Forbidden Cinema

Ok, we will be the first to admit that this has been a little delayed.  This last year has been our year personally, but we have fallen a little behind in this artistic side project. If you can read this, you are loved. In this episode we answer the questions that nobody thought to ask about our coverage of Beetlejuice.  As usual, Zack delves deep into what was going on in pop culture at the time and deep dives local newspapers and men's magazines.

Join us as we continue through our coverage of movies that were forbidden (or in this case, maybe should have been) that have had recent upgrades, remakes, or sequels. Ok, we have made some recommendations in the past, but this is top 3 one of the best movies we have covered.  If you haven't seen it in 35 years (like both of us), go out and immediately watch it.  We will wait for you.  Then join us as we go full nostalgia and revel in this masterpiece.

Welcome back as we answer the questions that nobody bothered to ask about our our episode covering the 1984 classic buddy cop action comedy, Beverly Hills Cop. Zack tries to figure out who Eddie Murphy was and how big of a star he was in 1984 (spoiler alert:  HUGE).  We dig into the numbers and discuss how this is one of the most successful movies ever made.  We also look at the very limited number of roles for women in this film. We talk about how Mythbusters ripped this movie a new tailpipe and go over the reviews of the time. Zack digs into newspapers and men's magazines from December of 1984 to discover a Christmas shrimp sale at the Holiday Motel, the Supreme Court hearing a case about the morning moment of silence at schools, a nude pictorial of Suzanne Somers, an article by Steve Martin, Alec Guinness as the spokes model for a tuxedo designer, a 4 color graphing typewriter, a 2-inch flat-screen TV, and pictorials of Lee Major's wife and daughter.

We are all hearing the theme in our head, right?   We watched Beverly Hills Cop from 1984 and had a blast doing it.  Thanks for bearing with us during our unplanned hiatus.  Life has really caught up with us.  We are going to try to get back to a regular release schedule.  Stay tuned.

Welcome back as we tackle the questions nobody bothered to ask about our episode on Young Guns starring Emilio Estevez and everyone else who was hot in 1988. Zack gives us a brief history lesson about the Lincoln County War and how this film is surprisingly probably the most accurate representation ever put on film.  We go in detail about which of the Young "Buns" actors has showed his buns the most on screen and can't even believe the number that Charlie Sheen puts on the scoreboard.  Side note, one of the actresses in an early sex scene with LDP is someone Zack knows very well from Battlestar Galactica / Jenny from Pretty in Pink (and is apparently the daughter of the bad guy from Ernest Goes to Camp, small world). We play a brief game to see if Jenny can name a single current celebrity that is the age of the Young Guns cast.  Zack hits up more numbers than you would ever care to know about the box office and release schedule.   In print, we see the issue of Hustler magazine that started The People vs Larry Flynt was on the news stands when this movie was released.  In Playboy we are introduced to Cooper Hefner, who seems to be much less of a creep than his father.  Zack also realizes that he was lied to when he was told he was in the Guinness record holding conga line.  Jerry Seinfeld makes a very poor prediction about his future. In the Washington PA Observer Reporter we cover a few current events, but much more riveting was the Friday Night TV schedule and an article about the ladies boxing competition at the local fair getting much more spicy than the children in the audience were prepared for.

We are back and this time with a proper movie.  We watched Young Guns from 1988.  There were 80's heartthrobs all over the place in what bizarrely seems to be maybe the most historically accurate film depicting the Lincoln County War.  That's right, this is a biopic about Billy the Kid.   Spoiler alert, it is kind of serious and Bon Jovi is nowhere to be seen.  We think all of our preconceived notions about this film were from Young Guns 2.   Come along with us as we see a Fagan-like General Zod teach a wayward band of misfits about how to be cultured only to be gunned down in the streets by a business rival.  We get to see all of the shootin and cussin and jokes about bodily functions you would want in a film like this.  We have one of the wildest drug scenes in the history of film.  We get a little buns shot for the ladies from Coach Bombay that sadly does nothing for Jenny.  We get a less DILFy Dermot Mulrooney who nobody knew yet, so he has to just be gross.  Did we mention Lou Diamond Phillips and Howard Hughes are in this? Watch this movie and then come along for the ride on something that was even more forbidden than we realized.

