30: The Ice Harvest & Reindeer Games (with Kelsey Holmes)
We're kicking off our five week Rotten Holidays series with two forgotten 2000s holiday heist thrillers that are *extremely* early 2000s. First up, it's John Frankhenheimer's swan song, "Reindeer Gam...
2 Dec 20201h 23min
29: "Autumn in New York" & "Sweet November" (with William Breen)
Fall in love with two seasonal rotten romances on this week's episode featuring filmmaker and musician William Breen. Join us as we look back on "Autumn in New York" starring Winona Ryder and Richar...
25 Nov 20201h 40min
28: "Johnny Mnemonic" vs "Virtuosity"
For our second and final installment in our 1995 techno thriller series, we'll be plunging into the depths of VR Hell with the infamous Keanu Reeves bomb "Johnny Mnemonic" and the more obscure Denzel ...
18 Nov 20201h 9min
27: "Hackers" vs "The Net" (with Kelsey Holmes)
Five years before Y2K, internet paranoia was all the rage in Hollywood. For the next two weeks, we'll be looking back at four critically maligned techno thrillers that failed to reboot the cyberpunk s...
11 Nov 20201h 35min
26: Election Special with "Head of State" & "W."
It's election day and we're here to momentarily distract you from the hell we live in by discussing two rotten political films of the Bush era. First up is Chris Rock's forgotten 2003 directorial debu...
3 Nov 20201h 23min
BONUS EPISODE: Post 9/11 Horror (with Jake Ures)
When podcast guest Jake Ures told us about his theory that the 2003 horror mash-up "Freddy vs Jason" was a 9/11 allegory, we knew we had to sit down and talk to him. As a bonus discussion this week, w...
31 Okt 202052min
25: Rotten Horrors with "Halloween: Season of the Witch" (with Shawn Chiesa)
Our finale of the Rotten Horrors series was originally intended to focus on a pair "threequels" in two of the most beloved horror franchises of all time: "The Exorcist" and "Halloween." Due to some te...
31 Okt 202043min
24: Rotten Horrors with "Funny Games" & "Psycho"(with Olivia Willke)
In 1998, Gus Van Sant was riding the wave of acclaim after his first Academy Award nomination and had studios knocking at his door. What did he decide to do? Well, he decided to remake Alfred Hitchock...
21 Okt 20201h 37min
