The closet of shame keeps attracting illustrious guests from overseas. This week, my brother Ian Mantgani joins me in my home state to discuss Detroit's best movie: FOUR BROTHERS. In spite of it being shot in Toronto, and being a horrible movie, we still had a good time through the power of friendship. And alcohol. I think it was probably the alcohol. Deciding it best to re-shape the film into some kind of Shyamalanian mystery, we may have shirked our critical duties, here, in favor of regaining our sanity. Join us, won't you?

As it turns out, this episode is all about the laughter. Natalia from the amazing Movies with Cain and Tal podcast joins me to discuss one of her favorite movies: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Though devastated that Joss Whedon isn't happy with what Fran Rubel Kuzui did with his script, Tal managed to put those feelings aside to deliver one of the most heartfelt film criticisms this show has ever seen. Going long on strong female characters, the Divinyls and day drinking, we had a helluva time 17 hours apart. 

Movies are important. For this movie, a strong drink is very important. Sporting a Metascore of 9 and a cast that includes, and is basically limited to, Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel, this is the spaciest of treats. In the end, no amount of drinking will prepare you for the delights on offer here, but thus is the magic of cinema; and so we must follow through in spite of ourselves. With a touch of nudity, a bit of madness and a space doggo, Saturn 3 is the film the world needs right now.

Exciting developments this week, as my guests Jamie and Robin from The Hangover Chronicles inspired me to write my first 420-friendly rules. Swapping stoner recipes, hangover stories and the best way to turn a van into a podcast studio, it turns out, we didn't actually focus a whole lot on the movie. 

I'm starting to wonder if being intoxicated is really the best way to discuss art... 

With the sad passing of Terry Jones this past week, I look back at a film that brought me immense joy as a sad teenage boy, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. Directed by Jones and the likewise Terry-ied Gilliam, this buffoonish masterpiece will always come to mind when anyone asks after my favorite film. Making a mockery out of English history, its legends, its society and the structure of film itself, this captured me over 15 years ago and still refuses to let me go. 

Needless to say, I made some excellent rules, and got shitfaced. So why not come join me on this road to sadness, joy and therapeutic catharsis?

This week, I'm joined by Devlin and Jason, Broken Lizard superfans and hosts of the Know Your Cinema Podcast, for one of their all-time faves: CLUB DREAD. Forgetting that the Drink For... standard rules would have been plenty to get three people liquored way way up, I pushed it, and wrote a few more. Let's just say that things went up hill from there. Going long on why Broken Lizard are so uniquely silly, how we've all started to ignore IMDb ratings and even some top tips on pick-up lines, we had a fucking time. So sit back, grab a cold or warm or no beverage at all, just grab air grabbing air is fine, and join us on this odyssey of odysseys. 

It's a new year, a new decade, a new me. This year, I'll be focusing less on the drinking aspects of the show in order to more fruitfully explore the drinking aspects of the show. Over my interminable hiatus, I received some wonderful news in the form of an email from the film tracking website letterboxd.com, informing me that my most-watched director for 2019 was Michael Bay. I might be ruining my body for this show, but what I get in return makes those negatives seem so so worth it. 

In honor of this life affirming tidbit, I made the not-so-difficult decision to focus in on Bay's finest prison-based work: THE ROCK. 

For me, it's not Christmas without Buddy the Elf. Whether its Will Ferrell's madcap childishness, Zooey Deschanel's vocal chops, Ed Asner's streetwise Santa, Bob Newhart's ultra sweet Papa Elf or James Caan and Mary Steenburgen's on-screen marriage, this sentence was a perfect way to sneakily brag about ELF's positively-stacked cast. Enough words, it's drinking time.

I keep the holidays rolling with this week’s episode, and because I’m a kind and loving tyrant, I come bearing gifts: nearly 20 hours of drinking games. That’s right, as you already know without having read this far, Episode 27 is on the Harry Potter franchise, but before you ask, no, I did not drink for more than one of them. Instead, I offer series-wide rules that you can glug through at your leisure. Don’t want to listen to your cousins talk about why they didn’t vote in the UK’s recent election, or why your aunt thinks the impeachment hearings are a sham? Here’s your get-out-of-jail-free-and-forget-the-whole-week card.

Sometimes, when you drink Brugal by yourself, you discover great cinema. Such was the case this week with Renny Harlin's THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996), starring Geena Davis as an amnesiac ex-assassin and Sam Jackson as her gracious sidekick. Packed with awesome action set pieces,  an easily-digestible plot and some top performances, I am still in awe that this isn't on more peoples' "Best Christmas Movie" lists.  Maybe right that wrong, and turn it on this holiday season—you won't be disappointed. My drunk self was quite confident in loudly guaranteeing that.