A Podcast About Bad Movies
America’s foremost hedgehog expert, Jamelle Bouie, returns to usher in Smalltember (vember) 2021, with our discussion of the make-work project for Dean Cain and Tara Reid, Andy the Talking Hedgehog.
Elliott asks Stu and Dan questions about video game movies in the form of a retro video game of the mind. Don’t worry; it makes sense when you listen. Mostly.
If the boss baby from The Boss Baby: Family Business can enlist her family for their wacky adventures, then why can’t Elliott make this a little more interesting by turning the podcast into his own little family business? His eldest son, Sammy, joins us for the movie discussion portion of the show!
Stuart asks his friends a bunch of questions about themselves, and Dan and Elliott answer surprisingly sincerely. But don’t worry– there are still jokes.
Look, you didn’t think we were gonna let this one go by, did you? Does Space Jam: A New Legacy live down to the legacy of the original Space Jam, a film inexplicably loved by millennials everywhere? Or does it (gasp) manage to go even lower?
Dan challenges the others to a game he’s invented that has absolutely nothing to do with Monopoly, and everything to do with how quickly we forget the dreck we watch for this podcast.
It’s Cagemas in July! The second-cagiest time of year! So we invited Jordan Morris, creator of the Bubble podcast (available on Maximum Fun) and co-writer of the brand new Bubble graphic novel to come by and discuss the “aliens really like a good martial arts fight” action movie Jiu Jitsu, with a delightful turn by Mr. Cage as a wacky Yoda-like character.
While we’re sad to say goodbye to beloved Producer Jordan, we’re happy to welcome Producer Alex, as he drops by to tell us about a forgotten TV movie from horror icon Wes Craven, Invitation to Hell!
We’ll level with all of you — we ALSO prefer Hallie Haglund, and are at our happiest when she comes by to join us for some film talk. So we had to pick an extra-special movie to mark the occasion. And hoo boy. That movie? The wife of former Trump treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and controversial figure in her own right, Louise Linton’s vanity project (as writer, director, producer, and star) Me You Madness. It’s the movie that asks “if I make fun of myself REALLY HARD, then you’re not allowed to make fun of me anymore, right?”
With Black Widow in theaters this week, we talk about the Marvel property everyone’s talking about! The Eternals! Elliott attempts to answer the important question: What’s their deal?
Whaaat? Our second Doug Liman movie in so many episodes? It’s certainly hard to give Locked Down as much shit as we gave Chaos Walking — especially when it co-stars Elliott’s old flame Annie. Anyway, we hope you enjoy our usual shenanigans. Life seems to be looking up, right? Are we wrong?
In the spirit of Stuart’s tale about snakes, Dan shares some short fiction from his own childhood, filled with murder, moles, and an octopus with FANGS!
It’s just back to the OP’s this episode, for the discussion of the talent-packed, but passion-lite YA adaptation Chaos Walking, which honestly seems like a pretty heart-healthy way for Chaos to travel, but maybe it should check out public transit.
Stu’s always asking if we’d like to play a game, so it was probably only a matter of time before he’d turn to the topic of Saw. He recently ran the series, and wants to talk to Dan and Elliott about it. And what would any Saw-related media be without a twist? In this case, a radical shift in the episode after the ads. We hope you enjoy!
Comedy couple Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman of the Couples’ Therapy podcast, and performing/writing/starring in many wonderful things join us to discuss Mortal Kombat and also mortal-ity, given how sick Dan sounds in this one.
In honor of Housebroken, the TV show that’s kindly employed Mr. Elliott Kalan for part of this lousy quarantine (premiering 5/31 on Fox), Elliott quizzes the others about their preferences, to determine Dan and Stu’s perfect pop culture pets
Editor of ScreenCrush, Matt Singer stops by The Flop House, and weirdly, he didn’t want to talk about Gymkata. Instead, he forced us to experience North, the movie that Roger Ebert hated SO much that he named his book of bad movies after his review.
For our Max Fun Drive-ending mini, Stu collected some of your most burning questions, and we did our best to answer. Things get VERY silly.
Hello everyone. We did The Country Bears. For you. THE COUNTRY BEARS. For YOU. It’s PURE JOY. Pure joy for MAX FUN DRIVE 2021. If you have the inclination and the means, please become a member at maximumfun.org/join! We love you, listeners!
Dan the game-master is back with another of his infernal quizzes — this one focused on the delightful trash-heap that is Tubi.
From the dawn of time, humankind has dreamed of watching a giant lizard wrestle a big ape. Well, now humankind has Godzilla vs. Kong. Did it live up to our dreams? We enlisted the creator of Kaijumax, Zander Cannon, to help untangle our thoughts, as we spin along on this hollow Earth.
Stuart tells us about the Hitman video games and the associated movies. At least, we think that’s what this one is about. Honestly, it takes us a while to stay on topic.
The prophecy has been fulfilled. The Flop House got to sit down and discuss a bad movie with the godfather of “bad movie comedy” as a genre, Joel Hodgson, as well as Matt McGinnis, who works with Joel on a little show you may know as Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return — and they would like to return AGAIN — this time beholden to no network — so please check out their just-announced Kickstarter for all-new episodes of MST3K! …but also please enjoy us trying to puzzle our way through the truly puzzling “mod superspy becomes caveman-styled new messiah” movie, The Final Programme.
We round out our discussion of Zack Snyder’s Justice League with another (find the first ZS cut episode here, and our discussion of the theatrical cut here). Now let us never speak of it again.
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