TMR 066 – Full Metal Jacket
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 Maude
Total 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 Story
Total 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 Things
Total 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 Dawn
Total 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 Dynamite
Total 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 – Dolemite
Total 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 Rabbit
Total 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 Bride
Total 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 – Heat
Total 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, it’s Steve’s turn to not get it when Ryan forces him to snooze this way through the 1997 hambone, The Devil’s Advocate. This movie has it all -- a grand guignol of sex, violence, operatic depictions of Hell and Satan, Keanu swinging and missing, Pacino putting his blood pressure medication to the test -- and yet, somehow, it’s still boring! Please don’t waste Steve’s time with these faux-provocations. Show him something really controversial, like a basketball game.
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
d. Taylor Hackford
Based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman
Starring:
Keanu Reeves
Al Pacino
Charlize Theron
Jeffrey Jones
Judith Ivey
Connie Nielsen
Craig T. Nelson
Don King
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a high-powered position at a New York law firm headed by legal shark John Milton. As Kevin moves up in the firm's ranks, his wife, Mary Ann, has several frightening, mystical experiences that begin to warp her sense of reality. With the stakes getting higher with each case, Kevin quickly learns that his mentor is planning a far greater evil than simply winning without scruples.
Things discussed in the show:
Psychedelic horror
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren)
Beaches (Garry Marshall, Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard)
Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery)
West Side Story 1960 (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer)
West Side Story 2021 (Steven Spielberg, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose)
The political divide: Boogaloo boys & Antifa making out
Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo)
Natalie Wood's mysterious death
Step Brothers and the Catalina Island wine mixer (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen)
Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, William Shakespeare, Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo)
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton)
Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo)
Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter)
Tromio and Juliet (Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn, Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Valentine Miele, Sean Gunn, Lemmy of Motorhead)
My So Called Life (Winnie Holzman, Bess Armstrong, Wilson Cruz, Claire Danes, Jared Leto)
This iconic photo of Monica Bellucci and Leonardo DiCaprio
O (Othello, Tim Blake Nelson, William Shakespeare, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, Martin Sheen)
Titus (Julie Taymor, William Shakespeare, Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Osheen Jones)
Raised By Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Ridley Scott)
The Great Deluge & Nephilim
The Book of Enoch
Noah (Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins)
Barabbas 1961 (Richard Fleischer, Christopher Fry (screenplay), Pär Lagerkvist (novel), Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Noelle Stevenson, Aimee Carrero, Marcus Scribner, Karen Fukuhara, Keston John)
The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente)
Seduced Inside the NXIVM Cult (Jaclyn Cangro, Tabitha Chapman, Steve Hassan, India Oxenberg)
Apocalypse Now – Redux (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando)
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (Taylor Hackford, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Etta James, John Lennon)
Ray (Taylor Hackford, Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington)
Blood In, Blood Out (Taylor Hackford, Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt)
Angel Heart (Alan Parker, Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet)
The Wire (David Simon, Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn)
Pedophilia in Hollywood yet again
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon)
V.C. Andrews
Villains based on Trump
Home Alone 2 Lost in New York (Chris Columbus, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern)
Free will and time travel and the butterfly effect
Sliders (Tracy Tormé, Robert K. Weiss, Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, John Rhys-Davies)
Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, Jet Li)
Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen)
John Woo
Double Impact (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alonna Shaw)
Black Mask (Daniel Lee, Jet Li, Ching Wan Lau, Karen Mok)
Knock Off (Hark Tsui, Steven E. de Souza, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon)
Next week: Kung Fu Cult Master