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Jen and Tim grit their teeth through Barry Levinson's oppressively whimsical passion project that literally no one liked, Toys. Also, take a drink every time we use a variant of the word "whimsy," but please drink responsibly!
See the (in)famous Toys teaser trailer on YouTube.
Roger Ebert penned a more measured analysis of the film back in 1992:
There's a curious residue of dissatisfaction after "Toys" is over. It opened so well and promised so much that we're confused: Is that all there is?Listen to Tim's favorite song from the movie, "Happy Workers" sung by Tori Amos.
Does it tickle you when Tim gets a real wild hair about a movie? Check out our collection of episodes with the succinct title Tim Hated It!
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Tim and Jen rope old friend Paul Jay into talking about a very stupid Stephen King shapeshifting energy vampires vs. kitties flick, Sleepwalkers.
Errata: Newsies actually came out April 8th, 1992, but it's probably safe to assume that no one wanted to see it on that date, either.
IGN has a very good interview with director Mick Garris, in which he talks about his work on much better horror properties like The Stand.
Can't get enough of Paul? Listen to the episode where he joined us to discuss Warren Beatty's singular mania, Dick Tracy! Or just mainline all of his guest appearances via this collection!
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Oh God! Oh man! Jen and Tim and Mets devotee David J. Roth square up with Norman Mailer's demented neo-noir, Tough Guys Don't Dance.
Read David's piece on a true American original, B-movie stalwart Wings Hauser. Did you know that he was in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time? Well now you do!
Collider profiled the one and only ersatz Charles Bronson (or the most prominent and successful, we assume), Hungarian actor Robert Bronzi.
Hear Wings Hauser sing the concluding track for Vice Squad, "Neon Slime." His vocals have the same gusto as his average film performance, as you might imagine.
How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer (the documentary Jen wanted to call "How to Be a Cool Fuckin' Guy") provides a breezy overview of the colorful life of the author.
On YouTube: Mailer comes out swinging at Gore Vidal on the Dick Cavett Show, and gets bitch-slapped back by Vidal, Cavett and author Janet Flanner.
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Tim takes the reins to enthuse about a shockingly creepy British TV series for kids (?!), Children of the Stones.
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Watch the entirety of Children of the Stones on YouTube!
Hear the Reese Shearsmith-led podcast adaptation of Children of the Stones over at the Beeb.
Want more folk horror? Sample our collection of same!
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Jen welcomes Darren Herczeg to help her rhapsodize about a movie even director Ken Russell didn't like, Valentino!
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The wonderfully-named Phallic Frenzy gives Russell his due as an audacious filmmaker, and describes Valentino in complimentary terms.
See Nureyev fully commit to the bit by dancing "Swine Lake" on the Muppet Show in 1978.
The book on Fatty Arbuckle that Jen mentioned is called Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood, and it's well worth a read for anyone interested in early Hollywood.
Can't get enough Darren? Check out our collection of his appearances on the show!
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Jen and Tim rationalize David Fincher's unlucky first feature, Alien Cubed (aka AlienÂł). Turns out that Tim has A LOT to say about Alien movies!
Read a 1992 interview with David Fincher, in which he's quite candid about "the worst thing that ever happened to me"â that is, the production of AlienÂł.
A helpful fan wiki has provided a transcript of William Gibson's first draft screenplay for the movie.
Love Fincher? Listen to our episode on a movie that people steadfastly refuse to engage with in good faith, Fight Club!
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Tim and Jen are surprisingly hard on Disney's amiable comics-based misfire, The Rocketeer!
See Rondo Hatton in The Brute Man, but let the MST3k crew accompany you through this murky noir.
The Cocoanut Grove fire has been widely covered in media. The Fascinating Horror channel has an excellent recounting of the disaster, in the dispassionate and non-sensationalized style of the best YouTube channels.
This 1979 BBC biography of Errol Flynn offers illuminating interviews with people who knew him, including David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, and his daughter Deirdre.
You can purchase a copy of the Traveller supplement featuring "Vehicle Handbook: Airships of the Imperium" by a certain Tim H. at DriveThruRPG. Intrigued by the endless possibilities of tabletop space travel? Find more resources Tim created for Traveller at his personal website!
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Jen and Tim return to Gumbasia to discuss the legacy of a complicated man: Gumby creator Art Clokey!
The documentary that sparked the discussion, Gumby Dharma, may be viewed free on YouTube via the channel for Bay Area PBS station KQED.
Pay a visit to Clokey Productions to see some behind-the-scenes footage!
Here's an example of that Lego wizard hat thing Tim mentioned. Clever!
If you missed our episode on The Gumby Movie( aka Gumby 1), listen to it here!
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An extra-mellow and profoundly aphasic Bitter Karella steps in to help Jen explicate the other, crappier version of The Warriors: Streets of Fire!
Hear the bangin' soundtrack on YouTube, which includes "Deeper and Deeper" by The Fixx (which you won't see on the Spotify version of the soundtrack even though "Deeper and Deeper" IS on there. Who knows why).
