Disenfranchised

“All theory, no practice. The story of my life.”

We’re back with week two of Arnie April 2: Austrian Boogaloo with a movie we really wanted to cover the last time we did a Schwarzeneggar theme month… but we’re making up for it now! We talk about the directing style of Ivan Reitman, the long history of how this movie came to screen, the now-canceled sequel, and do a career retrospective on Robert Rodriguez! Join us!

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• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

For the first time ever, we’re doing a sequel to one of our favorite theme months! Behold, ARNIE APRIL 2: AUSTRIAN BOOGALOO! And who better to help us kick the whole thing off than our friends Brian Keiper and Michele Eggen from the Movies for Life podcast! Join us for a conversation covering everything from modern Arnie analogies to the crystallization of Arnie‘s action persona to… [checks notes] …a rundown of the career of Tom Cruise?!?

Check out Brian and Michele and all their endeavors in the following places across the web:

• @movielifepod on Instagram and Xitter!
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• Look out for Brian's writing on Bloody Disgusting and Manor Vellum!
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• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
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Sorority Row (2009) w/ Ariel Powers-Schaub

This week, in honor of the approaching release of her book Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence, our friend Ariel Powers-Schaub is back to talk about this late aughts horror remake! And while we’re at it, we discuss the origins and examples of ‘millennial nasties,’ the meanness of our main characters, the tragedy of Chugs, and even take some time to recommend a few film westerns to Ari!

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• @ari_hellraiser on Instagram, Letterboxd, and Xitter
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Ariel’s book, Millennial Nasties, is out September 17, but you can preorder it from Encyclopocalypse Publications HERE: https://www.encyclopocalypse.com/product/millennial-nasties/397?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=39

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“There is ALWAYS time for lubricant!”

With Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire coming to theaters this week, we’re looking at yet another Ivan Reitman-directed movie about a team of working-class misfits… but this time, they’re fighting aliens! Break out the Head & Shoulders and join us as we talk through the careers of Seann William Scott, Orlando Jones, and Ivan Reitman, speculate wildly on this movie's origins, and so much more!

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• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
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• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Instagram and Letterboxd or @suswarlock on Bluesky.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

Oblivion (2013) w/ Andrew ‘Greetings’

“Are you an effective team?”

It’s another Listener Request episode and, this time, we brought the listener along with us! We’re joined by Stephen’s college buddy Andrew to talk about Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, and the 2013 sci-fi movie they made together! Over the course of the conversation, we get into the Oblivion Goodreads page, alternate castings for Morgan Freeman’s character, why the MPAA is a load of BS, and memories of performing in Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man”!

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• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“You let me know when it gets dangerous..”

With Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two in theaters, we’re taking a look at another story where a savior comes to a desert world and befriends a native tribe who give him a unique new name… and we’ve brought our friend and Edgar Rice Burroughs enthusiast Samuel Dumas along to help us out! Along with the deep development hell of a ‘Princess of Mars’ adaptation, we also address Edgar Rice Burroughs’ problematic thoughts on eugenics, the proper time and place for business containment, and listen while Tucker attempts a nuanced take on blackface. (SPOILER: it doesn’t go well.)

Watch Bob Clampett’s John Carter proof of concept animation here: https://bit.ly/48w3CjA

Read TheWrap’s oral history of John Carter (2012) here: https://bit.ly/49NGv5c

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• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube
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• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Instagram and Letterboxd or @suswarlock on Bluesky
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

Parents (1989)

“You really like the dark, don’t you, Michael? You can be yourself in the dark. But, you know? There’s one dark place that we have to be very careful in…”

It’s yet another fifth Thursday (in February?? REALLY??) and you know what that means! That’s right, it’s the second-ever episode of Straight Up, the show-within-a-show where we let Tucker fly in the face of God and the format to bring us all a movie from the deep recesses of his memory! This week, we’re looking at this Bob Balaban-directed dark comedy and, along the way, we’re chatting about cannibal movies, gearshift movies, and why we should have seen the Randy Quaid downward spiral coming! We also plan an impromptu Walter Hill theme month and reassert our appreciation for the oeuvre of John Waters!

There is one dark place that we ALL have to be very careful in: social media! Follow us there!

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• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including last month’s Unenfranchised episode on The Rage: Carrie 2 at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“No plan. Just bigger guns.”

In what happens to be a rather bizarre follow-up to last year’s episode on Cemetery Man, the boys tackle this big screen adaptation of Tiziano Sclavi’s perhaps better-known work (in Europe, anyway), Dylan Dog! (When our fans ask for an episode, we try to deliver!) We talk about the absence of fan-favorite character Groucho, compare this film to Brett’s beloved Dresden Files book series, and desperately try to remember the names of people and movies completely unrelated to this film! All this and MORE on this very special episode!

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“You have this nickname. What is it? Excitement? Enthusiasm? Esprit de corps?”

This week, we’re paying homage to one of the greats as we honor the great Carl Weathers with one of his earliest starring roles that never got a sequel - 1988’s Action Jackson! We talk about how this movie perfectly melds mid-’70s blaxploitation with late-’80s action, the state of action cinema in the late 1980s, our first and greatest experiences with the late, great Mr. Weathers, and intermittently deal with Tucker’s technical issues! R.I.P., Carl Weathers!

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• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including our recent Unenfranchised episode on The Rage: Carrie 2 at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

"This is not the end of my story. This is only the beginning.”

…or is it?? In accordance with our annual Valentine’s Day tradition, we’ve invited our buddy Mike Snoonian from The Pod and the Pendulum to talk about a Valentine’s Day movie in name only! We talk about the origins of the titular superhero, debate the artistic merits of this big screen adaptation, talk about the rocky production history, and discuss just how difficult it is to find any information on this film!

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• @mikechumpchange on Letterboxd; @mike_snoonian on Twitter X; @mikesnoonian on Bluesky

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• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube
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• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Instagram and Letterboxd or @suswarlock on Bluesky
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including our recent Unenfranchised episode on The Rage: Carrie 2 at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod