96 Greers

Holy sibling rivalry Batman, it's another mumblecore episode!  Well, it's a Duplass Brothers episode.  Perhaps those two descriptors aren't quite as interchangeable as Patrick and Reg had assumed.  Jeff Who Lives at Home has us pondering the physics of sinking cars, business communication trends of 2010, and what Ed Helms is like when he goes full Hollywood.  Save your ear-fork for the Other Segment, we're serving up a best movies of 2023 recap (kind of)!

(Correction:  the talented and hilarious director of The People's Joker is Vera Drew.  The Mike Leigh historical drama about a kindly abortion provider portrayed by Immelda Staunton is Vera Drake.  Both are in the category of "net positive for cinema named Vera D" so that's not a total failure for Reg?  More like a C-.)

This episode is being published a little late, but don't worry, we weren't giving you the Shaft.  More recent roles have seen the ever-Super Fly Judy Greer playing a White Mama, but on this episode we go back to 2003's action comedy The Hebrew Hammer, a blaxploitation homage with a Jewish twist.  Pour yourself a cup of Coffy and listen to Patrick and Reg get a little Uptight as they navigate the punching-down tendencies of oughts comedy in a film regarding two communities that neither of them are part of.

Content warning:  detailed discussion of food and eating noises, heads up given in-episode

Music in this episode:  "D'Bronx Tanz" by Tres Tristes Tangos

Reg and Patrick go on an adventure to the Chicago International Film Festival to see the premiere of Eric LaRue, the directorial debut of Judy Greer's Pottersville co-star Michael Shannon and focuses on the emotional aftermath for parents whose children were involved in a school shooting.  We talk about our expectations going in and then time warp to the day after the screening to see if those expectations were met.  And then we time warp again at the end of the episode for a very special Other Segment! 

It's damn near impossible to be a prolific Hollywood actor in the 21st century without being in a franchise or two.  Judy Greer plays Laurie Strode's daughter Karen in David Gordon Green's Halloween, a sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween.  Reg and Patrick talk about the inevitable teenage drama plot lines in slasher movies, stan Lumpy, and attempt to convince themselves that podcasters make for interesting movie characters.

Content note:  our discussion includes detailed descriptions of fictional murder scenes. 

Get ready for an unhinged episode of 96 Greers that delves into the bewildering world of Elizabethtown, the film that inspired the phrase "manic pixie dream girl."  Reg is hopped up on goofballs! Patrick is calling out other film podcasts by name!  Porn keyword search jokes!  Experiments on children without institutional review board approval!  Rate, review and subscribe-- if you dare....

On this PODCAST, we BELIEVE: 

- abortions in movies are better without conflict

- gay cowboys are real

- Alan Alda and Alan Arkin should just have the same name, sheesh

- Jane Campion's 2021 Western drama The Power of the Dog and Laurie Anderson's 2015 cinematic meditation on grief Heart of a Dog should just have the same name, sheesh

We also find time to talk about the 2015 indie dramedy Grandma, featuring Judy Greer as Lily Tomlin's ex-girlfriend. 

Spoiler Alert! We got a sneak preview of Aporia and we do discuss the entire plot of the movie.  If you don't want spoilers for the third act, stop listening before 44:00. 

Temps are high, sfx are low, and sci is fi when Reg and Patrick discuss Aporia, an empathetic and intellectual timeline-bender in which Judy Greer heads up an excellent cast.  Other topics include the WGA/SAG AFTRA strike, when it pays to ignore logical inconsistencies, and The Twilight Zone.

Dig it:  70's Greer!  That's... all that Reg had prepared coming into this episode.  2011 indie crime film The Key Man doesn't have a lot going for it, but it does have Judy Greer.  Our intrepid Greer fans discuss queer-coded villains, what makes a bad movie bad, the screenwriter's favorite poem, and more! 

For that all-important eleventh episode, Reg and Patrick do something a little different, a little special.  With Judy Greer starring in a world premiere play less than an hour's journey from 96 Greers headquarters, there was no excuse not to throw Reg's carefully planned episode schedule out the window and focus on Kate Arrington's play Another Marriage, in its world premiere run at Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theater.

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single podcast in possession of a cinematic theme must be in want of a Nicolas Cage episode.  And Adaptation gives you two Cages for the price of one!  Two elder millennial film snobs return to this early-oughts Charlie Kaufman metafilm for the first time in years and go way over time talking other movies with dual Cage performances, adaptations of nonfiction books, slow film, financial advice gurus, and MORE!