A month of movies meeting movies to form a good trilogy... in theory.
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: AMERICAN BEAUTY
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! As usual one host works in a comic book origin story for AMERICAN BEAUTY as part of a clever ruse to avoid talking about Kevin Spacey in one of his Oscar-winning performances. The other host talks about aging out of being Mena Suvari's peer to Annette Bening. There i…
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The First Part in our Identity Crisis Cinema Trilogy If ever we have an identity crisis we can only hope to handle it with as much charm as Audrey Hepburn or Cary Grant. Instead you get us. And that ONCE AGAIN involves us comparing ourselves once again to Paul Giamatti's character in SIDEWAYS. So... as far from Ms. Hepburn and Mr. Grant as you can …
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE WOOD & THE BEST MAN
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! In which the comparisons to AMERICAN PIE never end but at least it wasn't forced into a trilogy on Taye Diggs ALMOST ruining a wedding. That may have been us playing the part of Mr. Diggs by ruining two great slice-of-life comedies from the Best Movie Year Ever of 19…
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A special bonus episode for the latest funny book on film! In true DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE fashion are we pandering by featuring this latest MCU joint without a proper trilogy in theory? Or are we doing everyone a favor by NOT trying to force two other innocent bystander films in to a discussion on a silly superhero played by a very silly Ryan Reynold…
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The Third Part in our Mask of the Doctor Trilogy We finish our trilogy on masks of doctors (although that comes into question by the end of the episode) by starting with comparing our podcast to FRIENDS or SEINFELD and every other podcast is the 9:30 sitcom that everyone hate watched until ER started. In some regard THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is seen as…
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The Second Part in our Mask of the Doctor Trilogy This episode is uncomfortable but we assure you that we are no longer talking about the AMERICAN PIE saga. Catchup on last year's Movie Book Club from Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA SPECULATION! Follow along at our Patreon page as once a month (although sometimes more) we read AND watch films from …
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The First Part in our Mask of the Doctor Trilogy We couldn't let July end without a little Hallmark-like summer Christmas celebration by continuing our summer sexcapade! For this combination of highly specific events one most to go the master of the cinema. Kubrick. Cruise. Kidman. You know who isn't included in that list? Nolan! For that you must …
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The Third Part in our Sex Pact Trilogy The only climax one could expect from our trilogy on a sex pact among friends would have to involve two former sitcom stars in Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis who are... SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE. But mainly we want them to sleep with each other (if not us, of course) in this lovely romcom from Leslye Headland…
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The Second Part in our Sex Pact Trilogy Happy Fourth of July with one of your hosts stranger holiday traditions (we'll get to EYES WIDE SHUT every Christmas very soon) with the auteur Will Gluck's FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS. And while spending America's birthday with Jenna Elfman and Richard Jenkins doesn't sound particularly sexy (though delightful!) t…
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The First Part in our Sex Pact Trilogy For our latest trilogy we make a sex pact. Not with each other but with three films on films where friends take "the next step" together. Unfortunately for our first entry in AMERICAN PIE it's the likes of Jason Biggs and Chris Klein awkwardly making these moves on the likes of the Alyson Hannigan and Mean Suv…
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE SIXTH SENSE
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! Toni Collette should have won an Oscar for and Bruce Willis at his best in THE SIXTH SENSE! This is the episode where we do not trash a universally loved modern classic ("modern" so we don't feel so old on this film's twenty-fifth anniversary) HOWEVER... the show doe…
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The Third Part in our Driving with Death Trilogy Although David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY didn't make the cut for our Book Club (shame on you Best Movie Year Ever!) but it's better than END OF DAYS (another strange omission from the book on 1999 in film) and so it gets to be included in a proper trilogy. On the definitive movie podcast on movie tr…
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The Second Part in our Driving with Death Trilogy They don't make them like they used to. Because every movie coming out now Is. Simply. Not. SPEED. From the auteur Jan de Bone we were introduced to the next great Hollywood star in Sandra Bullock (apologies to DEMOLITION MAN) and Keanu was anointed as The Next Great Action Star (though THE MATRIX a…
