Film Actor Fusion

Returning director, Henry Selick (Monkeybone, Nightmare Before Christmas) hits us this week with the spooky stop-motion, modern classic, Coraline. Adapted from the Neil Gaiman book of the same name, we follow a girl of the same name into the perfect reality she'd always dreamed of. But with all perfection, usually comes a heavy price. In Coraline's case, perfection might just cost her her soul. Ooooohhhhh *waggles fingers all spookily* --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This month we finally talk about America's Sweetheart, Sandra Bullock. Not to be confused with America's Other Sweetheart, Brendan Fraser. You can tell them apart by seeing that they are two entirely different people. We cover 1995's wholesome, holiday comedy, While You Were Sleeping and 2007's sad trainwreck, Premonition. It's dumb, but luckily, it's also needlessly confusing! Listen as we put the puzzle pieces together to fabricate a script worthy of Sandy, and While You Were Sleeping's breakout star, Joe Jr. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This time around, we discuss the 2012 action cult hit, Dredd. It's the directorial debut for now notable director, Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs), and what a debut it is. It's corny, it's violent, it's style is unapologetic and confident, and above all else, it's use of slow-mo might be the most appropriate implementation in any movie ever. It's one of Brandon's favorite action movies, so he couldn't help but prattle on about it for a while. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Another bloody double feature, and no, I'm not British. *Pause for laughter* This time around, we dimmed the lights and put on some Burt Bacharach because we get romantic with Park Chan Wook's vampire love story, Thirst. After that, we take a trip to the old west to save a damsel in distress from a tribe of cannibalistic troglodytes in S. Craig Zahler's, Bone Tomahawk. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We made it to the dirty 30's! Rarely do we get a competent sequel to a slasher film almost 30 years after the original, but that seems to be the hot thing to do lately. People like to say that movies like 1992's Candyman are more relevant now than ever, but the truth of the matter is, things just haven't changed much in the last 30 years. That's why getting a reboot makes so much sense. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One of the most seasoned and hardest working actors in the game, Samuel L. Jackson is coming at you hot with America's first introduction to satire, Snakes on a Plane. A movie destined to be panned by critics and time. But we couldn't do him dirty like that, so we also cover the wonderful 1998 thriller, The Negotiator. I know what you're thinking, how do you combine Snakes and Negotiating? Well, if you find out let us know because we have no idea. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In honor of the release of Squid Game, we decided to go back to the source and talk about 2000's Battle Royale. Kids murdering kids and two dumb Americans pronouncing Japanese names wrong for an hour and a half. What more could you want? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have you ever loved someone so much that you couldn't let them go? That's the real story this week, as we discuss love, and how far those things will take someone that might be predisposed to murder and mutilation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, we discuss the 1979 cult classic 'The Warriors', almost entirely while doing pitch perfect New York accents. Every character sounds the same as far as we know and you can't tell us otherwise. Because the episode is already recorded and uploaded. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Before he was a pirate, Tim Burton's crush, Johnny Depp, was a cocaine kingpin and a C-Movie film director reaching for the stars... What happens when you take a movie about selling cocaine and a movie about making a movie and put them together? Well. You get a movie about making a movie about selling cocaine of course! It's as simple as that. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Since we skipped the Mortem last month in favor of Fraser, so this month we decided to do 2 movies instead of 1. Brian Yuzna directed, body horror classic, 'Society', and the terrible CG laden, killer video game romp 'Stay Alive'. We also welcome Alex Torres as the new regular cohost of FAF Mortem! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

