TMR 018 – Before Sunrise

This week on Total Movie Recall, we go to the suck. Steve develops a thousand yard stare reserved for veterans of nightmare wars and mediocre podcasts. Ryan chalks up another point in the Irresponsible Father column, reflecting on his father’s prudent decision to let him watch this vision of insanity at a tender age yet again. If you listen to this episode, you can go to my house and fornicate with my sister.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

d. Stanley Kubrick

w. Gustav Hasford based on his novel The Short-Timers

Starring:
Matthew Modine as Pvt. Joker
Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother
Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Pyle
R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman
Dorian Harewood as Eightball
Kevyn Major Howard as Rafterman
Arliss Howard as Pvt. Cowboy

Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis, quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant, and pudgy Private Lawrence, nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué.

Things discussed in the show:

Willy Wonka

Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, J.K. Simmons)

The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah)

Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer)

300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham)

Joss Whedon gets canceled

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford)

Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison)

Mel Gibbson uncancelable?

Toxic fandom

Firefly (Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass)

Moulin Rogue! (Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo)

Luc Besson

Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Carson Daly)

Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, Thunder Levin, Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard)

Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn)

George Burns

Sean Connery

Larry Sanders Show (Dennis Klein, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Wallace Langham, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Piven)

Billy Crystal

Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly)

Kitbag - new Napoleon film (Ridley Scott, David Scarpa, Joaquin Phoenix, Jodie Comer)

Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch painter

Visual Tone Poem

François Truffaut on war films

Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore)

John Wayne

The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien

The Mickey Mouse Club theme song

Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann)

Jungian duality of man

Next week: UHF

This week on Total Movie Recall, we watch the first Manic Pixie Dream Girl ever on screen, who is not a girl at all, but is most decidedly a woman. It’s the perfect post-2020 movie, and not just because of the constant suicides. It’s twee and precious and we absolutely loved it.

Harold & Maude (1971)

d. Hal Ashby

w. Colin Higgins

Music by: Cat Steven (Yusuf Islam)

Starring:
Ruth Gordon
Bud Cort
Vivian Pickles

Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic relationship, in which they explore the tired theme of the meaning of life with a fresh perspective.

Things discussed in the show:

Savages (Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively)

Santa Muerte

Dunkirk (70mm, Christopher Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance)

Overlord (Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)

1917 (Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays)

Rolling Thunder (Vietnam POWs, John Flynn, William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes)

Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino)

Mental health and the military

The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith)

The Last Blockbuster (documentary, Smash Mouth, Taylor Morden, Lauren Lapkus, Sandi Harding, Ken Tisher, Doug Benson, Doug Loves Movies podcast, Kevin Smith, Samm Levine, Brian Posehn, Jamie Kennedy, Ron Funches, Ione Skye, Lloyd Kaufman, Troma, Paul Scheer)

Clerks (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Scott Mosier)

Letterbox app

Streaming services

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton)

King Billy Corgan, monarch of Chicago

Suicide

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden)

Next week: Full Metal Jacket

This week on Total Movie Recall, we learn that while some stories never end, mothers do, and that’s the beginning of how a serial killer is made in this unflinching look inside the mind of one disturbed little boy. Hang in there with us, listen to this, and watch it again and try to tell us you didn’t witness a psychotic break as this poor boy retreats inside the dark fantasies of his mind.

The Neverending Story (1984)

d. Wolfgang Petersen

w. Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel

Music by Giorgio Moroder

Starring:
Noah Hathaway as Atreyu
Barret Oliver as Bastian
Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress
Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny
Frank Oz

On his way to school, Bastian ducks into a bookstore to avoid bullies. Sneaking away with a book called "The Neverending Story," Bastian begins reading it in the school attic. The novel is about Fantasia, a fantasy land threatened by "The Nothing," a darkness that destroys everything it touches. The kingdom needs the help of a human child to survive. When Bastian reads a description of himself in the book, he begins to wonder if Fantasia is real and needs him to survive.

