Cerise Townsend and Vicky Osterweil are ranking every movie ever made - from every country, every filmmaker, every decade and every *every*. From Paul Thomas Anderson to Paul WS Anderson; from Cannon to Canal+; from movies they can't believe exist to movies that just shouldn't exist. They're going to rank every one of them from best to worst of all time, and they believe that this is an entirely reasonable goal.
Cerise And Vicky Rank The Movies
New Patreon ep! Listen as C&V scrounge up two secret Christmas movies from the dumpster - 1984's Sole Survivor and 1996's Riot! Is Thom Eberhardt's updating of Carnival of Souls too good for a Dumpster Diving ep? How did a movie about LA (or maybe New York) race riots wind up hating the IRA so much? Subscribe and find out! https://www.patreon.com/posts/71371303?pr=true
Couch Gag! C&V press on into the swamps of August, adding two new Simpsons episodes to their list! Is The Telltale Head's solid construction enough to balance out its 1990-era patriotism? Does This Little Wiggy go a little too far in making fun of Ralph Wiggum? How morally correct is it to steal a movie? Subscribe and find out! https://www.patreon.com/posts/70697076
Cerise and Vicky try to survive the hottest summer in years by loading their miniguns, showing off their biceps and wondering where all these red laser dots are coming from as they tackle every standalone Predator movie! How is 1987's Predator more than just a cheesy 80s action movie? How badly did Disney screw over the people behind 2022's Prey? And how confusing is it to keep the names of all the movies between straight? Tune in and find out! 8:07 - Predator (1987, John McTiernan) 28:59 - Predator 2 (1990, Stephen Hopkins) 45:55 - Predators (2010, Nimrod Antal) 1:00:42 - The Predator (2018, Shane Black) 1:17:05 - Prey (2022, Dan Trachtenberg)
NEW PATREON EP! Cerise and Vicky explore the UFOria of the 70s, coming up with two prime cuts of ET trash. Does Chariots of the Gods prove that people were even easier to grift in the 70s than they are today? Is Prey an exception to or an example of the rot of the late 70's British film industry? Subscribe to the Patreon and find out! https://www.patreon.com/posts/69953934?pr=true
Cerise and Vicky pump the volume on their theremins, polish their death rays and cross the cosmos, adding five movies about alien invasions to the list, starting with 2022's Nope! If Jordan Peele keeps going at his current rate, how long will it be before the argument that he's the greatest horror director ever starts to make sense? Is 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers superior to the original? How badly did the failure of Mars Attacks! screw over blockbuster filmmakers in the years to come? Tune in and find out! 8:29 - Nope (2022, Jordan Peele) 28:55 - War of the Worlds (1953, Byron Haskins) 45:23 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Philip Kaufman) 1:07:11 - Mars Attacks! (1996, Tim Burton) 1:31:35 - Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Doug Liman)
NEW PATREON EP! C&V battle painful injury and deep mediocrity to bring you some thoughts on some of the Simpsons' filleriest episodes - Season 1's Call of the Simpsons and Season 9's Simpson Tide! Why did one of these episodes inspire a whole level in the Simpsons arcade game? How spurious is the claim that the Simpsons predicted the war between Russia and Ukraine? Subscribe and find out! https://www.patreon.com/ceriseandvicky
Cerise and special guest host Camellia Berry Grass tackle five cases of a smaller filmmaker hitting the big time! Is our collective patience for Taika Waititi running as thin as it seems? Will our ranking of a Jean Luc Godard masterpiece upset the Sight & Sound people? Is Ang Lee's Hulk one of the most underrated movies of the 2000s? And how much damage will Cerise inflict upon herself by taking over Vicky's duties for the week Tune in and find out! 9:27 - Thor Love & Thunder (2022, Taika Waititi) 30:26 - Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) 49:13 - Popeye (1980, Robert Altman) 1:09:12 - Out of Sight (1998, Steven Soderbergh) 1:26:41 - Hulk (2003, Ang Lee)
Cerise & Vicky hit the road, alienate their loved ones and overcome their personal demons in the course of adding five entries from the most generic genre to the list – musical biopics. Is Baz Luhrmann's Elvis kinda good, actually? Why is Hal Ashby so unfairly forgotten? Does Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story live up to its illicit hype? And did Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story prove that this genre is unkillable? Tune in and find out! (Also, apparently an Elton John movie was watched and discussed. There's literal audio evidence that proves this. But we're still skeptical.) 11:05 - Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann) 28:17 - Bound For Glory (1976, Hal Ashby) 48:16 - Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987, Todd Haynes) 1:02:01 - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007, Jake Kasdan) 1:15:39 - Rocketman (2019, Dexter Fletcher)
Cerise and Vicky are back with an episode 65 million seconds in the making! Join them as they and special guest Sophie Lewis plumb the humid depths of the entire Jurassic Park franchise, including Jurassic World Dominion! Why do we think Steven Spielberg was so hyped to make Jurassic Park? At what point do the raptors basically become Gremlins? Is Colin Trevorrow the worst director we've ever covered? How many dinosaur names can three people mispronounce? Tune in and find out! 12:16 – Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg) 37:10 – The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, Steven Spielberg) 54:54 – Jurassic Park III (2001, Joe Johnston) 1:10:53 – Jurassic World (2015, Colin Trevorrow) 1:39:00 – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018, JA Bayona) 1:57:54 – Jurassic World Dominion (2022, Colin Trevorrow)
Get ready to sharpen your swords and call upon an increasingly suspect series of gods, because Cerise and Vicky are adding five movies about mythic warriors to the list? Is a massive budget more of a help or a hindrance for The Northman? Will Conan the Barbarian be as fashy as Cerise and Vicky fear? Should Tarsem Singh's Immortals have been the template for all blockbusters going forward? Tune in and find out!
