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Episode 233: Frye's Not Here, Man
25 Feb 2025
00:33:42
"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Episode Two Hundred and Twenty-Three: Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013)
Elves (1989)
"Behind every tale of Christmas monsters lurks the true darkness of Christmas... No matter how brightly our fires burn, or how many fairy lights we turn on, Christmas is still spent deep in the shadows." -- Sarah Clegg
You want more independent horror? We've got so much more. This week we bring a proper period piece from Thatcher's England. It's the height of the Video Nasty panic, and debut director Prano Bailey-Bond is bringing the goods. Additionally, James decided to fix his audio this week, so this one's listenable. You're welcome.
Episode One Hundred and Thirty-One:The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)
The wheel was merciful this time. Independent horror is a generous well. Our only real downside is that Frye really doesn't like horror and it's up to Russ to drag him along, kicking and screaming. Our setting is upstate New York in 1843 and our theme is witchcraft. This is all feeling very familiar. Pun intended.
Also James decided to record his audio with a megaphone this time. It's good that his brand-new fancy water-rig sounds like being waterboarded. Apologies.
Episode 130: The Cutting Room Floor -- March 2023!
07 Mar 2023
00:32:05
Russ went to Vegas this week, so you're getting more of our outtake dreck. We'll be back next week with our usual nonsense. Here's hoping you like talk about video games and everyone's personal life.
Action. Musical. Well, you knew we'd have to be crossing some oceans for this one. If we need guns and explosions and romance and singing and dancing we're definitely headed for Bollywood. When your writer / director operates off a mononym, you know you're in for a good time.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Eight: Expelled from Paradise (2014)
楽園追放 (2014)
Animated. Thriller. Those are two words that seldom appear side-by-side, but Russ and Frye are always up for a challenge. Did you like The Matrix? Gundam Wing? Trigun? Dune? What if they all had a baby? And then that baby grew up to only provide fanservice? You just might end up with Expelled from Paradise.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Seven: Spin Me Round (2022)
As of last week, we still haven't found something James likes. The wheel wanted independent drama, and that theme generally contains very few pirates, lighthouses, oilmen, or Cthulhu. He's just not biting, and we're getting bored of this category. It's up to Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Olive Garden to seal the deal.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Six: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
Based on a true story. Do those words do anything for you? This week in independent drama, we bring you the based on a true story tale of Japan / Minnesota's least-effective treasure hunter. Urban legends abound as we try to please The Wheel and finally find something James likes.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Five: Stop and Go (2021)
Road movies. There aren't a lot of movies that embraced the COVID lifestyle. Most studios either shot around it or greenlit animated productions. One movie dared to show us all the lifestyle changes that would age as well as a carcass on a freeway. Whitney Call and Mallory Everton are taking a road trip from Albuquerque to Seattle in full pandemic swing.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Four: Bullet Train (2022)
The wheel has demanded comedy-thriller, and Brad Pitt has taken up the gauntlet. We're off to Japan for the most white-washed movie set on a shinkansen you've ever seen. When Michael Shannon is playing a Russian yakuza boss, you know some wires have gotten crossed somewhere.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Three: Class Action Park (2020)
What is an action documentary, we wondered to ourselves after last week's episode. Then along came con-artist and criminal Gene Mulvihill to give us our answer. His brainchild was a meatgrinder of a playground called Action Park, and enough cannot be said about this Jackass of an attraction. The 80s and New Jersey were the magical ley lines that spawned this monster.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Two: Money Plane (2020)
We're back!
It's a listener request to start off 2023! This is the best movie released in 2020 that stars both a classically trained thespian and a WWE superstar. If you've ever wanted to see Edge act opposite Kelsey Grammer, now you can. The title alone is perfect, but is that an easy enough sell for James? Also, no -- this isn't the long awaited sequel to Money Train. We were similarly crushed.
Episode 121: The Cutting Room Floor -- January 2023!
03 Jan 2023
00:30:49
Happy 2023, everybody! We'll be back next week with the usual nonsense. There are some politics in this episode, but it's an outtakes episode and anything's fair game.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty: Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
Christmas horror, you say? There's a LIBRARY. This week it's director Joe Begos and a murderous robotic Santa Claus. No, not the one from Futurama. Riley Dandy holds her own as the Final Girl in this movie that summarizes itself with its title. Let's be honest -- you know what you're getting. As one third of our podcast puts it --
"If we're already here, you don't have to make us go home." --James
Episode One Hundred and Nineteen: Love & Peace (2015)
ラブ＆ピース
Our Christmas drama took us to the UK, and it looks like our foreign Christmas movie is taking us to Japan. We couldn't find the KFC that Frye wanted, but we did find a prolific director. Sion Sono -- a deeply insane person -- wrote and directed this passion project. It's 20 years in the making, and it's the best, most unnecessary Christmas / Santa / rock god / kaiju / love story / musical / puppet show you've seen this month.
Episode One Hundred and Eighteen: The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Happy Holidays! 'Tis the season around here, and the Wheel has demanded Christmas drama. Where better to look than where it all started? It's Victorian England and it's ol' Charlie Dickens. It turns out, the process of creating A Christmas Carol was a surprisingly cinematic one. Who would've thought...
Episode One Hundred and Seventeen: Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
It feels like we've come full circle in a strange way. Our first episode over two years ago was another Jurassic World movie. And now James comes into this one knowing full well what Frye and Russ are selling. They brought back Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and also every dinosaur ever to live or be invented, so they're definitely not compensating for the script or anything.
The world of animated documentaries is wider than you might think, and we were lucky enough to discover this depiction of the life and many, many, many frauds of America's greatest quack doctor -- John R. Brinkley. As if treating every ailment with an implantation of goat testicles wasn't enough, he also skirted the FCC by building his own super-powerful radio station in Mexico in the 30s. Then he ran for governor of Kansas on the strength of simply being a quack.
James didn't want to watch Mélanie Laurent stuck in a tube, so we've got to bring back the spicy foreign drama. Maybe instead of watching Mélanie Laurent stuck in a French tube, he'll be more amenable to watching Tim Roth stuck on a Mexican beach. Although, he is there by choice. James also has a lot to say about the Japanese Self Defense Force and their propaganda anime Gate.
The wheel demanded foreign drama, so we gave James a French sci-fi film where Mélanie Laurent is stuck in a tube. That's the entire movie. It's like that flick we did last year called Galaxy of Horrors, except there aren't any dumb scary short vignettes to break up all the tube stuff. Additionally, Russ makes a grave error on untitled.txt for which he apologizes in advance.
Episode One Hundred and Twelve: Cold Pursuit (2019)
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have is a trophy for being voted Best Person in Town, and a snowplow. My snowplow makes me a nightmare for people like you. If you let Laura Dern out of this movie, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will snowplow you." --Liam Neeson
Happy Halloween, everybody! We've come full circle to good ol' bloody horror and unnecessary remakes all in one! From sex demons dressed in their own skin to the silliest tailoring job you've ever seen, no idea was too silly for the writer's room. This reimagining of Clive Barker's classic will surely polarize casual viewers and horror fans alike, but how well can Russ and Frye sell its charms?
It happened again. We needed a new ghost story, and we accidentally picked one that was too good for the podcast. Of course, that won't stop us from making the most of it. The immigration experience framed as a horror is just the beginning of everything that's happening here. You'll also have to deal with the boys' impromptu elevator pitches for the worst horror movies you've ever imagined and a lengthy discussion of whiskey disguised as Tide pods.
Episode One Hundred and Nine: A Ghost Waits (2020)
Spoopy Season continues! James was ever so excited by our comedy cosmic horror, but now the wheel has called for a ghost story. James isn't a fan. He'll probably be less of a fan this week because Russ and Frye have to deal with a ghost story that throws the viewer the most unnecessary suicide this side of Romeo and Juliet. Also this episode has just SO MUCH talk of suicide -- but maybe more talk of Cyberpunk 2077.
Happy Spoopy Season everybody! It's that time of year when we do a month of horror! The wheel called for horror comedy, but we knew James was disappointed. We knew he really wanted Lovecraftian cosmic horror. But Russ and Frye are wily. What if they could deliver both? What if they could deliver an eldritch god voiced by JK Simmons hiding behind a rest stop glory hole? As it so happens, they could deliver that. And they did.
The wheel called for animated action? That's certainly a thing, but it's usually called DragonBall Z. When you hear "animated action," it's almost certainly an anime -- right? Not to worry. We're weebs -- we know what's up. This is Studio Trigger, and this is Hiroyuki Imaishi. Do you like FLCL? Do you like Gurren Lagann? Do you like Kill la Kill? What if they all had an anime baby? If you even know what these sentences mean, watch this movie.
We usually stick to pretty recent stuff on this show, but the wheel is merciless and it has demanded a classic. While the idea of an "unnecessary" classic film is chuckle-worthy, we think we've delivered. This is a film noir from 1945 directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. If you want to play blackout with your film noir tropes bingo card, this is the flick for you.
Episode 105: Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King
13 Sep 2022
00:51:34
Episode One Hundred and Five: Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022)
I hope you're all ready to learn something, because it's documentary week. If there's one thing we love more than Werner Herzog's speech patterns, it's clowning on crypto and crypto-bros. Luckily, this movie has lots of both. Marvel at the parade of bad decisions, mysteries, and conspiracies surrounding the life and possible death of legendary crypto-bro Gerry Cotten.
