Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Z and Keith Watched A Movie

By Keith McKenneyTV & FilmFilm Reviews
Download on the App Store

Z and Keith Watched A Movie episodes

  • Ep 5.03 - Blue Steel [what if a man weaponized victimhood?]

    Here, dear reader, listener, lover, we bring you a movie full of wasted talents. A tale as threadbare and tedious as any we've discussed before. It askes the hard questions of "can a woman with a gun be a victim?" or "can a man get away with it?" and "is murder a justifiable punishment for sexual assault?"

    So, y'know heavy trigger warnings for this one.


    Take care of yourselves out there.

    How One Movie Killed the 1980's | Patrick (H) Willems

    +++++

    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: PITS performing Hip To Be Square

    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 5.02 - Perfect [w/special guest RW!]

    Get ready to sweat!

    We welcome back, as we do this time of year, RW to discuss this wild, Rolling Stone-sponsored ride.

    Strap in, it's a walloper.

    +++++

    Intro by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Jermaine Jackson performing (Closest thing to) Perfect

    1 hr 31 min
  • Ep 5.01 - Mother's Boys (what if mom was bad?!)

    Oh shit- it's season 5!
    and another year!
    We're starting off with a month of Jamie Lee (become a patron to find out how come) and this little movie that we'd never heard of is nice little bit of turn-of-the-decade upper-middle class paranoia/psychosexual family thriller. Of course, you'll be reminded of Fatal Attraction, Poison Ivy, Single White Female -- basically any other "crazy b-word" film of the time -- but this one has Jamie Lee.
    Thanks for sticking with us!
    ++++
    Intro: Moebius Rip by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Betty Davis performing Your Mama Wants Ya Back

    59 min
  • Ep 4.52 - Three Fugitives (capitalism convicts caregivers)

    Well dear listeners, here we have come to the end of another season together.

    To close it out, we bring you a foreign film in a foreign land: Three Fugitives (1989)
    We find the unlikely duo of Nick Nolte and Martin Short forced to team up to evade police and save Short's little girl.

    Naturally, many many hijinks are had.

    We also discuss physical acting theory and Cpt. Janeway's hairpiece.
    Plus we try to summarize our feelings about season 4.

    "Another year, another victory for the OG"

    Slapstick Comedy - From ancient to early origins | Tales from the Telly


    Thanks for being here!

    +++++

    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Mayonnaise (PH) performing Bizarre Love Triangle

    1 hr 14 min
  • Ep 4.51 - Postcards from the Edge (the nepo baby strikes back)

    Heyo-
    This week we bring you a film that's long been on our list: Postcards from the Edge (1990).
    Based on Carrie Fischer's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the movie follows a middle-aged daughter of a famous actress who is herself an actress struggling to find herself while also navigating addiction, the industry, horrible men and her mother.
    You will also hear about Keith's long lost connection to the industry, hot takes on Australians, CCH Pounder's accent and iceberg lettuce.
    Plus our recipe for "tacos blancos"


    The Dynamites - Kinston Dub Town


    +++++

    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Paul Jones performing Privilege

    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep 4.50 - Serial Mom (white suburban compartmentalization & asymptomatic lethality)

    Greetings sports fans!

    This week we bring you arguably John Waters' most widely viewed film: Serial Mom (1994).
    Pitch perfect performances really sell this tale of a middle class white lady from the Baltimore 'burbs who erases anyone that gets on her bad side.
    Plus, per usual, we shit on some of our favorite Hollywood bastards to hate, reference porn and praise Kathy Bates bravura boobies (RIP).
    Typical.
    Let's All Go to the Lobby (B.A.N. remix)

    T.J. Tallie | Asymptomatic Lethality: Cooper, COVID-19, and the Potential for Black Death


    +++++


    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Doja Cat performing Paint the Town Red

    1 hr 12 min
  • Ep 4.49 - The Secret of my Success (spoiler: it's whiteness)

    Well, well, will you look at that.
    Another movie in which a young white person lies to get ahead in the world.
    Michael J. Fox plays a white kid from Kansas driven to make a bunch of money off the backs of others (aka, The American Dream). But he wants to get to the top on his own merits. That's why he calls in favors to a distant uncle. and then his aunt. whom he's sleeping with.
    And Helen Slater is there.
    I'm very tired.
    Please enjoy.
    'Walking On Sunshine': Living on a Song

    +++++

    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Lyte Funkie Ones performing Summer Girls

    58 min
  • Ep 4.48 - Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead

    GD it if it ain't another Dysfunctional December!
    To start it off we watched Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead (1991).
    Despite a somewhat cliche failing-upwards/"Fawlty Towers plot" initial premise, it avoids many of the expected tropes and delivers some surprising charm and believable growth for Christina Applegate's lead.
    As a result, our conversation naturally turned towards manila envelopes vs Nilla wafers & leavening the whole lump.
    This episode brought to you be the death of Heinz Alfred Kissinger
    And viewers like you.
    +++++

    Intro: by Professor Ping available on ⁠Bandcamp⁠

    Outro: ⁠Martin Donovan performing masculinity

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 4.47 - The Keep (we did N@zi that one coming)

    Here we are driving a stake through the heart of Nosferatu November with Michael Mann's The Keep (1983). And what a great way to go out!

    What do you get when you cross the creator of Miami Vice with Nazis at the height of their hubris encountering an ancient supernatural evil in Dracula's homeland?

    We couldn't tell you.
    You'll just have to see for yourself.


    Meanwhile, stay safe and watch out for busters!

    JoBlo Horror Originals: Michael Mann's Horror Debut

    Siskel & Ebert outtakes 1987
    +++++


    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Rose Royce performing Keep On Keepin' On

    1 hr 21 min
  • Ep 4.46 - Nadja (nod-ya head, it's so good)

    After The Addiction, we had a bad taste in our mouths.

    But this film was a Mentos for the senses!

    We have Hartley alumni Donovan and Löwensohn plus an impressive supporting cast that includes a surprisingly fun Peter Fonda and an sadly brief Jared Harris.

    Building on Bram Stoker's source material and set in contemporary NYC, this movie manages be funny, charming, heavy, and technical craftiness without veering to far into navel-gazing.

    We give it three chef's kisses!


    +++++

    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: David Hasselhoff performing Nadia's Theme

    1 hr 10 min

About Z and Keith Watched A Movie

From the publisher's feed

Join us goofs talking about films from the 80's & 90's. Some we saw as younguns, some we missed.