Cerise & Vicky are set against each other in a lethal contest of movie ranking acumen, racing against the clock and adding five movies about deadly games to the list! Does We're All Going To The World's Fair live up to the festival hype? Does Battle Royale stand the test of time? Is Gary Busey a better villain than Rutger Hauer? Tune in after your state-mandated viewing of Clawing For Dollars and find out! 9:08 - We're All Going to The World's Fair (2021, Jane Schoenbrun) 23:48 - Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970, Freddie Francis) 38:26 - The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser) 54:55 - Surviving The Game (1994, Ernest Dickerson) 1:09:09 - Battle Royale (2000, Kinji Fukusaku)
Cerise & Vicky do battle with the studios, steal the negatives and weep about the general state of the film industry while also finding time to rave about five movies that received botched releases! Did Memoria deserve much better treatment from Neon? Did Alex Cox torch his Hollywood career in the best way possible? Is Annihilation the greatest weed movie ever? Tune in and find out! 8:44 – Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 30:18 – Walker (1987, Alex Cox) 50:51 – All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2007, Jonathan Levine) 1:04:51 – Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland) 1:28:38 – The Empty Man (2020, David A Prior)
Cerise & Vicky rave about two punk DIY classics that are likely to be some of the highest-ranked movies this sideshow ever produces! Why is 1988's Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em so criminally underseen in America? Why does 2009's Repo Chick have such a bad reputation? Subscribe and find out! Cerise & Vicky rave about two punk DIY classics that are likely to be some of the highest-ranked movies this sideshow ever produces! Why is 1988's Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em so criminally underseen in America? Why does 2009's Repo Chick have such a bad reputation? Tune in and find out!
Cerise & Vicky slip into some hot pants, pile into a van and set out to find some good barbecue, adding five backwoods horror movies to the list along the way! Is Ti West's X the raunchy, sex positive flick good time promised by the ads? Did Tobe Hooper harbor secrets that can only be guessed at now? Is Rob Zombie a far better filmmaker than anyone gives him credit for? Tune in and find out! 6:33 - X (2022, Ti West) 19:59 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) 43:01 - Next Of Kin (1982, Tony Lawrence) 55:29 - Clearcut (1991, Ryszard Bugajski) 1:09:08 - House of 1000 Corpses (2003, Rob Zombie)
C & V delve once more into the mysteries of Simpsons history, covering Season 1's disappointing There's No Disgrace Like Home and Season 9's Trash of the Titans! How does this Season 1 episode foreshadow the terminal decline of The Simpsons? What did the rejection of 80's Reaganite family ideals eventually morph into? And did The Simpsons really need a 200th episode spectacular? Subscribe and find out! https://www.patreon.com/posts/c-v-rank-episode-63830977
Grab your tights and Bat your Mites because Cerise, Vicky and special guest Kayte Terry are rubbering up to whip some Batmen! Are three hours enough for Matt Reeves to wash away the memory of Christopher Nolan? Did Catwoman provide a secret origin for legions of trans girls? Will a surplus of ice puns meet a chilly reception? Tune in and find out! 12:40 - The Batman (2022, Matt Reeves) 32:12 - Batman (1989, Tim Burton) 50:33 - Batman Returns (1992, Tim Burton) 1:08:41 - Batman Forever (1995, Joel Schumacher) 1:25:49 - Batman & Robin (1997, Joel Schumacher)
Cerise and Vicky check their lists and science up the best films of 2021! Can any American films break the top ten without the help of an asterisk? Which indie distributor is doing everything it can to make sure you don't see their films? Who is going to snipe who the most as they progress through the list? Tune in and find out! Donate to Jennifer Bennetch's family here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jennifer-bennetchs-family?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=sms&utm_source=customer
