Cracker Classics

The movie: My Man Godfrey (1936)

As another Great Depression looms, Joshua and Ian watch how the rich handled it the first time back in the '30s. Were Harvard men safe from the trouble as well? Just how insane and out of touch are rich people? Can some good come out of not-good actions? And where can one find a bowl of Japanese men and a forgotten goldfish in the middle of Manhattan?

The movie: The Lady Eve (1941)

Ian and Joshua watch Barbara Stanwyck con a naive and rich Henry Fonda. It's the ride of his life, but who's grifting who? Did Henry learn a thing or two while spending a year up the Amazon? Or is it all just a bunch of card tricks?

The movie: Rollerball (1975)

Joshua and Ian see what people 50 years ago thought life was going to be like five years ago. Will showing chest hair still be a thing? Are there still dozens of sports for an individual to choose from? And what about that Equal Rights Amendment? 

The movie: Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

Ian and Joshua watch this '80s gem of appropriation and cringe and wonder if Kurt Russell was considered for a role in They Live. 

The movie: Reefer Madness (1936)

Ian and Joshua had intended to do this movie for 4/20, but...some stuff happened and they forgot. Mainly that 4/20 was a Thursday this year, but they digress.

Listen as they try to get through this anti-marijuana propaganda film completely sober. Will they make it? Will they change their wicked ways by the end?

The movie: The Court Jester (1956)

Joshua heard about this Danny Kaye comedy classic and its epic swordfight scene, so he and Ian just had to check it out depite having never heard of it. Have they spent all these years missing out on a bunch of medieval silliness and a snarky Angela Lansbury? Or have they just been doding a bullet? Listen as they check for the special mark on the baby's butt and uncharestically defend the restoration of the monarchy. But be warned: they might just be under hypnosis.

The movie: Female Trouble (1974)

It's about time a John Waters movie got the Cracker Classics treatment, so Ian and Joshua watch how Divine is both the mother and father to her child, becomes beautiful by injecting liquid eyeliner, and takes some acid. But not that kind of acid.

Is this just hot, delightful garbage? Or is there something deeper and more meaningful going on amid all the trash?

The movie: Yojimbo (1961)

Remembering the promise they made last week, Ian and Joshua watch this Kurosawa classic where A Fistful of Dollars got all its ideas from. Which one is better? Just how power hungry is Sergio Leone and did he use Clint Eastwood to get that power?

The movie: My Dinner With Andre (1981)

The time has come to sit down to a nice, privileged dinner, and get talked at about how being able to travel extensively teaches a person how to be more spiritual. And proud of it.

The movie: A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Joshua and Ian search for meaning in a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western adapted from a Kurosawa film. Will they be sorely disappointed? Is there at least a chance for some cheap entertainment? Saddle up and don't pick a side as they mosey into town to shoot up this film.