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Tim and Jen enlist the help of Bitter Karella to wade through the 22 minutes of treacle that is the forgotten faux-Peanuts special, Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.
Jen and Tim are doing misogyny again! They DO NOT support women...filmmakers who make bloodless, smarmy takes on rape-revenge flicks. Kind of like Promising Young Woman!
Tim and Jen finally give the departed William Friedkin a proper sendoff with a discussion of his once-maligned masterpiece, Sorcerer. Guest Darren Herczeg provides his usual able assistance.
To clear …
Jen and Tim suffer through the half-baked hippie whimsy of the Beatles' first major creative cock-up, Magical Mystery Tour.
If you're curious, you can watch the Pet Shop Boys' head-scratcher of a long…
Tim and Jen seek aid from wacky funster Bitter Karella to explain a film series as British as lousy weather and inedible food: the Carry On series! Also, Tim positively bursts with Carry On-related r…
Jen and Tim do a deep dive into the canned pumpkin pie filling that is Shudder's Ghoul Log! Are we serious with this shit? You tell us! However, all of the usual outlets appear to trick-or-treat it w…
Tim and Jen bring back one of horror’s heaviest (lol) hitters to talk about a movie William Friedkin couldn’t be bothered to mention after he made it, The Guardian!
Tim’s quip about Q’s on Wilshire re…
Jen is pleasantly surprised when Tim suggests a horror movie that's actually pretty good: the eerie anthology with a twist, Ghost Stories. Also, Tim gives an impromptu lecture on the deeper meaning o…
Jen and Tim come to a tenuous agreement about a once universally loathed Martin Short comedy, Clifford. Also, Tim punches down ruthlessly on a twenty pound miniature pinscher.
The Slate article about …
Tim and Jen head back to the pre-prestige-TV cable well with a failed spinoff of Tales From the Crypt called Perversions of Science. Throughout, you can really tell that your hosts would rather be wa…
Jen enlists show stalwart Bitter Karella to help offend nearly every single person in the Czech Republic by providing an honest review of Goat Story: The Old Prague Legends.
See the intro for the show…
Jen and Tim quibble over Bobcat Goldthwait’s directorial debut, the seedy comic tale of Shakes the Clown. Also, Jen drops some hard truths about Robin Williams.
Patton Oswalt tells his story about the…
Tim and Jen look at the creepiest Charles Bronson film not directed by Michael Winner, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects.
Regarding Jill Ireland leaving then-husband David McCallum for Bronson, longtime rum…
Jen and Tim get mad enough to talk about All Hallow’s Eve and Terrifier (the first one) for almost two hours!
Jen really punted when she said that scary clowns go back to John Wayne Gacy— according to…
Tim and Jen review a film of great technical genius and great vacuity of story: Natalie Wood’s final film, Brainstorm. But Jen liked at least half of it. Also, please send Tim all of your uneaten can…
Jen and Tim struggle to understand the newly-minted cult status of a flop from Keanu Reeve’s himbo era, the cyberpunk thriller Johnny Mnemonic. They also put on hazmat suits and and delve into the ho…
Tim and Jen dutifully cover the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell, the Paul Schrader (!)-directed Witch Hunt.
Jen erred and called Schrader’s 2022 film Master Gardener “Master.” Was she thinking of the Pa…
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Jen and Tim try to say something nice about a pay cable attempt at Love…
Tim is too cool to talk about a nerdy British kid’s coming of age story, so Jen and special guest @bitterkarella step in to talk about cult BBC teleplay Penda’s Fen.
BFI did indeed release Penda’s Fen…