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Cinephobe

Zach Harper, Amin Elhassan & Anthony Mayes
Welcome to Cinephobe: The Podcast where Zach Harper, Amin Elhassan and Anthony Mayes review movies that are poorly rated on Rotten Tomatoes, and try to ascertain whether or not those movies are accurately poorly rated, or maybe just didn’t get a fair shake. Cinephobe! Wherever you get Podcasts!
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Episodes

Cinephobe Ep 96: What Happens In Vegas

Zach, Amin and Mayes woke up married and are under court order to record together for six months. Whether you make a plan to make plans or aren't serious boyfriend/husband material, are a Chonger or a Banger, take a trip to the podcast where you can forget all your troubles and act like a total idiot. What happens here, stays here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 18, 20211 hr 55 min

Cinephobe Mailbag: Pure Americana

Zach and Mayes answer a bunch of user questions about favorite and least favorite episodes, how they would fix previous Cinephobes and make them good movies, which characters they want to exist in real life and so much more. Also Cinephobiacs Julian and Mike join the show to talk about their experiences listening to the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 13, 20211 hr 21 min

Cinephobe Ep 95: What Men Want

Zach, Amin and Mayes have suffered concussive head trauma, waking up up with the ability to read men's minds. Haven't you always wondered what men were really thinking? Thankfully this movie is here to tell you that men think about sex, money, sex, sports, sex, how to pronounce croissant, sex, and the Piña Colada song. We made this bespoke podcast specifically for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 11, 20212 hr 1 min

Cinephobe Ep 94: Saving Silverman

Zach, Amin and Mayes are Diamonds in the Rough in this turn of the 20CB bromantic comedy. Complete with a killer soundtrack, copious Neil Diamond references and flashback exposition, this movie teaches us that whether your field is psychology or pest control, at the end of the day you're just helping people. CMONNAYEHHHHH-HAAAA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 04, 20211 hr 42 min

Cinephobe Ep 93: The Poison Rose

Zach, Amin and Mayes close out Travolta month with a classic film noir full of deception, intrigue, exposition and clichés. A private investigator is dragged back to his hometown of Galveston by a beautiful woman with a sob story, where he finds that everyone he knows has become influential and dangerous. Beware the roses, they're poisonous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 28, 20211 hr 38 min

Cinephobe Ep 92: Look Who's Talking Too

Zach, Amin and Mayes are pregnant AGAIN in this sequel released barely a year after the first one and was certainly not a cash grab, in case anyone's asking. If you've ever used your screaming children to get free stuff or convinced them that Mr. Toilet Man wants to eat your pee pee, then this movie about the struggles of co-parenting and keeping it fresh in your marriage is for you. Elvis is leaving the Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 21, 20211 hr 37 min

Cinephobe Ep 91: Staying Alive

Zach, Amin and Mayes are struttin the streets of New York in this perplexing follow up to John Travolta's breakout role in Saturday Night Fever as dancing sex god Tony Manero. Tony won't let anything get in the way of his dream of Broadway fame, not objectification from women, his dingy residence, dismissive agents, his own psychosis or Frank Stallone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 14, 20211 hr 58 min

Cinephobe Ep 90: Killing Season

Zach, Amin and Mayes are heading out to the woods for the purest, most distilled form of war: one on one. Sharpen your knife, string your bow, and slam the Jagermeister, it's time to hunt the most dangerous game of all: Bosnian John Travolta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 07, 20211 hr 36 min

Cinephobe Ep 89: Blankman

Zach, Amin and Mayes don't need a permit to podcast about Superhero movies as they close out June with this pick selected by the fans. In order to save the city, they'll deliver babies, build a lair out of repurposed appliances, and take down satin suited mobsters infiltrating the government. Thankfully, this podcast is Bulletproof, otherwise they'd be in Major Payne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 30, 20211 hr 58 min

