Dan and Brian watched four different musical adaptations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and are ready to dive in deep. In addition to the Albert Finney-starring Scrooge, they break down Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and the one with Frasier from 2004. Join for their fantasy draft of the best songs, reviews…
718 minutes. That’s the length of the High School Musical saga to date: three movies, a spinoff movie, and the first season of a Disney+ series. Together, Dan and Brian climb Mount Efronest as they break down the strengths and weaknesses of each of the movies before digging into the soapy, uplifting, and “woke AF”…
Dan has a weird obsession with a specific kind of romantic comedy in which best friends fall in love. Hear him analyze this specific set of tropes, and then dissect John Hughes’ example of the format, as Brian discovers Back to the Future parallels and embraces the almighty butt chin. Dan admires Watts and her…
Join Dan and Brian as they view the seminal ’70s satire Network for the first time, admire its almost Shakespearean devotion to monologues, praise its award-winning cast, bask in Faye Dunaway, and ponder just how much it predicted the 21st century media landscape. Dan narrates his own Howard Beale rant for 2020 while Brian notes…
Dan had high hopes when he saw Step Brothers in 2008, but found it underwhelming. Join revisiting and Brian watching for the first time, as they parse whether this very funny movie is also a very good movie. Dan gives a shout out to the joke most directly catered to him in cinema history, Brian…
Brian gives Dan a primer on zombie movies both bleak and boisterous as they discuss Return of the Living Dead and its seminal predecessor, Night of the Living Dead. They celebrate Return’s escalating comic chaos and Night’s ability to horrify elementary schoolers. Dan brainstorms a few bits of zombie action he’d like to see in…
Brian and Dan take a close look at Richard Linklater’s start-of-college party flick, Everybody Wants Some!! Join them as they ponder Linklater’s hang-out vibe, soak in the 80’s details, and admire Blake Jenner’s nipples. Music credits: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. I mentioned in the first post of Adam Schlesinger week that I fell in love with Adam Schlesinger multiple times, independently, without realizing it. Never was that more true than for “That Thing You…
“You gotta hear this one song, it’ll change your life I swear.” There is a certain age of people, about 30-35 years old right now, for whom Garden State was one of the formative movies of their generation. I’m one of them. Andrew Largeman as played by Zach Braff, revisits his childhood home after a decade away for his…
Download link (you may have to right click and “Save As”) A couple years ago, Dan shared his ranking of Love Actually‘s nine stories. It inspired Brian to watch the movie and share his experience in the comments. Now, Dan and Brian reunite to watch the movie once more and dish on its many…