Sober Cinema

We somehow manage to get into a discussion on bondage in film... and that's even with a brief mention of the Rosie O'Donnell comedy on the subject. But we ARE NOT discussing that film, instead the sexy Antonio Banderas is a man who loves a good Walkman, wigs, and some ropes in the bedroom, the latter of which would be required to watch YET ANOTHER horror anthology from Stephen King in TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE.

But we're podcast professionals. Which means we only talk about bathtub toys as butt plugs seven times as we discuss the color palette in the Pedro Almodóvar film. Enjoy!

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For Earth Day we got back in touch with nature by not leaving the house and watching a double feature of DisneyNature's MONKEY KINGDOM and Tippi Hedren's costly mistake ROAR. Five years ago we had no desire to run around with ugly and elitist monkeys, nor did we want to wrestle with lions and tigers... and even with the world shut down, we still don't. Some things never change but for this episode one of your hosts is lathered up and that's a reminder that SOBER CINEMA can only exist in audio form.

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We just want to have fun with a champion cat roaming town to town to get electroshocked and fight trolls in CAT'S EYE. And when that doesn't do it for us we go to the greatest troll in cinematic history: Helen Hunt in GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN. It's been thirty-five years since both these films announced themselves with much dance from Sarah Jessica Parker and merriment in tormenting James Woods and we felt that right now the world needs to be reminded of these simple joys.

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We talked about two movies everyone hated and we hate you too.

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Our love of Sam Rockwell and hatred of Pete Davidson lead us to the obvious podcast pairing of the two previous Sundance Film Festival darlings in LAGGIES and BIG TIME ADOLESCENCE. And while we are just one of the millions covering these films this week on movie podcasts as opposed to something more off-topic like OUTBREAK or CONTAGION, the reactions we have to this particular double feature produced some scary reactions. Is Pete Davidson a ghoul? Almost certainly. But was he in a better movie than America's sweetheart Sam Rockwell? The world would end. With that in mind pay us for this podcast at Patreon!

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We spent our St. Patrick's Day weekend like most responsible Americans during this time of disease, famine and doomsday titillation... by drinking to excess in isolation and watching BLACK CHRISTMAS. This third version of the story failed at the box-office during it's titled holiday season with the hopes that one day SOBER CINEMA would feature it during another holiday week so that it can shape young minds to hate all men. Given that your two hosts hate themselves we might not be the ideal target audience... but it's the one that you all deserve. Enjoy!

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One host and our returning guest ANDY FROM WORK celebrate the DVD release of everyone's favorite film OF ALL TIME in UNCUT GEMS. However one host, the hero Film Twitter needs right now, hated it. To make sense of this we bring in THE VOICE OF LETTERBOXD to explain the love for a crying and naked Adam Sandler before we get into the best pathetic personas on film and depressing sports losses. It's a good time!

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Unfortunately for the Internet we make our podcast visible again on presumably thousands of playlists as we talk about new release THE INVISIBLE MAN and how it cursed us with a ten year anniversary of Benicio del Toro as THE WOLFMAN. And then we get into the logistics of grappling with a nude man who refuses to put on clothes. How's that for imagery, superfan Jairo and Andy From Work?

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On October 30, 1998 the world celebrated Edward Norton as The Sorry Nazi in Tony Kaye's (??) AMERICAN HISTORY X and twenty-one year laters during the publicity tour for the November 1, 2019 release of his film MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN the world asked Edward Norton to apologize for being Edward Norton. Dave Giannini of A PODCAST DIRECTED BY joins the show to discuss where things went wrong and as usual blames YOU, THE LISTENER. Did we mention he's promoting his podcast? Thankfully even though Dave is a real jerk, he may have a chance at getting more fans for his podcast on asshole auteurs than supposed asshole auteur Edward Norton. Alright these show notes are just becoming unbearably mean so click those links:

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Finish out the summer with us as we present two films that came out at the start of summer in 2016 as Blake Lively battled a shark in THE SHALLOWS and Elle Fanning battled jealous supermodels. Both proved to be bloody affairs with very pretty people on June 24, 2016 but only one became a modest little hit... while the other fell more into the SOBER CINEMA area of the internet: finding a disgusted audience who for some reason could not deny their morbid curiosity. On that note, click these links!

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