One last time into the fray! We have done it.  We are now surely the internet's best and most complete resource for the first 2 seasons of 90's cable erotica Red Shoe Diaries. David Duchovny and Stella are back to read another letter from a Parisienne ad executive and her old flame / impossible to work with auteur commercial director.  We have (surprise) red shoes in an episode for the first time in forever.  There are random elevator shots, no crazy bedroom sets, stair sex, and a very low abdomen shot of our lead actor for the ladies. Come along for one last ride before we get back into movies.  Come for the uneven amount of time our lead actress's right nipple has compared to the left, but stay for the stubbled Jordan Padalecki lookalike lead actor tipping over chairs and screaming "Touch Me!"

Join us as we continue what has to be the most exhaustive deep dive of the nineties erotica for women cable show Red Shoe Diaries.  We are winding down this season hopefully to get back to some movies just like David Duchovny.   In Alphabet Girl we have a young model in a not terribly torrid affair with her famous photographer.  There is not really a love triangle with his young assistant.  Mostly everybody gives each other the space and time they need to grow, except for that one time where the photographer breaks into the assistant's house and they wrestle on top of a huge painting. We finally get an episode that is basically what Zack was staying up late to watch all those years ago.  We have really beautiful sweaty naked people in well lit scenes having sex for an extended period of time.  At this point though, we are missing a little bit of the wackadoo.  That being said, there is a race on a bedroom catwalk between someone on roller blades and a bicycle, so there is that.

Damn Gina... This episode is wild... I mean the last episode was wild, but this one was almost incomprehensible.  Off to Paris at the houseboat next to the Highlander we get an American woman who (hopefully doesn't murder) and assumes the identity of her Parisienne benefactor.  It's the Talented Mr. Ripley meets a Harlequin romance novel. This was probably the worst episode yet from a technical perspective, but we are here with you to work through the trauma of this atrocity.  We are only 2 weeks away from getting back to actual movies. God save us all.

Stop what you are doing, fire up Tubi, and watch this episode. I know we usually talk about stuff from our childhood that our parents would not let us watch, but this is something special.  This episode completely breaks the mold of the moody/broody/dreamy 90s erotica for women anthology series and goes bat crap insane. This is 30 minutes of your life that you will be happy to have spent with us. I can't imagine many people have watched this in the last 30 years, and they are missing out. We have multiple guns, people barking like dogs, oversized sweater dresses, a trunk full of zoot suits, shotgun weddings, scaffolding over beds, camcorder honeymoon sex tapes, threesomes, sex across 2 rows of seating in a 60s convertible, and sex scenes lit so that every single body hair on both sexes is in the spotlight.  Come along and watch this glorious calamity with us.  This is the lowest rated episode of the series so far.  Jenny is confused.  Zack is begging for more.

Whoah... This one is getting Zack a little hot under the collar and Jenny a little annoyed at the logistics. We have got an oddly traditional gender role world view from a guy with no sleeves and his new bride who finds work at a phone sex line apparently featuring Margaret Cho!?!?!? This one has snapping rubber underpants, some playful spanking, a Friday Night Special from Leather Lana, kitchen table lovemaking, and the secrets of Stella the Dog. Come along as we continue our deep dive of the 90s cable erotica for women extravaganza, Red Shoe Diaries.

Buckle up folks, this one is wild. We continue our journey through early 90s cable erotica for women with Episode 208 of Red Shoe Diaries.  This week we have David Duchovny actually playing for real with his doggy.  There are vaguely European things, lots of establishing shots of castles that we never go to, a boxing ring in a stable, and some sex scenes that we think may have inspired Braveheart?  