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The First Part in our Driving with Death Trilogy We open with an attack on Star Wars and then quickly move to expressing annoyance at the auteur Nicolas Winding Refn's interview style. Populist and independent cinema... no one is safe with us! Much like the characters in William Friedkin's SORCERER. Just a bunch of dudes driving through the jungle …
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE MUMMY
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! The renaissance of Brendan Fraser as a beloved actor owes a lot to his crowd-pleasing adventures with Rachel Weisz in THE MUMMY; a movie better than it has any right to be and one that your hosts thought of themselves as too cool for upon initial release. Twenty-five…
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The Third Part in our Liam Neeson is a Short-Term Mentor When a podcast host programs a Batman movie for a his co-host who usually shows up to record in a Batman t-shirt he expects a little more respect shown to BATMAN BEGINS! Alas, this is an episode in which one man's hatred of Christopher Nolan is put to the test when combined with his love of T…
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The Second Part in our Liam Neeson is a Short-Term-Mentor We dare to go after the great Martin Scorsese. And also Cameron Diaz. Catchup on last year's Movie Book Club from Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA SPECULATION! Follow along at our Patreon page as once a month (although sometimes more) we read AND watch films from 1999 for BEST MOVIE YEAR EVER…
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Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace (1999)
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The First Part in our Liam Neeson is a Short-Term Mentor Trilogy How did one podcaster spend his May the Fourth? By running out on his sleeping family for a late night twenty-fifth anniversary screening of the George Lucas opus STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 - THE PHANTOM MENACE. He then spent a week questioning his commitment to cinema and this podcast and …
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: GALAXY QUEST
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! The delightful ensemble of Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell and who else? I'm forgetting someone. Oh, that's right! Justin Long also stars in GALAXY QUEST which graces the pages of our Movie Book Club in this chapter from the book BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER.…
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The Third Part in our Pressure of the Pedestal Trilogy In which Sofia Coppola's nepo baby status is questioned by one host and the other can't get over Josh Hartnett's hair. However that is the case even if we were discussing THE FACULTY. This episode is on THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. Though the hosts may prefer to rewatch THE FACULTY. Less suicide. Obvio…
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The Second Part in our Pressure of the Pedestal Trilogy We Pick Flick for the second part in this month's trilogy with Reese Witherspoon in a star-making performance (sorry, she was merely the fuddy-duddy in CRUEL INTENTIONS) in Alexander Payne's ELECTION. Competing with the likes of a young Chris Klein at the height of his himbo powers we discuss …
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The First Part in our Pressure of the Pedestal Trilogy In this episode we realize that WE... are the Max Fischer Players. God help us. And you! For we relive the glory days of our youth (and when we loved Wes Anderson) with 1998's RUSHMORE... as part of our look at the Best Movie Year Ever... of 1999. WHATEVER. We are very enthusiastic on this one!…
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE IRON GIANT
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! Just two middle-aged men discussing the greatest Superman story to ever grace the silver screen as THE IRON GIANT graces the pages of our Movie Book Club in this chapter from the book BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER. by Brian Raftery!. To listen to the full episode please co…
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The Third Part in our Dealing with the Devil in 1997 Trilogy One host talks about what a GREAT ASS Connie Neilsen has and how Keanu Reeves has his head... ALL THE WAY UP IT. Or something to that effect. The other host presents a childhood memory of walking in on his parents watching THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE and we wrap up our dealings with the underwor…
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The Second Part in our Dealing with the Devil in 1997 Trilogy Dr. Alan Grant is at it again and THIS TIME IN SPACE as continue dealing with the devil of 1997 with the release of EVENT HORIZON. For one host this a pleasant first time watch of unpleasantness while the other host remembers fondly the teenage musing in a Hot Topic on the sick cruelty t…
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The First Part in our Dealing with the Devil in 1997 Trilogy So it's come to this. We (and perhaps you, dear listener) needed a reprieve from the year of cinema in 1999 and we find ourselves a mere two years prior... watching and discussing SPAWN? Blame the need for superhero silliness after the serious business of VARSITY BLUES for our current pli…
