Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Z and Keith Watched A Movie

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  • Ep 2.14 -- The Vineyard [Hollerween ep 1.04!]

    Boo!

    And welcome to the fourth installment in
    Z & Keith's Annual
    DocOctShockRocktober
    Holler-ween
    Scream-along Spook-a-thon!

    Oh man, this movie... this movie delivers.
    James Hong, in a James Hong Production, plays a gawd-knows-how-old vintner in search immortality, a life partner to sacrifice, the blood of hot young folks, martial artists to run security on his island vineyard. You know, the usual. But not if intrepid young journalist Jeremy can uncover his secrets before it's too late!

    Along with attempting to recap this wild film, we deal with eternal existential questions like: what is trivia, what is a costume, can you go upstairs to a basement?

    At time of publication, The Vineyard was available to stream on Tubi

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: "Spill the Wine" performed by Freaked Out Flower Children


    1 hr 3 min
  • Ep. 2.13 — The Hidden (1987) [Hollerween ep 1.03!]

    Boo!

    And welcome to the third episode of
    Z & Keith's Annual
    DocOctShockRocktober
    Holler-ween
    Scream-along Spook-a-thon!

    We have a real treasure of a alien pursuit thriller for you this week: We're talking The Hidden from 1987! Wild action scenes, modest make-up effects, killer soundtrack -- it has it all! Directed by Jack Sholder, starring Michael Nouri, a young Kyle MacLachlin, Claudia Christian and a gang of familiar faces from 70's and 80's television, you won't want to miss this over-the-top yet restrained (huh?) scifi manhunt through peak 1980s Los Angeles.

    {Bonus drinking game for this ep: Take a shot any time Keith says "apparently" or "William Boyett"}

    Much of trivia Keith references came from

    JoeBlo Horror Orginals - THE HIDDEN (1987) - Best Horror Movie You Never Saw
    Renegade Cut -- The Gay Nightmare
    Matt Baume -- The Real-Life Gay Panic Behind Nightmare On Elm Street 2


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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: "Mannequin" by Michael Convertino from original motion picture soundtrack

    1 hr 13 min
  • Ep 2.12 — Snow Yt: A Tale of...huh? [Hollerween ep 1.02!]


    Boo! And welcome to episode the second of Z & Keith's Annual DocOctShockRocktober Holler-ween Scream-along Spook-a-thon!   Here we are again to scare your pants off talking about the 1997 straight-to-cable release Snow White: A Tale or Terror. Featuring Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neil and starring Monice Keena as the titular princess of folklore, this film don't make much sense if you aren't real familiar with the source material. But we had fun!

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: Heigh Ho performed by Tom Waits

    1 hr 9 min
  • Ep 2.11 — Final Destination [Holler-ween ep 1.01!]


    Boo! And welcome to the inaugural episode of Z & Keith's Annual DocOctShockRocktober Holler-ween Scream-along Spook-a-thon! In this, our first entry in a month of spooky-scary films, we're talking 2000's Final Destination! Along the way we visit Ricky Gervais' teeth, "pretty lady kiss time", Ali Larter's racism and the ghost of Rube Goldberg. Here is Leonard Roberts' essay from 2020 reflecting on his time on Heroes. 

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: All the Candles in the World performed by Jane Siberry

    1 hr 9 min
  • Ep 2.10 — Poison Ivy (How Teen Girls Are Inherently More Eviler Than Men)

    Darlene Conner makes friends with the new sl*t at school, brings her home to meet her conservative shitbag pa, Viper, and her malingering Charlie's Angel ma. The rest is... too bad. It's 1992's Poison Ivy! A near neo-noir kookoo bananas gem that blames a afab teen for, well, lots of shit. 

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: Young and Restless performing Poison Ivy

    1 hr 14 min
  • Ep 2.09 — Real Genius (an anti-military, less sexist celebration of nerdism) [A K Bday Selection]

    Val Kilmer co-stars in this zany nerds v. the military industrial complex college comedy. We talk about the genre tropes this film manages to side-step compared to similar movies of the time, Star Trek, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, and how Z is confounded by Kilmer's haircut. 

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: Everybody Wants to Rule the World performed by Ted Yoder

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 2.08 — Trust [Part of Hot Donovan Summer]

    Maria Coughlin is having a bad day... Or at least she thought she was that is until she met Matthew: Matthew Slaughter.

    The cherry atop the Hot Donovan Summer sundae, this week we are talking about Trust!
    Written & directed by Hal Hartley, this indie darling from 1990 has been a long time favorite for us each, but this was the first time watching together. Along the way we bemoan fight scenes in the digital age, ponder what is possible in independent film currently and Keith drones on about some German.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: Hub Moore & The Great Outdoors performing Walk Away

    This episode includes files from the Freesound.org users listed below.
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    1 hr 40 min
  • Ep 2.07 — Electric Dreams [A K. Bday Selection]

    You know how some times home computers used to become sentient if they downloaded too much information and overheated and then someone poured champagne on them? Well, wouldn't you know that's just what happened to ol' Miles Harding one fateful night in 1984. Yep, it's Electric Dreams! A Cyrano de Bergerac for the personal computing age mixed with music videos. Also, this movie helped establish the trope of the quirky female love interest being a cellist. And we wonder what is independent filmmaking in the current era. 

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp

    1 hr 5 min
  • Ep 2.06 -- Dragnet (legacy comedic copaganda)

    Dragnet began as a radio series in 1949, created, produced and starring Jack Webb in direct collaboration with the Los Angeles Police Department. It was the great grandpapa of all police procedurals and laid the foundation for decades of copaganda to come.

    In 1987 the world was graced with this wacky comedy version starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks and in 2021, we talked about it.
    Also Z confesses their unproblematic interest in lisps and Keith goes on a tangent about Yugos.

    Skip Intro's Copaganda Ep 1 that covers Dragnet
    More on the history of the franchise
    History of the Yugo via Wikipedia

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Spotify and Bandcamp
    Outro: Just the Facts performed by Patti LaBelle

    56 min

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