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Tim and Jen invite their favorite internet crank Bitter Karella to help them analyze a bewildering major release that no one liked, Argylle. It's so confounding a project, it leads Karella to use the phrase "Brechtian distancing mechanism."Listen to our Apple TV+ episode, in which we read the entire platform to filth. F*ck you, Tim Apple!Read this Deadline article about the production and marvel at how out of touch these people sound. At the end, director Matthew Vaughn throws in an enthusiastic endorsement of the Apple Vision Pro.Read the incisive opinion piece Tim invoked when discussing the sexlessness of Argylle, R.S. Benedict's "Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny" via Blood Knife. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim just can't figure out why audiences were so lukewarm about this fun pulp adventure, The Phantom from 1996.Phantom creator Lee Falk enthused about the movie in a 1996 interview, singling out Billy Zane for particular praise.As Tim mentioned, the Phantom struck a chord with the people of Papua New Guinea. See examples of war shields of the PNG highlands featuring the character. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen welcome Rifftrax stalwarts Bill Corbett and Sean Thomason to discuss a cheapie high fantasy film that thinks it's a spaghetti western, Hawk the Slayer!Bill and Sean have brought their Ringheads podcast to a close, but if you crave some Silmarillon chat, find it on Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcast platform.The Rifftrax version of Hawk the Slayer is free with ads on Tubi, or you can secure your very own copy at the Rifftrax website!In the Realms of the Unreal does not appear to be streaming as of this writing, but you can find out more about outsider artist Henry Darger at the documentary's official website.Also, don't miss Bill's previous appearance on our show to chat about the 1979 TV movie version of Captain America, starring Big McLargehuge aka Reb Brown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim journey to Gumbasia to experience the vision of a lovable madman, The Gumby Movie, aka Gumby 1!The story of Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line that bears her name is a remarkable one, encompassing topics of institutionalized racism, scientific ethics, and medical marvels. Adam Curtis made a fine documentary about Lacks and the HeLa line of cells in 1997 for the BBC.The video for "All The Things She Said" by Simple Minds presents a fine example of the then-cutting-edge video work of filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczyński.And after you've seen that, really blow your mind with Charles and Ray Eames's head-spinning 1977 short, Powers of Ten! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen spice up their lives with a fluffy little movie about five assertive young women, Spice World!Read a contemporaneous account from Rolling Stone of the Spice Girls at the height of their global fame, in which they pick their noses, pee on things, and generally lark about.The VH1 commercial slamming ELO that Jen mentioned is the first one in this compilation.Yeah, what was the real Fox Force Five? Since there's a wiki for everything, check the one for Pulp Fiction:'This premise inspired the theme for the Spice Girls' 1996 music video for their song "Say You'll Be There" in which the girls adopt similar fictional identities.'

Jen and Tim mildly disagree on a Sam Raimi film that didn't quite hit with audiences the first time around, the gender-swapped revenge tale The Quick and the Dead.You can watch some deleted scenes from the film, including the love scene between Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe (or "liebesszene," as it's described here, because it's dubbed in German. A couple of the non-sexy scenes are missing audio, probably because those elements were lost after the theatrical edit was finalized.Jen raised the notion that women are better shots than men, but there's no real consensus. This study indicates that men and women are equally good at sharpshooting, apart from a slight advantage displayed by men with pistols. Well there goes the whole premise of the movie!!Yes, Sam Raimi did credit Joss Whedon with helping him on the ending of The Quick and the Dead, but we won't hold that against him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen invite the world's greatest Garfield scholar, Bitter Karella, to chat about a TV special inspired by a comic that traumatized a generation, Garfield: His 9 Lives.Read Misunderstanding Comics, the funniest comic Scott McCloud never wrote, written by Tim and illustrated by Bitter Karella! Make Tim get those copies out of storage!Have You Seen This...Dirty Cartoon? In case you missed our hilarious riff of Eveready Harton, you can watch it here, since you're a patron!See some pages from the story Tim enthused about, the 1984 G.I. Joe comic "Silent Interlude." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim swab the deck with a hygiene film straight from the U.S. Navy, The Story of D.E. 733: Ship of Shame. Actually, turns out it's pretty good, even with all the sores!See the film in two parts (first reel and second reel) over at the Periscope Film YouTube channel, but be warned that it contains insert shots of male genitalia with symptoms of sexually transmitted infections. Wrap it before you tap it!Jen says Mike Pence was governor of Iowa when she should have said Indiana. As she is a lifelong coastal elite, the states in the middle of the country just merge into a big blur when she looks at them. Anyway, the HIV outbreak started when Pence balked at funding needle exchanges for injection drug users.See photos from the wartime U.S. Naval Photographic Services Depot, which produced The Story of D.E. 733.The song the sailors are singing at the beginning of the film is "Bell Bottom Trousers," which was adapted from an extremely saucy folk ballad called "Rosemary Lane." Wikipedia has the original s