Hey everybody, sorry for the short episode this week.  There was not a ton of meat on the bones for this episode, but the Forbidden Crew are refusing to pull a Duchovny and phone it in this week. We have the story of a photojournalist doing a story on "up market" sex workers who make $1500 a night.  This one reads more like a psychological thriller where everyone is stalking everyone.  Zack actually thinks he could work this into a thriller.  We have a lady spying on sex, lots of red neckwear, so many still shots, darkrooms, car accidents, and more uneven nudity between partners in front of a 3 panel mirror.  We also have a huge lit up moon on the wall in the weird sex foyer in the huge Hollywood hills mansion of our astronomer? We have so many questions, and get so few answers.

It's Carnival! Join us as we have establishing shots of Rio, some Wild On clips from E! Network, and then some close ups of sex on a beach (that we assume is in southern California). This one is wild.  We have some samba that is more nude that we think is actually allowed at Carnival.  We have a weird wine/blood orgy.  We have a super horny grandma, a lady who is definitely not Brazilian, and a white horse tamed on the beach.  We also wonder about the mechanics of a sacrifice brought back to shore by a hunky diver. Thanks for coming along with us on our deep dive into 1993 cable erotica for women on our Valentine's day vacation.  We had a blast.  Let's keep the party going.

Ok, things are getting wild. We have sexy firefighters and the unreliable narrators who voyeur them in the shower. Are there any actual fires happening?  Is she setting these fires?  Is a steamy night with a veterinarian who is actually a "real doctor" what this lady needs, or should she look up some BetterHelp (not a sponsor). Come along as we wind down our Valentines binge of early 90's cable erotica for women.  David Duchovny would approve.

Joey is back!  That's right, we have the second and apparently last appearance of a not-yet-famous Matt Leblanc as a modern day bank robbing cowboy? In this episode we have people escaping from a bank robbery on horseback.  We have a kidnapping.  We have a winner-take-all highest stakes game of poker. Come along with the Forbidden crew as we start to wind down this Valentine's Day / Carnival week binging as much early 90s cable erotica for women as we can and giving our feedback.

Three episodes down in a week.  Join the Forbidden Crew on our Valentine's week binge of the 90's erotica for women staple, Red Shoe Diaries. Barely famous David Duchovny is phoning it in with Stella the Dog reading the diary of Amber Smith, a young fashion model who has a rendezvous with her cab driver. We see no buttons on shirts of any kinds, a Matrix fashion show 5 years before the Matrix, more natural lighting than any episode so far, butt crack hair gleaming in the natural lighting even in SD, and a catwalk finale outfit that would have fit perfectly in place at the Grammy's last week.

Laissez le bon temps rouler.   Happy Mardi Gras and Happy Valentines Day!   Join the Forbidden Crew as we look at Red Shoe Diaries 202 - Naked in the Moonlight.  We have some of the sexiest sex scenes so far in the series... but not much in the way of moonlight.  Join us as we look at a lady with a bunch of cars getting a boner for a working class dude.  There are lights dangling in the middle of industrial workspaces, open air showers, classic cars, jingly foley work on jewelry, and That 70's Show looking disturbingly like 1994.

Welcome to Valentine's Day week and Carnival!  Plus Zack is on Vacation. We had an idea, we are going to try to do as many episodes of Red Shoe Diaries from the early 90's as we possibly can this week.  They are going to be rough edits, but we are going to go until we drop. Come back with us to the early 90s as (a now famous) David Duchovny and Stella the Dog introduce us to a middle aged Jewish man, his eccentric sculptor wife, and his daughter think is the voice of female desire.  In this episode the bad guy from D2 The Mighty Ducks and the girl from the Dolph Lungren flick Men of War meet up every New Years for a wild night.  How can this possibly end well?

Welcome back!  The forbidden crew look into the questions that were best left unanswered from our coverage of Caddyshack.  We are back in 1980, people.  We find newspapers from the week this film came out (the week Zack was born) and see what is going on in the world... spoiler alert... the world sucks in 1980. We pause and take a look at the career of Harold Ramis, a man with 4 films on AFI's top 100 funnies.  We also spend a little time looking at Brian Doyle, a strong contender for our 2nd favorite Murray brother. We hit it all.  Who is Sarah Holcomb and where did she go?  Was our hometown pizza place with local or a chain?  What is the deal with Fresca?  How was this, Blues Brothers, and Airplane in the theater at the same time? We take a brief Forbidden Cinema True Crime Corner interlude to look at the case of Helen Mintiks, the young violin prodigy at the MET who disappeared in the middle of a show. Zack also makes Jenny guess which type of ad was most heavily featured in Playboy magazine this month.  Will it be tobacco, alcohol, or gadgets?  Also Dudley Moore is featured in one of the photoshoots this month???