Things discussed in the show:

Christopher Nolan

Carl Jung

Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann)

Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James)

Snowden (Edward Snowden, Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo)

Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney)

Oliver Stone's memoir - Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game

The Social Network (David Fincher, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake)

3rd Rock From the Sun (Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Wikileaks and Julian Assange

The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill)

Natural Born Killers (

JFK (

Any Given Sunday (

The Disaster Artist (

The Room (

Rocky Horror Picture Show (

Midnight screenings of Rocky Horror and The Room

The Crown (

Repo Man

Dangerous Liaisons (

Downton Abby

The Remains of the Day - novel (

Conan, Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs

George Miller

Next week: Harold and Maude

Ah, the good ole days of passing around R rated spank tapes. This movie is so trashy, it gave Charlie Sheen HIV.

Wild Things (1998)

d. John McNaughton

Starring:
Kevin Bacon
Neve Campbell
Matt Dillon
Denise Richards
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Bill Murray

When teen debutante Kelly fails to attract the attention of her hunky guidance counselor, Sam, she cries rape, igniting a scandal that results in his arrest. Sam appeals to Ken, a hack personal-injury lawyer who has never handled a case that couldn't be helped by a prop neck brace. Soon, a second victim, Suzie, comes forward, and Detective Duquette discovers that the unfolding case is far from what it seems.

Things discussed in the show:

Passing around R rated spank tapes

Porn in the 90s and holograms

Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho)

Harry Potter

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes)

WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn)

Dinosaurs (Not the Mama, Michael Jacobs, Bob Young, Stuart Pankin, Jessica Walter, Jason Willinger)

The Flintstones (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl)

X-Files – (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi)

Red Shoe Diaries (David Duchovny, Anthony Addabbo, Audie England)

Skinamax

Supernatural (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino)

SyFy Channel

Z Nation (Craig Engler, Karl Schaefer, Russell Hodgkinson, Nat Zang, Keith Allan)

Resident Alien (Chris Sheridan, Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds)

Dr. No (James Bond, Terence Young, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee)

Dr. No novel (Ian Fleming)

John Carter of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Law & Order Special Victims Unit (SVU, Dick Wolf, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T)

Spin Doctors, Third Eye Blind, Hootie and the Blowfish

Scream (Wes Craven, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, Liev Schreiber)

PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman)

Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, S.E. Hinton, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane)

Michael Rapaport

Swamp vs. bayou

Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken

Brian De Palma

Next week: Black Cat White Cat

Remember the innocent 90s, when white directors thought they had the N-word pass for some reason? What do you think their “woke” movie would look like? Probably like this, where the N-word is replaced by horrific rape and Mexican jokes. This proto-edgelord movie was looked at as such a good time romp that it was considered the perfect vehicle to transition from the hit network show ER to the big screen. What a simpler time…

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

d. Robert Rodriguez

w. Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)

Starring:
Harvey Keitel
George Clooney
Juliette Lewis
Quentin Tarantino
Salma Hayek
Cheech Marin
Danny Trejo
Tom Savini
Fred Williamson

On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out.

Things discussed in the show:

Sex Machine and Santanico Pandemonium

Full Tilt Boogie (Sarah Kelly)

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin)

Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen)

Dolemite

Mortal Kombat 2021 (Simon McQuoid, Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)

Mulan 2020 (Niki Caro, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong)

G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott, Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft)

Bliss (Mike Cahill, Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper)

The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss)

Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz)

René Descartes

Rick and Morty (Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland)

Aliens soundtrack

Chingon - Robert Rodriguez's band

E.R. (Michael Crichton, Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies)

Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba)

Grindhouse films - Planet Terror and Death Proof

MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer)

Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker)

Tarantino's Star Trek

Mercury Cougar XR7

The Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack (The Blasters, ZZ Top, Jon Wayne, The Mavericks, Stevie Ray Vaughan)

