Have You SEEN This?

Jen and guest Mike Rosen finally get back around to silent classic Häxan, a topic for which Mike is perfectly suited due to his expertise in witch-hunting manuals, proto-MGTOW inquisitors, and torture devices of the early modern period (not joking).

Jen and Tim are joined by laser-sharp media critic Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable on Twitter) to talk over a movie that close to 50 years later is still too hot for TV: Ken Russell’s The Devils!

Read Gretchen’s writing at VRV Blog

WARNING: Today’s movie was made by an alleged sex offender and constitutes his own defense against said charges.

Mike Rosen returns to vituperate the sequel to Vile Pervert, The Truth Awakens!

Victim statements from Jonathan King’s 2001 trial

Jen, Tim, and guest Kristian Boruff of the Harmontown crew dissect something even more pointless than Funko Pops: a Ghostbusters fan film from 2007!

Once again Tim refuses to discuss a musical, so Jen entices friend of the show Darren Herzceg to visit Shangri-La!

Here are a few of the links mentioned in the show, for enthusiasts (mostly Jen):

Ken Anderson’s discussion of the film

DVD Talk review which includes some memories of the film as it was screened during the original run in Westwood in 1973

And don’t miss the often-exquisite Bacharach/David soundtrack

Just in time for Halloween, Tim and Jen attempt to make head or tail of a homebrew Canadian nightmare! Possibly one of the worst and most inexplicable films ever made, Things went direct-to-video in 1989…and straight to our hearts.

Mike Rosen returns to discuss Marlo Thomas’s most lasting work! Listen to find out if gender stereotypes actually ended in 1973 and we all missed it.

Sean Morris joins Jen and Tim to discuss a favorite forgotten comedy, Livin’ Large, which prefigured “Marxist propaganda” film Sorry To Bother You! We make the connections and also ramble about symptoms of dystopia like SoundCloud rappers.

Jen and Tim are honored to speak with martial arts cinema legend Cynthia Rothrock! Among many other things, Cynthia talks about the pitfalls of acting with non-sync sound, meeting with A-list directors, and taking her career into the 21st century on YouTube.

Jen welcomes Mike Rosen to discuss a traumatic event from his childhood: an ill-fated animated feature directed by Richard Williams.