Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

d. Pete Hewitt

Starring:Keanu ReevesAlex WinterWilliam SadlerGeorge CarlinJoss Ackland

On a most excellent episode of TMR, Steve and Ryan attempt to parse out exactly what a "Melvin" is, explore the origins of Steve's lapse in faith in a just god, and Ryan once again attempts to break down the quantum mechanics of time travel only to succumb to a nap instead.

Things discussed in the show:

The Martian (Matt Damon)

Sicario (Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro)

Miley Cyrus & Billy Ray Cyrus

Narcos

Ernest Borgnine

True Grit

The Last Witch Hunter (Vin Diesel)

Project Greenlight Season 2 & 3

Battle of Shaker Heights

Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Project X

Feast (Henry Rollins, Judah Friedlander)

The Chase, Johnny Mnemonic, Lost Highway (David Lynch)

Black Flag

Louis Black

American Splendor

Portlandia (season 5)

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Point Break, Speed, The Matrix, John Wick, My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix), Chain Reaction

Pam Grier

Quentin Tarantino

Primus & Faith No More

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

The Mighty Ducks

Repo Man (Emilio Esteves)

Star Trek (Captain Kirk - William Shatner)

Ben Franklin & Aretha Franklin

"Fags" from robot murders and vs. Satan - yet again films of my youth, what's up?

Ministry - Rio Grande Blood

Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, Some Kind of Monster

Why is a wedgie called a melvin?

Seventh Seal

Nicolas Cage

Reddit

H.P. Lovecraft

Ty Cobb

Heaven and Hell

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

"You're silky boys, silk comes from the butts of Chinese worms."

Joel Grey (Cabaret)

Ren and Stimpy

Telletubbies

Tecmo Bowl, Twister, Battleship, Clue

Wizard of Oz

Chick Tracks comics

Poison - Bret Michaels, "Every Rose Has It's Thorn"

Plain White Tees, "Hey There Delilah"

Dave Matthews Band

Seth Cohen (Adam Brody), The O.C.

The Melvins (King Buzzo)

Jim Henson, Brian Froud

The Skatalites, Luke Skawalker,

Ska Band or Improv troupe

Dave Navarro, Perry Ferrel

Errata: Les Claypool played the villain in Kung Fu Rascals

Hell Comes to Frogtown, Rowdy Roddie Piper

Kiss, "God Gave Rock n' Roll to Ya"

Desert Storm

Air Guitar World Championship (Nordic Lightning vs. Nordic Thunder)

Elvis

Doug

Wes Craven

Bill and Ted's part 3 rumors

Parenthood (Steve Martin, Martha Plimpton)

Next Week: The People Under the Stairs

Willow (1988)

d. Ron Howard

Starring:Warwick DavisVal KilmerJoanne Whalley

This week on TMR, Steve and Ryan wonder how the hell George Lucas doesn't owe JRR Tolkien's estate some serious royalties, speculate on how Val Kilmer can be so simultaneously charming and unqualified to raise a baby, Steve tests Ryan's patience with his endless stories of playing Dungeons & Dragons with his nerdy friends, and Ryan makes public his struggle with "icky" things.

Things discussed in the show:

George Lucas

Mr. Rogers

Peaky Blinders (Season 2)

Tom Hardy's Myspace pics (Bronson)

Steven Spielberg (Poltergeist, Poltergeist 3, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson)

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Coach, Full House, Care Bears, Gummy Bears, Trash Tinies

Project Greenlight - Season 2 (Shia LeBeouf)

The Battle of Shaker Heights

The Bachelorette

Willow toys

Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Shire, Frodo & Bilbo

Malificent

Dungeons and Dragons

Lloyd Kaufman (All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger: The True Story of Troma Studios)

Heat, The Doors, Tombstone (Dennis Quaid), Batman Forever

Satan

Splash, American Graffiti (Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford)

Steve said Troll, but meant Leprechaun

Pat Roach (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

LotR Trivial Pursuit

Kevin Pollak, R2-D2 & C3-P0

Aidan Quinn

James Horner & John Williams

Top of the Lake

Jake Busey

Dust of the Broken Heart

Gulliver's Travels

Army of Darkness

Jackie Chan & James Bond

Black Root

"Your touch is worst 100,000 deaths."

