99 from 99

What in the world would a teenager in Kentucky find to like in Mike Leigh's TOPSY TURVY.Nothing.But wait until that young man becomes middle aged and living in the middle of a pandemic when he's desperate not only any exuberance but to also make his $20 Criterion sale purchase in some way not a total loss. What do you get then? A rave review!And for Tim Robbins doing his version of CRADLE WILL ROCK? Disgust!A well-rounded episode of 99 FROM 99.Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on PatreonListen iTunes/PodbeanFacebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

As we near the end of this 99 FROM 99 project we think it's safe to say that we know EXACTLY what it's like to walk THE GREEN MILE. And we do that as we take on THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Jr. with Frank Darabont once again adapting a Stephen King work for the movies. This time he ditches Tim Robbins for Michael Clarke Duncan as the wrongfully convicted man and makes a substantial upgrade in the prison warden department with America's favorite everyman Tom Hanks. This film is nice. And this podcast is nice. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Well... this was uncomfortable.     Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

It's sexy times on 99 FROM 99... which is quickly ruined when we realize that Tobey Maguire is part of said times. We try not to dismiss THE CIDER HOUSE RULES too much, even if this Oscar contender from 1999 is paired with a mostly forgotten but better film starring Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes. That's right, kids. It's the one you've been waiting for. It's THE END OF THE AFFAIR. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Woody Allen and Sean Penn seem like a very unlikeable combination so imagine our surprise when this "slight" romantic comedy from the prolific director is mostly charming... and that's thanks mostly to the Academy Award nominated performance here by Samantha Morton. Does that save us from Film Twitter attacks for covering this? Probably not but then again we are a slight movie podcast that the world mostly ignores. A perfect combination for an episode on SWEET AND LOWDOWN! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

The failed Oscar bait in the fall movie season are plentiful but they do not always star the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore like in A MAP OF THE WORLD. They do however usually star Kate Winslet and while this is thankfully not THE READER... it is instead HOLY SMOKE! where Harvey Keitel comes under the sway of this Academy Award chasing actress. Even as she urinates in his general direction. It's 99 FROM 99's finest moment as we discuss Jane Campion and Oprah! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Like the diner scene from HEAT we get Robert De Niro facing off against Philip Seymour Hoffman's female impersonator in a film from a man often (actually only in these show notes) compared to Michael Mann in director Joel Schumacher's FLAWLESS. It's not bad. Not great. But not bad. Like this podcast.  

We posit that TOY STORY 2 was the beginning of the end for Pixar. It's all doom and gloom for what has been decades of box-office success and critical praise for this company and we knew it over twenty years later! Mainly one host talks about his dislike of fish and children. It is a definitive podcast for 99 FROM 99. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

In this episode we take two trips to hell. One where Arnold Schwarzenegger fights the devil and the other is multiple attempts to watch Ang Lee's RIDE WITH THE DEVIL. All snark aside we weren't that enthused by END OF DAYS either... so basically these show notes are letting you know what a downer the Civil War, the end of the world and most importantly this podcast is. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Barry Levinson at his most virile! 99 FROM 99 at its most wistful! What an erotic combination for your listening pleasure! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Back in 1999 James Bond faced a global crisis known as Y2K and maybe Judi Dench being mildly annoyed with him. Today... well, we don't have Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist and the world is just a little dimmer for it. This podcast is depressing. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

One host calls this the greatest film of 1999 and the other is right in his hatred of everything about it... except for that dude from STARSHIP TROOPERS getting attacked by the Headless Horseman. Ladies and gents... this is Tim Burton's SLEEPY HOLLOW. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Well, it's finally here. We can probably wrap-up this look at the films of 1999 now that we have a thriller starring Bob Hoskins as a cooking enthusiast with mommy issues in FELICIA'S JOURNEY. It's not as fun as it sounds. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

On this episode we search for the father in two very different films. And only ONE of them has a poop monster. Which means that there really is no choice between Pedro Almodovar's ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER and Kevin Smith's DOGMA. Next episode we promise no poop monster. Just Bob Hoskins. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