Ok, we are in the 80s here, but just barely... We watched the movie that came out when Zack was 6 days old, Caddyshack.  There are old white guys going to 11 at every moment.  Chevy Chase is a creepy golf guru.  RIP Cindy Morgan who plays the siren of the piece.  I'm pretty sure Sarah Holcomb isn't Irish.  Did we mention Rodney Dangerfield is in the movie and is hilarious he dose scare one of our cats, though. We watched the Kenny Loggins, gopher dancing, Bill Murray mumbling masterpiece that is Caddyshack and are now better for it.  Come along with us to all of the politically incorrect 1980 glory.

Join us as we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about Eyes Wide Shut.  We look at the original novel and how close it is to the film.  We find out that this has not been the first time this has been adapted and look into the films of Mario Bianci who directed such classics as The Erotic Adventures of Zorro. We talk about the Guinness world record grueling shoot for no apparent reason, and look a little into what is known about this time in Tom and Nicole's lives. Jenny continues her insistence that her hot take on the Tri Corner Hat Guy is accurate and she brings evidence to back it up.  Look out, true crime podcasters, she is coming for you. We finish looking through Playboy in July of 1999.  There are some naked ladies, but we spend the most amount of time on an advertisement for a sweepstakes from Basic Cigarrettes.

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals, and a happy new year. We watched the final film of a master film maker, Eyes Wide Shut.  Where do we even start.  This thing took years to shoot.  The tabloids went crazy about the sex and relationships of the stars.  One of the best directors of all time stayed up all night talking to Zalman King to get the vibe just right for a weird dreamlike orgy.  Did we mention Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are in this thing. Welcome to the 2 hour 40 minute masterpiece? of Eyes Wide Shut.  Come along with us.  This misunderstood piece of film history gets digested and probably even more misunderstood by us.  We stay in our "barely legal" timeline of films that came out just as we were actually able to start seeing them for this one and hit up one of the Forbidden Cinema classics.

Hello friends, and welcome back to Forbidden Cinema! This week we go deeper and answer the questions we had from our coverage of the late Matthew Perry's R-rated caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards. If you know, you know.  We start with looking into what we were curious about during our main episode on the movie.  Then we look at the time it was released and try to find sources from the day to figure out what day to day life was like in news, entertainment, film, sex, drugs, and rockandroll at the time.  All of the time Zack goes on crazy tangents and answers the questions better left unasked. We have trouble finding newspapers from the early 2000s, they seem to lie in that strange pre-digital time from 2000ish to 2006ish when much of the digital world seems to have disappeared, and no one has bothered to preserve the print.  We did, however, find the Playboy magazine that would have been on the shelves when this was released, and on the cover is an old friend of the podcast.

The Forbidden Cinema crew take a moment to come out of our normal timeline to pay homage to the late, great Matthew Perry. This week we go all the way in to the distant future of the year 2000 to look at the Bruce Willis / Matthew Perry caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards.  This critically mixed (but must have been commercially valid as there was a sequel) film had it's flaws, but at a brisk 98 minutes with credits and 2 musical numbers it flew by with some incredible physical comedy from an immensely likable cast. We welcome in Natasha Henstridge to the podcast without having done Species yet, Zack is flummoxed.  We have suicide humor, Harland Williams, and a delightful performance by Amanda Peet.  We both are shocked at how huge of a man, and how funny of a man Michael Clarke Duncan is.  We also spend some time talking about how an R rated comedy was released in the year 2000 targeted at adults, but not with post American Pie raunchy humor.