Errol Flynn

Bob Dolman, SCTV, Rick Moranis

Munchkining

Clerks & snowballing

Land of the Lost - Sleestaks

Moebius

George R. R. Martin

Next Week: Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

d. Rupert Julian

Starring:Lon ChaneyMary PhilbinNorman Kerry

This week on TMR, Steve inadvertently reveals his creepy, gross fetish for ballerina feet, for which we mercilessly judge him, and Ryan struggles to stay awake through the 1925 silent classic "Phantom of the Opera." The guys talk about the Phantom's penchant for date-rapey interior decor, the unfortunate renaissance of hipster mustaches, and did we mention Steve has a fetish for ballerina feet?

Things discussed in the show:

Black Mass (Johnny Depp, Whitey Bulger)

What's eating Gilbert Grape, Blow, Donny Brasco, Pirates of the Caribbean, Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Gary Oldman (Bram Stoker's Dracula)

Peaky Blinders

Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy)

Robert DeNiro

New York, New York (Liza Mennelli)

Vinyl (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Gimme Shelter (The Maysles brothers - Albert Maysles, David Maysles)

The Rolling Stones - Cocksucker Blues

Fugazi - Ian MacKaye

Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf

The Guest, MKUltra, Downtown Abbey

Ti West (House of the Devil, The Innkeepers)

Stravinsky

Project Greenlight (Shia LaBeouf, Holes, Battle of Shaker Heights, Aidan Quinn, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon)

Stolen Summer (Pete Biagi)

Steve's sick obsession with ballerinas

Masque of the Red Death

Internet porn

The General (Buster Keaton)

Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)

Old Hollywood and The Black Daliah

Charlie Chaplin as a pedophile

Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)

Gaston LeRoux

Ulysses' Gaze (Harvey Keitel)

Faust

Mom and Dad Save the World

Facial hair of the '20s and pick up artists

Se7en (Kevin Spacey)

V for Vendetta

Dungeons & Dragons

Feng Shui

Nicolas Cage

Voldemort - C.H.U.D.

Dario Argento - Julian Sans

Scooby Doo

Predator

Lady Gaga

The Man of 1000 Faces

Lon Cheney Jr. (The Wolfman)

Fatty Arbuckle

Next week: Willow

Puppet Master (1989)/Children of the Corn (1984) d. David Schmoeller (Puppet Master) d. Fritz Kiersch (Children of the Corn) Starring: A bunch of assholes & the beautiful Linda Hamilton On TMR’s dual episode Halloween Special, we watched 1989’s mountain of shit…

Puppet Master (1989)/Children of the Corn (1984)

d. David Schmoeller (Puppet Master)d. Fritz Kiersch (Children of the Corn)

Starring:A bunch of assholes & the beautiful Linda Hamilton

On TMR's dual episode Halloween Special, we watched 1989's mountain of shit that is "Puppet Master" and everyone's favorite kid-punching fall-favorite "Children of the Corn." We talk about a specific kind of asshole that would bring puppets to life and shove them in a hole in the wall in a hotel and wonder just who would adopt two kids who have seen their entire town murdered by a bunch of poofy-haired preteens.

Things discussed in the show:

Full Moon Entertainment

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Evil Dead 2, The Necronomicon

Ancient Chinese Secrets, Egyption Rites & Nazis

Agatha Christie (Ten Little Indians)

The Puppets: Blade, Jester, Pinhead, Leech Woman, Tunneler, Shedder Khan

Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers

William Hickey (Major Payne, The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond)

Bad southern accents

Child's Play, Dolls, Dollman vs. Demonic Toys

Ray Harryhausen

Clark Gable

Witness

Stephen King (Night Shift, Pet Cemetery 1 & 2, The Mist, Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, It)

Tim Curry (Home Alone 2, Muppet Treasure Island, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Legend)

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (John Franklin, Courtney Gains)

H.P. Lovecraft - Elder Gods (He Who Walks Behind the Rows)

Terminator 2 (James Cameron)

Del Shannon - "Runaway"

"Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in my eye."

The Cold War

My Girl (Anna Chlumsky)

The Blob, Pacific Rim, The Matrix

Goonies

Dexter

Next Week: Phantom of the Opera (1925) - Starring Lon Chaney

Timecop (1994) d. Peter Hyams Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme Mia Sara Bruce McGill This week on TMR, Ryan takes us in the world’s most ineffectual time machine and tells us about his uncomfortable fascination with JCVD with 1994’s “Timecop.” Steve…

Timecop (1994) d. Peter Hyams Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme Mia Sara Bruce McGill This week on TMR, Ryan takes us in the world's most ineffectual time machine and tells us about his uncomfortable fascination with JCVD with 1994's "Timecop." Steve tries to untangle the Gordian Knot of time travel, and both of them say inappropriate things about the lovely Mia Sara WHY DID YOU LEAVE US MIA YOU WERE TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD I HATE FERRIS BUELLER. Things discussed in the show:

The Theory of Everything (Eddie Redmayne, Stephen Hawkins)

Jupiter Ascending

Benedict Cumberbatch

Michael Fassbender

Christian Bale (American Psycho, The Machinist, Batman Begins, Newsies)

Twin Peaks (David Lynch & his sweet albums)

True Detective

Nicolas Cage (Wild at Heart)

Mulholand Drive (Naomi Watts)

Narcos (Pablo Escobar, Pedro Pascal, Luis Guzman, Cinematography by Mauricio Vidal, Lula Carvalho & Adrian Teijido)

Elite Force and Steve's time in Brazil, José Padilha)

Robocop (2014)

Ron Perlman

The Connection (Jean Dujardin from The Artist)

Birth of a Nation

Lionheart, Double Impact, Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Cyborg

The Relic

Outland, Capercorn One, 2010, Stay Tuned, End of Days, Sudden Death

Mike Richardson (Dark Horse Comics & Dark Horse Entertainment, The Mask with Jim Carrey, Dr. Giggles)

The Timecop comic book

Steve's sweet comic Ghost Spy (Image Comics)

Sam Raimi

Cocaine

Ryan's obsession with Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Career Opportunities, Legend, The Rocketeer)

Jennifer Connelly's pact with Satan

Confederate gold and stock price manipulation

Hitler in time travel films

Rammstein

White Men Can't Jump

Mad Max

Jackie Chan (Rumble in the Bronx)

Belgium-style love making from The Muscles from Brussels

Kung Fury and hacking time

Stargate

Hackers

Minority Report

Bruce McGill (McGuyver)

Ron Silver (Sen. Aaron McComb)

Al Pacino (Carlitos Way, Serpico)

Donald Trump

Back to the Future

Rules of time travel

Rae Dawn Chong

The Time Traveler's Wife

Weird Science (Bill Paxton)

H.P. Lovecraft (Cthulhu)

Time Paradoxes

The butterfly effect

Sewer, Gas & Electric

Cover of The Outsiders, "Time Won't Let Me" (The Smithereens)

Chuck Norris (Top Dog)

How Did This Get Made (Podcast)

Broadway

Jet Li (Lethal Weapon 4)

Next week: Special Halloween Double Feature - Puppetmaster/Children of the Corn

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

d. Howard Alk

Starring:Fred HamptonRennie DavisEdward HanrahanBobby RushRonald “Doc” Satchel

This week on TMR, we’re delighted to welcome our first ever guest, Atlanta filmmaker Leo Hollen Jr! We watch the powerful 1971 documentary “The Murder of Fred Hampton,” Leo gets uncomfortable when we make him a Black Spokesman, Steve tells us of his mentor and friend Ronn Pitts who helped make this film, and Ryan tries to sound tough when talking about the cops (Spoiler: he fails).

