96 Greers

Choo-choo movie nerds, The 15:17 to Paris is leaving the station! Legit question for listening Americans: how do Reg and Patrick abide the 88-94 year old director who fills their TV with 94 minutes of military propaganda while their small audience awaits their opinions? Can a mostly forgotten Trump-era Clint Eastwood movie share anything in common with Iranian New Wave cinema? How does Judy Greer fare with Eastwood's reportedly breakneck production speed? Does the kid who sat next to you in your sophomore year computer class make for a good action film protagonist? We're doing our own research into mysterious screenwriters, MTV reality shows, and what really goes on when Americans go on vacation to Amsterdam, on the latest episode of 96 GREERS!

Our wife told us not to record this podcast. But Reg and Patrick are back to offend everyone and ask the tough questions about BARRY MUNDAY, a typical Boy-Loses-Testicles-and-Forgets-He-Met-Girl comedy, such as: Has there ever been an actually funny scene set at a support group? Will 96 Greers become a Patrick Wilson fancast? Can one third of the screenwriting team behind Rock of Ages successfully channel the universal unconscious and tap into the ur-myth of the hero's journey? All of this, plus an unnecessarily long Other Segment, awaits your ears!

In February, we asked a deeply inane question: What Do Women Want? In March, we asked an even more inane question: What Do Children Want? Two dozen episodes into Judy Greer's filmography, and we have yet to cover a work aimed specifically at children (unless you count Rusty's Learning to Listen: Part 8). As a pair of childless film snobs who find themselves out to sea, we dip our toes into the family move genre with the latest film from singular Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, The Breadwinner), delve into diverting interpretations of the story, and go off the deep end with celebrity voice performances. What you are about to listen to is not a news broadcast.

STOP! Are you aware that you are currently on the Internet? When's the last time you even looked up from that screen? Are you even aware what's happening to The Children? Or maybe you yourself are so enthralled by this terrible technology that you are already lost in the dark labyrinth of mild BDSM fantasies, horny housewives in baggy sweaters, photos of skinny white girls, photos of skinny white girls in WIGS, and Carl Sagan. Prepare yourself for 2014 metalinear moral panic drama Men, Women, and Children, which uncovers the horrible things that can happen when Jason Reitman gets behind a camera without Diablo Cody providing appropriate supervision. Content notes: suicide/depression, eating disorders, child abuse, addiction

Join Reg and Patrick as they live, laugh, and love through the Nancy Meyers written and directed rom-com What Women Want. What do women want: a living wage, professional relationships built on mutual respect, and bodily autonomy? Maybe, but have you considered: Mel Gibson? Reg and Patrick have, because he's the protagonist of this movie! They didn't have a choice. Content note: suicidal ideation

Prepare your earholes, because 96 Greers is coming in hot with a Lemon party. Reg and Patrick bare it all: their feelings on 2017 dark comedy Lemon, director Janicza Bravo's other work (including 2020 Twitter-plotted sensation Zola), and the use of unlikable characters and cringey situations to create comedy. After exploring multiple positions, the Other Segment finds them spitting and swallowing with a lemon-flavored taste test. Don't miss this episode-- after all, we're not getting any younger!

Well met, gentle friends, and harken to another discourse with Reg and Patrick, spirited to you through your enchanted box of wonders! On this fine day, we turn our thoughts to a fanciful tale spun by M. Night Shyamalan, entitled The Village. If you know not wherefore this missive is written in such a manner, perchance you would benefit greatly from watching The Village first, as this discussion teems with bedeviling spoilers. Let us sally forth, my fine companions!

Holy sibling rivalry Batman, it's another mumblecore episode! Well, it's a Duplass Brothers episode. Perhaps those two descriptors aren't quite as interchangeable as Patrick and Reg had assumed. Jeff Who Lives at Home has us pondering the physics of sinking cars, business communication trends of 2010, and what Ed Helms is like when he goes full Hollywood. Save your ear-fork for the Other Segment, we're serving up a best movies of 2023 recap (kind of)! (Correction: the talented and hilarious director of The People's Joker is Vera Drew. The Mike Leigh historical drama about a kindly abortion provider portrayed by Immelda Staunton is Vera Drake. Both are in the category of "net positive for cinema named Vera D" so that's not a total failure for Reg? More like a C-.)

