It's exactly what it says in the title. What could possibly be clearer? Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund here , to support those affected by the WGA strike, if you’re so inclined. Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.
It's got Adam Driver! It's got dinosaurs! It's got a numerical title that sounds like a sports biopic and makes the title of this podcast episode look confusing! What more do you want? Well, it turns out that 65 needs a LITTLE more than all that to be a real movie, but at least it's out there trying. Wikipedia page for 65 Movies recommended in this episode: Beau Is Afraid (2023) Air (2023) Park Row (1952) Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping....
Elliott, mega-sporto that he is, challenges Stuart and Dan to see who's the number one sports movie fan. Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund here , to support those affected by the WGA strike, if you’re so inclined.
We watch a film about four octogenarian women going to the Super Bowl, because apparently that's a full concept for a movie these days? Like, just... older people seeing football? That's a movie? Anyway, it's called 80 for Brady and we watched it. One of us even liked it, so if you enjoy listening to the other two being dumbfounded, this is the episode for you. Wikipedia page for 80 for Brady Movies recommended in this episode: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Evil Dead Rise (2023) The Hell...
After a little talk about the writers' strike ( donate to the Entertainment Community Fund here , if you're so inclined), Dan takes us behind the scenes at Flop House HQ.
You wanna movie about Russell Crowe, he drive around on a Vespa, maybe getta rid of some demons? Ho boy, The Pope's Exorcist gonna make something real nice for you! That's right, we all took field trips for a rare Flop House in the aisles (although who knows if The Pope's Exorcist will still be playing in any theaters by the time this comes out)! Wikipedia page for The Pope's Exorcist Movies recommended in this episode: The Pope's Exorcist The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion The Witch: Part 2 - T...
Stuart runs us through some of those tantalizing, teasing trailers. Streaming TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH still available! Here's a playlist of all the trailers we discuss in this episode! Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.
Yeah yeah yeah, Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon, whatever, let's talk about REAL STAR POWER -- Hallie Haglund ! Hallie's back! HALLIE! HALLIE! HALLIE! She joins us to discuss our second romcom in a row: Your Place or Mine , a nonsensical romp about a week-long accountancy course, and also love. TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH ! The show premieres TONIGHT , April 22, and will be viewable for two weeks thereafter! Wikipedia page for Your Place or Mine Movies recommended i...
Elliott guides us in a cinematic celebration of everyone's favorite holiday -- tax day! Streaming TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH now available! Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.
Huh. Traditionally, one gets TWO tickets to paradise, but I guess we didn't get a plus one. You know what? Climb into our luggage, so you can join us as we discuss Ticket to Paradise , a holdover from an earlier era when we still had movie stars, and used them to paper over not having much else. Streaming TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH now available! Wikipedia page for Ticket to Paradise Movies recommended in this episode: John Wick: Chapter 4 Michael Clayton Chameleon Stre...
We interrupt our usual feed for a special announcement! For the first time EVER we're bringing one of our live stage shows worldwide, via the magic of the web. We've done special webstream events before, of course, but this will be a professionally shot and fully edited taping of our most recent in-person live show, available to watch online! Did you REALLY want to see us discuss BATTLEFIELD EARTH, one of the most notorious flops of all time, but you don't live in/couldn't make it to Brooklyn? N...
As a thank-you for everyone who became a new or upgrading member during Max Fun Drive 2023 or has been a sustaining member for years, we've provided some bespoke movie recommendations for some fortunate listeners who reached out in response to our call! (If we didn't get to yours this time around, fear not! We hope to do more in the future.) If you haven't become a member yet, this is an amnesty weekend! There's still time! You haven't missed it! Boy, you there, what day is it today? Today? Why ...
It's Max Fun Drive time (if you haven't already, please consider becoming a member of Maximum Fun and supporting The Flop House), and we decided to give ourselves a real challenge for this one -- we watched the Judd Apatow "hey maybe there's something funny about this pandemic" Netflix all-star "comedy" The Bubble . Did it make our heads explode with exasperated fury? Listen to find out! Wikipedia page for The Bubble Movies recommended in this episode: Psycho II (1983) Light of Day (1987) Day fo...
Adam and Ben from Greatest Trek joined us recently to record some bonus content that should be available for members in the Max Fun 2023 boco feed. We had fun, so we also recorded this little hangout of us messing around. We promote the bonus ep (a discussion of Airplane II: The Sequel, a film that does not "star" William Shatner, no matter what people might have you believe), talk a little about podcasting, and encourage folks to become members of max fun, at maximumfun.org/join . Sure, it's es...
Stuart takes us through another episode of " The Peach Pit ," everyone's favorite after-show for The Flop House that's also just a part of the regular Flop House. Come see us at The Bell House, on April 2 ! Become a supporting member, at https://maximumfun.org/join/...
Just a note to let you know that, for internal reasons relating to the MFD, we're pushing the release of this one mini to late Sunday, March 19. In general the release schedule will remain the same. In the meanwhile, why not check out our newly-somewhat-busy YouTube channel ?