In a time when movie stars headlined TV procedural episodes and Angelina Jolie still had an air of mystery... that is honestly more intriguing than the plot of this film. So instead we throw out our own ideas on who SHOULD HAVE done it. This is as basic as a movie podcast gets. Except this one is slightly better. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

One host directs his eye of Sauron gaze on fans of Michael Mann and the other is named Mike and is a supporter of other Mikes. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

We confront our own failures on this episode but when that gets too painful we switch to pointing and laughing at filmmaker Mark Borchard whose struggles to make a short horror film are documented in AMERICAN MOVIE. Producing this podcast made us laugh and cry. So did the movie. But we are more important. Right, dear listeners? Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

It may not be the climax we were hoping for with The Year of Taye Diggs, terrorized by a mugging Geoffrey Rush in HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL... but it's still a Taye Diggs movie so that's not nothing. We try to keep this from being a repeat of our earlier discussion of fellow 1999 haunted house remake THE HAUNTING but forgive us for not keeping up with our own continuity. But you can! By downloading EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE. AGAIN. Thanks! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

One host hates cartoons about man respecting nature (see our best episode of this series: TARZAN!) and the other is maybe a bit too enthused about Billy Bob Thornton playing a scoundrel monk in PRINCESS MONONOKE. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

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99 FROM 99: THE TAYE DIGGS PODCAST continues as we debate his title as THE BEST MAN for this wedding comedy that veers into cruelty and awkwardly timed revelations. Which means that one host found the proceedings totally normal and the other is a man who can function in society. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

A tragedy infused with beer commercial rock anthems won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the year 1999. Joy. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Three nights of berating or being berated by an agitated Nicolas Cage could very well be preferable to anything that is happening in the year 2020 but we still try to condense it down to a breezy half hour discussion on one of Martin Scorsese's rare overlooked works BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

As the summer season is upon us we offer our dear listeners the chance to take a road trip from the comfort of their ear buds with David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY. On the other hand neither of your favorite podcast hosts are as social as Richard Farnsworth in this film, so we keep it to a half hour and socially distance through the safety (and recording quirks) of Skype. Like good Americans. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Is any time a good to release an episode on FIGHT CLUB? Or is every time appropriate for a look at depression, distrust and upheaval when it's dressed up as Brad Pitt, half-naked philosopher? We think so. Also no other movie podcast has ever discussed this David Fincher film. Not that we are aware of. Don't @ us. Just listen. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Harrison Ford with an earring but still grouchy. Bruce Willis with a ponytail but still bald. Both these guys got marital problems. One wife dies in the first act, but not before having an affair; the other had to put up with that stupid ponytail from her stupid husband. This is the greatest podcast episode ever produced. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @projectingfilm on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

We are twenty years older and no more closer to being as cool as Terence Stamp in Steven Soderbergh's THE LIMEY. And neither are you. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

You either die a progressive liberal breaking down barriers in film or you live long enough to be chased off college campuses as a horribly out of touch messenger of hate and ignorance. Along the way an Oscar was won for Hilary Swank but all Kimberly Peirce gets is our appreciation on this pretty depressing episode for BOYS DON'T CRY. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

If you've always had the sneaking suspicion that the people watching movies at Sundance every year are assholes... well that's probably because some things never change. And HAPPY, TEXAS may be the most infamous example of a festival hit being an unmitigated disaster that nearly killed the career of Steve Zahn. Wait. According to Wikipedia this was his "breakout role." And was also a "box-office hit." A "cult classic?" If only our legion of fans would take up this cause to combat the fake news of yet another Jeremy Northam masterclass in suckdom. Alas, there are probably more important matters in these troubled times. Such as Ron Eldard playing quite the cocksmith in MYSTERY, ALASKA. That's rich! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

This podcast has done its half-assed best to give context to the idyllic theatrical experience of 1999 but we can't gloss over the fact that there were some troubled productions from that year. THREE KINGS may be known as the greatest performance Spike Jonze ever gave (don't @ us, JACKASS fans) but one can only imagine (if you are a decent human being) that director David O. Russell's lone memory of his breakout hit is the beating he received from Kentucky boy George Clooney. That is if he has any decency. Which he does not. Enjoy the rest of the discussion! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

