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All bad films have a silver lining. At least, that's the theory Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre are hoping to prove in this new podcast.
Joel and Andy are joined by Ernest-aficionado Michelle Faulkner-Forson to discuss Ernest Saves Christmas; a film that may be maligned, but one that may have also inspired The Santa Clause.
Joel and Andy have stumbled across a truly bizarre film: A Wrestling Christmas Miracle. In it, a high school wrestler makes a film to wake his friend from a coma; only to have the film stolen days before Christmas.
This week, Joel and Andy watch The Jesus Rolls, a film that is billed as a spinoff of The Big Lebowski, but is instead a remake of the controversial 1970s French film Going Places.
With Edgar Wright's remake right around the corner, Joel and Andy revisit the original 1987 The Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson.
This week, Joel and Andy set out in search of the Man in Black and the elusive Dark Tower. They discuss the 2017 adaptation of one of Stephen King's most beloved book series starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.
Joel and Andy are continuing to discuss the 1997 The Shining miniseries. They have reached the final installment, which features an epic final showdown between man and boiler.
Joel and Andy are continuing to discuss the 1997 The Shining miniseries. Things are getting tense at the Overlook Hotel as Danny finds his way into Room 217.
Joel and Andy kick off the month with the 1997 The Shining miniseries. Stephen King wasn't happy with Stanley Kubrick's iconic version of his film, so he wrote the screenplay for this version in hopes that it would be more faithful to his original version.
Joel and Andy close out the month with the 2014 film Rage. Nicolas Cage plays a reformed criminal pulled back into his old life when his daughter goes missing.
Joel and Andy watch Between Worlds; a supernatural film that finds Nicolas Cage in a love triangle with a mother her daughter (who is possessed by Cage's dead wife).
Joel and Andy kick off Nic Cage Month with Looking Glass, a Lynchian drama about a husband and wife who buy a seedy motel and discover it has a secret tunnel that allows you to watch one of the rooms through a two-way mirror.
Joel and Andy watch the 2025 film War of the Worlds, which at one point had a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And, Ice Cube attempts to join them, but has some technical difficulties.
Joel and Andy watch The Lawnmower Man, a Flowers For Algernon story about a man who uses virtual reality to become a genius ... with telekinetic powers.
Joel and Andy are joined by Marty McGuire this week. Together, they discuss the Sandra Bullock film The Net; which sees her stumbling into a vast online conspiracy and having her life turned upside down when all she wanted was to go on vacation.
Joel and Andy kick things off with Virtuosity, a Denzel Washington/Russell Crowe precursor to The Matrix that examines what happens when a computer world crosses over into the real world.
