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Does This Still Work?

A podcast where we look at old movies and ask "Does this still work?"

Review Film Reviews Comedy Film Tv & Film
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
60 minutes
Episodes
286
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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245 Dear White People 2014

245 Dear White People 2014

We pop back a mere 10 years ago (doesn’t it seem longer than that?) and check out this film about black college students on a predominately white campus and the tensions that went along with it.  

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01:01:08  |   Wed 27 Nov 2024
244 The Last Detail 1973

244 The Last Detail 1973

Baby faced Randy Quid gets led to the hoosegow by a mustachioed Jack Nicholson and a not- as-famous-as-those-two-Otis Young. And that’s it. That’s the movie. Could a story this basic not work? Have a…

00:47:17  |   Wed 20 Nov 2024
243 How Stella Got Her Groove Back 1998

243 How Stella Got Her Groove Back 1998

Spoiler: She got her groove back by schtupping a guy half her age. Would you like to know more? Join the boys as they discuss. 

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00:32:43  |   Fri 15 Nov 2024
242 Panic in The Streets 1950

242 Panic in The Streets 1950

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We’re going back over 70 years to explore this story of sick crooks and the attempt to bring them in before they contaminate the whole town with bubonic plague. This flick is a way long ti…

00:39:39  |   Wed 06 Nov 2024
241 Beetlejuice 1988

241 Beetlejuice 1988

We hear this movie got a sequel. Did you know about that? Anyway, the boys take a look at the original. 

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00:43:11  |   Wed 30 Oct 2024
240 Gloria 1980

240 Gloria 1980

No, it's not Archie Bunker’s daughter (Wait, does anyone born after 1983 get that reference?). Rather she’s a mob moll with a little boy to protect. It’s the pod’s first John Cassavetes movie. Cassav…

00:39:09  |   Wed 23 Oct 2024
239 The Professional 1994

239 The Professional 1994

This is a heartwarming story of a hitman who protects a 12 year old girl from murderous cops and the little girl turns around and…falls in love with him? Wait, what?! No, honestly what the f-

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00:44:06  |   Wed 16 Oct 2024
238 The Evil Dead 1981 Guest Kitt Nowokunski

238 The Evil Dead 1981 Guest Kitt Nowokunski

See Bruce Campbell as you’ve never seen him before…with one eyebrow. Bruce’s unibrow is the least disturbing thing to come out of this film that kicked off The Evil Dead films series. Will that unfor…

00:55:29  |   Wed 09 Oct 2024
237 Stir Crazy 1980

237 Stir Crazy 1980

With this film Richard Pryor became the first black actor in US history to get a million bucks for a movie.This is also the first R-rated comedy by a black director (Sidney Poiter!) to make more than…

00:42:30  |   Wed 02 Oct 2024
236 Little Shop of Horrors 1986

236 Little Shop of Horrors 1986

On the 19th day of the month of December in a middle year of a decade not too long before our own the human race suddenly encountered a movie musical starring Rick Moranis. Join the boys as they tap …

00:36:55  |   Wed 25 Sep 2024
235 Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2005 Guest Jacqueline Carr

235 Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2005 Guest Jacqueline Carr

In the UK pants are what Americans call underwear. Was this movie called traveling pants in England? And if so, were people disappointed when they weren’t watching a film with everyone running around…

01:08:36  |   Wed 18 Sep 2024
234 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996

234 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996

He’s a smut peddler. She’s a drug-addled stripper. And they are…in love? That aside, the most shocking thing in this pic is being reminded that the Supreme Court wasn’t always a rubber stamp for righ…

00:33:43  |   Wed 11 Sep 2024
233 Ten Things I Hate About You 1999

233 Ten Things I Hate About You 1999

It’s Taming of the Shrew but set in a high school because, honestly, would you sit through Shakespeare unless it had an updated spin? Shakespeare straight is boring. Dude wrote his plays over 400 yea…

00:40:40  |   Wed 04 Sep 2024
232 Win Win 2011

232 Win Win 2011

Paul Giamatti plays a lawyer who engages in defrauding an elderly client while getting mixed up in the life of a nice teenager and his not so nice mom. Joe hasn’t seen this movie since it came out. G…

00:35:28  |   Wed 28 Aug 2024
231 Anger Management 2003

231 Anger Management 2003

One of the hosts of this program had to manage his anger as he sat through this Adam Sandler\Jack Nicholson movie that he…did…not…like.. Listen and find out which one. 

 

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00:47:46  |   Wed 21 Aug 2024
230 Gone Baby Gone 2007

230 Gone Baby Gone 2007

The world’s worst mom, Boston’s dirtiest cops , a very young PI and a missing child add up to one very unusual child abduction case. Or is it a child abduction case? George and Joe look into the myst…

00:35:26  |   Wed 14 Aug 2024
229 Crimson Tide 1995

229 Crimson Tide 1995

Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman star. Do you enjoy all male movies with lots of shouting and no sex? Then this may be the movie for you. But what do the boys think?

 

 

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00:43:51  |   Wed 07 Aug 2024
228 Doubt 2008

228 Doubt 2008

Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a priest who might or might not be a pedo. Meryl Streep is a nun who thinks there is no might about it, he’s a  pedo. Meanwhile,  poor Amy Adams doesn’t know what to thin…

00:34:34  |   Wed 24 Jul 2024
227 Death Race 2000 1975 w/ Kitt Nowokunski

227 Death Race 2000 1975 w/ Kitt Nowokunski

Ever hear someone refer to vehicular homicide as “earning points?” This is where that started. Joe takes a vacation, George does history, and Kitt Nowokunski tells us all about Death Race 2000 from 1…

01:03:52  |   Wed 17 Jul 2024
226 GI JANE 1997

226 GI JANE 1997

She’s a real American hero! Join the boys as they look back at this film about a woman who joins the Navy SEALS. 

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00:56:24  |   Wed 10 Jul 2024
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