Cinephobe Ep 88: Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Zach, Amin and Mayes have been off in the Yukon swingin' pickaxes and chainsmokin' cigarillos enjoying an early retirement, but when Hydra rises again they are forced to suit up and podcast once more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 23, 20211 hr 27 min

Cinephobe Ep 87: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Zach, Amin and Mayes have been recruited into the League of Expository Podcasters for this turn of the century dieselpunk superhero romp. Whether you're invincible, invisible, a blood thirsty vampire or just keeping the demons inside of you at bay, board the Nautilus and see just how deep we can dive into the depths of terrible movies before we never come back up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 16, 20211 hr 38 min

Cinephobe Ep 86: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Zach, Amin and Mayes are breaking out the 2,000 year old bottles of wine and french accents for the first sequel in Cinephobe history where we actually watched the original first. The boys are back in the Cage to team up with a black french alcoholic priest that's kind of a dick to help the devil's baby mama save her son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 09, 20211 hr 21 min

Cinephobe LIVE on Freedumb (with Method Man, Adam McKay and Neal Brennan)

Zach and Amin's segment from last weekend's LeBatard Show 24 hour live stream marathon. First they interviewed Method Man about How High and more, then Adam McKay and Neal Brennan chatted about politics and comedy, while occasionally discussing the 2009 film The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard with the guys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 09, 20212 hr 23 min

Cinephobe Ep 85.5: Daredevil Appeal (with Erin Darling)

Zach, Amin and Mayes are joined by comedian Erin Darling Torralva to discuss blind dating (dating actual blind people), comic con culture, romantic rooftops and orphans to see if Justice really is Blind after all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 04, 202156 min

Cinephobe Ep 85: Daredevil

Zach, Amin and Mayes are the finest blind podcasters in Hell's Kitchen. They'll tangle with an accurate irishman employed by a burly businessman and find love on a see saw along the way. Also there's a whole director's cut featuring Coolio! Justice is blind, but it can be heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 02, 20211 hr 53 min

Cinephobe Ep 84.5: More Reindeer Games (with Valerie Le Batard)

Zach, Amin and Mayes are joined once again by the Draft Queen Valerie Le Batard to play darts and work out our glamour muscles while planning the greatest Christmas heist in movie history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 28, 20211 hr 6 minEp. 99

Cinephobe Ep 84: Reindeer Games

Zach, Amin and Mayes are fresh out of the joint and headed straight to a casino for the heist of the holiday season. Grab your goddamn hot chocolate and some pecan fuckin pie, raid the mini bar, order some pay per views and listen to the only podcast that has both Coke AND Pepsi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 26, 20211 hr 25 min

Cinephobe Ep 83: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Zach, Amin and Mayes continue to search for the kryptonite that will weaken this podcast enough to kill it. This foray into the Snyderverse may well be our Doomsday, so grab your mason jar of granny's peach tea, jump in the bath fully clothed, and settle in for the ultimate edition of this podcast. Am I too soon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 19, 20212 hr 5 min

Cinephobe Ep 82: Armageddon

Zach, Amin and Mayes are deep core podcasters charged with blowing up an asteroid the size of Texas before it destroys the Earth. They'll have to overcome an unhinged Russian cosmonaut, Space Dementia, a sentient growling asteroid, Explosition and Ben Affleck to complete their mission before the countdown clock runs out. Baysplode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 12, 20211 hr 53 min

Cinephobe Ep 81: Smokin' Aces

Zach, Amin and Mayes are podcast assassins after Jeremy Piven's heart for the punchline of $1 million. It's a death race to the penthouse of a Lake Tahoe hotel, where coke addicted magician Buddy 'Aces' Israel is waiting to get smoked. Will anyone make it out of the elevator alive? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 05, 20211 hr 43 min

Cinephobe Ep 80.5: Disclosure Addendum (with Valerie Le Batard)

Zach, Amin and Mayes are joined by the Draft Queen Valerie Le Batard on her birthday to review the exhibits and pass final judgment on the landmark sexual harassment case between Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 30, 202152 min

