Cinema Bums

The Cinema Bums are joined by the talented and lovely Ahna Demaro for a collective thirst watch of 2011's prequel reboot X-Men: First Class. This film is considered the high water mark of the series, and it started the careers of Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, and Nicholas Hoult - but does it hold up today? Tune in to hear Wade break down the most metal aspects of this movie, Emmet's book report on the Cuban Missle Crisis, and Ahna explain the true meaning of love and how it applies to both Charles and Erik AND her and Nicholas Hoult. This is a fun one, folks. Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are joined by their first-ever guest: Treason!  The infamous memester hops on to discuss this infamous meme of a movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  This film has it all: Ryan Reynold's first appearance as Deadpool, a young Troye Sivan as Baby Wolverine, an absurd amount of helicopters, Hugh Jackman's naked buns, Vietnam war crimes, Will.I.Am as Lil Nas X, high Jane Austen melodrama, and a comedic subplot where Wolverine moves in with a kindly old couple on their farmhouse.  Not to mention Emmet's favorite actor, Liev Schreiber, running on all fours.  Listen to the Stockholm Syndrome set in as the Bums try to figure out if there are any good prequels, why Hollywood was trying so hard to make Taylor Kitsch a thing, and how Wolverine's name inexplicably changes from Jimmy to Logan.  Thank you for listening, and please enjoy.

The Cinema Bums finish up the original X-Men trilogy with The Last Stand, a film so famously horrible that the rest of the series is defined by its legacy.  The Bums break their own brains trying to parse through the two dueling storylines at play and figure out why third movies are so hard to get right.  Elsewhere, listen as Wade recounts a fateful sleepover encounter, Emmet cancels the Oscars, they both desperately try to find any character motivation whatsoever, and Halle Berry finally gets her moment in the spotlight.

This episode was both recorded and released prior to Elliot Page coming out as transgender.  We here at Cinema Bums are huge fans of Elliot's, for continually pushing the film industry forward and continually being good in these terrible X-Men movies (as you will hear in the episode.)  We all apologize for the outdated misgendering recorded in the episode.  Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums are back to talk about the famous classic The Empire Strikes Ba- uh, we mean, X2!  Listen in as best friends Wade and Emmet try to avoid offending dozens with their examination of this 2003 blockbuster's status as one of the best films of all time.  Emmet also rails against the MCU, much to Wade's horror, and both of the Bums go off on little brother snitch Ronnie, who they have nothing good to say about.  The Bums are starting to get a handle on this whole podcasting thing, despite the entire minute they spend trying to remember their own e-mail address.  Thank you for listening - especially if you're tuning back in - and please enjoy!

The Cinema Bums try their hand at podcasting by delving into the longest-running and least coherent cinematic universe: X-Men!  In their first-ever episode, best friends Wade and Emmet stumble into such light and frothy topics as Bryan Singer's sexual abuse allegations, the racial history of the Best Actress Oscar, and Dougray Scott's fateful motorcycle accident.  Nevertheless, it's a fun chat, as Wade walks us through the seemingly endless troubled production history of this movie, and Emmet walks us through his seemingly endless attraction to blue people.  Thank you for listening, and please enjoy!

P.S. We know that Bohemian Rhapsody came out in 2018, not 2019.  We're very sorry for the error.  Please don't @ us.