CRUEL2REWIND: A Funny Movie Podcast

Our C2R Cruel Summer Series must sadly come to an end this week with our look at an early-2000s Disney flick. Once upon a time 20 years ago, Teen Queen Beas watched The Princess Diaries, a movie that, over the course of two decades, would transform from a guilty pleasure watched behind closed doors into a shared favorite with her college gal pals. Mia, an awkward and shy 15-year old, takes a comic...

Yes hi hello to you, beloved listener. The third installment of our C2R Cruel Summer series is a Jeff pick: the summer action and adventure blockbuster from 1997, Con Air. After being wrongfully imprisoned for defending his wife in a bar fight, Cameron Poe (played by Nic Cage) does 50 million prison push-ups and then boards a flight to finally go home to his family. But it just so happens he'...

Gooooood day, listeners. Well, it’s another episode here for you from WC2R, The Breast. We’re watching a joint pick for the second installment of our C2R Cruel Summer series, the satirical comedy from 2001, Wet Hot American Summer. We cannonball into what this movie meant to us separately back in our younger days and what it means to us now as a couple that watches it every 4th of July (SPOILER AL...

School’s out, camp’s open, the pool’s full, and the bees are buzzing.  Our C2R Cruel Summer series kicks off with Angie’s pick, the 1991 coming-of-age comedy-drama, My Girl. Although this is one of the saddest and most morbid movies we've done, Angie is nonetheless excited to turn the tables on Prince Jeffrey by showing him an infamous pop culture reference for the first time (hint: it's...

It’s time for another glorious listener pick! We take a journey to a land filled with myth, magic, and people named “Burglekutt,” where a young man is chosen to carry out a dangerous adventure to save an overly expressive baby from an evil queen and has to do it all with Val Kilmer! You guessed it: we’re watching Willow from 1988, the dark fantasy from Ron Howard and George Lucas. It’s been a minu...

Prince Jeffrey is headed back to the Fire Swamp, but this time he’s joined by two surprise guests (Queen Beas is sitting this one out in order to preserve their mawwiage). You know and love their voices from their many wacky voicemails…now join us in welcoming Spicy Pete and C2R Super Fan Will to the program! Jeff selfishly wanted to talk to people who actually like The Princess Bride (and baby al...

Praise Jesus Lord God in Heaven—we’re getting spiritual on this week’s episode. And when we say “spiritual,” we mean we’re following Deloris, a Reno lounge singer turned nun, as she takes cover in a convent to hide from the mob. Yep, you guessed it: we’re talking about the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg hit Sister Act, a favorite fish-out-of-water comedy that Angie grew up watching. Before we get into the “...

We’re excited to leave high school in the past where it belongs and get back to our regularly scheduled C2R programming. Jeff is up this month with an 80s classic known for being one of the first examples of CGI on film, Flight of the Navigator. We also chat about Rolling Stone ’s recent list of the 100 greatest sitcoms of all time, and we suffer through an unwanted country music lesson from a dis...

We close the book on our anniversary month by celebrating (and cringing at) all things high school with the C2R Class of ‘21 Superlatives. In other words: It’s a best-of-style clip show! Join us as we take a look back and talk about some of our favorite episodes, moments, clips and drops from the past year. Thank you so much for hanging out with us, dear listener. We look forward to another year o...

A year ago today, we released our first two episodes of C2R, so what better way to celebrate our one-year anniversary than with a COOL-to-rewind movie from both of us: Napoleon Dynamite. High school is a special, horrific time and we can’t get enough of the movies that take us back there. How did this uniquely oddball movie manage to strike a chord with people of all ages and tastes without being...

For our one-year anniversary month, the theme is everyone’s favorite peak time of life: HIGH SCHOOL. Thanks to our dear listeners for picking the first movie in this series, Can’t Hardly Wait. Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Ethan Embry star in this “school’s out, let’s rage” flick. It’s a who’s who of late 90s teen movie stars and has a rockin’ soundtrack that’s chock-full o’ Smash Mouth!!! We have a lo...

Here we go with our second dance movie (and it certainly won’t be the last). Angie shares another favorite from high school, Save the Last Dance, which just hit its 20-year anniversary. Jeff puts his best dance pants on to get into this early 2000s teen classic and answers an important question: Does Julia Stiles belong in the C2R Hall of Fame? Buckle up as we take a wild, nostalgia-fueled ride ar...

