Two months of living with a Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell pairing and we can't go back to anything else. Well... maybe, Zoey Deutch. After some hesitation based on years of mistrust one co-host finally took his wife to a proper date night movie with plenty of butt stuff (comedic) and shirtless men (steamy) while one host remains at home for yet anothe…

On April 5, 2013 Rosario Dawson got out the clippers. And cinema was never the same. As was James McAvoy. As was OUR EYES. After this visual delight director Danny Boyle has us believing in all manner of nonsense such as the convoluted mechanisms need to pull off the complicated art heist that ultimately revolves around the toxic relationships of M…

On March 28, 2003 John Travolta put on a clever ruse. John McTiernan is the director of PREDATOR, DIE HARD and most importantly BASIC. If you have forgotten this military thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson (150 lbs soaking wet and with a cape!), Connie Nelson (of THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE... you remember the scene) and Giovanni Ribisi playing Orson Wel…

On March 19, 1993 even Bridget Fonda confused Dermot Mulroney with Dylan McDermott. Doesn't matter. He's just a man who will be fed ravioli erotically. And we all win by witnessing this act. Do we thank Gabriel Byrne? Anne Bancroft? Who trained Ms. Fonda to be the ultimate assassin and supportive life partner? If you believe these show notes are to…

Harmony Korine made the A24 version of MIAMI VICE... ...and still the world was not satisfied. Including your hosts! Mainly the one from Florida who does not recognize the rap success from his home area as portrayed by James Franco. Meanwhile another host lives in fear of the alternate version of this film that stars Emma Watson. This film does not…

The movie that inspired a Sean Young role in ACE VENTURA. Which isn't entirely a bad thing. It's more Sean Young! For a very late 1992 anniversary episode, a somewhat late Valentine's Day episode but BUT an EARLY St. Patrick's Day episode we present Neil Jordan's.... THE CRYING GAME. We tried to be careful here but spoilers almost instantly for thi…

Thirty years of going to church with Harvey Keitel. Among other activities for the title character in Abel Ferrara's family film. As for our activities discussing BAD LIEUTENANT on a podcast that includes: More hate for the Miami Heat when it comes to decision making in the final seconds of a Game 7. More debate over the assets of early 90s It Girl…

Thirty years of Anthony Hopkins slut-shaming Winona Ryder. And a redhead of course. We can't forget God's greatest gift to mankind. Other than Sir Anthony it's also the Dread Pirate Roberts and Neo/Constantine/Johnny Mnemonic getting in on the sex negative attitude. Also my co-host informs me The Rocketeer is a prude. I'm glad I did not get that re…

Thirty years of Uma Thurman being a witness to driving men crazy. One podcast host in particular. And although you've probably heard all you need to about one Kentucky man's love for Ms. Thurman this is actually an episode of discovery as shockingly all hosts have a good time with JENNIFER 8. Is it John Malkovich's sass with a cold? Lance Henrickso…

Thirty years of Nice Guy Eddie not being so nice. Which is why he quickly becomes a fan favorite in this episode on Quentin Tarantino's directing debut RESERVOIR DOGS. In one of those almost unimpeachable classics we decide to take on the likes of Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth for they are no Chris Penn. Also the decision to not cast Samuel L. Jackson…

Thirty years of Brad Pitt making everyone look ugly. For some reason we decided to cheat a bit this week and fulfill a promise to Mr. Robert Redford and complete his own 1992 double feature after SNEAKERS with him behind the camera for A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT. He also talks all throughout this film as the narrator which offends our sensibilities as…

Thirty years of a Frenchman playing an Italian discovering America. But not really. Perhaps even less impressive than the discovery of this great country is the decision to cover not one but TWO Christopher Columbus movies from the year of 1992. Mistakes were made. Such as: One host continuously mistaking one Scott brother for another. This is a Ri…