Cinephobe Ep 80: Disclosure

Zach, Amin and Mayes were expecting a promotion in the wake of an impending merger, but are passed over for an old flame looking to rekindle their explosive relationship. Will they resist temptation and remain faithful, or succumb to their patriarchal urges and exercise their dominance, destroying their families in the process? We can't disclose the outcome, listen to this podcast recorded on a random answering machine to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 28, 20211 hr 58 min

Cinephobe Ep 79.5: Mortal Kombat Annihilation (with Mike Ryan)

Zach, Amin and Mayes strike back just in time for the release of the new Mortal Kombat reboot, bringing in Mike Ryan, Executive Producer of The LeBatard Show with Stugotz to unlock fatalities. Half the actors are different, the special effects are more like conventional effects, the costumes come from the bargain bin and it's only a ninety minute movie, but somehow we spent over two hours breaking it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 23, 20211 hr 55 min

Cinephobe Ep 79: Hook

Zach, Amin and Mayes sprinkle themselves with pixie dust for the flight back to Neverland, where the food is imaginary but the stakes have never been higher. Captain Hook is having an identity crisis, Peter Pan is an absentee father, Tinkerbell has been harboring obsessive feelings for nearly a century and Rufio is the first emo kid ever. This podcast can fly, fight and crow. Bangarang! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 21, 20212 hr 1 min

Cinephobe Ep 78: Envy

Zach, Amin and Mayes are back with a revolutionary new invention: Va-Pod-Rize, the podcast that makes all other podcasts disappear. Whether you dream of running for the little congress, finishing every meal with delicious flan, or building the white house in your cul de sac, c'est la vie, as the Romans say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 14, 20211 hr 24 min

Cinephobe Ep 77: Anaconda

Zach, Amin and Mayes are failed Paraguayan priests who have found a new calling: podcasting about snakes. In their quest to find the lost Shirishama tribe along the Amazon river, they must survive poisonousss waspsss, urethral catfish, jungle horniness and gigantic spring loaded anacondas. Five Whiskeys? That's breakfast on the river. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 07, 20211 hr 31 min

Cinephobe Ep 76: Hercules in New York

Zach, Amin and Mayes are running barefoot through Times Square to catch your chariot and deliver this podcast. Hercules leaves Mount Olympus for Spring Break and hits the town with the help of a humble pretzel salesman. We close out Arnold month with Arnold's first movie ever to show just how far his accent has come, and boy is Arnold a comer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 31, 20211 hr 38 min

Cinephobe Ep 75: Batman & Robin - Part 2

Zach, Amin and Mayes return to Gotham City to find out if the Iceman really cometh after all. Will Poison Ivy push the Green New Deal through congress? Can Batgirl crack Alfred's three letter password? Is Bane capable of stringing a sentence together? What song sent Amin down a youtube rabbit hole? The answers to all those questions and more in the thrilling conclusion to this two parter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 24, 20211 hr 17 min

Cinephobe Ep 75: Batman & Robin - Part 1

Zach, Amin and Mayes are rubbing ice cubes on their bat nipples to prepare for the onslaught of ice puns unleashed by Arnold as Dr. Victor Fries terrorizes Gotham. This movie put the Batman Franchise into cryogenic sleep for 8 years until Christopher Nolan found the cure for Schumacher Syndrome. Assemble your own Un-United Nations and hit Bane's turbo button, you've only got eleven minutes to thaw this podcast and listen before it's frozen forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Mar 17, 20211 hr 18 min

Cinephobe Ep 74: Eraser (with JuJu Gotti)

Zach, Amin, Mayes and special guest JuJu Gotti usually work alone, but they've burned their credit cards and random baby photos in order to record this episode incognito. Arnold month continues with this movie overflowing with outrageous stunts, James Caan's smugness, light speed bullets and voracious luggage. Hurry up and listen to this podcast before it gets Erased. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 10, 20212 hr
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