Kelly Preston

Of Mice and Men

Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, John Hughes, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis)

George Romero

The Descent (Neil Marshall, Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid)

The Titty Twister bar

Desperado (Robert Rodriguez, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida)

Los Lobos

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford)

Call of Cthulhu RPG

Anne Rice vampires

Lapdog of Satan

loudQUIETloud A Film About the Pixies (Steven Cantor, Matthew Galkin, Frank Black, Kim Deal, David Lovering)

El Rey in Robert Rodriguez films

The Getaway by Jim Thompson

Rifts RPG - Mexico's Vampire Kingdom

Charmed (Constance M. Burge, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause, Rose McGowan)

Dirk Diggler of Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham)

Gone Girl (David Fincher, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry)

Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl)

Next week: Wild Things

This week on Total Movie Recall, we try to decide whether this is a charming, unique film about staying true to yourself, or a nightmarish descent into the insanity that comes with living in a barren, desolate landscape like rural Idaho, where the Uncle Ricos of the world keep subterranean dungeons for unsuspecting Debs. This might say more about where our heads are at right now than about this beloved comedy.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

d. Jared Hess

w. Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess

Starring:
Jon Heder
Efren Ramirez
Jon Gries
Aaron Ruell
Diedrich Bader
Tina Majorino
Sandy Martin

In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico, shows up to keep an eye on him. With no safe haven at home or at school, Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro, a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president.

Things discussed in the show:

Russian movie posters

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)

Dumbo (Disney, Samuel Armstrong, Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing)

Kung Fu Cult Master

Real Steel (Shawn Levy, Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo)

Robot Jox

Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young)

Lionheart (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard)

Switchback (Jeb Stuart, Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Claudia Stedelin, Jared Leto)

Killing Eve season 3 (Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw)

Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, Kang-ho Song, Lee Sun-kyun, Yeo-jeong Cho)

Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris)

Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Juno (Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody, Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner)

Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear)

Jack White

Jamiroquai

Wes Anderson

Trapper Keepers

Rushmore (Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams)

Gummo (Harmony Korine, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh)

Julian Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, Ewen Bremner, Brian Fisk, Chloë Sevigny)

No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin)

Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman)

Peluca - Short film

Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon, Will Speck, Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler)

Dungeons & Dragons

Heathers

House Party

Bone Tomahawk (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, S. Craig Zahler)

BTK Killer

Atlanta local spots: Manuel's Tavern, 529 Bar

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles)

Elvis Costello

Who's Line is it Anyway?

The Drew Carey Show (Drew Carey, Bruce Helford, Diedrich Bader, Kathy Kinney)

High school dances as ritual, an anthropological study

Community (Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase, Troy Barnes)

Ligers - centaurs and Dungeons and Dragons little brown books

X-Files - Jersey Devil episode (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi)

Bat Boy from Weekly World News

Wesley Snipes

The Jackalope and Dave Coulier

Brian Setzer Orchestra and The Stray Cats

Next week: From Dusk Till Dawn

This week on Total Movie Recall, these two born-insecure honkies break down the seminal Blaxploitation movie of 1975 and do a pathetic job of trying to reconcile its progressive vision of black empowerment with the misogyny of the pimp game. It gets complicated.

Dolemite (1975)

d. D'Urville Martin

Story by: Rudy Ray Moore

Starring:
Rudy Ray Moore
D'Urville Martin
Lady Reed
Jerry Jones
Hy Pyke

Dolemite is released from jail after being wrongfully convicted to take on rival pimp Willie Green, corrupt police officers who framed him and even the mayor! With the help of his friends: Queen Bee (the madame of his brothel), Creeper (the heroin addict Hamburger Pimp), Reverend Gibbs (the gun-running preacher), and his gang of female prostitute karate experts, Dolemite takes back his turf and club through martial arts prowess and sheer oratory showmanship.

