Total Movie Recall is a free-wheeling film nostalgia podcast in which hosts Steve Albertson & Ryan Mixson each have painstakingly assembled a list of movies that have touched them in some way at a specific moment in their lives. The hosts alternate rolling dice at the end of each show to determine w…
Steve Albertson & Ryan Mixson: movie reviewers & film critics
This week on Total Movie Recall, we go to the suck. Steve develops a thousand yard stare reserved for veterans of nightmare wars and mediocre podcasts. Ryan chalks up another point in the Irresponsible Father column, reflecting on his father's prudent decision to let him watch this vision of insanity at a tender age yet again. If you listen to this episode, you can go to my house and fornicate with my sister. Full Metal Jacket (1987) d. Stanley Kubrick w. Gustav Hasford based on his novel The Short-Timers Starring: Matthew Modine as Pvt. Joker Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Pyle R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman Dorian Harewood as Eightball Kevyn Major Howard as Rafterman Arliss Howard as Pvt. Cowboy Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis, quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant, and pudgy Private Lawrence, nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué. Things discussed in the show: Willy Wonka Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall) Zack Snyder's Justice League (Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, J.K. Simmons) The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah) Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer) 300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham) Joss Whedon gets canceled Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford) Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison) Mel Gibbson uncancelable? Toxic fandom Firefly (Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass) Moulin Rogue! (Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo) Luc Besson Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Carson Daly) Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, Thunder Levin, Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard) Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) George Burns Sean Connery Larry Sanders Show (Dennis Klein, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Wallace Langham, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Piven) Billy Crystal Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly) Kitbag - new Napoleon film (Ridley Scott, David Scarpa, Joaquin Phoenix, Jodie Comer) Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch painter Visual Tone Poem François Truffaut on war films Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore) John Wayne The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien The Mickey Mouse Club theme song Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) Jungian duality of man Next week: UHF
This week on Total Movie Recall, we watch the first Manic Pixie Dream Girl ever on screen, who is not a girl at all, but is most decidedly a woman. It's the perfect post-2020 movie, and not just because of the constant suicides. It's twee and precious and we absolutely loved it. Harold & Maude (1971) d. Hal Ashby w. Colin Higgins Music by: Cat Steven (Yusuf Islam) Starring: Ruth Gordon Bud Cort Vivian Pickles Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic relationship, in which they explore the tired theme of the meaning of life with a fresh perspective. Things discussed in the show: Savages (Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively) Santa Muerte Dunkirk (70mm, Christopher Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance) Overlord (Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier) Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki) 1917 (Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays) Rolling Thunder (Vietnam POWs, John Flynn, William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes) Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino) Mental health and the military The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith) The Last Blockbuster (documentary, Smash Mouth, Taylor Morden, Lauren Lapkus, Sandi Harding, Ken Tisher, Doug Benson, Doug Loves Movies podcast, Kevin Smith, Samm Levine, Brian Posehn, Jamie Kennedy, Ron Funches, Ione Skye, Lloyd Kaufman, Troma, Paul Scheer) Clerks (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Scott Mosier) Letterbox app Streaming services Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) King Billy Corgan, monarch of Chicago Suicide Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden) Next week: Full Metal Jacket
This week on Total Movie Recall, we learn that while some stories never end, mothers do, and that's the beginning of how a serial killer is made in this unflinching look inside the mind of one disturbed little boy. Hang in there with us, listen to this, and watch it again and try to tell us you didn't witness a psychotic break as this poor boy retreats inside the dark fantasies of his mind. The Neverending Story (1984) d. Wolfgang Petersen w. Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel Music by Giorgio Moroder Starring: Noah Hathaway as Atreyu Barret Oliver as Bastian Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny Frank Oz On his way to school, Bastian ducks into a bookstore to avoid bullies. Sneaking away with a book called "The Neverending Story," Bastian begins reading it in the school attic. The novel is about Fantasia, a fantasy land threatened by "The Nothing," a darkness that destroys everything it touches. The kingdom needs the help of a human child to survive. When Bastian reads a description of himself in the book, he begins to wonder if Fantasia is real and needs him to survive. Things discussed in the show: Christopher Nolan Carl Jung Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James) Snowden (Edward Snowden, Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo) Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney) Oliver Stone's memoir - Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game The Social Network (David Fincher, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake) 3rd Rock From the Sun (Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Wikileaks and Julian Assange The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill) Natural Born Killers ( JFK ( Any Given Sunday ( The Disaster Artist ( The Room ( Rocky Horror Picture Show ( Midnight screenings of Rocky Horror and The Room The Crown ( Repo Man Dangerous Liaisons ( Downton Abby The Remains of the Day - novel ( Conan, Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs George Miller Next week: Harold and Maude
Ah, the good ole days of passing around R rated spank tapes. This movie is so trashy, it gave Charlie Sheen HIV. Wild Things (1998) d. John McNaughton Starring: Kevin Bacon Neve Campbell Matt Dillon Denise Richards Daphne Rubin-Vega Bill Murray When teen debutante Kelly fails to attract the attention of her hunky guidance counselor, Sam, she cries rape, igniting a scandal that results in his arrest. Sam appeals to Ken, a hack personal-injury lawyer who has never handled a case that couldn't be helped by a prop neck brace. Soon, a second victim, Suzie, comes forward, and Detective Duquette discovers that the unfolding case is far from what it seems. Things discussed in the show: Passing around R rated spank tapes Porn in the 90s and holograms Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho) Harry Potter The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes) WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn) Dinosaurs (Not the Mama, Michael Jacobs, Bob Young, Stuart Pankin, Jessica Walter, Jason Willinger) The Flintstones (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl) X-Files – (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi) Red Shoe Diaries (David Duchovny, Anthony Addabbo, Audie England) Skinamax Supernatural (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino) SyFy Channel Z Nation (Craig Engler, Karl Schaefer, Russell Hodgkinson, Nat Zang, Keith Allan) Resident Alien (Chris Sheridan, Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds) Dr. No (James Bond, Terence Young, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee) Dr. No novel (Ian Fleming) John Carter of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs) Law & Order Special Victims Unit (SVU, Dick Wolf, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T) Spin Doctors, Third Eye Blind, Hootie and the Blowfish Scream (Wes Craven, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, Liev Schreiber) PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, S.E. Hinton, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane) Michael Rapaport Swamp vs. bayou Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken Brian De Palma Next week: Black Cat White Cat
Remember the innocent 90s, when white directors thought they had the N-word pass for some reason? What do you think their “woke” movie would look like? Probably like this, where the N-word is replaced by horrific rape and Mexican jokes. This proto-edgelord movie was looked at as such a good time romp that it was considered the perfect vehicle to transition from the hit network show ER to the big screen. What a simpler time… From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) d. Robert Rodriguez w. Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay) Starring: Harvey Keitel George Clooney Juliette Lewis Quentin Tarantino Salma Hayek Cheech Marin Danny Trejo Tom Savini Fred Williamson On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out. Things discussed in the show: Sex Machine and Santanico Pandemonium Full Tilt Boogie (Sarah Kelly) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin) Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen) Dolemite Mortal Kombat 2021 (Simon McQuoid, Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson) Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki) Mulan 2020 (Niki Caro, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong) G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott, Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft) Bliss (Mike Cahill, Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper) The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss) Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz) René Descartes Rick and Morty (Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland) Aliens soundtrack Chingon - Robert Rodriguez's band E.R. (Michael Crichton, Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies) Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba) Grindhouse films - Planet Terror and Death Proof MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer) Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker) Tarantino's Star Trek Mercury Cougar XR7 The Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack (The Blasters, ZZ Top, Jon Wayne, The Mavericks, Stevie Ray Vaughan) Kelly Preston Of Mice and Men Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, John Hughes, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis) George Romero The Descent (Neil Marshall, Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid) The Titty Twister bar Desperado (Robert Rodriguez, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida) Los Lobos Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford) Call of Cthulhu RPG Anne Rice vampires Lapdog of Satan loudQUIETloud A Film About the Pixies (Steven Cantor, Matthew Galkin, Frank Black, Kim Deal, David Lovering) El Rey in Robert Rodriguez films The Getaway by Jim Thompson Rifts RPG - Mexico's Vampire Kingdom Charmed (Constance M. Burge, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause, Rose McGowan) Dirk Diggler of Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham) Gone Girl (David Fincher, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry) Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl) Next week: Wild Things
This week on Total Movie Recall, we try to decide whether this is a charming, unique film about staying true to yourself, or a nightmarish descent into the insanity that comes with living in a barren, desolate landscape like rural Idaho, where the Uncle Ricos of the world keep subterranean dungeons for unsuspecting Debs. This might say more about where our heads are at right now than about this beloved comedy. Napoleon Dynamite (2004) d. Jared Hess w. Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess Starring: Jon Heder Efren Ramirez Jon Gries Aaron Ruell Diedrich Bader Tina Majorino Sandy Martin In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico, shows up to keep an eye on him. With no safe haven at home or at school, Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro, a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president. Things discussed in the show: Russian movie posters Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston) Dumbo (Disney, Samuel Armstrong, Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing) Kung Fu Cult Master Real Steel (Shawn Levy, Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo) Robot Jox Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young) Lionheart (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard) Switchback (Jeb Stuart, Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Claudia Stedelin, Jared Leto) Killing Eve season 3 (Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw) Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, Kang-ho Song, Lee Sun-kyun, Yeo-jeong Cho) Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris) Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Juno (Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody, Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner) Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear) Jack White Jamiroquai Wes Anderson Trapper Keepers Rushmore (Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams) Gummo (Harmony Korine, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh) Julian Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, Ewen Bremner, Brian Fisk, Chloë Sevigny) No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin) Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman) Peluca - Short film Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon, Will Speck, Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler) Dungeons & Dragons Heathers House Party Bone Tomahawk (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, S. Craig Zahler) BTK Killer Atlanta local spots: Manuel's Tavern, 529 Bar Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles) Elvis Costello Who's Line is it Anyway? The Drew Carey Show (Drew Carey, Bruce Helford, Diedrich Bader, Kathy Kinney) High school dances as ritual, an anthropological study Community (Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase, Troy Barnes) Ligers - centaurs and Dungeons and Dragons little brown books X-Files - Jersey Devil episode (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi) Bat Boy from Weekly World News Wesley Snipes The Jackalope and Dave Coulier Brian Setzer Orchestra and The Stray Cats Next week: From Dusk Till Dawn
This week on Total Movie Recall, these two born-insecure honkies break down the seminal Blaxploitation movie of 1975 and do a pathetic job of trying to reconcile its progressive vision of black empowerment with the misogyny of the pimp game. It gets complicated. Dolemite (1975) d. D'Urville Martin Story by: Rudy Ray Moore Starring: Rudy Ray Moore D'Urville Martin Lady Reed Jerry Jones Hy Pyke Dolemite is released from jail after being wrongfully convicted to take on rival pimp Willie Green, corrupt police officers who framed him and even the mayor! With the help of his friends: Queen Bee (the madame of his brothel), Creeper (the heroin addict Hamburger Pimp), Reverend Gibbs (the gun-running preacher), and his gang of female prostitute karate experts, Dolemite takes back his turf and club through martial arts prowess and sheer oratory showmanship. Things discussed in the show: Blaxploitation films The Jerk (Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams) Black Mama White Mama (Eddie Romero, Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig) Coffy (Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui) Shaft 1971 (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi) The Last Dragon (Michael Schultz, Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney) Wu Tang Clan Kung Fu and Hip Hop Fargo season 1 (Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman) Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya) The Little Things (John Lee Hancock, Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto) The Midnight Sky (George Clooney, George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo) Dolemite is my Name (Craig Brewer, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan) Twin Peaks (Mark Frost, David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick) Mad Max Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss) Rudy Ray Moore's influence on Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and hip hop in general Three Penny Opera (Georg Wilhelm Pabst (as G.W. Pabst), Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher) The Mack (Michael Campus, Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor) Song: Mack the Knife Gaspar Noe Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin) Who Framed Roger Rabbit Thirstin Howl III - Skilligan's Island THX 1138 (George Lucas, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley) Elvis level Karate Jackie Chan / Jet Li / Chuck Norris / Bruce Lee The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro) Titanic (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane) Rudy Ray Moore albums (Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens) Barry (Alec Berg, Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan, Henry Winkler) The Princess Bride The Human Tornado (Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch) Disco Godfather (J. Robert Wagoner, Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch) Big Money Hustlas (John Cafiero, Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Jamie Madrox, Rudy Ray Moore, Insane Clown Posse) Blacula (William Crain, William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas) Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino) Pirates of the Caribbean They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (Gordon Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair) Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise) James Bond E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote) Top quotes: "That rat-soup-eatin', insecure honky motherfucker!" "Ghosts? If you ever see a ghost, cut the motherfucker." "Dolemite is my name, and fuckin' up motherfuckers is my game!" "Man, move over and let me pass 'fore they have be to pullin' these Hush Puppies out your motherfuckin' ass!" "I'm waitin' for Dolemite! - For who? - Dolemite, motherfucker, you heard her." Next week: Napoleon Dynamite
This week on Total Movie Recall, things get Freudian as they did for every little boy who stared confusedly at Jessica Rabbit and wondered what was happening to them. Handsome, chiseled leading man Bob Hoskins soldiers on in spite of the bleeding ulcer all that booze gave him, and Christopher Lloyd goes to eleven with his unhinged, terrifying performance. Did hentai exist before this movie? Because it sure as hell did after it. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) d. Robert Zemeckis Starring: Bob Hoskins Christopher Lloyd Kathleen Turner Joanna Cassidy Charles Fleischer Stubby Kaye Alan Tilvern Joel Silver Mel Blanc Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit, the sultry wife of Maroon's biggest star, Roger Rabbit. But when Marvin Acme, Jessica's alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom vows to catch and destroy Roger. Things discussed in the show: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson) Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise) Woodstock documentary (Michael Wadleigh, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey) Fargo season 4 (Chris Rock, Francesco Acquaroli, Andrew Bird, Jessie Buckley, Salvatore Esposito, Jeremie Harris, Jack Huston, Amber Midthunder, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw) Billy Bob Thornton Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris) Supernatural season 15 (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino) Lobo vs. God in Lobo A Contract on Gawd Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Gary K. Wolf) The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter) Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary, Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie) The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci) Baby Herman, Eddie Valiant, The Ink and Paint Club, Paddy Cakes, Toon Town, Judge Doom, Herman's Shermans, Pistol Packin' Possum Steve Buscemi or Andy Serkis as the recast Roger Rabbit Hollywood Babylon (Fatty Arbuckle, Erol Flynn) Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston) Mickey Mouse 2013 ("Gulp" is the best episode, Disney, Chris Diamantopoulos, Russi Taylor, Bill Farmer) Dragon Con We're Doomed - Board game about getting a seat on the rocket fleeing Earth. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote) Goonies Hentai Thirstin Howl III - "Dreams of Fucking a Cartoon Bitch" Catalina Island Step Brothers (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen) Portable Hole The Untouchables Nancy Cartwright is the voice of Shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall) Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson) Bumping the Lamp Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, Diane Thomas, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna) Shave and a Haircut Harvey (Henry Koster, Mary Chase, James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn) Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) Ronin (John Frankenheimer, J.D. Zeik, Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone) Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride at Disneyland Back to the Future II (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson) Predator Cool World (Ralph Bakshi, Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Janni Brenn) An American Werewolf in London The Jetsons (Hanna-Barbera, George O'Hanlon, Janet Waldo, Mel Blanc) The Flintstones - Wilma & Betty (Hanna-Barbera, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl) Scooby Doo - Velma & Daphne (Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Joseph Barbera, Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe) Family Guy - Lois Griffin (Seth MacFarlane, David Zuckerman, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green) Futurama - Leela (David X. Cohen, Matt Groening, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - April O'Neil (Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, David Wise, Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen) The Little Mermaid - Ursala (Ron Clements, John Musker, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois) Archer - Lana (Adam Reed, H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Amber Nash) The Real Ghostbusters - Janine Melnitz (Maurice LaMarche, Dave Coulier, Frank Welker) Talespin - Rebecca (Ed Gilbert, R.J. Williams, Sally Struthers) The Simpsons - Marge Simpson (James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer) Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale) Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers - Gadget (Peter Cullen, Tress MacNeille, Corey Burton)