Yes, there are some tidbits about Streets of Fire in this 2003 interview with the immortal Jim Steinman, but the whole thing is worth a read for the Meat Loaf stories alone.
If you would like to experience what Karella surely considers the sexiest Gumby cartoon, "Grub Grabber Gumby" also may be viewed on YouTube.
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Having spoken about their most favorite topics from the last one hundred episodes, Tim and Jen scrape the bottom of the barrel for their worst favorites.
Lexx, Witch Hunt, and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus may all be viewed at the Internet Archive.
The game Jen mentioned is indeed Warlords and you can play it online with those heart-stopping Atari graphics and everything!
Curious about our worst faves from episodes 1-100? Listen here, and find our favorites from the first 100 episodes here!
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Jen and Tim reflect on the last one hundred episodes (holy crap, we made it to 200 and beyond!) and each chooses five favorites from the mixed bag!
On YouTube, you can watch Penda's Fen, The Jericho Mile, and Pavel Klushantsev's delightful Planet of Storms.
Tubi has the taut thriller Money Movers, as well as the unjustly overlooked Heart of Midnight and George Romero's feminist drama Season of the Witch.
We also chose our most and least favorites for the first one hundred episodesâ take a further look back with us!
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Tim and Jen invite Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcast to marvel at Saul Bass's disquieting sci-fi dreamscape, Phase IV!
View the alternate ending that should have been the theatrical ending to Phase IV on YouTube.
A couple of interesting side notes about the Oscar-winning faux documentary Alex mentioned, The Hellstrom Chronicle: it was conceived and executive produced by David L. Wolper, the TV stalwart who shepherded massively successful television miniseries like Roots and The Thorn Birds, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Additionally, Walon Green, the screenwriter perhaps best known for William Friedkin's sleeper masterpiece Sorcerer, co-directed and produced the film.
A quick web search proved that the busty wasp mentioned by Alex isn't real, except perhaps in our hearts.
We alluded briefly to this article at Dennis Cooper's blog discussing film treatments of LSD, with a fabulous collection of acid-related GIFs accompanying.
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Jen and Tim doggedly return to the remnants of Max Knight: Ultra Spy in hopes that it can be archived on a Zip disk and forgotten.
Missed part one of our deep dive? Find it here! Wanna see the movie? "Log in" to the "Information Superhighway" and "point" your "browser" to the Internet Archive!
Too young to have purchased the Trainspotting soundtrack when it first dropped? Even if you weren't, we suggest decompressing from the episode with all 11 minutes of the remastered Born Slippy.
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Tim gets the bit (or byte?) between his teeth and rants about the 90s and the lost promise of the internet, and a little bit about cheapie TV movie Max Knight: Ultra Spy! Jen just tries to hold on as best she can! Oh yeah, and this is part one because we don't know how to shut up!
You can easily tell how white your hosts are by their lack of knowledge of UPN (not the only tell, if we're being honest), which provided a home for black shows and showrunners alike. Or at least it did for a while, before a gradual whitewashing leading up to the network's merger with the WB. The Hollywood Reporter provides a post-mortem.
[Former senior VP of comedy development at Paramount Pictures Television] Rose Catherine Pinkney believes the decision to merge UPN out of existence came down to ad revenue. âUltimately, you want the most dollars that you can get for your ads,â she says. Though UPNâs Black-led scripted shows (which by the end of UPNâs run included Eve, All of Us, Everybody Hates Chris) were largely popular with audiences, advertisers were evidently less inclined to pay top dollar to support shows targeting Black viewers. Farquhar, co-creator of Moesha and The Parkers, recalls an advertising person saying, âWeâre not interested in âdownscaled demographics.â âThey still make Tamogochis, holy shit.
Can't get enough of PCMCIA cards? Here's a helpful explainer!
Popular Mechanics looks back at the V-chip 20 years after it appeared.
Want more 90s TV? Check out our episode on the show M.A.N.T.I.S. with special guest and superfan mugrimm!
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Tim and Jen enlist Gaius of the wonderful Tribunate channel on YouTube to help unearth a Romans-vs.-Picts historical epic that vanished like the Ninth Legion, Centurion.
Jen's personal favorite video from Tribunate is this savage takedown of Cato, but this examination of Roman concepts of race and how radically they differ from ours is another great example of the high caliber of material from Gaius's channel. Also the triggered reactionary crybabies in the comments are extremely funny. Finally, don't miss this compilation of filthy Roman words!
If you perked up your ears when Jen mentioned Carry On Cleo, go check out our survey of the Carry On franchise, featuring the inimitable Bitter Karella!
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Jen puts Tim in an arm bar until he agrees to talk about a backyard martial arts movie from a determined auteur: Fight Ring!
Sean Gallimore had a successful animation career for many years, including many top-of-the-line films for Disney. See a gallery of his artwork, which includes expert 3D modeling work as well as his signature pinups.
See more Gallimore pinups here!
If you love outsider indie films as much as we do, don't miss our episode on a towering work of queer drama straight from the trailer park: Romeo and Romeo.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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