Cinema Psychos Movie Reviews
π¨ Subscribe to our newsletter!- https://the-cinema-psychos-show.kit.com/9e9a267e76 π EPISODE 400 π β and we're celebrating with the remake nobody asked for. For Father's Day, BrIan and John are joined by Old Man Brad (Tomb of Terrors podcast) to review THE STEPFATHER (2009) β a PG-13 slasher remake so soulless it makes you appreciate the original even more. In this episode: β’ Is Dylan Walsh doing Nip/Tuck or pantomiming Terry O'Quinn? β’ The movie called "The Stepfather" where he's never actually a stepfather β’ Amber Heard's entire wardrobe: one bikini, repeated indefinitely...
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π¨ Subscribe to our newsletter!- https://the-cinema-psychos-show.kit.com/9e9a267e76 Before Batman, before Beetlejuice β Michael Keaton was making people lose their minds in a gangster parody so dense with jokes it makes Airplane! look restrained. Brian is joined by special guest KT Baldassaro to dig into the 1984 cult classic Johnny Dangerously β a PG-13 movie that somehow snuck in an exploding-balls PSA, and Weird Al Yankovic losing his VHS rights over money. They break down why the film works more like an SNL sketch marathon than a traditional comedy, why Joe Piscopo was actually a...
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π¨ Subscribe to our newsletter!- https://the-cinema-psychos-show.kit.com/9e9a267e76 Seven years since a Star Wars film hit theaters. Disney's biggest star wars streaming property was given a $165 million budget β while every other Star Wars movie got $500-600 million which makes you wonder, did Disney short change this movie on purpose? Brian and John break down why The Mandalorian & Grogu felt less like a cinematic event and more like Season 4 of a show Disney didn't want to pay for β and whether that's actually a problem. Plus: Jabba's inexplicably jacked son, Martin Scorsese...
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π¨ Subscribe to our newsletter!- https://the-cinema-psychos-show.kit.com/9e9a267e76 Amy Adams' FIRST movie. Kirsten Dunst. Allison Janney. Brittany Murphy. Ellen Barkin. Kirstie Alley. All in one movie from 1999 β and nobody talks about it. This week on Cinema Psychos, Brian and John are joined by Amanda and Lucy of Wine & Crime β the true crime & comedy podcast β to dig into Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), the mockumentary dark comedy that bombed at the box office, got roasted by Roger Ebert, and quietly became one of the greatest cult films of the decade. We're...
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π¨ Subscribe to our newsletter!- Does Amy Heckerling's Clueless from 1995 still hold up after 31 years? This re-imagining of Jane Austen's Emma starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, and the immortal Paul Rudd represents the pinnacle of mid 90's culture, fashion, and slang (as if!). In honor of 90's movie month, we are cracking open this time capsule about love....apparently of the former step sibling kind...with a special movie review with our new friends Sarah and Kellie of @FinalGirlsPodcast. πΊ The Final Girls Podcast: CHAPTERS: Introduction [00:00]...
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π¨ Subscribe to our newsletter!- Is Reality Bites the ultimate 90s time capsule β or just a movie full of people you want to shake? We dig into Ben Stiller's 1994 Gen X classic and we're not holding back. Brian and co-host John are joined this week by Rachael and John of the YaJagoff Podcast, Pittsburgh's beloved local institution β for a full movie review and film analysis of Reality Bites. We break down Winona Ryder's Lelaina, Ethan Hawke's infuriating Troy Dyer, the love triangle that divides audiences to this day, and whether this cult film still holds up 30 years later. This...
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What happens when two wealthy socialite heiresses end up in the pacific northwest at the height of The Great Depression. You get The Wilde Girls, a new indie film that I had the pleasure of viewing recently. So let's break down the good and bad in this movie filled with bears, button men, and heart. Synopsis: The year is 1932. Two clueless socialite heiresses with zero survival skills find themselves lost in the wilderness with a price on their heads. An unenthusiastic alliance with a misanthropic mountain man may be their only chance. Starring: Teddy Smith Cali Scolari Lydia Pearl Pentz...
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Subscribe to our newsletter so the algorithm can't stop you from finding us- https://the-cinema-psychos-show.kit.com/9e9a267e76 In 1996, Touchstone Pictures looked at Shaquille O'Neal, looked at their checkbook, and said: "Genie movie. Let's go." Nobody wrote a real script. Nobody asked questions. And somehow, nobody noticed the kid protagonist falls nine stories into an abandoned building in the first five minutes and should be dead for the entire rest of the film. This week on the Cinema Psychos Show, Brian and John are digging into Kazaam β one of the most competently filmed disasters in...
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Kevin Costner spent $200 million making a Mad Max ripoff on the open ocean β and the man has gills behind his ears. That's right. Waterworld's hero is a merman. A gill-having, web-toed, pee-drinking merman. And Cinema Psychos is here to ask the only question that matters: Really That Awful? Brian and John go full deep dive on Waterworld (1995), one of Hollywood's most notorious production disasters and one of the most divisive bad movies of the 1990s. They cover everything: why shooting on open ocean is genuinely suicidal for a film budget, how Kevin Costner fired his own director...
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McDonald's killed Batman. Then Warner Brothers buried him in neon. After Batman Returns traumatized parents and Christian groups, McDonald's panicked and pulled their Happy Meal deal. Warner Brothers, terrified of losing fast food merchandising money, forced a course correction that gave us Batman Foreverβa neon-soaked, toyetic mess that abandoned Tim Burton's gothic vision for Joel Schumacher's campy, pun-filled nightmare. In this 10th anniversary episode of the Cinema Psychos Show, hosts Cottington and John Wooliscroft do a full Batman Forever fix and Batman Forever reviewβranting about...
info_outlineHappy Thanksgiving! As you sit down to feast on turkey, stuffing, and all manner of delicious foods; we've got another little tasty morsel to sink your "teeth" into. All puns aside, this week we are talking about the controversial horror dark comedy, 2007's Teeth. The movie that taught us that no matter how nice your house may be, mutation will occur when you have a nuclear facility in your backyard......oh and that if you try to commit sexual assault, your dick may get bit off by vagina teeth.