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Episode #63 – From Paris With Love

Episode #63 – From Paris With Love

What actors possess the sheer athleticism and breezy charm to sell a mismatched-partners action-comedy? According to the producers of From Paris With Love, it’s John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. We’ll let you discover whether they’re correct. Meanwhile, Dan gets oddly formal, Elliott lets us in on some Kelsey Grammar secrets; and Stuart establishes our pecking […]

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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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Episode #62 – Legion

Episode #62 – Legion

If a 13-year-old boy wrote an early-90’s Image comic book and pitched it to Zach Snyder’s third unit director, then you might wind up with something like Legion. Meanwhile, Dan tries to make it all about his birthday, Elliott expounds on some Flop House in-jokes, and Stuart offers Wolverine a real Sophie’s choice. 0:00 – […]

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Episode #61 – Surrogates

Episode #61 – Surrogates

Imagine you were a robot. Now imagine everyone else is a robot. Now imagine Bruce Willis is a robot. Two out of three of those things are pretty hard to imagine, right? Welcome to the world of Surrogates. Meanwhile, Elliott imagines a lost Disney live-action hit, Stuart tells us what his surrogate would look like, […]

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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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Episode #59 – Law Abiding Citizen

Episode #59 – Law Abiding Citizen

What do you get when you take Death Wish, mix it with Saw, and add a soupçon of Gerard Butler? An unholy mess, that’s what. Meanwhile, Elliott pitches our cartoon spin off, Dan leads us down a side road about Back to the Future Part II that goes fucking nowhere, and Stuart boasts about his […]

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Episode #58 – Twilight: New Moon

Episode #58 – Twilight: New Moon

There are Flop House movies that are actual flops, and then there are huge blockbusters that need the flop treatment. We take a look at one of the latter. Meanwhile, Elliott takes us on a trip through the thesaurus entry for “muscular,” Stuart shows his anti-romantic streak, and Dan reveals one of the many ways […]

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Flop House Cribs!

Okay, so this wasn’t actually produced for The Flop House, but rather to promote Elliott’s 92Y Tribeca screening series, but if you ever wanted to see how 1/3 of The Flop House lives (hint: large) then now’s your chance:

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