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. Stanley Kubrick w. Gustav Hasford based on his novel The Short-Timers Starring: Matthew Modine as Pvt. Joker Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Pyle R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman Dorian Harewood as Eightball Kevyn Major Howard as Rafterman Arliss Howard as Pvt. Cowboy Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis, quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant, and pudgy Private Lawrence, nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué. Things discussed in the show: Willy Wonka Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall) Zack Snyder's Justice League (Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, J.K. Simmons) The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah) Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer) 300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham) Joss Whedon gets canceled Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford) Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison) Mel Gibbson uncancelable? Toxic fandom Firefly (Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass) Moulin Rogue! (Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo) Luc Besson Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Carson Daly) Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, Thunder Levin, Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard) Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) George Burns Sean Connery Larry Sanders Show (Dennis Klein, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Wallace Langham, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Piven) Billy Crystal Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly) Kitbag - new Napoleon film (Ridley Scott, David Scarpa, Joaquin Phoenix, Jodie Comer) Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch painter Visual Tone Poem François Truffaut on war films Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore) John Wayne The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien The Mickey Mouse Club theme song Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) Jungian duality of man Next week: UHF

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. Hal Ashby w. Colin Higgins Music by: Cat Steven (Yusuf Islam) Starring: Ruth Gordon Bud Cort Vivian Pickles 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 theme of the meaning of life with a fresh perspective. Things discussed in the show: Savages (Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively) Santa Muerte Dunkirk (70mm, Christopher Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance) Overlord (Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier) Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki) 1917 (Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays) Rolling Thunder (Vietnam POWs, John Flynn, William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes) Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino) Mental health and the military The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith) The Last Blockbuster (documentary, Smash Mouth, Taylor Morden, Lauren Lapkus, Sandi Harding, Ken Tisher, Doug Benson, Doug Loves Movies podcast, Kevin Smith, Samm Levine, Brian Posehn, Jamie Kennedy, Ron Funches, Ione Skye, Lloyd Kaufman, Troma, Paul Scheer) Clerks (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Scott Mosier) Letterbox app Streaming services Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) King Billy Corgan, monarch of Chicago Suicide Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden) Next week: Full Metal Jacket

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. Wolfgang Petersen w. Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel Music by Giorgio Moroder Starring: Noah Hathaway as Atreyu Barret Oliver as Bastian Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny Frank Oz On his way to school, Bastian ducks into a bookstore to avoid bullies. Sneaking away with a book called "The Neverending Story," Bastian begins reading it in the school attic. The novel is about Fantasia, a fantasy land threatened by "The Nothing," a darkness that destroys everything it touches. The kingdom needs the help of a human child to survive. When Bastian reads a description of himself in the book, he begins to wonder if Fantasia is real and needs him to survive. Things discussed in the show: Christopher Nolan Carl Jung Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James) Snowden (Edward Snowden, Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo) Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney) Oliver Stone's memoir - Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game The Social Network (David Fincher, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake) 3rd Rock From the Sun (Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Wikileaks and Julian Assange The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill) Natural Born Killers ( JFK ( Any Given Sunday ( The Disaster Artist ( The Room ( Rocky Horror Picture Show ( Midnight screenings of Rocky Horror and The Room The Crown ( Repo Man Dangerous Liaisons ( Downton Abby The Remains of the Day - novel ( Conan, Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs George Miller Next week: Harold and Maude

Ah, the good ole days of passing around R rated spank tapes. This movie is so trashy, it gave Charlie Sheen HIV. Wild Things (1998) d. John McNaughton Starring: Kevin Bacon Neve Campbell Matt Dillon Denise Richards Daphne Rubin-Vega Bill Murray 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 show: Passing around R rated spank tapes Porn in the 90s and holograms Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho) Harry Potter The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes) WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn) Dinosaurs (Not the Mama, Michael Jacobs, Bob Young, Stuart Pankin, Jessica Walter, Jason Willinger) The Flintstones (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl) X-Files – (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi) Red Shoe Diaries (David Duchovny, Anthony Addabbo, Audie England) Skinamax Supernatural (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino) SyFy Channel Z Nation (Craig Engler, Karl Schaefer, Russell Hodgkinson, Nat Zang, Keith Allan) Resident Alien (Chris Sheridan, Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds) Dr. No (James Bond, Terence Young, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee) Dr. No novel (Ian Fleming) John Carter of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs) Law & Order Special Victims Unit (SVU, Dick Wolf, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T) Spin Doctors, Third Eye Blind, Hootie and the Blowfish Scream (Wes Craven, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, Liev Schreiber) PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, S.E. Hinton, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane) Michael Rapaport Swamp vs. bayou Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken Brian De Palma Next week: Black Cat White Cat

