Z and Keith Watched A Movie – Details, episodes & analysis

Taking off from an almost clique 80's launchpad, Vamp (1986) lead us down several garden paths, keeping us on our toes with its tongue in its cheek. the whole time.
(Did i just put my foot in my mouth?)
Oh and Grace fucking Jones dances and plays a vampire in it.
WARNING: this episode is lousy with Keiths

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Outro: Grace Jones performing Seduction Surrender
Theme by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

For our second Nosvember entry we revisit a film we watched together for the first time during pandi lockdown times.
Also we discuss horrible facial injuries (cw), Stephen's Dorff-ness, and Kris K's legacy.
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Outro: Kris Kristofferson performing Duvalier's Dream
Theme by Prof Ping available on Bandcamp

We're kicking off a month of scifi with Sam Raimi's 1990 homage to 1930's serials and Universal monsters. With solid performances all around, impressive FX and action, it does not disappoint.
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Outro: Disturbed performing The Sound of Silence
Theme by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

in which we do some math and once and for all settle:
Barney Miller = Serenity

We also welcome back for our second annual xmas episode, the one AND only RW!
Join us as we discuss this film's lack of director, its continuity errors, wild ass performance choices, and yet relative charm. Plus: the Q vs G series and more bank talk.   

Many dancing sugar plums to you!  

Jon Lovitz 2010 interview with AV Club
Hats Off Entertainment - Almost Cult Classics

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Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

Seasons Greetings!
Dysfunctional December may be at its peak with this 1998 ~quirky~ indie coming of age story written and directed by Tod Williams.
With Adrian Grenier as the titular twit, co-starring Clark Gregg and with notable appearances by Merritt Weaver, Famke Jensen and Levon Helm, this film has trouble finding its direction, not unlike Sebastian.
Wait a minute...

Along the way we revisit the Heaven's Gate docu-series, review the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, and Z reminisces about their time at Victoria's Secret.   

Good tidings to all!

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Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
Outro: The Band performing Life is a Carnival

What a doozy!
We very much enjoyed this one.
You've got Jessica Lange, Arliss Howard, Carlie Korsmo, Kathy Bates, Chis O"Donnell in is big screen debut and of course, the charming enigma, the legend, the inimitable: Joan Cusack.
When the patriarch of this painfully average, white, middle-class nuclear family suddenly dies, mom and sons have to cobble together a new life for themselves in the city.
Oh, yeah, it's Men Don't Leave (1990).
And it rules.

Get some.

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Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
Outro: Sabrina performing La Vie Continue

Welcome to the home stretch of 2022, dear listeners  

With good tidings, we bring you one of the most successful print-to-screen adaptations known to our kind.  
The second highest grossing film behind Jurassic Park for the year 1993.  
The movie that made Anne Fine a household name.  
Chris Colombus' favorite documentary.  
The celluloid fable that taught us "never buy gribenes from a Mohel." 

Mrs. Doubtfire  

You know it, we love to hate it, Keith had never seen it.  
So don your ambiguous British accents, order up some jambalaya hold the pepper, and strap in for hot takes that are nearly 30 years old.  
Pobody's nerfect.

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Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
Outro: Scorpions performing He's A Woman - She's A Man

...in which learn in real time some details about the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee and the Dawes Act/Dawes Rolls. 

We're talking the film that fictionalizes (for some reason) real events on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970s, Thunderheart (1992).
Plus we wrap up our Native November viewing with some good ol contrasts and comparisons.

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Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
Outro: John Trudell performing Rockin' the Rez

In our 3rd entry in our look at films that deal with Indigeneity, we bring you probably the most well known (to US audiences at least) Native production: 1998's Smoke Signals.  

Written by Sherman Alexie, directed by Chris Eyre and co-produced by the two, it *allegedly* holds the title of being the first film to have Native Americans in all three roles.  

Anyhoo it's about fathers and trauma and generational stuff. And we get on to talkin' about white supremacy and the like, so: the usual.
Another kinda heavy episode.  
Go fig.   

Thanks for listening
Be kind to yourself/s
xo

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Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
Outro: Ulali performing All My Relations

Greetings!
In this, our first ever review of a non-English language film, we bring also maybe our first Canadian production? If you can call it that... Anyway, it's 2001's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Based on an Inuit legend, this epic comes in at just under 3 hours. So strap in. It is as unique as it is worth your time.    

2017 Interview with Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq

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Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
Outro: Tanya Tagaq performing In Me