We’re diving into the sewers this week to chat about one of Jeff’s favorite childhood movies (and arcade games), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1990. Before we get into the good stuff, we have a lot to catch up on with our new bi-weekly schedule: We sound the Tim Taylor Alarm for some hot-off-the-press Tim and Al news, Jeff ponders where his “edge” has gone, and Angie unveils her dream TV show...

We’re rounding out our two-part Cruel to Be Mine: Smoochums Edition with the infamous adventure-romance-kissing-book movie, The Princess Bride. This is one of the movies that fueled the idea for this show: Jeff grew up watching it while Angie had never seen or even heard of it. Find out what Angie thinks of one of the most important movies of Jeff’s childhood and who she would recast in a 2021 rem...

Hey listeners, it’s cookie time this week for Angie’s pick, Troop Beverly Hills. This 1989 flick starring Shelley Long was a staple growing up, when Angie dreamed of a magical place called Beverly Hills. Come to find out, it’s a whimsical who’s who of 80s TV and film celebrities. And in other news, Angie finally finds out why her mom didn’t put her in the “Wilderness Girls” (a.k.a Girl Scouts). Al...

“Can you smell what The Rock is cook—” wait sorry what we mean to say is, “Welcome to The Rock!” We venture back to 1996 when mommy’s special little Prince Jeffrey saw his first R-rated movie in the theater, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage: The Rock. Angie is thrilled to finally see the source of countless Saturday Night Live celebrity impersonation sketches. We discuss the unintentionally...

Happy New Year, C2R listeners! We stumble into 2021 with Angie’s pick, 9 to 5, which just hit its 40th anniversary. Angie introduces Jeff to Violet, Judy and Doralee, the badass working women who take matters into their own hands when they’re sick and tired of their sexist, egotistical, son-of-a-bitch boss. Find out how this office satire about women in the workplace holds up forty years later and...

Our nephew, the coolest five-year-old on the block, had a very special C2R request for a movie featuring his all-time favorite superhero! Join us as we dive into Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for our second-ever bonus episode. We cover it all: the importance of doodling on your schoolwork and making sound effects, Miles’ custom Spidey costume, and meeting the Spider-People from all the other u...

Welcome to the final installment of our very first C2R Seasonal Favorites series, something we hope will be an annual tradition. Join us as we take a look at a short Disney film that young Prince Jeffrey was pretty much raised on, Mickey's Christmas Carol. But before we get to the movie, we get a Christmas miracle in the form of a voicemail apology from C2R Super Fan Will and we take a somewh...

The holiday season is in full swing this week at the C2R Network. For the second installment of our C2R Seasonal Favorites series, we’re discussing an obscure 90s gem from Angie’s childhood, All I Want for Christmas. We kick things off with more toy talk, fun Christmas drops and a surprise look at a new Lifetime movie that defies description. The holiday good-time train gets momentarily derailed a...

The holiday season is upon us so that means it’s time for Christmas movies! We’re kicking off C2R Seasonal Favorites edition with Jingle All the Way. This 1996 flick features a triple threat of C2R hall-of-famers: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, and Phil Hartman. Jingle All the Way is loosely based on the Cabbage Patch doll frenzy of the 80s, so in the spirit of the non-meaning of Christmas—consume...

It’s time for another listener pick! Today we’re doing the Luc Besson sci-fi-action-comedy from 1997, The Fifth Element, which has been requested multiple times. In this densely packed, overstimulating 127 minutes, we’re shot into the 23rd century where Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich have the fate of the world in their hands. Nobody talks to himself on film like Bruce, and just like in Diehard, h...

Hey listeners! How are we doing? It’s been an intense couple of weeks, and we’re excited to be back with our regular scheduled sillies this month. We’ve got voicemails to catch up on (yes, Super Fan Will is one of them) and fun updates on what we’ve got cooking for C2R. Angie is up with her pick: Miss Congeniality. This light-action-rom-com was a favorite of hers as a teen. Find out what Jeff has...

Whoa, bat! For the final installment of C2R Spookums Edition, we called a “spookums audible” and swapped Rosemary’s Baby for Psycho! Jeff introduces Angie to Norman Bates, the fictional character created by American author Robert Bloch, in one of the most infamous psychological horror-thriller films by Alfred Hitchcock. We needed the ultimate thrills, chills and spills to close out the month, and...

New voicemails? Got ‘em. Insightful emails? You betcha. We have all the premium content on the fourth installment of C2R: Spookums Edition. Ernest P. Worrell makes his spooky debut on the show with Angie’s pick, Ernest Scared Stupid. This “Halloween” movie has everything: a superstitious old lady, snotty trolls, multiple personalities, kids who hang out with a grown garbage man…and…the uncondition...