Things discussed in the show:

Blaxploitation films

The Jerk (Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams)

Black Mama White Mama (Eddie Romero, Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig)

Coffy (Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui)

Shaft 1971 (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi)

The Last Dragon (Michael Schultz, Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney)

Wu Tang Clan

Kung Fu and Hip Hop

Fargo season 1 (Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman)

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya)

The Little Things (John Lee Hancock, Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto)

The Midnight Sky (George Clooney, George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo)

Dolemite is my Name (Craig Brewer, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan)

Twin Peaks (Mark Frost, David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick)

Mad Max

Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss)

Rudy Ray Moore's influence on Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and hip hop in general

Three Penny Opera (Georg Wilhelm Pabst (as G.W. Pabst), Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher)

The Mack (Michael Campus, Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor)

Song: Mack the Knife

Gaspar Noe

Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen)

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Thirstin Howl III - Skilligan's Island

THX 1138 (George Lucas, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley)

Elvis level Karate

Jackie Chan / Jet Li / Chuck Norris / Bruce Lee

The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro)

Titanic (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane)

Rudy Ray Moore albums (Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens)

Barry (Alec Berg, Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan, Henry Winkler)

The Princess Bride

The Human Tornado (Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch)

Disco Godfather (J. Robert Wagoner, Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch)

Big Money Hustlas (John Cafiero, Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Jamie Madrox, Rudy Ray Moore, Insane Clown Posse)

Blacula (William Crain, William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas)

Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino)

Pirates of the Caribbean

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (Gordon Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair)

Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise)

James Bond

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote)

Top quotes:

"That rat-soup-eatin', insecure honky motherfucker!"

"Ghosts? If you ever see a ghost, cut the motherfucker."

"Dolemite is my name, and fuckin' up motherfuckers is my game!"

"Man, move over and let me pass 'fore they have be to pullin' these Hush Puppies out your motherfuckin' ass!"

"I'm waitin' for Dolemite! - For who? - Dolemite, motherfucker, you heard her."

Next week: Napoleon Dynamite

This week on Total Movie Recall, things get Freudian as they did for every little boy who stared confusedly at Jessica Rabbit and wondered what was happening to them. Handsome, chiseled leading man Bob Hoskins soldiers on in spite of the bleeding ulcer all that booze gave him, and Christopher Lloyd goes to eleven with his unhinged, terrifying performance. Did hentai exist before this movie? Because it sure as hell did after it.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

d. Robert Zemeckis

Starring:
Bob Hoskins
Christopher Lloyd
Kathleen Turner
Joanna Cassidy 
Charles Fleischer
Stubby Kaye
Alan Tilvern
Joel Silver
Mel Blanc

Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit, the sultry wife of Maroon's biggest star, Roger Rabbit. But when Marvin Acme, Jessica's alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom vows to catch and destroy Roger.

Things discussed in the show:

Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson)

Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise)

Woodstock documentary (Michael Wadleigh, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey)

Fargo season 4 (Chris Rock, Francesco Acquaroli, Andrew Bird, Jessie Buckley, Salvatore Esposito, Jeremie Harris, Jack Huston, Amber Midthunder, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw)

Billy Bob Thornton

Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris)

Supernatural season 15 (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino)

Lobo vs. God in Lobo A Contract on Gawd

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Gary K. Wolf)

The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter)

Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary, Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie)

The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci)

Baby Herman, Eddie Valiant, The Ink and Paint Club, Paddy Cakes, Toon Town, Judge Doom,

Herman's Shermans, Pistol Packin' Possum

Steve Buscemi or Andy Serkis as the recast Roger Rabbit

Hollywood Babylon (Fatty Arbuckle, Erol Flynn)

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)

Mickey Mouse 2013 ("Gulp" is the best episode, Disney, Chris Diamantopoulos, Russi Taylor, Bill Farmer)

Dragon Con

We're Doomed - Board game about getting a seat on the rocket fleeing Earth.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote)

