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We’re deep into HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and this week we’re going to explore a little bit of horror from beyond the stars and this applies…we think. We’re discussing Jordan Peele’s “junior” effort. You never hear “junior” being sited when describing a director’s 3rd movie. You always hear “sophomore” but never “Junior”. But wait…didn’t Jordan Peele direct “Keanu”? His actual best movie that we saw in t...

“Please Hammer, don’t hurt ‘em”. That line is from an M.C. Hammer song. I typed it because every Monday for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST we are discussing a Hammer Films vampire classic and since that film company is called “Hammer” and then you got the musician “M.C. Hammer”, I just thought that would be an interesting thing to type but it’s not. I’m sorry. It’s grasping. Another thing I wish was grasping...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST ends week 2 on a John Carpenter movie that was unappreciated in its time but has since aged like fine wine. It’s the second in what Carpenter has declared his “apocalypse trilogy”. Yep. Hell and Satan is a little more than what we traditionally know in John Carpenters 1987 horror “Prince of Darkness” starring Donald Pleasance as “Father Loomis”, the twin brother of “Professor Lo...

For this second week of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST we basked in the glory of Larry Cohen’s killer mutant babies and now we close out the trilogy with his 1987 straight-to-video finale to the It’s Alive Cinematic Universe (IACU) with “IT’S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE”  starring Michael Moriarty and Karen Black. By court order, these mutant babies are the original “Island Boys” (except for the female) an...

For this week’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST drops we’re exploring Larry Cohen’s “It’s Alive” trilogy and we continue with the not-so-subtle social commentary as Frank returns and is backed by an organization that wants to keep these killer mutant babies alive and he will do whatever it takes to protect the Scott’s abnormal baby. But there’s a doctor whose wife had one of these babies in Seattle and it kill...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST keeps on truckin’ and this week we’re gonna burn through Larry Cohen’s cult classic “It’s Alive” trilogy and today we discuss the 1974 murder baby movie that started it all. What caused this killer mutant baby to come into our world? We got some theories and one pharmaceutical corporation wants that thing destroyed just in case. We got a crazed mother and a dad that’s in deep de...

We’re continuing our weekly vintage reviews of some Hammer Horror of the vampiric kind and we miss out on Christopher Lee’s Dracula this week because, well, he died at the the of “Horror of Dracula” but his cult lives on as Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing comes across a strange case of a weird little Baron and his mother who keeps him chained up until a little French hottie sets him free. The Baron Me...

It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST!!! That means it’s a horror drop every weekday all October long and we end our first week with a movie that grew to cult status after a box office bomb in 1987. We’re talking about Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark”, the OTHER 80’s vampire movie that isn’t the first one you think of. Not “Fright Night” either. This Okie kid gets turned by a midnight hottie and has to roll with t...

Oh what sights we have to show you! HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST is in full effect! A Horror discussion dropping every damn weekday and we cap off our midweek theme of sex, romance and passion with a movie all about psychopathic adoration and the thin line between pleasure and pain. Much of the sequels fall off hard, but Clive Barker’s directorial debut based upon his novel “The Hellhound Heart” stands out...

Our first week for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST (in which we discuss a different horror movie every weekday) is all about getting physical. Sex, Romance, Seduction and all of the consequences. Today’s discussion is a resonating sleeper hit from 2014 directed by David Robert Mitchell in which a young girl finds herself constantly pursued by something after sleeping with a boy. She’s the only one that can see...

It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST every weekday all month long and we’re just getting started with an early selection from the body freak master himself, David Cronenberg. Marilyn Chambers and her boyfriend wreck their motorcycle in the Canadian countryside but fortunately there’s a plastic surgery facility close by that is willing to do some bold flesh grafting experiments. The result is a Marilyn Chambers...

It’s time to set spooky season off right because it’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and we’re dropping a variety of horror flicks on your nuts FIVE DAYS A WEEK. Yes, every weekday in October there will be a horror film discussion with weekly sub themes and for our Monday vintage selections we’re delving into some HAMMER HORROR vampiric fare! Today we’re discussing Christopher Lee’s debut as a rather seductiv...