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. Robert Rodriguez w. Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay) Starring: Harvey Keitel George Clooney Juliette Lewis Quentin Tarantino Salma Hayek Cheech Marin Danny Trejo Tom Savini Fred Williamson On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out. Things discussed in the show: Sex Machine and Santanico Pandemonium Full Tilt Boogie (Sarah Kelly) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin) Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen) Dolemite Mortal Kombat 2021 (Simon McQuoid, Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson) Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki) Mulan 2020 (Niki Caro, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong) G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott, Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft) Bliss (Mike Cahill, Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper) The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss) Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz) René Descartes Rick and Morty (Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland) Aliens soundtrack Chingon - Robert Rodriguez's band E.R. (Michael Crichton, Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies) Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba) Grindhouse films - Planet Terror and Death Proof MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer) Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker) Tarantino's Star Trek Mercury Cougar XR7 The Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack (The Blasters, ZZ Top, Jon Wayne, The Mavericks, Stevie Ray Vaughan) Kelly Preston Of Mice and Men Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, John Hughes, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis) George Romero The Descent (Neil Marshall, Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid) The Titty Twister bar Desperado (Robert Rodriguez, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida) Los Lobos Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford) Call of Cthulhu RPG Anne Rice vampires Lapdog of Satan loudQUIETloud A Film About the Pixies (Steven Cantor, Matthew Galkin, Frank Black, Kim Deal, David Lovering) El Rey in Robert Rodriguez films The Getaway by Jim Thompson Rifts RPG - Mexico's Vampire Kingdom Charmed (Constance M. Burge, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause, Rose McGowan) Dirk Diggler of Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, Mark Wahlberg,...

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. Jared Hess w. Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess Starring: Jon Heder Efren Ramirez Jon Gries Aaron Ruell Diedrich Bader Tina Majorino Sandy Martin In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico, shows up to keep an eye on him. With no safe haven at home or at school, Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro, a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president. Things discussed in the show: Russian movie posters Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston) Dumbo (Disney, Samuel Armstrong, Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing) Kung Fu Cult Master Real Steel (Shawn Levy, Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo) Robot Jox Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young) Lionheart (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard) Switchback (Jeb Stuart, Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Claudia Stedelin, Jared Leto) Killing Eve season 3 (Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw) Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, Kang-ho Song, Lee Sun-kyun, Yeo-jeong Cho) Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris) Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Juno (Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody, Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner) Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear) Jack White Jamiroquai Wes Anderson Trapper Keepers Rushmore (Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams) Gummo (Harmony Korine, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh) Julian Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, Ewen Bremner, Brian Fisk, Chloë Sevigny) No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin) Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman) Peluca - Short film Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon, Will Speck, Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler) Dungeons & Dragons Heathers House Party Bone Tomahawk (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, S. Craig Zahler) BTK Killer Atlanta local spots: Manuel's Tavern, 529 Bar Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles) Elvis Costello Who's Line is it Anyway? The Drew Carey Show (Drew Carey, Bruce Helford, Diedrich Bader, Kathy Kinney) High school dances as ritual, an anthropological study Community (Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase, Troy Barnes) Ligers - centaurs and Dungeons and Dragons little brown books X-Files - Jersey Devil episode (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi) Bat Boy from Weekly World News Wesley Snipes The Jackalope and Dave Coulier Brian Setzer Orchestra and The Stray Cats Next week: From Dusk Till Dawn

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. D'Urville Martin Story by: Rudy Ray Moore Starring: Rudy Ray Moore D'Urville Martin Lady Reed Jerry Jones Hy Pyke 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 Gibbs (the gun-running preacher), and his gang of female prostitute karate experts, Dolemite takes back his turf and club through martial arts prowess and sheer oratory showmanship. Things discussed in the show: Blaxploitation films The Jerk (Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams) Black Mama White Mama (Eddie Romero, Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig) Coffy (Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui) Shaft 1971 (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi) The Last Dragon (Michael Schultz, Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney) Wu Tang Clan Kung Fu and Hip Hop Fargo season 1 (Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman) Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya) The Little Things (John Lee Hancock, Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto) The Midnight Sky (George Clooney, George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo) Dolemite is my Name (Craig Brewer, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan) Twin Peaks (Mark Frost, David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick) Mad Max Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss) Rudy Ray Moore's influence on Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and hip hop in general Three Penny Opera (Georg Wilhelm Pabst (as G.W. Pabst), Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher) The Mack (Michael Campus, Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor) Song: Mack the Knife Gaspar Noe Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin) Who Framed Roger Rabbit Thirstin Howl III - Skilligan's Island THX 1138 (George Lucas, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley) Elvis level Karate Jackie Chan / Jet Li / Chuck Norris / Bruce Lee The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro) Titanic (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane) Rudy Ray Moore albums (Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens) Barry (Alec Berg, Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan, Henry Winkler) The Princess Bride The Human Tornado (Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch) Disco Godfather (J. Robert Wagoner, Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch) Big Money Hustlas (John Cafiero, Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Jamie Madrox, Rudy Ray Moore, Insane Clown Posse) Blacula (William Crain, William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas) Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino) Pirates of the Caribbean They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (Gordon Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair) Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright,...

