Tag: action

097 – Disco Godfather

Sean Morris joins Tim and Jen to talk about an underseen movie from Dolemite himself, Rudy Ray Moore! Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!

Disco Godfather is easily viewable for free, and via a very nice transfer, courtesy of our favorite streaming service, Tubi.

For more on the Disco Godfather himself, Rudy Ray Moore, put yo’ weight on his official website.

And if you can’t get enough of the voluble Sean Morris, check out our episode on the unfairly forgotten Livin’ Large!

077 – Hudson Hawk

Tim and Jen revisit everyone’s favorite dad-joke heist movie: the unfairly reviled (to some) Hudson Hawk!

Bruce Willis mugging in Hudson Hawk (1991)
Doing an comedy

The entertainment media subjected Hudson Hawk to an unusual amount of negative attention during production. This poor publicity appears to have had a detrimental affect on the box office returns. However, enough time has passed that a nonzero number of people (who aren’t Tim!) will defend it. One of those pieces appeared at the Guardian:

The action scenes are fun, particularly one sequence where Willis is riding a hospital bed down the Brooklyn Bridge (“How am I driving? 1-800-I’m-gonna-fuckin’-die!”) 

Oliver Macnaughton

For another movie that became synonymous with “flop,” try our very first episode, where we discussed Ishtar.

074 – Ring of Steel

Robert Chapin in Ring of Steel (1994)
bring this haircut back imo

Jen and Tim cheerlead for a movie about the dangers of joining illegal underground sword-fighting operations— Ring of Steel!

If you have a Roku, add the B-Movie TV channel right the fuck now.

For more about the kind of delightful nonsense they put on B-Movie TV, listen to our episode about shot-on-video horror.

073 – Crocodile Fury

Tim saves Jen’s bacon by explaining a Frankenstein’s monster of a thriller: Crocodile Fury! And this one was brought to you by cut-and-paste filmmaker Godfrey Ho. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!

If you’re curious about the auteur, read the interview we mentioned in the episode, in which Mr. Ho/Hall/Chan/Cheung/Lee/Kingsbrook explains himself. 

For more head-scratching horror, listen to our episode about Canadian home-brew weirdness Things!

072 – Captain America (1979) with Bill Corbett

Jen and Tim welcome Mystery Science Theater 3000/Rifftrax alum Bill Corbett to the show! We talk about the Quaalude version of a Marvel superhero— a TV movie version of Marvel’s beloved Captain America. Reb Brown, most famously of Space Mutiny and Yor, the Hunter From the Future, stars, sort of.

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Bill has a Tolkien podcast with fellow Riffrax writer Sean Thomasen called Ringheads, and of course you can always find him at Rifftrax!

For more mellow 70s nonsense, try our episode on the very dumb Ben Murphy TV series Gemini Man!

043 – Valley of the Wolves: Iraq with Felix Biederman

Jen and Tim welcome visionary documentary filmmaker Felix Biederman! We discuss the most successful Turkish movie of 2006, Valley of the Wolves: Iraq.

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Felix first joined us to discuss Steven Seagal’s On Deadly Ground.

027 – Tarantino Ripoffs with Matt Christman

Renee Zellweger aims a gun in Love and a .45 (1994)

Matt Christman returns to talk about that disease unique to the 90s, the Tarantino ripoff! We discuss Killing Zoe and Love and a .45. We also touch on oddball pics like The Immortals and the inexplicably beloved Boondock Saints.

Matt first guested on the show to bring us the awful Larry Bishop pet project, Mad Dog Time. Included in this episode is a Matt utterance that’s might be one of the best descriptions of a bad film ever spoken: “It’s like it all takes place in a coffin.”

021 – On Deadly Ground with Felix Biederman

Steven Seagal serving up realness
that’s right king

Jen and Tim welcome an expert in the study of lunkheads, Felix Biederman of Chapo Trap House! We dissect the themes of environmentalism and masculinity in Steven Seagal’s cri de coeur, and also stumble across evidence that Felix may be a long-lost Seagal relative.

For more Felix, don’t miss our episode on the truly demented Turkish actioner Valley of the Wolves: Iraq!

002 – Split Second (1992)

Tim and Jen find themselves unexpectedly charmed and delighted by a combo of sci-fi, horror, thriller, and schlock: Split Second, from 1992! We discuss the wrong-headed marketing for the film and the delights of mini-guns and cigars shared by two dear male friends.

A hilarious trailer, probably for the video release: