Travolting

Continuing down Winona's popularity collapse, The Last Word is a movie about a man named Evan who gets hired to write people's suicide notes. We thought about reaching out to him after we made it through watching this movie.

Alright class settle down! Time for our very first instructional episode on Sex and Death 101, starring... Winona Ryder as Professor Death Nell who will be your instructor for today. Our first lesson... this movie sucks.

Paul Rudd teaches us a lesson. Actually... TEN LESSONS! And they are all based on the ten commandments. Before you think this is going to be some "God's Not Dead" level religious film, we regret to inform you that it could not be further from the truth.

Another early post-sabbatical takes Winona to Richard Linklater in A Scanner Darkly. A Phillip K Dick novel adaptation about the a not-to-distant future where America has lost the war on drugs and the police surveillance state goes to a whole new "almost Minority Report" level. Winona is in another small role along side Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, and Woody Harrelson.

This quasi-student film is one of Winona's first movies after her shoplifting scandal and it's probably for the best that you've never heard of it.

This 2004 film tells the story of Jeremiah, a young boy who bounces in and out of the care of his drug-addicted neglectful mother and explores the trauma and hardship a developing mind experiences while living life on an unstable road. This film is based on the book with the same title written by JT Leroy. There's almost no drama or exciting facts regarding the backstory of the making of the film or the book whatsoever.

Jeff and Stuart recap the height of Winona's career from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Age of Innocence, Little Women and many more masterpieces. The boys also talk about the trajectory her career is heading towards at the point and the professional and personal events that lead Winona down this path.

Not to be confused with the 1936 Frank Capra movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" or the 1939 Frank Capra movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", this 2002 Adam Sandler comedy is one of the many Sandler movies that dominated the early 2000's comedy film industry. Winona Ryder, who is on a bit of a popular decline, practices her comedy chops and keeps up with the hilarious slap stick humor this movie thrives on.

In the year 2002, film director Viktor Taransky played by Al Pacino asks the question: "What if we replaced actors with artificial intelligence?" and he gets laughed off the metaphorical stage of hollywood; over 20 years later SAG-AFTRA and the WGA go head to head with AMPTP on the question: "What if we replaced actors with artificial intelligence?"

But for real.... why male models?