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Tim and Jen aren’t scandalized by infamous teen gross-out comedy Porky’s, it just kind of makes them scratch their heads.
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Someone compiled every Siskel and Ebert review of a Bob Clark film from Murder By Decree to one we actually covered on the show, Loose Cannons. Only the Judd Nelson-starring From the Hip is missing. Maybe they didn’t bother.
Jen and Tim invite Patrick Cosmos back to the show to discuss the woeful sequel to Rock ’n’ Roll High School! Please drop us a line at info@haveyouseen.us if you understand the refrigerator bit.
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Filmmaker Adan Gonzales obviously produced Forever: The Untold Story of Rock ’n’ Roll High School Forever as a labor of love, and audio issues aside, it’s a charming look at a movie that I guess some people really like! If you grew up listening to nu-metal and watching Pauly Shore comedies, check out the rest of his YouTube channel as well.
The LA Times has the rundown on the fairly disastrous debut of Feldman’s self-produced documentary My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys.
Jen and Tim get around to a cute cult film about exploitation and capitalism, Josie and the Pussycats!
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Get Russ Burlingame’s love letter to the film, Best Movie Ever! for 30% off with discount code SEENTHIS over at JosieBook.com! This comprehensive oral history of the film covers the beloved source comic, the production of the film, and the fierce devotion it inspired and continues to inspire in fans.
The reason Jen couldn’t find anything up-to-date on the lawsuit against Rosario Dawson is because it was dismissed in 2021.
It’s true, Archie really did meet the Punisher. They should invite him to appear on the Riverdale TV show.
Jen and Tim unearth a cursed relic: the television show cancelled before the final credits even rolled, Turn On!
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Thanks to SoapsNThings on YouTube for archiving so many episodes of Peyton Place!
The offensive Aussie show Jen alluded to that also got cancelled during the first episode was Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos. You can see the singular episode at the Internet Archive!
The 7-second TikTok joke Tim referenced “Moving a photo in Microsoft Word“.
Finally, Gershon Kingsley’s “Popcorn” is kind of a bop.
Tim and Jen suffer through a patchwork spy pastiche, Casino Royale.
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Errata: Jen attributed the anecdote about producer Charles K. Feldman removing the pay-offs to the jokes in the script to Joe McGrath, but it actually came from another director credited on the film, Val Guest.
Speaking of, you can look through some of superagent-turned-producer Feldman’s personal papers courtesy of AFI.
Robert Von Dassanowsky’s critical essay on Casino Royale just might be the final word on the film:
“Casino Royale’s relationship to Bond is only emblematic; it is a prismatic translation of Fleming’s milieu, not a linear adaptation. And it remains, even today, a wry and provocative sociopolitical satire. The often criticized inconsistencies of the film’s multiple James Bonds, including the banal 007 of Terence Cooper, brought in to cover Sellers’s unfinished characterization, intentionally work to confuse the issue of Bond, to overwork the paradigm until it has no value. As Walter Benjamin in his influential essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” would have it, the original artwork, with its auratic value, has been replaced by accessible but worthless copies. Here, the most unique icon of the era is intentionally made common – a fashion, a fad, a façade: the multiple Bonds are all copies of a first copy, Connery’s Bond.”
Tim can barely hold back his excitement about a movie that (kind of) has Cynthia Rothrock in it: Prince of the Sun!
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View the (kind of) English dub of the film at the Internet Archive.
Jen forgot that her Letterboxd list was called “Anti-Girlboss Movies“, and any movie starring Mai certainly qualifies for it. (Protip: there’s also a list of every single movie we’ve talked about on the show, and sometimes it’ll give you a little hint as to what’s coming up next!)
Jen welcomes Jesse Hawken of the venerable Junk Filter podcast to help her detox from the bad trip that is Otto Preminger’s Skidoo!
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See Preminger host his own trailer for Bunny Lake is Missing, and you better not show up late or he’ll open up a can of Vienna-sausage-in-chicken-broth whoop-ass on you.
Preminger and singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson appeared on the August 30th, 1968 episode of Playboy After Dark to promote, quixotically, their latest film. Nilsson seems to know what’s up, triggering Preminger’s always-present wrath.
Skidoo screenwriter (yes, they had one!) Doran William Cannon wrote a piece for the New York Times in 1971 about the painful experience of writing Brewster McCloud for Robert Altman.
Jen welcomes musician and poster par excellence Patrick Cosmos to chat about a fun little movie with tongue firmly in cheek, Blood Diner!
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Find Patrick at veryimportant.lawyer on Bandcamp and Bluesky, and get his Tonal Rotors album at Big Sleep Records.
Sadly, Carl Crew’s California Institute of Abnormalarts is no more. Read an archived article from LA Bizarro about the venue.
Keyboardist Don Preston just wrapped up a tour at age 91! Read an interview with him at It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine.
Jen and Tim grit their teeth through Barry Levinson’s oppressively whimsical passion project that literally no one liked, Toys. Also, take a drink every time we use a variant of the word “whimsy,” but please drink responsibly!
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Roger Ebert penned a more measured analysis of the film back in 1992:
There’s a curious residue of dissatisfaction after “Toys” is over. It opened so well and promised so much that we’re confused: Is that all there is?
Listen to Tim’s favorite song from the movie, “Happy Workers” sung by Tori Amos.
See the (in)famous Toys teaser trailer on YouTube.
Does it tickle you when Tim gets a real wild hair about a movie? Check out our collection of episodes with the succinct title Tim Hated It!
Jen and Tim debate just how much he actually likes movie musicals during their discussion of a mutual fave, the musical comedy Earth Girls Are Easy.
According to her own website, writer and actress Julie Brown is currently working on Earth Girls Are Easy…the musical version! Maybe even Tim will deign to see it!
Vanity Fair covered Angelyne in 2022, post-Hollywood Reporter exposé. According to the article, the producers of the Angelyne miniseries paid their subject for her life rights, although she declined a producer credit.
For more Julian Temple, enjoy the longform music video he directed for David Bowie, Jazzin’ For Blue Jean.