A podcast of overlooked and misbegotten cinema
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Tim and Jen are surprisingly hard on Disney's amiable comics-based misfire, The Rocketeer!See Rondo Hatton in The Brute Man, but let the MST3k crew accompany you through this murky noir.The Cocoanut Grove fire has been widely covered in media. The Fascinating Horror channel has an excellent recounting of the disaster, in the dispassionate and non-sensationalized style of the best YouTube channels.This 1979 BBC biography of Errol Flynn offers illuminating interviews with people who knew him, including David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, and his daughter Deirdre.You can purchase a copy of the Traveller supplement featuring "Vehicle Handbook: Airships of the Imperium" by a certain Tim H. at DriveThruRPG. Intrigued by the endless possibilities of tabletop space travel? Find more resources Tim created for Traveller at his personal website! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim return to Gumbasia to discuss the legacy of a complicated man: Gumby creator Art Clokey! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An extra-mellow and profoundly aphasic Bitter Karella steps in to help Jen explicate the other, crappier version of The Warriors: Streets of Fire! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Having spoken about their most favorite topics from the last one hundred episodes, Tim and Jen scrape the bottom of the barrel for their worst favorites.Lexx, Witch Hunt, and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus may all be viewed at the Internet Archive.The game Jen mentioned is indeed Warlords and you can play it online with those heart-stopping Atari graphics and everything!Curious about our worst faves from episodes 1-100? Listen here, and find our favorites from the first 100 episodes here! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim reflect on the last one hundred episodes (holy crap, we made it to 200 and beyond!) and each chooses five favorites from the mixed bag! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen invite Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to marvel at Saul Bass's disquieting sci-fi dreamscape, Phase IV!View the alternate ending that should have been the theatrical ending to Phase IV on YouTube.A couple of interesting side notes about the Oscar-winning faux documentary Alex mentioned, The Hellstrom Chronicle: it was conceived and executive produced by David L. Wolper, the TV stalwart who shepherded massively successful television miniseries like Roots and The Thorn Birds, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Additionally, Walon Green, the screenwriter perhaps best known for William Friedkin's sleeper masterpiece Sorcerer, co-directed and produced the film.A quick web search proved that the busty wasp mentioned by Alex isn't real, except perhaps in our hearts.We alluded briefly to this article at Dennis Cooper's blog discussing film treatments of LSD, with a fabulous collection of acid-related GIFs accompanying. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim doggedly return to the remnants of Max Knight: Ultra Spy in hopes that it can be archived on a Zip disk and forgotten.Missed part one of our deep dive? Find it here! Wanna see the movie? "Log in" to the "Information Superhighway" and "point" your "browser" to the Internet Archive!Too young to have purchased the Trainspotting soundtrack when it first dropped? Even if you weren't, we suggest decompressing from the episode with all 11 minutes of the remastered Born Slippy. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim gets the bit (or byte?) between his teeth and rants about the 90s and the lost promise of the internet, and a little bit about cheapie TV movie Max Knight: Ultra Spy! Jen just tries to hold on as best she can! Oh yeah, and this is part one because we don't know how to shut up!You can easily tell how white your hosts are by their lack of knowledge of UPN (not the only tell, if we're being honest), which provided a home for black shows and showrunners alike. Or at least it did for a while, before a gradual whitewashing leading up to the network's merger with the WB. The Hollywood Reporter provides a post-mortem.[Former senior VP of comedy development at Paramount Pictures Television] Rose Catherine Pinkney believes the decision to merge UPN out of existence came down to ad revenue. “Ultimately, you want the most dollars that you can get for your ads,” she says. Though UPN's Black-led scripted shows (which by the end of UPN's run included Eve, All of Us, Everybody Hates Chris) were largely popular with audiences, advertisers were evidently less inclined to pay top dollar to support shows targeting Black viewers. Farquhar, co-creator of Moesha and The Parkers, recalls an advertising person saying, “We're not interested in ‘downscaled demographics.' ”They still make Tamogochis, holy shit.Can't get enough of PCMCIA cards? Here's a helpful explainer!Popular Mechanics looks back at the V-chip 20 years after it appeared.Want more 90s TV? Check out our episode on the show M.A.N.T.I.S. with special guest and superfan mugrimm! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen enlist Gaius of the wonderful Tribunate channel on YouTube to help unearth a Romans-vs.-Picts historical epic that vanished like the Ninth Legion, Centurion. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen puts Tim in an arm bar until he agrees to talk about a backyard martial arts movie from a determined auteur: Fight Ring! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen invite their favorite internet crank Bitter Karella to help them analyze a bewildering major release that no one liked, Argylle. It's so confounding a project, it leads Karella to use the phrase "Brechtian distancing mechanism."Listen to our Apple TV+ episode, in which we read the entire platform to filth. F*ck you, Tim Apple!Read this Deadline article about the production and marvel at how out of touch these people sound. At the end, director Matthew Vaughn throws in an enthusiastic endorsement of the Apple Vision Pro.Read the incisive opinion piece Tim invoked when discussing the sexlessness of Argylle, R.S. Benedict's "Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny" via Blood Knife. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim just can't figure out why audiences were so lukewarm about this fun pulp adventure, The Phantom from 1996. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen welcome Rifftrax stalwarts Bill Corbett and Sean Thomason to discuss a cheapie high fantasy film that thinks it's a spaghetti western, Hawk the Slayer! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim journey to Gumbasia to experience the vision of a lovable madman, The Gumby Movie, aka Gumby 1!The story of Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line that bears her name is a remarkable one, encompassing topics of institutionalized racism, scientific ethics, and medical marvels. Adam Curtis made a fine documentary about Lacks and the HeLa line of cells in 1997 for the BBC.The video for "All The Things She Said" by Simple Minds presents a fine example of the then-cutting-edge video work of filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczyński.And after you've seen that, really blow your mind with Charles and Ray Eames's head-spinning 1977 short, Powers of Ten! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen spice up their lives with a fluffy little movie about five assertive young women, Spice World! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim mildly disagree on a Sam Raimi film that didn't quite hit with audiences the first time around, the gender-swapped revenge tale The Quick and the Dead. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen invite the world's greatest Garfield scholar, Bitter Karella, to chat about a TV special inspired by a comic that traumatized a generation, Garfield: His 9 Lives.Read Misunderstanding Comics, the funniest comic Scott McCloud never wrote, written by Tim and illustrated by Bitter Karella! Make Tim get those copies out of storage!Have You Seen This...Dirty Cartoon? In case you missed our hilarious riff of Eveready Harton, you can watch it here, since you're a patron!See some pages from the story Tim enthused about, the 1984 G.I. Joe comic "Silent Interlude." Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim swab the deck with a hygiene film straight from the U.S. Navy, The Story of D.E. 733: Ship of Shame. Actually, turns out it's pretty good, even with all the sores! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen brave the crowdfunded sequel to Showgirls, a mindbogglingly lengthy auteur statement called Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim contextualize the band that ruled Nixon's America, The Carpenters, for Todd Haynes's early dollhouse biopic, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.Watch the film on the Internet Archive, but don't tell Richard Carpenter you did!Entertainment Weekly took a look back at the film in the aftermath of the unstoppable cultural juggernaut that was the Barbie movie.Friend of Todd Haynes and producer Christine Vachon spilled some info on the restoration of Superstar in 2023. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim wisely stays far away while Jen hosts the lovable Worst of All Possible Worlds boys to chat about the worst of all possible musicals, Aladdin from 1990. Yes, it's not the animated version, but it does involve Disney. Listen if you don't believe us! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim suffer through the half-baked hippie whimsy of the Beatles' first major creative cock-up, Magical Mystery Tour. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim debate just how much he actually likes movie musicals during their discussion of a mutual fave, the musical comedy Earth Girls Are Easy.Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to our Discord as well as two more episodes a month! https://www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen seek aid from wacky funster Bitter Karella to explain a film series as British as lousy weather and inedible food: the Carry On series! Also, Tim positively bursts with Carry On-related research. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen welcome Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to discuss a concentrated version of the political correctness panic of the 90s, Disclosure.If for some reason you need to subject yourself to the gross-out video Alex dropped in the chat while we were recording, here you go: Michael Douglas eats an oyster. From 1995, this Vanity Fair article about Michael Douglas covers some of the production of Disclosure. Also highlighted are Douglas's personal struggles at the time, including a reconciliation with wife Diandra (who'd file for divorce later that year).If you just can't get enough 90s tech references, check out this history of SiliconGraphics, the company that created a lot of the computer imagery in Disclosure. It's a UNIX system! You know this!For more Michael Douglas (dunno why you want more, but you do you), listen to our episode about The Ghost and the Darkness! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month!Tim and Jen wrap up their look back at the first one hundred episodes of the show by listing their worst favorites! Yes, you read that right! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim pick their top five favorite subjects from the first one hundred episodes of the show. It was supposed to be their most and least faves, but they just talk too damn much! Looks like they gotta record a whole other episode to air their least faves of the first hundred.If you watch just one episode of the (sadly few) remaining of the British series Dead of Night, "A Woman Sobbing" should be your pick.Outsider art enthusiasts: walk, don't run to catch Romeo and Romeo. It truly is something special.Horror Express is pretty easy to find, but a lot of poor quality versions are out there. This one is quite nice, however. Threads has grown in reputation such that it often appears on streaming services like Shudder and Criterion Channel, but you can always find it at the Internet Archive. Ghostwatch, the show that scared an entire country so badly they put it in a lockbox for 25 years, may also be viewed on the Archive! Part 2, where we name our least favorites of the first hundred episodes of HYST, will be coming shortly, so stay tuned! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim wisely goes absent with leave as Jen invites Bitter Karella to the necropsy of a dire children's film from 1998, The Adventures of Ragtime.Should you wish to self-harm, you can watch the full movie (with helpful timecode) at Showcase Entertainment's channel on YouTube.Is it crass to post this screenshot of Shelley Long from the movie? Yeah, probably. Has that ever stopped us?See photos of Ragtime at a very Web 1.0 site that his caregivers appear to have left up as a memorial to the tiny stallion.For some more grown-up yet still juvenile horse content, listen to our Hot to Trot episode! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen enlist the help of Bitter Karella to wade through the 22 minutes of treacle that is the forgotten faux-Peanuts special, Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.See this slab of gelatinous treacle for yourself at the Internet Archive. William Conant Church, brother of Francis Church, did indeed help found the NRA in 1871, in an effort to improve marksmanship amongst the broader American militia. He and brother Francis co-founded several news publications, including the New York Sun, and he also co-founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Additionally, Frank Church was not the volcel depicted in the Yes, Virginia special— he was married to a woman named Elizabeth Wickham. In spite of Tim's joshing, it appears that Church did not have a severe yet shapely assistant who browbeat him into publishing the editorial addressed to Virginia O'Hanlon. The O'Hanlon letter was passed on by Edward Page Mitchell, the real-life editor-in-chief of the Sun.Karella alluded to the "Season's Greetings" meme drawn from Douglas Dixon's Man After Man, a kind of speculative art book about possible evolutions of Homo sapiens. If you want to see more of the weird art, the book is free to browse at the Internet Archive. Finally, if you want to pretend that it's 1974 again and you're spinning some 45s, you can hear the theme song for the special sung by a piercing li'l Jimmy Osmond. