The Have You Seen This Podcast is a show where hosts Ethan Wilson and Jake Spencer alternate each week suggesting a movie the other host has not seen to watch and then we discuss it on the show!
Screenwriter Josh Olson returns to share a Russ Meyer phantasmagoria and to make it clear that he did NOT write Gigli
Support us at patreon.com/haveyouseenthis for two bonus episodes every month and more special guests! A pledge of just $2/month gets you access! Mike Rosen joins Jen and Tim to discuss that movie you really liked as a kid and then revisited as an adult and realized it wasn’t that good
Tim and Jen effuse about Ed Wood’s cri de coeur! Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/
Tim returns to chug the haterade! Jen weakly defends the movie but she’s no match for Tim’s anti-twee vitriol! Rich Hall as David Byrne on SNL: https://www.reddit.com/r/talkingheads/comments/anz16y/one_of_the_best_classic_snl_skits_rich_hall/ Official video for Wild Wild Life: https://youtu.be/616-QGQyx-I David Byrne talks about being autistic: https://youtu.be/vtX6emk6U5k Spalding Gray in Swimming to Cambodia: https://youtu.be/QI4NvgpjXYo The humor of disgraced sex pest Garrison Keillor: https://youtu.be/V_ysNTNoyZ8 “Stupid TV! Be more funny!”: https://youtu.be/d0SQCWZJeUw
Jen and Tim welcome back Mike Rosen so he can carve up Joss Whedon like the turkey he is and also to discuss an affectionate satire of the slasher genre. Offensive Films by Mikita Brottman https://www.alibris.com/Offensive-Films-Dr-Mikita-Brottman/book/8946546 Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover https://www.alibris.com/Men-Women-and-Chain-Saws-Gender-in-the-Modern-Horror-Film-Updated-Edition/book/40454256?matches=11
Tim holds forth excitedly about “the most accurate depiction of virtual reality as a profound concept that is silly in its execution.” Based on the Stephen King lawsuit!
Tim and Jen return to the comforting mayhem of shot-on-video horror!
The boys take over as Tim welcomes our comrade Mike Rosen to discuss a classic from their youth!
We dissect John Landis’s first flop with returning guest Sean Morris.
You know how sometimes a movie just sucks and is lazy and stupid and sexist? Mike Rosen joins us to discuss one of them! The full episode is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
Tim and Jen revisit everyone’s favorite dad-joke heist movie!
Tim and Jen return to the fevered nuclear paranoia of the 80s with a look at one of the most important TV events of the era and one that wasn’t but is still pretty good! The full episode is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/39250938 to hear the rest.
Jen and Tim cheerlead for a movie about the dangers of joining illegal underground sword-fighting operations
Tim speaks cogently on the world’s most depressing nuclear apocalypse drama while Jen tries not to fall into a well of despair lol
Tim and Jen argue about a cult rock film in a surprisingly contentious episode!
Jen and Tim discuss a program that was disappeared by the BBC after it aired for being too spooky The full episode is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
Tim takes charge in order to bend your ear, and Jen’s, about Trent Reznor’s cute little home movie!
Jen and Tim are joined by Rifftrax writer/producer and author Conor Lastowka to examine one of the only true auteurs in cinema.
Tim and Jen revisit an early Paul W.S. Anderson film and discover that he hasn’t always sucked. The full episode is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
Jen talks with Sean Morris (@saneiscrazy on Twitter) about a drug movie in which the producers were afraid to show the drugs.
Tim and Jen tell you all about an unironically delightful slasher film made by a literal child! Hear the whole episode for a pledge of only $2/month! https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-or-33068283
Jen and Tim dig through yesterday’s garbage for a sampling of horror movies shot (badly) on video.
Tim and Jen make the case for a socialist reading of Weird Al's lone cinematic outing.
Jen and Tim ask Josh Lewis (@thejoshl) to provide his insight as a film programmer in a wide-ranging discussion of the dire state of movie exhbition. Be sure to check out our sibling pod, Sleazoids, also on Soundcloud!
The delightful Chapo dad joins us for Death Wish 3, possibly the simultaneous nadir and high point of the Death Wish series. Support the show on Patreon for only $2/month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis
Niel Jacoby (@fuckinalpamare on Twitter) joins us to ask: wtf, France? Also big fat trigger warning on this one because we spent a lot of time mocking the movie’s incredibly cavalier attitude towards sexual assault.
