This week Chris and Brad head to the 3rd annual LOS ANGELES PODCAST FESTIVAL to count down their Top 10 Exemplary American Movies! Meanwhile, we check out some Deleted Scenes from the past season that feature guests RILEY GRAE MOORE, LUCY SHEFTALL, RUSSELL DILLULIO, ERIN COLEMAN, AMIR TILLARD, and ERIN TEACHMAN!
Episode 90: Baby Mama (2008)
This week our friends and web series entrepreneurs TIFFANY BERUBE and ERIN COLEMAN stop by to watch the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler comedy BABY MAMA! Is this an underrated film? How many SNL alumni can be in a single movie? When's the season finale of 'The Tiffany and Erin Show'? The answers to all that and more on today's show!
Watch Season 2 of 'The Tiffany and Erin Show' on VideoLettuceTomato here and look for the new episode this Wednesday!
Twitter: @TiffanyandErin @universalcenter @tiffberube @DammitKaren
Buzzed Off Film XXI: The Skeleton Twins (2014)
Chris and Brad just watched THE SKELETON TWINS and are here to tell you what they thought! Spoiler-free mini episode review of the new dramedy starring two SNL alums!
Episode 89: The Fifth Element (1997)
This week actress and web series creator ALISON LANI comes to the show with Luc Besson's THE FIFTH ELEMENT! We talk about Besson's career, touch on Blade Runner and the charm on Harrison Ford, and discover a line that Bruce Willis could say in any of his films!
Check out Alison's web series BURNING BRIDGES on Convergence Music Channel on YouTube here!
Episode 88: The Big Chill (1983)
This week writer and friend of the show LIZZIE DONALDSON returns with the Baby Boomer favorite THE BIG CHILL! We 'Trash/Star/Destroy' Tom Berenger's biggest hits from the 80s, get into our favorite movie soundtracks, and poke fun at Kevin Kline's wavering southern accent.
Follow Lizzie @lizziedonaldson on Twitter!
Episode 87: The Fisher King (1991)
This week's show memorializes the late, great Robin Williams with THE FISHER KING and actress and creator of 'The Tiffany and Erin Show' ERIN COLEMAN. As we remember our favorite Robin Williams movies and fawn over Mercedes Ruehl's performance, Brad and Erin put forth a couple of memorable Williams impressions!
Watch the new episodes of Season 2 of 'The Tiffany and Erin Show' on You-Tube here and follow the twitter accounts of @universalcenter and @TiffanyandErin!
Episode 86: The Rock (1996)
CLARKE KOHLER returns to the show to watch Michael Bay's THE ROCK! We discuss Nicolas Cage's "flying through the air trilogy", put on our best Connery and Cage impressions, and quickly touch on Bay's average shot length for this film!
Check out Clarke's work directing the newly premiered Season 2 of 'The Tiffany and Erin Show' on Video Lettuce Tomato here!
Episode 85: The Dark Knight (2008)
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.
Episode 84: Pure Luck (1991)
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'.
Episode 83: Before Sunrise (1995)
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.
Episode 82: Point Break (1991)
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!
Episode 81: Miami Vice (2006)
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!
Episode 80: Videodrome (1983)
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!
Buzzed Off Film XX: Boyhood (2014)
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!
Episode 79: Swingers (1996)
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!
Episode 78: Gone with the Wind (1939)
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.
Episode 77: Prisoners (2013)
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!
Episode 76: You Only Live Twice (1967)
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!
Episode 75: Die Hard (1988)
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!
Episode 74: Nine to Five (1980)
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!