Nick, Jacob and Will are on a noble quest to find the grail when they watch 1991's "The Fisher King" from Terry Gilliam, a guy who knows something about finding the grail. The guys review the movie as well as revisiting some of their own childhood memories and traumas. They also discuss how many soft spots Nick has for Terry Gilliam films (a lot) probably due to their shared obsession with Don Quixote!

 

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Nick, Jacob and Will "Meet the Feebles" in watching Peter Jackson's 1989 puppet cabaret show gone horribly wrong. This is the only time we've had to do a content warning for a show with no visible human actors, but there is a lot of violence, drug use and sexual coercion in this dark vision of show business, so skip it if these things are rough for you!

Jacob takes interspecies muppet sex in stride, but Will gets really grossed out by Nick's discussion of hippo-puppet-lady sexuality. The guys cast themselves in the alternate universe where they're anthropomorphic puppet performers with fatal flaws that would be taken advantage of by the Weinsteinian Bletch.

 

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Nick, Jacob and Will get freaky-deaky watching Panos Cosmatos's psychadelic revenge thriller Mandy. The guys discuss several different kinds of manhood measurement from cult leaders (I'm a grower not a shower let me show you) to chainsaw duelists (it's not the size of the chainsaw, after all). We discuss the relative merits of cult recruiting at the home depot and leaving the subtitles on all the time. Also Will takes a shot at Quentin Tarantino for no reason! He didn't even deserve it this time!

All this and more on the podcast that reminds you that when dealing with an LSD biker gang: If you need a jump, you'd better have cables, because these demon biker guys do not seem like planners.

 

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Buckle up, listener! Nick, Jacob and Will go on a massive head trip with the psychadelic thriller "Beyond The Black Rainbow." We talk about "The Nurse Margo Position," ESP suppression pyramids and the job prospects for sentionauts after they leave the Arboria Institute. We once again go for the on brand trifecta: Nick tries to force a literary metaphor! Jacob points out the lack of multi-touch screens in 1983! And Will giggles at an exploding head but can't handle contact lens removal! That's right, it's the Kentucky Fried Movie of podcasts!

 

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Nick, Jacob and Will are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore! Just kidding! Instead we mess with the forces of nature and have to atone by talking about Paddy Chayefsky's classic media critique Network. We talk about how well the 70's view of sensationalized media stacks up with the modern 24 hour news cycle, will it be as fresh as breaking news or as dated as Robert Duvall's french cuffs?

The guys share some shared nostalgia of growing up poor with off brand Reebok Pumps and Trapper Keeper envy, how we would die on TV and what ironic commercial would play after the segment! We also muse about how a man can leave his wife to move in with younger woman and come out looking like the good guy...it's wild!

Find out all this and more on the movie podcast that doesn't have a gun it its jacket, it's just gained a little weight.

 

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Note: We record well ahead of time so any jokes about coups and regime change that seem insensitive given current events are completely incidental! It's not our fault that history keeps happening, we're just trying to make a podcast about weird movies.

Nick, Jacob and Will aren't sure what they saw after watching the "digitized dime bag" that is Michael Bay's 6 Underground. The guys discuss the average American brain's knowledge of central Asian geography, making movies by algorithm and whether or not "representation matters" if the representation is a lame stereotype. Join us on the podcast where "stuff keeps happening" whether or not it makes any sense!

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Nick, Jacob and Will get golden tickets to Quentin Tarantino's Slur Factory and get caught in the Pulp Fiction machine, oh no! The guys talk about the iconic 1994 film, debate the style and substance of the movie and the waterproofing of WWI era watches that have to spend a lot of time in "the usual place." Zed's dead, baby, but that doesn't mean you should write yourself saying the "hard r" a bunch of times.

Grab a Big Kahuna Burger and settle in for a messy ride in a '74 Nova!

Merry Listmas, List Listener and Happy Garbage Day to all! Nick, Jacob and Will go off-list for this very special Christmas episode, watching Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, a movie that spends 40 minutes of its 90 minute run time cutting together clips of the first movie. It's awesome. The guys muse about the superheroic strength of slasher movie slashers, and whether this film proves that police shot first in the War on Christmas. The guys can't decide whether a side character is a young Adam Corolla, Skeeter from Doug or just half of Will's psyche...but he definitely heckled his way into our hearts.

 

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Nick, Jacob and Will learn the hard way that you should never click on the first google result in Soderbergh's 2018 iPhone-shot movie Unsane, but at least someone remembered our breakfast sandwich and coffee order. The guys are forced against their will into a different kind of horror movie hospital, sraight out of 90's made-for-cable dramas with a super powered stalker and a view of psychiatric healthcare that makes Will get super mad!

Mental health is no joke, and mental health professionals are on your side. The phone number for the National Suicide Hotline is 1-800-273-8255.

 

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Nick, Jacob and Will get trapped in a vertical inequality metaphor and ride it all the way to the bottom talking about the 2019 Spanish horror/sci-fi film The Platform. Enjoy the moveable feast as the guys talk about what item they'd bring to the hierarchical murder prison, what food they want to see on the platform and Will being really, really grossed out by all of it. This is a podcast, so you don't have to worry about how many people have touched it!

 

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