Don your rubber suits and check the latest box office trends, because C & V are diving into some creature features from the tail end of the Jaws-obsessed 70's. Does Roger Corman have better storytelling instincts than giallo legend Sergio Martino? Can a teenager with a Super 8 camera and a dream make a more entertaining movie than half the entries on our list? Subscribe to our Patreon and uncover the sinister truth: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cerise-vicky-go-62601949
Cerise, Vicky and special guest Sarah Miller spot each other across the room and are immediately flattened by by the moon crashing down upon them and hitting their eyes. Luckily, they had completed an episode about Rom Coms before this tragic misfortune. They will be missed. 6:03 - The Worst Person In The World (2021, Joachim Trier) 24:46 - His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks) 42:20 - Moonstruck (1987, Norman Jewison) 1:00:37 - Sleepless In Seattle (1993, Nora Ephron) 1:21:33 - Down With Love (2003, Peyton Reed)
Cerise and Vicky do prison movies and try to pretend this is the first time they've recorded this episode! 6:01 - A Hero (2021, Ashgar Farhadi) 23:33 - Le Trou (1960, Jacques Becker) 43:03 - Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (1972, Shunya Ito) 1:01:56 - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima) 1:18:06 - Con Air (1997, Simon West)
Cerise and Vicky don their pink vinyl tank tops, grab their pacifiers and dive into the shiniest dumpster they can find to unearth two movies about Y2K rave culture! Will Vibrations teach us that no adversity is too severe to be overcome by cyberhands? Is Rave Macbeth a better Shakespeare adaptation than Tragedy of Macbeth? Do Cerise and Vicky need to go spend some time in the chillout room? Subscribe to the Patreon and find out!
Cerise, Vicky and special guest Camellia Berry Grass suffer the slings and arrows of podcasting as they add five Shakespeare adaptations to the list! Did watching a new movie in the theater require unreasonable exertions of them? Will Cerise successfully disguise how little she knows about Shakespeare? Is Vicky ever going to stop soliloquizing? Tuneth in and findeth out! 7:53 – The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen) 25:09 – Chimes At Midnight (1966, Orson Welles) 43:05 – Hamlet Goes Business (1987, Aki Kaurismäki) 1:00:07 – Romeo + Juliet (1996, Baz Luhrmann) 1:19:44 – Haider (2014, Vishal Bhardwaj)
I Will Not Start This Post With a Blackboard Joke. This month we've got a dual (and dueling) pair of episodes centered on the kids, one where Bart seems smart (Bart the Genius) and one where Lisa is revealed to still be just an 8 year old! (Lost our Lisa) We also get the appearance of not one but two very special memes, so don't make us tap the sign, subscribe to our Patreon and see how high these new episodes will rank!
Cerise, Vicky and special guest Io Ascarium ensconce themselves in pleather, dye their hair blue and load their pronouns as they dive into The Matrix! Will Cerise abandon her twenty-year grudge against these movies? Will Vicky reveal dark secrets about her theatrical past? Is Resurrections enough to wipe the taste of endless reboot from their mouths? Jack in and find out! 10:35 - The Matrix (1999, Lily & Lana Wachowski) 36:01 - The Matrix Reloaded (2003, Lily & Lana Wachowski) 1:01:57 - The Animatrix (2003, Various) 1:21:42 - The Matrix Revolutions (2003, Lily & Lana Wachowski) 1:43:20 - The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Lana Wachowski)
Join Cerise and Vicky for a holiday in the dumpster, as they begin their deep dive into the annals of trash history! Does 1980's New Year's Evil hold the key to understanding the philosophy of Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan and the Cannon Film Group? Does 1983's Blood Beat make any sense at all if you hold it sideways and squint at it? Are either of these movies any good? There's only one way to find out, and it's not by staying clean. Listen to the first episode for free at https://www.patreon.com/ceriseandvicky !