Welcome back everyone! We hope everyone had a great October / Halloween / Spooky Season.  As we head into the holidays Zack and Jenny follow up with the questions nobody ever bothered to ask about our coverage of Bram Stoker's Dracula. We threw a little bit of shade by omitting Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in our main episode, so we make sure to give him some love in this one.  We talk about the Spanish language Dracula filmed at night on the same sets as the Tod Browning version.  Have you ever heard of that, we hadn't? We go through the films for Francis Ford Coppola.  From nudie flicks, to possible the first slasher, the Godfather, to Captain EO.  This guy has done it all. We pause for a moment to look at a movie ratings site to try to determine the most forbidden film we have covered.  Spoiler alert, Dracula is pretty low on the list because there is no cursing. We go over how the trippy special effects were created, and how they were mostly parlor tricks that would have been available to the makers of the original Dracula.  We also talk about the 2nd unit director, Roman Coppola, and his influence on one of our favorite filmmakers. We dig up a 5000 year old fart joke, ponder the Steven Segal film Under Siege spending 4 weeks at #1 in the box office, dig into a newspaper from the day of release, and even find a copy of the motorcycle magazine Easyrider at an estate sale and try to figure out what was going on when this was released.

Happy Halloween family and welcome back to the Jr high lunch table for Bram Stoker's Dracula.  We go back to 1992 for Francis Ford Coppola's wild fever dream featuring so much blood, sex, and religious iconography that we are terrified to think about what would happen if our parent's had ever found out we wanted to see this movie. This one slipped under the radar.  It was always one we wanted to see, but had no idea how many forbidden elements would be present.  This movie is a mess, but such a spectacular mess.  Every frame is a masterpiece, even when it makes no sense. Come with us as we go back to 11-12 and remember what it was like to see Gary Oldman and his NKOTB looking Dracula all over the magazines and papers of the day.  Stay for Anthony Hopkins dry humping the Rocketeer's leg.  Cary Elwes shows up.  Did we mention Keanu and Winona are possibly still legally married in Romania?

Join us as we answer the questions that nobody ever thought to ask about Scream.  We answer the things that came up in our full episode covering the 1996 horror / slasher classic, Scream.  This movie revitalized a genre, and showed studios that teens were a valid audience.  Come along as 2 church youth group kids grow up, get married, and watch all of the things our parent's wouldn't let us watch.   This week we realize that Neve Campbell is a 3 time guest on our show.  We try to figure out who Skeet Ulrich is and what he has been doing lately.  We really dive into the box office and business of this film and it's influence on teen films, R Rated films, and moviemaking in general.  We give Roger Jackson "The Voice" and Kevin Williamson "The Screenwriter" their due time.  Zack goes frame by frame and realizes that we were watching the Unrated cut that was clearly advertised as R, plenty of extra juice and sound effects.  We talk about who killed who, and look into fan theories about the gay subtext in the film.  Zack also deep dives the December 1996 issue of Playboy magazine to find out what vests are in and out for winter.  Also what kind of component rack, receiver, laser disc player, and CD changer could get a lady interested in spending some time at a guy's apartment.

Welcome to spooky season in 2023 and welcome back to winter of 1996 as we look at the film that revolutionized horror and slasher films, Scream. We take a look at the movie that was on Zack's top 10 for all time wanted to see but couldn't.  We talk about longing and nostalgia.  We look back at the time and welcome Queen Neve Campbell to the 3 timers club along with Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas.  In 100 years, we would not have predicted she would get in so early. Wes Craven comes back with a bang and makes maybe the most perfect horror film of all time with Kevin Williamson who may be the best at writing teen drama. I don't know how we have made 102 episodes and are just getting around to Drew Barrymore, welcome. Come along as we dive into one of the most wildly anticipated forbidden films of all time for one of us.  It's a scream, baby... I'll be right back.

