Holy Nolan Trilogy Batman! We watched THE DARK KNIGHT with our summer intern ALEC DAVIS! Chris drops some Bat Facts, we rip off our favorite Michael Caine jokes, and discuss the terrific performance Heath Ledger gives as the Joker.
Follow Alec @alecander95 on Twitter.
This week we watched the Martin Short/Danny Glover team-up PURE LUCK with JASON ROSENBERG! We, of course, make Lethal Weapon comparisons, play some 'International Pandering', and Chris finds a strange coincidence (maybe connection?) between this film and an episode of 'The Simpsons'.
This is the role Jason takes for himself in 'Trash, Star, Destroy'.
Fresh off of 'Boyhood' we go back and revisit Richard Linklater's BEFORE SUNRISE with the talented and lovely JEN MURRAY! We talk about the great romances of cinema, Chris learns a little about French pronunciations, and we discover Linklater's love for lying in the grass on this week's show!
Follow Jen @jenniferwithaph and look for her shows around L.A.
This week RAY REYNAGA comes to the show with the sky-diving/bank-robbing thrill ride POINT BREAK! Ray relates the film to 'The Fast and the Furious', Chris asks for a super-cut of actors shooting guns into the air, and we circle around to talking about the Coen Brothers on today's episode!
Check Ray out at his site www.rayreynaga.com and on YouTube here!
This week we have freelance artist and friend of the show ERIN TEACHMAN bring Michael Mann's 80s cop reboot MIAMI VICE to our eyeballs! There's plenty of Hannibal Lecter talk, we impersonate our favorite terrible lines from the film, and hypothesize about what is in the La Brea Tar Pits!
Follow Teach on twitter @newmethos and @dcpcreative!
This week editor at Complex Magazine ROSS SCARANO comes by to watch David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME! We debate the horror/sci-fi genre line, learn about the anomaly that is 'Halloween III: Season of the Witch', and ride hard for Pittsburgh on today's show!
Check out Ross's author page at Complex here!
Chris tries to temper his enthusiasm about one of his favorite directors and Brad gives his thoughts on a film that stuck with him for weeks on this week's mini-episode review of Richard Linklater's ambitious film project BOYHOOD!
This week comedian AMIR TILLARD comes to the show with Jon Favreau's 'Rocky': the neo-classic SWINGERS! We speculate on the new 'Fast and Furious' franchise titles, hand out helpful economic tips, and discuss the rules of calling for a date and leaving voicemail messages in 2014!
Check Amir out on twitter @amirsaysnothing and make sure to see him out at The Trip in Santa Monica every second and fourth Tuesday of the month!
How tasty are radishes really? Actress LUCY SHEFTALL brings grits and GONE WITH THE WIND to Episode 78! We discuss the cinematic year of 1939, play the longest Summary Game ever, and try to untangle the messy love affairs of Scarlett O'Hara! An epic episode for an epic movie.
Due to some computer glitches, we're held prisoner to technology on this week's show! Improv comedian TOM WALSH comes by to watch the intense kidnapping drama PRISONERS. Brad continues his win streak of 'Toin Coss' Coin Tosses, Tom masterfully converts the film into a 'Detective Mystery', and we question the reality of police procedure on today's episode!
We're celebrating Bond Week with Talkbacker and the campy Connery classic YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE! Bad movie connoisseur DAVE BEIRNE joins writer BRENDEN GALLAGHER to watch a James Bond flick that does the Japanese and British cultures no favors. We discuss how this Roald Dahl script stacks up against 'James and the Giant Peach', talk vintage Heather Graham, and wonder if YOLT is the opposite of YOLO...
Get on Twitter and follow Brenden @muddycreekU and Facebook to check out Dave's column Junk On Netflix!
It's the 75th episode which means that it's time for the co-host from the couch, Brad Davis, to pick the film! Widely considered the best action flick; it's DIE HARD with guest and friend of the show RUSSELL DILLULIO! Chris and Brad forget to do any vocal warm-ups, they discuss a holy trinity of action movies, and Russ describes the film as "a beautiful love story between two cops".
Remember to check out Brad's Pittsburgh Pirates-based baseball blog here!
Thanks for 75 weeks of support!
This week the girls from SOBAD-ITSGOOD COMEDY come together to watch NINE TO FIVE! LAURA DENTON, VENUS LAU, and RACHEL MCCLARD all return to the show to talk about the Kickstarter campaign for their new web series PADS, Venus shares a story of exotic iced tea, and we launch a toy line for 'The Apartment'.
Donate to the SoBad-ItsGood PADS Kickstarter here and follow all the twitter handles: @SoBadComedy, @RockyRoadkill, @Venus2bfab, @rach_owl, & @PadsTheSeries!
Spoiler-free Mini-episode review of the new X-MEN installment DAYS OF FUTURE PAST! Is it worth the 3D? Is there a teaser scene after the credits? (Spoiler Alert: Of course there is, it's still a Marvel movie) All this and more vague information about what we thought of the film on this edition of Buzzed Off Film!
This week drag star ALASKA THUNDERFUCK 5000 comes to the show to discuss the Sandra Bullock tech-thriller THE NET! We recount the days when the internet came into our homes, play 'Trash/Star/Destroy' with Sandy's vacation movies, and find that when it comes to ordering pizza the internet hasn't changed a bit.
Check out @Alaska500 on twitter and look for "Your Make-up is Terrible" on Alaska's You-Tube Channel soon!
We're back with another Cameron Crowe film about music; this time it's his documentary PEARL JAM TWENTY! Singer/songwriter SHANE UNGER comes to the show to share his love of grunge and Fugazi rules. This week we switch back to letting Michael Bay "Destroy" our films, reminisce about MTV Unplugged, and impersonate the iconic voice of Pearl Jam, Stone Gossard, of course.
Check out Shane's YouTube channel here!
We saw the new GODZILLA for the next installment of our spoiler-free mini-episode reviews! Hear what Chris and Brad would have liked to pay to see the film, when they think you should take your bathroom breaks, and how this stacks up to another monster movie from recent history!
We flashback to Y2K for the second time in as many weeks with Guest's BEST IN SHOW and guest: co-creator and star of 'The Tiffany and Erin Show' ERIN COLEMAN! We eventually title the episode 'Missed Opportunities' for good reason, discuss whether the dog-actors deserve the awards they receive, and decide to maybe get around to watching 'Sophie's Choice' one day...
Check out The Tiffany and Erin Show and the Video Lettuce Tomato YouTube channels and follow Erin and her lovely friends @universalcenter, @TiffanyandErin, & @VLTchannel on twitter!
It's lucky number Seventy with Actress/Producer KATIE PAGE and one of Cameron Crowe's finest ALMOST FAMOUS! Katie picks Zeppelin over The Doors, Brad explains the key to a Zooey Deschanel impression, and in the spirit of Crowe optimism we end 'up'.
Check out Katie's site katiepageface.com, follower her on twitter @katiepageface, and check her out on web shows such as Apartment 55, Speed Therapy, and The Tiffany and Erin Show!
"Listen to TOMMY with a candle burning and you will see your entire future."
69 shows in and we're finally watching STAR WARS (EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE, where it all began)! Comedian JEFF MAY comes to the show with the very first installment of the George Lucas space opera to talk about the original, the rumored future for Boba Fett, and the death of Luke Skywalker!
Look for Jeff in LA comedy clubs, at the Albuquerque Comic Expo in June, and @heytherejeffro on twitter!
