All Closely Watched Films

Flop House Side Project Plugs Corner

Since Elliott is in California to prep for his wedding/attend ComiCon, and since Dan was sick for literally a week with some sort of death virus he picked up in Delaware, there’s no new show this week. However, to tide you over, we present this… FLOP HOUSE SIDE PROJECT PLUGS CORNER. Elliott: The most hyper-verbal […]

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Elliott Screens "Human Desire!"

Elliott Kalan invites you to the next in his series of movies-he-likes-and-you’ll-like-’em-too “Closely Watched Films,” next Wednesday, July 7th at 8pm. He’ll be showing Fritz Lang’s vastly underrated film noir of lust, murder, and train travel Human Desire along with a 10-minute edited version of another tale of temptation and punishment, “Dante’s Inferno” starring Spencer […]

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Elliott Screens "Million Dollar Legs" With Guest John Oliver!

If you want to take a break from Elliott complaining about bad movies, and see him discuss a good movie (one that you’ll get to see as well!) with special guest British person John Oliver of TV’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, then NOW’S YOUR CHANCE. We quote the 92Y Tribeca website: “W. C. […]

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Elliott Promotes His Next Screening

My next film screening at 92YTribeca is going to be another good one, an underseen classic of Japanese cinema: It’s called “Kill!”, and it’s not as violent as it sounds (though it does have a lot of sword-fighting in it). It’s a very fun movie, and I’m going to be joined after the screening by […]

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Elliott in The Onion

Check out this interview with Elliott from the NYC edition of The Onion (yes, that The Onion). He’s talking about his 92Y screening series Closely Watched Films and not The Flop House, but it’s Elliott and movies, so we here at the podcast count that as a win.

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The Flop House: Episode #49 – Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Does the failure of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li mean we’ll never get that long-awaited Blanka biopic? We fail to answer these and other questions. Meanwhile, Stuart discusses how thugs benefit from Outlook and multi-tasking, Elliott explains how this movie would be right at home in classic Hollywood, and Dan reveals he knows far […]

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The Flop House: Episode #40 – Friday the 13th

We come not to bury Jason Voorhees, but to praise him… or as much as you can praise anyone whose only purpose in life is to machete teens. Meanwhile Dan criticizes one of the victims’ masturbation technique; Elliott gets schooled, Woody Harrelson-style; and Stuart reveals a fondness for womens’ breasts that he has somehow managed […]

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