Cerise and Vicky load up the 16mm film, dim the lights, roll sound and make sure everybody's fluffed before adding five movies about porn and porn stars to their list. 7:34 - Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker) 22:49 - Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) 42:20 - Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson) 1:05:02 - Hump Day (2008, Lynn Shelton) 1:21:53 - Antiporno (2016, Sion Sono)
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Cerise and Vicky return to the podcasting catwalk to show off their hot new looks, before remembering that no one can actually see them. To console themselves, they add five movies about the world of fashion to their list. 12:56 - House Of Gucci (2021, Ridley Scott) 32:12 - Eyes Of Laura Mars (1978, Irvin Kershner) 48:50 - Pret a Porter (1994, Robert Altman) 1:11:02 - Zoolander (2001, Ben Stiller) 1:24:53 - Bill Cunningham New York (2010, Richard Press)
As the country reopens and everyone pretends this pandemic is over, Cerise and Vicky ranked a bunch of...gasp...good post-apocalyptic movies, and make a big announcement about the podcast! 11:10 A Quiet Place, Part II (2021, John Krasinski) Cerise and Vicky wonder why critics are so awed by John Krasinksi's Make America Quiet Again paean to patriarchy, I mean, it's also just kinda boring! 28:35 The Bed-Sitting Room (1969, Philly's Own Richard Lester) Vicky adores this oft forgotten surrealist post-apocalyptic satire masterpiece, but Cerise found it a bit repetitive 41:00 Escape from New York (1981, John Carpenter) Cerise and Vicky rave about this basically perfect piece of genre cinema and Vicky reveals her undying love for Adrienne Barbeau 1:03:15 Twelve Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam) Vicky watches one of Cerise's favorites for the first time, and is thoroughly edified! 1:19:55 Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron) Cerise fends off a cranky critique from Vicky as they both deeply enjoy this incredible cinematography and shot composition
Cerise and Vicky recover from their longest episode ever by zipping through their shortest episode ever, adding five wonderful and kind of samey films about girls school to their list! 6:10 – Seance (2021, Simon Barrett) – Cerise and Vicky rediscover what genre films can be when they don't take themselves deathly seriously. Also: Gay. 18:20 – Madchen in Uniform (1931, Leontine Sagan) – Cerise and Vicky dig up the foundations of the girls' school drama to investigate whether it holds up ninety years later. Also: GAY. 29:13 – Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir) – Cerise and Vicky investigate the disappearance of five Victorian schools girls in an attempt to discern what role repressed sexual yearning played in their disappearance. Also: GAY GAY GAY. 43:21 – Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981, Shinji Somai) – Cerise and Vicky sit down for what they assume will be a quick, unpretentious exploitation movie, but get something way better than they expected/ Also: Not *as * gay, but certainly gay enough. 57:22 – Whispering Corridors (1998, Park Ki-Hyung) – Cerise and Vicky introduce a way better franchise than the Saw movies to the list, shouting out Tartan Asia Extreme in the process. Also; gaygaygaygaygay.
CW: Drug use, self harm, addiction, extreme violence In celebration of the long awaited release (by someone, surely) of Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Cerise and Vicky take a trip through a torture trap all their own as they watch the first 8 Saw films back to back to back. Listen as they go through an entire afternoon, evening and into the dawn with the purest horror filth. Will they make it out alive? (of course they will, it's a movie podcast, please calm down) 7:47 Saw (2004, James Wan) We start off full of pep and dreams of a fun movie marathon, but Saw has already begun to disabuse us of this dream. 23:05 Saw II (2005, Darren Lynn Bousman) C and V welcome director Darren Lynn Bousman to their list, but before the night is out he will be their most ranked director. This is hardly the worst thing about watching Saw II 37:10 Saw III (2006, Darren Lynn Bousman) C and V lose the will to go on in the face of this absolute racist trash fire. Have they found the new worst film of all time? Still, they go on. 50:45 Saw IV (2007, Darren Lynn Bousman)The drinks have started to have their effect as C and V rank a film that, at least, is not as bad as Saw III? Also, a lot of puppet slander! 1:07:30 Saw V (2008, David Hackl) The franchise is officially eating its own tail here, and Cerise barely prevents Vicky from eating her own hand. 1:22:00 Saw VI (2009, Kevin Greutert) Long running series villain (no, not Jigsaw, series editor Kevin Greutert) takes the helm as director and...makes the best movie so far in the franchise? HUGE TWIST 1:34:35 Saw 3D: The Final Chapter (2010, Kevin Greutert) Hopes of more good movies to come are utterly dashed on the rocks of the misogynist nightmare of Saw VII. Will Cerise and Vicky ever know pleasure again? 1:50:30 Jigsaw (2017, The Spierig Brothers) Is it a reboot? A sequel? Cerise and Vicky can't go on. The sun has come up over beautiful West Philadelphia and they seem to have lost the ability to think about movies, potentially forever. 2:07:30 Spiral : From the Book of Saw(2021) Darren "The Bous" Bousman returns to the franchise, Cerise and Vicky return to theaters, and one final twist ending awaits them.