This week on Total Movie Recall, we take a hard pivot from all the toxic masculinity of weeks past and Steve shows his gentle, romantic side. Somehow, Ryan makes this about his sad sack heartache but in the end, everybody calms down and moves on with a nice mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. The Princess Bride (1987) d. Rob Reiner w. William Goldman Starring: Cary Elwes Mandy Patinkin Robin Wright Chris Sarandon Christopher Guest Wallace Shawn André the Giant Fred Savage Peter Falk Billy Crystal Carol Kane A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the William Goldman novel "The Princess Bride" which earned its own loyal audience. Things discussed in the show: The sadness of Smashing Pumpkins Train to Busan (Sang-ho Yeon, Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok) A Clockwork Orange dick sculptures The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman) Udo Kier Wings (David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee, Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard) Frazier (David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce) The Simpsons (James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer) Spider-Man Homecoming (Jon Watts, Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.) WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn) Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, Justin Theroux, Stan Lee, Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow) The MCU saviors James Gunn & Taika Waititi Perry Mason 2020 (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones, Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk) The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston, Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick) Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston) The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George) Walt Whitman Waukegan, IL and Ray Bradbury Albert Camus J.R.R. Tolkien James Baldwin The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith) The Four Feathers 2002 (Shekhar Kapur, Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson) Emo music vs. Emo Philips The Wonder Years (Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Daniel Stern) The Princess Bride novel (William Goldman) Adventures in the Screen Trade (William Goldman) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, William Goldman, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross) All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, William Goldman, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick, Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) The Lumière brothers The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor) Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert) George R. R. Martin This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest) Guilder, The Cliffs of Insanity, Shrieking Eels, Six-fingered Man, The Pit of Despair Quibi's Home Movie: The Princess Bride remake The Grandson: Josh Gad, Mckenna Grace, Keith L. Williams, Logan Kim, Joey King, Rob Reiner, and Fred Savage (who played the Grandson in the 1987 movie). The Grandfather: Rob Reiner, J. K. Simmons, Giancarlo Esposito, Sarah Silverman, Robert Wuhl, Adam Sandler, and Carl Reiner. Mother: Retta Westley/The Man in Black/Dread Pirate Roberts: Chris Pine, Common, Sam Rockwell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sophie Turner, David Spade, Jon Hamm, Kaitlyn Dever, Brandon Routh, Courtney Ford, Tommy Dewey, Taika Waititi, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack Black, Lucas Hedges, Paul Rudd, and Cary Elwes (who played the role in the 1987 film). Princess Buttercup: Tiffany Haddish, Penélope Cruz, Jennifer Garner, Leslie Bibb, David Burtka, Annabelle Wallis, Zoe Saldana, Joe Jonas, Mackenzie Davis, Kimberly Brook, Zazie Beetz, Alice Oswalt, Brandon Routh, Courtney Ford, Zoey Deutch, Jenna Ortega, Beanie Feldstein and Robin Wright (who played Princess Buttercup in the 1987 film). Prince Humperdinck: Hugh Jackman, Thomas Lennon, Penélope Cruz, Elijah Wood, José Andrés, Don Johnson, Ernie Hudson, Dennis Haysbert, James Van Der Beek, David Oyelowo, and Cary Elwes (who played Westley in the 1987 film). Inigo Montoya: Diego Luna, Oscar Nunez, Finn Wolfhard, Javier Bardem, Keegan-Michael Key, Nick Kroll, Sarah Cooper, Catherine Reitman, John Cho, Natalie Morales, and Pedro Pascal. Fezzik: Dave Bautista, Brian Baumgartner, Nick Kroll, Shaquille O'Neal, Catherine Reitman, Zoey Deutch, Craig Robinson, Charlize Theron, and Jason Segel. Vizzini: Patton Oswalt, Angela Kinsey, Nick Kroll, Rainn Wilson, and King Bach. Count Rugen: Meredith Salenger, Oliver Lennon, B.J. Novak, Stephen Merchant, Bryan Cranston, and Andy Serkis. Miracle Max: Seth Rogen Valerie: Ari Graynor The Impressive Clergyman: John Malkovich The Albino: Nicholas Braun The Ancient Booer: Jennifer Garner Yellen the Messenger: Richard Speight Jr. R.O.U.S.: Leo James Routh The Crow (Alex Proyas, James O'Barr, Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis) Ladyhawke (Richard Donner, Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer) The Beastmaster (Don Coscarelli, Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn) Liam Hemsworth WarGames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Wes Anderson coffee table book The Mandalorian (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito) Terry Gilliam Jackie Chan Kung Fu Cult Master Fright Night (Tom Holland, Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse) Robin Hood Men in Tights (Mel Brooks, Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees) Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino) Criminal Minds (Jeff Davis, Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, A.J. Cook) PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) John Waters Next week: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan stares out the window of his furniture-less modernist home at the endless, uncaring ocean while Steve sleeps on the floor with his hand gripped around his pistol. The pseudo-philosophy of this movie seems deeper than it is because it's endlessly reflected in all the glass buildings of Michael Mann's uber-masculine vision. Sure, it may be pretentious, but that's the point, and if you've got a problem with that, I will take you down, because we ain't exactly doin' thrill-seeker podcasts with “Born to Lose” tattoos on our chests. Heat (1995) d. Michael Mann Starring: Al Pacino Robert De Niro Val Kilmer Jon Voight Tom Sizemore Natalie Portman Ashley Judd Kevin Gage Hank Azaria Danny Trejo Henry Rollins AND Xander Berkeley as RALPH! Master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is trying to control the rogue actions of one of his men, while also planning one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna (Al Pacino) attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife (Diane Venora) and the mental health of his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman). McCauley and Hanna discover a mutual respect, even as they try to thwart each other's plans. Things discussed in the show: Zatoichi At First Sight (Irwin Winkler, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves) Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat) Dead Snow 2 Red vs. Dead (Tommy Wirkola, Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr) Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton) Idle Hand (Rodman Flender, Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox) Fatman (Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms, Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste) The Witches 2020 (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Roald Dahl, Guillermo del Toro) Return to Oz Zoroastrians Soul (Pixar, Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton) Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin) Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kyle MacLachlan, Paula Poundstone, Bobby Moynihan, Frank Oz, Flea) Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Zoë Kravitz) The Bechdel Test The Handmaiden's Tale (Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes) Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright) Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright) Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss) Wonder Woman and BDSM The Cleveland Steamer or The Chi-Chi Rodriguez Allen Moore The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 (French Revolution, Madame Guillotine & the Reign of Terror, Harold Young, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey) The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Looney Toons, Daffy Duck, Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese) Frank Miller's Batman The Godfather Part III (the re-edit, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Joe Mantegna, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola) The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) Bram Stoker's Dracula Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan) Adaptation (The Orchid Thief, Spike Jonze, Susan Orlean (book), Charlie Kaufman, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper) Rex Stout and his character Nero Wolfe Spike Jonze music videos: Yeah Yeah Yeah's - "Y-control," Fatboy Slim - "Weapon of Choice," Beastie Boys - "Sabotage" Her (Spike Jonze, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson) Where the Wild Things Are (Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin, Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book, Yippie movement and the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention The Murder of Fred Hampton The Hunger Games franchise (Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow) Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati) Willow Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore) Tombstone (Doc Holiday, George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton) Brian Eno Thief (Michael Mann, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson) Neil McCauley, a calculating criminal and ex-Alcatraz inmate and Detective Chuck Adamson met in real life for a coffee The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means) The Keep (Michael Mann, Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson) Miami Vice (Anthony Yerkovich, Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago) The Hays Code Moby Kevin Gage's stint in prison Alex Colville painting "Pacific" as inspiration for Heat scene Manhunter (Hannibal Lecter, The High Museum of Art, Michael Mann, William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen) MC Chris - "Half corn beef and cabbage. Half Fred Savage." Next week: The Princess Bride
This week on Total Movie Recall, two white guys talk about hip hop culture in a totally convincing way when they put on their mustard-colored overalls to go to the House Party. Steve, a sentient walking issue of Pitchfork, schools Ryan on the infinite subgenres of hip hop while Ryan, to no one's surprise, gets a little weepy at touching father-son relationships. House Party (1990) d. Reginald Hudlin Starring: Christopher Reid Robin Harris Christopher Martin Martin Lawrence Tisha Campbell-Martin A.J. Johnson George Clinton Kid decides to go to his friend Play's house party, but neither of them can predict what's in store for them on what could be the wildest night of their lives. Things discussed in the show: Martin Lawrence's Wikipedia page Billions (Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff) The Big Short (Adam McKay, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling) The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) Succession (Jesse Armstrong, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook) White Men Can't Jump Risk vs. Risk Legacy (board games) Diplomacy (game) Leah Remini Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The King of Queens (David Litt, Michael J. Weithorn, Kevin James, Leah Remini, Jerry Stiller) Paul Blart Mall Cop (Steve Carr, Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays) Oh No! Ross and Carrie podcast Reckless Ben and Scientology (YouTube) QAnon / Project Veritas LSD on the set of Titanic Kathleen Turner Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman) Sideways (Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen) Mystic Punks RPG (Exalted Funeral, Anthony Meloro) Hard Boiled (John Woo, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Teresa Mo) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Jack Dempsy Young Sherlock Holmes (Barry Levinson, Arthur Conan Doyle (characters), Chris Columbus, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Henry Winkler) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (George Lucas, Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Corey Carrier) Salt N' Pepa Bebe's Kids (Bruce W. Smith, Robin Harris (characters), Reginald Hudlin, Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Robin Harris) Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Arsenio Hall, Robin Harris) Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Robin Harris) I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas) Mo Better Blues (Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes) Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams) American Graffiti (Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Wolfman Jack, Harrison Ford) Cooley High (Michael Schultz, Eric Monte, Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris) Superbad (Greg Mottola, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse) Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, Milla Jovovich, Adam Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey) The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro) Die Hard (John McTiernan, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia) Kids (Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny) Mean Girls (Mark Waters, Rosalind Wiseman (book), Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams) Heathers Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Jerry Jones) Oliver Stone Adventures in Babysitting (Chris Columbus, David Simkins, Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan) The Christmas Chronicles (Clay Kaytis, Kurt Russell, Darby Camp, Judah Lewis) The history of hip hop Happy Rap, New Jack Swing, Gangsta Rap, The Golden Age of Hip Hop Afrika Bambaataa, N.W.A., Wu Tang Clan, LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, Biz Markie, Hieroglyphics, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, The Fat Boys New Jack City (Mario Van Peebles, Thomas Lee Wright, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne) High Fidelity The Boondocks (Aaron McGruder, Regina King, John Witherspoon, Gary Anthony Williams, Reginald Hudlin) Black Panther and Shuri Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio) Joe Meno Lebron James Shia LaBeouf Al Pacino Doctor Sleep (2019, Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran) Next week: Heat
This week on Total Movie Recall, the pressures of competing at a professional level with all the concussions, cocaine, infidelities, and painkillers almost make Steve request to be traded during the free agency period after he and Ryan bicker about Oliver Stone's divisive 1999 film, Any Given Sunday. Does Steve's complete lack of interest in professional sports bring this episode to a screeching halt? Yes. Can you tell who's writing these summaries yet? Probably. Any Given Sunday (1999) d. Oliver Stone Starring: Al Pacino Dennis Quaid Cameron Diaz James Woods Jamie Foxx LL Cool J Matthew Modine Jim Brown Lawrence Taylor Bill Bellamy Ann-Margret Aaron Eckhart Elizabeth Berkley Charlton Heston Four years ago, DAmato's (Al Pacino) Miami Sharks were at the top. Now, his team is struggling with three consecutive losses, sliding attendance, and aging heroes, particularly 39-year-old quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid). Off the field, DAmato is struggling with a failed marriage and estranged children, and is on a collision course with Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), the young president/co-owner of the Sharks organization. Things discussed in the show: Platoon (Oliver Stone, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Depp) Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Tommy Lee Jones) His House (Remi Weekes, Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba) Scarface The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall) People Under the Stairs Us (Jordan Peele, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss) Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Michael Kenneth Williams) Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Terry Crews, Rebel Wilson, Melissa McCarthy) The Most Dangerous Game 1932 (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks) Battle Royale The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, Stephen King, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto) Surviving the Game (Ernest R. Dickerson, Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton) Hard Target (John Woo, Chuck Pfarrer, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley) Wilford Brimley saving us from diabetes with oatmeal The Big Labowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro) Nikolai Gogol and Ukrainian Cossacks Goonies Scanners (David Cronenberg, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan) The Fly James Gunn Ben-Hur (William Wyler, Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Gore Vidal) The Planet of the Apes 1968 (Franklin J. Schaffner, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) The Omega Man (Boris Sagal, Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash) Barabbas 1961 (Richard Fleischer, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy) Testament of Solomon The Devils (Ken Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton) Apostle (Gareth Evans, Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Joss Whedon Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson) Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit (Bill Duke, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith) Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley) Gladiator (Ridley Scott, David Franzoni, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen) Spartacus Blood and Sand (Steven S. DeKnight, Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett) Rome (Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald, John Milius, Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker) Casino (Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles) Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco) Jack and Jill (Dennis Dugan, Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Dana Carvey, Shaquille O'Neal, Drew Carey) Angels in America (Mike Nichols, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson) Kevorkian (Matthew Galkin) Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater, Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Kristen Wiig) Bernie (Richard Linklater, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey) The Fountainhead Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin) Heathers Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton, Jane Austen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) Trick Daddy JFK (Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon) Nixon (Oliver Stone, Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe) James Bond GoldenEye (Martin Campbell, Ian Fleming, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio) Ray (Taylor Hackford, Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington) The Soloist (Joe Wright, Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener) Collateral (Michael Mann, Stuart Beattie, Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith) In Living Color (Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jim Carrey, Kelly Coffield Park, David Alan Grier, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, Tommy Davidson, Jamie Foxx, Damon Wayans, Jennifer Lopez) Football degenerates in the NFL UK football hooligans Fake teams in Any Given Sundays: Albuquerque Aztecs California Crusaders Chicago Rhinos Colorado Blizzard Dallas Knights Houston Cattlemen Kansas Twisters Los Angeles Breakers Miami Sharks Minnesota Americans New York Emperors Oregon Pioneers Orlando Crushers San Francisco Knights Seattle Prospects Texas Rattlers Washington Lumbermen Wisconsin Icemen Dan Marino Next week: House Party
