to successfully blend horror and scifi (especially post- Alien ) without sacrificing one or the other.  And as we discovered, a film that benefits from multi...

Holy hell! It's week 3 of Z & Keith's 3rd Annual Doc Oct Shock Rocktober Hollerween Scream-a-long Spook-a-thon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !and we bring you yet another made-for-TV adaptation of a Stephen King piece that you've probably never heard of. While not the best thing you've seen, nor even of this micro-genre, it avoids some of the pitfalls and cliches of many of its cellm...

Boo! Who? It's already week two of Z & Keith's 3rd Annual Doc Oct Shock Rocktober Hollerween Scream-a-long Spook-a-thon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This week we bring you a real treat & no tricks! We were delighted by this movie that we knew next to nothing about. 1986's Trick or Treat (aka Ragman , aka, Death at 33 RPM ) serves Faustian themes vs the PMRC, Skippy meets Satanic pan...

WELCOME TO HELL, aka Z & Keith's 3rd Annual Doc Oct Shock Rocktober Hollerween Scream-a-long Spook-a-thon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL BE TERROIZED by the sounds of "breast augmentation"! HAUNTED by a description of a blacked-out Target!! BORED TO PARALLYSIS by tales of short-term memory loss!!! Special thanks to Randy P for suggesting this film! Roger Corman on Letterman,...

What a day! But it's finally time to punch out. We've made it to the end of a month of films loosely about working. And what a high note to end on! Clockwatchers (1997) is one of those nearly forgotten gems of 90's indie filmmaking. Amazing cast, great dialogue, beautifully shot and covering a subject matter from a fresh perspective, i.e., the sweet-spot. Check out Paul Kotheimer's...

Grass and yard care is very important to us here at Z and Keith Watched A Movie, that's why we've partnered with this film to bring our listeners the best in lawn representation. +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: Shawn and Christian Reischauer w/Ricky Lewis performing the Lawn Mowing Rap

Is it the late '80's sequel to 9 to 5 ? Is it the sassy sister film to Die Hard ? Is it an accurate representation of Long Island aesthetics of the day? These and many other questions are left unanswered as we discuss Working Girl (1988). On our second viewing we noticed some nuance to the messaging we had missed on our first go (pre-pod). Plus Z attempts to describe some of the intricacie...

Emilio and Charlie team up to share zero chemistry in this series of events that rarely have meaning or consequences. Picture Weekend at Bernie's without the raw animal charm of Silverman and McCarthy. Imagine every 80's trope (including passing a dead guy off as just really inebriated) presumed dead, shoved into an oil drum, sealed improperly and dumped into the cinematic water supply. ++...