Cerise and Vicky celebrate their 200th movie ranked by recording in the same room as one another!They immediately find that they have been wrongfully accused of being good podcasters, and add five more movies to their list to hide their shame. 09:28 – Monster (2021, Anthony Mandler) 24:56 – North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) 40:32 – Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, Elio Petri) 57:05 – Reversal of Fortune (1990, Barbet Schroeder) 1:12:26 – Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg)
Cerise and Vicky crack open some New York Times Number One Best Seller airport novels and talk about how the movies based on them are...completely fine. Full of amazing performances and often mediocre pacing. But we didn't talk about any YA? 9:30 - Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021, Stefano Sollima)Cerise and Vicky are pleasantly surprised that this movie is only half as fashy as Tom Clancy's name is wont to imply, and give a big welcome to the show to Michael B Jordan. 31:25 - The Caine Mutiny (1954, Edward Dmytryk) Vicky reads the entire film as a narrative about gay desire and closets, Cerise defends the righteousness of mutineers, and both of them think this movie should've trimmed its runtime. 50:00 - Valley of the Dolls (1967, Mark Robson) Cerise adores Patty Duke's scenery chewing, Vicky is too distressed by the misogyny to even enjoy it, but both start to think about checking out the book 1:09:30 - The Dead Zone (1983, David Cronenberg) Cerise and Vicky freak out with joy at the first good movie they got to watch in two weeks. Do you guys remember good movies? They almost forgot. 1:26:50 - The Russia House (1990, Fred Schepisi) Is this John Le Carre adaptation unfairly forgotten? Yes! Is it a must watch? Oh, no, no. It's pretty OK though! (Stars this week include: Michael B. Jordan, Guy Pearce, Lauren London, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jacob Scipio, Humphrey Bogart, May Wynn, Fred MacMurray, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Sharon Tate, Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Susan Hayward, John Mahoney, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Brooke Adams, Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeifer, Roy Scheider, Klaus Maria Brandauer)
Cerise and Vicky load up on Mountain Dew and trek into the digital void. Will they find five more video game movies for their ever-growing list? Or will they find only despair and madness? The answer is yes. 12:12 – Mortal Kombat (2021, Simon McQuoid) – Cerise and Vicky are forced to climb a mountainous trash heap – is the smell truly toxic, or merely extremely unpleasant? 36:10 – Street Fighter (1994, Steven E. DeSouza) – Cerise and Vicky are forced to ponder the riddle of the Blanka – is Batman '66-style campy humor enough to redeem one of the granddaddies of the video game movie genre? 53:40 – Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001, Hironobu Sakaguchi) – Cerise and Vicky look upon the works of a video game legend, and despair. 1:10:10 – Alone In The Dark (2005, Uwe Boll) – Cerise and Vicky brave the caverns of mid-2000s cinematic detritus in search of the secret origin of the most infamous video game movie auteur of all time. 1:26:15 – Fatal Frame (2014, Mari Asato) – Cerise and Vicky rejoice upon encountering an oasis of a movie – until they watch its second half.
Cerise and Vicky reach the middle of their years and find that there are yet still more movies to rank. 6:40 – Nobody (2021, Ilya Naishuller) – Cerise and Vicky speculate as to why no one seems to recognize that this is a parody of action films, and find time to argue about the literal nature of video game imagery. 30:55 – Pierrot Le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard) – Cerise and Vicky argue some more; Adam Curtis takes advantage of the chaos. 53:30 – Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden) – Cerise and Vicky make peace for the sake of celebrating a woman who was unfairly lost in the shadow of a massive dirtball. 1:10:03 – Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino) – Cerise and Vicky argue about whether the presence of Pam Grier is enough to make up for Quentin Tarantino's Quentin Tarantinoness. 1:31:33 – A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen) – Vicky gushes about a movie that reflects her personal experiences, and Cerise is happy that Vicky is happy.