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan discover that there's actually an antidote to getting punched really, really hard. The cultural divide proves too much for Ryan in this wild, fantastic, hallucinatory Kung Fu epic of many names. The story is incomprehensible, the fights are nonsensical, but Steve still finds it defensible, while Ryan finds the editing reprehensible. There's no reason for this rhyme. Kung Fu Cult Master (1993) d. Jing Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Starring: Jet Li Man Cheung Chingmy Yau Set during the Yuen Dynasty, many sects compete for possession of the two golden swords which contain the secret to dominance of the world of martial arts. The first faction, led by Shaolin, consists of Shaolin, Wu Tang, Ngo Mai, Kun Lun, Hung Tung and Wah Shan. The second is the Ming Sect, otherwise known as the Fire Sect or Evil Sect, led by branch leaders Queen of Purple Dragon, King of White Eagle, King of Gold Lion and King of Green Bat. A student of Wu Tang, befriends Gold Lion and marries the daughter of White Eagle. He is killed for the secret of the location of the missing sword. His infant son witnesses this and vows revenge on the heads of the sect. Unfortunately he has a jinx which prevents him from learning martial arts. Brian Rawnsley Things discussed in the show: Tom Clancy & Jack Ryan vs World War 3 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker) Wargames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Breakfast Club (John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy) The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy) Deutchland 83 (Anna Winger, Jörg Winger, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen) Operation Able Archer Wind of Change podcast (Patrick Radden Keefe, The Scorpions) Wong Kar-wai Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He) The Great Wall (Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe) American Factory (documentary, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke) Casino Royale (Texas Holdem, Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay), Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito) The Lookout (Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour) Godless (Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Scott Frank) Auteur Cinema The Witch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) The New Mutants (Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton) Love Actually (Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Leonard DiCaprio & Liam Hemsworth The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The Raid Redemption (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy) Kung Fu (NES video game) Double Dragon (video game) The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle) The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra) Apostle (Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Lovecraftian horror / Folk horror Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati) Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson) Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory) The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright) The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre The Shaw Brothers & Hong Kong Cinema Wu Tang Mountain Takashi Miike CINEphile Video Archive in Los Angeles (Shoutout to Paul!) Ghost Spy (Image Comics, Steve Albertson, Jacob Elijah aka Oh Oozi, Puppy Grenade) Tai Chi Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Siu-Ho Chin) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Dragon Ball Z ( Things discussed in the show: Tom Clancy & Jack Ryan vs World War 3 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker) Wargames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Breakfast Club (John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy) The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy) Deutchland 83 (Anna Winger, Jörg Winger, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen) Operation Able Archer Wind of Change podcast (Patrick Radden Keefe, The Scorpions) Wong Kar-wai Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He) The Great Wall (Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe) American Factory (documentary, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke) Casino Royale (Texas Holdem, Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay), Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito) The Lookout (Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour) Godless (Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Scott Frank) Auteur Cinema The Witch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) The New Mutants (Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton) Love Actually (Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Leonard DiCaprio & Liam Hemsworth The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The Raid Redemption (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy) Kung Fu (NES video game) Double Dragon (video game) The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle) The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra) Apostle (Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Lovecraftian horror / Folk horror Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati) Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson) Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory) The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright) The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre The Shaw Brothers & Hong Kong Cinema Wu Tang Mountain Takashi Miike CINEphile Video Archive in Los Angeles (Shoutout to Paul!) Ghost Spy (Image Comics, Steve Albertson, Jacob Elijah aka Oh Oozi, Puppy Grenade) Tai Chi Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Siu-Ho Chin) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Dragon Ball Z Game of Thrones (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Iain Glen, Gwendoline Christie) Chinese history The Evil Cult (Ming Dynasty) Quintin Tarantino Star Crossed Lovers The Golden Lion House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) Master of the Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu, Tien Wu Chu, Kang Chin) Crippled Masters (Chi Lo, Sung-Chuan Shen, Chao-Ming Kang, Chiu Ho) Riki Oh The Story of Ricky (Ngai Choi Lam, Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho) John Woo (director) Johnnie To (director) Exiled (Johnnie To, Nick Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng) Drug War (Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang) Dirty Gambler genre of Hong Kong crime cinema Jackie Chan Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris Willow vs. Wicket (Star Wars) vs. Leprechaun Mel Gibson vs. Cancel Culture Tom Cruise vs. Keith Raniere Zoroastrians (Persia) Cult of Mani (Manichaeism) - The Gospel of Mani aka the Book of Giants The Book of Enoch 300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham) Next week: Any Given Sunday
This week on Total Movie Recall, it's Steve's turn to not get it when Ryan forces him to snooze this way through the 1997 hambone, The Devil's Advocate. This movie has it all -- a grand guignol of sex, violence, operatic depictions of Hell and Satan, Keanu swinging and missing, Pacino putting his blood pressure medication to the test -- and yet, somehow, it's still boring! Please don't waste Steve's time with these faux-provocations. Show him something really controversial, like a basketball game. The Devil's Advocate (1997) d. Taylor Hackford Based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman Starring: Keanu Reeves Al Pacino Charlize Theron Jeffrey Jones Judith Ivey Connie Nielsen Craig T. Nelson Don King Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a high-powered position at a New York law firm headed by legal shark John Milton. As Kevin moves up in the firm's ranks, his wife, Mary Ann, has several frightening, mystical experiences that begin to warp her sense of reality. With the stakes getting higher with each case, Kevin quickly learns that his mentor is planning a far greater evil than simply winning without scruples. Things discussed in the show: Psychedelic horror Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache) Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren) Beaches (Garry Marshall, Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard) Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery) West Side Story 1960 (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer) West Side Story 2021 (Steven Spielberg, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose) The political divide: Boogaloo boys & Antifa making out Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo) Natalie Wood's mysterious death Step Brothers and the Catalina Island wine mixer (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen) Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, William Shakespeare, Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo) The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton) Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo) Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter) Tromio and Juliet (Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn, Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Valentine Miele, Sean Gunn, Lemmy of Motorhead) My So Called Life (Winnie Holzman, Bess Armstrong, Wilson Cruz, Claire Danes, Jared Leto) This iconic photo of Monica Bellucci and Leonardo DiCaprio O (Othello, Tim Blake Nelson, William Shakespeare, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, Martin Sheen) Titus (Julie Taymor, William Shakespeare, Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Osheen Jones) Raised By Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Ridley Scott) The Great Deluge & Nephilim The Book of Enoch Noah (Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins) Barabbas 1961 (Richard Fleischer, Christopher Fry (screenplay), Pär Lagerkvist (novel), Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Noelle Stevenson, Aimee Carrero, Marcus Scribner, Karen Fukuhara, Keston John) The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Seduced Inside the NXIVM Cult (Jaclyn Cangro, Tabitha Chapman, Steve Hassan, India Oxenberg) Apocalypse Now – Redux (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall) Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando) Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (Taylor Hackford, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Etta James, John Lennon) Ray (Taylor Hackford, Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington) Blood In, Blood Out (Taylor Hackford, Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt) Angel Heart (Alan Parker, Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet) The Wire (David Simon, Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn) Pedophilia in Hollywood yet again Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon) V.C. Andrews Villains based on Trump Home Alone 2 Lost in New York (Chris Columbus, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) Free will and time travel and the butterfly effect Sliders (Tracy Tormé, Robert K. Weiss, Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, John Rhys-Davies) Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, Jet Li) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) John Woo Double Impact (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alonna Shaw) Black Mask (Daniel Lee, Jet Li, Ching Wan Lau, Karen Mok) Knock Off (Hark Tsui, Steven E. de Souza, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon) Next week: Kung Fu Cult Master
This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan gets his hipster comedy credentials revoked after Steve makes him pay $3.99 to watch the 1994 not-so-classic comedy, Cabin Boy. Ryan simply cannot understand the cache this movie has in the “alt-comedy” world, or as he likes to call it, the “non-comedy” world (now that's funny!). Steve would explain it, but you just, like, don't get it man. Cabin Boy (1994) d. Adam Resnick Starring: Chris Elliott Ritch Brinkley James Gammon Brian Doyle-Murray Brion James Melora Walters David Letterman Andy Richter Ricki Lake Nathanial Mayweather is a spoiled rich kid whose plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire, finding him lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors. When his crusty cabin mates get a whiff of his highfalutin attitude, they give him every rotten chore on the boat -- and take him on an absurdist adventure through Hell's Bucket! Things discussed in the show: Will Farrell It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito) Late Night with David Letterman Klonopin and coffee or Codeine and syrup The dumb politics of 2020: QAnon and conspiracy nonsense Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard) Apocalypse Now - "The Final Cut" (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall) George Lucas constantly meddling with old Star Wars films Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young) Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando) Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger) Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro) Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio) Democracy in Chicago While We're Young (Noah Baumbach, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver) The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech) Bug (William Friedkin, Tracy Letts, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.) Tangerine (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian) The Florida Project (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe) Kubrick v. Akira Kurisawa v. Jodorowski v. Scorsese David Byrne's lyrics Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer) Brick (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin) 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston) Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato) Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper) Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero, Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts) The Pest (Paul Miller, John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Freddy Rodríguez) The Walking Dead (Frank Darabont, Angela Kang, Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride) Monkey Shines (George A. Romero, Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil) The Great (Tony McNamara, Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox) Werner Herzog and finding the deeper truth in documentary The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage) Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog) The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves) Se7en (David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey) Mr. Beast, Twitch streamers, mystery boxes from the dark web Dybbuk box Star Trek's utopia The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Noelle Stevenson, Aimee Carrero, Marcus Scribner, Karen Fukuhara, Keston John) Lumberjanes Conflict in scenes through love not anger Steven Universe (Rebecca Sugar, Zach Callison, Deedee Magno, Michaela Dietz) Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton) Buffy the Vamire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan) Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima) Dungeons & Dragons Gummi Bears Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber) Janusz Kaminski Get a Life (Chris Elliott, David Mirkin, Adam Resnick, Bob Elliott, Robin Riker) Bob Odenkirk Married... With Children (Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye, Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal, David Faustino) Tim Burton Death to Smoochie (Danny DeVito, Adam Resnick, Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener) Terry Gilliam / Monty Python animation Absurdist, Surrealist dreamscapes Home Improvement (Carmen Finestra, David McFadzean, Matt Williams, Tim Allen, Earl Hindman, Taran Noah Smith, Jonathan Taylor Thomas) Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries) The Naked Gun (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson) Black Sheep (Penelope Spheeris, Fred Wolf, Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson) There's Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Nathan Juran, Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Ray Harryhausen) A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès) Handsome Boy Modeling School (Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Róisín Murphy (of Moloko), Del the Funky Homosapien, J-Live, Sean Lennon, Miho Hatori (of Cibo Matto), Mike D (of the Beastie Boys) and Don Novello (as Father Guido Sarducci) Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Ian Black, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper) Mr. Show with Bob and David (David Cross, Bob Odenkirk) Next week: The Devil's Advocate
This week on the Total Movie Recall Holiday Special, Steve and Ryan visit the mopey, gothy early 90s when Generation X looked to the high school Gloom King Tim Burton to express their so dark vision of Christmas. Stop motion animation is such a labor intensive craft that creates beautiful visions that aren't all that interesting, which is going to enrage a bunch of high school Wiccans that love this movie. It does look great, though. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) d. Henry Selick Starring: Danny Elfman Chris Sarandon Catherine O'Hara William Hickey Paul Reubens The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry. Things discussed in the show: Babe Pig in the City Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton) Dark Shadows (Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green) Dumbo 2019 (Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito) Beetlejuice 2 Yule logs, holiday presents and the Krampus Saturn and Jupiter aligning in 2020 Supernatural's final season (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins) Armageddon and kaijus X-Files (Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi) power ranking Young Sheldon episodes Mom (Allison Janney, Anna Faris, Mimi Kennedy) The internet turning on Chris Pratt Johnny Depp & Amanda Heard drama The Straight Story (David Lynch, John Roach, Mary Sweeney, Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz) Tom Cruise freaking out on staff not adhering to covid restrictions and Scientology Mission Impossible 7 (Christopher McQuarrie, Vanessa Kirby, Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell) Mission Impossible Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames) The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams) Mission Impossible 3 (J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames) South Park - The Pandemic Special Cyberpunk 2077 Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis) The Mandolorian Season 2 (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, Temuera Morrison, Amy Sedaris, Bill Burr) Kathleen Kennedy Star Wars - The Clone Wars (George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter) Star Wars - Rebels (Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall) Ahsoka Tano Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache) James Cameron's Avatar films The Town (Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon) Jean-Pierre Melville No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin) Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell) Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya) The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor) Fargo season 4 (Noah Hawley, Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston) MacBeth 2021 (Joel Coen, William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson) The Naked Man (J. Todd Anderson, Ethan Coen, Michael Rapaport, Michael Jeter, John Carroll Lynch) Black Mirror - Nosebleed Season 3, Episode 1 (Michael Schur, Rashida Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve) Chinese social credit Community Meow-Meow Beans - App Development and Condiments - Season 5, Episode 8 (Rob Schrab, Yvette Nicole Brown, Joel McHale, Jim Rash, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Ken Jeong, Jonathan Banks, Steve Agee, Brian Posehn, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim) Disneyland during Covid Oingo Boingo - "Little Girls" video Cab Calloway The Jungle Book (Disney, Wolfgang Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima) Stop Motion Animation Goth Girls and the mall Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest) Frankenweenie (Tim Burton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short) Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, Linda Woolverton, Lewis Carroll, Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter) German Expressionism The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, Roald Dahl, John August, Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly) Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson) Big Fish (Tim Burton, Daniel Wallace, John August, Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup) Sweeny Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, John Logan, Hugh Wheeler, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman) Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton) Ed Wood (Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker) Batman (Tim Burton, Bob Kane, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Tim Burton, Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson) The Holiday Movies the Made Us Ray Harrihausen Frosty the Snowman (Jackie Vernon, Billy De Wolfe, Jimmy Durante) Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman, Gene Cunningham, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Virginia Rose, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman) Batman Returns (Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer) Necromancy reindeer Slenderman & Creepy Pasta Beware the Slenderman documentary - the story of two 12-year old girls, who attempted to sacrifice one of their friends to Slenderman in a rutal attack American Gods (Neil Gaiman) The Satanic Panic The Slender Man Movie (Sylvain White, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair) Bad Luck Brian Next week: Cabin Boy