*clink* *clink* *clink* *clink* Myyyysterrrryyyy Meennnnnnnn! Come out to plaaayyyeeeeeeaayyyy! So originally we were going to do The Warriors, and we still are, but due to the overwhelming demand from ourselves, we decided to go with Mystery Men this week, because there are no rules and you can't tell us what to do. With Suicide Squad releasing this week, we look back at the 1999 star-studded flop and draw very brisk comparisons to the recent craze of cobbled together groups of "Superheroes". When supervillain, Casanova Frankenstein gets released on parole, the city's #1 hero, Captain Amazing goes missing. So it's up to a group of wannabe C-listers to save Captain Amazing and the world as we know it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As we reach the main event and closer for The First Annual Frase Craze, we put Brendan Fraser's name in lights for the last time this year talking about two films about a man out of time, trying to make a name for himself. Encino Man is about a caveman trying to mack on babes, nosh on grub and weazing the juice. The Mummy is about an undead man trying to mack on babes, nosh on eyeballs, and weaze the juice out of human sacrifices. It's all the same story, really. Sit back, heat up a burrito, prepare your organ jars and relax. This is gonna be an adventure. This is a long one, so if you'd like to skip forward to The Mummy discussion, it starts at around the 1hr 27min mark. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For the last single of the First Annual Frase Craze (airhorn), we get the Frase Gang back to talk about one of the strangest romantic comedies of the early 2000's. From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline, brings a walk through the world of nightmares and gooch in Monkeybone. Stu Miley (Fraser) plays a cartoonist that lands his way into a coma, he will stop at nothing to escape the world in between death and life to finally to propose to the love of his life. But things get a little complicated when the titular Monkeybone escapes his head to throw a... monkey wrench... heh heh... in the system. There's cat girls! There's organ fights! There's jizz jokes! This episode has it all! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Happy 20th Episode Anniversary! String up your axes, crank it up to 11, and do several other stereotypical rock and roll actions, because things are about to get heavy. Metal that is. As we continue our journey into the land of Brendan Fraser, this week we discuss the heavy metal hostage scenario only known as Airheads. Down on their luck band, The Lone Rangers, break into a radio station to get their song played over the air, but things go haywire when one of the members pulls a fake gun and takes the staff hostage. It's a star studded cast including Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Michael McKean, Chris Farley, Ernie Hudson, Joe Mantegna and many more. Join in on the fun of Part 2 of 4 of The First Annual Fraaaaaaaase Craaaaaaaaaze. *airhorn noises* --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What better way to give a nice big shout out to the world's hunky sweetheart, Brendan Fraser than to do an entire month on some of his most memorable movies. We're kicking it off this week by stepping back into the early 2000's for another foray into romcom territory with Bedazzled. Elliot Richards is a lovable loser with a hankering for the sweet life and the only person that can help him is Satan. Lucky for him, Beelzebub herself is played by Hollywood bombshell, Elizabeth Hurley. Will she be able to help him find true love, or will he realize that the confidence was inside him all along? The second one. It's the second one that happens. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This month we tackle the two sides of legendary actor, Nicholas Cage with his films Adaptation and The Wicker Man. On one hand, he's a celebrated, Oscar Award winning actor capable of transforming into a completely different person that can accurately explore the nuances of loneliness and depression under the pretense of a complicated meta-narrative. On the other hand, he can play a cop that punches women while dressed as a bear. He's a real man that makes both your cinematic dreams come true. This is a long one, but it may be the hardest we've ever laughed on a recording. Buckle up, kids. It's gonna be a wild ride. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's that time of the month where we all collectively lose our lunches by watching a disgusting horror film. This time around we're watching the cult classic James Gunn romp, Slither. Join us as we fawn over Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker and Elizabeth Banks, and their bouts with aliens, zombies and, in reality, the fountain of youth. Featuring special guest, Alex Torres! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have your cocaine and car batteries ready, because you're about to go for a ride through a little place I like to call "absurdity". What better to have our most oblong and 'out of sort' episode be about one of the most oblong and 'out of sort' film franchises of all time. Crank is like the movie Speed, but instead of a bus, it's a man. He's got one day to kill everyone that wronged him before he dies a painful death. And he does... twice. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We get our hands dirty this week talking about cannibals and Dennis Hopper, in the 1986 feel good comedy, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. The long awaited followup to America's favorite wacky family from southern Texas. Bring your wet naps, because it's about to get gross. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's Cowboys & Aliens but far more graphic. What else do you need to know? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We just couldn't resist getting our grubby little mitts into what everyone else is talking about. The ridiculous new martial arts, wizard romp "Mortal Kombat". But if you can't handle me at my 1995 film, you don't deserve me at 2021 film. Needless to say, we talk about both for extended periods of time. Note: If you would rather just skip to the 2021 review, it starts around the 1 hr and 21 minute mark. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As we continue to put off our latest Fusion, we talk about the epic journey of three men and the paths they've taken after their stint in the Latino gang lifestyle. Starting in the 70's and working it's way through the 80's, we see the devastating effect of gang warfare within the LA prison system and the branches that lead beyond. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What happens when you take a man with horrifying childhood trauma and supply him with a knack for puppetry and children's stories? Well... I'll just let you fill in the blanks. It's not good, I'll give you that. But it does make for a hell of a movie.

Hey, do you watch Star Trek? Cool! Me neither! It's all been leading to this. All of Diana's Star Trek references have finally culminated to finally making me sit down and watch the inevitable union of The Original Series and The Next Generation in this weird, uneven romp through the galaxy. Join us for our most in depth Single so far.

With Diana out for the week, this special fan-boy episode shows our completely normal cis-male adoration for both Predator and Terminator 2. We talk oily muscle men, sleek bods, bromance, action packed scenes and a fully grown Bill Duke man child. This is by far the best time we’ve had recording. We hope you enjoy this weeks Film Actor Fusion!

What happens when you take Kung Fu, gangsters, Looney Toons, dance sequences, and axes? Well you throw them into a blender and get one of the greatest action comedy smoothies of all time, of course. It's basically an hour long gushing session. Which isn't gross, I promise.

It's a literal explosion of a month as we enter Arnie territory. Get your muscle oil ready, because it's going to be the manliest month possibly in FAF history and future. We start it off with the wholesome tale that is Kindergarten Cop paired with possibly the most ridiculous action movie of the 80's: Commando. Probably the most we've laughed in a single episode.

This time we talk about a movie. ONE MOVIE. NO FUSION! HERESY! FAF Singles is our answer to wanting to talk about movies we love unconditionally that may or may not get the credit it deserves. For our first Single, we talk about toys that have a conscience again, but this time, they want to kill each other.

Finishing the final episode of Tom Hanksuary, some of our heroes reach for the moon while others reach for the love of someone special. One is based on the scientific accuracy that allowed a handful of real people to make a heroic return from space, and the other is based on magic and the power of stalking.

We took Toy Story, mashed it together with Cast Away and basically just made a better Toy Story. I mean, not really. But it's better than you're probably expecting it to be. Featuring special guest star Alana Bova-Kofshur!

This week, we get way too ambitious talking about and combining 'Joe Versus the Volcano' and 'Saving Private Ryan'. The fusion may be our magnum opus, but I sure hope not, But probably is though. Sorry. It was way too much work to put together in less than a week. We're not sitcom writers. We're just humans trying to make our way in the world. But, if we were famed writers breaking into Hollywood, this is essentially what it would be like. So you're welcome.

We're starting off Tom Hanksuary with the best of both worlds in Tom Hanks' career. We put Political Hanks and goofy Hanks head to head with Charlie Wilson's War and The 'Burbs. Listen, in awe, as we attempt to walk the thin line of combining The Cold War and suburban shenanigans in our Hollywood blockbuster hit, Charlie Wilson's 'Burb War.

For our first week testing the waters, we watch one of Josh Hartnett's good movies. We also watch one his bad. Count how many times we sigh throughout the course of the episode!