Read it and Weep

Do you like your action movies campy and a little racist? Then you’re going to love Big Trouble in Little China! It’s really fun and the special effects hold up surprisingly well. Kurt Russel’s mullet does not.

We also look like geniuses because it was just announced this week that it’s getting remade. We watchi BTLC before it was cool.

Thanks to Jeff for sponsoring and thanks to first-item guest Allie Goertz! She sings nerdy love songs and hosts a podcast about the Simpson’s!

It’s our 2nd ever International Live Show! Watch along as we talk about two movies about the intense side of Motherhood, Stepmom and the 4th Alien movie. Both have their moments but neither is what I’d call “fun.” Still, we had some fun so watch along and enjoy! And thanks to everybody who participated.

Mom Month keeps on with a show that only moms like, NBC’s The Voice!

Each episode of this incredibly long show features some people singing followed by elaborate and expensive voting and then nobody gets eliminated. It takes a while. Oh and celebrities quarreling, that’s pretty fun. And the chair is amazing.

Happy mom month, everybody. To celebrate, we’re letting our favorite moms (our own) pick some of their favorite topics. This week, Alex’s mom selected the thoroughly appropriate Mamma Mia! movie starring Meryl Streep and a bunch of hot guys who can’t sing. Good news, Mamma Falcone, at least one of us liked it!

The rest of us had a hard time with a jukebox musical, Abba, cheesy cheesiness, and Pierce Brosnan’s singing. Mostly that last one. His voice is as ugly as his eyes are beautiful.

Do you remember being home sick in the 90s? If you do, then you remember a polite rich lady who solved murders up in Maine and wrote about them. Murder, you watched.

Murder, She Wrote ran for over 12 years and is considered one of the most successful shows in the history of television. And for good reason, it’s a fun romp whether you’re old or just old at heart.

There are a lot of young adult books you can’t feel good about your children reading, but Tamora Pierce’s books have a lot to like. They’re sex positive, the main character is a badass girl, and there’s a talking cat that sits in on meetings of the war council.

Alanna is a young boy who’s secretly a girl. Like Harry Potter, she’s the only one in the world who can stop evil. But while she slowly defeats a bully and a villain, she gets in fun adventures like fencing, magical healing, and trying not to swim. And where many books of this ilk don’t hold up, The Song of the Lioness series actually does.

Did a satanist cult steal your granddaughter with plans to sacrifice her? Then buckle up, because to get out of hell you’re going to need to… Drive Angry.

It’s hard to go wrong with a Nic Cage movie (except for Tanya, who thinks they frequently go wrong), and this one’s about as bananas as any he’s made. There’s a sex gunfight, lots of CGI bullets, and eye-popping 3D! (No seriously, his eye gets shot out.)

Thanks to Xua for stopping by. And make sure to check out the new record from his band Swahili.

In this the 7th installment (!) of the Fast & Furious franchise, Vin and fam have gotten it down to a science. Somebody wants to do something bad and the only way to stop them is a ridiculous action sequence involving cars. And it’s a beautiful thing.

In another Super Host Funzone, we talk about Chris’s favorite guiltless pleasure. And it (mostly) lives up to our expectations. There’s punching, driving, talking about family, and some insane things. And the main character looks like a talking ham.

Eccentric French artists and the 80s. Two great tastes that taste confusing but fun together.

Diva was a sponsorship from somebody who wanted us to have a treat. And we did. It’s weird, it’s cool, it’s romantic, it’s exciting, it’s nonsensical, it’s pro-stalking, I mean there really are a million things going on. And that makes for a great podcast. Thanks, Sponsor Dave and newest Meat Buddy Chris. You’re the Divas of Tanya’s two hearts.

Moms and their teenage daughters will never understand each other; the gulf is just too great to cross. That is, unless you have a magic lady at a Chinese restaurant. With her fortune cookies you can jump right across that gulf, but along the way you’ll have a pretty Freaky Friday.

That’s what happens in the 2003 version of the movie with an unreasonably talented rock band replacing the diving team of the 1970s version. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as the older half of the duo with a Kernels Of Crisis edition of Lindsay Lohan. It’s super awkward but has some definite fun parts. Thanks to our fabulous Meat Buddies for picking it as our ending to Foreign Bodies Month.