This week on Total Movie Recall, things get grim and a little too close to 2020 reality for comfort. Definitely don't watch this movie if you're fresh out of rehab, which Ryan can tell you all about. The future is bleak, but if it's also as ruggedly handsome as Clive Owen is and has the greatest single-take of all time, it might not be so bad. This is also one of the greatest movies of all time, just to be clear about it. Children of Men (2006) d. Alfonso Cuarón Starring: Clive Owen Julianne Moore Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Caine Clare-Hope Ashitey Charlie Hunnam When infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) becomes the unlikely champion in the fight for the survival of Earth's population; He must face down his own demons and protect the planet's last remaining hope from danger. Things discussed in the show: Y Tu Mamá También (Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho) A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuarón, Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Rudy Giuliani) Impractical Jokers The Movie (Chris Henchy, Paula Abdul, Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn, Sal Vulcano) Bad Trip (Kitao Sakurai, Eric André, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish) Jackass The Movie (Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Spike Jonze, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña) Ali G Indahouse (Mark Mylod, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dan Mazer, Emilio Rivera, Gina La Piana) Brüno (Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale) Jimmy Kimmel and Borat The Yes Men (Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Andreas Bichlbauer, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Chris Smith) Who Is America? (Sacha Baron Cohen, Roy Elghanayan, Emanuela Postacchini) Topnotch Idiots - YouTube Dr. Sleep (Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran) The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers) Supernatural (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard, Mark Pellegrino) The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas) The Haunting of Bly Manor (Mike Flanagan, Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve) The Conjuring (James Wan, Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston) Slimer Scream (Wes Craven, Kevin Williamson, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy) Blair Witch - 2016 (Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid) The Guest (Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe) The Blair Witch Project Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, Drew Goddard, Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan) REC (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano) The VVitch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) The Witches - 1990 (Nicolas Roeg, Roald Dahl (book), Allan Scott (screenplay), Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher) The Witches - 2020 (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci) The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Colin Higgins, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise) Anjelica Huston vs. Anne Hathaway Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell) Taking of Pellam 123 - 1974 (Joseph Sargent, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam) Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer) Money Train (Joseph Ruben, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez) Zombeavers (Jordan Rubin, Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins) Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey) Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón, Charles Dickens (novel), Mitch Glazer (screenplay), Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria) The Possibility of Hope (documentary, overpopulation, climate change, the rise of fascist powers, Fabrizio Eva, John Gray, Naomi Klein) Avengers Endgame (The Thanos Snap, Josh Brolin, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chadwick Boseman, Brie Larson, Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Jon Favreau, Natalie Portman, Jon Favreau, Taika Waititi) Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris) Die Hard (John McTiernan, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia) Allegories to the Virgin Mary The Christmas Truce of WWI Thriller Franz Kafka The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Billy on the Street with Julianne Moore (Billy Eichner) The Murder of Fred Hampton Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan) “There's no such thing as an anti-war film,” is a quote often attributed to the late French filmmaker François Truffaut. American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner) Next week: Cabin Boy
This week on Total Movie Recall, our bodies go through some changes that we don't know how to deal with as we take in a John Landis double feature with Thriller & An American Werewolf in London. We really just need somebody to talk to about it. What's that, Dad? You're busy? Okay, I'll just go on the internet and learn some deeply ingrained, problematic attitudes about Michael Jackson, Nazi monsters and Van Morrison tantric sex cults. d. John Landis Special Effects: Rick Baker The Making of Thriller (1983) Starring: Michael Jackson Ola Ray Vincent Price The Making of “Thriller” is a behind the scenes look at the King of Pop and his groundbreaking and Grammy award-winning video. An American Werewolf in London (1981) Starring: David Naughton Jenny Agutter Griffin Dunne John Woodvine David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he's plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns David that he is becoming a werewolf. When David discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast. Things discussed in the show: The Reagan '80s Leaving Neverland (Dan Reed, Wade Robson and James Safechuck) Brazil's love of Michael Jackson Tom Petty - "Mary Jane's Last Dance" Social media grief poachers Kurt Cobain's death (Nirvana) C+C Music Factory Wahlburgers (Paul Wahlberg, Donnie Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg) Corey Feldman and Macaulay Culkin's relationship with Michael Jackson Bubbles Movie cancelled (The Black List) Jackson family: Joe Jackson (father) Katherine Jackson (mother) Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Jackson (b. May 29, 1950) Sigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson (b. May 4, 1951) Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson (b. October 15, 1953) Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (b. December 11, 1954) LaToya Yvonne Jackson (b. May 29, 1956) Marlon David Jackson (b. March 12, 1957) Brandon David Jackson (March 12, 1957 – March 12, 1957); 2 months premature Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) Steven Randall "Randy" Jackson (b. October 29, 1961) Janet Damita Jo Jackson (b. May 16, 1966) Joh'Vonnie Jackson (b. August 30, 1974) Gary, Indiana Motown Fantasia (Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse) Most expensive music videos: Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson - "Scream" & "Black & White" / Madonna / Guns & Roses - "November Rain" Roger Corman U2 The Pizza Underground Moldy Peaches (Adam Green & Kimya Dawson) Adam Green's Aladdin (Adam Green, Jon Wiley, Michael Cummings, Yasmin Green, Natasha Lyonne, Har Mar Superstar, Macaulay Culkin, Zoë Kravitz, Regina Spektor) West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Ernest Lehman, Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer) James Kochalka Superstar - "Show Respect for Michael Jackson" Dance in pop music: Arianna Grande, Cardi B - "WAP," Lady Gaga The Chiodo Brothers did the titles for Thriller The Crow (Alex Proyas, James O'Barr, Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, David Patrick Kelly) Helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone The Movie Twilight Zone The Movie (Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven Spielberg, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Larroquette, Scatman Crothers, John Lithgow) Eddie Murphey won't work with John Landis Trading Places (John Landis, Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod, Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy) Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton) Marlin Brando traumatizing an actress with butter Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi ) Planet of the Apes - 1968 (Franklin J. Schaffner, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) Leprechaun Butthole Surfers Weird Al Yankovic - "Eat It" - "Fat" Superbowl Halftime shows with Michael Jackson, Prince and Janet Jackson Franz Liszt Beach Boys Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice Slayer and Pantera are just as hard as Elton John Blue Moon (song) The oldies station. Nirvana, Ice Cube and Wu Tang Clan are grandpa music. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult How Spotify algorithmic playlists work The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano) Scarface and Blondie Waukegan, IL celebrities Ray Bradbury & Jack Benny Martian Chronicles & Something Wicked This Way Comes Homeboy Sandman Jehovah's Witnesses Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, Gordan Mihic, Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Branka Katic) Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, Gordan Mihic, Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic) Yugoslavian werewolves Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby) The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd, John Landis, John Belushi, Cab Calloway) Three Amigos! (Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, John Landis, Chevy Chase, Martin Short) Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, Karen Walton, Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche) Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen) Bridgette Bardot The Slaughtered Lamb Pub Wuthering Heights Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, David Zelag Goodman, Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan) Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, Irvine Welsh, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller) H.P. Lovecraft & Stephen King Castlevania 2 Simon's Curse - "What a horrible night to have a curse" "See You Next Wednesday" the fake porno Lycanthropy in Dungeons & Dragons - werebears, werecats, wererats Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen) The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, Angela Carter, Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner) The Muppet Show (Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Jack Burns) Nazi Werewolves & Vampires Seinfeld (Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Wayne Knight, Jerry Stiller) Grindhouse Werewolf Women of the S.S. trailer (Rob Zombie, Udo Kier, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tom Towles, Sybil Danning, Bill Moseley, Nicolas Cage) Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Eric Kurlander) Overlord (Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier) Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan) Tantric cults Noam Chomsky After Hours (Martin Scorsese, Joseph Minion, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom) Princess Diana Van Morrison - "Moondance" One Irish Rover - Van Morrison documentary Dumpster Diving for VHS The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan) Star Trek The Next Generation (Gene Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton) The Big Labowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid) Barely Legal Corrupted Wolverine's adamantine foreskin Next week: Children of Men
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve holds Ryan's hair back while he cries and dry heaves and rocks back and forth like his cat just died, because there has never been a movie more perfectly designed to make him cry like The Sixth Sense. Misunderstood children? Check. Put-upon mothers just trying their best? Check. An exasperated but committed psychologist just trying to figure out how to reach this kid? Double check. Get your tissues for this one. The Sixth Sense (1999) d. M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Bruce Willis Haley Joel Osment Toni Collette Donnie Wahlberg Mischa Barton Young Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe. As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something unexplainable. Things discussed in the show: PEN15 season 2 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) YouTube prank channels Aokigahara, the Japanese suicide forest Bloody Mary Minecraft Heathers Unspooled Podcast Mean Girls (Mark Waters, Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams ) Donnie Darko Big Mouth (Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Jordan Peele, Jenny Slate) Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Ridley Scott, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim) Cult of Apollo, Ra and other sun gods Warhammer 40k and the God Emperor Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan) Sunshine (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans) Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey Heavy Metal magazine Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich) German Expressionism The Boys season 2 (Garth Ennis, Eric Kripke, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie) Radicalized shooters (Kyle Rittenhouse, Dylann Roof) Utopia (Gillian Flynn, John Cusack, Ashleigh LaThrop, Dan Byrd, Desmin Borges, Christopher Denham, Javon 'Wanna' Walton, Farrah Mackenzie Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) Ulysees' Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos) Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman) Losing and gaining weight as an actor (Kumail Nanjiani) Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci) Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange) White Men Can't Jump Armageddon (Michael Bay, J.J. Abrams, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson) Child psychology and ghosts What's more scary, basements or attics Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Hogan) Home Alone Cask of the Amontillado (Edgar Allen Poe) The Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison) Alfred Hitchcock Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter) Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale) Knives Out (Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer) The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers) Paste Magazine DJ Bruce Willis and his band Bruno Jon Spencer Blues Explosion The Rolling Stones Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin) Moonlighting (Glenn Gordon Caron, Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley) Die Hard (John McTiernan, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia) The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry) Sin City (Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Rutger Hauer, Brittany Murphy, Nick Offerman, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood) The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Charisma Carpenter, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke) South Park Quarantine Special - Mickey Mouse has sex with a bat Questlove of The Roots Michael Cera James Newton Howard soundtrack Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf) The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson) Dr. Sleep (Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran) Get this ghost gone: Jacob Marley (A Christmas Carol) Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) Slimer (Ghostbusters) Casper the Friendly Ghost vs. John Wayne Gacy Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) Large Marge (Pee-wee's Big Adventure) The Booberries Ghost vs. Count Chocula Jesus as a ghost (Luke 24:36-51) Ghost (Jerry Zucker, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg) Stir of Echos (David Koepp, Kevin Bacon, Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe) Blair Witch Project Next week: Thriller & American Werewolf in London
This week on Total Movie Recall, we acknowledge that The Wizard of Oz is, yes, a classic. However, it's missing a certain je ne sais quoi, and we try to put our fingers on exactly what it needed. We conclude that classic, whimsical children's film needed more childhood lobotomy, forced imprisonment, Queens pulling their own heads off, and Veruca Salt. Or Fairuza Balk? Potato potato. Return to Oz (1985) d. Walter Murch Based on books by L. Frank Baum Starring: Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Nicol Williamson as the Nome King Jean Marsh as Mombi Piper Laurie as Aunt Em Brian Henson as Jack Pumpkinhead Dorothy discovers she is back in the land of Oz, and finds the yellow brick road is now a pile of rubble, and the Emerald City is in ruins. Discovering that the magical land is now under the control of an evil empire, she sets off to rescue the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion with the help of her new friends. Things discussed in the show: Electroshock Therapy / Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) The Willies - Labyrinth - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Tik-Tok of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Ozma of Oz PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte) Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts) Is the expression "call a spade a spade" racist? Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde Superbad (Greg Mottola, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader) Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Ridley Scott, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim) Dune - 1984 (David Lynch, Frank Herbert, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis, Sting, Dean Stockwell) Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride) American Murder: The Family Next Door (Jenny Popplewell) Lifetime made for TV movies 8 Inch Betsy - The Mean Days Army Wives (Katherine Fugate, Brian McNamara, Wendy Davis, Catherine Bell, Sterling K. Brown, Terry Serpico, Sally Pressman, Kim Delaney, Drew Fuller) Unsolved Mysteries Rescue 911 (William Shatner, David Teschendorf, Gene Babb) Last Podcast on the Left (Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski) My Favorite Murder (podcast, Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark) Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Paradise Lost 2: Revelations Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory How The Satanic Panic and the novel Michelle Remembers ruined lives. Siskel and Ebert hated this movie The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton) Flying Monkeys Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder, Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish) Veruca Salt Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, Roald Dahl, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum) The Waterboy (Frank Coraci, Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Clint Howard, Rob Schneider) The Craft (Andrew Fleming, Peter Filardi, Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, Ken Kesey, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson) Frankenstein (James Whale, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff) PTSD, Soldier's Heart, Shell Shock Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley Invasion of the Triffids / Day of the Triffids (Steve Sekely, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, killer plants) White Fang (Randal Kleiser, Jack London, Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Bill Moseley) George Lucas The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton) The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton) The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Diane Keaton, Joe Mantegna, Talia Shire, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola) Apocalypse Now (John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper) Star Wars Clone Wars S4/E8 - "The General" (James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Fennoy) Alice in Wonderland Commando (Mark L. Lester, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke) DMT (drug) Punk archetypes (Rocksteady and Beebop, punks in the Toxic Avenger, Oingo Boingo, Sex Pistols) Uncanny Valley Se7en (David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Rainbow Slayer - Reign in Blood Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf) Pantera - Cowboys from Hell Joel Silver Pumkinhead (Stan Winston, Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D'Aquino) Excalibur (John Boorman, Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart) James Earl Jones Garden Gnome Amelie Alchemical Elemental beings (Gnomes, Sylphs, Salamanders, Udines) Eastbound and Down (Ben Best, Jody Hill, Danny McBride, Steve Little, Katy Mixon) Joseph Campbell The Ramones - "Psycho Therapy" & "Teenage Lobotomy" Dexter (James Manos Jr., Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas) American Horror Story (Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Denis O'Hare) Babe Pig in the City Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi, James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi) Next week: The Sixth Sense
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan wonder why kids are scared of the stupidest boogeymen. The Leprechaun haunted Ryan for his entire childhood, waiting in dark corners, making it unable for him to pee in the middle of the night. If only he had watched the movie when he was seven years old, and seen how stupid, unscary, unwitty, and half-assed this boring, lazy movie is, he wouldn't have wasted another second being scared. The Leprechaun can't even be bothered to turn limericks into dirty rhymes. Nantucket! It rhymes itself! Leprechaun (1993) d. Mark Jones Starring: Warwick Davis Jennifer Aniston Ken Olandt Dan O'Grady steals 100 gold coins from a leprechaun while on vacation in Ireland. The leprechaun follows him home, but Dan locks the him in a crate, held at bay by a four-leaf clover. Ten years later, J.D. Redding and his daughter, Tory, rent O'Grady's property for the summer. When their new neighbors accidentally release the leprechaun, he goes on a murderous rampage to reclaim his gold. Things discussed in the show: The words "Cop Salon" sounds better than "Cellar Door" Donnie Darko Tolkien (Dome Karukoski, David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford, Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney) The difference between New Mexico, North Dakota and Los Angeles, California Badlands (Terrence Malick, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates) Carrie (Brian De Palma, Stephen King (novel), Lawrence D. Cohen, Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving) Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted, Thomas Rickman, Loretta Lynn, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm) The Invisible Man (#metoo, Leigh Whannell, Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer) The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim, Mark Vicente) Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Lisa Bryant, Michael Reiter, Annie Farmer, Shawna Rivera) Scientology vs. NXIVM Jonestown and Jim Jones Justin Beiber and Kanye West leading the next wave of sexy young Christians Cobra Kai season 2 (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Josh Heald, William Zabka, Tanner Buchanan, Mary Mouser, Ralph Macchio, Jacob Bertrand, Xolo Maridueña, Courtney Henggeler) The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, Robert Mark Kamen, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue) Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young) Last of Us (Bruce Straley, Neil Druckmann, Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Hana Hayes) Krav Maga vs. MMA vs. Shotokan Karate vs. Boxing vs. Muay Thai Avatar The Last Airbender (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy) ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford) The Boys (Garth Ennis, Eric Kripke, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie) Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Michael Kenneth Williams) Sundown Towns Ratched (Ryan Murphy, Evan Romansky, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Ken Kesey, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito) Nip/Tuck (Ryan Murphy, Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson) Glee (Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Lea Michele, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison) American Horror Story (Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Denis O'Hare) Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell) Q&A (Sidney Lumet, Edwin Torres (book), Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante) Nick Nolte / Gary Busey Impractical Jokers Joe Bob Briggs at the Drive-in and Monstervision The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, David Mamet, Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden) Dog Day Afternoon (Frank Pierson, Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen) Serpico (Sidney Lumet, Peter Maas (book), Waldo Salt (screenplay), Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe) Rumpelstiltskin (Mark Jones, Joe Ruby, Max Grodénchik, John Ducey, Kim Johnston Ulrich) Child's Play (Tom Holland, Don Mancini, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Chucky) My Buddy doll Killer Klowns From Outer Space Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare (Rachel Talalay, Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt) Tremors (Ron Underwood, Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter) Leprechaun 2 (Rodman Flender, Warwick Davis, Charlie Heath, Shevonne Durkin) Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet) Leprechaun 4 in Space (Brian Trenchard-Smith, Warwick Davis, Brent Jasmer, Jessica Collins) Leprechaun 5 in the Hood (Rob Spera, Warwick Davis, Ice-T, Anthony Montgomery) Roger Corman Troma Entertainment Transmorphers (Leigh Scott, Matthew Wolf, Amy Weber, Shaley Scott) Friends (David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer) Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) Dan Quayle U2 The I.R.A. (Irish Republican Army) Lucky Charms The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker) Four Leaf Clovers and fairy folk Next week: The Return to Oz
