A Podcast About Bad Movies
Executive Producer of the all-new animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (and our pal) Brendan Hay joins us, for Elliott’s canonical sexiness rankings of those compact green snacks, the grembleings.
We’ve talked about the Sony corner of Marvel more than once, but the relative high quality of MCU movies has saved them from our scrutiny… until now! What did we make of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a film whose very title is a pain in the ass to type out for these show notes? Listen to find out!
It’s exactly what it says in the title. What could possibly be clearer?
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.
Elliott, mega-sporto that he is, challenges Stuart and Dan to see who’s the number one sports movie fan.
We watch a movie 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.
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)!
Stuart runs us through some of those tantalizing, teasing trailers.
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.
Elliott guides us in a cinematic celebration of everyone’s favorite holiday — tax day!
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.
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.)
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!
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.
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.
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.
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…
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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