Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Never before or since have you heard the phrase "hexavalent chromium" so many times within a 130 min window. You guessed it- this week we're discussing Erin Brockovich , the Soderbergh-directed biographical legal drama from 2000. So put on your waders and don't drink the iced tea, cuz something's hinky in Hinkley +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: Go...

Sadly, this marks the end of Hartley fest '23. We wrap things up with Flirt (1995): Three different cities, three different stories... or the same story told three different ways? Lovers' ultimatums, a gun, a pay phone, Panama. You be the judge. Plus give you our reflections on our wooly ride through the hairy world of Halorrcy Hartleymann. Thanks for listiening! Be good to her, etc. +++++...

What do our past in/experiences say about us? Is there any escape from them, any starting over? Are there innocent men? Are there whores and virgins? We're all beginners at something. Welcome to Hal Hartley's Amateur View Master commercial Huell Howser meets a dog that eats avocados +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: Whores performing I'm an Amateur at Everythi...

In our second installment of Hartleyfest , we welcome very special guest Dr. Brian Flota on to talk Simple Men (1992). The third installment in Hartley's so-called Long Island Trilogy, Simple Men follows brothers Bill and Dennis on their search for their father who has recently escaped from prison. Along the way they encounter hijinks, hard truths, a busted clutch assembly and women who challe...

The full version of this episode is now available for one-time purchase in our Patreon shop Hello and welcome to Long Island! We kick off a month of Hal Hartley films, appropriately enough, with his first feature length - The Unbelievable Truth (1989). Starring Robert John Burke, the incomparable Adrienne Shelly, plus a whole host of soon-to-become regulars, this movie really tickles us in the Tru...

Oh hey. Sup? We're just closing out July with Critters (1987) -- a film neither of us had seen, Keith remembers from video store shelves and that Z was almost entirely unaware of. Plus late 80's hip hop, door knobs and Twi'leks, oh my! ⁠ Westcoast Rap All-Stars - We're All in the Same Gang⁠ +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on ⁠Bandcamp⁠ Outro: ⁠Johnny Steele performing Powe...

Like removing a gangrenous toe, we check off another film from Keith's rewatch bucket list. Just another sad story about a upper middle class white man failuring his way up: aka, 1980s Tom Cruise's bread & butter, apparently. Plus more on psychopathy vs neurotypicality from some armchair auties and we FINALLY weigh in on Ana & Cenk's recent lean into transphobia. Tom Cruise on...

From a negative early VHS experience to this, likely the ONLY film Keith has ever seen on CED, first impressions are definitely first. Long on our to rewatch list, this one did not fair well. Plus hear about how we recently went with out electricity for 22hrs! Whitt Castle, if you're out there- holler back. Instrumental cover of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" per...

Finally- the film Keith watched with his mother and grandparents which contained enough nudity that Keith's mom was mortified. Not for nuthin, one of Robin Williams' first dramatic roles. Cry for Anatoly... +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: cast of Silk Stockings performing Too Bad (We Can't Go Back To Moscow)

Join us as we blindly leap into July with a film we had next to no prior knowledge of! Spoiler: it rules! UK Father's Day +++++ Intro by Professor PIng available on Bandcamp Outro: The Coup performing The Guillotine

Here we are wrapping on Pride month with this pretty lil bow on top. And crickey, what a wolloper! Screen debut of both pod fave, Ms Melanie Lynskey AND one madame Kate "draw me like one of your French girls" Winslet. (RIP the passengers and crew of the OceanGate Titan) Directed by ol Petey J himself*. And based on "real events"! You just gotta watch this one. Plus we give our...

Greetings, spudbuddies! We are here to unearth Gus Van Sant's wild potato, the very indie 90's My Own Private Idaho (1991). An impressionistic search for home with some Shakespearean-affected caricatures met along the way. Plus: we renew our vows to woke-pilled globalist hegemony. +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: Udo Kier performing Der Adler

Our queer asses were caught off guard by this movie! Apparently as essential to Sapphic culture as "The Dinah", neither of us had even heard of this film before scheduling it for this month. But with its disarming earnestness and bucking of tragegay™ tropes, it's easy to see why it's considered a classic. 2023 interview with Deitch, Shaver, Charbonneau Jane Lynch & Donna Deit...

