"What happened, Mrs. Lansing?" "I-I ran over some guy, and over, and over, and over, and-" We watched Creepshow 2 (1987) with our spookiest straight friend Billy Roach and you'll have to excuse us... our Amazon carts may or may not be filled with yellow swim briefs. We love an anthology horror movie from the '80s and who better to get your material from than the master himself Stephen King. Okay maybe we like some of the stories more than others but let's face it - "Old Chief Wood'nhead" just...

"I do wish I could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye." We watched "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) with our friend Donovan Marcotte and we may or may not have polished off an entire bottle of chianti. What can we say about this iconic '90s psychological thriller? This movie really launched an entire genre in movies and TV and the Brian Fuller produced Hannibal television series, but we're here to talk about the iconic Jonathan Demme directed film. Nothing quite...

"This road never ends. It probably goes all around the world." We talk about the lost boys of the Pacific Northwest, and finally get to Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho" with our friend Marlene Stang. This movie was formative to all three of us, but we also take a deep dive into our thoughts on River Phoenix and what his work meant to us as young people. River's performance as a narcoleptic gay street hustler on a quest to find his lost family really hit us in the feels upon this latest...

“To repress one's feelings only makes them stronger.” We watched Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with our friend Nikolas Romero this week and our backs hurt just watching these stunts. Suffice it to say that we've been obsessed with Michelle Yeoh for over two decades and this movie is a huge reason why. She's been having a moment with her Best Actress Oscar win, but we've been on board this whole time. Chow Yun-Fat may be playing the greatest swordsman in China but its Yeoh and...

"Hey, I lost my eye for this gang, remember?" We watched "Switchblade Sisters" (1975) with our friend Ben Cheaves and we're Jezebels - remember that name! All we can say is thank you to Quentin Tarantino for breathing new life into this girl-gang expoitation masterpiece. We can see how this one could have easily fallen into obscurity, but Tarantino's re-release in 1996 kickstarted its cult status. Lace (Robbie Lee) leads the Dagger Debs - the baddest girl gang in town (maybe L.A., maybe NY,...

"No lady is dangerous if you know how to handle her." It's the long awaited Pedro Almodóvar movie on the podcast, and there's no other place to start but with his breakout Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown from 1988. We welcome Jose Gallegos - expert in all things Almodóvar to discuss the intricacies of this icon of Spanish Cinema. The plot is almost too dense to water down into a description, but Almodóvar films are all about vibes - and this movie is a vibe. The color pallete is...

I did not lift my skirt, It TWIRLED Up! You only remember the bad stuff don’t you?”  We watched “Postcards from the Edge” with Friend of the Pod Joshua Clement and we could use a stiff drink.  From the novel of the same name by Queen Carrie Fisher, this semi-autobiographical film tackles the drug and alcohol use of struggling actress Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) and her recovery via her actress mother from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine).  It was never a secret that...

"Darling. Could you, like, chill for a sec?" We watched "Freaky Friday" (2003) with friend of the pod Devin Lotfi and we want to get a little ear-stud right... there. Man oh man, this movie is fun! Lindsay Lohan and Queen Jamie Lee Curtis are having a blast and it shows on screen - the two are at their best in scenes with each other. We spend some time talking about the 1976 original with Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris, and even the oft forgotten Disney Channel Original Movie (or DCOM if...

"It's the 90s, plastic surgery is like good grooming." More prophetic words were never uttered on screen. We watched "The First Wives Club" (1996) with our friend Jack Fields and you'll have to excuse us while we spontaneously burst out into a rousing rendition of "You Don't Own Me" while wearing our finest ivory pants suits. We still don't know how we let this '90s classic slip passed us all this time, but now that we've seen it you can trust and believe we are full fledged members of the...

"You, sir, are supposed to be charming." We watched "Ever After: A Cinderella Story" and we do NOT need to be rescued thank you very much! Drew Barrymore is having a bit of a career renaissance these days with her super charming, super viral (personal space anyone?) talk show, but we're taking it back with this one. Twenty Five Years to be exact! It was 1998 and Hollywood was still experiencing a contact high from Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" and we wanted more retellings of the classics...

"Jesus, where did she get those shoes? "Whores for less"?" We watched "Wild Things" with our friend Samir Roy, and we're just as scanadalized as we were in 1998.  The fact that this movie is celebrating it's 25th anniversary may feel like a personal attack, but we're just thankful we got to live through an era where a Southern Gothic, "Florida Noir" movie was made at all. They don't make erotic thrillers like this anymore and if they are, they're certainly not filled with a cast like this....

“Do you guys ever think about dying?” We watched Barbie with our friend and collector Justin Allison this week. It’s the most recent movie ever talked about on the pod, but Greta Gerwig’s long awaited film being the culturally phenomenon that it is, it seemed like important ground to cover. Prepare yourself for a no holds Barb-ed review while it’s still at the top of the box office. Barbie is an extravaganza from beginning to end, and filled with interesting story and character nuances that...

