Giant Bomb's Alex Navarro and I take a swig of tequila, follow it with a chaser of despair, and plunge into the miserable depths of Sam Peckinpah's underappreciated masterpiece of misanthropy - Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia!
Content Warning: We do discuss the scenes of violent misogyny and sexual assault that are in this film.
My old friend Erik Pepple pops in for the first Cinema Oblivia double feature! We talk put on our safety gear and discuss the great BMX Bandits and the not-so-great-but-kinda-still-great Rad. What makes a good movie about a fad? Do these movies hold up today? Find out here!
Video games, sex comedies, and oddly descriptive subtitles about flatulence combine in Joysticks, the classic(???) 1983 comedy by B-movie king Greydon Clark. My friend Matt joins me to talk about the film, the video games featured within, the oddly talented cast, and the very descriptive fart subtitles.
Because we're classy.
Shane Bettenhausen, formerly of 1UP and EGM, gives me a call to tell me about why he thinks The Apple is the world's best "great" bad movie. I vehemently disagree with him, but we have a fun time talking about this disaster of a flick regardless. We talk about the crazy story behind the making of this film, the poor people who were involved in it, and our views on what makes a bad movie worth watching.
On this episode, Dr. Sparkle of Chrontendo fame joins me to dive deep into the seedy underworld of Andy Milligan's psychotic magnum opus of sexual dysfunction, Seeds! We also take a look at some other Andy Milligan films, including ones that are considered lost!
Content Warning: We're talking Andy Milligan films, so topics like incest and sexual assault do come up.
For this episode, I am joined by Emma Buntrock-Muller and we talk about Brian De Palma's crazed Phantom of the Opera by the way of Faust and god knows what else horror/comedy/musical masterpiece, Phantom of The Paradise. Learn about the film's lawsuit-filled production, it's less-than-stellar release, how it fits in to the early-70s music scene, and Paul Williams amazing silk suits.
The wonderful Madeleine Koestner from the Unnamed Film Festival joins me to talk about William Friedkin's masterpiece Sorcerer. Trucks! Explosions! Tangerine Dream! This one has it all!
I am joined by Eric Pope to discuss Streets Of Fire, the 1984 bomb that killed careers, only to live on as an out-of-time cult classic beloved by fans of style over substance and Wagnerian rock music.
On this, the very first episode of Cinema Oblivia, I'm joined by my friend and film scholar Jennifer Fiorini to talk about the film that absolutely defined the 80s: FLASHDANCE!