Thirty years of everyone hating Kevin Spacey. The only closing you get on SOBER CINEMA is an explanation on how Jack Lemmon is a "soy boy" and a debate on if Ed Harris would be the best or worst co-worker in the office. Also if we have time we talk about Al Pacino having better bowel movements than perhaps anyone in the history of this planet. Natu…

The heat in 1992 was of course on The Great Madeline Stowe. One host says that this movie is better than HEAT. The other two hosts, as much as they love Madeline Stowe, have to stay sharp. On the edge. Where they gotta be. They also may have confused this with Tom Cruise in THE LAST SAMURAI. Only you the listener can decide. Support what we do on P…

Thirty years of boating and cuckolding. The only reason we chose to revisit the year of 1992 in film is this movie and for a few reasons: Mary Kay Place in a riveting family comedy shower scene. Kurt Russell's hair and always sleeping with one eye open. And to discuss our favorite hot dogs. Naturally. Support what we do on Patreon with bonus episod…

Insult Bridget Fonda all you want but don't you dare misspell the drummer's name from the fictional band CITIZEN DICK. Those are the rules here on SOBER CINEMA. Apparently one host's early 90s dream girl provides no charm in this Cameron Crowe look at grunge rock. This is among the many obscenities from this sweet little movie: Bill Pullman with hi…

Thirty years of Robert Redford vilifying the bald. Our official career retrospective episode on the work of Sidney Poitier is finally here as he is naturally compared to... Brad Pitt. Who is not in SNEAKERS. But Mary McDonnell is as the honeypot, River Phoenix as a simp before that was common vernacular (RIP by the way) and David Strathairn as a ma…

Thirty years of Nicolas Cage having outbursts. Although HONEYMOON IN VEGAS is slightly more pleasant than his Oscar-winning turn in LEAVING LAS VEGAS. Your dedicated author of these show notes will not bring Elisabeth Shue into this fight as INDECENT PROPOSAL casts a large shadow over this far sillier version of a fiancee being sold as an escort to…

Thirty years of Benicio del Toro being the best part of every movie. Not that he's playing a nice guy here. But can one expect perfect gentlemen in a film on the exploits of Christopher Columbus. Well in 1992 this was the DEEP IMPACT to Ridley Scott's ARMAGEDDON as America got two dull movies on this jerk. So we open things up with suspecting our g…

Thirty years of actors from the sitcom WINGS wrecking havoc. Or maybe it's starring in the unfortunate ABC mini-series of THE SHINING? Whatever the origin of evil we find ourselves suffering along with poor Bridget Fonda as that once sweet heartbreaker from FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH forms the worst co-parenting relationship over a dog. And then …

Thirty years of Brian De Palma making Hitchcockian events funny AND sexy. Well... maybe the sexy comes up for debate on our anniversary episode for RAISING CAIN. What is not up for debate is that the Boston Celtics did not need the front court depth offered here by one idiot host (Jairo) in their 2022 playoff series against the Milwaukee Bucks. We …

Thirty years of admiring the acting of Meryl Streep's butt. Along with Goldie Hawn's abs. And Bruce Willis doing his best to fend off all the lovely ladies Robert Zemeckis could throw at him all so SOBER CINEMA could come to the conclusion that objectifying women is not only funny... but right. To help us make this case we have Dr. Bone return to p…

Thirty years of remembering Jim Carrey from IN LIVING COLOR. But thankfully (?) MO' MONEY released in 1992 so we can properly immortalize the work of a couple of the Wayans brothers as they bring us a comedy... romance... thriller... that manages to be consistently off putting no matter the genre. While we attempt to not mention the much funnier sk…

Thirty years of ignoring this entry in Sidney Lumet's filmography. That's okay though. We got to learn a thing or two from the extremely inquisitive and aggressive Ms. Griffith in this fish out of water detective story. One in which the ignorant barks out a lot of orders and is the hero for aggressively insulting the entire basis for the lives of o…