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. Robert Zemeckis Starring: Bob Hoskins Christopher Lloyd Kathleen Turner Joanna Cassidy Charles Fleischer Stubby Kaye Alan Tilvern Joel Silver Mel Blanc Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit, the sultry wife of Maroon's biggest star, Roger Rabbit. But when Marvin Acme, Jessica's alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom vows to catch and destroy Roger. Things discussed in the show: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson) Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise) Woodstock documentary (Michael Wadleigh, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey) Fargo season 4 (Chris Rock, Francesco Acquaroli, Andrew Bird, Jessie Buckley, Salvatore Esposito, Jeremie Harris, Jack Huston, Amber Midthunder, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw) Billy Bob Thornton Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris) Supernatural season 15 (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino) Lobo vs. God in Lobo A Contract on Gawd Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Gary K. Wolf) The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter) Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary, Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie) The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci) Baby Herman, Eddie Valiant, The Ink and Paint Club, Paddy Cakes, Toon Town, Judge Doom, Herman's Shermans, Pistol Packin' Possum Steve Buscemi or Andy Serkis as the recast Roger Rabbit Hollywood Babylon (Fatty Arbuckle, Erol Flynn) Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston) Mickey Mouse 2013 ("Gulp" is the best episode, Disney, Chris Diamantopoulos, Russi Taylor, Bill Farmer) Dragon Con We're Doomed - Board game about getting a seat on the rocket fleeing Earth. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote) Goonies Hentai Thirstin Howl III - "Dreams of Fucking a Cartoon Bitch" Catalina Island Step Brothers (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen) Portable Hole The Untouchables Nancy Cartwright is the voice of Shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall) Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson) Bumping the Lamp Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, Diane Thomas, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna) Shave and a Haircut Harvey (Henry Koster, Mary Chase, James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn) Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) Ronin (John Frankenheimer, J.D. Zeik, Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone) Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride at Disneyland Back to the Future II (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson) Predator Cool World (Ralph Bakshi, Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Janni Brenn) An American Werewolf in London The Jetsons (Hanna-Barbera, George O'Hanlon, Janet Waldo, Mel Blanc) The Flintstones - Wilma & Betty (Hanna-Barbera,...

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. Rob Reiner w. William Goldman Starring: Cary Elwes Mandy Patinkin Robin Wright Chris Sarandon Christopher Guest Wallace Shawn André the Giant Fred Savage Peter Falk Billy Crystal Carol Kane 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 William Goldman novel "The Princess Bride" which earned its own loyal audience. Things discussed in the show: The sadness of Smashing Pumpkins Train to Busan (Sang-ho Yeon, Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok) A Clockwork Orange dick sculptures The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman) Udo Kier Wings (David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee, Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard) Frazier (David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce) The Simpsons (James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer) Spider-Man Homecoming (Jon Watts, Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.) WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn) Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, Justin Theroux, Stan Lee, Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow) The MCU saviors James Gunn & Taika Waititi Perry Mason 2020 (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones, Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk) The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston, Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick) Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston) The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George) Walt Whitman Waukegan, IL and Ray Bradbury Albert Camus J.R.R. Tolkien James Baldwin The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith) The Four Feathers 2002 (Shekhar Kapur, Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson) Emo music vs. Emo Philips The Wonder Years (Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Daniel Stern) The Princess Bride novel (William Goldman) Adventures in the Screen Trade (William Goldman) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, William Goldman, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross) All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, William Goldman, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick, Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) The Lumière brothers The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor) Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert) George R. R. Martin This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest) Guilder, The Cliffs of Insanity, Shrieking Eels, Six-fingered Man, The Pit of Despair Quibi's Home Movie: The Princess Bride remake Josh GadMckenna GraceKeith L. WilliamsLogan KimJoey KingRob ReinerFred SavageRob ReinerJ. K. SimmonsGiancarlo EspositoSarah SilvermanRobert WuhlAdam SandlerCarl ReinerRettaDread Pirate RobertsChris PineCommonSam RockwellNeil Patrick HarrisSophie TurnerDavid SpadeJon HammKaitlyn DeverBrandon RouthCourtney FordTommy DeweyTaika WaititiChristopher Mintz-PlasseJack BlackLucas HedgesPaul RuddCary ElwesTiffany HaddishPenélope CruzJennifer GarnerLeslie BibbDavid BurtkaAnnabelle WallisZoe SaldanaJoe JonasMackenzie DavisKimberly BrookZazie BeetzBrandon RouthCourtney FordZoey DeutchJenna OrtegaBeanie FeldsteinRobin WrightHugh JackmanThomas LennonPenélope CruzElijah...

