The Criterion Correction

Welcome to our new semi-regular Tuesday series, Off Collection!

Have you ever wanted to watch an R-Rated version of the Power Rangers? Did the recent reboot miss the mark a little? Well, let’s go back in time to a simpler era, 1994, and watch a movie that has fantastic special effects and the best worst acting you’ve ever seen. Enter the world of the Guyver, a bio-boosted mechanical suit of armor that may lead to involuntary super-heroism. And because we know context doesn’t matter, let’s just skip straight to the sequel, Guyver 2: Dark Hero.

For our 75th numbered episode, we ask the deep questions, such as: Can a forgery be a work of art? What is the nature of authenticity? And did that crazy story with Picasso actually happen!? Come on, you’re telling me a writer was able to craft such a believable farce as to make us all feel…okay, sorry, digression. Join us for a discussion of Orson Welles’ F for Fake.

We have a request from The Three Guys Go Criterion Podcast, which you should also check out! We’ll be watching Dont Look Back, the sordid tale of a man on the edge…of superstardom. Grab your harmonicas (or melodicas) and join us for a look inside the touring life of Bob Dylan.

After the joy that was The Sandlot, we stay off collection this week so that Ed can wash away the memory of childhood hijinks with a strong dose of neo-noir. Join us as we take a trip to Chinatown.

We have been wanting to do this movie FOR-EV-ER. And Dr. Zed has been waiting to get s’more of it since he found out that co-host Ed has never seen the childhood classic that gave us such classic lines as “You’re killing me, Smalls.” Yes, we’re going off collection to bring you one of the all-time classic kids movies: The Sandlot.

Is it noir? Is it a heist? Well, one thing’s for sure, it’s French New Wave. Join us for an exploration of Jean Luc Godard’s Breathless.

Boarding school. It’s the worst, right? Especially when you’re attending a boarding school in Nazi-occupied France. From the director of Black Moon comes a powerful (and lucid) film, Au Revoir Les Enfants.

Do you like disjointed time sequences? How about plots that gradually reveal themselves in order to show how wrong your guesses were? If so, we’re betting you like the work of Christopher Nolan, which is why we’re going all the way back to his debut film: Following.

Today we go through the looking glass—err, well, we go through a wall. Or is it through a hole? Wait, why is there a disembodied head shouting at us? Robin Hood?! Napoleon?

Join us for a trip to the dark side of childhood fantasy with Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits.

James Bond and Ghost Rider. Hear me out, haven’t you been secretly wishing for this magical crossover? Well, it’s probably not in the cards, but venture back to the mid-90s and you’ll get a story of love, action, power, and…the ethicality of abusing the trust of military heroes forced to operate in secrecy…

…something tells me Michael Bay isn’t going to be treating this topic with any nuance.