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: VARSITY BLUES
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! Just two guys attempting to relitigate the 2002 AFC Championship game and relive the moment Ali Larter walked out in a whipped cream bikini and Dawson was never the same. Neither was America as another "cult classic" box office hit in VARSITY BLUES graces the pages o…
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The Third Part in our Taming of the 1999 Shrew Trilogy One host finds Julia Stiles AND Heath Ledger insufferable while the other is more bothered by the supposed nice guy act of Joseph-Gordon Levitt. Which is to say that maybe middle aged men should not sit in judgement of the charms of teen romcom hits from their youth. They do however really disl…
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The Second Part in our Taming of the 1999 Shrew Trilogy One man faces down forty by watching CRUEL INTENTIONS for the first time. Then he moved on to the audio commentary track (which required finding a used DVD) AND THEN this man moved on to CRUEL INTENTIONS 2. Which was just a series of unaired television episodes continuing this porny universe s…
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The First Part in our Taming of the 1999 Shrew Trilogy One host compares this early 1999 hit for the young adult crowd to the works of George Bernard Shaw and Spike Lee. Specifically Usher's appearance as the high school prom DJ as a callback to Samuel L. Jackson's work in DO THE RIGHT THING. It is at this point that I remind you that he has a very…
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: OFFICE SPACE & THE MATRIX
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! Listen to us debate how taking the red pill has aged (yikes) in both a Mike Judge comedy and the Wachowskis very successfull attempt to never paint another house if you subscribe to our Patreon for the full episode on the book BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER. by Brian Rafter…
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The Third Part in our Follow the Non-Linear 90s Trilogy The best way to educate young people in their pursuit of the German language is to watch Franks Potente run. And run some more. Preferably with cool red hair. That's about all that one host remembers from his high school foreign language class while the other host is still airing grievances ab…
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The Second Part in our Follow the Non-Linear 90s Trilogy Back in 1999 one host was trying to convince his buddies to go see John August and Doug Liman's GO instead of seeing THE MATRIX for a third time while the other lesser host was somehow privy to stars of the adult entertainment world... but had no respect for the work of Canadian great Sarah P…
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The First Part in our Follow the Non-Linear 90s Trilogy Christopher Nolan is like a bad penny on this podcast which is to say that he's good for the numbers (or at least he used to be before we constantly negged him) but also manages to crash the first episode of a year where we will primarily focus on the film of 1999... with a film from 1998. Suc…
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Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! One host somehow avoided THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT until twenty-five years had passed and the other in his senile years is starting to blame this happy pop culture craze of his youth for the Snyderverse. Or something like that. At least a shot at JJ Abrams is taken if …
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If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! For 2024 our Movie Book Club episodes will be celebrating 25 years of the films of 1999 with Brian Raftery's BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER. Here's a small introduction of what our Patreon supporters will receive once a month as well as our subscribers on the made theme wit…
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The Third Part in our Stuck at School Trilogy Our 2023 holiday episode features an "instant Christmas classic" (if such a thing exists other than the mighty ELF) in Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS. What does the future hold for this film in future shopping seasons? Repeated airings on Freeform? No! It will reside on Peacock! And thus we must promot…
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Patreon Preview of Cinema Speculation: THE FUNHOUSE
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If you have a buck instead of a book... we read so you don't have to. Our final chapter on Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA SPECULATION is a simple story about a boy in a Frankenstein mask who meets an older lady over a romantic business transaction and the peeping tom teenagers who trespass in his shame for their own amusement. As do we. We hope you hav…
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The Second Part in our Stuck at School Trilogy In which revisiting HAPPY DEATH DAY (again and again) causes us to be both perplexed and increasingly distressed that star Jessica Rothe does not star in EVERYTHING after her charming (and farting) performance in this slasher comedy take on GROUNDHOG DAY. We are simple men with simple pleasures AS LONG…
