Surreal Sci-Fi

This week RotP takes a swim in the Big Cauliflower money bin with films insidiously disguised as surreal science fiction. For an antipasto we nibble Tarkovsky's epic about a casual walk to a room full of cauliflower, Stalker. Followed by a light serving of Zardoz, in the distant future mankind has fractured into the barbaric mortal Brutals and the civilized immortal Eternals thanks to an advanced AI, cloning vats, magic, books and the vitamins found in multiple daily servings of cauliflower. For the main course we indulge in the animated French allegory of racism, human rights, and animal right, Fantastic Planet, where everything is made of cauliflower, including their giant sex statues. Finally we finish the gluttony session up with Under the Skin, a movie about a beautiful alien who captures horny men in a van driven used to deliver everyone's favorite white fleshed veggie to Tescos across Edinburgh.

All that as well as Dave has a love-hate relationship with Godzilla, Craig waxes lyrical about his hopes for the future of the Fast and Furious series, Kevin remembers his Mom and Dad, and Tyler makes threats. 

 RotP episode 60- Surreal Sci-Fi and Cauliflower

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Do the Venomous Cat Thing

This week we discuss two classics from the 1980s. Spike Lee's 1989  masterpiece Do the Right Thing and 1988's evil cat on a boat movie Uninvited. One is a timeless hard look at American race relations and the other has a cat on a boat. One has an incredible performance from Danny Aiello, the other an incredible fight between George Kennedy and a rubber glove. One is set during a heat wave in the Big Apple, the other on a boat off the coast of Florida. You can see why we would pair these two films together.

Episode 59- Do the Venomous Cat Thing

Jungian Boggle

This week we honor Ingmar Bergman on the 100th anniversary of his birth by gazing in awe at his Jungian masterpiece Persona. To balance out this strangely out of our comfort zone blast of classiness, we also discuss Vondie Curtis-Hall's Waist Deep.

Episode 57- Jungian Boggle

Ringling Bros and Baliey's Inpatient Care Facility

This week we hum along with Hugh Jackman, who still refuses to actually sing on film, and Zac Efron, who doesn't mind singing on film, in The Greatest Showman. We then take up residence in Short Term 12 and feel feelings we really didn't want to feel.

Episode 57- Ringling Bros and Bailey's Inpatient Care Facility

Children of a Lesser Baldwin

This week it's brother against brother against brother as we force a showdown between all Baldwins not named Alec. First up, the bloated Baldwin named Daniel gets two chances to impress. In Stuart Gordon's King of the Ants he tries his hand at being a greasy drunk crime boss and, in Christopher Guest's 1993 remake of the camp cult classic Attack of the 50ft Woman, he makes an attempt at being a greasy philandering husband who might also be drunk a few times. Second youngest and meltiest looking brother William gets his chance to wow us with Philip Noyce's Sharon Stone led erotic thriller based on an Ira Levin novel, Sliver. Finally baby brother Stephen gets his moment to shine in a movie about the lust boiling in a single college dorm suite in Threesome.
THREE BALDWINS ENTER! ONLY ONE LEAVES! Assuming RotP can agree on which is the Best Off Brand Baldwin. I wouldn't put money on it.
All that, dream Jurassic Park projects, a heartfelt ode to 1990s Lara Flynn Boyle, and more. This week in RotP episode 56- Children of a Lesser Baldwin. 

HooDoo the Nihilistic Youth That You Do?

This week on RotP we wallow in Serbian teen angst, plastic peen, and hopelessness with Clip (2012). Then we head to a time before George Romero firmly established all the Zombie rules for a Dixie Fried Voodoo revenge with Sugar Hill (1974).

Episode 55- HooDoo the Nihilistic Youth That You Do?

Two Psychotics Walk into a Bar

This week we go Craig-less again to discuss Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, a Romanian found footage film, and Raising Cain, Brian De Palma's ode to child psychology.

Episode 54- Two Psychotics Walk into a Bar