Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

Nov 19 2024 98 ep. 57 mins
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A second look at our favorite movies, without the fog of nostalgia

  TV & Film  Comedy
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Holiday Turkeys: A Grumpy Nostalgia Holiday Special

Nov 19 2024 60 mins  
Send us a textGobble Gobble, y'all. We're so caught up in the holiday excitement preamble, we are using our precious studio time to wrap gifts and browse thru the Sears Christmas catalog making our lists for Big Red.In the meanwhile, please revisit this lost episode that no one really bothered listening to the first time. We really never got over that. Please give this one a listen

Dick Tracy (1990) SE05;EP01

Nov 09 2024 56 mins  
Send us a textThis week, we're diving into the 1990 Dick Tracy movie. Remember this one? Of course you dont.Imagine Tim Burton’s Gotham got hit with a color filter that only understands primary colors and then added... a whole lot of questionable choices.Warren Beatty is no Michael Keaton (sorry, buddy), but he does give it his best shot. And Pacino? Well, let’s just say he was

Fright Night (1985) SE04;EP26

Oct 29 2024 53 mins  
Send us a textWe dare you admit you didn't watch this on HBO at every pizza-fueled sleepover in the 80s. It's a fun mix of horror, comedy, and well-meant gratuitous gore and nudity, just like the eighties. Your gang had a blast checking this one out again.To end both the 4th season and their month long horror spectacular, the boys finally reveal their favorite horror films after sp

Retro Halloween Bonus Series!: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Oct 27 2024 64 mins  
Send us a textOur final trip down memory lane is last year's retrospective of Wes Craven's original A Nightmare on Elm Street.Creative, original, and generally icky, just like your hosts.Stick around to the end where the gang talks about their favorite (and least liked) Halloween candy.

Salem's Lot (1979) SE04;EP25

Oct 19 2024 63 mins  
Send us a textBack in the 70s, most things were designed to ruin children. Jarts, doctors smoking in the exam room, steel playgrounds, and television movies about kids getting killed. So naturally, we decided to review the most egregious of these, Salem's Lot. Mostly tame by today's standards, this Stephen King vampire classic broke our little brains and we're pretty bitter about i

Retro Halloween Bonus Series!: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Oct 18 2024 59 mins  
Send us a textHorror, dread, and misery. And that's just Keanu's accent. Gary Oldman is serving generous amounts of holiday ham in this campy, unintentionally hilarious 90's horror classic.Not to be outdone Anthony Hopkins goes full batcrap crazy here too. But it's all okay because our Sweet Winona looks over us all.The best part for your grumpy hosts however is the presence of our

Retro Halloween Bonus Series!: Evil Dead II (1987)

Oct 11 2024 60 mins  
Send us a textWe're bringing our Dominos pizza and a two liter Coke downstairs to the rumpus room for another late night viewing of the greatest cult horror comedy ever made. Violent, gross, disturbing, yet never not hilarious.Even better, everyone's favorite veterinarian, Dr K. joins the gang to offer some ridiculously astute and off the wall observations that our hosts have never

The Lost Boys (1987) SE04;EP24

Oct 08 2024 50 mins  
Send us a textCool teen vampires? No way! We're going back to the glorious 80s this week when a movie like this one would be celebrated by the masses. Is it as good in the rear view mirror? Well sadly, one of your hosts gets violently and copiously sick reliving this one if that's any indication. See if you can guess which one!After some mopping up and apologizing, the gang test th

Retro Halloween Bonus Series!: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Oct 04 2024 67 mins  
Send us a textTo honor last year's Halloween BooNanza, we've decided to re-release those spooky episodes every Saturday this October to introduce them to our new friends while still managing to annoy our regular fans.This one features our favorite vinyl archivist, @aron_gagliardo as we violate our tender sensibilities reviewing this 1974 Tobe Hooper classic. Bitch hogs unite!

Scarface (1983) SE04;EP23

Sep 29 2024 52 mins  
Send us a textThis week the boys review this adorable story of American entrepreneurship, love, and pelicans. Al Pacino's iconic, if not over-the-top, performance has developed its own archetype of cinema that's often imitated, rarely duplicated. Show favorite, Michelle Pfeiffer owns the screen only with a few eye rolls and the lethal combo of Brian DePalma and Oliver Stone do the