Thirty years of self-imposed abstinence for Brad Pitt. But only because he's surrounded by cartoons in Ralph Bakshi's self-imposed check cashing return to animation in COOL WORLD. Unfortunately for us (and you, the listener) we get hung up on the world-building in COOL WORLD and perhaps the sexual politics of... COOL WORLD. It's uncomfortable. Enjo…

Thirty years of the best women ballplayers being demeaned... ... by Penny Marshall! Which is not good. Shame on you, auteur. However when Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz contribute... it is admittedly pretty funny. Perhaps not so much when we do it. So we come to the defense of the best hitter to ever wear a Rockford Peach uniform and Jairo yet again gets…

Thirty years of Ray Liotta being a good fella. Recorded before Mr. Liotta's passing we got an opportunity to praise him in our review of 1992 mainly because he terrorizes a possibly racist yuppie played by Kurt Russell. Sorry, Captain Ron but we will formally apologize with that film's anniversary in September. For now... one host is attacked for h…

Thirty years ago Michael Keaton was not tall enough for Michelle Pfeiffer. Thank god. This eventually leads us to one host's undying lust for Ben Affleck but before that we discuss if Tim Burton's continued dorkdom in BATMAN RETURNS is appropriate Christmas season material for children, if using penguins with rockets is an appropriate Plan B and if…

Thirty years ago Goldie Hawn had a nice butt. Probably still does. Which made it all the more frustrating to listen to Steve Martin's complaints about Ms. Hawn's squatting in his empty home. An empty house constructed for Dana Delaney. This leads to a revelation from one host who knows quite a bit about early 90s television starlets. His name is Ja…

Thirty years of one host dismissing Samuel L. Jackson as any sort of threat. However that same host wants to emulate James Earl Jones upper management style. This is how SOBER CINEMA approaches Harrison Ford taking the reins from Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in PATRIOT GAMES. One thing we can all agree on though is that Mr. Baldwin may not have been t…

Thirty years of Whoopi Goldberg being a sexy nun. That's according to one person on my social media doom scrolling. However we don't take the bait there and instead mainly pick on Maggie Smith's horrible lack of martyr skills as Mother Superior along with her modest amount of racism. Also when we aren't distracted by a shirtless Harvey Keitel we ma…

Thirty years of Tom Cruise's hats getting no respect. This episode is about horses and so we bring on a graduate of a horse university to discuss Tom Cruise's ability or lack thereof in taming the wild stallion that is Nicole Kidman in Ron Howard's FAR AND AWAY. However one host has no need for equine experts and is more enamored with the boxing et…

Just to be clear... thirty years later Mel Gibson is still Australia's doing. Now that the elephant in the room is out of the way we get back to more topical podcast subject matter like declaring BOTH 1992's summer movie season and our 2022 Oscars recap special. We also feel very sorry for both Danny Glover the man and the character he plays in Ric…

Thirty years of Billy Bob Thornton refusing to cut his ponytail even when on the run from the law. God bless that man. Or at least that character (who knows what sins Mr. Thornton has committed.) Okay, so maybe not even his character in ONE FALSE MOVE for although he admirably hates children he also commits some other less noble crimes that lead hi…

Thirty years of a child actor shocking us before retiring to a daytime talk show. For our regular listeners we want to apologize for not being particularly aroused by one of the pioneers of 90s "slutsploitation genre" for we do not have our regular old man Jairo on this episode. Instead guest Dave "Hey Bobby" Giannini of OFF SCREEN DEATH steps in t…

Thirty years of Larry Fishburne having to field stupid questions from Jeff Goldblum. But seriously... what is a brown shower? To answer such a question we bring on our expert on bathing in Tangible Teddy from the offensive episodes of THE GRAND GESTURE. Along the way we actually watch a good movie in the month of April in Bill Duke's DEEP COVER. If…

Thirty years ago Dr. Melfi was just beginning a long career of watching grown men throw temper tantrums. As you can see already (those few of you who appreciate the genius show notes) we would rather have been rewatching THE SOPRANOS than John McTiernan's MEDICINE MAN. Although one host has childhood memories of a VHS taping off of cable... he reme…

