Fiasco Family Movie Night

Fiasco Family Movie Night

By S Frost and Tim LehnererTV & FilmFilm Reviews
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Fiasco Family Movie Night episodes

  • 60. Fiasco Valentine’s Day Triple Feature!

    The Fiasco Family welcomes Charlotte, from It’s Just a Show, to discuss three rom-coms for the Valentine’s Day return of Fiasco Family Movie Night!

    Show Notes.

    The triple feature (in order of discussion):

    • It Happened One Night (1934).

    • Down With Love (2003).

    • Isn’t It Romantic (2019).

      Movies and TV shows mentioned in the episode:

      • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

      • As Good As It Gets (1997).

      • Back to the Beach (1987).

      • Bring It On (2000).

      • The Final Girls (2015).

      • Girl Shy (1924).

      • Godzilla Minus One (2023).

      • Hairspray (1988).

      • The Hunt (2020).

      • Jaws (1975).

      • Martial Law (1998-2000).

      • Muriel’s Wedding (1994).

      • No Holds Barred (1989).

      • The Nutty Professor (1996).

      • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).

      • Pitch Perfect (2012).

      • The Road Warrior (1981).

      • Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1994).

      • The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

      • Sleepless in Seattle (1993).

      • Spaceballs (1987).

      • Streets of Fire (1984).

      • Suspense (1913).

      • Viva Knievel! (1977).

      • Who’s the Boss? (1984-1992).

      • Willie Dynamite (1972).

        Other media mentioned:

        • Hamlet, by William Shakespeare.

        • Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen.

        • Transmetropolitan (1997-2002), created by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson.

        • Watchmen (1986-1987), created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

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          1 hr 4 min
        • 59b. Bonus: The Satanic Panic.

          The Fiasco Family is joined by Bill

          Smiley to talk about moral
          panics, evidence of satanic rituals, and why Sean still holds a grudge against
          Tom Hanks.

          Show Notes.

          Note: Pat Robertson was still alive when this episode was recorded.

          Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults.

          Mazes and Monsters (1982).

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          1 hr 27 min
        • 59. Ernest Borgnine’s Goatsona: The Devil’s Rain.

          The Fiasco Family ponders the Devil’s Yearbook as they discuss the 1975 horror

          flop The Devil’s Rain.

          Show Notes.

          The Devil's Rain

          Host Recommendations

          Demon Knight (1995)

          Doctor Strange (2016)

          Evilspeak (1981)

          The Haunted Palace (1963)

          Trick or Treat (1986)

          The Wicker Man (1973)

          Listener Recommendations

          Art of the Devil (2004)

          Clash of the Titans (1981)

          Crash! (1976)

          Cronos (1993)

          Dagon (2001)

          Death Becomes Her (1992)

          Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

          The Evil Dead (1981)

          Evil Dead II (1987)

          The Evil Down the Street (2019)

          Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)

          The Gorgon (1964)

          Hellraiser (1987)

          Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

          (1989)

          The Mask (1961)

          Monty Python and the Holy Grail

          (1975)

          Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon

          (1957)

          Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

          Star Wars (1977)

          Also Mentioned

          2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

          The Making of ‘...And God Spoke’

          (1993)

          Blow Out (1981)

          Body Melt (1993)

          Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things

          (1972)

          The Exorcist (1973)

          The Food of the Gods (1976)

          Grease (1978)

          The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

          Incubus (1966)

          Roar (1981)

          Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness

          (1986)

          Our episodes on Demon Knight, The

          Making of ‘...And God Spoke’, The
          Hitch-Hiker,
          Roar, and Truth or Dare?: A Critical
          Madness.

          A Part of Our Scare-itage’s episode on The

          Mask.

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          1 hr 2 min
        • 58. Would You Like to Know More?: Starship Troopers.

          The Fiascos sign up to earn their citizenship and tour the healing tank

          facilities as they contemplate Paul Verhoeven’s upside-down adaptation
          Starship Troopers (1997).

          Show Notes.

          Starship Troopers

          Host Recommendations:

          Infra-Man (1975)

          Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare, aka The Great Yokai War

          (1968)

          Listener Recommendations:

          Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

          (1948)

          Alien vs. Predator (2004)

          Alien vs. Predator (2007)

          The Black Scorpion (1957)

          Clash of the Titans (1981)

          Destroy All Monsters (1968)

          Ghoulies II (1987)

          In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

          King Kong Escapes (1967)

          Night of the Creeps (1986)

          Night of the Lepus (1972)

          Pacific Rim (2013)

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          1 hr 4 min
        • 57. A Pie Chart Instead of a Pie Fight: Hudson Hawk.