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. Heat (1995) d. Michael Mann Starring: Al Pacino Robert De Niro Val Kilmer Jon Voight Tom Sizemore Natalie Portman Ashley Judd Kevin Gage Hank Azaria Danny Trejo Henry Rollins AND Xander Berkeley as RALPH! Master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is trying to control the rogue actions of one of his men, while also planning one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna (Al Pacino) attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife (Diane Venora) and the mental health of his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman). McCauley and Hanna discover a mutual respect, even as they try to thwart each other's plans. Things discussed in the show: Zatoichi At First Sight (Irwin Winkler, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves) Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat) Dead Snow 2 Red vs. Dead (Tommy Wirkola, Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr) Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton) Idle Hand (Rodman Flender, Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox) Fatman (Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms, Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste) The Witches 2020 (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Roald Dahl, Guillermo del Toro) Return to Oz Zoroastrians Soul (Pixar, Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton) Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin) Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kyle MacLachlan, Paula Poundstone, Bobby Moynihan, Frank Oz, Flea) Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Zoë Kravitz) The Bechdel Test The Handmaiden's Tale (Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes) Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright) Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright) Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss) Wonder Woman and BDSM The Cleveland Steamer or The Chi-Chi Rodriguez Allen Moore The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 (French Revolution, Madame Guillotine & the Reign of Terror, Harold Young, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey) The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Looney Toons, Daffy Duck, Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese) Frank Miller's Batman The Godfather Part III (the re-edit, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Joe Mantegna, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola) The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) Bram Stoker's Dracula Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan) Adaptation (The Orchid Thief, Spike Jonze, Susan Orlean (book), Charlie Kaufman, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper) Rex...

This week on Total Movie Recall, two white guys talk about hip hop culture in a totally convincing way when they put on their mustard-colored overalls to go to the House Party. Steve, a sentient walking issue of Pitchfork, schools Ryan on the infinite subgenres of hip hop while Ryan, to no one’s surprise, gets a little weepy at touching father-son relationships. House Party (1990) d. Reginald Hudlin Starring: Christopher Reid Robin Harris Christopher Martin Martin Lawrence Tisha Campbell-Martin A.J. Johnson George Clinton Kid decides to go to his friend Play's house party, but neither of them can predict what's in store for them on what could be the wildest night of their lives. Things discussed in the show: Martin Lawrence's Wikipedia page Billions (Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff) The Big Short (Adam McKay, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling) The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) Succession (Jesse Armstrong, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook) White Men Can't Jump Risk vs. Risk Legacy (board games) Diplomacy (game) Leah Remini Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The King of Queens (David Litt, Michael J. Weithorn, Kevin James, Leah Remini, Jerry Stiller) Paul Blart Mall Cop (Steve Carr, Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays) Oh No! Ross and Carrie podcast Reckless Ben and Scientology (YouTube) QAnon / Project Veritas LSD on the set of Titanic Kathleen Turner Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman) Sideways (Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen) Mystic Punks RPG (Exalted Funeral, Anthony Meloro) Hard Boiled (John Woo, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Teresa Mo) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Jack Dempsy Young Sherlock Holmes (Barry Levinson, Arthur Conan Doyle (characters), Chris Columbus, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Henry Winkler) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (George Lucas, Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Corey Carrier) Salt N' Pepa Bebe's Kids (Bruce W. Smith, Robin Harris (characters), Reginald Hudlin, Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Robin Harris) Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Arsenio Hall, Robin Harris) Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Robin Harris) I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas) Mo Better Blues (Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes) Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams) American Graffiti (Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Wolfman Jack, Harrison Ford) Cooley High (Michael Schultz, Eric Monte, Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris) Superbad (Greg Mottola, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse) Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, Milla Jovovich, Adam Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey) The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro) Die Hard (John McTiernan, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia) Kids (Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny) Mean Girls (Mark Waters, Rosalind Wiseman (book), Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams) Heathers Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Jerry Jones) Oliver Stone Adventures in Babysitting (Chris Columbus, David Simkins, Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan) The...