Episode One Hundred and Four: We Couldn't Become Adults (2021)
ボクたちはみんな大人になれなかった (2021) Romance yet again. Russ and Frye now know that James wants a romance without any of those pesky romance trappings like love or passion or human contact or fulfillment, so maybe a depressing slice-of-life Japanese pseudo-romance will suffice. The boys are feeling especially genki this week, unlike any one single character in this JAPANESE flick. Weebs.
Episode One Hundred and Three: The F Word -OR- What If? (2013) Romance, eh? You know this one's going to be a tough sell, but maybe Harry Potter AND Kylo Ren can help out. It's the most Tik-Toked romcom of 2022, and Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, and Adam Driver are giving it their all. This movie is called What If? in the US and The F Word everywhere else. Seems the implication was too spicy for the ol' MPAA.
Episode One Hundred and Two: Carter (2022) We forgot to spin the wheel last week, so Russ has hijacked the podcast again! With his newfound power, he has brought the latest action movie out of South Korea that might be more action than movie. The list of things wrong with this movie is exactly the same as the list of things this movie gets right. Is it possible to have too much action? The Netflix original Carter is damn sure going to try...
Episode One Hundred and One: Men (2022) Suspense! As is turns out, James didn't want a thriller at all -- he wanted a suspense movie. Accordingly, it's up to the boys to convince him that this "folk horror" -- per Wikipedia -- is sufficiently chilling. With a title like Men, I bet all the guys in this one are just real swell. It's Alex Garland directing Jessie Buckley and a downright unnecessary number of Rory Kinnear clones.
Episode One Hundred: The Gray Man (2022) We've been doing this for a hundred episodes now, and the movies are just as unnecessary as ever. James wasn't interested in watching Spiderhead, so we brought him a thriller with a lot more explosions, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, podcast favorite Ana de Armas, and Billy Bob Thornton. If you don't think those names just scream "covert operations," then you're not as well-versed in the art of spycraft as is Chris Evans' firefighter moustache.
Episode Ninety-Nine: Spiderhead (2022) The wheel has demanded thrillers, so Russ and Frye picked a movie that is definitely classified as a thriller on Wikipedia. Spiderhead shows us a terrible world where pharmaceutical companies are also prisons run by Chris Hemsworth, and are about as unethical as they are in real life. Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett round out our cast of prisoners in this movie that has zero spiders in it. The unthinkable happens on untitled.txt.
Episode Ninety-Eight: BIGBUG (2022) James is under the impression that countries other than the USA make comedies, so it's up to Russ and Frye to go along with that. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has brought us classics like Amélie, The City of Lost Children, and also Alien Resurrection, because we all have to take an L sometimes. In BIGBUG, we get to watch a bunch of futuristic French people stuck in lockdown with their robots while everyone tries and fails to get shagged. Yes, the robots try and fail too. Are French laughs superior to American laughs? We'll find out soon enough.
Episode Ninety-Seven: The Last Days of Coney Island (2015) Independent animation. We do pick some good ones here, don't we? Who better to tempt James than the architect of so many of your childhood nightmares -- Ralph Bakshi. Here he is presenting the last piece he made before he retired from the animation game. We'll be honest -- it wasn't a close call on this episode.
Episode Ninety-Six: The Last Days of Capitalism (2021) James didn't want to watch Tom Hanks and his pet robot, so we're going even more dramatic this week. What could be more dramatic than a single Vegas hotel room, two people, sex, drugs, and a lot of cash. Pair all that with a bunch of pseudo-philosophical gibberish and you have this week's movie, or pretty much any other episode of Hey James, Watch This!
Episode Ninety-Five: Finch (2021) James has a LOT to say about Assassin 33 A.D., but Russ and Frye are not to be contained. The wheel demands drama, so we brought it sci-fi. Well. Sci-fi drama. More fi than sci. It's Tom Hanks, C-3PO, a Roomba, and Toto wandering around a Fallout 76 map, and somehow we didn't just describe an episode of Love Death + Robots.
The boys have finally done it. It took ninety-four episodes, but they finally broke James. If you haven't heard of it by now, you should have. This is the movie with no audience in mind. It's a faith-based picture where Islamic terrorists create a time machine so they can go back in time and cap Jesus, but worry not -- there's a Jewish scientist ready to save the day. It's the movie that could've only been made by a Christian.
Episode 93: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
21 Jun 2022
00:54:39
Episode Ninety-Three: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Actors forced to sing. Is there any more hellish fate than the musical? Maybe trying to convince James to watch one is worse. It seems like it's been ages since Stuck, hasn't it? The boys are back from vacation, and they've brought Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams in the best tribute to Eurovision since Eurovision itself. Þetta Reddast.