          The Fiascos understand hubris, and sometimes they even admire it. This time

          they chase the hawk—Hudson Hawk (1991)—and try to uncover what went
          wrong… and what went weirdly right!

          Show Notes.

          Hudson Hawk

          Host Recommendations

          • Dick Tracy (1990)

          • Viva Knievel!

            Listener Recommendations

            • Battlefield Earth

            • Cool as Ice

            • Ishtar

            • Lady in the Water

            • The Last of Sheila

            • Nothing But the Night (1973)

            • Oscar (1991)

            • Street Smart

            • Tanya’s Island

              Our episodes on Street Smart and

              Streets of Fire.

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              57 min
            • 56. A Real Incoherent Breakdown of Reality: Waxworks.

              The Fiascos love anthologies, so this time they reach back to the Silent Era

              for an early example of the genre. Paul Leni and Leo Birinsky’s Waxworks
              (1924) combines fantastical tales with an experimental dream sequence to bring
              the wax figures to life.

              Show Notes.

              Waxworks

              Host Recommendations

              • The Devils

              • The Imaginary Voyage

                Listener Recommendations

                • A Christmas Story

                • The Fall (2006)

                • Forbidden Planet

                • Galaxy of Terror

                • Heavenly Creatures

                • Kung Fu Panda

                • Labyrinth

                • The Lego Movie

                • Mirrormask

                • The NeverEnding Story

                • Paddington 2

                • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

                • Sphere

                • Xtro

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                  1 hr 2 min
                • 55. Agatha Christie is Kind of Like Taco Bell: Witness for the Prosecution.

                  The Fiascos watch the proceedings in a sensational courtroom drama, in Billy

                  Wilder’s Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

                  Show Notes.

                  Witness for the Prosecution

                  Errata

                  • Sean misspoke. All That Jazz is from 1979, not 1973. They promise to get their eyes checked.

                    • Host Recommendations

                    • All That Jazz (1979)

                    • The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

                      Listener Recommendations

                      • All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

                      • Constantine (2005)

                      • Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

                      • The Fly (1986)

                      • Splice (2009)

                      • The Wrestler (2008)

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                        59 min
                      • 54. Nuclear Family Fission: Panic in Year Zero.

                        The Fiascos detect radioactivity from the breakdown of the American family in

                        Ray Milland’s 1962 apocalyptic film Panic in Year Zero. It’s the perfect
                        cheery note to start off our 3rd season!

                        Show Notes.

                        Panic in Year Zero.

                        The book about people cooperating in crises is A Paradise Built in

                        Hell by Rebecca Solnit.

                        Host Recommendations

                        • Back to God’s Country (1919)

                        • Best Friends Forever (2013)

                        • Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)

                          Other Films Mentioned

                          • Five (1951)

                          • Hot Rods to Hell (1967)

                            Listener Recommendations

                            • The American Astronaut (2001)

                            • Argo (2012)

                            • Armour of God/Operation Condor 2 (1986)

                            • Booksmart (2019)

                            • A Bronx Tale (1993)

                            • The Cemetery Club (1993)

                            • City Lights (1931)

                            • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

                            • The Day the Clown Cried (1972)

                            • Dick Tracy (1990)

                            • The Disaster Artist (2017)

                            • Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984)

                            • Drunken Master II: The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)

                            • Frailty (2001)

                            • Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

                            • Hamlet (1948)

                            • Hickey & Boggs (1972)

                            • Hope Floats (1998)

                            • Love’s Labours Lost (2000)

                            • Matilda (1996)

                            • The Night of the Hunter (1955)

                            • One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

                            • Operation Condor/Armour of God 2 (1991)

                            • Pedicab Driver (1989)

                            • Police Story (1985)

                            • Posse (1993)

                            • The Princess Bride (1987)

                            • Project A (1983)

                            • A Rage in Harlem (1991)

                            • The Stranger (1946)

                            • That Thing You Do! (1996)

                            • Thunder Road (1958)

                            • Unforgiven (1992)

                            • Viva (2007)

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                              1 hr 2 min

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