This week on Total Movie Recall, the pressures of competing at a professional level with all the concussions, cocaine, infidelities, and painkillers almost make Steve request to be traded during the free agency period after he and Ryan bicker about Oliver Stone’s divisive 1999 film, Any Given Sunday. Does Steve’s complete lack of interest in professional sports bring this episode to a screeching halt? Yes. Can you tell who’s writing these summaries yet? Probably. Any Given Sunday (1999) d. Oliver Stone Starring: Al Pacino Dennis Quaid Cameron Diaz James Woods Jamie Foxx LL Cool J Matthew Modine Jim Brown Lawrence Taylor Bill Bellamy Ann-Margret Aaron Eckhart Elizabeth Berkley Charlton Heston Four years ago, DAmato's (Al Pacino) Miami Sharks were at the top. Now, his team is struggling with three consecutive losses, sliding attendance, and aging heroes, particularly 39-year-old quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid). Off the field, DAmato is struggling with a failed marriage and estranged children, and is on a collision course with Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), the young president/co-owner of the Sharks organization. Things discussed in the show: Platoon (Oliver Stone, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Depp) Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Tommy Lee Jones) His House (Remi Weekes, Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba) Scarface The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall) People Under the Stairs Us (Jordan Peele, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss) Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Michael Kenneth Williams) Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Terry Crews, Rebel Wilson, Melissa McCarthy) The Most Dangerous Game 1932 (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks) Battle Royale The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, Stephen King, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto) Surviving the Game (Ernest R. Dickerson, Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton) Hard Target (John Woo, Chuck Pfarrer, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley) Wilford Brimley saving us from diabetes with oatmeal The Big Labowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro) Nikolai Gogol and Ukrainian Cossacks Goonies Scanners (David Cronenberg, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan) The Fly James Gunn Ben-Hur (William Wyler, Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Gore Vidal) The Planet of the Apes 1968 (Franklin J. Schaffner, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) The Omega Man (Boris Sagal, Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash) Barabbas 1961 (Richard Fleischer, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy) Testament of Solomon The Devils (Ken Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton) Apostle (Gareth Evans, Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Joss Whedon Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson) Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit (Bill Duke, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith) Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley) Gladiator (Ridley Scott, David Franzoni, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen) Spartacus Blood and Sand (Steven S. DeKnight, Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett) Rome (Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald, John Milius, Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker) Casino (Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone,...

This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan discover that there’s actually an antidote to getting punched really, really hard. The cultural divide proves too much for Ryan in this wild, fantastic, hallucinatory Kung Fu epic of many names. The story is incomprehensible, the fights are nonsensical, but Steve still finds it defensible, while Ryan finds the editing reprehensible. There’s no reason for this rhyme. Kung Fu Cult Master (1993) d. Jing Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Starring: Jet Li Man Cheung Chingmy Yau Set during the Yuen Dynasty, many sects compete for possession of the two golden swords which contain the secret to dominance of the world of martial arts. The first faction, led by Shaolin, consists of Shaolin, Wu Tang, Ngo Mai, Kun Lun, Hung Tung and Wah Shan. The second is the Ming Sect, otherwise known as the Fire Sect or Evil Sect, led by branch leaders Queen of Purple Dragon, King of White Eagle, King of Gold Lion and King of Green Bat. A student of Wu Tang, befriends Gold Lion and marries the daughter of White Eagle. He is killed for the secret of the location of the missing sword. His infant son witnesses this and vows revenge on the heads of the sect. Unfortunately he has a jinx which prevents him from learning martial arts. Brian Rawnsley Things discussed in the show: Tom Clancy & Jack Ryan vs World War 3 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker) Wargames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Breakfast Club (John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy) The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy) Deutchland 83 (Anna Winger, Jörg Winger, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen) Operation Able Archer Wind of Change podcast (Patrick Radden Keefe, The Scorpions) Wong Kar-wai Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He) The Great Wall (Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe) American Factory (documentary, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke) Casino Royale (Texas Holdem, Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay), Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito) The Lookout (Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour) Godless (Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Scott Frank) Auteur Cinema The Witch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) The New Mutants (Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton) Love Actually (Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Leonard DiCaprio & Liam Hemsworth The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The Raid Redemption (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy) Kung Fu (NES video game) Double Dragon (video game) The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle) The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra) Apostle (Dan Stevens, Richard...

This 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...

