Ignoring the advice of Michael Douglas we encourage the bedroom shenanigans of Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford in UP CLOSE & PERSONAL. That's about all we are enthusiastic about though as we ponder the difficulty of an illiterate person choosing a career solely based on reading off a prompter, the office politics of borrowing another person's desk for lovemaking and choosing an alternate professional path... the far sexier filming of general appliances.

It goes without saying that this is the greatest podcast ever produced on UP CLOSE & PERSONAL. Dedicated to lovers.

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Guy Ritchie has never been known for subtlety and our hosts find themselves charmed by the neediness of other men to have Mr. Statham's approval in the new to video-on-demand WRATH OF MAN. Speaking of neediness, your hosts finally made their way back to the theater to catch this one (the auteur of KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD deserves such respect) and by god they were going to like it.

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Julia Roberts gets down in the mucky muck by playing a maid to John Malkovich and Hollywood's version of his monstrous alter ego... which is just John Malkovich with longer hair and no tact. On this episode we pine for the days when Ms. Roberts had a less icky screen role, say as a prostitute or even Hugh Grant's lover. All manner of sins which she has done in her service as a genuine movie star, but THIS... this was too much for the American public in 1996 and it has not become any sexier since.

Even with hair, Mr. Malkovich. Even with hair.

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Some actors form a bond with their fans that can never be broken. No matter what Netflix original crap comes our way... we will always have CHLOE, our dear Ms. Seyfried.

THINGS HEARD & SEEN... is no CHLOE. It is however a new film that involves a husband part that was dying for the charm and magnificent mugging of one Patrick Wilson. Alas, we are left with a dry ghost story that has us at times rooting for (yet again) the gaslighting of a good woman just so maybe our beloved Chloe (I mean, Seyfried) can escape this crap situation and move beyond the modern straight to video model of Netflix movies.

But today is not that day. Instead... you get a new episode of SOBER CINEMA.

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But mainly it's the audacity to try and do DUMB AND DUMBER on the cheap. That's what we keep coming back to when we discuss the Wilson brothers breakout in BOTTLE ROCKET. Is the world of cinema big enough for TWO films examining the bonds between men formed during a life of crime and affection for travel by moped? Martin Scorsese (and more importantly the other two hosts on SOBER CINEMA) say yes. The other host is an idiot.

His name is Jairo. But you may call him Bob Mapplethorpe.

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John Woo brought his over-the-top sensibilities to mainstream American success with BROKEN ARROW (never mind the earlier HARD TARGET) and landed right in the middle of the John Travolta renaissance. Unfortunately he paired this mugging masterpiece of a performance with fuddy-duddies like Christian Slater (PUMP UP THE VOLUME baby) as unbelievably his kickboxing sparring partner, Samantha Morton (also of the great PUMP UP THE VOLUME) as the world's best park ranger, and Frank Whaley as an ROTC DORK.

Thankfully SOBER CINEMA is here to make this a true two hander with Travolta and his main man Howie Long hanging out with phallic symbols in the desert.

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On this episode Alec Baldwin will teach us many a thing. First... that he is still a better parent than at least one of your hosts. Second... that even a mobster hit man must be wary of a group of people wearing discarded Super Bowl losing team t-shirts. And lastly that having an interest in Demi Moore does not make you special. You are just a dork like us. Ladies and gents, we present to you the 25th anniversary of the classic piece of cinema: THE JUROR.

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BED OF ROSES is a sweet movie about two creeps who shouldn't be creepy together... but then again they are both saving another life by combining their creep powers. And while none of us have Christian Slater's hair (probably far closer to Mary Stuart Masterson in that department) we still produce a weekly(ish) podcast about our creepy thoughts.

And we still don't get this flick. An expert commentary track ready for your ears as we eventually talk about one host's latest Amazon purchase that avoids awkward flower deliveries or Christmas proposals. All it needs is a microwave and the occasional cleaning. Romance!

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As we continue to get lazier on this show (once there were two movies an episode, how foolish) we have handed over our film-watching fates to the gods of 1996 as we begin our journey to go week by week through the year that is well-known as the peak of cinema!

Also Salma Hayek as a vampire stripper is an obvious place to start.

Not just with movies. With anything. And who are we to question this simple fact? Along the way we debate if two and a half decades have revealed our initial enthusiasm for Ms. Hayek's monsters as the product of teenage hormones or perhaps life is a truly a flat circle and we will come to terms with now just being horny old men.

Spoiler alert: yes.

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We cruise (excuse us, a crossing) into the new year with The GOAT, Meryl Streep, in her latest LET THEM ALL TALK. This improvised Steven Soderbergh film finds her doing battle with Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and the next member of that gang, our co-host The Nasty Hellcat.

THE RIVER WILD from 1994 may be more his speed as in this Curtis Hanson directed film we find Streep in charge of nature but taking orders from a Kevin Bacon who can't swim. But chooses his mode of getaway travel to be water. Good decisions being made in 2021 like listening to SOBER CINEMA!

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