A Dish Best Served Lukewarm

     Max's cage tightens around the Bowdens and they all find themselves in bad places alone. Dave might have forgotten to upload this last week. 

     Join us, wont' you? And again on Wednesday when we get deep into the finale like Max in a brain damage driven hallucination.
   Cape Fear Minisode 9- A Dish Best Served Lukewarm

Potentialpopspalooza

     Four dads, zero grills, zero puns. The best evidence yet that something truly terrible is happening. Don't worry, there's plenty of emotional and physical abuse to make up for it. 

   Cape Fear Minisode 7- Potentialpopspalooza

Of COURSE I'd CCH Pound Her

     Someone dosed the iced tea and now we all have to sweat it out together. To make matters worse, Tom and Anna are determined to make issues with their new neighbor and a squatter is going to give the surprise landlords a real headache. 

   Cape Fear Minisode 6- Of COURSE I'd CCH Pound Her

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

     After a night of drinking with Max, Tom's hangover is far worse than he imagined possible. Anna tracks down Neveah's mother with devastating consequences. Meanwhile, Max meets his new neighbors and they seem lovely.

   Cape Fear Minisode #5- Please Won't You Be My Neighbor?

But What You Make Others See

This week- the boys take a trip to an art exhibit, the girls visit a pop up artist, and Max tries to buy a car in Cape Fear episode 4 "Pierced". 
Cape Fear Minisode #3- But What You Make Others See

Maxxed Out

     This week- We pick up a guy from jail and join a tale of revenge that has been told three times before. That's right- Kevin, Craig, and Dave are talking about Apple TV's Cape Fear episode 1.

   Cape Fear Minisode #1- Maxxed Out

Salty about Craig's Vinegar

 This week- a tour through Craig's Vinegar Syndrome collection brings ruin.

When Madeline, who lost her ability to speak due to trauma, is picked up, on her way to therapy, by Tony, a human trafficker who enjoys writing taunting letters to his victim's families, she is soon forced into a life of addiction and sexual assault. Fortunately, she is given every Monday off to attend classes in revenge. A seminal, in both uses of the word, film in the rape-revenge genre: Thriller- A Cruel Picture.
16-year old Candy is abducted on her way home from school. The kidnapper's demand is simple, her stepfather just leaves a bag of diamonds from the store he manages in a trash can and the girl will be released. Unfortunately, stepdad has too much to gain from Candy dying in the very near future and is more than willing to make sure it happens. A grimy 70s thriller that has only more recently received its cult status: The Candy Snatchers.

Don't say the name Madman Marz in these woods or he will respond. On the last night of camp, a playful night around the campfire turns into a bloody struggle for survival. Will the campers live to be picked up by their parents? Will the councilors be able to have their final hot tub canoodle without having to hose out the blood? Will that song ever leave my head? Madman.
A group from an all-girls Catholic college go to catalog the collection of their late benefactor, Tyler Welles. After finding the diary of a young woman who died in the house decades earlier, they decide to hold a seance. Soon supernatural and much more Earthly horrors begin to befall the girls one by one. Will any of them live to see the auction they are working diligently towards? Will their nun chaperone recover from her headache or are their devilish shenanigans keeping her down? Just how hard am I supposed to squint to see the resemblance to that painting? Possibly the tamest release to ever land in Tromaville- Girls School Screamers.
All that and Dave needs a nap, Craig considers dentistry, Tyler revels, and Kevin goes to his happy place far far away. Join us, won't you?

   Episode 406- Salty about Craig's Vinegar

A Pair of Genes

     This week- two films starring the brilliant Gene Hackman. 

     Harry Moseby, a former football player turned private investigator, is hired to find a runaway sixteen-year-old. A search that will drag him into a conspiracy and coverup. The fourth genre redefining feature in a row from director Arthur Penn, Night Moves.
     A seasoned nuclear submarine commander and his new executive office clash over how to interpret their orders and at what point does on make a decision that could have grave consequences on massive scales. A pair of masterful performances from the best of their respective generation, Crimson Tide.

     All that and Kevin commissions a new battalion, Tyler celebrates in the way he is most accustomed, Dave has shallow thoughts, and Craig is already reaping what he has sown. Join us. won't you?
   Episode 403- A Pair of Genes

S'all About the Bass

     This week an expedition through the ant infested desert of Kenya, Arizona and a tour through the crime ridden streets of Baltimore, Quebec. 

     In the aftermath of a strange cosmic event, ants begin acting strangely and rapidly changing. A pair of scientists and a 16-year old girl investigate this phenomena. The only feature directed by a legendary graphic artist and an absolute spectacle of macrophotography, Phase IV.