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen finally give the departed William Friedkin a proper sendoff with a discussion of his once-maligned masterpiece, Sorcerer. Guest Darren Herczeg provides his usual able assistance.To clear up an anecdote Jen related during the episode: she says that Paramount president Charles Bluhdorn freaked out when he spotted himself in the group photo of oil company executives in a scene from Sorcerer. The source of this story is screenwriter Walon Green, who describes Bluhdorn as having had a "shit hemorrhage" during the screening. However, a review of the offending scene reveals only other Gulf+Western execs, not Bluhdorn."To me, they looked like a bunch of thugs," Friedkin said (as quoted in Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls).Catch the documentary Friedkin Uncut on Tubi, where the man himself evokes Hitler in the first five minutes. We'll miss you, Billy. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen bring back one of horror's heaviest (lol) hitters to talk about a movie William Friedkin couldn't be bothered to mention after he made it, The Guardian!Tim's quip about Q's on Wilshire refers to a 2000 incident in which screenwriter and director Eric Red plowed his Jeep into a crowded bar following a fender bender, killing two people, then attempted to slit his own throat with a piece of glass. The linked LA Weekly article draws some tenuous conclusions between Red's work and the bloody mess at Q's, but as of 2023 he appears to have stayed out of trouble and written several novels.KCRW memorializes Deirdre O' Donaghue's incredibly influential playlists with its Bent By Nature podcast. The ballerina clown of Venice remains in situ, where it has been since 1989. Presumably, it makes the CVS underneath it easy to find for out-of-towners.Do you love Tim and Bitter Karella, but have had enough of Jen? Hear the former two discuss a beloved childhood favorite in our Ernest Goes to Camp episode! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim come to a tenuous agreement about a once universally loathed Martin Short comedy, Clifford. Also, Tim punches down ruthlessly on a twenty pound miniature pinscher.The Slate article about Martin Short that riled everyone up may be found here, but if you want to skip right to the synchronized swimming sketch from SNL, you can watch it on Vimeo. The Vulture oral history of the making, the release, and the eventual cult fandom around Clifford is as exhaustive a history of the film as one may be expected to tolerate.DNA specialists identified the Boy in the Box as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, 65 years after his death (be careful if you search for info on the case; the police distributed postmortem photos shortly after he was found in an attempt to generate leads). Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim quibble over Bobcat Goldthwait's directorial debut, the seedy comic tale of Shakes the Clown. Also, Jen drops some hard truths about Robin Williams.Patton Oswalt tells his story about the world's worst party clown to Conan O'Brien.Are you new to Have You Seen This? Have you yet to hear the good news about Pervy the Clown? Tune your Roku to B-Movie TV every Friday at midnight!…if you dare.Or, if you're subscribed to our Patreon at $5 and up, direct your Pervy-related questions to your hosts in the show Discord!Apropos of nothing, apparently the children's show Little Clowns of Happytown was developed by Chuck Lorre, the guy who went on to runaway success with a bunch of sitcoms that Jen hates with every fiber of her being.Can't get enough clownin'? Listen to our episode about the Terrifier franchise! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen review a film of great technical genius and great vacuity of story: Natalie Wood's final film, Brainstorm. But Jen liked at least half of it. Also, please send Tim all of your uneaten candy corn.There's a rundown on the Showscan process originally intended for Brainstorm from Douglas Trumbull himself on YouTube. Too bad it's in 360p. This fine Japanese documentary on Trumbull is in much higher quality, though.If you're super into the dialectic and want to go beyond Noguchi's and Lambert's account of the death of Natalie Wood, former prosecutor Sam Perroni has written a well-researched look into the case called…Brainstorm!And if you want more mind-bending visuals that weren't appreciated by the public at the time, listen to our episode on the Wachowskis' update of Speed Racer! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
