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Which, in retrospect, makes the episode feel almost unbearably hopeful. Not because it insists humanity always wins out, but because it suggests humanity survives at
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Which, in retrospect, makes the episode feel almost unbearably hopeful. Not because it insists humanity always wins out, but because it suggests humanity survives at
Episode #159 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema finds Bryan, Chelsea, Dan, and Preston wandering deep into the crimson sands of John Carter, Disney’s enormously
Watching Is God Is feels like being promised a handmade meal by a celebrated chef and instead receiving an expired Lunchable thrown directly at your
What made M*A*S*Hso extraordinary was its willingness to let comedy and tragedy occupy the same cramped tent together. One minute, somebody was wearing a dress
This week on Episode #158 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, the gang wades into the warm, cursed waters of Jaws 4: The Revenge, the
What Scrubs understands, perhaps better than many of its more self-serious peers, is that humor does not negate grief. It coexists with it, often in
In a series built on good times, it was the bad one that lingered. Happiness, after all, is most convincing when it acknowledges the possibility
And so “The Body” lingers, long after the credits roll, as a kind of quiet rebuttal to everything the show had taught us to expect.
What makes the scene endure is not just its sweetness but its timing. Five episodes in, Cheers had no obligation to know us this well,
This week on Episode #157 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, we found ourselves tumbling headfirst into the glittering, bewildering cosmos of Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker.
There are many things one turns to How I Met Your Mother for. The yellow umbrellas, the elaborate pickup theories, and the soothing repetition of
By the end, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy doesn’t just revive an old monster, it drags the entire Universal Monsters catalogue into a dark alley, kicks
By the end, you may not have answers. You will, however, have a lingering sense that art, like friendship and like love, is a living
The Drama is, in the end, a kind of Trojan horse. It’s a love story that smuggles in a far more disquieting question about who
In Episode #156, the group turns its attention to Murder by Numbers, a 2002 relic starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, and Michael Pitt. It’s a
There are episodes of a podcast that arrive with the breezy confidence of a brunch invitation. It’s light, convivial, and gone before the coffee cools.
There is a particular pleasure that’s rare, and almost illicit, in watching something survive its own century and come back looking better than you remembered
So, in anticipation of the home video release of Send Help, a title that feels less like a film and more like a message from
Episode #154 finds the panel wading into the tiara-strewn chaos of Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), a mockumentary so dark it occasionally feels like it’s whispering
This time, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta welcome the ever-game Mena Suvari, who arrives bearing fangs and stories from her new film, Vampires of the
On episode 153, the gang attempts to escape The Island, Michael Bay’s glossy 2005 action curio, which arrived sandwiched between the pyrotechnic bravado of Bad
In the end, Project Hail Mary doesn’t quite stick the landing, though it tries valiantly. Several times. What it delivers instead is something gentler. It’s
In Episode #189, Bryan and Preston welcome filmmaker Paul Boyd for a lively autopsy of his career, from directing music videos for Shania Twain to
On this episode, we sit down with the indestructible Lin Shaye, a woman who has stared into more cinematic abysses than most of us have
In Episode No. 188, Bryan and Preston decamp to a luxurious house in the middle of nowhere, because nothing bad ever happens there to sip
On the show’s 152nd episode, Bryan and Preston head back to campus with The Rules of Attraction, the 2002 collegiate fever dream starring the late
For their 151st episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, the gang ups the ante, literally, with Malibu 151 and revisits 1994’s Milk Money,
On Episode #187, Bryan and Preston retreat to the great outdoors, which is never a wise decision in horror, to revisit Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever
Certain milestones demand champagne. Others demand a collective cry for help. For our 150th episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, the four of
By the time we arrived at Episode #149 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, Gerarduary, the sacred month in which we collectively reflect on