This week Cerise and Vicky do some rubbernecking at horrible events in tunnels, skyscrapers, volcanic islands and many other places besides. They get very excited about The Towering Inferno, get stymied by bad subtitles, and welcome a bunch of great stars and directors to the list. We also all learn a little something about Vicky's sexuality. 11:50: The Tunnel - What can Cerise and Vicky do when the copies of a new movie available make it harder to watch than not? 30:00: Towering Inferno - Cerise and Vicky get so excited about the Towering Inferno they develop a new catchphrase 1:00:20 When Time Ran Out... - Cerise and Vicky deploy a materialist analysis of film production's relation to oil extraction in order to talk about one of the silliest disaster movies in history 1:24:30 Dante's Peak - Vicky admits to having a mom crush on Pierce Brosnan, and Cerise graciously doesn't take away Vicky's lesbian membership card 1:40:45 Contagion - Steven Soderbergh predicts the Coronavirus, and Cerise gets the worst kind of contagious disease, feelings
Cerise and Vicky are caught in a nuclear blast and grow to enormous size. Instead of using their power to level cities, they choose to rank five Godzilla movies, because they are nice. 9:39 – Godzilla vs Kong (2021, Adam Wingard) 30:53 – Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda) 48:39 – Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster (1964, Ishiro Honda) 1:06:00 – Godzilla (1998, Roland Emmerich) 1:28:30 – Godzilla Final Wars (2004, Ryuhei Kitamura)
Cerise and Vicky foolishly try their hand at Amateur Night by ranking movies about comedians! 6:20 – Bad Trip (2021, Kitao Sakurai) – Cerise and Vicky debate the ethics of hanging people off of rooftops for comedy as they discuss the only genuinely funny movie this week 23:49 – The Entertainer (1960, Tony Richardson) – Laurence Olivier turns into a boat and jams up the Suez or something.. 41:38 – The King Of Comedy (1983, Martin Scorsese) – Cerise reveals the second stage of her plan to turn Vicky into a Scorsese superfan. Vicky is skeptical. 1:01:45 – The Late Shift (1996, Betty Thomas) – Cerise and Vicky puzzle over why they remembered this movie without realizing that it's because they are also vilified lesbians. 1:19:32 – Entertainment (2015, Greg Alverson) – Entertainment? More like EnterNOTment, amirite?
Cerise and Vicky unleash their collected hatred towards the Snyder Cut and manage to rank and review four more movies with legendarily troubled productions. 10:23 – Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021, Zack Snyder) – Cerise and Vicky stare into the murky abyss of fascist trolling and find the Anti-Life Equation staring back at them. 58:35 – Manos: The Hands Of Fate – Cerise and Vicky recover from the experience of Justice League by appreciating the knees of Torgo. 1:14:31 – Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin) – Cerise and Vicky strap some nitroglycerin to their backs and explore an underappreciated classic. 1:42:21 – Ishtar (1987, Elaine May) – Cerise and Vicky set out to clear the name of Elaine May, only to encounter some unexpected roadblocks. 2:04:16 – The Island of Dr Moreau (1996, John Frankenheimer) – Vicky finally begins to lose her mind as Cerise mocks her descent into madness.
Cerise and Vicky coat themselves in surf wax, hop into the fastest car they can find and hit the nearest bank while adding five movies about crime sprees to their list. 12:25 – Cherry (2021, Russo Bros.) - Cerise and Vicky bang their heads against a wall for thirty minutes in an attempt to capture the mindset of the filmmakers. 42:43 – They Live By Night (1949, Nicholas Ray) – Cerise and Vicky swoon over the doomed romanticism and boyish stubble of Nicholas Ray's debut. 1:01:17 – Gone In 60 Seconds (1974, HB Halicki) – Cerise and Vicky say vroom vroom as cars go smash. 1:18:52 – Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow) – Cerise and Vicky discuss the various flaws of beautiful men while fighting for the same parachute. 1:42:04 – Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009, Werner Herzog) – Cerise and Vicky discover, to their eternal horror, that their souls are still dancing.
Cerise and Vicky grow some bushy mustaches, dub their accents and add five Eurocrime movies to their list of every movie ever made! NOTE: Polished version is up! 9:39 - Pixie (2021, Barnaby Thompson) - Cerise and Vicky travel all the way to Ireland for one sociopath, one glass of whiskey and a whole lot of nothing. 27:36 - Le Samourai (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville) - Cerise and Vicky learn that the key to outsmarting the cops is proper pet care. Vicky reveals a shameful secret about her film nerd past. 44:09 - Revolver (1973, Sergio Sollima) - Cerise finally makes her teenage self proud as she and Vicky explore the surprising political depths of an overlooked thriller. 58:56 - Copkiller (1983, Roberto Faenza) - The surprises continue as Cerise and Vicky uncover a hidden gem lurking in the public domain. 1:14:58 - Let The Corpses Tan (2017, Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) - Another hidden gem! Cerise and Vicky are rich! Rich! But why is there a gigantic woman silhouetted against the sun looming over them? Listen to find out!
