Josh Boerman, co-host of the podcasts Ill Conceived and The Worst of All Possible Worlds, is with us today and he’s brought the musical anthology film Moonwalker (1988).  It’s a complicated film from a complicated star: Michael Jackson. While not having a narrative throughout the whole piece, the Smooth Criminal segment does spin a very strange tale and contains a well-known music video (which also gets a little weird).  It’s certainly a film and a person that has us talking, so tune in!

Episode 65: Moonwalker featuring Josh Boerman

Bitter Karella, author of the new splatterpunk novel Moonflow, is in the courthouse and they’re presenting Nothing But Trouble (1991). Dan Aykroyd directs and appears in this over-the-top horror-comedy along with John Candy, Chevy Chase, and Demi Moore.  Aykroyd is an evil judge, Candy plays dual roles, Chase is an asshole, Moore is doing her best and there are two, big oily babies for some reason.   It’s a strange one that inspires strong reactions and we’re pleading our cases. You can be in the jury box, just tune in!

Episode 64: Nothing But Trouble featuring Bitter Karella

Discord Dawg Gloria Yip joins us to discuss the Hong Kong cult-classic Future Cops (1993).  This Wong Jing action-comedy is in the tradition of Airplane!, but is the story of three officers from the future trying to save a judge.  The crucial thing to know, though, is that most of the characters are actually fighters from the video game Street Figther 2.  It’s gonna get strange, it’s gonna get zany, and it’s gonna be the next thing you want to see.  Tune in to find out why!

Episode 63: Future Cops featuring Gloria Yip

Anna is up to bat for our last employee pick and the choice is Picture Perfect (1997).  After lying about being engaged just to get a promotion, Jennifer Aniston finds that her web of deception might also land her Kevin Bacon in the process.  Which is weird because the audience should be rooting for her to get together with faux-fiance Jay Mohr, but it’s a confused Rom Com.  While it was profitable, it was certainly not indelible in any way and we’ll get into it all today, so tune in!

Episode 62: Picture Perfect

Chris has our second Employee Pick with an obscure, kung-fu drama: City Dragon (1995).  Directed by Philly native (we assume) “Philthy” Phil Phillips and starring MC Kung Fu, this is a homegrown effort that also has some musical numbers in it.  No one’s calling it a musical, however, nor does anyone really know what to call it other than Pure Entertainment.  It takes a wild second act swerve and is domestically intense. Also, Chris has found a shocking origin story, so be sure to tune in!

Ep 61: City Dragon

It's time for Employee Picks and Greg’s up first with the bonkers musical Xanadu(1980).  Despite the talents of Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck and also many others behind the scenes, this mash-up of big band music and the roller-disco fad landed with a resounding thud.  However, ELO’s contribution would drive the soundtrack to platinum in multiple countries, searing this camp classic into the collective unconscious.  And into our hearts! Tune in

Episode 60: Xanadu

Alice Ebenhoe is back and has brought in another historical adventure film: The 13th Warrior (1999).  This one stars Antonio Banderas and pretty much nobody else, though it was directed by McTiernan and is based on a Crichton novel. It’s a plausible (but fictional) retelling of the origin of the epic poem Beowulf from a spectator’s point of view. Audiences didn’t take to a film whose main character isn’t the story’s main character, but it certainly is an entertaining revisit for the panel.  It’s full of laughs and we have our first tiebreaker, so tune in

Episode 59: The 13th Warrior featuring Alice Ebenhoe

Michael Darling is back and he’s brought in a barnburner: Playing With Fire (1985).  This, frankly wild, made-for-TV message film stars Gary Coleman as a young, troubled arsonist.  Mr. Coleman burns down a number of things, Cicely Tyson chews through a therapist’s office, Yaphet Kotto doesn’t need warrants, because he’s the fire chief and then Ron O’Neal eventually becomes something similar to sympathetic.  Once forgotten (or perhaps buried) this film was mysteriously uploaded to YouTube and now it lives in our brains rent free.  But I do hear sirens, so maybe tune in…

Episode 58: Playing With Fire featuring Michael Darling

Al Bates is back in the hot seat and he’s brought a giant conundrum of a film: the 2024 flop that is Megalopolis.  This film took 40 years to come to the big screen and it was completely funded by Francis Ford Coppola himself.  The cast is packed as well with Adam Driver Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito and far too many more to list. Driver stops time, LaBeouf shaved his eyebrows, and the podcast crew is largely perplexed.  It’s a hippodrome of bonkers imagery and you won’t want to miss this one, so tune in!

Episode 57: Megalopolis featuring Al Bates

Preston Spurlock is back with another rare gem, the passion project/musical Human Highway (1982).  This Neil Young and Dean Stockwell directed film also stars Dennis Hopper and Devo and is largely set in a diner.  It’s hard to pin down: part music video, part comedy, part apocalypse film. It took decades for it to be released to a wider audience after puzzling viewers in the 80s and has certainly left an impression on the panel.  Also, Anna peels back the veil on one of Neil Young’s most infamous albums, so tune in!

Episode 56: Human Highway featuring Preston Spurlock

Join your hosts Chris, Anna, and Greg as they dare to ask the question, "If this movie is so bad, why do you like it so much?". Special guests bring us their own personal favorite bad movies and we figure out what is up with the movies we love to hate and hate to love. 



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