A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.
The boys and special guest Adam Blythe discuss one of Fraser's faded cult classics, Airheads. A movie that features our boy Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Chris Farely, and Joe Mantegna; but for some reason you can only find on Comedy Central at 11pm once a month.
You saw him prep for Harvard in School Ties, now Brendan Fraser is now fully attending Harvard in this movie! Only this time, instead of battling the demons of antisemitism and xenophobia, Fraser must come to face... a homeless man... or even better... Joe Pesci as an eccentric homeless man. Joined by our good friend, Ross Wood!
THE WEASEL IS BACK! This week's episode of Fraser's Edge reprises one of Fraser's famed co-stars in one of his earlier break-out roles; the man, the myth, the dude... Pauly Shore. You may be asking yourselves "wait, what does this have to do with Fraser? Is he in this?" Well let's just say Fraser has a fascinating Link to this film....
In this episode of Fraser's Edge, Brendan plays the son of Donald Sutherland, who has inexplicably not aged at all since this movie. The two actors play a father and son duo trying to keep their family owned storage facility arrive while Sutherland slowly goes insane and plays his pipe organ Davy Jones style above the facility's office.
You know what Jeff and Stuart miss? That weird time in the 90's when Anthology films were a thing, which is what Twenty Bucks is! Instead of following a lone character, we follow a lone twenty dollar bill that really goes through it in this movie. We do not want to imagine what this dollar bill would be saying if we could hear its thoughts.
Fraser's first dramatic lead role takes place at an east coast boarding school in the 1950's where a young man must come to terms with his identity and defend himself amongst his peers (two of which include Matt Damon and Ben Affleck). Stuart got some real Dead Poet Society vibes while watching this one.
Have you ever wondered lies beneath your backyard? Well in this 1992 flick, the answer is a frozen cave man played by Brendan Fraser! With our good old friend Pauly Shore (who still hasn't texted Jeff back) and Sean Astin; Encino Man answers the question, "Can Brendan Fraser create a good performance while only grunting?" You will find out.
We began Fraser's edge with a movie where Brendan was nothing more than an extra. His second movie, he got one line of dialogue; and now, we arrive at Brendan Fraser's first starring role in a TV movie. Anything sound familiar or rhyming with this trajectory??
In the wise words of Brendan Fraser: "How'd you like to eat my sh*t!?". Those were the very first words Brendan Fraser spoke in his hollywood career starting in the 1991 River Phoenix flick, Dogfight.
WE'RE BACK BABYYYYY!!! But this time it won't be Travolta the boys investigate. Ladies, gentlemen, non-binary folks; Jeff and Stuart are pleased to premiere our second season of Travolting... THE FRASER'S EDGE . Jeff and Stuart will be doing a similar deep dive into the career and life of Brendan Fraser. This week we start off with a film where Fraser barely counts as an extra in one small scene, within a film about two virgin pregnancies, one carrying the second coming of christ, one carrying t...
And here we are... the official last episode of the Travolting podcast. Or is it?? See a collection of Jeff and Stuart's favorite moments from a dire period of time during Travolta's career.
Join us as we showcase some of our favorite and funniest moments during John Travolta's A-List era, back when Jeff and Stuart covered really good movies.
Wait a second... MORE TRAVOLTING!?!? That's right! We decided to make a little special treat for our die hard fans with a compilation of our greatest hits from each era. Enjoy the highlights from when Jeff and Stuart were covering amazing movies!
In the wise words of Travolta: "I'm not gonna walk, I'm gonna strut." Join Jeff and Stuart as they strut through the latest era of Travolta as well as their memories through the whole podcast as Travolting comes to a close.... or does it??
What we thought would be a funny movie to make fun of, became this obscenely offensive movie about the dangers of an individual's obsession over a movie icon, remind you of anyone?
This sub-par attempt to recreate the film noir stars your favorite cast such as Morgan Freeman, BRENDAN FRASER and last but not least... John Travolta, who sports a wig that is "suppose to look like a sad lion's mane". Stuart has thoughts of course.
Begin the countdown folks because we are on our THIRD to last episode of the Travolting podcast. The race is off, not only with the podcast, but in the movie Trading Paint where John Travolta plays a race car driver struggling with the conflict of being there for his son while also being number one on the track.
Well now that the Gotti episode is done, you could almost say we're "surfing" to the end here. We've seen Travolta in a car, on a plane, now see him on a speed boat while aiding the drug cartel and avoiding the DEA. Speed really does kill in this movie.
Let me tell you somethin', Travolting is the greatest podcast in the f*cking world. Our podcast. We were small in the beginning, started at the bottom, and we made it to the top. This podcast ends in two ways, running out of Travolta movies or getting canceled. We did both. Cue the bass drop of Pitbull's Amore
On today's episode, Mister Travolta is joined by Mister Worldwide on a singular art piece so exquisite you'll be asking yourself two questions: Does it really take three to tango? And... Does Travolta rock the bald look?
It's no accident that we're covering this movie on our 66th episode. John Travolta, aka Stanley Hill, aka Mister Wrath, wrecks havoc John Wick style on the corrupt city of Columbus Ohio as he takes his path of vengeance all the way to the top. Oh and Christopher Meloni, Detective Elliot Stabler himself, is in this.
John Travolta in a WESTERN!? Well... kinda... Best quote of this whole episode though, said by our reoccurring special guest, Cole Bradley: "Ethan Hawke has the face of a person who knows what a latte is."
Pretty much every movie past the year 2009 has been criminal activity for John. We brought our good friend Adam Blythe who was able to remember this movie better than Jeff and Stuart. Remember Dan Stevens from that live action remake of Beauty in the Beast? He's in this.
You all remember the Ladder 49 episode? The one where it was dedicated to our firefighter men and women in uniform? Well this one is like that... but about electrical grid workers known as "line men". I know what you're gonna say... "fellas... in this new era of direct to video movies, what more entertainment can you guys offer?". Well let us be the one to tell you that this episode is full of surprises such as a last minute special guest, and A NEW NUMBER ONE HAIR RANKING!
John Travolta stars in a weird luke warm mix between Ocean's 11 and Portrait of a Lady On Fire. Christopher Plummer plays a crusty old irish grandpa in this movie, and that kid who plays the young cyclops in the new x-men movies is in this. What can we say at this point? Travolta has officially entered into his new transition of "$2 red box films".
Two old foes, joined together after many years apart, become friends, then become enemies, then they become friends again, then they become enemies again, and so on, until the movie ends and you're left wondering.... "what was with Travolta's russian accent?" Joined by our good friend and fellow LOTR fan: Brian Delisi.
Joined again by one of our favorite reoccurring guests, Mark Tilley! The boys have a wild time discussing the intricacies of this Oliver Stone film where John Travolta plays a dead beat chump of a DEA agent who works with two hippy small time weed dealers who think its a good idea to take on a Mexican drug cartel. They are savages.
Soooo..... this happened. We won't lie, we originally were gonna have Savages premiere this week. But schedules got mixed up and we unfortunately had to spend 12 minutes of our lives talking about Travolta being extremely cringey in real life as opposed to being cringey in movies. Oh and by the way, this is all Goldie Hawn's fault.
Travolta.... is..... BALD!!! BALD!!! BALD BALD BALD BALD BALD!!! That's all Stuart has to say about this episode, because he and Jeff couldn't remember much else about this movie. Something about Wax? Spies? Hookers? Cocaine? What is this movie!?
The third and final Travolta/Disney collaboration but this time we are greeted by one of great icons, Robin Williams. Williams and Travolta are "old dogs" in this movie, and after 57 episodes, Jeff and Stuart feel like old dogs too.
