Optimism Vaccine

This year, The Dumpuary Fairy has blessed our local multiplex with monsters who want to be trucks, a Vin Diesel who wants to be a younger Vin Diesel and an M. Night Shyamalan movie that wants to be a superhero franchise. BONUS: Whatever the fuck a Bye Bye Man is. Jesus take the wheel.

Happy Dumpuary everyone! We're kicking off the festivities by recapping the worst trash we sat through in 2016 for the good of all mankind (or at least the misanthropes who listen to this podcast). From Will Smith movies to more will Smith Movies and dirty grandpas to dirty anthropomorphic food, no cinematic turd is left unturned!

The OV crew rings in the new year by recapping our favorite overlooked and underrated pop culture artifacts from 2016. We also make our resolutions for 2017 that we'll inevitably break because we're perennial disappointments, baby!

Optimism Vaccine is hip! With it! Tapped into the Zeitgeist! We saw Arrival; the cerebral sci-fi critical darling of 2016 starring Amy Adams. Not to be confused with that 90s movie where fat Charlie Sheen listens to SPACE RADIO. We also talk about piss theaters, the latest zero percenter on rotten tomatoes and swap tales of drunk people puking and fighting during movies.

In classic Optimism Vaccine fashion, Steve K, Steve C and Jake wrap up Canuxploitation month a solid two weeks late. But hey, who's counting? This is Trump's America now. We need to savor the flavor of Canadian weirdness for as long as possible. Tune-in for an in-depth discussion of the newly resurrected shot-on-video classic, Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiment and the greatest story ever told about a shirtless hair metal singer fighting demons, Rock n' Roll Nightmare. The boys also try to make sense of Things which, as far as they can tell, is just a movie about making sandwiches. So come on! Get caught in a tailspin, baby!

Steve and Miros get in the Halloween spirit and take Shawn on a tour of David Cronenberg's rise in the 1980s from a low-budget genre film maverick to a slightly-higher-budget genre film maverick.

In honor of Optimism Vaccine's canuxsploitation month, Jake and Jack introduce Shawn to the weird world of early David Cronenberg horror films. Shivers! Scanners! The Brood! That armpit vagina vampire one about rabies... or something! We cover it all.

Steve C and Steve K braved the wild weather of west Michigan to bring you a full report of the Tears For Fears live show at the Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids.

This week Steve K, Steve C and a special guest discuss their favorite tracks from each Tears for Fears record and talk about the upcoming show in Grand Rapids, MI. BONUS: No annoying audio issues this time! WOO HOO!