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Does This Still Work?

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

Comedy Review Tv & Film Film Film Reviews
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
60 minutes
Episodes
286
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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145 Splash 1983

145 Splash 1983

Disney+ edited out a naked ass but kept in a guy looking up women’s dresses because, you know, decorum! Ah, the boys do love hypocrisy. But did they love Splash?

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00:59:18  |   Wed 09 Nov 2022
144 Easy Rider 1969

144 Easy Rider 1969

Get your motor running. Head out on the highway. Looking for adventure in whatever comes our way. Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen. Take the world in a love embrace. But can the boys love embrace t…

00:51:45  |   Wed 02 Nov 2022
143 North Dallas Forty 1979

143 North Dallas Forty 1979

Are you ready for some football? No, really are you? Good lord, CTE may be the only injury this picture doesn’t acknowledge. How is this still a thing? Well, the boys can’t answer that but they can t…

00:51:25  |   Wed 19 Oct 2022
142 Office Space 1999

142 Office Space 1999

Remember leaving home to go to the job? As of this writing, only 4% of employers are requiring workers to return to their work place full time, 5 days a week. Which begs the question, does a movie li…

01:02:47  |   Wed 12 Oct 2022
141 Back to School 1986

141 Back to School 1986

Joe saw this in college as a freshman and loved it. Meanwhile, George was 5 and couldn’t even spell college. Now, they’re both together on a podcast to discuss Back To School. Let’s see how that work…

00:55:30  |   Wed 05 Oct 2022
140 Triplets of Belleville 2003

140 Triplets of Belleville 2003

It’s a cartoon! The boys look at this French animated feature that was nominated for two Academy Awards. 

NOTE: Sorry about the late release. I forgot to attach the audio to the post. *facepalm* - Ge…

00:47:41  |   Wed 28 Sep 2022
139 The Matrix 1999

139 The Matrix 1999

It’s the red pill, blue pill movie that Joe never saw. Now he knows what people were on about. But did he like it? And what about George? Does this still work for him? Listen now and discover the tru…

00:58:06  |   Wed 21 Sep 2022
138 Milk 2008

138 Milk 2008

This biopic explores the life of American gay rights activist, Harvey Milk and his subsequent assassination. Heavy stuff but you need more than important subject matter to make a good film. Did that …

00:51:19  |   Wed 14 Sep 2022
137 The Boys from Brazil (1978)

137 The Boys from Brazil (1978)

They’re boys, they’re from Brazil and they’re the spitting image of their, uh, dad? No, dad isn’t the right word here. Anyway, Nazi Hunter Laurence Oliver is hot on the trail. The question is, do our…

00:44:26  |   Wed 07 Sep 2022
136 Jaws 1975 with guest River Clegg

136 Jaws 1975 with guest River Clegg

It’s the classic shark meets beach. Shark eats beachgoers. Shark gets hunted. This pic created the concept of Summer blockbuster and the boys are joined by previous podcast guest and writer River Cle…

01:13:03  |   Wed 31 Aug 2022
135 Cabaret 1972

135 Cabaret 1972

This film about political apathy as the world is being taken over by fascist scum couldn’t possibly have any bearing on today’s world, could it? There can be no way this still works, right? 

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01:11:54  |   Wed 24 Aug 2022
134 Alien 1979 with guest Kit Nowokunski

134 Alien 1979 with guest Kit Nowokunski

It’s the movie that kicked off Sigourney Weaver’s career and launched way too many sequels, toys, video games and even novels. The boys are positively bursting out of their chests to watch Alien. And…

01:14:58  |   Wed 17 Aug 2022
133 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure 1985

133 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure 1985

Large Marge didn’t send them but the boys went anyway and saw the movie starring Paul Reubens’ iconic character, because the Patrons told them to. And they meant to do that.

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01:01:40  |   Wed 10 Aug 2022
132 What's Love Got to do With It? 1993

132 What's Love Got to do With It? 1993

It’s the Tina Turner biopic where she goes from being  a second class citizen to a star. She lives in Switzerland now so she doesn’t have to watch up close as millions of American women return to tha…

00:48:07  |   Wed 03 Aug 2022
131 Young Frankenstein 1974 with Guest Don Ford

131 Young Frankenstein 1974 with Guest Don Ford

The boys sit down for a look at yet another Mel Brooks movie with an assist from the voice of fantasy and adventure, Don Ford. 

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01:16:04  |   Wed 20 Jul 2022
130 Top Gun 1986

130 Top Gun 1986

It’s the movie that increased Naval enrollment by 400%! No record on how many males found out they were gay after seeing this flick but that’s got to be a similar percentage, right? Anyway, besides b…

01:11:55  |   Wed 13 Jul 2022
129 Sin City 2005

129 Sin City 2005

The boys take another walk down the crime path. You want B&W cinematography? It’s here! You want violence? You got it! You want crooked cops and nut jobs? Sure thing! But for all of that…does this st…

00:56:13  |   Wed 06 Jul 2022
128 Fargo 1996

128 Fargo 1996

Oh, Jeez this is that Cohen brothers movie. Ya! You betcha. Where the guy hires these fellas to kidnap his wife but darn tootin it goes wrong? Joe, oh fer sure, remembers the movie being pretty sweet…

00:56:21  |   Wed 29 Jun 2022
127 Spaceballs 1987

127 Spaceballs 1987

Space, the final frontier for Mel Brooks to mock. But how well does he do it? The boys take a look. 

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00:59:54  |   Wed 22 Jun 2022
126 Terms of Endearment 1983

126 Terms of Endearment 1983

It’s an Oscar winning mother & daughter movie with all the essentials: bickering, adultery, death, and for good measure, Jack Nicholson.  

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01:04:19  |   Wed 15 Jun 2022
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