Interjections: The Undiscovered Decade

For the second month of 1995, the boys are looking to tip the scales with their latest film!

Gerry Garner (Aaron Schwartz) is forced by his parents to attend fat camp over the summer, but it’s not quite what he expected! Camp Hope is a body positive place, where counselors such as Pat Finley (Tom McGowan) are happy to help you lose weight if it fits your personality. Unfortunately, the fun is short lived when fitness entrepreneur Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller) takes over the helm and institutes a strict diet and exercise on the campers. Gerry and Pat work together to take back the camp, but they have their work cut out for them! Will they win the day, and prove themselves worthy of being.….Heavyweights!

For the first month of 1995, we catch hell for watching our first ever horror film of the podcast!

Drifter Frank Brayker (William Sadler) is being pursued by a powerful demon called The Collector (Billy Zane). He’s nearing the end of the road when he holes up in a grimy boarding house in a one-horse town. The eclectic townspeople trapped with him are torn apart one by one when the Collector sics his minions on the house. Will Brayker break down, or will he manage to keep all his demons at bay? All he needs is a….Demon Knight!

In the season finale, our hosts sit down in person to review the past year and think about how far they've come. Together they've assembled a top five consisting of some of the best films they covered during the past few months. This is the best of 1994!

December 1994 - I.Q.

For the twelfth month of 1994, we watched one of our most infamous public figures play matchmaker in a period rom-com!

Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan) is a mathematics doctoral candidate at Princeton University who starts to wonder whether her engagement to experimental psychology professor James Moreland (Stephen Fry) is worth it or might bog down her scientific prospects. Her famous uncle, Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) decides to play matchmaker when sparks fly during a chance meeting with a local mechanic, Ed Walters (Tim Robbins). Will Einstein’s theories about the pair end up proving to be right? Only if they match up with their….I.Q.!

For the eleventh month of 1994, we looked at the intricacies of professor and student relationships!

Carol (Debra Eisenstadt) has come to her professor John (William H. Macy) to fiscuss a failing grade. What follows is a cat and mouse game between two people who have motives that contradict their own moralities. They know there should be boundaries but don’t express them. Will their plans be able to culminate in a copacetic conclusion, or will their utopian ideals fail? In an adaptation of his own hit play, it's David Mamet’s….Oleanna!

For the tenth month of 1994, we took a break at the Battle Creek Sanitarium!

Entrepreneur John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins) longs to help all sorts of people with their health maladies at his massive Michigan sanitarium. Included among some of his patients are William Lightbody (Matthew Broderick), his wife Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), who cross paths with lesser entrepreneurs such as Charles Ossining (John Cusack) and Kellogg’s estranged son George (Dana Carvey). Will any of them find peace, happiness and most importantly, health? We’ll find out along….The Road to Wellville!

For the ninth month of 1994, we trek north for a white knuckle adventure!

Former river guide Gail Hartman (Meryl Streep) brings her son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) to her old haunts on the Salmon River in Idaho. Not only does Gail have to deal with rough waters, but when her workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn) decides to join them, she has to deal with their rocky marital issues. On top of all that, the trio crosses path with a pair of vagabonds (Kevin Bacon & John C. Reilly). Can Gail master The Gauntlet, a treacherous stretch of the river, just like she did in her heyday, or will everything sink around her? She might just be in over her head on….The River Wild!

For the eighth month of 1994, we sashay our way back Down Under!

Sydney based drag queen Mitzi Del Bra (Hugo Weaving) is requested to set up a show for a hotel all the way across the country, in Alice Springs. He convinces old friend Bernadette (Terence Stamp) and upstart diva Felicia (Guy Pearce) to join him. Felicia manages to find a bus that will take them across the Outback, christening it Priscilla. Will their squabbling get the best of them, or will they learn a lot about themselves along the way? These are….The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!

For the seventh month of 1994, we let some anger out in Beantown!

Boston bomb squad leader Jimmy Dove (Jeff.Bridges) is haunted by his past, where he participated in IRA terrorism alongside pal Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones). Now escaoed from prison, Gaerity tracks Jimmy down and completely dismantles his life. While Gaerity dispatches his squad one by one, Jimmy must stay one step ahead and keep his wire cutters ready. Otherwise, he might be….Blown Away!

For the sixth month of 1994, we had some basic training with the Bard!

Danny DeVito returns to the podcast to play Bill Rago, a disgraced ad man who finds himself in the position to teach some upstart army brats about the works of William Shakespeare. While he gets these soldiers into shape, he learns just enough about his own life lessons. After all, this will make him a….Renaissance Man!