Can You Read Title Cards?

 
   This week three disembodied voices discuss devoiced bodies. 

     A classic that launched 31 years of monster movies. A benchmark performance in the genre which looms just as large 91 years later. The first of a billion chandelier drops. Lon Chaney and company transform one of literature's most absurd characters into a haunting legend that overshadows its source. Read that strange duet with The Phantom of the Opera.

     A permanently smiling clown, desperate for love that he fells he can never deserve, is elevated to the halls of power in an adaption of Victor Hugo's melodrama. The last glorious blast of German expressionism which casts almost as long a shadow over the Universal Monsters as Phantom. Bolstered by one of the most sensitive performances ever filmed. Tragically, they did remove his brutal takedown of English government... The Man Who Laughs.

     The first film of one of the world's most popular characters. Starring by the first man to ever play the part and brought many of the staple to him that the author never envisioned before. Lost for nearly a century. William Gillette kept Sherlock Holmes viable and popular while Doyle desperately tried to forget him. 1916's Sherlock Holmes.

     A commentary on the conditions people face because of modernization. A tedious, lazy, and completely out of touch satire that set the stage for so many luddite arguments to follow. Considered by some his magnum opus despite yet another fair and featureless heroine and a total lack of points to make besides old rich man thinks progress is bad, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. Don't worry, not all of us hated it.
All that AND Dave shares the pain, Tyler embraces love, and Kevin plots revenge. Join us, won't you?

Episode 181- Can You Read Title Cards?

Doctor Say Stalk You Out

     This week the world's most popular actor, an emotionally distant cop, a  heart damaged teen, and no more mister nice doctor. 

     Everyone loves Nick Lang and his fun box office powerhouse adventure films. Nick has grown desperate to be taken seriously as an actor. In order to get deep inside a gritty cop, he arranges to tag along with NYPD lieutenant John Moss. Moss is obsessed with catching a killer called "Party Crasher". Wackiness ensues, lessons are learned, and an amazing supporting cast is wasted The Hard Way.
     Because her boyfriend can't stop texting and driving, Sophie Green is in yet another accident. Tragically, this time her broken rib pierces her heart and requires immediate surgery. Fortunately, she by chance gets the best heart surgeon and  specialist in the world, Dr. Albert Beck. Beck's specialty is really a reflection of his desperation to be loved... and he really wants to be loved by Sophie. Too bad he comes on way too strong because he's a big creep and overwhelmingly gross in his desire to lick her in public... which is still step up from her father and boyfriend but let's not unpack that right now. Your broken heart might never get proper medical attention if you are Stalked by My Doctor.

     Also Dave gets a new toy, Kevin chokes on his jealousy, and Tyler curates the fourth largest collection of porn gifs. Join us, won't you?

Episode 180- Doctor Say Stalk You Out

City of Mant

     This week a pair of celebrations of cinema from two very different perspectives. 

     Key West, the Cuban Missile Crisis, teen hormones going crazy from the heat when the fourth greatest showman in the world, Lawrence Woolsey, rolls into town to exhibit his newest masterpiece of radioactive horror! THRILL! as the Greatest Movie within a Movie is Unveiled Before Your Eyes! Witness!! the Terrifying Power of Rumble-Rama!! BEHOLD!!! the Simmering Passions of a People Enthralled by Terror!!! RotP Proudly Presents a Celebration of B-Movie Spirit.... MATINEE!
     People once believed that when a movie died, a Producer carried to the land of the dead. But some times, something makes so much money that a terrible sadness is carried with it, and the Producers can't rest. Then often, far too often, the Producers bring that movie back and put the right things wrong. The sequel to one of the decade's longest shadowed films. A lead who can't emote in English or fight. A villain who seems to have been ripped out of a different movie entirely. The lovely Mia Kirshner in daily fetish wear... THE CROW: CITY OF ANGELS.
     All that plus Dave endures, Kevin likes to watch, and Tyler rolls in a tub of vegan Jell-o. Join us, won't you?

Episode 179- City of Mant

Holy Fist

      This week two classics of their genres. Two films from lands outside of Hollywood. Two titans whose shadows cast long over the valley of film and solidified their creators as masters. Two films with endless monologues about nothing pretending to be insightful...

     One of the most famous Mexican films ever produced. Headed by a massively multi-hyphenate, writer-director-composer-editor-set designer-costume designer-star, Alejandro Jodorowsky. All the esoteric you can handle and a heaping helping of exploding frogs. Can he lead the worst people on Earth to the enlightenment waiting atop The Holy Mountain?

     What happens when a TV series based on a manga takes all the violence they can't show on broadcast and rearranges it for theatrical distribution to get their gore on? Possibly the best post-apocalyptic action film to not feature anyone named Max or Carradine. When Ken is left for dead after being betrayed by his best friend and all the others he called brothers, he goes on a quest to clean the wastes and rescue his kidnapped lover, Julia. The legend, the myth, the seventh goriest film we have watched... Fist of the North Star.
     All that AND Dave finally breaks, Tyler reveals his secret plans, and Kevin finally pops that balloon. Join us, won't you?

EPISODE 178- Holy Fist