     On New Years Eve, a sniper begins to shoot random targets. After making an impression at the crime scene, Patrol Officer Falco is assigned to a special taskforce led by FBI Special Agent Lammark. Together they launch a desperate search for the killer before he can strike again. The first English-language feature from Argentinian writer-director Damián Szifron, To Catch a Killer.
     All that and Craig mourns his abandoned partner Mr Beepy, Tyler has dreams of skateboarders in Texas, Dave isn't sure if he still likes to watch, and Kevin plots his terrible revenge with an army of squirrels. Join us, won't you?
   Episode 351- S'all About the Bass

Tunnel of Swole

     This week- two movies with surprise orgies and appreciations for the male form in different sizes.

     Simon is a cold call scam employee in a dying relationship without any direction or joy. His last ditch effort to change his life trajectory is to join a gym and try and reclaim his body from desk degradation. He soon meets trainer Terry and everything changes. Centered by a powerhouse performance from Craig Fairbrass in a pitch black comedy about toxic masculinity and how far one can be pushed, Muscle.
     In the not too distant future, the world as we know it is over. The remains of humanity live in caves and scavenge to survive. When young David kills one of the tribe's leaders, he and his friends are banished to soon die in the wilds. Luckily they stumble on a solar powered city from the past and its two last residents. Larry Clark's entry in a series of AIP remakes with creature designs by the legendary Stan Winston Studios, Teenage Caveman.
     All that and Dave keeps skipping someone, Kevin gets life from a box set, Craig surfaces from the wastes to rasp out a warning, and Tyler indulges. Join us, won't you?
   Episode 316- Tunnel of Swole

Boards & Bars

     This week- a pair of nightmares.

     For Michael's seventeenth birthday, his bestie Tony gifts him one of Hasbro's most popular board games and a pair of supernatural bonus gifts that apparently come with it. Now Michael has to try and save people we have to assume are his friends, despite how much believing he has friends breaks suspension of disbelief, from a serial killer. Why is Michael having these visions? Who is killing his circle of distant acquaintances? How much extra did they pay the romantic interest for her massive ability to not roll her eyes while speaking to Michael? No matter what, just Don't Panic.
     DC area punk band, Arlington's The Ain't Rights, are on an extended couch surfing tour on the other side of the country. Low on cash, out of gas, and without any future gigs they take a well paying slot in a Neo-Nazi bar somewhere outside of Portland. Soon they are drawn into a violent event that leaves them terrified, barricaded, and with little hope they will see the next morning. What happened in the Green Room?
     All that and Dave hopes dimensions to meet other Daves - they are all bastards but very pretty, Tyler plots revenge against the Pokemon Company, and Kevin swears a blood oath to the demon that lives in his neighbor's sump pump. Join us, won't you?
    Episode 311- Boards & Bars

Futurity Ne'er Expires

     This week the second starring role for one of Hong Kong's most bad ass stars and a film made by a son of a Bond. 

     When Hong Kong detective Michelle Yip, air security guard Michael Wong, and hardboiled Tokyo detective Yamamoto team up to stop a crime boss's daring in flight escape. Little do the expect that it would set them, and all the care about, in the sights of a pair of revenge focused blood brothers. Michelle Yeoh steps out of the supporting role and into butt kicking lead glory- Royal Warriors.
     Asher lost his hearing 20 years ago when his brother was murdered by Ivan. News of Ivan's early release from prison sets Asher on a path of revenge against the man he has dreamed of killing for most of his life. There's just two small complications, the ridiculous script and the fact that Ivan is Asher's father. Sean Brosnan's attempt at Dixie fried revenge- My Father Die.
     All that and Dave feels some feelings. Kevin starts to horde physical media, and Tyler marvels at the Thrasher pictures still glues to his wall. Join us, won't you?
   Episode 298- Futurity Ne'er Expires

Rural Bags of Dirt

     This week- two unreported sexual assaults, six rapists, and two male leads who make everything about themselves... 

     When Paul, a greasy kid from a small Midwest town, is accepted to NYU on an academic scholarship. The university rooms him with 3 roofie slinging serial rapists from the city who resent his polite and hardworking ways. Soon Paul finds himself sleeping in the back of a strangely always empty veterinarian's office. When, for more reasons that are impossible to discern, his former roommates talk him into letting them throw a party at the vet's while he's out at a concert. Coming home he finds a classmate, hardworking and studious Dora, overdosed and abandoned on his toilet. Romance ensues? Some people have a lot of nostalgia and love for Amy Heckerling's Loser. 

