A Podcast About Bad Movies
We welcome the man who brought us to the Maximum Fun network, Mr. Jesse Thorn, to the show this week. And how did we repay him? We made him watch Smurfs. We never said life is fair. Anyway, of all the Smurfs movies in the world, this will definitely go down as “the one with Rihanna and James Corden.”
Writer, producer, and podcaster Scott Weinberg kicks off the FOUR FULL EPISODES OF “MOVEMBER,” with a discussion of 2024’s remake, The Crow. The original Crow was a defining movie for…
Hallie stuck around to help ease your Hallie-ween hangover, as Elliott guides the peaches through a survey of Halloween costumes in cinema. Who wore it best, and whose costumes were just lame? We put on our cattiest Mr. Blackwell costumes and decide! And remember — MOVEMBER starts next week. Other than this brief Shocktober close-up mini, all four of November’s remaining shows will be FULL EPISODES!
We wrap Shocktober 2025 up with a discussion of the extremely-loosely-based-on-the-videogame meta-slasher UNTIL DAWN. But that’s enough about the movie! We’re burying the lede! Hallie Haglund returns to join us…
Stuart’s popular “let’s discuss TV instead” mini format Tuboy Talkin’ Tube to Two Dudes, Tonight All Right returns with a little serious first amendment talk up front and then a lot of goofy Emmy talk.
Boo! Hahahha, gotcha! It’s SHOCKTOBER, when all the ghouls and ghosties and ghremlins and ghrim reapers come out to scare us! And at The Flop House it’s our traditional all-horror month! We kick off with 2024’s IMAGINARY, about the scariest thing in the world — an imaginary friend! And if you don’t believe us, watch that awful John Krasinski imaginary friend movie. We’re shivering just thinking about it!
We’ve made it no secret that we’re proud to have been included in the newly-published book, The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen. On this episode we invited the author, Sean Malin, onto the show to help us discuss the MOVIE pantheon, and which canonical films we could all live without.
From the (?)genius(?) that brought us the legendary A Talking Cat!?! comes another tale of a talking animal and the humans who live with him in a California porn-shoot-mansion, doing…
Dan challenges Stuart and Elliott to lose as much money as they can by turning hit movies into bombs.
It’s Smalltember (Elliott pops into frame to say “Smallvember!”) — that special time of year when we allow ourselves to stray from big Hollywood movies to examine some tinier, more idiosyncratic pictures. And boy howdy is Lumina idiosyncratic! So we welcomed actor Ashlie Atkinson (The Gilded Age, The Lost Bus, Mr. Robot and much more) to help decipher the madness!
Elliott provides a survey of cinema’s eponymous doctors, and asks us whether we’d trust them with our medical care.
It’s rare that a movie gets embraced as a new classic in badness as quickly as Amazon’s War of the Worlds, but hey — they’re known for their fast delivery. Maybe they’re just the future of bad movies, “disrupting” the bad movie space with their boldly incompetent visions! We discuss the (overwhelmingly listener-requested) new WotW!
Stuart takes us on a tour of the biggest summer releases of the past couple of decades.
Hi ho? More like HO HUM! Got ’em! Oooh Disney’s gonna be smarting from that sick burn so hard they’ve GOTTA stop making these lackluster remakes, right? Anyway, on this episode we welcome the great Rebecca Alter of Vulture.com to discuss the most already-forgotten of Disney’s IP-recycling death march, Snow White!
Back in the 80s and 90s, movies LOVED to end with a rap song that went over the plot to the movie you just saw. On this mini, Dan quizzes Stu and Elliott about some examples of wrap-up raps, followed by discussion questions to really dig into this particular cinematic-musical form.
Elliott had to dip out for an episode, so… how do you replace a troublemaking little scamp? How about: with the comforting, easy presence of Linda Holmes? We deserve a vacation too, y’know? And in this episode, we make good on a promise from Linda’s last appearance — to have her back to discuss that hearty slice of Christmas “content,” Red One. Back then, Linda sounded surprisingly fond of it. Is she still? Will the two extant Peaches agree?
We all know movies where “it’s like the city is another character,” and we understand what that means when a location has a big personality like New York, Tokyo, or…
It’s a testament to how generally good (or at least passable) the MCU films have been, that there have been 36 of them released, but this is only the second…
On this mini Stuart tricked us into watching some kind of Warhammer 4k bullshit and made us talk about it.
No, it’s not a biopic about Jim Poolman, former insurance commissioner of North Dakota. It’s a comic sunshine noir about an actual pool-maintaining Poolman, played (and written/directed) by fave Chris…
Dan confuses Elliott by combining his beloved comic books with his hated fruit pies, in a discussion of Hostess’s superhero-based comics ads. Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets! Download the minisode…
Ah, here he comes, that son of a gun, that cat, that Garfield, that gigantic thing — except… There’s something different about him. It’s weird. He just doesn’t seem very… Garfield-y? Anyway, in honor of the birthday of one of our great Americans, Garfield the cat, and also maybe one other guy, we take on 2024’s The Garfield Movie.
With The Fantastic Four: First Steps coming to theaters soon, listener Andrew asked the question “Galactus and The Silver Surfer — what’s their deal, man?” and Elliott gladly stepped up to answer.
Love DOES hurt. For instance, we love and only want the best for Everything Everywhere All at Once comeback king Ke Huy Quan, but then we have to witness him struggle through a movie like Love Hurts. Fortunately he comes off all right. The movie itself? Not so much. But hey, looks like he’s got Zootopia 2 and a movie from the guy who made Rare Exports coming up. Maybe those will be good!
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