Cinema Bums

The Cinema Bums have finally finished their first miniseries: all of the X-Men films! On a fun, loose episode, they give their personal rankings and final thoughts on the series. Stay tuned until the end to hear the reveal of their next miniseries!

The Cinema Bums are joined by Patrick J. Turner, Jr. to tackle the final movie in the X-Men series: The New Mutants! That's right, the Bums have finally done it - this is the last X-Men movie they ever have to watch, and also the first one Patrick has ever seen! This film is truly wild, but it has an important message to share with the world: that everyone has two bears inside of them. Listen in to hear Emmet fangirl out over Anya Taylor-Joy's Russian mean girl performance, Wade relay his Behind the Scenes Drama magnum opus, and Patrick predict this year's Oscar winners. Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined again by Beth Fletcher to finish what she continued: the Decades Quadrology! That's right - our trio has become the first three people in history to ever watch Simon Kinberg's directorial debut Dark Phoenix. Listen in to hear Emmet attempt to start an online movement to Release the Kinberg Cut, Wade analyze the deeply subtle symbolism in this very deep movie, and Beth pitch an alternative ending utilizing a French cover of Semisonic's "Closing Time." Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined by Laura Bennett for another go-around with the wise-cracking, bad-acting, wildly-popular, facepalm-inducing Deadpool! If you saw any X-Men movie, it is statistically most likely to be this one. The Behind the Scenes Drama on this sequel is thick, and the reactions to it from the Bums are all over the place. Along the way, they are paid a surprise visit by the Academy Awards themselves, and they end things with a thrilling game of "Deadpool or Shakespeare?". Listen in to hear Wade geek out about the cast of David Leitch's upcoming Bullet Train, Emmet reckon with the loss of his beloved Morena Baccarin, and Laura add Ryan Reynolds to the dreaded "Not Hot List." Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined by Kelly Lee for the big one: Logan!  This brutal Western was critically acclaimed, widely beloved by viewers, and remains the only superhero film ever nominated for a screenplay Academy Award.  It is also a hard R-rated movie where, as Emmet points out, "the violence is very violent."  This rewatch finds one of the Bums appreciating the movie's merits in a newfound way and another turning heel and shutting down merely from watching it.  Listen in to see who you side with, as well as to hear Emmet sing the praises of His Dark Materials, Wade unravel the mystery of the Corn Puffs, and Kelly provide some very interesting plugs.  Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined by director extraordinaire Beth Fletcher to discuss X-Men: Apocalypse, the widely reviled film which Emmet declares "the greatest movie ever made."  The longest and least-coherent entry in the longest and least-coherent superhero series leaves Wade dazed and confused and Beth refusing to rate it either a Flop or a Bop.  Listen in to hear Emmet describe watching the entirely unrelated movie Nightcrawler while waiting for the X-Men to show up, Wade mourn his favorite actor Oscar Isaac's Hamburgler-esque performance in this film, and Beth find out live on the air about both the director of Dark Phoenix and about "frogmen."  There are some audio issues for the first five minutes, but after that everything is an easy breezy time.  Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined by Chandler Pennington in a significantly censored episode to unpack the infamously uncensored Deadpool.  This film was highly controversial at the time and leaves the Bums divided even today.  Luckily, Chandler has come to defend Deadpool's honor and extoll the virtues of R-rated movies - even ones you awkwardly watch with your parents.  Listen in to hear Emmet risk it all for a Fawlty Towers reference, Wade walk through the entire plot of Finding Dory, and Chandler give a ranking of every notable British actor's accent.  It all wraps up with playing a round of that classic game: "Deadpool or Hot Tub Time Machine?"  Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

In a super-sized New Year's Special, the Cinema Bums are joined by Zane Hollomon to discuss the time-traveling, timeline-correcting halfway point of the X-Men series: Days of Future Past.  The Continuity Corner is renovated into the Continuity Condo for this episode, as the Bums spend a huge amount of time and effort trying to make sense of just what actually happens in this movie and what it means for the franchise going forward.  Listen in to hear Wade find out about the Super Bowl Robots, Emmet explain Structuralist Linguistics, and Zane reveal a surprise gift from Wade's past.  It's fair to say things get off the rails a bit in this one.  Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined for a fun, loosey goosey Holiday Special by the Roommate Bums, Kelly Lee and Laura Bennett!  There are no X-Men in sight this week as the gang raises a toast to the year in movies that was.  In the first section of the podcast, the Bums discuss missing movie theaters, why so much Broadway came to the big screen, and dare to ask the question: did Disney start COVID-19?  The majority of the podcast, however, is recommending our favorite films of the year and where you can watch them.  It's perfect for the holiday break and the long January coming up!  We guarantee there is a new movie for everyone to be found here.  Listen in to hear Emmet gush about Sonic the Hedgehog, Wade get lost for words trying to describe John David Washington's shoulder muscles, Laura prioritize the Sharkboy and Lavagirl sequel over Christmas Day, and Kelly utter the phrase "the sad beating on of life" (that's not a joke.)  Thank you for listening to the first year of Cinema Bums, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined by Isaac Beckner for a trip to Japan! The Wolverine, James Mangold's 2013 dry run for Logan, is all about parkour and built with the Bechdel Test in mind. Listen as Emmet desperately tries to keep the show on the rails while Wade runs through all of Darren Aronofsky's films and Isaac speculates about what he's getting for Christmas. The Bums also discuss Yukio, Wade's favorite character in the entire series, rank Mariko's three boyfriends, and finally ask that age old question: what kind of underwear does Wolverine wear? This is the first episode we've recorded virtually so we apologize if the audio is not quite up to the gold standard we aim for every time. More of a weighty bronze, perhaps, or a heavy metal. Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!