     An American applied mathematician, David, and his English wife, Amy, move to the small Cornish moorland town she grew up in. Taking residence in the isolated and dilapidated Trechers Farm, David hires a few local men to fix the garage and take care of the rat problem. Soon tensions with the locals grow over David's aloofness and cracks in his marriage spread. When David takes in an injured man and refuses to give him over to vigilantes, it all boils over in a rush of violence. Is a civilized man pushed too far, is this the inevitable beast inside a man all along, or is this an inadvertent criticism of the toxic masculinity the filmmaker thought he was celebrating? There are no easy answers in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.

     All that and Dave sees a doc, Kevin finally turns on a light, and Tyler ate a lot of pie. Join us, won't you?

  Episode 286- Rural Bags of Dirt

Mopey Guys

    This week, two movies about fast friendships tested with mental health issues.

     In the adult industry, according to the opening text, mopes are guys who do the worst jobs, the lowest position possible. Based on the true story of Tom Dong and Steve Driver, professional porn supporting actors. Can Steve's big dreams drive them to their glorious dream wonderland? Why did Tom leave his skilled well paid profession to do this full time? I don't know and neither do the makers of... Mope.
     Washington, D.C. detective and forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Cross heads to Durham, North Carolina to help find his missing niece. Within 2 hours of arrival, he discovers that his niece was taken by a prolific serial abductor, rapist, and killer who calls himself Casanova. Shortly after his arrival, Kate McTiernan, an internist at the University hospital, is taken from her home in the middle of the night. Luckily for all, Kate is a fighter and soon will slip her captor to help Cross bring him to justice. Casanova just wants to... Kiss the Girls.
     All that and Kevin gets his morally ambiguous cynicism on, Dave wrangles a large lizard, and Tyler communicates across a rainy void. Join us, won't you?
   
   Episode 283- Mopey Boys

Dial-a-Surf

    This week a master experiments with their art and a dude goes to the beach.

     When former professional tennis player Tony learns of his wife's affair with a crime fiction writer, he concocts a scheme that would make Agatha Christie herself take some notice. Leaning on a fellow Cambridge alumnus, he rolls his plan into motion. Unfortunately, events take a turn. Can Tony salvage his scheme? Will the incredibly disinterested police inspector solve his tangled puzzle? To find out- Dial M for Murder.
     Billy wants to be a kite surfer. To help him achieve this dream, all of Texas passes the hat and raises enough money to get him to a competition of questionable prestige. En route he picks up a pretty hitchhiker and sparks fail to ignite. Soon stakes happen and there's a mean Frenchmen and 2 Chainz and other people. Non of it matters as long as Billy can Send It!
     All that and Tyler reevaluates a superhero of biblical proportions, Kevin doesn't like a joke, Dave tried to silence a radio, and Craig finally begins his long gestating plan of global domination. Join us, won't you?

Episode 247- Dial-a-Surf

Mind Your Teas and Qs

      This week two girls with slight daddy issues and different ways of expressing their inner turmoil. 

     13- year old Rynn's father is a poet and far too secretive for their nosey landlady, Mrs. Hallet, who keeps finding reasons to bother them. Which, in turn, gives her son reason to suspect that his bothering Rynn won't have anyone to interfere. Part takedown of small town bigotry and isolationism, part children's rights parable, part  wrapped in a unique horror mystery... what happened to The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane?
     Cécile has her father's ashes in a Tupperware container. Her grief turns her into the embodiment of desire as she roams through a small French seaside city. There's a vague economic crisis and a group of connected but nameless and faceless pretty young people stumble around with her. Will Cécile and the rest find whatever it is they are looking for? Or is there nothing but Q (aka Desire)?
     All that and Dave gets senile, Kevin self harms, and Tyler rolls in something. Join us, won't you?

Episode 214- Mind Your Teas and Qs

I Know Who Joyrode Me

     This week- two tales of youth in over their heads and at the mercy of corrupt officials.

     Jason and Midget are avid participants in Newark's most popular sport- joyriding. One day they pick the wrong car to an evening drive. Owned by a police officer who will stop at nothing to clear himself in the wrongful shooting of a neighborhood kid. Beware the traffic through a New Jersey Drive.

     The town of New Salem has a predator among its sleepy inhabitants. Terrible pianist and aspiring writer of dinosaur Kindle erotica, Aubrey Fleming, disappears one night after a football game. Days later she is found in a ditch horrifically missing limbs. When she wakes up in the hospital she reveals another shock, that she isn't Aubrey but down-on-her-luck stripper Dakota Moss. Is Dakota her mind protecting her from trauma? Is she really not Aubrey and if so where is the town's favorite fanfic author? All this and more will be revealed, mush to everyone's dismay, as soon as Dakota says I Know Who Killed Me.

     All that and Dave survives another November marathon, Kevin likes to watch, and Tyler does terrible things to himself in the name of art. Join us, won't you? 

Episode 182- I Know Who Joyrode Me