Welcome back, This week we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about our coverage of Jade.  Zack dives deep on this one.  We uncover a surprising link between this movie and Basic Instinct.  We talk about the box office and business of this critical and commercial flop.  Zack gets disappointed when he realizes the "For Strippers Only" album in the iTunes library is research for a class Jenny is teaching, not a new career move. We go from an article about sex in cinema in 1995 to a Playboy model to a sports star that literally has nothing bad about him on Wikipedia.  That's the kind of tangents you can expect.  We find a cringy article about HIV denial in the worst year of the epidemic in the same magazine as an article celebrating the activism, but questioning the books of Save the Children.  We also wonder why Brett Butler has interviews in both Playboy and Penthouse this month. The fact of the podcast has got to be the career of SF cop, Kenny King, who plays Petey in the film.

Are you even joking right now.  We just hit 100 episodes. It's time for our most requested episode ever, the 1995 Joe Esterhas / William Freidkin collaboration with the guy from NYPD Blue, the femme fatale from The Last Seduction, and that guy from The Sopranos who has the awesome restaurant who I think did A Bronx Tale. We hit up the least erotic and least thrilling erotic thriller of the 90s.  This thing is a train wreck, but we had so much fun.  Come along as we spend more than 2 hours breaking down a 94 minute disaster that is one of the most entertaining experiences we have had watching moves together. Here's to 100 more!

Join us as we deep dive the behind the scenes of True Lies.  There are Oscar winners besides Dame Jamie Lee.  We discover that Tom Arnold isn't as trash as we originally assumed. This was the most expensive move ever made and is high on the list of the top grossing R rated films ever, but didn't make all that much money. We also deep dive Dame Tia Carrere's 36yo newly single mother of 2 appearance in Playboy in 2003.  There are some wild things that happen, but nothing as crazy as the survey of Sex in the Office.  Look upon my works ye mighty and despair... the mid 2000's were more trash than you remember.

We are back and we are talking about True Lies. Welcome to the podcast, Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold.  How have we made it to 98 episodes without either of you getting on board.  Both of you will be back... see what I did there. Jenny and Zack are a married couple who grew up in the most conservative purity culture church around and are now unpacking what that meant by watching the movies that were forbidden in our childhood (hint, Zack's parent's took him and his friends to see this for his 14th birthday).  Horrific violence against certain groups was fine, but there was some swearing and things got a little sexy.  Awkwardness ensued.

Welcome back to our first deeper dive into the history and time behind Cruel Intentions.  It's been a while since we have done a Going Deeper episode.  Zack has got his research hat back on and Jenny has been drinking Rose.  Come along as we talk about the 2 adaptations of Les Liaisons Dangerous that were released back to back in the 80s.  Zack was today years old when he realized Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person.  It's almost like next week you are going to tell me that Toulouse Lautrec from Moulin Rouge was based on a real person.  We get into the box office.  We get into the 2000 MTV movie awards.  We talk sequels, and more sequels, and TV show pilots.  We somehow manage to completely omit the fact that the director of this film is one of the more prolific TV directors of the last decade and now only directs adaptations of romance novels starring the kid from Big Daddy and Friends.  This thing goes off the rails.   None of us come out of this episode unscathed, but we are alive and ready to start recording weekly again.  Come join us.

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony that's life... sucker love is heaven sent..."   Holy 1780's erotica Batman, we just did Cruel Intentions.  Zack loved this movie so much he owns most of the wardrobe from the filming.  Jenny is vaguely aware of it.  Come along with us as we dive back in 24 years later and see if it holds up.  Spoiler alert... some of this is problematic at best, but there are some beautiful people doing wild things, and that is what Forbidden Cinema is all about.

Buckle up, folks, this is going to be a long one.  Zack and Jenny return to the world of feature length films after our season of TV shows.  And boy do we do it with a bang!   This is where it all started.  This made for Showtime pilot walked so that Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and Game of Thrones could fly. Join us as we discuss all of the dick grabbing techniques in play.  We get to see our favorite mopey David Duchovny's awesome dog Stella.  We get one of the dirtiest players from American Gladiators facing off with David Duchovny is a trippy, shirtless, champagne fueled living room basketball game as a climax.  We also get to hear about Electronic Vibratory Transmission Forces. Sometimes we tell you to watch the movie, sometimes we tell you just to come along with us.  This is a slow starter, but the wacky basketball climax is worth the watch, so check it out, and join us.

