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