What’s real? What’s fake? Is that person you met on the internet really your friend or just a digital illusion? Are they even a person at all? All those questions and more are front and center this week as the Rotten Horror Picture Show logs on freaks out with this big bowl of piping hot… Continue reading 71. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Wild Card)

Wes and Clay wrap up their coverage of the 2020 Academy Awards by watching their B-Roll selection of the Best Picture nominees, “Marriage Story”. Directed and written by Noah Baumbach, “Marriage Story” stars Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a married couple going through a divorce. We, as the audience, arrive just in time to...

The lowest rated Best Picture nominee at the 2020 Academy Awards is Todd Phillips’ “Joker”. Currently at 68% with 543 reviews, the film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the eponymous villain. Based on the Joker character from DC Batman comics, Phoenix assumes the character of Arthur Fleck. Fleck is an unstable man who lives with his...

Who would you say is the “Parasite” in this film? Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought...

We are continuing our coverage of the “master of horror”, Wes Craven. We have already discussed “Vampire in Brooklyn” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street“. With our “B-Roll” selection, we chose to watch 1996’s “Scream”! Scream is a metatextual homage to the slasher films that defined the late ’70s and 80s. It stars Neve Campbell...

Happy Halloween! Our “Wes Craven” themed coverage continues with the director’s highest-rated film (according to Rotten Tomatoes), “A Nightmare on Elm Street”! It’s the film that gave the world one of the most iconic villains of all time: Fred “Freddy” Krueger! A child murderer who haunts the dreams of children, Krueger’s weird aesthetic and iconic...

Happy Halloween! As is customary in podcast culture, Reel Ripe & Reel Rotten are covering something horror-themed: the “Master of Horror” himself, Wes Craven, and his critical low-point, “Vampire in Brooklyn”. Starting off with Craven’s lowest-rated film, Wes, Clay and Amanda watched “Vampire in Brooklyn”. Released in 1995, “Vampire in Brooklyn” stars Eddie Murphy with...

For the B-Roll selection of our coverage of Kathryn Bigelow, we are turning out the lights, pouring ourselves a tall glass of blood, and watching “Near Dark”! “Near Dark” is Bigelow’s 1987 attempt to meld the vampire and western genres. She had wanted to do a straight western but had to add something currently (as...

In “The Weight of Water“, journalist Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) begins researching the 1873 axe-murder of two sisters and discovers new information in the case. Meanwhile, her marriage to writer Thomas (Sean Penn) begins to fall apart. The show has moved into the “rotten” side of director Kathryn Bigelow‘s career and we’re here today discussing...

The show has moved onto Kathryn Bigelow because Clay “deparately wanted to do her” and that means we’re starting off with the critically acclaimed “The Hurt Locker“. Directed by Bigelow and scripted by Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker is regarded as the best film about the most recent Iraq War. it stars Jeremy Renner as...

The B-Roll selection for Amy Adams has Wes and Clay watching a film that both of them are unfamiliar with, 2016’s Nocturnal Animals. Directed and written by Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals is the story of an art gallery owner named Susan (Adams) who reads a new novel written by her ex-husband and begins to insert...

For our coverage of the “best” Amy Adams film, we discuss the intellectual science fiction of Arrival! It’s currently at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and it secured several Academy Award nominations in 2016. Amy Adams stars as a linguist who is recruited by the US miitary to decode the language of aliens who have landed...

Amy Adams stars in a truly horrible romantic-comedy where the jokes fall flat, the Irish are maligned, and Adam Scott is mis-used! “Leap Year” is a film from 2010 and is currently at 23% on Rotten Tomatoes. Adams stars as Anna, a woman who heads to Ireland on February 29th to propose to her boyfriend...

To complete our coverage of the 2019 Best Picture nominees, we have selected “A Star Is Born” as our B-Roll. It’s Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, and he also stars as the talented but troubled rock star Jackson Maine. When Jackson meets Ally (Lady Gaga), the two begin a relationship of incredible highs and devastating lows....

This episode of the podcast covers the highest rated Best Picture nominee from 2018, Ryan Coogler’s MCU entry: Black Panther! The crown jewel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (so far), Black Panther follows the adventures of T’Challa, the newly crowned king of Wakanda – an African nation that is supremely advanced. When a villain named...

As a special event, we’re going to cover the “ripe” and “rotten” films nominated for the 2019 Best Picture Oscar! For the low end of the spectrum, we start with Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about the rock band Queen, and specifically its frontman Freddie Mercury. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film is a rapid overview...

We say farewell to Edgar Wright with the final film in his Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. At 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is critically adored but audiences generally see it in a different light. Starring Simon Pegg as a flunkie who assembles his childhood friends to finish a pub crawl, the film...

This week, we take a look at the lowest rated film on Edgar Wright’s Rotten Tomatoes listing: 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Currently at 81%(!), Scott Pilgrim stars Michael Cera as the titular “hero”, a young twenty-something who falls for a girl with several ex-lovers. And of course, he needs to fight them to […]

We kick off our Edgar Wright coverage with his highest rated film, 2017’s Baby Driver! Currently at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, Baby Driver tells the story of a getaway driver (the best in the biz!) who yearns for both a different lifestyle and a Spotify

Denzel Washington’s “B-Roll” selection is Man on Fire, which is currently at 39% on Rotten Tomatoes. Highly stylized in the way that only early 2000s action films are, Washington takes the role of John Creasy, an alcoholic bodyguard. When his young ward is kidnapped, Creasy becomes vengeance incarnate and hunts…Continue ReadingB-Roll: Denzel Washington – Man on Fire

When a racist cop inherits the heart of a black lawyer, the end result is a fun-filled comedy romp that ends in shotgun murder! Denzel Washington’s worst film (according to Rotten Tomatoes) is the 0% rated “Heart Condition“. It’s a tonally inconsistent film that can’t decide if it wants to be…Continue ReadingDenzel Washington – Heart Condition (0%)

Denzel Washington has been acting in Hollywood since early in the 1980’s but his highest rated film is 2016’s Fences, which stands at 94% on RottenTomatoes. Originally a theatrical play, the film is a showcase of writing and acting (Washington both directed and stars in the film). Featuring a tight-knit family…Continue ReadingDenzel Washington – Fences (94%)

In our first “B-Roll” episode (where we discuss a film of our choosing from the topics filmography), we discuss the 2002 neo-noir sci-fi thriller, Minority Report! Featuring a plot that examines the battle of free will and determinism, Minority Report is a solid sci-fi movie that might be a tad…Continue ReadingB-Roll: Spielberg & Cruise – Minority Report

Hook might have been excessive and over the top, but it also might have been an attempt to recapture the feeling of E.T.? We discuss the 98% film and try to figure out where the love comes from, and if it’s deserved. Spielberg has been criticized for being schmaltzy and…Continue ReadingSteven Spielberg – E.T. (98%)