God save the Queen of Dicks!!!   Minx is back!!!   Pandemics, network changes, and buyouts couldn't kill this show.  We are back to recap the last season and move forward into the next.  

Ok, here it is.  We have finished Season 1.  It is back to standard def if we want to watch any more. Come back with us to the Ramada Inn for a Dominatrix workshop.  Our protagonist surprises the staff with her whipping technique and craziness ensues.  This one is quick and to the point.  We have figured out a formula and now we are running with it. We have Indiana Jones whip sounds.  We get to see yet another lightbulb striptease, but this time of a man.  We get a new kind of therapy session.  Zack spends a couple of minutes describing in great detail that moment where a tight top gets pulled down over boob critical mass and you get that satisfying pop.  We also fade out series 1 on a man thong. Thanks for sticking with us through this wild journey.  Next week we watch the movie that started it all, then try to get back into some more traditional forbidden fare.  It has been a journey

We are almost at the end of our journey through the first season of this groundbreaking show.  This one has it all.  Two pool hustlers find each other and go on a journey of self discovery, shouting at each other, overly intense power games, and steamy sex. This episode has biker bars in the middle of the day, pool contests at a strip club, apartments that are way too nice for the jobs people have, dirty water alley sex, and so many 90s outfits.  Also, this has Paula Barbieri in it.  If you don't know, listen to the episode and find out.  She has some wild true crime connections.

Hey everybody, we are rounding the corner and coming to the end of our dive into the 1992 first season of everybody's favorite ladies cable erotica show starring Mulder and Joey. This episode is wild... Four badass soldier ladies have the weekend off from armying and go to a dive bar in ball gowns and things go off the rails... Is this the origin story of the Nashville bachelorette party? This episode features motorcycle bullfighting, irresponsible playful assault rifle use during sex, so much licking of tequila off of bodies, opera length gloves at a dive bar, police abuse of chokeholds, alcoholism played off as a "phase of grief", and a Sheen/Esteves.   Join us... wont you?

We are almost done with the first season of the 1992 Showtime erotica series, The Red Shoe Diaries.  David Duchovny and his trusty dog Stella have taken us on a journey through the secret desires of women in the early 90s.  It has been a blast! This episode we have some action, some guns, some knives, a lot of handcuffs, bad guys straight from the dust bowl, a Matrix lady in a power suit, lots of pie, more cigarettes than the entire series so far, several shots of both a quarters and a jukebox that never gets played, a car chase, and sex in the rain and the mud.  Did I mention everything in the diner is broke?

Join us as we head down the home stretch on covering the early 90's cable erotica series for women, Red Shoe Diaries.  Zack and Jenny are a married couple who grew up in conservative youth group together and watch things that were not allowed in our youth.  This podcast is dedicated to nostalgia, film history, a peak behind the forbidden curtain, and a healthy dose of retrospection. Guys... Welcome to the podcast Dame Ally Sheedy!!!  That's right, she is in this episode.  Stop what you are doing this moment and go watch the 1992 intersection of David Duchovny and Ally Sheedy in a cable erotica show.  It is on-line for free on Tubi, or with a free trial on Amazon Prime (or just buy the thing, we really want them to post more).  When you are done with it, stop on by and let's go over every wild thing we learned.   This one has kinkier gear than previous episodes, a ton of wigs, a bedroom camera rig out of a science fiction film, a maid who doesn't speak English, and a poolboy.  We have lies, whips, and mistaken identities.  This is like something out of Shakespeare!

Ok guys, here is the one that Jenny wanted.  We finally get to Jake's story.  We finally figure out who he is and what makes him tick.  Record scratch---- nope, that is the movie.  Jenny is pissed. In this episode we get to see David Duchovny actually interact in the narrative.  He has his own Red Shoe Diary.