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan put on their codpieces and fret over the innocence of teenage girls around David Bowie. Don't get us wrong, we love this movie, but why does this charming children's tale have a character named after the part of the anatomy responsible for transporting sperm? And why do so many sequences resemble sperm? And if all of these things are symbols for sperm, what does the Bog of Eternal Stench represent? We shudder to think… Labyrinth (1986) d. Jim Henson w. Terry Jones Starring David Bowie Jennifer Connelly Brian Henson Shari Weiser Brian Froud hundreds of puppeteers Teenage Sarah journeys through a maze to recover her baby brother from a goblin king in this '80s coming-of-age fairy tale. Things discussed in the show: The Little Mermaid (Disney, Ursula, Ron Clements, John Musker, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois) Babylon Berlin - Season 3 (Art deco, morphine abuse, noir, Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch) Dark (Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari) Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan) Zoomer attention spans The Devil all the Time (Antonio Campos, Donald Ray Pollock, Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland) Saw (James Wan, Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover) Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel) Children of the Corn Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Steven Zaillian, Charles Brandt, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin) Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki) Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper) Covid 19 talk The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker) Saved By the Bell (Sam Bobrick, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies, Dennis Haskins, Tiffani Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley) The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski, Davis Coombe, Vickie Curtis, Tristan Harris, Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson) Rabbit Hole podcast (Kevin Roose) The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano) The Terminator & Skynet (James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton) Reply All QAnon episode #166 "Country of Liars" PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) Fraggle Rock and the social contract between Fraggle and Dozer (Jim Henson, Karen Prell, Gerard Parkes, Kathryn Mullen) Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin, Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Queen) Flesh Gordon (Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm, Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins) Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheetleaders (Howard Ziehm, Vince Murdocco, Robyn Kelly, Tony Travis) The Muppet Show (Jim Henson, Jack Burns, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz) Mia Sara Return to Oz was directed by Walter Murch (Gill Dennis, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Brian Henson) The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri) Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) The Phantom of the Opera Evita (Tim Rice, Alan Parker, Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas) H.P. Lovecraft / The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers & Carcosa True Detective season one (Nic Pizzolatto, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, Tory Kittles) Teenage girls protecting their virginity at all costs Matthew 18:3 - “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." The Bog of Eternal Stench The maiden, the mother & the crone Michael Jackson was up for the role of the Goblin King Phil Collins Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel, Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger) The helping hands Surrealist film Beauty and the Beast (1946) (Jean Cocteau, René Clément, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély) Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta Stevie Nicks' fashion The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars Iggy Pop and The Stooges / Steve's theory that Bowie ruined Iggy Pop Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, James Lyons, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale) Pinocchio Grimms' Fairy Tales The Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell) Dungeon's and Dragons Xenomorph M.C. Escher Crossroads demons and Robert Johnson The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz, David Odell, Kathryn Mullen) Next Week: Leprechaun
This week on Total Movie Recall, the age of innocence is over, and somehow what was supposed to be a fun episode about a trashy, campy, forgotten 90s horror movie becomes a despairing yawp into the empty air about the power structures that let abusive, predatory men get away with everything. Don't worry, we still find time to talk about the golden age of Nickelodeon and this awful, awful movie. The Willies (1990) d. Brian Peck (convicted child sex offender) Starring Sean Astin Jason Horst Joshua John Miller Bill Erwin Doug Benson Kimmy Robertson Kathleen Freeman Michael Bower Kirk Cameron Things discussed in the show: Pedophilia in Hollywood The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa) Leonardo DiCaprio with Brian Peck in 1991 on the set of Growing Pains An Open Secret (documentary) Qanon, The Clintons, Trump & Jeffery Epstein Casting couches, Boy Scouts & the Catholic Church Hollywood Babylon Charlie Chaplin's child bride Bryan Singer and Brian Peck Kevin Spacey My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys - the film accuses Charlie Sheen of sexually abusing Corey Haim Charlie Sheen and Brian Peck Different Strokes molester episode Victor Salva (convicted child sex offender), director of Powder and the Jeepers Creepers franchise Nickelodeon: Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Solute Your Shorts (Donkey Lips), Weird Tales / the Shaver Mysteries Stand by Me's pie eating contest Fat shaming Next week: Labyrinth
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan offend approximately 1/7th of the world's population, which has historically gone very well. Ryan's love of fairy tale settings don't truck with Steve, who favors Disney's gritty, street-level crime drama Aladdin. Ryan gets vulnerable about the deterioration of his mental health in this dumpster fire world we have, and Steve, ever a good man and a good friend, reaches out. We encourage you to reach out too. Because everything sucks right now, and you need to connect with your fellow humans to survive. Also, this is the worst Disney princess ever. Aladdin (1992) - Disney d. Ron Clements, John Musker Starring: Scott Weinger Robin Williams Linda Larkin Jonathan Freeman Gilbert Gottfried When street rat Aladdin frees a genie from a lamp, he finds his wishes granted. However, he soon finds that the evil has other plans for the lamp -- and for Princess Jasmine. But can Aladdin save Princess Jasmine and his love for her after she sees that he isn't quite what he appears to be? Things discussed in the show: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Vice documentary) 1,001 Arabian Nights (book) Freund, Yung and The Godhead The Kenosha shooting Crawl (Alexandre Aja, Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen, Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Sam Raimi) The Hills Have Eyes - 2006 (Alexandre Aja, Wes Craven, Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd) The Hills Have Eyes - 1977 (Wes Craven, Suze Lanier-Bramlett, Robert Houston, Martin Speer) High Tension (Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, Cécile de France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon) Jaws (Steven Spielberg, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss) What is genius? The Founder (McDonald's, John Lee Hancock, Robert Siegel, Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch) The Social Network (David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin (screenplay), Ben Mezrich (book), Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake) The Last Dance (The Chicago Bulls, Jason Hehir, Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, David Aldridge, Scottie Pippen, John Paxson, Bill Wennington, B.J. Armstrong, Dennis Rodman, Bill Cartwright, Horace Grant, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Barack Obama, Carmen Electra) The Sandlot Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin (screenplay), Walter Isaacson (book), Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels) Silicon Valley (John Altschuler, Mike Judge, Dave Krinsky, Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Josh Brener, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, Amanda Crew, Zach Woods) Babylon Berlin (Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch) Cabaret (Bob Fosse, Joe Masteroff, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem) The Devil and Daniel Johnston Wesley Willis - "Rock n Roll McDonald's Slapshot (George Roy Hill, Nancy Dowd, Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin) Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (video game, Super Nintendo, Super NES) Harley Quinn (DC Comics, The Joker, Poison Ivy, Arkham Asylum, Bane, Legion of Doom, Batman, Commissioner Gordon, Robin, Clayface, King Shark, Justin Halpern, Dean Lorey, Patrick Schumacker, Kaley Cuoco, Lake Bell, Alan Tudyk) Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan, Christina Hodson, Paul Dini, Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett, Ewan McGregor, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong) The Tick - 1994 (Ben Edlund, Townsend Coleman, Micky Dolenz, Rob Paulsen) The Venture Bros. (Christopher McCulloch, James Urbaniak, Doc Hammer) Batman: the Animated Series (Bob Kane, Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm, Kevin Conroy, Loren Lester, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois) Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti) The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones) The Fox and the Hound (Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey) The Rescuers (John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page) The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, James Algar, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima) Bluebeard's Wives Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (William Cottrell, David Hand, Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne) Ratatouille (Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt) Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried) Toy Story (John Lasseter, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Genie impressions (Ed Sullivan, Arsenio Hall, Peter Lorre, Groucho Marx, Robert De Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson) Next week: The Willies
This week on Total Movie Recall, one man's fun trash is another man's not-fun trash. Steve gets typically indignant at Ryan's casual, cruel dismissal of somebody's labor of love, and Ryan reaches heretofore unplumbed depths of his warped psyche, exploring the lingering effects of watching movies like Killer Klowns at too tender of an age. This is what happens when a little boy lets teenage girls bully him into watching movies. Ryan's therapist has her work cut out for her this week. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) d. Stephen Chiodo w. Charles Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo, Edward Chiodo Starring: Grant Cramer Suzanne Snyder John Allen Nelson John Vernon When teenagers Mike (Grant Cramer) and Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) see a comet crash outside their sleepy small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns. They try to warn the local authorities, but everyone assumes their story is a prank. Meanwhile, the clowns set about harvesting and eating as many people as they can. It's not until they kidnap Debbie that Mike decides it's up to him to stop the clowns' bloody rampage. Things discussed in the show: Coulrophobia - The fear of clowns (Agoraphobia, Anablephobia, Triskaidekaphobia) John Wayne Gacy / Pogo the Clown Spawn and The Violator (Image Comics) King Missile (John S. Hall) - The Leather Clown Police Story (Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin) Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong, Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip) Drunken Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jang-Lee Hwang) The Toxic Avengers (Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist) Flock of Seagulls & The Cure hair doos The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa) Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams) Dave Made a Maze (Bill Watterson, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch) Primer (Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden) Doctor Who and The TARDIS Videodrome (David Cronenberg, James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits) Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais) Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard) Epic Levels - Dungeons & Dragons music The Sopranos (David Chase, James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Steven Van Zandt, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tony Sirico) Schitt's Creek (Dan Levy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy, Chris Elliott) Perry Mason (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones, Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, John Lithgow, Lili Taylor) Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult Bad Boys for Life (Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens) Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Abbey Lee, Jamie Chung, Jada Harris, Michael Kenneth Williams) Bozo the Clown Flowers in the Attic (Jeffrey Bloom, Virginia C. Andrews, Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson) Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) Amadeus (Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge) Critters (Stephen Herek, Domonic Muir, Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush) Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton) Puppet Master Bad cops in Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) and Shaft (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi) Ghoulies (Luca Bercovici, Jefery Levy, Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres) The Willies Metallica - Metal Up Your Ass Sigmund Freud's uncanny effect Commedia dell'arte Hop-Frog (Edgar Allen Poe) & Regicide David Carradine The Dickies - Killer Klowns from Outer Space theme illiterates - Makeout Mountain (punk record) Where did I Come From? (Howie Mandel) The Joker Insane Clown Posse (ICP) Next Week: Aladdin (1993)
This week on Total Movie Recall, we take a big shit on Boomers and their cheap nostalgia for a “better time.” A time when a bunch of baseball-loving kids' black friend would have had to walk home to his segregated neighborhood. A time of nuclear anxiety because our megalomaniacal leaders were determined to blow up the world. A time when women were openly sexually harassed with no consequences. But hey, wasn't baseball fun? Don't think about all that other stuff. The Sandlot (1993) d. David Mickey Evans Starring Tom Guiry - Scotty Smalls Denis Leary - Bill (stepdad) Karen Allen - mom Mike Vitar - Ben Patrick Renna - Ham Chauncey Leopardi - Squints Marty York - Yeah-Yeah Brandon Quintin Adams - Kenny DeNunez Grant Gelt - Bertram Grover Weeks Shane Obedzinski - Repeat Victor DiMattia - Timmy Timmons James Earl Jones - Mr. Mertle Art LaFleur - Babe Ruth (The Babe) When Scottie Smalls moves to a new neighborhood, he manages to make friends with a group of kids who play baseball at the sandlot. Together they go on a series of funny and touching adventures. The boys run into trouble when Smalls borrows a ball from his stepdad that gets hit over a fence. Things discussed in the show: Inception (Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page) Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen, Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach) Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James) Starman (John Carpenter, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith) Junior (Ivan Reitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson) Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, Andrew W. Marlowe, Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close) Cabaret (Bob Fosse, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem) Soviet Era Movie Posters Deadly Prey Gallery movie posters Brutalist, modern & gothic architecture Papers, Please video game Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol) Zdzisław Beksiński (Polish painter) Vice (Adam McKay, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell) The Big Short (Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling) Cursed (Frank Miller, Tom Wheeler, Katherine Langford, Devon Terrell, Gustaf Skarsgård) Dungeons & Dragons Game of Thrones (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Iain Glen, Gwendoline Christie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Knights Templar and kissing buttholes to awaking kundalini and your third eye. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf) W. (Skull & Bones jerking off in a coffin, Oliver Stone, Stanley Weiser, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd) A Christmas Story (Bob Clark, Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin) Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, Stephen King, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman) The Wonder Years (Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Daniel Stern) Bryan Adams - "The Summer of 69" Puppet Master Next Week: Killer Klowns From Outer Space
This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan takes us on a journey through time and memory to show us his origins as a film-lover, a man, and, lo, a human. Sure, he could have said his favorite movie was some snooty, intellectual piece of New Hollywood cinema, but that would be a lie. It's a VHS that his father got him as part of a $5.99 Big Mac giveaway at McDonald's, and he was never the same. He makes himself vulnerable before you, and of course, Steve makes him regret it. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) d. Steven Spielberg w. Jeffrey Boam (screenplay), George Lucas & Menno Meyjes (story) Starring Harrison Ford Sean Connery Alison Doody Denholm Elliott John Rhys-Davies River Phoenix The intrepid explorer Indiana Jones sets out to rescue his father, a medievalist who has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail. Following clues in the old man's notebook, Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, but they are not the only ones who are on the trail, and some sinister old enemies soon come out of the woodwork. Things discussed in the show: What it means to be a man. Avatar The Last Airbender, season 3 (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy) The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone) Alien RPG / Dungeons & Dragons Call of Cthulhu video game H.P. Lovecraft Alien (Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt) Aliens (James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein) Alien 3 (David Fincher, Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance) Terminator 2 Judgement Day (James Cameron, William Wisher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong) Avatar (James Cameron, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver) The Abyss (James Cameron, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn) Titanic (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane) FernGully The Last Rainforest (Bill Kroyer, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Robin Williams) Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott) City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet) Dark City (Alex Proyas, Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly) Steampunk Star Wars The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill) Alien Isolation - 2014 survival horror video game Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman) Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody) The Holy Grail Star Wars: The Force Awakens James Bond Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins) Gunga Din (George Stevens, Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen) Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt) "It belongs in a museum." John Williams Oscars Don "Magic" Juan Museum controversy / Repatriation of cultural heritage / stolen artifacts Iraq war / ancient sites ISIS has damaged and destroyed River and Joaquin Phoenix and the Children of God Cult, flirty fishing Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, Stephen King, Raynold Gideon, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland) My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, Flea, Udo Kier) River Phoenix's band Aleka's Attic Cross of the Coronado Indiana Jones body count is 2,706 Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword A View to a Kill (John Glen, Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts) Goonies E.T. The Extra Terestrial (Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote) Yale's secret nazi alumni Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf) The Monkey King The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff, John Fusco, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano) Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi obsession with the occult, his obsession with Arthurian Legend, the SS as a cult, and his plan to find a more Norse religion to replace Christianity. Munich (Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, Eric Roth, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze) Stunts in Mission Impossible, Fast and the Furious, Marvel films, Mad Max Fury Road and John Wick Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodat, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti) Scarface Shriners Chick Tract - dying fez with the blood of Christians and the worship of Baphomet "A bad penny always shows up." superstition Big Black - Bad Penny (Steve Albini) Fight Club (David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Helena Bonham Carter) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall) Next Week: The Sandlot