We end this month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM with someone who might be the biggest asshole in all of film. We think he beats Jordan Belfort, Indiana Jones, Jar Jar Binks and every other asshole we’ve discussed this month. It’s time to break the John Hughes seal and dive right into a real piece of work by discussing his 1986 hit “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” starring Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan...

There are so many movies you can pick when your theme is ASSHOLES ON FILM. There simply isn’t enough days in a month to fill with all the great assholes in cinema. But one character certainly springs to mind when you’re thinking up movies for such a subject and that’s one of our favorite assholes, Daniel Plainview. In the last week of our theme we’re pulling out some heavy hitters and there’s few...

We’re in our last week for our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM and we had to hit up a flick with our Asshole Theme Mascot, John Wayne. Why not hit up one of the most beloved John Ford/John Wayne westerns ever. Yep, we’re talking about the 1956 classic “The Searchers” starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles and a young Natalie Wood. The character of Ethan Edwards is quite the racist so yo...

The central assholes featured in our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM keep getting riper and riper. They’re gaping more and more. It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a movie that makes our skin crawl but Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance and a sociopathic stringer in Dan Gilroy’s 2014 Neo-Noir “Nightcrawler” was truly grimy. In the ultra cynical world of news and entertainment media you don’t have to...

Assholes can fuck everything up and they can also genuinely love their brother. Today’s entry in month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM is the hectic crime drama “Good Time” by Josh & Benny Safdie and stars Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie & Jennifer Jason Leigh. That security guard will never be right again. They poured so much liquid acid into that guy’s mouth, dude. That’s insane. I’d try it....

We’re finishing up our viewing of Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name/Dollars Trilogy for our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM and we’ve already established that Clint Eastwood’s character of The Man With No Name is a little over the middle of the asshole scale. Bounty hunting and senseless egg yolk breaking make him a contender but probably the least assholey of all the assholes featured in our sele...

For this month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM it’s important that we touch base on assholery amongst artistry. We’re discussing the show’s very first Coen Brother’s film that we recently caught up with for the first time. We’re talking the Coen’s 2013 film “Inside Llewyn Davis” starring Oscar Isaac in a breakout role as a struggling folk musician in the early sixties on the cusp of the Dylan explosio...

This month is ASSHOLES ON FILM for our theme and we’re keeping it vintage this midweek as we explore a Samurai classic that was actually considered a big flop and all production of a follow up ceased after it’s release. Perhaps the Japanese film goers at the time didn’t appreciate Kihachi Okamoto’s interpretation of a popular serialized story but the tale of the stone cold killer, Ryonusuke, stood...

Our vintage selections for our ASSHOLES ON FILM theme this month involve Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME Trilogy and this follow up to the breakout hit maybe has our lowest grade asshole this month but Clint did break that telegraph operators egg yolk and you just don’t do that. We’re talkin’ the 1965 spaghetti western “For a Few Dollars More” starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Clef, Gian Maria Volo...

It’s ASSHOLES ON FILM month and should it be a surprise that a month full of main character assholes are also some very beloved and well regarded movies? We finally catch up to watching one of Lord Stanley’s films and it also happens be Bob’s favorite of his movies. Those interested in such things are well aware and much has been said of it over the years. We discuss one of our favorite movie assh...

It’s MOVIE ROULETTE REVIEW time!  Angela selected from a hat the category “Tammy” and, sure enough, we landed on the 2014 comedy “Tammy” starring Melissa McCarthy and directed by her husband Ben Falcone. This comedy was actually a hit, believe it or not! It’s only hard to believe because, while it did do well at the box office, nobody seems to speak of this movie. It’s star studded (Susan Sarandon...

ASSHOLES ON FILM is our theme this month and our Monday vintage selections will be westerns. We will be featuring an iconic trilogy in the “spaghetti” kind of western. We’re discussing Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME films starting with the 1964 hit that put Clint Eastwood on the map, “A Fistful of Dollars” which is really just a western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” that was release the pr...

NEW MONTH. NEW THEME. We’re pumped for September’s theme as we dive into some films that truly embody the nature of “the asshole”. ASSHOLES ON FILM is what we’re slipping into and we’re starting off with a movie chock full of assholes. Brimming with asshole cunts. We’re discussing Martin McDonagh’s worthy 2008 debut film “In Bruges” starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Two hitmen are ordere...