Starcrash vs Bad Taste

The theme this week is truly awful movies that involve aliens. Starcrash is a Star Wars ripoff that makes no sense, but does have Caroline Monroe in leather bikini. Bad Taste is Peter Jackson's first movie features people tucking their brains back in and people eating vomit. It's going to be a long episode.

Almost Famous vs Empire Records

 

The podcast for this week's theme is movies about fake musicians that are not about the musicians. First we delve into the Cameron Crow semi autobiographical film about a fifteen year old working for Rolling Stone magazine in Almost Famous. We contrast it with a bunch of teenagers navigating life and drama in Empire Records.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part Four

We finish our Terry Gilliam miniseries by discussing Tideland, The Legend of Hallowdega, The Wholly Family, The Zero Theorem, and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part Three

 

We continue our Terry Gilliam miniseries. This episode we rehash Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Brothers Grimm.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part Two

We continue to deep dive into Terry Gilliam's filmography by discussing his stone cold dystopian masterpiece Brazil, his over budget bomb (but cult classic) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and his first Hollywood film, as well as first Hollywood success, The Fisher King.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part One

This is part one of a series we're doing discussing Terry Gilliam's work as a director. We discuss his beginnings in animation for Do Not Adjust Your Set, Monty Python's Flying Circus, as well as his shorts Storytime and Miracle of Flight. Finally we get to his first features: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, and The Meaning of Life.

Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam vs The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

A villain defeats the world two minutes into the movie and takes on a privileged white a-hole in Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam. Then a thousand year old man races the devil for five souls in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.