We go incredibly deep on a movie that probably didn’t merit it. So much so that you’re getting a two-parter! This one was written by the guy who co-wrote Back to the Future and it’s tailor-made for dads who wistfully scroll through classics dot autotrader dot com on weekends. The full episode is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
Jen and Tim are joined by author and podcaster R.S. Benedict to discuss one of the few films ever shot entirely in Esperanto, which is the only film ever shot entirely in Esperanto and starring William Shatner.
Tim and Jen are very excited to have animator, voice actor, and writer Bill Kopp on the show to discuss his career, especially the beloved-but-now-scarce Fox Kids show Eek! the Cat. Sorry we had to record Bill on Edison cylinder lol The full episode is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
For our 50th episode we go hard af on Leonard Maltin and his stupid movie guide with @MrMattJay
This month's bonus is an extra-stuffed (nearly two hour) episode about a widely reviled mondo slavery documentary. Jen and Tim are joined by T. of the great Champagne Sharks podcast and we all tackle one tough-to-watch but necessary film. The full episode is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
We've unlocked this previously patrons-only episode because abortion access in the US is arguably even more precarious now than it was in 1984, and we believe the dishonesty of media like The Silent Scream needs to be discussed today. Jen is joined by reproductive justice activist Mellie Macker (@eponawest on Twitter) to dissect the mendacious thinking behind a notorious piece of pro-life propaganda.
Jen welcomes special guest Julia Schiwal to discuss a wonderful Thai biopic about a trans woman who becomes a fighter in order to forge her own path.
Jen and Tim look at a slapdash TV movie with roots in moral panic. Oh and it was also the first feature role for Tom Hanks, wow.
Our bonus episode featuring Josh Lewis of Sleazoids is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
Our bonus episode featuring Felix Biederman of Chapo Trap House is available on Patreon for a pledge of only $2! Visit https://www.patreon.com/haveyouseenthis to hear the rest.
Jen and Tim talk with animal expert Emma Bowers about Roar, which stars 50 or 60 uncontrollable wild animals and a handful of terrified humans.
Jen and Tim welcome a mysterious podcast newbie to praise this magnificent work of queer cinema to the skies. We’re not kidding, you need to watch this movie, and how fortuitous that it’s on YouTube!
Jen and guest Mike Rosen finally get back around to silent classic Häxan, a topic for which Mike is perfectly suited due to his expertise in witch-hunting manuals, proto-MGTOW inquisitors, and torture devices of the early modern period (not joking).
Jen and Tim are joined by laser-sharp media critic Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable on Twitter) to talk over a movie that close to 50 years later is still too hot for TV: Ken Russell’s The Devils!
WARNING: Today’s movie was made by an alleged sex offender and constitutes his own defense against said charges. Mike Rosen returns to vituperate the sequel to Vile Pervert, The Truth Awakens!
Jen, Tim, and guest Kristian Boruff of the Harmontown crew dissect something even more pointless than Funko Pops: a Ghostbusters fan film from 2007!
Once again Tim refuses to discuss a musical, so Jen entices friend of the show Darren Herzceg to visit Shangri-La!
Just in time for Halloween, Tim and Jen attempt to make head or tail of a homebrew Canadian nightmare! Possibly one of the worst and most inexplicable films ever made, Things went direct-to-video in 1989…and straight to our hearts.
Mike Rosen returns to discuss Marlo Thomas’s most lasting work! Listen to find out if gender stereotypes actually ended in 1973 and we all missed it.
Sean Morris joins Jen and Tim to discuss a favorite forgotten comedy, Livin’ Large, which prefigured “Marxist propaganda” film Sorry To Bother You! We make the connections and also ramble about symptoms of dystopia like SoundCloud rappers.
Jen and Tim are honored to speak with martial arts cinema legend Cynthia Rothrock! Among many other things, Cynthia talks about the pitfalls of acting with non-sync sound, meeting with A-list directors, and taking her career into the 21st century on YouTube.
Jen welcomes Mike Rosen to discuss a traumatic event from his childhood: an ill-fated animated feature directed by Richard Williams.
Will Menaker blesses us with his presence to discuss Francesco, a biopic of St. Francis of Assisi starring…Mickey Rourke?!
Jen and Tim return to pick apart King Vidor’s demented vision of Ayn Rand’s equally demented The Fountainhead.
YouTube Kids Spiderman Elsa puppet finger family bad baby songs buried alive Drop us a line at @pasolinisdead on Twitter! The Medium article that kicked off the discussion, James Bridle’s “Something is Wrong on the Internet,” may be read here: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 Tim’s videos may be viewed at his YouTube channel, timtoon, but if you wanna skip right to Sarcastic Hulk, it’s here: https://youtu.be/aLwdq41i02o