This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan gets his hipster comedy credentials revoked after Steve makes him pay $3.99 to watch the 1994 not-so-classic comedy, Cabin Boy. Ryan simply cannot understand the cache this movie has in the “alt-comedy” world, or as he likes to call it, the “non-comedy” world (now that’s funny!). Steve would explain it, but you just, like, don’t get it man. Cabin Boy (1994) d. Adam Resnick Starring: Chris Elliott Ritch Brinkley James Gammon Brian Doyle-Murray Brion James Melora Walters David Letterman Andy Richter Ricki Lake Nathanial Mayweather is a spoiled rich kid whose plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire, finding him lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors. When his crusty cabin mates get a whiff of his highfalutin attitude, they give him every rotten chore on the boat -- and take him on an absurdist adventure through Hell's Bucket! Things discussed in the show: Will Farrell It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito) Late Night with David Letterman Klonopin and coffee or Codeine and syrup The dumb politics of 2020: QAnon and conspiracy nonsense Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard) Apocalypse Now - "The Final Cut" (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall) George Lucas constantly meddling with old Star Wars films Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young) Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando) Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger) Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro) Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio) Democracy in Chicago While We're Young (Noah Baumbach, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver) The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech) Bug (William Friedkin, Tracy Letts, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.) Tangerine (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian) The Florida Project (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe) Kubrick v. Akira Kurisawa v. Jodorowski v. Scorsese David Byrne's lyrics Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer) Brick (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin) 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston) Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato) Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper) Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero, Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts) The Pest (Paul Miller, John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Freddy Rodríguez) The Walking Dead (Frank Darabont, Angela Kang, Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride) Monkey Shines (George A. Romero, Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil) The Great (Tony McNamara, Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox) Werner Herzog and finding the deeper truth in documentary The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage) Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog) The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves) Se7en (David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey) Mr. Beast, Twitch streamers, mystery boxes from the dark web Dybbuk box Star Trek's utopia The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Noelle Stevenson, Aimee Carrero, Marcus Scribner, Karen Fukuhara, Keston...

This week on the Total Movie Recall Holiday Special, Steve and Ryan visit the mopey, gothy early 90s when Generation X looked to the high school Gloom King Tim Burton to express their so dark vision of Christmas. Stop motion animation is such a labor intensive craft that creates beautiful visions that aren’t all that interesting, which is going to enrage a bunch of high school Wiccans that love this movie. It does look great, though. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) d. Henry Selick Starring: Danny Elfman Chris Sarandon Catherine O'Hara William Hickey Paul Reubens The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry. Things discussed in the show: Babe Pig in the City Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton) Dark Shadows (Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green) Dumbo 2019 (Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito) Beetlejuice 2 Yule logs, holiday presents and the Krampus Saturn and Jupiter aligning in 2020 Supernatural's final season (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins) Armageddon and kaijus X-Files (Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi) power ranking Young Sheldon episodes Mom (Allison Janney, Anna Faris, Mimi Kennedy) The internet turning on Chris Pratt Johnny Depp & Amanda Heard drama The Straight Story (David Lynch, John Roach, Mary Sweeney, Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz) Tom Cruise freaking out on staff not adhering to covid restrictions and Scientology Mission Impossible 7 (Christopher McQuarrie, Vanessa Kirby, Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell) Mission Impossible Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames) The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams) Mission Impossible 3 (J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames) South Park - The Pandemic Special Cyberpunk 2077 Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis) The Mandolorian Season 2 (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, Temuera Morrison, Amy Sedaris, Bill Burr) Kathleen Kennedy Star Wars - The Clone Wars (George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter) Star Wars - Rebels (Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall) Ahsoka Tano Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache) James Cameron's Avatar films The Town (Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon) Jean-Pierre Melville No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin) Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell) Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya) The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor) Fargo season 4 (Noah Hawley, Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston) MacBeth 2021 (Joel Coen, William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson) The Naked Man (J. Todd Anderson, Ethan Coen, Michael Rapaport, Michael Jeter, John Carroll Lynch) Black Mirror - Nosebleed Season 3, Episode 1 (Michael Schur, Rashida Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve) Chinese social credit Community...

