Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Z and Keith Watched A Movie

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Z and Keith Watched A Movie episodes

  • Ep 4.06 - Set It Off

    This week we bring you another film in which John C McGinley plays a cop trying to catch some bank robbers.

    This time, instead of some white men doing it because their privilege has left them bored, it's four Black women doing it in an attempt to pull themselves out of cycles of oppression they were born into. Set It Off (1996), stars Jada Pinkett, Vivica A Fox, Queen Latifah, and Kimberly Elise with appearances by Blair Underwood, Dr. Dre, Charles Robinson, Thomas Jefferson Byrd and Mark Thompson (to name but a few) and feels very much of historical moment but also transcends it in unexpected ways.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Oko Ebombo performing Cop Killer

    1 hr 17 min
  • Ep 4.05 - House Party

    Hiya!

    This week we bring you the first installment in the House Party franchise. Starring Kid and Play, Tisha Campbell, A.J. Johnson, Martin Lawrence, Robin Harris, Full Force, and many, many more! An obvious classic in its sub-genres, this movie from the Hudlin brothers is packed with laughs, heart, amazing fashion and some serious dance moves.


    Clip about Dick Gregory taken from Atrocity Guide's video The Strange World of Breatharianism

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Kid & Play performing Gittin' Funky

    59 min
  • Ep 4.04 - One Crazy Summer (Pun-Ladened Fun-er)

    Aloha!  

    As Tanuary comes to an end, we talk cousins, grannies, namesakes, and One Crazy Summer (1986).   

    Have a great trip, see you next month!

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: The Dead Milkmen performing Beach Song

    1 hr 15 min
  • Ep 4.03 - Satisfaction (Pud-tease Falcon's)

    Hello from the other side!


    This week we bring you a movie that's been on our list since the inception of this pod.
    And boy is it.... unsatisfying.  
    Despite the available star power -- Roberts, Neeson, Bateman -- this film has trouble finding its tone.
    But it may be goofy enough to watch anyway.   

    You better knock on wood!  

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Sarah Vaugh performing Summertime

    59 min
  • Ep 4.02 - Point Break (eXtreme enTidalment)

    Sup moondoggies?

    We've got another absolute banger for you this week!
    Keanu and Swayze go tip to tip in this bromance for the ages.  
    Is it a crime drama, is it about a surfing guru, is it about the emptiness of privilege?  
    We bring you our second Katherine Bigelow directed film, it's 1991's Point Break, bruh.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Tim Grogan & co performing Bodhisattva Bossa

    1 hr 25 min
  • Ep 4.01 - Weekend At Bernie's (dead 80's walking)

    Happy New Year!

    To kick off 2023, we are discussing a film famous for its hackneyed premise which itself can be read as a metaphor for the worn to death tropes of preceding decade that are drug out one more time for this movie: Weekend At Bernie's (1989).  

    We reminisce about some  old tv commercials and get into it about cinnamon-flavored candy.  

    What more could you ask for?  
    Don't answer.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: The Lion performing Death

    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 3.53 - The House of Yes (Parker Posey Gardens)

    Oh boi--  

    Here we are closing out Dysfunctional December, 2022 AND season 3!

    And what a great film to do it with: 1997's The House of Yes! Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Freddie Prinz Jr, Tori Spelling and Genevieve Bujold deliver a tight adaptation of a play by Wendy MacLeod.  Mark Waters and crew adroitly guide us through this contemporary take on Jacobean-style upper class drama.  
    We delve into how much and why we loved the performances in this film and also reflect upon our personal relationships to nerd culture and feeling out of place.  

    Thanks for spending 2022 with us!

    See you next year!

    xo,
    Z & K

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Tina Turner performing She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 3.52 - Trapped in Paradise (Trapped in Sh*t)

    in which we do some math and once and for all settle:

    Barney Miller = Serenity

    We also welcome back for our second annual xmas episode, the one AND only RW!

    Join us as we discuss this film's lack of director, its continuity errors, wild ass performance choices, and yet relative charm. Plus: the Q vs G series and more bank talk.   

    Many dancing sugar plums to you!  


    Jon Lovitz 2010 interview with AV Club

    Hats Off Entertainment - Almost Cult Classics

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    1 hr 21 min
  • Ep 3.51 - The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

    Seasons Greetings!

    Dysfunctional December may be at its peak with this 1998 ~quirky~ indie coming of age story written and directed by Tod Williams.
    With Adrian Grenier as the titular twit, co-starring Clark Gregg and with notable appearances by Merritt Weaver, Famke Jensen and Levon Helm, this film has trouble finding its direction, not unlike Sebastian.
    Wait a minute...

    Along the way we revisit the Heaven's Gate docu-series, review the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, and Z reminisces about their time at Victoria's Secret.   

    Good tidings to all!

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: The Band performing Life is a Carnival

    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep 3.50 - Men Don't Leave (post dad clarity)

    What a doozy!

    We very much enjoyed this one.
    You've got Jessica Lange, Arliss Howard, Carlie Korsmo, Kathy Bates, Chis O"Donnell in is big screen debut and of course, the charming enigma, the legend, the inimitable: Joan Cusack.
    When the patriarch of this painfully average, white, middle-class nuclear family suddenly dies, mom and sons have to cobble together a new life for themselves in the city.
    Oh, yeah, it's Men Don't Leave (1990).
    And it rules.

    Get some.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Sabrina performing La Vie Continue

    1 hr 12 min

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