Tim and Jen brave the crowdfunded sequel to Showgirls, a mindbogglingly lengthy auteur statement called Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven.The entire thing is the work of bit-part Showgirls (the original) actress Rena Riffel, who wrote, directed, edited, and starred in...this.  Please don't be mad at us Rena we love youSee Rena's pivotal appearance in Tim's beloved Fishmasters, the low-budget but charming San Luis Obispo-area TV show mentioned in the episode.Geeks of Doom had some hilariously wrong information about the film when the first trailer and crowdfunding appeal droppped:[T]he film is “about stripper who died from a dose of contaminated cocaine. Her brother comes to Frankfurt to find the responsible and revenge.”We've seen it, and it's not that. Luna Guthrie at Collider treats the movie much more kindly than we do, if you want a different take.Finally, please watch Jen's video mashing up R.O.T.O.R. with Midi, Maxi, and Efti, and follow us on YouTube if you're not sick of us alr

Jen and Tim contextualize the band that ruled Nixon's America, The Carpenters, for Todd Haynes's early dollhouse biopic, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.Watch the film on the Internet Archive, but don't tell Richard Carpenter you did!Entertainment Weekly took a look back at the film in the aftermath of the unstoppable cultural juggernaut that was the Barbie movie.Friend of Todd Haynes and producer Christine Vachon spilled some info on the restoration of Superstar in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim wisely stays far away while Jen hosts the lovable Worst of All Possible Worlds boys to chat about the worst of all possible musicals, Aladdin from 1990. Yes, it's not the animated version, but it does involve Disney. Listen if you don't believe us!The moribund website of the Prince Street Players remains online, in case you want to do a deeper dive on the organization responsible for this mess.Behold the "I Want to be Ninja" lady, but be prepared to apologize to your Asian friends. And yes, she does appear to be milking her dubious viral fame.Regarding the Barry Bostwick-featuring commercial Jen mentioned, Brian made up a Pepsi product, and Jen believed him! The commercial actually presented Pepsi Twist, with lemon.Check out Tim's Myst linking book set, and follow him on Instagram to see more of his amazing Lego creations! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim debate just how much he actually likes movie musicals during their discussion of a mutual fave, the musical comedy Earth Girls Are Easy.According to her own website, writer and actress Julie Brown is currently working on Earth Girls Are Easy...the musical version! Maybe even Tim will deign to see it!Vanity Fair covered Angelyne in 2022, post-Hollywood Reporter exposé. According to the article, the producers of the Angelyne miniseries paid their subject for her life rights, although she declined a producer credit.For more Julian Temple, enjoy the longform music video he directed for David Bowie, Jazzin' For Blue Jean.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen welcome Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to discuss a concentrated version of the political correctness panic of the 90s, Disclosure.If for some reason you need to subject yourself to the gross-out video Alex dropped in the chat while we were recording, here you go: Michael Douglas eats an oyster. From 1995, this Vanity Fair article about Michael Douglas covers some of the production of Disclosure. Also highlighted are Douglas's personal struggles at the time, including a reconciliation with wife Diandra (who'd file for divorce later that year).If you just can't get enough 90s tech references, check out this history of SiliconGraphics, the company that created a lot of the computer imagery in Disclosure. It's a UNIX system! You know this!For more Michael Douglas (dunno why you want more, but you do you), listen to our episode about The Ghost and the Darkness! qMxGGTmD6UjV4hf4hV3a Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim discover the work of Nikos Nikolaidis through his magnum opus, the twisted noir grotesque Singapore Sling. Bring a bucket!The director's official site provides a great deal of valuable context for his work, which has been little seen in the United States. Among others, you can purchase an HD digital download of Singapore Sling. Related: Jen asserted that the film was "coming soon" to blu-ray, but it turns out it already made it to a special edition German blu-ray back in 2013. That edition appears to be out of print, but the film can be found if you know where to look. For more visionary sicko shit, listen to our episode about David Cronenberg's Crash!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen wrap up their look back at the first one hundred episodes of the show by listing their worst favorites! Yes, you read that right!Hear about the movies we actually liked in our last episode, in case you missed it.The lamentable fan film The Return of the Ghostbusters (aka "The Denver Ghostbusters," in the same vein as "Terrifier the Clown") shows no signs of disappearing from YouTube. Your time might be better spent (?) on primo schlock like Godfrey Ho's Crocodile Fury, or the wildest Florida Man story ever shot on video, Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness. And of course there's Romeo and Romeo! The Doomsday Machine is way more enjoyable when it's riffed by Cinematic Titanic— highly recommended! Watch it free on Tubi.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim pick their top five favorite subjects from the first one hundred episodes of the show. It was supposed to be their most and least faves, but they just talk too damn much! Looks like they gotta record a whole other episode to air their least faves of the first hundred.If you watch just one episode of the (sadly few) remaining of the British series Dead of Night, "A Woman Sobbing" should be your pick.Outsider art enthusiasts: walk, don't run to catch Romeo and Romeo. It truly is something special.Horror Express is pretty easy to find, but a lot of poor quality versions are out there. This one is quite nice, however. Threads has grown in reputation such that it often appears on streaming services like Shudder and Criterion Channel, but you can always find it at the Internet Archive. Ghostwatch, the show that scared an entire country so badly they put it in a lockbox for 25 years, may also be viewed on the Archive! Part 2, where we name our least favorites of the first hundred episodes

