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As millions of kids around the world enter into the weirdest school year ever, Karen and special guest, Ashlee Blackwell, school Janet on the joys of summer learning. Head back to class with them as they revisit the 1987 cult classic, Summer School.
From the guileless fish-out-of-water to intrepid mummy slayer, Brendan Fraser has starred in a plethora of different film roles over the years. As his career continues to flourish within prestige television, Karen and Janet look back at two of his earliest movies, Encino Man and Airheads, and happily give credit where credit is due.
At last, in 2004, Asian American movie audiences finally got what they had always wanted: a mainstream comedy featuring real Asian American characters! Played by real actors of Asian descent! But was Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle really all it was cracked up to be? This week, Karen and Janet are joined by the inimitable Juan Caceres to discuss where Harold and Kumar fit within the landscape of American cinema during early 2000s and how that landscape has since evolved.
During "The Summer of Cage," movie audiences were treated to not one, but two blockbuster action films starring Nicholas Kim Coppola, aka "Nicolas Cage." Fresh off of Cage's Oscar win for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas and the success of The Rock the previous year, both Con Air and Face/Off premiered in theaters in June of 1997.
To celebrate the agony and the ecstasy of both films, Karen and Janet are joined this week by filmmakers, Nicole Witte Solomon and Sean Mannion. Come and partake with them in Guilt Free Features' first ever CageFest!
During "The Summer of Cage," movie audiences were treated to not one, but two blockbuster action films starring Nicholas Kim Coppola, aka "Nicolas Cage." Fresh off of Cage's Oscar win for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas and the success of The Rock the previous year, both Con Air and Face/Off premiered in theaters in June of 1997.
To celebrate the agony and the ecstasy of both films, Karen and Janet are joined this week by filmmakers, Nicole Witte Solomon and Sean Mannion. Come and partake with them in Guilt Free Features' first ever CageFest!
Wherein Karen and Janet host a proper salon with special guest and social media extraordinaire, Kimberly Eaton. Together, they discuss the brilliance of Eddie Murphy, the state of the Blasian Alliance in American cinema, and the supreme quotability of the 1986 classic, The Golden Child.
Everyone needs some big dumb fun in their lives. What better vehicle for that (we'll show ourselves out) than the FAST AND FURIOUS franchise? In this joyride of an episode, Karen and Janet discuss the merits of trading the laws of physics for the bonds of family and how, shockingly, it works!
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Karen and Janet totally geek out over their childhood figure skating obsessions while discussing the cult classic rom com, The Cutting Edge.
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