Episodes
Published 07/08/21
It's a comedy BONANZA!! With the very funny Charlie Sheen starring in PLATOON, a parody of APOCALYPSE NOW and other famous war movies, with an all-star cast including cameo's from Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, and Willem Dafoe. Then, in a spiritual successor to the hit comedy masterpiece, HOT SHOTS! Sheen stars in SHADOW CONSPIRACY. A knee-slapping take on MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and Tom Clancy type movies. Grab your popcorn, grab a drink, and join us for The Best and The Worst of Charlie...
Published 07/08/21
This man made a beautiful movie and HollyWood destroyed his career for it. Learn your lesson early kids: trash sells, stay in line. Repo Man and Walker. Two very punk movies, one far more obvious than the other. Walker deserves a following. Please watch it (if you can find it). A young punk recruited by a car repossession agency finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu that is wanted for a $20,000 bounty - and has something otherworldly stashed in its trunk. An unconventional retelling...
Published 06/10/21
The Best and Worst of Roberto Rodriguez!! He's the DIY Director who gets worse as technology improves. We love him, folks! Each week we take the best and worst films from a filmmaker or franchise and discuss why one worked and one didn't. And we use freakin maths to determine the best and worst, so no arguing. Unless you think science is wrong???...yeah thought so. A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him. A young boy is...
Published 06/02/21
Much like how Superman comes back to life in the movie (SPOILER ALERT!!!). Zack Snyder rises from the grave to deliver unto us his most unholy creation yet, a four hour long epic about superheroes punching a mentally ill alien. It's pretty good. Strap yourself in as the official Ben Affleck fan club discusses the best and the worst of Justice League movies! Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a...
Published 04/01/21
Freshly cancelled cult hero and feminist icon Joss Whedon has directed few movies, we watched his best and worst: Avengers (2012) and Serenity (2005) respectively. Perfectly timed quips are a-plenty in these highly entertaining, textbook action/adventure films. It's just a shame that just off-camera, he was screaming at everyone for being pregnant. RIP Joss. Guess you were always just one of the boys. Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going...
Published 03/25/21
John Who? lmao. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, baby! We got Steve Martin, we got John Candy, we got Kevin Bacon. We also watch some other trash with Dan Ackroyd (confirmed: not funny). So strap on a set and join us as we dive into the Best and Worst of John Hughes circa the 1980's. A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with a lovable oaf of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion. A Chicago man and his family go camping with his obnoxious brother-in-law. Each...
Published 03/11/21
Awesome Welles! We discuss Citizen Kane and The Lady From Shanghai, plus the cultural significance of Orson Welles, what made him so good and why his films are unique. Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.  Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.  Each week we take the best and worst films from a...
Published 02/18/21
It's the MovieButts Arthouse Spooktacular!! featuring Thomas Vinterberg, Mads Mikkelsen, Joaquin Phoenix. With special guest Claire Danes. So grab a drink and grab ya butt cause we're reading subtitles Baby!! A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.  Two lovers attempt to save their relationship...
Published 02/04/21
Argh!!! It's the best and worst of the Pirates franchise ya Skeervy SEA DOGS! So strap on ya wooden legs and drink some rum and put an X on it. Argh!!! me harteys. Johnny Depp is very fat and drunk in the fifth one. Argh!!! Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead. Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have...
Published 01/28/21
It's the Star Wars Special! We discuss each episode of the stunning and brave Kathleen Kennedy's Sequel Trilogy. With the Cultural massacre pretty well behind us now, we revisit and rummage through each film and discuss what we think worked and what didn't. We exchange theories on Director intent, over-arching meta narrative, fan response, and the unintentional upside of the whole disaster, plus much more. So insert your ugly airpods and do your dishes or whatever and JOIN US for an adventure...
Published 01/14/21
It's the best and worst of everyone's favourite period during the 2010's! A time of Hope and Redemption. A time to realise that miracles are real! That's right, it's the McConaissance! In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease. A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out. Each week we take the best and...
