Buried Cinema

Patrick discovers Netflix makes movies and wants to explore his feelings of wholesome animal love with 'Okja', then forces that exploration on the rest of us. Steve tries to subvert with Robert Bresson's 1966 French donkey tale 'Au hasard Balthazar', Kevin makes all us grown men cry with Disney's 1957 'Old Yeller', and Tom perks us all back up with Tanya Roberts in 1984's 'Sheena.' It's an animal love fest this week on Buried Cinema. (Join us next week as we scrape the bottom of the cinematic barrel for Junk January.)

Balthazar starts at 21:31.

Yeller starts at 48:01.

Sheena starts at 1:05:20.

Junk January is our annual podcast where we review the worst movies we can find, and with that comes the return of guest podcaster and Baltimore comedian, Dan Marse-Kapr. We let him pick the theme this year, and that theme is, 0% rating on aggregate critic website Rotten Tomatoes. We review the 1999 Dennis Rodman (snicker) action vehicle 'Simon Sez'; 1998 adaptation of classic British spy show, 'The Avengers' (segment begins at 29:57); 1982 Barry Bostwick (snicker) action vehicle 'Megaforce' (48:57); and finally, possibly the worst film we've ever covered, John & Bo Derek's abysmal 1989 "comedy" 'Ghosts Can't Do It' (1:10:50).

[Every Thursday we post an episode or two from the archives. The Oscars seem like they will be a little more interesting this year. Here's a reminder of why they need to change it.] Our recorded discussion last week covered six of the nine 2018 Best Picture Academy Award nominees. We will be releasing this in three parts, starting with today's segment on Joe Wright's 'Darkest Hour' (starring soon-to-be Oscar winner Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill) and Christopher Nolan's tangentially similarly themed 'Dunkirk'. (In part 2 we will be looking at 'Get Out' & 'The Shape of Water'; and in part 3, 'Lady Bird' & 'Three Billboards'.)

[Every Thursday we post an episode or two from the archive. We've reviewed some wild movies this year. Here's a gem you shouldn't miss]

Can Steven Spielberg transport us back to the magic of the 80s? Can the Rock Aliens? Can Jimmy and the Mustangs? Can Pia Zadora? That's what Nate apparently wants to know; why else would he decide to pair the 1984 cheese-fest 'Voyage of the Rock Aliens' with Steve's pick of Spielberg's newest thrill ride? We start off with 'Ready Player One,' then at 28:49 we discuss VOTRA. Join us this episode as we investigate the Nature of the Beast. . . .

We invited Tom's brother, Baltimore comedian Dan Marse-Kapr, to be a guest on our 300th episode, but then changed the date without telling him, because we're good people, and he drove two hours out of his way to be on site. So here's Steve, Tom, and Dan during a thrown-together recording session discussing everything from Zack Snyder's 300 to Clint Eastwood's "nuanced" racism to the perfection of Batman Forever to Barbies vs. Bronies to rapping dogs on the Titanic.

[A look back when Ben Affleck had so much promise as a director.] We watch Ben Affleck's 2nd directorial film 'The Town', and discuss famous movie towns. We begin to solve some of the audio issues.

[Remember when everybody thought 3D was going to change cinema? It didn't, but we got some interesting films out of it.] We discuss the accidentally impressive 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' the rise of 3D, and more. This is still early on in our rise to internet blip, so we apologize for the bad sound.

We celebrate our 300th episode the only way that makes any sense: reviewing Zack Snyder's testosterone fest 300 (2007) and its awful sequel, 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (2014). We then ask each other some on-the-spot questions about our past eight years. We then look forward to Kevin's confusing theme for Episode 301. Stay tuned after the outro if you want to hear us look back over the worst movies we've ever reviewed.

[Remember the simpler times, before last summer. We don't, but we can listen to this review and be reminded. Now you can as well.]

This week is Brian's pick, and he chose last year's charming romantic comedy THE BIG SICK. His theme was "meeting the parents." Yeah, there's three minutes of that in Kevin's pairing of ANNIE HALL, Woody Allen's groundbreaking 1977 comedy. We discuss separating art from artist, and if we even can. And then we look forward to a couple of horror films that involve being hunted, with John Krasinski's A QUIET PLACE and David Robert Mitchell's IT FOLLOWS. (Just kidding, we forgot to record the final segment.)

[This Throwback Thursday is from this year, but it was such a great pair of movies, we just wanted to tell you about it again.]

Patrick chooses John Krasinski's new horror film A QUIET PLACE and the theme of being hunted. Steve pairs David Robert Mitchell's 2014 horror film IT FOLLOWS (segment starts at 18:20). Stay through the outro for some very important current events commentary.