Tim grudgingly assents to a discussion of a shot-on-video thriller from the crusty lower depths of Tubi, 1994's L.A. AIDS Jabber.Of course you're going to want to rush right over to Tubi in order to enjoy all 78 action-packed, low-resolution minutes of L.A. AIDS Jabber. It's free (with ads)!Over at The Body, Mathew Rodriguez wrings some thoughtful musings on AIDS stigma and the inversion of the white male savior trope out of the movie.Rafe Oman interviews director Drew Godderis for Scare Magazine in honor of the blu-ray release of L.A. AIDS Jabber. Can you believe he had never directed a movie before?!For shot-on-video shlock Tim is actually enthusiastic about, listen to our episode about Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

K. Thor Jensen makes a triumphant return to the show to help Jen and Tim make sense of a nice young man's three-hour-long passion project, That One Amazing Movie!See the movie for free with ads on Crackle, or rent or even buy it on Amazon!Watch Deception on Demand, a short documentary laying out several grievances against Adler &Associates Entertainment, the entity which distributed That One Amazing Movie."The true story of how the grifters and con artists from Adler & Associates Entertainment hired O.J. Simpson's lawyers, and spent a small fortune, futilely trying to intimidate, harass and rip-off a very determined filmmaker. "Hear Thor talk about Sass Girls X, the novel (!) from the auteur who brought us That One Amazing Movie, on the I Don't Even Own a TV podcast.Listen to Thor's first appearance on our show, to discuss a movie just as baffling as the one we talked about in this episode, Wonder Boy.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim wisely goes absent with leave as Jen invites Bitter Karella to the necropsy of a dire children's film from 1998, The Adventures of Ragtime.Should you wish to self-harm, you can watch the full movie (with helpful timecode) at Showcase Entertainment's channel on YouTube.Is it crass to post this screenshot of Shelley Long from the movie? Yeah, probably. Has that ever stopped us?See photos of Ragtime at a very Web 1.0 site that his caregivers appear to have left up as a memorial to the tiny stallion.For some more grown-up yet still juvenile horse content, listen to our Hot to Trot episode!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.See this slab of gelatinous treacle for yourself at the Internet Archive. William Conant Church, brother of Francis Church, did indeed help found the NRA in 1871, in an effort to improve marksmanship amongst the broader American militia. He and brother Francis co-founded several news publications, including the New York Sun, and he also co-founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Additionally, Frank Church was not the volcel depicted in the Yes, Virginia special— he was married to a woman named Elizabeth Wickham. In spite of Tim's joshing, it appears that Church did not have a severe yet shapely assistant who browbeat him into publishing the editorial addressed to Virginia O'Hanlon. The O'Hanlon letter was passed on by Edward Page Mitchell, the real-life editor-in-chief of the Sun.Karella alluded to the "Season's Greetings" meme drawn from