Published 01/07/21
Everyone loves Nic Cage. We check out his best and worst offerings from 2018. Both a sign of where his career is headed: highly respectable indie efforts, and VOD action trash. The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance. While on a routine patrol, an aging cop, his partner and their ride-along get caught in a standoff with a band of...
Published 12/17/20
After a month of horror we cheer ourselves up with the years of classic Pixar (you know which). Toy Story and A Bug's Life. We think Bug's Life is better than Toy Story. If you'd like to fight us please email [email protected] with your time, place, and weapons of choice. A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group...
Published 11/22/20
Halloween 1 and Halloween 6. Michael Myers, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Paul Rudd. An abused mentally ill man manages to escape his deranged Psychiatrist turned prison warden, only to be hunted down by him and the authorities. Each week we take the best and worst films from a filmmaker or franchise and discuss why one worked and one didn't. And we use freakin maths to determine the best and worst, so no arguing. Unless you think science is wrong???...yeah thought so. Fifteen years after...
Published 11/16/20
It's Friday, baby. Friday... the 13th!...Part 8!...Jason takes Manhattan (except it's not, it's Jason on a boat on his way to NOO YAWK GIMME A PEEZA IM WALKIN ERE!!...) These movies are not good. A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child's drowning and a grisly double murder years before. A boatful of graduating high school students headed to Manhattan accidentally pull Jason Voorhees along...
Published 10/30/20
We discuss the Best and Worst offerings from famed franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street, for our Spooktober Spooktacular! The original Wes Craven classic and the dreadful sixth entry, Freddy Goes To Hollywood: Funk Off Freddy. The monstrous spirit of a slain child murderer seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death. Dream-haunting Freddy Krueger returns once again to prowl the nightmares of Springwood's last surviving teenager, and...
Published 10/23/20
We jump over to the other side of the coin to find much of the same. A dog-brained cashgrab and a labour of love beaten but not defeated by the ever present demonic force of studio executives. It's very interesting stuff A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist. A police Lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks...
Published 10/06/20
We watch the very best and worst of exorcist prequel(s). A film that was made then remade before release...kinda. There's no existing term for what this is. Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith. Each week we take the best and worst films from a filmmaker or franchise and discuss why one worked and one didn't. And we use freakin maths...
Published 09/18/20
Ron Pearlman leads two very unfortunate films alongside Phoenix from X-Men and Ron from Harry Potter. We've never had a worse time. Sorry Ron Pearlman we really do love you. An aging hitman's last job goes sideways, forcing him to redeem himself. After failing to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick, an unstable CIA agent must instead team up with a seedy rock band manager to develop the biggest con of all time-staging the moon landing. Each week we take the best and worst films from a...
Published 09/11/20
Ben Affleck plays a Mexican in 'Argo', a movie about how Islam is bad, and somehow that's less offensive than 'Live by Night', a film in which Brendan Gleeson is forced to sit next to Sienna Miller's awful Irish accent (that's not why it's offensive, it's offensive cause it sucks...or does it?). Where is Matt Damon? Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during...
Published 09/05/20
We watch the magical 1993 family hit, Free Willy, starring Michael Madsen in a surprisingly good performance where he isn't acting tough. We also watch Free Willy 4. It SUCKS! It's tedious and Bindi Irwin is lame. RIP Steve When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale. Kirra, a 12-year-old girl, discovers a baby Orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather's rundown seaside amusement park. She embarks on a...
Published 08/28/20
De Palma is... De Best. haha. It's an avalanche of stars! De Niro, Costner, Connery, DeVito, Wasson. De Palma is a weird guy who sucks when he's trying to be normal. During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Al Capon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135330/?ref_=)e and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him. Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars, they...
Published 08/14/20
Richard Gere, star of Pretty Woman, The Fugitive, Four Weddings & a Funeral and many many more now stars in two movies you never heard of. No, we don't talk about the hamster thing. A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help. Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed...
Published 08/07/20
Akira Kurosawa. He rules. It's Seven Samurai and the under-appreciated I Live In Fear. The Magnificent Seven is a remake of Seven Samurai (a little trivia only supreme movie knowledgemen know). A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family. Each week we take the best and worst films from a filmmaker or franchise...
Published 07/31/20