A Podcast About Bad Movies
Yeah, but what if the mutants… were NEW? Hello from the Magic Tavern’s Arnie Niekamp joins the Peaches to talk about the long-anticipated, long-troubled, X-Men universe teen horror movie, The New Mutants!
Elliott quizzes us about prequels. Does anybody like them? Why prequels? WHY?
Faith and begorrah, sit right down laddies, lasses, and those not defined by the outdated gender binary, and we’ll spin ye a tale of an emerald island far away, where no one talks like a real human, and all their problems are blarney. Tis a tale called Wild Mountain Time, and at least some in th’ podcast think it’s as barmy as Old McGarrigle’s mule!
Stuart cracks the code to TV writing success, and gets some notes from his friends in the industry.
Cagemas comes but once a year! Unless, since this one is a little late, it will technically come twice this year, and none times last year. It’s confusing. It’s annual is what we’re saying. We celebrate the work of Saint Nicolas Cage this time with a discussion of the snakes-on-a-boat-and-also-other-animals thriller Primal. And for an august occasion like this one, you need a special guest! So this episode we welcome hilarious sweetheart Josh Gondelman of Desus & Mero and his book Nice Try.
We devote this mini entirely to the most obvious topic for a show being released the day after Christmas — Big Johnson T-shirts.
We’ve been wanting to get Alonso Duralde on the show for a while — not only because he’s the senior film critic for The Wrap, and not only because he’s the host or co-host of a number of podcasts, including Max Fun’s own Who Shot Ya?, but because he literally wrote the book on Christmas movies. So, of course, this holiday season he picked a movie that barely sort of has Christmas stuff in it — the double-Moore weepie Six Weeks. THANKS FOR NOTHING, BUDDY! (jk – he’s a delight.)
We break out of our normal format a bit for this BONUS EPISODE! How so? Well, #1, we watched a movie that we were all pretty sure we’d like (and, spoiler alert, we did) — the body-swap horror-comedy “Freaky,” and #2, instead of doing letters and recommendations, we take a bit of extra time to talk to Barbara Crampton about her career.
Holiday hustle and bustle means it’s finally time to release the OTHER episode, taped at Boston’s CitySpace, about Godzilla: King of the Monsters. CAN YOU HANDLE THE THRILLS?
Elliott gives us a report from the field about the Douglas Trumbull directorial effort Brainstorm!
Greeting boils and ghouls and gender non-kill-forming! For the spooookiest holiday of the year, Thanksgiving, we discuss the very appropriate Happy Halloween, Scooby Doo! Why? Well, we ask our guest, the hilarious absolute sweetheart, Justin McElroy, that very question — you may know him as one of the hosts of Max Fun’s own My Brother My Brother and Me, The Adventure Zone, Sawbones, and many other podcasts you should probably be listening to instead of our nonsense.
Renowned author Stuart Wellington gives us a reading from his early work: a stirring epic about snakes.
And so we arrive at November, so named because it has no special theme. And, folks, we’ll admit… this MIB: International episode is a weird one. Why? Well, finding out is part of the fun. But our guest for this show is Annabelle Gurwitch, from Max Fun’s new Tiny Victories podcast, as well as TBS’s Dinner and a Movie, countless acting roles, and quite a few books. Enjoy.
A special treat from the archives to help calm your jangled nerves, and to balm your soul with brattitude.
2020 may be miserable, but it’s STILL HALLOWEEN DAMN IT. So we assembled a crack team of the Flop House gang, plus comedy writers Mike Reiss and Ken Keeler (who, between them, are responsible for much of the greatness of The Simpsons, The Critic, and Futurama) to discuss the most important and timely issue possible — the 1962 novelty hit, The Monster Mash.
Bestselling author and acclaimed screenwriter Gillian Flynn joins the boys for a Shocktober discussion of the mutant cat movie, Uninvited.
It’s here! It’s here! It’s here! Did you get us any SHOCKTOBER presents? We got YOU something — a discussion of this year’s Fantasy Island, the horror (?) movie based on the decidedly NOT horror 1970’s light fantasy television anthology.
We couldn’t get together for a mini this week, but our busy schedule is the listeners’ gain, as we release this full-sized live show from the vault! It’s a flashback to happier times, last July, when people could assemble to live comedy! Here’s our live Hellboy (2019) show from The Parkway theater in Minneapolis, MN!
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in all our years of discussing bad movies, it’s that vanity projects are often the creme de la creme of bizarre and terrible cinema. And hoo doggies, do we have something special for you. Made in 2006, then shelved for nearly a decade before getting quietly dumped to streaming in 2014, writer/director/star Stuart Paul’s magnum opus, Deadly Lessons, is a fantasy self-help (?) thriller (?) that’s impossible to describe, but lord, do we try.
The longtime anchor of the NBC Nightly News drops by to break down the new Dune trailer, and how he left his heart on Arrakis.
After a run of guests, we’re celebrating Smalltember with just family. Because at a time like this, family is important, y’know? Almost as important as a movie where Kelsey Grammer menacingly smokes a cigar while telling a professional wrestler to rob a sky casino. That’s right, we talked about Money Plane. You’re welcome.
We finally invited the boss over for dinner, so we’d better hide all those staplers we stole! Noted dog lover and the head of Maximum Fun himself, Jesse Thorn, joins us to discuss The Call of the Wild, based on that one book you probably read in middle school.
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