This episode is being published a little late, but don't worry, we weren't giving you the Shaft. More recent roles have seen the ever-Super Fly Judy Greer playing a White Mama, but on this episode we go back to 2003's action comedy The Hebrew Hammer, a blaxploitation homage with a Jewish twist. Pour yourself a cup of Coffy and listen to Patrick and Reg get a little Uptight as they navigate the punching-down tendencies of oughts comedy in a film regarding two communities that neither of them are part of. Content warning: detailed discussion of food and eating noises, heads up given in-episode Music in this episode: "D'Bronx Tanz" by Tres Tristes Tangos

Reg and Patrick go on an adventure to the Chicago International Film Festival to see the premiere of Eric LaRue, the directorial debut of Judy Greer's Pottersville co-star Michael Shannon and focuses on the emotional aftermath for parents whose children were involved in a school shooting. We talk about our expectations going in and then time warp to the day after the screening to see if those expectations were met. And then we time warp again at the end of the episode for a very special Other Segment!

It's damn near impossible to be a prolific Hollywood actor in the 21st century without being in a franchise or two. Judy Greer plays Laurie Strode's daughter Karen in David Gordon Green's Halloween, a sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween. Reg and Patrick talk about the inevitable teenage drama plot lines in slasher movies, stan Lumpy, and attempt to convince themselves that podcasters make for interesting movie characters. Content note: our discussion includes detailed descriptions of fictional murder scenes.

Get ready for an unhinged episode of 96 Greers that delves into the bewildering world of Elizabethtown, the film that inspired the phrase "manic pixie dream girl." Reg is hopped up on goofballs! Patrick is calling out other film podcasts by name! Porn keyword search jokes! Experiments on children without institutional review board approval! Rate, review and subscribe-- if you dare....

On this PODCAST, we BELIEVE: - abortions in movies are better without conflict - gay cowboys are real - Alan Alda and Alan Arkin should just have the same name, sheesh - Jane Campion's 2021 Western drama The Power of the Dog and Laurie Anderson's 2015 cinematic meditation on grief Heart of a Dog should just have the same name, sheesh We also find time to talk about the 2015 indie dramedy Grandma, featuring Judy Greer as Lily Tomlin's ex-girlfriend.

Spoiler Alert! We got a sneak preview of Aporia and we do discuss the entire plot of the movie. If you don't want spoilers for the third act, stop listening before 44:00. Temps are high, sfx are low, and sci is fi when Reg and Patrick discuss Aporia, an empathetic and intellectual timeline-bender in which Judy Greer heads up an excellent cast. Other topics include the WGA/SAG AFTRA strike, when it pays to ignore logical inconsistencies, and The Twilight Zone.

Dig it: 70's Greer! That's... all that Reg had prepared coming into this episode. 2011 indie crime film The Key Man doesn't have a lot going for it, but it does have Judy Greer. Our intrepid Greer fans discuss queer-coded villains, what makes a bad movie bad, the screenwriter's favorite poem, and more!

For that all-important eleventh episode, Reg and Patrick do something a little different, a little special. With Judy Greer starring in a world premiere play less than an hour's journey from 96 Greers headquarters, there was no excuse not to throw Reg's carefully planned episode schedule out the window and focus on Kate Arrington's play Another Marriage, in its world premiere run at Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theater.

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single podcast in possession of a cinematic theme must be in want of a Nicolas Cage episode. And Adaptation gives you two Cages for the price of one! Two elder millennial film snobs return to this early-oughts Charlie Kaufman metafilm for the first time in years and go way over time talking other movies with dual Cage performances, adaptations of nonfiction books, slow film, financial advice gurus, and MORE!

In 1999, beloved actress Natasha Lyonne teamed up with director Jamie Babbitt to make the queer cult classic But I'm a Cheerleader. In 2015, Lyonne and Babbitt teamed up again for the indie caper Addicted to Fresno, bringing along with them Judy Greer. And a rockabilly pet cemetery. And a bin full of jiggly purple dildos. Reg and Patrick discuss the problematic implications of incarceration as a plot point, when mean-spirited comedy works (and when it doesn't), and put their punny title-creating skills to the test!

Before Guardians of the Galaxy... before the Office... James Gunn and Jenna Fischer teamed up for a no-budget comedy that satirizes celebrity charity endeavors in an #epic edgy comedy style that only the mid-00's could bring you. It may shock you to learn that James Gunn isn't the only JG in the cast!

Judy Greer meets Totoro! Okay, not exactly, but she was part of the English dub cast of Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns, a fantasy spin-off of their 90s slice of life film Whisper of the Heart. Reg and Patrick talk about fatphobia on film, get a little Jungian, and create fursonas. Referenced in this episode: Sarah Kate Istra Winter's Girls Underground project