The troubled times we find ourselves in now can be traced back to America's rejection of Hollywood's attempt to make Loren Dean a star in Lawrence Kasdan's MUMFORD. Thankfully at least one of your hosts adored this adorable movie about nice people and all the nice lies they tell each other. Speaking of which listen to your least favorite host of 99 FROM 99 as he bullies the poor people of Mumford. Get those Mumford hashtags trending by clicking on the links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Ashley Judd can't be tried twice for killing her husband in 1999's fall hit DOUBLE JEOPARDY but your favorite podcast trapped in the past will put this Bruce Beresford thriller back on trial and end up sounding just as tired as Tommy Lee Jones does by the end of it. Fun! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Have you been waiting for a podcast on Bruce Willis in a failed Kurt Vonnegut adaptation? You have our apologies as this is probably your only option as we see just how far the combined ranting powers of Albert Finney and Nick Nolte can carry this box office and critical disaster from 1999. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!  

And so we have arrived at the Best Picture of 1999. Thus ends the podcast. Of course not! As one host raves about the merits of AMERICAN BEAUTY, the other is just wondering how misguided does a man have to be to no longer find Annette Bening amusing? Also notice how we are leading with one star in these show notes and not the other? Wellllll we get into that a bit at the top of the show. Then we have our "fun" again by debating if this is indeed the best that 1999 in film had to offer or maybe Ron Livingston wanting to watch Kung Fu already did it better. Let your voice be heard on such important matters at the links below! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Twenty years later we are still shocked at the opening weekend dominance of Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne in STIGMATA, while Kevin Bacon bombed in STIR OF ECHOES as a Johnny-come-lately THE SIXTH SENSE on September 10, 1999. Since coming in with the very late takes is our podcast bread and butter we try to comfort Mr. Bacon in what has been a decades long matter of great shame to the man. Speaking of shameful, click on these links: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

It's back to school for many a child listener of 99 FROM 99 and what better way to start the season than being anti-social and listening to their favorite hosts on their favorite podcast on everyone's favorite films of 1999: TEACHING MRS. TINGLE and MUSIC OF THE HEART. Apparently one of our hosts reads these show notes (and it's not the one who writes them; he's an alcoholic) and perhaps with the cynicism of these worthless words is the reason for the biggest twist of this failed experiment... his co-host actually liked one of these movies. You no longer care but please click these links: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Who knew that twenty years later the comedic stylings of Steve Martin and Albert Brooks would be so divisive to our much beloved hosts of your favorite podcast? One of them finds the con man ways of BOWFINGER not only failing to amuse but likely criminal whereas your other host is in complete agreement with Hollywood that THE MUSE is the death rattle of a once great comedic director. It's a fun episode! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

It's sexy times on this episode of 99 FROM 99 as we discuss the film that gave disappointed EYES WIDE SHUT audiences what they really wanted. Unfortunately all of that steamy action between Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo is nearly ruined by a terrible haircut on top of a terrible Denis Leary. All of this and a late to the game #FreeJohnMcTiernan crusade is started... but we can't be bothered to take that cause to our social media links which you can find here: early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Unfortunately for most people (including one of your beloved hosts) the greatest Superman movie ever made was missed upon initial release in 1999... so leave it to 99 FROM 99 to make THE IRON GIANT a sensation twenty years later. Look, if Steven Spielberg couldn't make it happen in READY PLAYER ONE... I guess we have to step in. As usual. Click the links below if you want to be a good American who likes lovable robots: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

In August of 1999... everyone saw dead people. A cruel person, like maybe one (or both!) of your hosts, may make a joke here about Bruce Willis' performance in THE SIXTH SENSE but instead we rave about it like a couple of dorks. Look, even the Oscars got something right (historically this is only one of three times that's been true) by nominating Toni Collette in one of M. Night Shyamalan's finest pieces of writing and directing. So we've got nothing new for you here but we do have links: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Almost a decade after Julia Roberts became one of the all-time movie stars in her work with director Garry Marshall and co-star Richard Gere in PRETTY WOMAN the band got back together in the summer of 1999 to give us the SECOND BEST Julia Roberts romcom of that year! RUNAWAY BRIDE may not be as well loved as NOTTING HILL or the iconic hooker with a heart of gold flick but it was a big financial success and maybe, just maybe, we should give these very pretty people a break for once. Do the same for us PLEASE by clicking on the links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!  