Cerise and Vicky make polite dinner conversation and plot to steal each other's inheritance while adding five movies about family drama to the list. 8:54 – Minari (2020, Lee Isaac Chung) - Cerise and Vicky are surpised once more by the quality of 2021's new releases. Pazuzu makes a brief and troublesome appearance. 26:58 – I Live In Fear (1955, Akira Kurosawa) - Cerise and Vicky look past some terrible old age makeup to find a hidden gem underneath. 44:51 – Serial Mom (1994, John Waters) - Cerise and Vicky have a good old-fashioned movie fight about John Waters' last (generally acknowledged) film. 1:04:09 – I Am Love (2009, Luca Guadagnino) - Cerise is treated to a shocking reveal while watching this movie; Vicky helps her cope. 1:23:24 – Hereditary (2018, Ari Aster) - Vicky gushes about one of her favorite movies and Cerise reminds everyone that the 2010s were an amazing time for film.
Cerise and Vicky hop on their motorcycles and hit the highway in search of a crying bald eagle or some such thing, adding five road movies to their list along the way. Featuring special guest star Adam Curtis! 8:35 – Nomadland (2020, Chloe Zhao) – Cerise and Vicky sort through some powerful and mixed feelings about an honest, empathetic film that tries to address the issue of poverty without upsetting shareholders. 30:34 – Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper) – Cerise and Vicky explore the process by which a countercultural statement becomes a life insurance commercial and find that the key is making a flawed statement in the first place. 46:49 – Race With The Devil (1975, Jack Starrett) – Cerise and Vicky chart the fiery, paranoid death of the hippie dream with the help of an amazingly surly Warren Oates. Many drinks are had. 1:03:24 – Lost In America (1985, Albert Brooks) – Albert Brooks buries yuppie strivers under the weight of their own delusions while Vicky cringes and Cerise laughs. 1:14:35 – My Own Private Idaho (1991, Gus Van Sant) – Cerise and Vicky find out that when you smush three movies together, they all turn out extremely gay.
Cerise and Vicky pledge their hearts to the movements of the past by ranking five movies about 60s leftism. Will they become perfect servants of the revolution? Or will they be made an example of for the good of the cadre? Listen to find out! 9:33 - Judas And The Black Messiah (2021, Shaka King) - Cerise and Vicky agree that it's about as good as a Hollywood biopic of Fred Hampton could be, and then they argue about what that means. 30:43 - Z (1969, Costa-Gavras) - Cerise and Vicky race against time to expose the truth about this movie to the world. That truth? The movie's pretty dope. 49:36 - Germany in Autumn (1978, Various) - Cerise and Vicky dive deep into a deep dive into the history of German Leftism. Vicky holds her breath significantly longer than Cerise. 1:05:08 - King Of The Children (1987, Chen Kaige) - Cerise and Vicky cover a movie that's massively famous in China and massively obscure in the West. The shocking secrets lurking in Vicky's psyche are revealed. 1:19:09 - United Red Army (2007, Koji Wakamatsu) - Vicky tricks Cerise into watching an unflinchingly brutal examination of vanguardism. Cerise is displeased.
