Strange and Beautiful Book Club

Kevin Costner stars in this gluttonously ambitious film about a man adapted for life on the water in world made of water where no one else is adapted to water and the Jelly is real. We ponder such in…

Kurt Russell stars as Todd, a now obsolete soldier who must carve out a new life on a trash planet but finds himself thwarted at every turn by his utter lack of people skills. Luckily, it's his talen…

Have you ever asked yourself, what if half the cast of Alien were vampires in a vampire movie that wanted to be a western but couldn't be a western because it was the 80s and nobody wanted westerns? …

We polish this absolutely amazing turd of a movie from 1991 in which everyone collectively worked together to create a sequel for a movie none of them had ever seen or heard of or had any interest in…

Let's unpack some of the trauma that led us to the quirky podcasters we are today and we owe no small part of that to this movie. It's so rife with repressed horrors that Matt took almost a week to m…

We had another movie planned but things are wild right now and we decided that getting you all an episode this week was of greater moral significance than sticking to our usual rotation. Have high ho…

We discuss this near future post apocalyptic (kind of) dystopian film with lots of martial arts and guns. So many guns. The world, and a puppy, are saved by Christian Bale in this fast paced, super f…

This movie had so many pieces of wonderful bits that it feels like a shame they couldn't stitch it together into the beautiful whole it definitely could have been. Beautiful filming, beautiful locati…

We discuss the 2001 psychological horror masterpiece, Frailty with Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe and Matthew McConaughey in which Bill Paxton good-naturedly leads his children towards their destiny of k…

The 30 million dollar (roughly 90 million today) fantasy epic that is the very definition of style over substance. Lets face it, a million went to the main actor's pants and we all know it. An epic t…

It's naval battles... in space. With fighter ships named after swords and space ships shaped like submarines. There's a plot, we think, and someone acted but we couldn't say who. Obviously we freakin…

Matt and I tackle this absolute gem, a PRISM if you will, of a horror movie. Surrealist, visually stunning, and absolutely horrific in all the right places. Natalie Portman shines in this female cent…

In depth discussion of the 2006 visually stunning gem starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, "The Fountain". A simple, but powerfully told story of life, death and the acceptance of mortality. We ha…

Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. are pure magic in a movie that takes on one of the most quintessential life lessons that we should all embrace: no prejudice can survive understanding. Davidge is a…

We are joined by Erik Hanson of the "Cradle to the Grave" Podcast to discuss a little known Jude Law vampire movie called "Wisdom of the Crocodiles" or, more inanely, "Immortality." Although the movi…

In which we discuss the entertaining but not deep fantasy epic of 2009 starring James Purefoy as the bad-ass puritan warrior involuntarily bound for Hell. 

References:

The Wisdom of the Crocodiles

The I…

Matt and I delve deep into the 1998 Noir masterpiece that starred Rufus Sewell and Jennifer Connelly along with William Hurt and so many more surprising actors. This is a perennial favorite in our ho…

Outtakes from our most recent episode of Book Talk with Kate! Includes her defense of Everything Everywhere All at Once, the answer to the question of whether you can store chips in your pant cuffs, …