Crack open a Foster's cuz this year's Pride begins Down Under with the other well-known movie about three drag queens taking a road trip! But don't drink and drive. Not even through the Outback. Matt Baume's video Desperate Lives Celeste +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: Lonely Boys performing Drop It Down Girl

In a surprise twist ending, to round off Z's bday month we bring you M. Night's breakout ghost story and final film of the 20th century: The Sixth Sense Plus Sarah Paulson's dating history. Democracy Now! coverage of Reclaim Osage Night of the Eagle trailer +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp Outro: XTC performing Sensing Working Overtime

Yo! Z's third bday pick is another movie which contains a nude crotch shot. And that overshadowed much of everything else the film has going for it. A film so deeply imbedded in the cultural zeitgeist that many folks to this day can't hear the words "lotion" "fava beans" or "Clarice" without compulsively quoting it. +++++ Intro: by Professor Ping available on...

Here's to A.B, where ever you are Why You Must Cry over Spilled Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz

Gurl, here we go again! In this second installment Z's bday May , we bring you Luc "short-eyes" Besson's tale of a young girl and a grown-ass hitman tryna make their way in the world today. An extremely 90's indy film that Keith was unaware of before Z shared their 20+ year obsession with it. Here we are talking the original full length cut was not shown in US cinemas. Time t...

May Day, May Day - It's Z's birthday Month! And to kick it off we are bringing you the film you've been dying for us to talk about since at least March: The Crying Game . Neil Jordan's most infamous film (at least in the States) has a lot more going on than a genital surprise. In some ways, it's almost like a synthesis of Mona Lisa (1986) and The Long Good Friday (1981). Or at...

To close out Easter's Revenge, we welcome long time listener/first time guest Randall to talk The First Power (1990). We bond over our shared Kober-philia, magical seatbelts, our appreciation for the action and stunt work and our confusion over why it isn't in a different, better movie. Plus Z catches us up on Shawnee language and Picard ! Easter is dead! [become a Patreon to hear the exte...

Many potato puns to you, film fans! With plot points you'll recognize from Jaws and a radiation-spawned monster shot like a xenomorph, The Being doesn't add a whole lot to the genre/s besides being set in Idaho on Easter. Well and bringing together the producer of Flesh Gordon , Martin Landau, Ruth Buzzi, Jose Ferrer and Dorothy Malone. Better experienced that described, you'll just ha...

Christ on sale! The airtight logic of biblical prophecy is brought into glaring living, breathing relief in this white bread, end times thriller. The Seventh Sign follows a very unremarkable middle-class white lady who is pregnant and married to a DA that is trying to get a person with Down syndrome off of death row for killing his incestuous parents. Meanwhile, Jesus moves in upstairs and the Rom...

Easter is sure getting it's revenge on us with this one! Shot in 18 days and released straight to video to capitalize on the "occultsploitation" success of The Craft (1996) earlier that year, Little Witches holds the dubious honor of being the first feature with Clea Duvall and the last that Jack Nance shot. We won't insult you here by attempting a plot synopsis, you can watch th...

Welcome to Easter's revenge 2! Or more like 1.2 or "New Egginings" Or something. This film, besides being an excellent crime drama, turns out to be a great transition from Ireland to Easter. Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren absolutely dominate in this tale of a London crime boss looking to expand into new territory, a new decade, a global economy but quickly finds he's not in as much...

As the candy-colored clown they call March is pulled off stage by the Sandman, we bring you our final Neil Jordan film for the time being. In Dreams (1999) can hold it's own against most other 90's supernatural thrillers, plus it's got Jordan on it's side. Annette Benning flexes as an otherwise ordinary white, American, middle class woman who is haunted by dreams, visions, premonitions of little g...