The listener who entered our Sexy Xenomorph contest under the name "Do Critters Next" asked us to "Do Critters next," so we did Critters next, which has ceased to become " next " and is now now. And who better to join us for this slice of silly 80s monster horror than a man whose own films bear the influence of that horror decade, Stephen Kostanski , the director of Psycho Goreman , the movie that turned Stuart Wellington into a brain in a tube . Wikipedia page for Critters Movies recommended in...
Dan puts on his gamesmaster hat, to run Elliott and Stu through a gamut of short games, based on the movie offerings of various streaming services. Come see us at The Bell House, on April 2 ! Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.
Idris Elba is undoubtedly a great actor, a charismatic presence, and a handsome man par excellence, but... maybe he needs to fire his agent? After all, this is his EIGHTH appearance in a Flop House movie (possibly there were more; we didn't count that carefully), so it's fair to say that his movie roles have never quite matched up to his best work on TV, or his talents in general. Is Beast the one that will break the streak? He DOES punch a lion... Wikipedia page for Beast Movies recommended in ...
Stuart "Tuboy" Wellington brings back his popular Flop House mini format of "forget about movies, what about television for a while?" and Dan and Elliott follow him for some free-rangin' TV talk! Come see us at The Bell House, on April 2 ! Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.
No, not Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne's riff on Columbo, Poker Face , nor even Lady Gaga's early hit single . The Poker Face we discuss in this episode is a Russell Crowe project through and through, with him not only starring, but writing and directing as well! It's nice that the man is branching out. Too bad this movie takes so damn long to figure out what it's about! Wikipedia page for Poker Face Movies recommended in this episode: The People's Joker Infinity Pool Guillermo Del Toro's Pinoc...
Our esteemed host for the mini, Mr. Elliott Kalan, takes Dan and Stu on a tour through Oscar history by quizzing them on some of the most forgettable Best Picture winners of all time.
Booksmart was one of Dan's favorite movies of its year. Director Olivia Wilde's big-budget follow-up, Don't Worry Darling ... has problems. Dan, Stu, and Elliott chat about them, while mostly ignoring the extra-textural hubbub around the movie. Mostly. Don't worry, darlings. Or do. We aren't your dads. Wikipedia page for Don't Worry Darling Movies recommended in this episode: Matinee Kaithi The Garden of Women Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping....
This is one of the zanier minis we've done -- so much so, that we kind of don't even want to spoil it for you. Just take a number, and dive right in! Vote for your favorite Sexy Xenomorph music video! Come see us at The Bell House, on April 2 ! We've picked the movie by now: we'll be discussing BATTLEFIELD EARTH ! Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping....
We start the new year off with a BIG movie, especially according to its star, Mr. Dwayne Mr. "The Rock" E. Normous Johnson. It's Black Adam , a superhero probably even fewer of you have heard of than Shazam (nee Captain Marvel), in whose pages B. Adam first appeared. He's not your daddy's superhero, in that he kills a bunch of people, but he probably is your daddy's (or granddaddy's) superhero in the sense that he's from 1945. Anyway, they made a long, boring movie about him, so we talk about it...
Hope you're ready for a "mini" that's as long as one of our regular episodes! With the new year just beginning, Dan, Stuart, and Elliott look back and discuss their top movies of 2022 (with the caveat that none of us has the time to see everything in the "best of '22 conversation), and also branch out to some other highlights and lowlights of the year in film.
Mr. Christmas himself , Alonso Duralde, of many other podcasts , returns to dissect the third, and most narratively sweaty, of the Santa Clause trilogy, " The Escape Clause ." Also, if you're wondering who stole Cagemas, Dan says a few words about it. Let's not say "goodbye" let's just say "congratulations, Mr. Cage, on paying off your castles." Wikipedia page for The Santa Clause 3 Movies recommended in this episode: Adult Swim Yule Log The Big Four Mahanagar Confess, Fletch Ever tried Microdos...
What even is a Christmas movie anyway?
Stick an Academy Award-nominated director with three of the most acclaimed actors currently working and an absolutely berzerk cavalcade of supporting stars and the resulting movie's gotta be fantastic, right? Right? We test that theory with a viewing of the wildly critically-mixed (at best) Amsterdam . One of us kinda liked it. The others ridicule it extensively. It's all good fun. Wikipedia page for Amsterdam Movies recommended in this episode: Rolling Thunder Double Lover Fruit of Paradise Eve...
You remember Flop House superstar, Parker Bennett , right? He co-wrote the legendarily strange Super Mario Bros , and we talked to him about his experiences with that movie in FH Mini 39 . Well, he heard us mention A Gnome Named Gnorm in our recent mini with Griffin Newman and dropped us a line to reveal he and his partner did some punch-up on everyone's favorite buddy comedy starring a horrific gnome and Anthony Michael Hall. So he's back to share more tales of his fascinating career! Ever trie...
