Total Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, we go to the suck. Steve develops a thousand yard stare reserved for veterans of nightmare wars and mediocre podcasts. Ryan chalks up another point in the Irresponsible Father column, reflecting on his father’s prudent decision to let him watch this vision of insanity at a tender age yet again. If you listen to this episode, you can go to my house and fornicate with my sister. Full Metal Jacket (1987) d. w. based on his novel Starring: as as as as as as as Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis,...
info_outline TMR 065 – Harold and MaudeTotal Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, we watch the first Manic Pixie Dream Girl ever on screen, who is not a girl at all, but is most decidedly a woman. It’s the perfect post-2020 movie, and not just because of the constant suicides. It’s twee and precious and we absolutely loved it. Harold & Maude (1971) d. w. Music by: Starring: Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic relationship, in which they explore the tired...
info_outline TMR 064 – The Neverending StoryTotal Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, we learn that while some stories never end, mothers do, and that’s the beginning of how a serial killer is made in this unflinching look inside the mind of one disturbed little boy. Hang in there with us, listen to this, and watch it again and try to tell us you didn’t witness a psychotic break as this poor boy retreats inside the dark fantasies of his mind. The Neverending Story (1984) d. w. , Music by Starring: as Atreyu as Bastian as The Childlike Empress as Teeny Weeny On his way to school, Bastian ducks into a bookstore to...
info_outline TMR 063 – Wild ThingsTotal Movie Recall
Ah, the good ole days of passing around R rated spank tapes. This movie is so trashy, it gave Charlie Sheen HIV. (1998) d. Starring: When teen debutante Kelly fails to attract the attention of her hunky guidance counselor, Sam, she cries rape, igniting a scandal that results in his arrest. Sam appeals to Ken, a hack personal-injury lawyer who has never handled a case that couldn't be helped by a prop neck brace. Soon, a second victim, Suzie, comes forward, and Detective Duquette discovers that the unfolding case is far from what it seems. Things discussed in the...
info_outline TMR 062 – From Dusk Till DawnTotal Movie Recall
Remember the innocent 90s, when white directors thought they had the N-word pass for some reason? What do you think their “woke” movie would look like? Probably like this, where the N-word is replaced by horrific rape and Mexican jokes. This proto-edgelord movie was looked at as such a good time romp that it was considered the perfect vehicle to transition from the hit network show ER to the big screen. What a simpler time… From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) d. w. (story), (screenplay) Starring: On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers...
info_outline TMR 061 – Napoleon DynamiteTotal Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, we try to decide whether this is a charming, unique film about staying true to yourself, or a nightmarish descent into the insanity that comes with living in a barren, desolate landscape like rural Idaho, where the Uncle Ricos of the world keep subterranean dungeons for unsuspecting Debs. This might say more about where our heads are at right now than about this beloved comedy. Napoleon Dynamite (2004) d. w. , Starring: In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in...
info_outline TMR 060 – DolemiteTotal Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, these two born-insecure honkies break down the seminal Blaxploitation movie of 1975 and do a pathetic job of trying to reconcile its progressive vision of black empowerment with the misogyny of the pimp game. It gets complicated. Dolemite (1975) d. Story by: Starring: Dolemite is released from jail after being wrongfully convicted to take on rival pimp Willie Green, corrupt police officers who framed him and even the mayor! With the help of his friends: Queen Bee (the madame of his brothel), Creeper (the heroin addict Hamburger Pimp), Reverend...
info_outline TMR 059 – Who Framed Roger RabbitTotal Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, things get Freudian as they did for every little boy who stared confusedly at Jessica Rabbit and wondered what was happening to them. Handsome, chiseled leading man Bob Hoskins soldiers on in spite of the bleeding ulcer all that booze gave him, and Christopher Lloyd goes to eleven with his unhinged, terrifying performance. Did hentai exist before this movie? Because it sure as hell did after it. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) d. Starring: Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate...
info_outline TMR 058 – The Princess BrideTotal Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, we take a hard pivot from all the toxic masculinity of weeks past and Steve shows his gentle, romantic side. Somehow, Ryan makes this about his sad sack heartache but in the end, everybody calms down and moves on with a nice mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. The Princess Bride (1987) d. w. Starring: A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the...
info_outline TMR 057 – HeatTotal Movie Recall
This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan stares out the window of his furniture-less modernist home at the endless, uncaring ocean while Steve sleeps on the floor with his hand gripped around his pistol. The pseudo-philosophy of this movie seems deeper than it is because it’s endlessly reflected in all the glass buildings of Michael Mann’s uber-masculine vision. Sure, it may be pretentious, but that’s the point, and if you’ve got a problem with that, I will take you down, because we ain’t exactly doin’ thrill-seeker podcasts with “Born to Lose” tattoos on our chests. (1995) d....
info_outlineThis week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan stare into the eyes of a childless middle age and watch 1987’s Raising Arizona. Steve has a good laugh watching what he sees as a silly, light comedy and Ryan is gripped by yet another existential crisis watching a moving meditation on fatherhood, adulthood, leaving the reckless ways of youth behind, the crushing weight of responsibility, and conquering your demons. Oh to have the weightless, carefree, burdenless mirth that Steve enjoys! We should all be so lucky.
Raising Arizona (1987)
writers/directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (The Coen Brothers)
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
Holly Hunter
Trey Wilson
John Goodman
William Forsythe
Sam McMurray
Frances McDormand
Randall "Tex" Cobb
Fast-paced farce about an unlikely pair who go to extreme lengths to have a child. When an incompetent robber marries a policewoman, they discover that they are infertile. In order to appease his wife's longings for a child, the man steals one of a set of quintuplets, but mayhem ensues when the child's rich father sends a rabbit-shooting bounty hunter after the kidnapper.
Things discussed in the show:
King of the Hill (Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy)
Werner Herzog on Los Angeles
Steve and His Cars (short documentary by Adam Snow)
The Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison)
The Art of Self-Defense (Riley Stearns, Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots)
Fight Club (David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann, Daniel Waters, Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty)
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement, Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Taika Waititi, Mark Proksch, Nick Kroll)
The Mandalorian (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Rio Hackford, Dave Filoni, Gina Carano, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Dave Filoni, Brian O'Connell, Ashley Eckstein)
Star Wars Rebels (Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar)
Thor Ragnarok (Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson)
Eagle vs Shark (Taika Waititi, Loren Taylor, Jemaine Clement, Craig Hall)
Boy (Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter)
The Big Labowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid)
Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro)
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis)
Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya)
The Raising Arizona soundtrack - "Down In The Willow Garden" by Arthur Gorson and performed by Holly Hunter / "Goofing-Off Suite" by Pete Seeger / "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" sung by John Goodman and William Forsythe in the car.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden)
Epic Levels (Steve's D&D comedy hip hop project)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor)
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, John Patrick Shanley, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis)
Con Air (Simon West, Scott Rosenberg, Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich)
Fargo (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi)
Da Five Bloods (Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr.)
Macbeth (Joel Coen, William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson)
Next Week: Starship Troopers