Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

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Horror, dread, and misery. And that's just Keanu's accent. Gary Oldman is serving generous amounts of holiday ham in this campy, unintentionally hilarious 90's horror classic.
Not to be outdone Anthony Hopkins goes full batcrap crazy here too.  But it's all okay because our Sweet Winona looks over us all.
The best part for your grumpy hosts however is the presence of our favorite Alaskan homesteader-baker-warrior-ice queen-super cool @mollsmusings sitting in for this one.

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We're bringing our Dominos pizza and a two liter Coke downstairs to the rumpus room for another late night viewing of the greatest cult horror comedy ever made.  Violent, gross, disturbing, yet never not hilarious.
Even better, everyone's favorite veterinarian, Dr K. joins the gang to offer some ridiculously astute and off the wall observations that our hosts have never truly  recovered from.  

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Cool teen vampires? No way!  We're going back to the glorious 80s this week when a movie like this one would be celebrated by the masses. Is it as good in the rear view mirror? Well sadly, one of your hosts gets violently and copiously sick reliving this one if that's any indication.  See if you can guess which one!
After some mopping up and apologizing, the gang test their movie chops by calculating how many of Empire Magazine's 50 greatest horror movies they've actually seen.  The results are as embarrassing as ever.

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To honor last year's Halloween BooNanza, we've decided to re-release those spooky episodes every Saturday this October to introduce them to our new friends while still managing to annoy our regular fans.
This one features our favorite vinyl archivist, @aron_gagliardo as we violate our tender sensibilities reviewing this 1974 Tobe Hooper classic. Bitch hogs unite! 

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This week the boys review this adorable story of American entrepreneurship, love, and pelicans. Al Pacino's iconic, if not over-the-top, performance has developed its own archetype of cinema that's often imitated, rarely duplicated.  Show favorite, Michelle Pfeiffer owns the screen only with a few eye rolls and the lethal combo of Brian DePalma and Oliver Stone do the rest.  Did we mention the chainsaws?
Stick around for the end where the boys discuss other movies and performances that defined the eras they represented.

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Is it finally happening?  Did a Yoko-type infiltrate and cause the inevitable break up we all saw coming since Twister released in 2022?

In a word: nah

We simply wanted to let you know about some upcoming show news and a slight schedule change for this fall. No, we're not skimping out on any episodes.  You're still gonna get all the episodes you paid for.  Hey.  Wait a minute.....

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Bereft of new ideas, Hollywood has again taken another of our classic movies to reintroduce it to a new audience and we're starting to take it personally.  These are our movies, damn it.  Make up your own ones!
Okay, tantrum over.
This time were going back to the glorious original, Betelgeuese from 1988. Keaton is cool and Winona is cute. And that was all we needed.
Stick around to our morbid take on movies about the afterlife. We, ourselves are, strange and unusual.

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What if Evel Kneivel and and Ed Wood had a baby? Broken Arrow, that's what.  Travolta is a proper cured Virginia ham in this John Woo action adventure and we cant get enough of it.  Long admired behind the scenes, the boys let there feelings out with extreme prejudice.  
Inspired by cute, little Samantha Mathis, we also talk about our favorite ingenues of the 80s and 90s.
This is one's a Grumpy Nostalgia new favorite.  Aint it cool?

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Why go to a theater to see an 8th sequel of Alien, when you can simply revisit the franchise from the comfort of your own ear buds?  Inspired by the new release of Alien: Romulus, the boys remastered their early take on the Alien series with new content, new audio, and new embarrassing discourse!  Only about a dozen of you heard this the first time so we don't wanna hear any guff about repurposing old episodes.  More work went into remastering this episode than the recording of the original and we're childishly bitter about it. So that's good.
Game over, man!

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Just when we thought we were out.  The boys get a chip on their shoulder this week, defending this often maligned finale.  By today's standards this movie could easily sweep the Oscars, but back then, a bunch of film school drop-outs had a serious case of sour grapes and the rest was history. We suppose they practiced  trolling Sophia Coppola to later refine their skills for the likes of Jake Lloyd and Ahmed Best.
Regardless, the Godfather quotes fly furiously, and we finally read some mail only to realize that our fanbase is moderately disturbed (in a good way).