This week on Total Movie Recall, we destroy our nasal septums with 1983's Scarface. Ryan presents a cogent, detailed thesis on this film's central character as a metaphor for the all-eating, never-satiating, soul-crushing machine that is capitalism, and Steve counters with “No he's not.” Touché Steve… touché. Scarface (1983) d. Brian De Palma w. Oliver Stone Starring: Al Pacino Michelle Pfeiffer Steven Bauer Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Robert Loggia Richard Belzer After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall. kinopoisk.ru Things discussed in the show: Mountains of cocaine and cubano sandwiches Jaws (Steven Spielberg, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss) Dark, season 3 (Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari) Esotericism / Rosicrucianism Lost (J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Daniel Dae Kim) The Leftovers (Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta, Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston) Avatar The Last Airbender, season 2 (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy) Game of Thrones (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) Ulysses - James Joyce MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer) Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Alice Cooper, Meat Loaf) Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki) Mulan - 2020 (Disney, Niki Caro, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong) Blow (Ted Demme, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente) Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds The Business of Drugs - documentary hosted by Amaryllis Fox (Spice / MDMA / African heroin / meth in Burma / opioids) Scarface - 1932 (Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley) Armond White film reviewer Scarface in hip hop culture - The Notorious B.I.G., Sean Puffy Combs (P Diddy), Nicki Minaj, Rich the Kid, Lil Wayne, Big Boi, The Geto Boys, Jay-Z. De Palma - 2015 documentary (Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow, Brian De Palma) Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker) Casualties of War (Brian De Palma, Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey) Sisters - 1972 (Brian De Palma, Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning) Blow Out (Brian De Palma, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow) Body Double (Brian De Palma, Robert J. Avrech, Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry) Untouchables Charlie Rose interviewing Brian De Palma Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper) Mission Impossible - 1996 (Brian De Palma, Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart) The Movie Brats directors (Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Paul Schrader, Brian De Palma, John Milius and Steven Spielberg) Ayn Rand vs. Scarface. Who's the more hardcore capitalist? "Never get high on your own supply." "Never underestimate the other guy's greed." "I have eight killers with badges." Murderers in the police, medicine & military. Order of the Nine Angles (O9A) murder plot to kill his army squad Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest, Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn) Serpico (Sidney Lumet, Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe) Hunters (David Weil, Al Pacino, Logan Lerman, Lena Olin) The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin) Steve's theory that Tony wants to have sex with his sister because she's as genetically close to him as can be, and his narcissism is to big for him to handle. Wall Street (Oliver Stone, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie) American Psycho (Mary Harron, Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas) The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) Top 10 movies that use the word fuck the most ( Debby Harry (of Blondie) - "Rush, Rush" - "Rush, rush, got the yeyo? - Buzz, buzz, gimme yeyo" Queens of the Stone Age - "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" Next Week: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
This week on Total Movie Recall, we watched the Sophie's Choice of talking pig movies — Babe: Pig in the City. You might remember it as a sweet children's fantasy movie about cute talking animals, but that's just your brain trying to protect you from the harrowing nightmare that is this film. Dogs are hung from chains and drowned in front of us. Crippled Jack Russell Terriers are killed and teased with the sweet release from their worldly limitations, only to be cruelly pulled back into their wheelchair prison. Ryan and Steve started this movie as boys, but left it as men. Depressed, traumatized men. Babe: Pig in the City (1998) d. George Miller Starring: Magda Szubanski Elizabeth Daily Mickey Rooney James Cromwell Mary Stein When Babe accidentally puts farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) in traction, the debtors come looking for their payments. In order to pay their debt, Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) sends Babe off across the ocean to the city to demonstrate his talents as a sheep herder. Along with his friends, Babe meets a lot of new friends and gets into new adventures. Things discussed in the show: Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult) Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller, Nick Enright, Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov) True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel, Shaun Grant, George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult) Chopper (Andrew Dominik, Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo) MacBeth (Justin Kurzel, Todd Louiso, Jacob Koskoff, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan) Assassins Creed (Justin Kurzel, Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons) Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins) Super Mario Brothers (Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper) Dark Waters (Todd Haynes, Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins) Erin Brockavich (Steven Soderbergh, Susannah Grant, Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin) Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Parker Posey, David Cross) A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr.) Best in Show (Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Michael Hitchcock, Michael McKean, John Michael Higgins) This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Tony Hendra) Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Harry Birckmayer, Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, Anthony DeSando) The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Ted Raimi, Ivan Raimi) All of Me (Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant) The Jerk (Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams) Palm Springs (Max Barbakow, Andy Siara, Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons) The Lonely Island Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg, Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows, Maya Rudolph, Joan Cusack) Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer, Pam Brady, Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, Ian McShane) Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin, Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott) Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon, Scott Lobdell, Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine) Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, Scott Lobdell, Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu) Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton) Tenacious D Avatar the Last Airbender (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy) David Filoni (Star Wars Rebels & Star Wars Clone Wars) Dragonball Z (Piccolo, Goku, Krillin, Vegeta, Gohan, Hercule, Bulma) Regular Show (J.G. Quintel, William Salyers, Sam Marin) Mad Max (1979) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller, George Ogilvie, Terry Hayes, Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence) Babe (Chris Noonan, Dick King-Smith (novel), George Miller (screenplay), James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh) Contact (Robert Zemeckis, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt) Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry, Christina Crawford (book), Frank Yablans (screenplay), Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest) There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds) Garth Ennis - The Punisher Frank Miller - Sin City German Expressionism Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich) John Wayne Gacy Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan) Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley) Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol) James Cromwell & PETA W. (Oliver Stone, Stanley Weiser, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd) Next Week: Scarface
This week on Total Movie Recall, we find a new zest for life in 2001's Amelie. Steve gets wistful recalling his time working in a porn shop, and Ryan reveals his ignorance about Paris. But is it ignorance? Don't we kind of all know what Paris is really like? Smelly and smoky and rude? Not according to Amelie. Paris is a place of magical realism, true love, and tastefully decorated porn shops. Amelie (2001) d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet Starring: Audrey Tautou Mathieu Kassovitz Rufus Jamel Debbouze Isabelle Nanty Dominique Pinon "Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue. Things discussed in the show: The vast emptiness of Kansas and Nebraska Paranoia and smoking weed at psych rock shows Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard) Young Guns 2 (Geoff Murphy, Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips) A Man Called Horse (Elliot Silverstein, Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon) Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat) Top Gear (Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May) Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Roger Corman) Ford V Ferrari (James Mangold, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal) Newsies (Kenny Ortega, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall) Bad Education (Cory Finley, Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White) The Principal (Christopher Cain, Frank Deese, Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong) Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin) Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway) Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh) The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson) Knives Out (Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Benicio Del Toro, Frank Oz) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o) Star Wars: Clone Wars (Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein) Star Wars: Rebels (Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar, Dee Bradley Baker) Brick (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin) Looper (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt) I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, Steven Rogers, Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney) Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Chadwick Boseman) BlacKKKlansman (Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Alec Baldwin, John David Washington, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Adam Driver, Topher Grace) Conan the Barbarian - 2011 (Marcus Nispel, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan) Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian- 1982 (John Milius, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow) Conan the Destroyer (Richard Fleischer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo) Red Sonja (Richard Fleischer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman) Arnold Schwarzenegger getting drop kicked Ultimate Beastmaster (David Broome, Sylvester Stallone, Tiki Barber, Rafinha Bastos, Luis Ernesto Franco, Terry Crews, Chris DiStefano, Charissa Thompson, C.M. Punk) Awake: The Million Dollar Game Show (James Davis, Russell Rope, Ikechukwu Mbagwu) Manic pixie dream girls / Natalie Portman City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet) Delicatessen (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech) Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Patton Oswalt) Home Alone Suspiria 1977 Sweeping the Streets documentary Sacré-Cœur, Le Pigalle, The Moulin Rouge Yellow vest protests in Paris Bart in Paris (The Simpsons) Timothee Chalamet Brigitte Bardot Edward Hopper paintings Travelocity Gnome Gnome Liberation Front Paddington 2 (Paul King, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville) Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, Steven Knight, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo) A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sébastien Japrisot, Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster) High Fidelity Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel) Next Week - Babe: Pig in the City
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan watch the most subtle satire ever made — Starship Troopers. What exactly is this movie skewering? We're not sure. We thought we might have figured it out with the Nazi uniforms and Leni Riefenstahl shots and Aryan actors, but then we got distracted by the nudity and gore and decided not to think about it anymore. Starship Troopers (1997) d. Paul Verhoeven w. Edward Neumeier (screenplay) (as Ed Neumeier), Robert A. Heinlein (book) Starring: Casper Van Dien Dina Meyer Denise Richards Neil Patrick Harris Jake Busey Seth Gilliam Patrick Muldoon Michael Ironside In the distant future, the Earth is at war with a race of giant alien insects. Little is known about the Bugs except that they are intent on the eradication of all human life. But there was a time before the war... A Mobile Infantry travels to distant alien planets to take the war to the Bugs. They are a ruthless enemy with only one mission: Survival of their species no matter what the cost... Things discussed in the show: Facebook and YouTube is trash (check out the Rabbit Hole podcast) The Floor is Lava (Rutledge Wood, Janine Hogan) Most Extreme Elimination Challenge The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim) Rear Window's homosexual subtext Caligula (Tinto Brass, Gore Vidal, Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren) Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Chadwick Boseman) Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts) Boyhood (Richard Linklater, Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke) Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Penélope Cruz) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano) Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, Judd Apatow, John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, David Krumholtz) Step Brothers (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen) Old School (Todd Phillips, Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell) Paul Verhoeven in nazi occupied Holland Nazi propaganda in Leni Riefenstahl films including the Triumph of the Will 22 Push Ups Challenge - to raise awareness and donations to help prevent veteran suicide Unit 731 and Joseph Mengele - and how it's easy to commit atrocities be dehumanizing your enemy Black Hawk Down as a military propaganda film (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore) Mazzy Star fist fight Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard)
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan stare into the eyes of a childless middle age and watch 1987's Raising Arizona. Steve has a good laugh watching what he sees as a silly, light comedy and Ryan is gripped by yet another existential crisis watching a moving meditation on fatherhood, adulthood, leaving the reckless ways of youth behind, the crushing weight of responsibility, and conquering your demons. Oh to have the weightless, carefree, burdenless mirth that Steve enjoys! We should all be so lucky. Raising Arizona (1987) writers/directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (The Coen Brothers) Starring: Nicolas Cage Holly Hunter Trey Wilson John Goodman William Forsythe Sam McMurray Frances McDormand Randall "Tex" Cobb Fast-paced farce about an unlikely pair who go to extreme lengths to have a child. When an incompetent robber marries a policewoman, they discover that they are infertile. In order to appease his wife's longings for a child, the man steals one of a set of quintuplets, but mayhem ensues when the child's rich father sends a rabbit-shooting bounty hunter after the kidnapper. Things discussed in the show: King of the Hill (Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy) Werner Herzog on Los Angeles Steve and His Cars (short documentary by Adam Snow) The Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison) The Art of Self-Defense (Riley Stearns, Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots) Fight Club (David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf) Heathers (Michael Lehmann, Daniel Waters, Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty) What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement, Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Taika Waititi, Mark Proksch, Nick Kroll) The Mandalorian (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Rio Hackford, Dave Filoni, Gina Carano, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte) Star Wars: The Clone Wars (George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Dave Filoni, Brian O'Connell, Ashley Eckstein) Star Wars Rebels (Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar) Thor Ragnarok (Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett) Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson) Eagle vs Shark (Taika Waititi, Loren Taylor, Jemaine Clement, Craig Hall) Boy (Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu) Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter) The Big Labowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid) Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro) Barton Fink (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis) Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya) The Raising Arizona soundtrack - "Down In The Willow Garden" by Arthur Gorson and performed by Holly Hunter / "Goofing-Off Suite" by Pete Seeger / "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" sung by John Goodman and William Forsythe in the car. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden) Epic Levels (Steve's D&D comedy hip hop project) The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor) Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, John Patrick Shanley, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis) Con Air (Simon West, Scott Rosenberg, Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich) Fargo (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi) Da Five Bloods (Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr.) Macbeth (Joel Coen, William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson) Next Week: Starship Troopers