Cerise and Vicky are possessed by the unholy power of cinema and are compelled to put on an Exorstravaganza 8:05 - Saint Maud (2020, Rose Glass) - Cerise and Vicky dip into the latest A24 horror only to find that the legacy of The Exorcist isn't as easy to shake as they thought it would be. 24:00 - The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin) - Cerise tries to convince Vicky that the cut she doesn't like is indica when she just needs to try sativa, bruh. 46:55 - Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977, John Boorman) - Vicky does her best to summarize a movie that defies comprehension; Cerise does her best to convince Vicky that one of the most hated movies of all time is kinda dope, actually. 1:09:45 - The Exorcist III (1990, William Peter Blatty) - Cerise delights in Vicky's discovery of a massively underrated classic before trying to convince Vicky that this caps the greatest horror trilogy of all time. she immediately fails. 1:29:41 - Exorcist: The Beginning (2004, Renny Harlin) - The hubris of Cerise and Vicky's goal of rehabilitating Renny Harlin is exposed as their forced to wade through the colonial unconscious and watch a racist piece of trash. 1:47:55 - Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist (2005, Paul Schrader) - Cerise and Vicky attempt to rank an unfinished film and call upon Warners to #FinishTheSchraderCut
Cerise and Vicky discover that the only way to rank every movie is to enter the minds of five serial killer movies. It's their gift; it's their curse. 8:57 - The Little Things (2021, John Lee Hancock) 25:19 - M (1931, Fritz Lang) 43:40 - Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich) 1:02:08 - Kiss The Girls (1997, Gary Fleder) 1:19:40 - Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-Ho)
Cerise and Vicky don their ten gallon hats, dig up a dead horse and explore the underbelly of the American dream by adding five western noirs to their list of every movie ever made. 9:21 - No Man's Land (2021, Conor Allyn) - White people learn dubious lessons about racism while Cerise and Vicky roll their eyes. 26:54 - Bad Day At Black Rock (1955, John Sturges) - Spencer Tracy teaches dubious lessons about racism by burning a racist alive. Cerise and Vicky appreciate the second part. 43:08 - Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick) - Terrence Malick teaches valuable lessons about filmmaking. Vicky is less than appeciative. 1:03:11 - Red Rock West (1993, John Dahl) - Nic Cage and Dennis Hopper don't teach any lessons at all, and Cerise and Vicky are grateful. 1:17:18 - The Proposition (2005, John Hillcoat) - Cerise and Vicky learn about a movie that nobody remembers and Cerise runs out of things to say
Cerise and Vicky butcher their way towards their eventual goal by adding five revenge movies to their list, adding two movies to the top twenty-five along the way. 8:29 - Promising Young Woman (2020, Emerald Fennell) - Cerise and Vicky count the promises this tepid revenge thriller broke and try to identify the algorithm behind its creation. 28:55 - Point Blank (1967, John Boorman) - Lee Marvin's ghost tries to get 93,000 dollars and Cerise and Vicky sympathize. 44:50 - Blind Woman's Curse (1970, Teruo Ishii) - Cerise and Vicky wade through a beautiful mess of a movie looking for the revenge that is supposedly part of the movie. 1:02:49 - Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook) - Cerise and Vicky try to rescue a great movie's reputation from the filmbros who have sullied it only to find a horrifying secret. (SPOILER: There is no horrifying secret and the movie's great.) 1:25:15 - John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski) - Cerise and Vicky discuss a heartwarming movie about a man and his dog.
Cerise and Vicky check in to a seedy motel and get down to the dirtiest business of all - ranking movies. 9:08 - Black Bear (2020, Laurence Michael Levine) - Cerise is gay for Aubrey Plaza and Aubrey Plaza is gay for metatextual fuckery, 23:25 - Perfect Strangers (1984, Larry Cohen) - Cerise and Vicky get through an entire segment without making a Larry and Balki joke. They hope Larry Cohen is appreciative. 40:33 - Fatal Attraction (1987, Adrian Lyne) - Cerise and Vicky dig up the highest-grossing film of 1987, look upon its works and despair. 59:39 - Single White Female (1992, Barbet Schroeder) - Cerise and Vicky investigate just how gay the erotic thriller can get with this gay, gay, gay movie. 1:16:44 - In The Cut (2003, Jane Campion) - Cerise and Vicky set out to rehabilitate a wrongly maligned femist movie, only to find that just because something's been wrongly maligned doesn't mean it's good.
Cerise And Vicky pile into a busted van so they can hit the road and rank some movies about bands! 8:08 - Sound Of Metal (2020, Darius Marder) - Vicky fails to hide her nostalgia for touring, while Cerise kicks off 2021 the same way she left 2020. 31:25 - Rockers (1978, Ted Bafaloukos) - Cerise and Vicky vibe to this Reggae classic, and then they vibe some more. 48:36 - The Decline Of Western Civilization (1981, Penelope Spheeris) - Cerise and Vicky dig through the grimy couch cushions of punk's origins, and what they find is not entirely wholesome. 1:05:30 - Spice World (1997, Bob Spiers) - Cerise and Vicky share their befuddlement at a movie that's both terrible and not bad. 1:23:27 - We Are The Best! - (2013, Lukas Moodysson) - Cerise and Vicky put aside their distaste for both 80's nostalgia and coming of age movies to appreciate a really cute film.