"I live my life a quarter mile at a time" We are finally their.  We just hit the highest rated episode of the early 90's Showtime erotica series, Red Shoe Diaries.  Talk about things we were not allowed to see as kids.  This is full of fast cars, insane Tony Scott level editing, sex, speed, and power plays. As usual, Jenny finds the whole thing a bit ridiculous, and Zack is along for the ride.  This episode is fast and furious, famiglia. In other news, Minx is back.  Get Starz and binge it.  Red Shoe Diaries season 1 is streaming in HD on Prime with subtitles and Playgirl magazine is publishing again.  We are not going to say that we all together caused all these things, but there is no convincing argument to the contrary.

Thanks for coming along on this journey through early 90s cable erotica with us.  This week we take on the episode, Another Woman's Lipstick.  Hang on, it's going to be a bumpy ride. We have got lipstick stains, more of Zalman King's women-with-a-moustache cliché, and a wild dance with a full on floor lamp. We watch the things that were forbidden in our conservative childhoods and teenage years and comment on them now.  We had so much fun with a single episode, we are doing the whole series.

Guys...  Joey is in this one. That's right, welcome to the podcast Matt Leblanc.  We are assured he is a loyal listener, but this time he is in the show we are watching.  We simply can't imagine what it must have been like to be him or David Duchovney at this time.  Both were making cable erotica for ladies but were just about to achieve superstardom. This was a fun one.  There were bike messengers, rich guys, flowers, elevator sex, and more.  Come along as we continue our underwear ripping, foot licking, motorcycle sexing good time going through the catalog of Red Shoe Diaries. Watch along with us for free on Tubi.

Ok, guys, this show has redeemed itself with this episode.  We were on board, and then last week really turned us off.  We open in a dive bar on a wet t-shirt contest, hop in a super 90s muscle car, and then listen to 30 minutes of a guy in a mullet try to convince a woman to love him without stopping so long as to take a breath. Stay with us, here.  This sounds ridiculous, but somehow they manage to make it work.  Fire up Tubi, watch this episode, and come on the journey with us.  Everyone in this episode is a maniac in all the best ways. We are 4 weeks into this journey into 90's premium cable erotica and we are having a blast.  Let us know what you thought of the show at the time, and does it live in your memories like it does for Zack.

Whoa boy... here we go... buckle up and pull over, people (wait does that even make sense, why bother buckling up if you are pulling over, oh well).  Guys we are venturing in the the sexy, erotic themes of police misconduct???  This thing is wild and has aged... poorly. This episode stars Denise Crosby of Star Trek TNG fame as a police officer who names off every male body part imaginable for 5 minutes and then kidnaps and assaults a guy because he doesn't notice her.   Join us for some extremely over-intense racquetball, so many different hats, and Jenny's repeated Bing Crosby impressions.

We had so much "fun" watching an episode of Red Shoe Diaries for our last episode that we decided to spend a quick mini-season watching this early 90s erotic anthology show hosted by David Duchovny at the same time he was making the X-Files.  How are those words even a thing. Join us as we watch the first episode, Safe Sex, which starts out as a second draft of 9 1/2 Weeks and then just gets weird.  Laughs abound, there are tears on screen, and Zack gets a little hot under the collar.

Alright people, it is time to get 90s horny. That's right, Zack just left streaming on upstairs and the algorithm decided that we should watch Red Shoe Diaries.  Did we mention that David Duchovny was in 6 seasons of this weekly erotica show at the same time he was in the X-Files.  That is a thing that happened. Get ready for sexy fax machines, ladies starting to wear black underwear, lots of pearls, the freaking Mummy!, sax music, and Stella who is such a good girl. Do yourself a favor.  Fire up Tubi (I'm pretty sure it is legit) and watch a couple of episodes.  They are 30 minutes and kind of sexy in a weird way if you can get over the fast food commercials.  This is everything Forbidden Cinema is all about.

Welcome back as we look at the questions nobody thought to ask about National Lampoon's Vacation.  We find out more about the careers of the child actors that I could ever have imagined.  BDA's (Beverly D'Angelo) history is so much more interesting than we would have figured.  And we hit tangents on everything from Conan the Barbarian to Mr Mom.