Episode 92 - The Driftless Area
Andrew and I learn that not even a great collection of actors can save a dry, confused, low-energy movie.
Each week, the magic button picks one completely random movie from EVERYTHING that’s streaming for us to watch, discuss, and probably make fun of.
Andrew and I learn that not even a great collection of actors can save a dry, confused, low-energy movie.
Chris and Shannan are back to get reacquainted with a Christian auteur. Shots fired at the state of Texas, the braggadocio of teen girls, and manic editors.
It’s Fallout 3, if the reward for every single quest was sexual assault. TW/CW: sooo much talk about rape. Thanks, I hate it. So does guest Valarie Radcliffe.
Kristi (host of That Horror Witch podcast) and I deep dive a creeptastic classic. Lock up your wives, lock up your children, they’re transmogrifying everybody.That Horror Witch can be heard here:open.spotify.com/show/0o35gArbLmMvGUowR9hcwy?si=PI1w6i2_TMC3ZVEb2HOmCA
It’s Porky’s meets Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo and I’ve got J-Pegs the Legend (aka Jeff) to help me sort out why that’s a thing.
Terry and I dive into doggie PTSD, negligent parents, grumpy old men, and the lucrative business of the lemonade stand.
Sebastian and I break down the 2nd best movie about puppets killing dirty Nazis.
What the…? Chris and I do our best with what might be the most baffling piece of media I’ve ever laid eyes on.
One does not simply talk about a movie this great. One must get help from Larry Fried, host of My Favorite Movie Is…
I almost didn’t release this episode due to a bunch of audio issues, which is unfortunate. But much like the unfortunate ending to this otherwise surprisingly good film, Kerry and I decided the journey is more important than the destination.
Guest Damien (from Midwest Movie Maniacs podcast) helps me make a big announcement and talk through a horror movie that proves that it’s not just all the plants and animals in Australia that want to kill you, sometimes it’s the people too.
This “true crime documentary” is actually just whackadoo religious propaganda, but Chris and I find our fun where we can.
I couldn’t possibly talk about this forgotten 80’s slasher with a serious identity crisis without the expertise of Emily D. from Gag Me With A Knife podcast. Find them at https://linktr.ee/GAGMEWITHAKNIFEPODCAST
Liz and Sam from Fright Mic Podcast slum it on the wrong side of the tracks for this bottom-of-the-barrel found footage catastrophe, where talent is as invisible as its monsters.
Shannan stops by to help me tamp down my thirst for the cast of this girl-power John Wick, an okay movie with more unanswered questions than bullets.
Don’t let a kinda cool poster fool ya: this is bottom of the barrel, cheap nonsense. Dylan B. and Julia W. are along to help me sift through the poor script, the sub-porn acting, and the dynamics of being a fifth wheel.
My apologies to Megan D. for making her watch this disgusting trash. A film/episode so cursed that the recording equipment stopped working (that’s a first) 10 minutes in and I had to use the backup recording, which doesn’t sound as good. So apologies for that as well.
You had some Q’s, I have some A’s.
Who better to have as guests for this JCVD-plays-twins cheesefest than twins Brandon and Logan? Maybe they have some magic twin insight. Spoiler alert: they do not.
Silas D. and I ponder spooky kids, formerly human piles of meat and the importance of follow-up questions. Join us, won’t you?
Chris is back to talk baby Joaquin Phoenix, clothes shopping montages and how not to raise your kids to be jingoistic, gun-toting monsters.
Megan DeJean and I discuss a really great movie that trips on it own dick right at the finish line. Science vs. religion, a cat vs. a camera, and a film vs. it’s own ending.
It’s a long-overdue reunion as Bree C. and Valerie R. join me to talk about this rom-com, the mysterious hotness of Adam Driver, and how to be a grown-up Harry Potter.
Sebastian M. returns to talk about a decent movie that could have been a great movie if only it could decide if it was found footage film or not and maybe pump the brakes on the jump scares.
My apologies to guest Lisa G., my listeners, and every movie I’ve ever accused of being the worst movie I’ve done for the show. Because THIS is the worst movie I’ll ever do for this show.
Emily is back just in time to help me figure out if a good message is still worth having when it’s buried under miles of problematic stuff. Real chill rabbits, precognitive pie, and more uncomfortable uses of a child actor than you can shake a taxidermy squirrel at.
Chris and I have way too much fun taking apart a movie that was barely put together in the first place, where no one is good at their job or even knows what their job is.
Damon Della Greca, creator of the social media app Slasher, joins me to surprise ourselves with how much we enjoyed this silly, cute little horror comedy.
Dylan B. returns to try (to no avail) to help me understand this stew of drunken cops, lightsabers, cave portals, and a complete lack of anything resembling exposition.
Terry helps me break down a movie that does not exist, a movie that forces us to spend altogether too much time talking about Gary Oldman’s itchy o-ring.