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*SPOILER ALERT* Seriously do NOT listen past the sports section if you have not watched all of Stranger Things 2! After talking briefly about some recent sports news, we go deep into what we loved and didn't like about the show, who Nancy should end up with (and whether or not she's a good person!), and some of our favorite characters/moments. Last, we talk about how any of this relates to spirituality! Also, whose band is Boys With Shirts??
Movie Meltdown - Episode 167 This week we return to Green Room Coffee and Espresso and we’ll need all the caffeine to help us focus on figuring out this week’s movie. By special request, we were asked to try to decide exactly what was happening in the 2011 film “Kill List”. It is...well-made, disturbing, confusing and will more then likely bring about an initial WTF reaction. But with more thought and discussion, can we in fact decide what the hell we just watched?? And while we try to decide if we are discussing the movie OR helping finish write the movie, we also mention... True Grit, a picture of a world, Kurosawa, The Atheist Channel, Curse of the Demon, The Apartment Trilogy, The Crusades, the Cohen Brothers, Diane Ladd, a demon interior decorator, the stereotypical dark side of a librarian, Spaced, what the fuck was that polar bear about?, The Devil’s Daughter, can we just say the filmmaker is wrong?, House of the Devil, Shelly Winters, Rosemary’s Baby, the actress’s Twitter page, cultural mania, naked extras, Dreams, The Wicker Man, Burn Witch Burn, compartmentalized government, organized religion, The Ladykillers, I think your dead dad is really beautiful, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, ironic laughing, by the time you are Richard Gere - you know you’ve lost it all, and trying to alienate every movie-goer in the world!Spoiler Alert: Seriously, you HAVE to see “Kill List” BEFORE listening to the episode. So get to it...“...here the ambiguity is kind of amorphous, it could be all kinds of different directions. Where it invites you to like, Mad Lib your own version of the movie.”
Movie Meltdown - Episode 158 This week the geek activities run rampant, as we discuss… The Help, Spielbergisms, Big, barbershop duet, Emma Stone, we’re George Carlin lesbians, an apology movie, The Glass Menagerie, Steve Carell, Cowboys vs. Aliens, David Blaine, the movie felt like it was 40 years long, similar moments in different movies, Meek’s Cutoff, Ryan the temp, sleepy movie reviews, Like Water for Elephants, Steve Carell, barber surgeons, non-maternal Meryl Streep, The Office, The Conversation, No Strings Attached, I’m going with Pacey, Casio SK-1, The Future, I can help you… with my vagina, Michelle Williams, the healing powers of leeches, Beautiful, I hate every character, working for a crazy boss, Five Easy Pieces, Natalie Portman‘s sexuality, Dawson’s Creek, if Johnny Carson was James Bond, having a job playing with toys, and the best Bob Dylan cover ever! Spoiler Alert: Seriously, major spoilers for The Orphanage. “Ok, I’ll go… I’ve seen a lot of movies…”
Movie Meltdown - Episode 152 This week we are back as we discuss the Universal classic "Creature from the Black Lagoon". Dave joins us again this week, and he's not only a big "Creature" fan (who brings cool toys!!), but in the past he has worked with members of the cast Julie Adams, Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning! And at some point before we discuss the Halloween Candy Conspiracy, we also mention… A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, Tree of Life, watching a movie on your iPhone, Jack Arnold, wearing your utility belt, it was the most gratuitous use of 3D technology I have ever seen, a bad-ass Han Solo move, science vs. money, Gorilla at Large, AntiChrist, the moment that life began on the planet, an encyclopedia of 50's ingénue gestures and looks, Destroy all Monsters, Clearwater Springs Flordia, back when women used to wear wigs, conservatism is progressive, Thunderball, The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, was that a cosmic vagina?, the adolescent boy that is 'The Creature', an intense David Hyde Pierce, being friends with a Bigfoot, David Lynch, Island of Lost Souls, a pure carved leather corset, the Summer of 1982, if your are terrified of me... I'm gonna kill you, the child care cave, Gilligan's Island and Tarantula for breakfast. Spoiler Alert: Seriously, just go watch “Creature from the Black Lagoon”… it’s a classic. "You know, you watch 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon', and you can't help thinking what it would be like to have sex with that thing. And by 'that thing', I mean... a 50's chick."
Movie Meltdown - Episode 122 Right off the bat, we remind you what things are like in the real world, with one of our more disgusting Marlena Moments. From there we stay on the hard core path of the real world, as we discuss this week’s Sofa Theater feature: The Last American Virgin. A movie that presents itself as a standard “sex comedy”, but as we find out, “It takes a dark turn….” Yes, this movie scarred one, (if not all) of our cast members for life. Plus a One from the Vaults memory from actress Diane Franklin about making The Last American Virgin. All that plus…82 Jonah Hill, Rose wins you over, 9 ½ , creepy doctors, wearing tighty-whities, snorting Pixie Stix, G.I. Joe figures, hooking up without a condom, Amanda Seyfried gets naked, you got screwed over by life, price check on crabs medicine, pining away for a chick, Karen is spelled with a K, waiting for the Last American Virgin 2..., the joke of the universe, pretty people having ugly kids, a very disturbing After-School Special, Michael Winslow, donkeyesque and the best Crying Game story ever!! Plus lots of offensive comments about that one thing, that we can’t mention without spoiling things. So, don’t listen if you are sensitive about that one thing…that we can’t mention right now. Spoiler Alert: Seriously…go watch “The Last American Virgin” before you listen, because we cover the entire plot including the big finale. Oh yeah, and we spoil that big Crying Game secret as well. “Thanks for ruining Christmas and oranges from now on…”