Silver Linings Playback

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. But, along the way, they also end up pitching a lot of films of their own.

So this week, we bring you the best pitches of 2025, including The Insane Clown Policy, The Seventh Sense and Anaconda 2.

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For December, they are watching Christmas movies.

This week, Joel and Andy are joined by Ernest-aficionado Michelle Faulkner-Forson to discuss Ernest Saves Christmas; a film that may be maligned, but one that may have also inspired The Santa Clause.

• Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
• Directed by: John R. Cherry III
• Written by: Ed Turner (story by), B. Kline and Ed Turner (screenplay by)
• Starring: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Gailard Sartain

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For December, they are watching Christmas movies.

This week, Joel and Andy have stumbled across a truly bizarre film: A Wrestling Christmas Miracle. In it, a high school wrestler makes a film to wake his friend from a coma; only to have the film stolen days before Christmas.

• A Wrestling Christmas Miracle (2020)
• Directed by: Chris T. Anthony
• Written by: Ken Del Vecchio (story), Ken Del Vecchio & Buddy Fitzpatrick (screenplay), Dylan Blank (written by: “Kace’s Movie”), Ken Del Vecchio (written by: “Kace’s Movie”)
• Starring: Mario Del Vecchio, Buddy Fitzpatrick, Julie McCullough, Candy Fox, Scott Schwartz, Ken Del Vecchio

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For December, they are watching Christmas movies.

This week, Joel and Andy are joined by Jillian Vitko. Together, they have A Very Jonas Christmas.

• A Very Jonas Brothers Christmas (2025)
• Directed by: Jessica Yu
• Written by: Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger
• Starring: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Chloe Bennet, Nick Jonas, Billie Lourd, Laverne Cox

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, in honor of turkeys, they are watching bowling movies.

This week, Joel and Andy are joined by Anthony Leonelli. Together, they discuss the bowlingest bowling movie so far … Kingpin.

• Kingpin (1996)
• Directed by: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly
• Written by: Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan
• Starring: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Bill Murray, Chris Elliott

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, in honor of turkeys, they are watching bowling movies.

This week, Joel and Andy are watching the live-action Flintstones film, starring John Goodman in a role he was born to play.

• The Flintstones (1994)
• Directed by: Brian Levant
• Written by: Tom S. Parker & Jim Jennewein and Steven E. de Souza
• Starring: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O’Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Taylor

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, in honor of turkeys, they are watching bowling movies.

This week, Joel and Andy watch The Jesus Rolls, a film that is billed as a spinoff of The Big Lebowski, but is instead a remake of the controversial 1970s French film Going Places.

• The Jesus Rolls (2019)
• Directed by: John Turturro
• Written by: John Turturro (screenplay), Bertrand Blier (based on the book “Les Valseuses” by), Bertrand Blier and Philippe Dumarçay (based on the screenplay by)
• Starring: John Turturro, Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Susan Sarandon, Pete Davidson, Jon Hamm, J.B. Smoove, Christopher Walken, Tim Blake Nelson

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, in honor of turkeys, they are watching bowling movies.

Joel and Andy kick off the month with King Ralph, a movie where a brash American becomes the King of England and bowls inside Buckingham Palace.

• King Ralph (1991)
• Directed by: David S. Ward
• Written by: Emlyn Williams (novel “Headlong”), David S. Ward (screenplay)
• Starring: John Goodman, Peter O’Toole, John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Phillips

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For October, Joel and Andy are checking into the Overlook Hotel for a month of Stephen King films.

With Edgar Wright’s remake right around the corner, Joel and Andy revisit the original 1987 The Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson.

• The Running Man (1987)
• Directed by: Paul Michael Glaser Written by: Stephen King (based on the novel by), Steven E. de Souza (screenplay by)
• Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Erland van Lidth, Marvin J. McIntyre, Gus Rethwisch, Professor Toru Tanaka, Mick Fleetwood, Dweezil Zappa, Richard Dawson

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For October, Joel and Andy are checking into the Overlook Hotel for a month of Stephen King films.

This week, Joel and Andy set out in search of the Man in Black and the elusive Dark Tower. They discuss the 2017 adaptation of one of King’s most beloved book series starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.

• The Dark Tower (2017)
• Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel
• Written by: Akiva Goldsman & Jeff Pinkner and Anders Thomas Jensen & Nikolaj Arcel (screenplay by); Stephen King (based on “The Dark Tower” novels by)
• Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, Tom Taylor, Dennis Haysbert, Ben Gavin, Claudia Kim, Jackie Earle Haley

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music

“Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels

Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here.

Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.