If you enjoy this episode, subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month and access to our Discord!Jen and Tim try to say something nice about a pay cable attempt at Lovecraftian horror/comedy, Cast a Deadly Spell. Also, Jen tries and fails to remember the time she massively insulted Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid out of nowhere.Jen is so dumb she forgot to mention who directed Witch Hunt, the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell: Paul fucking Schrader. Will we watch it? EhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhTim confused Peter Scolari of Bosom Buddies with Mark Linn-Baker in Perfect Strangers, or maybe he was thinking of Bronson Pinchot. Does it matter?Jerry Smith over at Certified Forgotten makes a fan's case for the movie, so we'll include it as a concession to an imaginary genre podcast Fairness Doctrine.Finally, for more throwback horror, try our episode on the first Kolchak telefilm, The Night Stalker! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month and access to our Discord!Tim and Jen have a mild and cordial disagreement about Truman Show screenwriter Andrew Niccol's flop first feature: Gattaca.The Cinemaholic has an explainer for the ending, just in case you're stupid.The studio attempted to sell the film as a sci-fi thriller, going by the trailer. See it in 4K over at YouTube. Am I crazy, or is that Richard Kiley narrating for a touch of educational-television believability? Guess they spared no expense!In an interview snippet, Gattaca cinematographer Slawomir Idziak talks about working on an episode of Krzysztof Kieślowski's televised masterpiece, Dekalog.Finally, if you want to hear our episode on George Romero's Martin, stop by our website! But first come to our Discord and talk to Tim about Traveler. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Paul Jay returns to talk with us about Warren Beatty's greatest love! No, not women— by all evidence it's Dick Tracy. Also, we are interrupted by a dog.View one of Beatty's rights-maintaining Dick Tracy specials, in which he's interviewed by Leonard Maltin while in character as his favorite comic strip detective.We've talked about Warren a couple of times before on the show— once with beloved recurring guest Sean Morris for Bulworth, and once to inagurate the whole dang podcast with our Ishtar episode! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen discuss a beloved epic whose time has come, the Peter Weir masterpiece Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World!The GQ article mentioned appears to be yet more proof of the widespread affection for this film. The doctor who pioneered sanitary practices in medicine was Ignatz Semmelweiss, although these ideas didn't take hold until the time of Joseph Lister. Additionally, other medical men (like Oliver Wendell Holmes, for one) arrived at similar notions independent of Semmelweiss. The latter, in fact, refused to publish anything about hand washing because he believed these practices to be “self-evident.”If you want to read about Grover Cleveland getting surgery at sea and see some icky-yet-illumunating photos, the New York Academy of Medicine has a good blog post about it. If you want more, the book Jen mentioned is called The President is a Sick Man, and author Matthew Algeo answered questions about it in this C-SPAN presentation. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim jack freely over a rote 1992 sci-fi action thriller, Freejack, starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger. Your hosts kind of forget to talk about Jagger, but Tim does reminisce fondly about Four Loko.Jen says “Psycho Ninja” when she was actually thinking of Psycho Kickboxer. The latter film is absolutely delightful, by the way.If you're curious about the gory details of Denise Richards' divorce from Charlie Sheen, you can read them here, directly from the court document. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen enlist animal expert Emma Bowers (Hyenas and Gin on YouTube) to explain why the fascinating story of two man-eating lions resulted in a boring movie called The Ghost and the Darkness.Watch a 1996 documentary about the man-eaters of Tsavo, which includes brief interviews with stars Kilmer and Douglas and director Stephen Hopkins. One interviewee theorizes that the local lions' taste for human flesh stems from generations of slave traders who left injured or dying captives to their fate in the bush.This 1996 Entertainment Weekly article sums up how bad Val Kilmer's reputation got to be in Hollywood.As Richard Stanley, who directed Kilmer for three days in The Island of Dr. Moreau before being fired, recalls, “Val would arrive, and an argument would happen.” Says John Frankenheimer, who replaced Stanley: “I don't like Val Kilmer, I don't like his work ethic, and I don't want to be associated with him ever again.” And Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher calls his onetime star “childish and impossible.”Entertainment Weekly, May 31st, 1996You can watch the tiger attack video Tim mentioned, with added context. Rawr!There's even a mineral named Tsavorite which was discovered in Tanzania and named in honor of the area.Finally, listen to our episode on the shockingly ill-conceived movie Roar, with special guest Emma! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month!Tim and Jen try and fail to recall the name of Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps as they discuss Olympian gymnast Kurt Thomas's sole feature film, Gymkata. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jen and Tim welcome Speed Racer evangelist Paul Jay to talk about, uh, the 2008 flop Speed Racer.Over at culture blog The Sundae, Dean Buckley makes a case against Speed Racer as “art film” and for the Wachowskis as purveryors of schlock (in a positive way). Agree or disagree, it's a thoughtful piece.The Daily Beast has details of Emile Hirsch's attack on a Paramount executive at a Sundance party, although the headline's assertion that he “starred” in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a slight exaggeration (he had a small part as man-about-town hairdresser and murder victim Jay Sebring).The documentary Riding Balls of Fire: Group B, The Wildest Years of Rallying presents a nice overview of that brief era of rally car racing, plus it's free on Tubi! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthisJen and Tim enjoy a silly 1990 comedy with startlingly good practical effects, Spaced Invaders! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! For their one hundred and fiftieth episode (!), Jen and Tim welcome animation expert Jerry Beck to talk about the worst cartoons ever made and the Monkees' super freak out, Head!Visit Jerry's website for all the animation news and discussion you can eat. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe to HYST on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! Jen and Tim finally tackle one of their shared albatrosses— the Robocop before Robocop, R.O.T.O.R.! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Your hosts range widely and freely on the topic of horror: specifically, found footage horror. The films discussed are The McPherson Tape, The Blair Witch Project, Backrooms, and Horror in the High Desert.Watch The Backrooms short we talked about here on YouTube.Director Dean Alioto talked with the Found Footage Critic about UFO Abduction and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, aka The McPherson Tape:In 1989 Dean Alioto shot his first film, UFO Abduction, for a meager budget of $6,500—the master copy of the film was subsequently destroyed and thus the movie was never widely released. Ten years later Dean Alioto pitched UFO Abduction to Dick Clark Productions, who picked up the idea and gave Dean Alioto a $1.2 million budget to shoot a remake for television. In 1998, the remake was released entitled Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (a.k.a. The McPherson Tape).Over the years the names of these films has resulted in a great deal of confusion. Even to this day, both UFO Abduction and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County are referred to as “The McPherson Tape.”Found Footage CriticAn explorer named Tom covered the tragic story of the Death Valley Germans at his blog, OtherHand. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen hosts the delightful Jane Altoids of Pacino Pod to perform an autopsy on one of the worst vanity projects ever made: Give My Regards to Broad Street! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim and Jen start spooky season early with a shockingly dark release from Disney, Return to Oz.Jen forgot to mention that the main reason the film does not resembles the MGM film from 1939 apart from the Ruby Slippers™ is because all of the trappings of the MGM version were and are copyrighted. In fact, Disney had to shell out to use that plot device in the film. Hence, while Walter Murch's desire to make a moive closer in spirit to the L. Frank Baum material is admirable, it most likely played second fiddle to the demands of copyright law.Additionally, the movie finally made a profit from a 1949 re-release, not “like twenty years later” or whatever Jen glibly claimed.Animator Doug Aberle made a video where he talks about his process for animating the demise of the Nome King. Plus, he includes interviews with the late Will Vinton.If you want more details about the drama between Sarah Polley and Terry Gilliam, you can read an excerpt from her memoir here. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/posts/146-enter-void-70524410Tim gets a little treat this month— we talked about one of his personal favorites, Gaspar Noé's trippy version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Enter the Void! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Subscribe to HYST on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! https://www.patreon.com/posts/143-wet-hot-69274679Jen and Tim fight to a standstill over a comedy that flopped in theaters, Wet Hot American Summer.Tim incorrectly identifies co-writer Michael Showalter as director. It was David Wain, not that Tim gives a fuck. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.