Thirty years of being absolutely positive that your high school transcript holds up to English teacher investigations. This movie is silly and we disparage cats by the end of it. Also too much sex talk for a movie about dorks who are afraid of the kitty. All in all... not a bad Stephen King movie. Takes the bronze behind THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION an…

Thirty years of Dolly Parton proving that expertise is not needed on talk radio. Thanks for that, Dolly. But also thank you for financially aiding a Covid-19 vaccine. So we here at SOBER CINEMA consider that a draw as we have our first experience of 1992's STRAIGHT TALK. Our research team had more experience with America's newest oldest sweetheart …

Thirty years of Rosie Perez being thirsty and men just don't understand it. But we do. Well us and Siskel & Ebert. The natural progression of film criticism. What does that sound like? A Peruvian voice is no authority for black culture in America as seen in the films of 1992. So instead we rely on the two white guys on the show. White men from Kent…

Thirty years of back and to the left with Sharon Stone sitting and smirking. The above declaration of celebrating an iconic cinematic moment is a bit misleading as this episode is mainly about Michael Douglas and his lack of body hair. Erotic. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follo…

Thirty years of hating the short men that love Marisa Tomei. Aunt May deserved better. She also deserved better than currently being known as "hot Aunt May" but at least she won an Oscar along the way for MY COUSIN VINNY. As for us we present no evidence of Joe Pesci's length or girth but we have our suspicions to keep us warm at night. As for you,…

Thirty years of Pierce Brosnan inviting street urchins over to play with his flight simulator. Yeah we also had a hard time believing any of this. BUT... it was THE MATRIX of the early 90s. Which is to say that even as kids we were more amazed by the technological breakthrough of EARTHWORM JIM. And now as old men... the charms of THE LAWNMOWER MAN …

Thirty years of America feeling the same way as Jerry Seinfeld about Bobcat Goldthwait. SHAKES THE CLOWN presented what we presumed to be a can't miss viable piece of cinema for a gap week in 1992 because it presented one thing we hate (clowns) with one thing we love (alcoholism) and by the end of the episode we may have found a cure for alcoholics…

Thirty years of a turtle taking a doomed ride with a maniac kid. But at least the dog makes it out okay(ish) in Richard Donner's misguided family film that doesn't quite capture the magic of say a Dwight Yoakam in SLING BLADE domestic abuse drama. It's just not that fun! Even with attempting to feed a turd to a now retired actor and professional Tw…

Thirty years of "comedy" from Canada. We are not amused by Wayne. We are not amused by Garth. We do not suffer fools hosting their own talk show and thrusting it out to an unwelcoming world. We do however like this Rob Lowe fellow and how he handles pizza night. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/T…

Thirty years of respecting Richard Gere's hair and all the places that hair went. On this show one host looks a gift horse in the mouth that is the masterpiece FINAL ANALYSIS and tries to bring Brad Miller to a Shaq fight when it comes to one of the greatest blondes of cinema: Kim Basinger. But not just any Basinger... boozy Basinger who manages to…

Thirty years of enjoying the legacy of great genes that is Melanie Griffith's family. Also there are some Nazis to be dealt with in SHINING THROUGH but as long as they look like Joely Richardson and are up for a cat fight... we think we can handle it in these trying political times. But back in 1992 Michael Douglas was healthy and willing to get do…

Thirty years of not knowing what we would had in the heyday of erotic thrillers. Although it must be said that our mileage varies on just how erotic we find the wet work and horse role-play of Sean Young and That Creep From SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. Along the way we discover some things about ourselves: One host actually takes it as a compliment to …

Thirty years ago NOW That's What I Call Hip-Hop was born. And if you think that is cruel wait until you see the scam that tiny Tupac Shakur and friends pull on a comely young lass working at the local record store. If you want to hear what one host was listening to as he touched his first butt (while trying to grab something else) then this is the …