This week on Total Movie Recall, things get grim and a little too close to 2020 reality for comfort. Definitely don’t watch this movie if you’re fresh out of rehab, which Ryan can tell you all about. The future is bleak, but if it’s also as ruggedly handsome as Clive Owen is and has the greatest single-take of all time, it might not be so bad. This is also one of the greatest movies of all time, just to be clear about it. Children of Men (2006) d. Alfonso Cuarón Starring: Clive Owen Julianne Moore Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Caine Clare-Hope Ashitey Charlie Hunnam When infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) becomes the unlikely champion in the fight for the survival of Earth's population; He must face down his own demons and protect the planet's last remaining hope from danger. Things discussed in the show: Y Tu Mamá También (Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho) A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuarón, Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Rudy Giuliani) Impractical Jokers The Movie (Chris Henchy, Paula Abdul, Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn, Sal Vulcano) Bad Trip (Kitao Sakurai, Eric André, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish) Jackass The Movie (Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Spike Jonze, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña) Ali G Indahouse (Mark Mylod, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dan Mazer, Emilio Rivera, Gina La Piana) Brüno (Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale) Jimmy Kimmel and Borat The Yes Men (Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Andreas Bichlbauer, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Chris Smith) Who Is America? (Sacha Baron Cohen, Roy Elghanayan, Emanuela Postacchini) Topnotch Idiots - YouTube Dr. Sleep (Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran) The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers) Supernatural (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard, Mark Pellegrino) The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas) The Haunting of Bly Manor (Mike Flanagan, Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve) The Conjuring (James Wan, Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston) Slimer Scream (Wes Craven, Kevin Williamson, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy) Blair Witch - 2016 (Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid) The Guest (Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe) The Blair Witch Project Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, Drew Goddard, Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan) REC (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano) The VVitch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) The Witches - 1990 (Nicolas Roeg, Roald Dahl (book), Allan Scott (screenplay), Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher) The Witches - 2020 (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci) The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Colin Higgins, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise) Anjelica Huston vs. Anne Hathaway Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell) Taking of Pellam 123 - 1974 (Joseph Sargent, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam) Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer) Money Train (Joseph Ruben, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez) Zombeavers (Jordan Rubin, Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins) Roma (Alfonso Cuarón,...

This week on Total Movie Recall, our bodies go through some changes that we don’t know how to deal with as we take in a John Landis double feature with Thriller & An American Werewolf in London. We really just need somebody to talk to about it. What’s that, Dad? You’re busy? Okay, I’ll just go on the internet and learn some deeply ingrained, problematic attitudes about Michael Jackson, Nazi monsters and Van Morrison tantric sex cults. d. John Landis Special Effects: Rick Baker The Making of Thriller (1983) Starring: Michael Jackson Ola Ray Vincent Price The Making of “Thriller” is a behind the scenes look at the King of Pop and his groundbreaking and Grammy award-winning video. An American Werewolf in London (1981) Starring: David Naughton Jenny Agutter Griffin Dunne John Woodvine David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he's plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns David that he is becoming a werewolf. When David discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast. Things discussed in the show: The Reagan '80s Leaving Neverland (Dan Reed, Wade Robson and James Safechuck) Brazil's love of Michael Jackson Tom Petty - "Mary Jane's Last Dance" Social media grief poachers Kurt Cobain's death (Nirvana) C+C Music Factory Wahlburgers (Paul Wahlberg, Donnie Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg) Corey Feldman and Macaulay Culkin's relationship with Michael Jackson Bubbles Movie cancelled (The Black List) Jackson family: Joe Jackson (father)Katherine Jackson (mother)Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" JacksonSigmund Esco "Jackie" JacksonToriano Adaryll "Tito" JacksonJermaine La Jaune JacksonLaToya Yvonne JacksonMarlon David JacksonMichael Joseph JacksonSteven Randall "Randy" JacksonJanet Damita Jo Jackson Gary, Indiana Motown Fantasia (Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse) Most expensive music videos: Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson - "Scream" & "Black & White" / Madonna / Guns & Roses - "November Rain" Roger Corman U2 The Pizza Underground Moldy Peaches (Adam Green & Kimya Dawson) Adam Green's Aladdin (Adam Green, Jon Wiley, Michael Cummings, Yasmin Green, Natasha Lyonne, Har Mar Superstar, Macaulay Culkin, Zoë Kravitz, Regina Spektor) West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Ernest Lehman, Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer) James Kochalka Superstar - "Show Respect for Michael Jackson" Dance in pop music: Arianna Grande, Cardi B - "WAP," Lady Gaga The Chiodo Brothers did the titles for Thriller The Crow (Alex Proyas, James O'Barr, Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, David Patrick Kelly) Helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone The Movie Twilight Zone The Movie (Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven Spielberg, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Larroquette, Scatman Crothers, John Lithgow) Eddie Murphey won't work with John Landis Trading Places (John Landis, Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod, Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy) Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton) Marlin Brando traumatizing an actress with butter Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi ) Planet of the Apes - 1968 (Franklin J. Schaffner, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) Leprechaun Butthole Surfers Weird Al Yankovic - "Eat It" - "Fat" Superbowl Halftime shows with Michael Jackson, Prince and Janet Jackson Franz Liszt Beach Boys Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice Slayer and Pantera are just as hard as Elton John Blue Moon (song) The oldies station. Nirvana, Ice...