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.

– Written by Harvard Film Archive via IMDB

Things discussed in the show:

Leo Hollen Jr.’s new documentary Queer Moxie (follow Leo on twitter @leoHollen)

Straight Outta Compton (Ice Cube, Paul Giamatti, O’Shea Jackson Jr.)

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Steve Carell, Keira Knightley)

Winona Ryder

Rose McGowen (Dawn)

Wormwood, The Walking Dead & zombie movies in general

What Happened Nina Simone? – Documentary

Nina Simone’s “House of the Rising Sun”

The Bee Gees “To Love Somebody”

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Julian Modugno

Madonna

Cat’s Eye (Drew Barrimore)

Five Minutes of Heaven (Liam Neeson – Taken, The Grey)

Ronn Pitts

The Black Panther Party

Bobby Seele

Chicago

Machine politics

The breakfast for kids program and health clinics

“We’re an armed propaganda unit”

Socialism – Moaism

Emmitt Till

Police brutality protests

“You can’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You can’t fight racism with racism.”

The ’68 Democratic National Convention – The Chicago 8

Students for a Democractic Society (SDS), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Stone Rangers, The Rainbow Coalition

FBI – COINTELPRO

J. Edgar Hoover

The question of objective truth in documentary

Werner Herzog

Fox News

The Chicago Police – and their amazing jackets

William O’Neil

Abbie Hoffman

Pigs

“Fuck tha Police” – NWA

Class war

Sweeping the Streets Documentary

The Chicago Tribune

“No Quarter For Wild Beasts”

Cleveland

Chris Rock pulled over selfie

Panther (The movie)

#blacklivesmatter

Obama

Ferguson

The second amendment

Vietnam

Why has nothing changed?

Shut it down ATL

Transpacific Partnership (TPP)

Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara

Next week: Timecop

White Men Can’t Jump (1992) d. Ron Shelton Starring: Woody Harrelson Wesley Snipes Rosie Perez This week on TMR, we solve the problem of race relations in America once and for all with 1992’s “White Men Can’t Jump.” Ryan and…

White Men Can't Jump (1992)d. Ron SheltonStarring:Woody HarrelsonWesley SnipesRosie PerezThis week on TMR, we solve the problem of race relations in America once and for all with 1992's "White Men Can't Jump." Ryan and Steve do their best Rosie Perez impressions, Steve gets a semi early '90s sex scenes, Ryan recalls the numerous inappropriate movies his father took him to see, and some truly mediocre trash talk gets laid down.

Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types. Written by Rob Hartill via IMDB

Things discussed in the show:

Steve James (Stevie, Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters)

Life Itself (Roger Ebert)

Werner Herzog (Little Dieter Needs to Fly, White Diamond)

Chicago

Poseidon (Kurt Rusell, Richard Dreyfuss)

Neighbors (Seth Rogen & Zac Efron's abs)

The Guest (Dan Steven, Adam Wingard)

You're Next

James Bond

Wet Hot American Summer - The State (Bradley Cooper, Michael Showalter)

True Detective (Season 2) - Cthulhu - Eyes Wide Shut - internet porn

Thai lady-boys doing unspeakable things with ping-pong balls

H.P. Lovecraft

Colin Farrell

Nic Pizzolatto

Yo mamma jokes

Bull Duram (Susan Sarandon)

Tin Cup

Rodney King riots

Crash

Gambling Addiction

How sports can bring nations together

Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

Bob Lanier - Freeman Williams - Louis Price

People who pull out straight razors are psycho

Rampart, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers

Demolition Man, Drop Zone, Jungle Fever, New Jack City

Patton Oswalt on Westley Snipes

Lil Wayne

Cheers

Lee Harvey Oswald and Woody Harrelson

Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, 2001)

Zac Efron and Donald Glover in the fantasy remake

Ronn Pitts

Next Week: The Murder of Fred Hampton