Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Z and Keith Watched A Movie

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Z and Keith Watched A Movie episodes

  • Ep 4.16 - The Being (Flesh Gordon vs the spud CHUD)

    Many potato puns to you, film fans!


    With plot points you'll recognize from Jaws and a radiation-spawned monster shot like a xenomorph, The Being doesn't add a whole lot to the genre/s besides being set in Idaho on Easter. Well and bringing together the producer of Flesh Gordon, Martin Landau, Ruth Buzzi, Jose Ferrer and Dorothy Malone.

    Better experienced that described, you'll just have to check this one out for yourself.

    Plus, we give you our rankings for this Easter's Revenge.


    What Makes This Film Great | Trust (1990)
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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: The Four Seasons performing Idaho

    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep 4.15 - The Seventh Sign (Corpus Karen)

    Christ on sale!

    The airtight logic of biblical prophecy is brought into glaring living, breathing relief in this white bread, end times thriller.

    The Seventh Sign follows a very unremarkable middle-class white lady who is pregnant and married to a DA that is trying to get a person with Down syndrome off of death row for killing his incestuous parents.

    Meanwhile, Jesus moves in upstairs and the Roman officer that slapped him back in the day is hot on his heels.
    Make sense?

    What til you get to the end!

    Hallowed by my name.


    The Professor Brothers - Bible History #1 - Sodom & Gomorrah

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Natural performing Seven

    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 4.14 - Little Witches (Craft, cheese & Illuminaughti)

    Easter is sure getting it's revenge on us with this one!

    Shot in 18 days and released straight to video to capitalize on the "occultsploitation" success of The Craft (1996) earlier that year, Little Witches holds the dubious honor of being the first feature with Clea Duvall and the last that Jack Nance shot.
    We won't insult you here by attempting a plot synopsis, you can watch the whole thing on youtube, should you dare.

    Make sure to bring some salt!

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Coven performing Coven in Charing Cross

    53 min
  • Ep 4.13 - The Long Good Friday (Harold and mobs)

    Welcome to Easter's revenge 2!

    Or more like 1.2 or "New Egginings"

    Or something.

    This film, besides being an excellent crime drama, turns out to be a great transition from Ireland to Easter.

    Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren absolutely dominate in this tale of a London crime boss looking to expand into new territory, a new decade, a global economy but quickly finds he's not in as much control as he believed.

    Could it be a allegory for late '70's England?

    See for yourself. We consider The Long Good Friday a must-watch.


    referenced videos:

    BFI panel with Paul Barber, Barrie Keefe, Phil Méheux
    Bob Hoskins talks London developers, 1982

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: The Man Who Knows by The Herbaliser


    59 min
  • Ep 4.12 - In Dreams (apple bothered screens, ruse with a cur)
    As the candy-colored clown they call March is pulled off stage by the Sandman, we bring you our final Neil Jordan film for the time being.
    In Dreams (1999) can hold it's own against most other 90's supernatural thrillers, plus it's got Jordan on it's side.
    Annette Benning flexes as an otherwise ordinary white, American, middle class woman who is haunted by dreams, visions, premonitions of little girls being kidnapped and a little boy drowning. Things escalate as our abductor takes her daughter and the visions intensify.
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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on BandcampOutro: Dreams performed by Easy Choir
    1 hr 7 min
  • Ep 4.11 - High Spirits (Banshees of Innit-shyte-then)

    Our most unfortunate entry in this most Irish of months comes to you just in time for St Patty's.   

    Only our Neil Jordan himself knows the film that could have been without studio/executive mucking about.

    What we get instead is bizarre casting, confusingly placed slapstick and disorienting editing.   
    Along the way we chat about our respective (lack of?) creative processes, the Scott brothers and Clint Howard.   

    For more of Z talking about their Process, check out their solo podcast Imposter Syndrome

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Clanad w/Bono performing In A Lifetime

    59 min
  • Ep 4.10 - The Butcher Boy (Pig loose & Francie free)

    Happy Neil Jordan to you!

    This week we bring you a filim that Keith remembers watching at some point and the rest is conjecture.  
    A movie based on a novel inspired by a real life mukduk, a possible anti-Boomer nostalgia piece, a impressionistic allegorical rumination on Ireland in the 1960s - all or none of this and more, it's 1997's The Butcher Boy.

    +++++


    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Sinead O'Connor performing Call Me Joe

    54 min
  • Ep 4.09 - Mona Lisa ("LHOOQ")

    Top o the morning and welcome to March for Jordan!

    Our first entry in our look at the films of Neil Jordan is 1986's Mona Lisa.
    When newly released con George meets working girl Simone, it's love at first fight.
    Or is it?!
    A film with surprising and subtle complexity (and queerness; don't forget the queerness), we couldn't have picked a better place to begin.   

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Jyoti Mishra performing Your Woman 1917

    1 hr 18 min
  • Ep 4.08 - Malcolm X

    To finish out the month, we bring you Spike Lee's epic biopic from 1992, Malcolm X.

    "By Any Means Necessary: The Making of Malcolm X"

    +++++

    Intro by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Public Enemy performing Party for Your Right to Fight

    1 hr 19 min
  • Ep 4.07 - Jumpin' Jack Flash

    Oh hai!

    This week's entry is a movie that:  almost was directed by the same person as My Girl and the "that's a spicy meatball" commercial; almost starred Shelly Long, Burt Reynolds, Sam Kinison and didn't have Jon Lovitz; was co-written by Rosa Diaz and Adrian Pimento's favorite romcom screenwriter.
    Yuuuuup, it's Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986).
    For your pleasure Keith monologues about the Iran/Contra affair, Z talks eyebrows, and we analyze the relative significance of old b&w movies that appear within movies.

    Nichelle Nichols tells the story of how Whoopi got on TNG

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: The Pointer Sisters performing Jump (for my love)

    1 hr 9 min

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