UTwo decades later and we are still worried about spoiling the charms of Renny Harlin's DEEP BLUE SEA. This leads to a conversation about spoiler culture and the lack of risk-taking as seen by some of today's bigger stars (unfortunately not Thomas Jane as much as we like the guy). Other than that we try to avoid being absolute buzzkills on one of life's simple pleasures: LL Cool J as a chef fighting sharks in his kitchen. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

On July 23, 1999 the world FINALLY got their Spinal Tap version of local beauty pageants... and the world mostly took a pass until THE OFFICE made that fashionable. Like most of the Johnny-come-lately's we give our delayed thoughts on DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. And while it may be strange for two grown men to give their very late two cents on this Kirsten Dunst teen comedy... well one of your hosts was as amped up for her other '99 offering in DICK. As in Richard Nixon. Yes, the lesser half of 99 FROM 99 loves Richard Nixon. Please don't unsubscribe and click the links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!  

On July 23, 1999 the star-filled remake of THE HAUNTING would open #1 at the box office but it would be the horror film that opened a week later whose legacy lives on. We debate the merits of the amateur camera crew but professional actors wandering the woods in THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT compared to the likes of Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Liam Neeson and if either of these films have survived the initial backlash... one to quickly dated CGI effects, the other to snot rocket tears. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

The unofficial subtitle of this podcast is The Year of Taye Diggs and that continues with his second appearance of 1999 in THE WOOD. We discuss this more mature version of AMERICAN PIE and wonder if a trip to the movies brings an expectation for a character such as Stifler while also feeling much like the characters of this Rick Famuyiwa film... wistful for a time when we didn't know that we wanted Stifler or his mom. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Killer crocodiles on screen is very specific film passion but one that ever so often rears its ugly green head and attacks unsuspecting moviegoers. One of your hosts is a freak and enjoys that particular kink and the other is named Mike. This episode sees both hosts (freak and non-freak alike) theorizing on how the writer of ALLY MCBEAL brought us Betty White in a monster movie in 1999 and if we didn't know how good we had it with this goofy summer movie. Our beloved listeners know how they good they have it because they click the links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

We hope you have not just the password for the house to hear our biggest episode yet. All for a few no names like Cruise... Kidman... and Kubrick. The most anticipated film for cinephiles back in 1999 and EYES WIDE SHUT remains the most debated film of that year two decades later. Our discussion tries to cover just a few of the theories kicked around over the years about this work... even getting to the point where maybe some of those theories do a great disservice to the film. Hopefully you don't feel we have done the same and even if we have... please click these links: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

In the summer of 1999 dumb Americans were finally treated to some comedy by way of France in THE DINNER GAME. And while it would take us a while to get our grubby remaking hands on it with 2010's DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS, it took even longer for your two beloved hosts to see the original. Classic French gags from the late 90s still hold up in 2019? Awkward phone calls? Awkward lies? Awkward golf swings? For one host this is no Adam Sandler and for the other host... well it's no Adam Sandler. You be the judge of this odd glass half full/empty look at comedy at the links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins gave everyone the ideal neighbors relationship in ARLINGTON ROAD and all of us have been avoiding crazies like this ever since. Unfortunately for you dear listener, we have decided to dredge up uncomfortable cookouts and political discourse for everyone's amusement. And this movie is fun! But two decades later you must still be careful of spoilers... so just listen and click on the links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!  

On July 9, 1999 the wild world of sex with desserts was introduced to the mainstream with  AMERICAN PIE. This Jason Biggs starring teen comedy presents some awkward reflection for your two co-hosts now trying to figure out if they can still enjoy the comedic offerings of Stifler or if we have aged into the Stifler's mom demo. Either way we can all agree on Eugene Levy as the world's greatest dad. And since everyone is being so agreeable, click these links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!

After many trials and tribulations of exploring the year of 1999 in film we may have rediscovered a true classic in Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM. Of course we stay on brand and lament the cold shoulder this film got that summer so even (especially!) twenty years later there is still much sorrow to share with our fellow man. You can do so as well by clicking on the links of sorrow below! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99   Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!