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Another No Flicks Given to make your holiday cheer soar! This time Fix-a-Flick's Connor comes to us with an impossible problem to solve: how do you make Die Hard 2 (Die Harder) good? Can it be done? Is it just a matter of more naked Tai Chi? The No Flicks Given crew is here to talk all things Die Hard, so pour your eggnog, swap out your blanks and light a runway on fire.  

Welcome to the party, pals.

Julia Roberts fakes her death and hides in Iowa to escape a psychopathic mustache and the man attached to it.

You can all blame Amanda for this one - a 90s marital thriller centered around Julia Roberts hot off the success of Pretty Woman. A movie so incompetent, they managed to cast a new love interest that is somehow just as creepy as the violent husband that is hunting her. We're joined by friend-of-the-pod Amanda Kusek and also newcomer MB Welch (our self-appointed JRob expert) to chat about 1991's Sleeping With the Enemy. We chat about the stale dialogue, the intense first-act "slap energy", the over-indulgent and overly useless state fair scene and of course all those qualities we come to except from the one-and-only Julia Roberts (mostly the hair).

As always, you can find Amanda at cheapcourage.com.

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The president's got a girlfriend...

We're back to help everybody get through this election day, I mean week, I mean month. Today we revisit Aaron Sorkin's The American President, the basis of what would become the West Wing and also a fantastic Rob Reiner film. Annette Bening plays Sydney Ellen Wade, who begins a romantic relationship with the president of the United States, Andrew Shepard, played by a Michael Douglas that is doing his best to keep his smarmy factor down to zero (which he totally does pull off somehow.

Three kids chase the ghost of their friend through the history of Halloween...with some sort of soul-collector guide?

It's the last of our No Flicks Given series of Halloween hidden gems. Last (but not least) we come to Peter's pick: 1993's 'The Halloween Tree', an animated spooky adventure written - and for some reason narrated by - Ray Bradbury.

It's the story of Mr. Moundshroud, a bald vampiric Gandalfian soul harvester hellbent on claiming the ghost of Pip, the absolute god damn fucking coolest kid to have ever been born (not even kidding, the movie makes this explicit). Along the way, he educates the rest of Pip's friends on the history of Halloween and why we have the costumes we have.

We hope you've enjoyed this Halloween spooktacular series of No Flicks Given episodes. We certainly have. See you all at Christmas!

Also Leonard Nimoy's in this. Yes Matt uses it as the Star Trek connection because of course he does.

A lonely and plain man finds an invitation  entitled "Murder Party", on the street. He makes his way to Brooklyn to attend the party, only to discover it is actually a trap set by a group of deranged art students.

In our penultimate episode, the boys discuss this snapshot of city life in the mid-late aughties. While none of the boys ended up being unwitting victims of some hipster's "art", they had plenty of experience walking home from Bushwick at 3 in the morning on a brusque, fall night. Matt joins us from the spirit-realm, so please forgive his audio.

Connor and Peter from Fix-a-Flick help us enter the home stretch of this "NO FLICKS GIVEN" Halloweason marathon!

Murderous jell-o wreaks havoc on a small American town (it's better than it sounds).

Let us just say...this is a special one. We highly recommend watching the movie before listening to the episode (a Gi5 first). We almost don't even want to describe anything about it in order to not give anything away. You wouldn't think the remake of a 1950s b-movie about evil jelly would be anything worth revisiting but it is, having now become one of Frank's every-year Halloween staples.

We're joined once again by Connor & Peter of the Fix-a-Flick Podcast to bring you another spooky entry into our No Flicks Given Halloween series. Two down, two to go...

It's Ronald Reagan's worst nightmare...

Welcome to another episode of No Flicks Given, a podcast that technically doesn't exist. Matt & Frank are joined by Connor & Peter of the Fix-a-Flick Podcast to talk about the first of our Halloween spooktacular movies. All four of us picked a different "favorite Halloween movie" to talk about. 

Today we present you with Connor's: The Lost Boys. Before Buffy, before Twilight, there was Kiefer Sutherland and his spider-white hair. It's Southern California. It's vampires. It's THE Jason fucking Patric, Hollywood superstar from such films as Speed 2: Cruise Control and...I think one of the Alamo movies?

A summer camp caretaker named Cropsey is horribly burnt from a prank gone wrong. Years later, after being released with severe disfigurements, he seeks to target those responsible...

A Cropsey movie starring George Costanza? Sign us up! Unfortunately, it's a little more complicated than that. Friend of the pod Rob Schulte (of the @PumpkinSpicePodcast) helps us open up Spooky Season with an oft-forgotten slasher from the early days of Miramax (hence the complication).

Can the trio build a make-shift raft of Jason Alexander's performance, Tom Savini's effects, and paddle their way back to safety?  Listen to find out!

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A Russian submarine commander goes rogue in the most advanced and deadly nuclear submarine ever constructed, pursued by both the American and Russian navy.

James Bond. Dr. Alan Grant. Darth Vader. Jack Donaghy. The principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This one has it all. Welcome to the crescendo of Subtember! Our submariners James Combs and Tom Hanley are back and with us to talk about this classic war film is Steve Madeja, and animation producer and tour guide of New York's most interesting historical sites. Listen in as we discuss our collective lukewarm distaste of the Jack Ryan franchise and go down quite the rabbit hole talking about the ponytail-that-almost-was...

On almost every list of the best submarine movies ever made, this is often #1. Tom Clancy's most successful screen adaptation and a fantastic entry into John McTiernan's already illustrious career, The Hunt for Red October is everything you want in a submarine movie. Tension. Drama. Claustrophobia. A traitorous cook. And of course...competency-porn.

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Dr. Frasier Crane on a WWII submarine versus the modern US navy.

We're back for the second episode of our Subtember series! This time we bring you Down Periscope, a movie that could only be made in that peaceful sweet spot of history between 1991 and 2001, a lighthearted comedy from the same minds that brought you Police Academy and Major League (so basically a love-able bunch of losers who come together under a charismatic leader). 

Back again to talk about this with us is Amanda Kusek of cheapcourage.com. You can also hear here on one of our earliest episodes - Murder By Death. Follow her on IG @cheapcourage. Also she's engaged to Frank...so there's that.

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