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan light a candle for all the former child stars doing porn and robbing gas stations and lament the end of trashy 90s television — the genital warts of American society. We watched The Cable Guy and discovered that Americans would rather have their comedic heroes talking out of their rectums than critiquing our dumb media consumption. Put on your Doc Martens and pop in your Mazzy Star mix CD because we go back to a morally murky time — the 1990s. The Cable Guy (1996) d. Ben Stiller Writer. Lou Holtz Jr. Starring: Jim Carrey Matthew Broderick Leslie Mann Jack Black Janeane Garofalo Oddball cable installer Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) attempts to strike up a friendship with customer Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) by offering him premium channels at no cost. When Steven rebuffs Chip's frequent need for companionship, Chip goes from a mildly eccentric acquaintance to a full-fledged psycho stalker. Though it's increasingly apparent to Steven that the cable guy is dangerous, convincing his friends, family and the authorities of that is another matter entirely. Things discussed in the show: Free will / tabula rasa F is for Fake (Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach) Brain Smasher... A Love Story and Andrew Dice Clay vs. William Shakespeare (Albert Pyun, Teri Hatcher, Yuji Okumoto) Daisey Ridley Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich The Last Dance (Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, David Aldridge, Chicago Bulls) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito) Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan, Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri) Space Force (Steve Carell, Greg Daniels, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz) Veep (Armando Iannucci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden) Hyperdrive Hannah - 2011 (Joe Wright, Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana) David Lynch Little Women - 2019 (Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh) Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth) Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer) Jennifer Jason Leigh Uncut Gems (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Idina Menzel) Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac, Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young) The Mask (Chuck Russell, Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert) The Ben Stiller Show (Judd Apatow, Jeff Kahn, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, John F. O'Donohue, David Cross) Permanent Midnight (David Veloz, Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Jay Paulson) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson) Jenny McCarthy Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, Pat Casey, Josh Miller, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey) In Living Color (Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jim Carrey, Kelly Coffield Park, David Alan Grier, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, Tommy Davidson, Jamie Foxx, Damon Wayans, Jennifer Lopez) Justin Beiber Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field) Matthew Broderick 1987 car accident Daybreak (Aron Eli Coleite, Brad Peyton, Colin Ford, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Sophie Simnett) The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright) WarGames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Project X (Jonathan Kaplan, Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt) The Menendez Brothers The Andy Dick Show (Andy Dick, Paul Henderson, Lacy Livingston, Ashton Kutcher, Jason Biggs) The Sarah Silverman Program (Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Sarah Silverman, Laura Silverman, Brian Posehn, Steve Agee, Tig Notaro, Justin Roiland, Ron Lynch) The Jerry Springer Show (Jerry Springer, Peter A Kelly, Steve Wilkos) Trial By Murder / The Jenny Jones Show The OJ Simpson trial Our scary future of deepfakes Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger) Turner & Hooch (Roger Spottiswoode, Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson) Mtv news / Tabitha Soren / Kurt Loader / Matt Pinfield Liquid Television Cable Guy soundtrack (Primative Radio Gods, Silverchair, Toadies, Porno For Pyros, Cracker, Cypress Hill) Singles soundtrack (Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell, Paul Westerberg, The Lovemongers, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Paul Westerberg, Jimi Hendrix, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins) Gift (Jane's Addiction, Perry Ferrel) Next week: Raising Arizona
This week on Total Movie Recall, we stare into the void and find out that hipsters are terrible people that treat the mentally ill like zoo animals and Ryan swears he'll never wear skinny jeans again. Steve declares that the word “genius” is thrown around way too much and that it should only be applied to people who discover new kinds of particles or create nudity mods for video games. We watched The Devil and Daniel Johnston, so burn your Sonic Youth records and point your plane straight at the ground, because life just may not be worth it. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005) d. Jeff Feuerzeig Starring: Daniel Johnston Butthole Surfers (Gibby Haynes) Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley) Half Japanese (Jad Fair, David Fair) Matt Groening Filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig chronicles the life of a manic-depressive musician and artist, using a blend of home movies, Johnston's own audiotapes, vintage performances and current footage. Johnston has recorded more than 10 full-length albums and amassed a prolific portfolio of sketches, and has among his supporters Matt Groening, David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Beck, and Tom Waits. Things discussed in the show: Moleskine notebooks and the Necronomicon Baby Driver (2017, Edgar Wright, Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm) Far Cry 5 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier) Looney Toons (2020, Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam) The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (2020, Ryan Dillon, David Rudman, Kacey Musgraves, Lil Nas X) Lovebirds (2020, Michael Showalter, Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani) Kumail Nanjiani's X-Files podcast Devs, teleportation and quantum computers Death at a Funeral (2007, Frank Oz, Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Dinklage, Ewen Bremner) The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie, Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword / Snatch / Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Val Kilmer's memoir - I'm Your Huckleberry / Tombstone / Top Gun / Heat / Batman Forever / The Saint The Ghost and the Darkness (1996, Stephen Hopkins, William Goldman, Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson) Predator 2 (1990, Stephen Hopkins, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall) Jeffery Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020, directed by Lisa Bryant), illuminati and class war Lex Luthur's will they/won't they with Superman Le Cercle Rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville, Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè) My Dinner With Andre (1981, Louis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer) What makes someone a genius? John Cale & David Cronenberg John Carpenter The Justice League Snyder cut David Lynch George Lucas will never stop messing with A New Hope Joss Whedon - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Cabin in the Woods Dan Harmon's story circle (writing structure) J.J. Abrams Will Johnson, Damien Jurado, Conner Oberst / Bright Eyes Firehose (Mike Watt) Daniel Johnston on KCRW with Ben Lee, Mike Watt, Joey Waronker, Guy Blakeslee John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney Mental illness, homelessness, bipolar disorder Van Gooh, Brian Wilson, Wesley Willis Dead Milkmen Ben Stiller Next week: The Cable Guy
The Fly (1986) d. David Cronenberg Starring: Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis John Getz This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan enter the telepod together and come out as a new, single entity — the Brundlehost. They get sentimental revisiting the powerful tragedy of David Cronenberg's The Fly, and Ryan acts like he's the first person to ever notice that Geena Davis is one of the great beauties of our time, and Steve tries to break down particle physics and quantum mechanics so even a dumb Philistine like Ryan can understand it. Join us as we transform and leave our frail, useless flesh behind, but watch your step — that's my ear you're standing on. When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a merger of man and insect. Initially, Brundle appears to have undergone a successful teleportation, but the fly's cells begin to take over his body. As he becomes increasingly fly-like, Brundle's girlfriend (Geena Davis) is horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster. Things discussed in the show: Vomit porn The Sims The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, AJ Meijer, Meryl Streep) Pedro Almodovar Antonio Banderas and his new acting school in Spain The Big Short (Adam McKay, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling) Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney) Bill and Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon, Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving) Sex, Lies and Videotape Sequel (Steven Soderbergh) Farris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara) Brian Henson / The Center for Puppetry Arts / Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood / Improv with Puppets - Puppet Up Meet the Feebles (Peter Jackson, Danny Mulheron, Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac, Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young) Jim Carrey's episode of Comedians in Cars getting Coffee (Jerry Seinfeld) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Jelle's Marbles Runs F1 Racing Marble Madness Deathrace 2000 (Paul Bartel, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth) Deathrace 2050 (G.J. Echternkamp, Manu Bennett, Malcolm McDowell, Marci Miller) David Carradine's erotic death Fast Five (Justin Lin, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson) Senna (documentary) Ford v. Ferrari (James Mangold, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal) Speed Racer (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox, Christina Ricci) Jupiter Ascending (Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne) Redline (Takeshi Koike, Takuya Kimura, Yû Aoi, Tadanobu Asano) Madhouse - Japanese Movie Studio Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono) Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama) Hayao Miyazaki Dragon Ball Z The Mighty Ducks (Stephen Herek, Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith) Dungeons & Dragons Monster of the Week / Powered by the Apocalypse Body Horror Crash (James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas) Videodrome (James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits) eXistenZ (Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm) History of Violence (Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris) Eastern Promises (Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl) Dead Ringers (Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske) The Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago Thor Ragnorok (Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett) The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson, Elisabeth Moss, Willem Dafoe, Timothée Chalamet) Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, Philip K. Dick, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside) Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy) Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, Robert A. Heinlein, Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer) Earth Girls are Easy (Julien Temple, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey) Glow (Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Betty Gilpin) The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin, Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima) Real life teleportation Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver) The Fly deleted scene with baboon cat hybrid Elon Musk and Grime's baby X Æ A-12 Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon) Next Week: The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994) d. Peter Segal writers: Pat Proft, David Zucker, Robert LoCash Starring: Leslie Nielsen Priscilla Presley George Kennedy O.J. Simpson Fred Ward Kathleen Freeman Anna Nicole Smith This week on Total Move Recall, Steve holds Ryan's white, cisgendered, ignorant feet to the fire as they revisit and are repulsed by the humor of The Naked Gun 33 & ⅓: The Final Insult. Steve is appalled by the mainstream sensibilities of 1994 when white men had the right to mock and ridicule whoever they wanted, and Ryan tries to distract people from his antiquated views by talking about his stupid Master's Degree. "Ooh look at me! I'm an educated, patriarchal monster!" Police Squad Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is retired and spending time with his new wife, Jane (Priscilla Presley), when he's called back into action by Capt. Ed Hocken (George Kennedy). A terrorist named Rocco (Fred Ward) plans to bomb the Academy Awards ceremony, so Frank goes undercover as Phil Donahue to try and head off disaster. He causes almost as much trouble as he prevents in an Oscar show complete with over-the-top production numbers and numerous celebrity appearances. Things discussed in the show: South Park (Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Brian Graden) Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson) Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte) Superbad (Greg Mottola, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader) Blood In, Blood Out , The Principal, Dangerous Minds, The Substitute Child's Play 3 (Jack Bender, Don Mancini, Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers) Military School - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Hugo Boss nazi uniforms Leprechaun (Mark Jones, Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt) Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Midnight Run (Martin Brest, Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto) Heat (Michael Mann, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd) King of the Hill (Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy) Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren) Psychedelic horror as a genre Hereditary (Ari Aster, Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne) Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (Donick Cary, Nick Offerman, Sting, ASAP Rocky, Bill Kreutzmann, Rosie Perez, Reggie Watts, Will Forte, David Cross, Carrie Fisher, Natasha Lyonne, Anthony Bourdain, Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, Adam Horovitz, Adam Scott and a ton more) Ketamine for therapy and recreation The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Tom Rob Smith, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, John Travolta) 1992 L.A. Riot The O.J. Simpson Trial and the beginning of the Kardashians Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves) Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby) Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges) Fred Willard R.I.P. The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden) The Untouchables / Battleship Potemkin baby carriage on stairs scenes Vanna White & Weird Al Yankovic Priscilla Presley & Elvis, The Colonel, Chuck Norris Are sperm banks real? Rambo (Ted Kotcheff, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna) Tommy Boy (Peter Segal, Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy ) Coming to America (John Landis, Eddie Murphy, Paul Bates, Garcelle Beauvais) Dumb and Dumber (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly) Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller) Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton) Bad Boys (Michael Bay, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Lisa Boyle) UHF (Jay Levey, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy) Raquel Welsh Arrested Developement (Liza Minnelli, Mitchell Hurwitz, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, Tony Hale) The Graduate (Mike Nichols, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross) Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Elle Russ) Next week: The Fly (1986)
Suspiria (1977) d. Dario Argento written by: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi Starring: Jessica Harper Stefania Casini Flavio Bucci Udo Kier Joan Bennett This week on Total Movie Recall, we test our feminist bona fides and flex our rigorous academic muscles dissecting the precise and not-at-all haphazard imagery of Dario Argento's giallo horror film, Suspiria. Ryan fantasizes about disappearing into a Black Forest fairytale world where there are no problems and noted ballerina enthusiast Steve remains unimpressed with the technical rigors of this film. Cool colors, though. Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night, no one lets her in, and she sees Pat (Eva Axén), another student, fleeing from the school. When Pat reaches her apartment, she is murdered. The next day, Suzy is admitted to her new school, but has a difficult time settling in. She hears noises, and often feels ill. As more people die, Suzy uncovers the terrifying secret history of the place. Things discussed in the show: The Three Mothers Red Dead Redemption 2 Suspiria (2018, Luca Guadagnino, Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick) Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento The Crow (1994, Alex Proyas, Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis) '80s & '90s sitcoms: Wings, Frasier, Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs and Cheers South Park The Simpsons Community (Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase) The Russo Brothers Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, Joss Whedon, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo) Igmar Bergman Chopping Mall (1986, Killbots, Jim Wynorski, Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd) Dr. Killbot Always Sunny in Philadelphia / Pepe Silvia Zack Snyder: Sucker Punch, Dawn of the Dead, 300, Justice League, The Snyder Cut, Snow Steam Iron George Romero Return to Oz (1985, Walter Murch, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh) John Milius The old snail mail DVD days of Netflix Letterboxd app Alamo Drafthouse DTLA's DVD library Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1935, Disney) The Suspiria soundtrack by Goblin Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma, Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper) Farrah Fawcett hair Psychedelic horror Mandy (2018, Panos Cosmatos, Casper Kelly, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache) Color Out of Space (2019, Richard Stanley, Scarlett Amaris, H.P. Lovecraft, Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur) Rosemary's Baby (1968, Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon) Giallo films American Movie (1999, Coven, Chris Smith, Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels) The Undershorts Film Festival Chicago The Lost Boys (1987, Joel Schumacher Thomas De Quincy, occult writer: Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Suspiria De Profundis Santa Muerte Inferno (1980, Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi) Yazidi culture and the icon of the Peacock angel Supernatural - The French Mistake episode Next week: Naked Gun 33 1/3
Mad Max (1979) d. George Miller Starring: Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky Joanne Samuel as Jesse Rockatansky Hugh Keays-Byrne as Toecutter Steve Bisley as Jim Goose Tim Burns as Johnny the Boy Roger Ward as Fifi Geoff Parry as Bubba Zanetta The Interceptor, a modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT coupe The second season of Total Movie Recall comes roaring back with a V8 engine and a newly discovered kink. Why does this film have such iconic bondage, S&M, and homoerotic wardrobe and imagery? Who cares? It looks great! Chief Fifi can be this show's leather daddy anytime, because we watched the stone cold classic Mad Max — a film about a world on the brink of the apocalypse that has no relevance to our present circumstances whatsoever. Absolutely none… In a not-too-distant dystopian future, when man's most precious resource — oil — has been depleted and the world plunged into war, famine and financial chaos, the last vestiges of the law in Australia attempt to restrain a vicious biker gang. Max (Mel Gibson), an officer with the Main Force Patrol, launches a personal vendetta against the gang when his wife (Joanne Samuel) and son are hunted down and murdered, leaving him with nothing but the instincts for survival and retribution. Things discussed in the show: Anarchist collectives Tiger King (2020, Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin) The Last Dance (2020 documentary (Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, David Aldridge, Dennis Rodman, Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls, Dream Team) 30 for 30 documentaries Apollo 11 (2019 documentary, Todd Douglas Miller, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin) Freudian therapy Starred Up (2013 British prison crime drama film directed by David Mackenzie) Post Prison YouTube channels: Lockdown 23and1, GP- Penitentiary Life Wes Watson, Fresh Out Contagion (2011, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law) My Left Foot (1989, Daniel Day-Lewis) Doctor Sleep (2019, Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran) The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd) Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton) Happy Death Day (2017) & Happy Death Day 2U (2019) Top Gun: Maverick (2020, Joseph Kosinski, Jennifer Connelly, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer) Heist (2001, David Mamet, Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Danny DeVito) Playing Dungeons & Dragons through the Covid-19 pandemic Community (Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase) Rick and Morty (Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland) Virtual Reality porn Nailed It (Nicole Byer, Jacques Torres) The Great British Bake Off The Platform (2019, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia) Accounting (VR game by Justin Roiland) Red Dead Redemption 2 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981, George Miller, Terry Hayes, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Lord Humungus) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985, George Miller, Terry Hayes, George Ogilvie, Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence) Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult) Los Angeles high speed police chases and the militarization of American police forces Leather daddies The Passion of the Christ (2004, Mel Gibson, Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern) Apocalypto (2006, Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández) Can you separate the artist from the art? Woody Allen & Kevin Spacey Tim (1979, Piper Laurie, Mel Gibson, Alwyn Kurts) Facets in Chicago Mad Max in it's original Australian dialog A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates) The Punisher (1989, Mark Goldblatt, Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeroen Krabbé) The Punisher (2004, Jonathan Hensleigh, Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Samantha Mathis) Captain America (1990, Albert Pyun, Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty) Next week: Suspiria (1977)
Donnie Darko (2001) d. Richard Kelly Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal Jena Malone Drew Barrymore Maggie Gyllenhaal Mary McDonnell Katharine Ross Patrick Swayze Seth Rogen Noah Wyle This week on Total Movie Recall, in a long time coming, Ryan finally loses his effing mind… The post TMR 028 – Donnie Darko appeared first on Total Movie Recall.