Take a hit of that Maui Wowie, and pour yourself a cup on ambition, because we made it to 200! We invited over author Helen Ellis (American Housewife, Kiss Me In the Coral Lounge) to celebrate the occasion, and watched 9-5! Staring the dynmatic trio Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton it's one of the most beloved feminst texts of cinema history. Delivering major laughs, and biting social commentary, these three ladies are our Avengers of the 1980s. We talk about the pussy bow situation...

"Hey, lady. You call him Dr. Jones!" We watched "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" directed by Steven Spielberg and it's just the two of us today. Some people might say this is the weakest entry in the Indiana Jones film saga. Those people are incorrect. Harrison Ford is at peak hotness with a brand new body-ody-ody courtesy of "Body by Jake" himself. Harrison was making the ladies swoon in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" but we're in the Temple now baby, and we are ready to throw ourselves...

“Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.” Break out the shoulder pads, because we finally got to Mildred Pierce  (1945) this week with our good friend Jackson Cooper. In the role of Joan Crawford's career, she's perfection. Going from a down on her luck housewife, to restaurateur, Mildred is the fierce working girl that we all strive to be. Crawford won her first and only Oscar for Mildred Pierce, and is regarded as one of the great leading...

It's a MTMUG rerun! We don't have a new episode this week, but we reached into our back cataloge and found the Extended Cut of Superman II with our buddy Billy Roach that originally aired May 6th 2021. This "Extended Cut" keeps in a few tangents that didn't make the original episode. With the annoucment of David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan as our new Clark Kent and Lois Lane in James Gunn's upcoming Superman: Legacy its the perfect time to revisit one of our classique episodes!  Kneel...

"Let's head along and hit the Jacuzzi. I do my best thinking in there." We watched "Hard Ticket to Hawaii" (1987) with the amazing Millie De Chirico from "I Saw What You Did" Podcast and we've got a tiny plane to catch! This movie may be part of the Bullets Bombs and Babes collection but it is High Camp and we are here for it. We talk about how the male leads are just as much eye candy as our female heroes but it's really Donna (Dona Speir) and Taryn's (Hope Marie Carlton) world, we're all...

"What did you say Stanley? You said No Hookers!" We watched the early Tom Hanks sex romp "Bachelor Party" (1984) with one of our favorite straights Chris Cirigliano (Very Special Television Podcast) and please don't cancel us for this one! They really don't make sex comedies the way they used to. Okay this may in fact be an ultra hetero, slightly misogynistic, defintely casually racist and possibly transphobic movie (stay with us I promise we have a point) but we definitely call the...

“I have never known birds of different species to flock together. Why, if that happened we wouldn’t stand a chance!” We watched The Birds (1963) directed by Alfred Hitchcock and if you need us we’ll be jumping into fountains in Rome. We spend a lot of time defending this movie from its camp reputation but we strongly suggest you watch it start to finish - it’s a banger.  The Birds has all the hallmarks of a classic Hitchcock thriller - tense action sequences, cutting edge (for the time)...

"Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a thirteen year old girl." We watched The Virgin Suicides (1999) with our friend Espie Quintero and we all want to live in a world directed by Sofia Coppola. We can't help but fall in love with the gauzy soft-focus, the spot-on '70s soundtrack and the ethereal songs by Air punctuating every scene. Something about the way the sunlight trickles through the trees and even the suburban French provincial decorating schemes makes us want to inhabit this world....

“You got into Harvard Law? What, like it’s hard?” We’re talking about 2000s comedy classic Legally Blonde with our friend Wolfgang La Vie, and whoever said orange is the new pink is seriously disturbed. This role sealed the deal, making Reese Witherspoon the titan of the industry she still is today. Reese’s Elle Woods is a true feminist icon, and this movie holds up some twenty years after its release. We discuss the evolution of Amanda Brown’s novel turned script. Going from a raunchy...

"Anything for Selenas!" Break out the rhinestone bedazzled bustier bras, because we get into the biopic Selena (1997) with our friend and singer/songwriter Gabe Munoz. We talk about the Mexican American icon Selena Quintanilla and her legacy to Tejano and pop music, who died at the young age of 23, when she was on the rise to breakthrough to the mainstream. We get into the moviestar making performance of Jennifer Lopez who stepped into role of Selena. Controversal casting aside, a Puerte...

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“Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three”, because we got to the 1971 classic Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with our bestie Jared Anderson. Arguably one of the weirdest children’s movies ever made, and one we still can’t shake off. When Charlie Bucket gets the coveted Golden Ticket to tour a mysterious candy maker’s factory insanity ensues when the ticket winners start getting taken out like the cast of Midsommer. This movie almost destroyed Scott and Jared’s friendship, over...

"Well, congratulations on getting out of the very dangerous world of haberdashery!" It's a Disco Bloodbath on the pod this week as we double featured both Party Monster movies with our friend Jesse Krempel host of the podcast Cult Cinema Circle. The documentary, or shall we say "Shockumentary" from 1998, and the 2003 film starring Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë  Sevigny, Wilmer Valderrama, and Dylan McDermott. Michael Alig's saga of the murder in clubland always fascinated us as young...