This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve holds Ryan’s hair back while he cries and dry heaves and rocks back and forth like his cat just died, because there has never been a movie more perfectly designed to make him cry like The Sixth Sense. Misunderstood children? Check. Put-upon mothers just trying their best? Check. An exasperated but committed psychologist just trying to figure out how to reach this kid? Double check. Get your tissues for this one. The Sixth Sense (1999) d. M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Bruce Willis Haley Joel Osment Toni Collette Donnie Wahlberg Mischa Barton Young Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe. As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something unexplainable. Things discussed in the show: PEN15 season 2 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) YouTube prank channels Aokigahara, the Japanese suicide forest Bloody Mary Minecraft Heathers Unspooled Podcast Mean Girls (Mark Waters, Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams ) Donnie Darko Big Mouth (Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Jordan Peele, Jenny Slate) Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Ridley Scott, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim) Cult of Apollo, Ra and other sun gods Warhammer 40k and the God Emperor Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan) Sunshine (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans) Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey Heavy Metal magazine Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich) German Expressionism The Boys season 2 (Garth Ennis, Eric Kripke, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie) Radicalized shooters (Kyle Rittenhouse, Dylann Roof) Utopia (Gillian Flynn, John Cusack, Ashleigh LaThrop, Dan Byrd, Desmin Borges, Christopher Denham, Javon 'Wanna' Walton, Farrah Mackenzie Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) Ulysees' Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos) Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman) Losing and gaining weight as an actor (Kumail Nanjiani) Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci) Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange) White Men Can't Jump Armageddon (Michael Bay, J.J. Abrams, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson) Child psychology and ghosts What's more scary, basements or attics Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Hogan) Home Alone Cask of the Amontillado (Edgar Allen Poe) The Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison) Alfred Hitchcock Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter) Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale) Knives Out (Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer) The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers) Paste Magazine DJ Bruce Willis and his band Bruno Jon Spencer Blues...

This week on Total Movie Recall, we acknowledge that The Wizard of Oz is, yes, a classic. However, it’s missing a certain je ne sais quoi, and we try to put our fingers on exactly what it needed. We conclude that classic, whimsical children’s film needed more childhood lobotomy, forced imprisonment, Queens pulling their own heads off, and Veruca Salt. Or Fairuza Balk? Potato potato. Return to Oz (1985) d. Walter Murch Based on books by L. Frank Baum Starring: Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Nicol Williamson as the Nome King Jean Marsh as Mombi Piper Laurie as Aunt Em Brian Henson as Jack Pumpkinhead Dorothy discovers she is back in the land of Oz, and finds the yellow brick road is now a pile of rubble, and the Emerald City is in ruins. Discovering that the magical land is now under the control of an evil empire, she sets off to rescue the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion with the help of her new friends. Things discussed in the show: Electroshock Therapy / Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) The Willies - Labyrinth - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Tik-Tok of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Ozma of Oz PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman) Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte) Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts) Is the expression "call a spade a spade" racist? Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde Superbad (Greg Mottola, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader) Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Ridley Scott, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim) Dune - 1984 (David Lynch, Frank Herbert, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis, Sting, Dean Stockwell) Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride) American Murder: The Family Next Door (Jenny Popplewell) Lifetime made for TV movies 8 Inch Betsy - The Mean Days Army Wives (Katherine Fugate, Brian McNamara, Wendy Davis, Catherine Bell, Sterling K. Brown, Terry Serpico, Sally Pressman, Kim Delaney, Drew Fuller) Unsolved Mysteries Rescue 911 (William Shatner, David Teschendorf, Gene Babb) Last Podcast on the Left (Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski) My Favorite Murder (podcast, Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark) Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Paradise Lost 2: Revelations Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory How The Satanic Panic and the novel Michelle Remembers ruined lives. Siskel and Ebert hated this movie The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton) Flying Monkeys Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder, Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish) Veruca Salt Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, Roald Dahl, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum) The Waterboy (Frank Coraci, Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Clint Howard, Rob Schneider) The Craft (Andrew Fleming, Peter Filardi, Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, Ken Kesey, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson) Frankenstein (James Whale, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff) PTSD, Soldier's Heart, Shell Shock Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley Invasion of the Triffids / Day of the Triffids (Steve Sekely, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, killer plants) White Fang (Randal Kleiser, Jack London, Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Bill Moseley) George Lucas The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton) The Godfather...