Donnie Darko (2001) d. Richard Kelly Starring:Jake GyllenhaalJena MaloneDrew BarrymoreMaggie GyllenhaalMary McDonnellKatharine RossPatrick SwayzeSeth RogenNoah Wyle This week on Total Movie Recall, in a long time coming, Ryan finally loses his effing mind as Steve shoots a time/space wormhole from his chest while watching 2001's crazy bananas Donnie Darko. They talk about the hell that is adolescence, the subjective nature of reality, and how much they miss Swayze. In a funny, moving and distinctly mind-bending journey through suburban America, one extraordinary but disenchanted teenager is about to take Time's Arrow for a ride. After surviving a freak accident, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins to explore what it means to be alive, and in short order to be in love, he uncovers secrets of the universe that give him a tempting power to alter time and destiny. Things discussed in the show: Bored to Death, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Vinyl (Martin Scorsese, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale) Louie Season 5 - Michael Rapaport A Tribe Called Quest - Q-Tip Wes Anderson - Rushmore Before Sunrise Route 666 (comic book) Freaks and Geeks - James Franco October Sky, Nightcrawler, Love & Other Drugs Anne Hathaway Secretary Battlestar Gallactica, Dancing with Wolves Parks and Recreation Independence Day Stephen King - It Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Duran Duran, The Cure, Tears for Fears David Lynch Watership Down Wormholes and time travel D.A.R.E. Sparkle Motion Heathers Todd Solondz - Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Palendromes Requiem for a Dream John Hughes Reservior Dogs - Harvey Keitel Evil Dead - Sam Raimi The Last Temptation of Christ Does God exist? LSD Southland Tales Robot Jocks, Timecop Laurence Fishburne, Sir Ben Kingsley Next Week: Searching for Bobby Fischer
Ghostbusters II (1989) d. Ivan Reitman Starring: Dan Akroyd Harold Ramis Bill Murray Ernie Hudson Sigourney Weaver Annie Potts Rick Moranis Peter MacNicol On this week’s episode of TMR, Steve and Ryan watch 1989’s not-quite-classic sequel Ghostbusters II. Ryan talks… The post TMR 027 – Ghostbusters II appeared first on Total Movie Recall.
Ghostbusters II (1989) d. Ivan Reitman Starring:Dan AkroydHarold RamisBill MurrayErnie HudsonSigourney WeaverAnnie PottsRick MoranisPeter MacNicol On this week's episode of TMR, Steve and Ryan watch 1989's not-quite-classic sequel Ghostbusters II. Ryan talks about the time he broke his dad's heart and may have inadvertently killed the family dog, Steve breaks down the way this generation's kids consume content, they speculate on the complicated mythology of Bill Murray, and both wish they could walk around inside Dan Akroyd's weird, crazy noggin'. Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal warfare, and as a result they have had to seek other lines of work. Ray (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) spend their time performing at children's' birthday parties, and Egon (Harold Ramis) is busy conducting experiments investigating the effect of human emotions on the environment, leaving ghostbusting behind. Venkman (Bill Murray) and Dana (Sigourney Weaver) have split up. Venkman now hosts a local cable show called "The World of the Psychic." Dana, now divorced and the mother of a little baby named Oscar, works as an art restorer in a museum -- and this is where the plot kicks in. While Dana is restoring a portrait of a 16th-century tyrant by the name of Vigo the Carpathian, the portrait becomes hexed. The evil Vigo wants to return to life by taking over the body of Dana's little child. Vigo has enlisted Dana's boss, Janosz Poha (Peter MacNicol), to compel Dana to cooperate. Soon dirty sludge and slime flow through the streets of Manhattan, and the ghostbusters have to reunite to save the city from a funky paranormal evil. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi Things discussed in the show: Hail, Caesar! - The Cohen Brothers, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich The Big Labowski, Burn After Reading, O' Brother Where Art Thou, A Serious Man Steven Spielberg Sam Rockwell Ghostbusters (2016) Spy - Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, Jason Statham Bram Stoker's Dracula Leslie Nielsen - Naked Gun The Rover - Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson Animal Kingdom - Ben Mendelsohn The Revenant The Oscars - Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith Amy, What's Happened, Miss Simone? Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road, Brooklyn Bobby Brown & Whitney Houston Aliens - James Cameron Ninja Scroll The Untouchables Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, DragonCon Scrooged, The Razor's Edge, Groundhog Day, Operation Dumbo Drop Rushmore, Lost in Translation Zombieland, A Very Murray Christmas Saturday Night Live Stripes, Caddieshack Motörhead - Lemmy John Belushi, Eddie Murphy Samuel A. Aykroyd Child's Play The Omen Wilhelm von Homburg He-Man, Masters of the Universe Beastmaster G.I. Joe The Real Ghostbusters Proton Packs Star Wars Rancid, The Clash, The Kinks Radiohead, The Violent Femmes Jackie Chan Evil Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Cabin in the Woods Coneheads Richard Kelly, Jake Gyllenhaal Next Week: Donnie Darko
Ninja Scroll (1993) d. Yoshiaki Kawajiri This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan go toe-to-toe with their verbal martial arts prowess—leaping from rooftop to rooftop, through bamboo forests and dodging ninja stars and killer bees. Steve goes into hyperdrive with tales… The post TMR 026 – Ninja Scroll appeared first on Total Movie Recall.
Ninja Scroll (1993) d. Yoshiaki Kawajiri This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan go toe-to-toe with their verbal martial arts prowess—leaping from rooftop to rooftop, through bamboo forests and dodging ninja stars and killer bees. Steve goes into hyperdrive with tales of sex, drugs and violence, while Ryan tries to wrap his head around the horrors that were inflicted upon him in the Japanese anime classic Ninja Scroll. In this anime film, Jubei, a highly skilled ninja, is coerced into slaying his own clan of warriors. After begrudgingly killing his fellow swordsmen, he becomes a roving hired assassin. During his travels, he must face off against an organization of demonic ninjas known as the Devils of Kimon, who are plotting to take power of Japan's government. The Devils will stop at nothing, and have the power to annihilate entire villages. Now, only Jubei and a shogun spy named Dakuan can stop them. Things discussed in the show: Deadpool - Ryan Reynolds The Passion of the Christ - Mel Gibson Captain American (1990) Joe Johnston Spiderman 2 - Sam Raimi X-men - X-men 2 (Bryan Singer) James Gunn - Guardians of the Galaxy, Tromio and Juliet (Lloyd Kaufman) The Witch Magic Mike XXL - Channing Tatum, Stephen Soderbergh, Matthew McConaughey Sex, Lies and Videotape - James Spader, Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell Groundhog Day Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David America's Funniest Home Videos, Fail Blog The Sword in the Stone Naruto The Raid 2 Werner Hertzog Dragon Ball Z Jubei Yagyu Kato Kaelin Wicked City, Vampire D: Bloodlust Trypophobia Takashi Miike - Ichi the Killer, Audition, 13 Assassins Crank Zatoichi Lance Bass Judas Priest Gary Oldman Robert Rodriguez Hayao Miyazaki - My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away Akira, Ghost in the Shell Sigourney Weaver The Animatrix - The Wachowskis Next Week: Ghostbusters 2
The Sword in the Stone (1963) d. Wolfgang Reitherman Produced by: Walt Disney Starring: Rickie Sorensen Sebastian Cabot Karl Swenson This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan relive the vile union of a pedophilic wizard and his would be king pupil.… The post TMR 025 – The Sword in the Stone appeared first on Total Movie Recall.
The Sword in the Stone (1963) d. Wolfgang Reitherman Produced by: Walt Disney Starring:Rickie SorensenSebastian CabotKarl Swenson This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan relive the vile union of a pedophilic wizard and his would be king pupil. Ryan remembers a simpler time when he'd eat sugary snacks at his creepy neighbor's house while getting hockity pocketied, and Steve demands more swords and wizardry in his swords and wizardry in the 1963 Disney classic "The Sword in the Stone." This Disney adaptation of the classic fable chronicles King Arthur's humble beginnings. As an orphaned child, Arthur, who was then known as Wart, wants to help his foster brother, Kay, succeed in becoming a knight. While helping Kay train, Wart stumbles upon a cabin belonging to Merlin, a bumbling but talented wizard. Merlin does his best to convince the boy that he is bound for greatness, and when Wart and Kay travel to London to attend a jousting contest, they learn that Merlin was right. Things discussed in the show: King Arthur, Merlin Oldboy The World of Kanako - Alamo Drafthouse Films, Kôji Yakusho, Tetsuya Nakashima Takashi Miike - Visitor Q, 13 Assassins, The Great Yokai War The Last Witch Hunter - Vin Diesel, Dungeons & Dragons Hellboy Nicolas Cage - Knowing, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Season of the Witch Alex Proyas - I, Robot, The Crow The Witch - Robert Eggers Hanzel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - Jeremy Renner The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Finding Nemo Fast and Furious 7 The Witches Haxan - William Burroughs Jonathan Brandis, Richard Jenkins (Bone Tomahawk, Burn After Reading, Step Brothers), Patton Oswalt, John Goodman, Dash Mihok (The Thin Red Line, White Boys), Val Kilmer Haley Joel Osment, Margo Martindale, Danny DeVito, Charlie Day Alanis Morissette and Dave Coulier Alan Rickman Game of Thrones - The Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) Fantasia Willow All eras of Disney: Dumbo - Bambi - The Jungle Book - Mary Poppins - The Apple Dumpling Gang - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Pinochio - The Three Cabelleros - The Adventures of Ichobad and Mr. Toad - Cindrella - Alice in Wonderland - Sleeping Beauty - Lady and the Tramp - 101 Dalmations - The Aristicats - Robin Hood - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - The Rescuers - The Fox and the Hound - The Black Cauldron - The Great Mouse Detective - Oliver and Company - The Little Mermaid - The Rescuers Down Under - Beauty and the Beast - Aladdin - The Lion King - Pocahontas - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hercules - Mulan - Tarzan - Fantasia 2000 - The Emperors New Groove - Dinosaur - Atlantis - Lilo and Stitch - Princess and the Frog - Wreck it Ralph - Frozen - Big Hero 6 James Woods Basil of Baker Street The Rocketeer Pixar: Wall-E, Up, Toy Story Hayao Miyazaki Next week: Ninja Scroll
Oldboy (2003) d. Chan-wook Park Starring: Min-sik Choi Ji-tae Yu Hye-jeong Kang This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan take on the roles of Oedipus and Sophocles as they regress deep into their subconscious to cope with the brutal realities of… The post TMR 024 – Oldboy appeared first on Total Movie Recall.
Oldboy (2003) d. Chan-wook Park Starring:Min-sik ChoiJi-tae YuHye-jeong Kang This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan take on the roles of Oedipus and Sophocles as they regress deep into their subconscious to cope with the brutal realities of Seoul's gritty underbelly. Steve comes to terms with his unquenchable thirst for revenge, Ryan double checks his list of those he has wrongs, and they both conclude that eating a live octopus might be a one way ticket to Elder God hell. Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he's abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning. Things discussed in the show: Seoul, South Korea Brooklyn - Saoirse Ronan, Nick Hornby The Big Short - Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling The Revenant, Room 30 Rock - Dean Winters The Raid 2 American Crime Story: O.J. Simpson - John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr. (Snow Dogs, Boat Trip), David Schwimmer Ryan Murphy - Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story, Glee The Crow Battle Royale The Happiness of the Katakuris, The Host The hallway fight scene Un Chien Andalou - Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali Blue Velvet - David Lynch The octopus scene - Octopus and their alien DNA H.P. Lovecraft The Count of Monte Christo Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Lars Von Trier - The Element of Crime, Dancer in the Dark Oedipus, Sophocles Oldboy (2013) - Josh Brolin, Spike Lee Oldboy soundtrack Look Who's Talking Stoker The Rocketeer, Beauty and the Beast, The Black Cauldron Next week: The Sword in the Stone
High Fidelity (2000) d. Stephen Frears Starring: John Cusack Iben Hjejle Todd Louiso Jack Black Lisa Bonet Catherine Zeta-Jones Joan Cusack Tim Robbins This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan compare the soul sapping abyss of their previous relationships with… The post TMR 023 – High Fidelity appeared first on Total Movie Recall.
High Fidelity (2000) d. Stephen Frears Starring:John CusackIben HjejleTodd LouisoJack BlackLisa BonetCatherine Zeta-JonesJoan CusackTim Robbins This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan compare the soul sapping abyss of their previous relationships with that of Rob from High Fidelity. Steve talks about hunting down ex-girlfriends to demand answers and Ryan weighs the significance of romance in your teens vs. in your twenties. They both lament the demise of the mix tape and agree that Chicago is an awesome city. Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is the owner of a failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl. Although they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and are consumed by the music scene, it's of no help to Rob, whose needle skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle), walks out on him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood. Things discussed in the show: Welcome Back Kotter Film in Chicago Vice Documentaries vs. National Geographic Georgia Guidestones The Martian - Matt Damon The Revenant, Room The Oscars and white people CitizenFour Fleetwood Mac, Otis Redding, The Carpenters, Blink 182, Joni Mitchell Sara Gilbert Stiff Little Fingers, The Beta Band Beans and Bagels, Spoken Cafe Touch & Go Records Apocalypse Hoboken, Nil8 Skunk Ape!? Lounge Ax, Double Door, Chicago Reader, Biograph Theater, Three Penny Theater Mazzy Star, Pearl Jam, The Cure, Nick Drake, Ben Folds, Wilco, My Bloody Valentine, Shalloboi, Belle and Sebastian, Modest Mouse, Leonard Cohen Lily Tomlin vs. Lili Taylor L.A. Confidential, Beverly Hills Cop The Professional - Luc Besson, Natalie Portman Sin City Kuffs - Christian Slater Suspiria - Dario Argento Lars Von Trier - The Element of Crime, Europa Amelie The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime Next week: Oldboy
The Goonies (1985) d. Richard Donner Writers: Steven Spielberg (story) Chris Columbus (screenplay) Starring: Sean Astin Josh Brolin Jeff Cohen Corey Feldman Kerri Green Martha Plimpton Ke Huy Quan Robert Davi Joe Pantoliano Anne Ramsey This week on Total Movie Recall, we… The post TMR 022 – The Goonies appeared first on Total Movie Recall.