Mark As Played

A movie podcast can not do a themed month celebrating international films without mentioning the grandaddy of them all. The one and only Australian film known to American audiences. The cinematic treasure that THE CURB blogs about daily. And beloved by families all over for a glorious and gratuitous butt shot: CROCODILE DUNDEE. Thankfully we have two other podcasts in THE SINNER FILES and SPOILERPIECE THEATRE that don't go for any of the above hyperbole (or misrepresentation) in our episode on films representing their countries. That's what we're for. You're welcome, Australia!

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Like most movie podcasts (but not the fine people over at THE CINE-FILES and FLIXWATCHER) we enjoy a good session of complaining. If you don't believe us now might be the time to take advantage of our back catalogue but if you can't be bothered here's an episode on the great IN BRUGES and how we approach the art of nit-picking movies in the charming manner of Colin Farrell. And when that fails we just rant. Enjoy!

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In our continuing quest for one host to make the other uncomfortable one man is forced to watch THE FOREIGNER as Jackie Chan shows a different side of his on screen action persona. This doesn't stop your hosts from doing their usual amount of gloating and complaining but more importantly also recommending some great podcasts on the subject. THE MIXED REVIEWS and VERTICAL VIEWING both react to change of pace in cinema in different ways and more importantly in ways that are unlike MARK AS PLAYED. Something that our beleaguered listeners can agree is a good thing. Enjoy!

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On this episode we lament the horrible life of rejection that Andy Garcia must have faced in his many roles of supporting other movie stars. Thankfully on this podcast we appreciate magnificent body hair... and also the acting of this great man. But for other insight into elevating great supporting players you may want to turn to the podcasts BALD MOVE and P.S. I LOVE HOFFMAN. But if you want body hair talk! Well, you are in the right place.

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In these troubled times we must put our faith in a drunken Anne Hathaway because that's an easier pill to swallow than trusting in your podcast co-host to steer you to a great movie in COLOSSAL. Since the other host of the show is writing these show notes, we'll just say they both are right on this strange monster movie. Two other podcasts that are right on this subject are THE NEXT REEL and WRITE YOUR SCREENPLAY. But before you listen to them... well, you know.

At the time of this release there's a lot of self-reflection going on. A lot of time to think. A lot of time without new entertainment. Which means this very podcast finally has a willing audience (maybe). On this episode we take advantage of this pass in movie pop culture to revisit some old favorites and to do so we will follow the lead of much better film podcasts. MOVIES I MISSED and THE MOVIE JOURNEY PODCAST start things off for us in what appears to be a summer of playing the old favorites and challenging ourselves to finally hit play on the films that at least one host can not pronounce (Jairo).

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Many will be disappointed with our return but thankfully we don't have the track record of Elisabeth Moss. On this episode Mike welcomes back Web Bist (previously found on our 40th anniversary episode for ALIEN) to not talk about the recent success of Ms. Moss in THE INVISIBLE MAN but last year's apparently painful failure for the director Alex Ross Perry in HER SMELL. Your bitter host reads off some of the even more bitter comments from Perry and hopes to make Web as upset as everyone else involved with this project but in the end we just talk about GREEN BOOK. Enjoy!

We can't deny it any longer.

Our demographic is getting older. And it's fucking killing our show.

To rectify this we decide to embrace it. So sit back and enjoy your old man's podcast for this Father's Day weekend as we try to see what the kids are into at the movies these days with two great podcasts in THIS HAD OSCAR BUZZ and F THIS MOVIE!

Spoiler alert: by the end of this podcast we decide to change the format to a minute by minute review of the GRUMPY OLD MEN saga. You're welcome.

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As two world-renowned podcast hosts we are used to being stalked by our legion of fans. So consider this an ode to those adoring people of fine taste as we take a look at new to video GRETA and stalker films. Films that show that with great hustle and effort... you can become the genuine creep everyone always knew you were. Since we provide creepiness on a regular basis we look to the podcasts SITTING AROUND TALKING ABOUT MOVIES and THE SPOILER WARNING to provide insight into this genre. But don't get me wrong... keep stalking us here:

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On this episode two old men look forward to death, I mean winter, but not before one last round with the summer movie season. To help Jairo and Dave along through this time of very purple and very bald aliens, explosions, and a cartoon or three is this week's featured podcast FLASHBACK FLICKS. Make the wise choice by checking them out and enjoy your summer at the movies. Enjoy the pain of MARK AS PLAYED!

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'til the Words Run Out from the album Fair City Lights