Mask vs The Elephant Man

Rocky Dennis deals with a bone disorder, an addict mom, pressures from school, and a terminal diagnosis in Peter Bogdanovich's Mask. John Merrick goes from exploitation at a freak show to exploitation by high society in David Lynch's The Elephant Man.

Addams Family Values vs Joe vs the Volcano

Fester is swept away by a widow maker, and children try to murder a baby in the upbeat Addams Family Values. Joe is throwing away his life, figuratively and literally in Joe vs the Volcano. It's a double feature of movies with Carol Kane and Nathan Lane.

CBGB vs Vampire's Kiss

CBGB is a movie about the dumpy owner of the famous club that broke many huge bands like The Talking Heads and The Ramones. Vampire's Kiss is about 90 minutes of Nicholas Cage losing his mind. Cage Rage was never louder.

Audition vs Mother (2009)

Audition is about a widower holding an audition to find a new wife. It slowly dawns on him that she's a killer. Oh, and someone eats vomit. Mother is a Bong Joon-ho movie about a mom proclaiming her son's innocence, and she'll go to any lengths to prove it.

Ranking director roomates

This week we're quarantined, so we're breaking from the usual formula. Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas were all roommates. We rank them based off of their top five, along with other nonsense.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension vs Italian Spiderman

An adventurer/neurosurgeon/rock star finds out that aliens have infiltrated society and battles them in Buckaroo Banzai. Then a shotgun toting obese superhero who's worse than the villain saves(?) the day in Italian Spiderman. It's superheros...sort of!

Feeling Minnesota vs Impostor

Feeling Minnesota is about a woman forced to marry a man, so she bangs his brother and runs off with  him. And Impostor tells the tale of a man who may be an alien robot with a bomb built inside him. It's the films of Vincent D'Onofrio.