The Best Bits

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show (Patron Pick) where we watch your suggestion and see if we like it.”

For the final Second Rate Review of the season, Will and Kevin are joined by Cathy and Dave from The Cinemile podcast. In this crossover episode, a film with a Cork Connection was proposed and voted on by subscribers of The Cinemile Patreon and The Best Bits Patreon.

The chosen film was Danny Boyle's 2007 science-fiction thriller “Sunshine,” co-written with Alex Garland and starring Corkman Cillian Murphy, co-starring Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, Cliff Curtis, Hiroyuki Sanada, Troy Garity, and Mark Strong.

In the year 2057, a group of astronauts embarks on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun.

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“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”

Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Die Hard”, “Young Guns” and “Cocktail”, and take a chance on Shadoe Steven's obscure and hard-to-find cult action-comedy classic "Traxx".

Just relax, here comes Traxx.

When gun-toting mercenary Traxx (Shadoe Stevens) retires from a life of combat to begin a cookie baking business, he quickly runs out of money and needs cash fast. Seeing an opportunity in the crime-ridden streets of Hadleyville, Texas, he offers his illicit services to the Chief of Police as a "Town Tamer" - a lunatic vigilante who cleans up the streets by any means necessary. For the scum of the city who get in his way, they have three choices: "Be good, be gone, or be dead."

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“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”

Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Back to the Future”, “The Goonies” and “Jewel of the Nile”, and take a chance on Nicholas Meyer's Volunteers.

In 1962, after graduating from Yale, womanizing slacker Lawrence (Tom Hanks) flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay and takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with 2 other PCVs .

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“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”

Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Gremlins”, “Ghostbusters” "Beverly Hills Cop", and “Temple of Doom”, and take a chance on Steve Barron’s 1984 music video influenced romcom.

Loosely inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac, San Francisco architect (Lenny Von Dohlen) woos a cellist (Virginia Madsen) who lives next door with the help of his sentient home computer Edgar.

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Recently on The Best Bits Patreon, Will & Kevin did a series of Q&A episodes for their Mini Bits podcasts as suggested by their Patreon listeners. Thank you to all The Best Bits patrons who submitted questions. There are three more of these episodes available on Patreon right now, and if you want to hear more bonus podcasts, they're all available exclusively to Patreon subscribers and Apple Best Bits Plus subscribers -- for the price of a very cheap pint. As an independently produced show, every cent we receive goes into producing the show and creating the best podcasts we can. Here is a link to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bestbitspodcast

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“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”

Will and Kevin flashback to the summer of “Apollo 13”, “Batman Forever”, “Braveheart”, and roll the dice on Tom DiCillo's "Living in Oblivion".

A small-time director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) attempts to make a no-budget film. 

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Over on Patreon, Will and Kevin do a side-show called Mini Bits. They're currently on episode #27. In each episode, they shoot the breeze and discuss what's going on in their lives, answer patron questions, and share what they're watching, reading, and enjoying. Here is today's episode as a sampler for what's available to Patreon subscribers for the price of a pint each month. Right now that's an extra forty-odd bonus shows. Once subscribed, you'll get an RSS feed to add to your podcast app of choice and listen along.

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Hello Patrons! Will watched Baz Luhrmann's Elvis and started on the second season of Only Murders in the Building while Kevin watched Netflix's Girl in the Picture and finished the first season of The Lazarus Project. We also discuss Jon Stewart's 2020 released political satire Irresistible starring Steve Carell and Rose Byrne, Last Chance U on Netflix, and the Disney Plus doc Captive Audience among other things. Enjoy!

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“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show (Patron Pick) where we watch your suggestion and see if we like it.”

Will and Kevin aren't returning to the US box office for this episode but turning their attention to the Spanish box office. Thanks to Patreon supporter Patrick McGinley's recommendation they (re)watched the cult classic time travel thriller released this week in 2007 for Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes.

A man witnesses a strange sight in the woods opposite his home and investigates only to discover a time machine in a nearby building. He gets in the machine and travels back in time one hour to a reality where his past-self and future-self collide with dire, bloody consequences.

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“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”

Will and Kevin and returning special guest Jamie Hannigan flashback to the summer of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, “Field of Dreams” and “Steel Magnolias”, and take a chance on Robert Bierman's cult classic black comedy Vampire's Kiss.

When a Manhattanite publishing executive (Nicolas Cage) is bitten by an apparent vampire (Jennifer Beals), he starts to exhibit erratic and obnoxious behavior. But is he a vampire or is he just nuts?

You can follow Jamie on Twitter @jamiedotdotdot

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Will and Kevin mentioned they would be substituting the "All the Best Bits" audio commentaries for something new and this is that something new. It's called "The Best Bits: Second Rate Show" and in each hour-long episode, they flashback to the week of release in a random year and give a second chance to a film they didn't see the first time. 

And for this Patreon-backed pilot episode, they travelled back to the summer of “Die Hard”, “Rain Man”, and “Beetlejuice”, and took a chance on "Dead Heat".

A cop (Joe Piscopo) and his undead partner (Treat Williams) must chase down the diabolical villain who killed him.

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