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Patreon Preview of Cinema Speculation: HARDCORE
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If you have a buck instead of a book... we read so you don't have to. We scout out the adult film talent with George C. Scott and get tickled. What else is there to say in these show notes? That's the podcast. Enjoy and keep reading along with us from Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA SPECULATION! Follow along at our Patreon page as once a month (alt…
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The First Part in our Stuck at School Trilogy High above the mucky-muck, castle made of cloudsThere sits Tobey boy sitting oh so proudlyNot much to say when you're high above the mucky-muck. I'd like to continue the show notes in such a fashion but it would be disrespectful to Curtis Hanson's impressive followup to the all-time classic L.A. CONFIDE…
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Patreon Preview of Cinema Speculation: ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
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If you have a buck instead of a book... we read so you don't have to. Even MORE practical knowledge is gained by reading Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation: if you are Clint Eastwood all you need is an accordion and some paper mache to break out of Alcatraz. And some other things too. What you don't need is one host being a killjoy. Did we ment…
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The Third Part in our Obsessed Behind the Wheel Trilogy We pat ourselves on the back for going with international cinema in our finale for this trilogy on drivers instead of THE OBVIOUS CHOICE of Mel Gibson in the Richer Donner classic CONSPIRACY THEORY. Look this is no PACIFIC HEIGHTS starring Michael Keaton episode. This one has crying! And drivi…
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Patreon Preview of Cinema Speculation: PARADISE ALLEY
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If you have a buck instead of a book... we read so you don't have to. Finally some practical knowledge is gained by reading Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation: if you need a man you can count on in a brothel, Tommy Lee Jones is your guy. QT calls this the greatest combination of character study and action movie ever made and we try to keep up w…
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The Second Part in our Obsession Behind the Wheel Trilogy We get behind the wheel for the first time (!!) with a John Carpenter flick in the Stephen King film adaptation of CHRISTINE. One host is revisiting a favorite of his youth while his co-host was horrified at a small dorky teenager making out with a tall beautiful woman and in turn getting hi…
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Patreon Preview of Cinema Speculation: ROLLING THUNDER
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If you have a buck instead of a book... we read so you don't have to. Finally some practical knowledge is gained by reading Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation: if you need a man you can count on in a brothel, Tommy Lee Jones is your guy. QT calls this the greatest combination of character study and action movie ever made and we try to keep up w…
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Taxi Driver (1976) and Cinema Speculation!
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The First Part in our Obsession Behind the Wheel Trilogy We tackle one of the Mt. Rushmore of college dorm room poster movies by throwing a book at those dumb kids for our episode on TAXI DRIVER. Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino to be precise as this is a FULL episode of what we've been covering all year long on our Patreon page. So... welco…
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Patreon Preview of Cinema Speculation: DAISY MILLER
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If you have a buck instead of a book... we read so you don't have to. We resume our reading of Quentin Tarantino's book of essays and this time it's the shortest chapter on Peter Bogdanovich's blissfully short DAISY MILLER. In keeping with the brevity of both the book and film to be discussed we have a brief chat providing a modest amount of sound …
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The Third Part of our Building a Better Monster Trilogy PROMETHEUS asked all the questions and answered none. So in the followup Sir Ridley Scott decided to give us some rather dumb answers. SUCH AS: Do androids desire a need for haircuts? Do mere humans need a commentary track to explain the clumsiness and pratfalls as the humans on screen fend of…
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The Second Part of our Building a Better Monster Trilogy We are back to talking Christopher Nolan joints (but still no TENET) in a dueling banjos of dorks between Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as magicians with a grudge. And vengeance! Plenty of vengeance unlike that DiCaprio bear movie! Because this movie is fun. Perhaps the most fun we've had w…
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