Goonies

Hentai

Thirstin Howl III - "Dreams of Fucking a Cartoon Bitch"

Catalina Island

Step Brothers (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen)

Portable Hole

The Untouchables

Nancy Cartwright is the voice of Shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall)

Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson)

Bumping the Lamp

Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, Diane Thomas, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito)

Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna)

Shave and a Haircut

Harvey (Henry Koster, Mary Chase, James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn)

Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn)

Ronin (John Frankenheimer, J.D. Zeik, Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone)

Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride at Disneyland

Back to the Future II (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson)

Predator

Cool World (Ralph Bakshi, Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Janni Brenn)

An American Werewolf in London

The Jetsons (Hanna-Barbera, George O'Hanlon, Janet Waldo, Mel Blanc)

The Flintstones - Wilma & Betty (Hanna-Barbera, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl)

Scooby Doo - Velma & Daphne (Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Joseph Barbera, Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe)

Family Guy - Lois Griffin (Seth MacFarlane, David Zuckerman, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green)

Futurama - Leela (David X. Cohen, Matt Groening, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - April O'Neil (Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, David Wise, Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen)

The Little Mermaid - Ursala (Ron Clements, John Musker, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois)

Archer - Lana (Adam Reed, H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Amber Nash)

The Real Ghostbusters - Janine Melnitz (Maurice LaMarche, Dave Coulier, Frank Welker)

Talespin - Rebecca (Ed Gilbert, R.J. Williams, Sally Struthers)

The Simpsons - Marge Simpson (James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer)

Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale)

Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers - Gadget (Peter Cullen, Tress MacNeille, Corey Burton)

This week on Total Movie Recall, we take a hard pivot from all the toxic masculinity of weeks past and Steve shows his gentle, romantic side. Somehow, Ryan makes this about his sad sack heartache but in the end, everybody calms down and moves on with a nice mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.

The Princess Bride (1987)

d. Rob Reiner

w. William Goldman

Starring:
Cary Elwes
Mandy Patinkin
Robin Wright
Chris Sarandon
Christopher Guest
Wallace Shawn
André the Giant
Fred Savage
Peter Falk
Billy Crystal
Carol Kane

A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the William Goldman novel "The Princess Bride" which earned its own loyal audience.

Things discussed in the show:

The sadness of Smashing Pumpkins

Train to Busan (Sang-ho Yeon, Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok)

A Clockwork Orange dick sculptures

The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman)

Udo Kier

Wings (David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee, Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard)

Frazier (David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce)

The Simpsons (James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer)

Spider-Man Homecoming (Jon Watts, Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.)

WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn)

Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, Justin Theroux, Stan Lee, Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow)

The MCU saviors James Gunn & Taika Waititi

Perry Mason 2020 (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones, Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk)

The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston, Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick)

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)

The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George)

Walt Whitman

Waukegan, IL and Ray Bradbury

Albert Camus

J.R.R. Tolkien

James Baldwin

The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith)

The Four Feathers 2002 (Shekhar Kapur, Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson)

Emo music vs. Emo Philips

The Wonder Years (Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Daniel Stern)

The Princess Bride novel (William Goldman)

Adventures in the Screen Trade (William Goldman)

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, William Goldman, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross)

All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, William Goldman, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden)

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick, Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton)

The Lumière brothers

The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor)

Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert)

George R. R. Martin

This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest)

Guilder, The Cliffs of Insanity, Shrieking Eels, Six-fingered Man, The Pit of Despair

Quibi's Home Movie: The Princess Bride remake

• The Grandson: Josh Gad, Mckenna Grace, Keith L. Williams, Logan Kim, Joey King, Rob Reiner, and Fred Savage (who played the Grandson in the 1987 movie).
• The Grandfather: Rob Reiner, J. K. Simmons, Giancarlo Esposito, Sarah Silverman, Robert Wuhl, Adam Sandler, and Carl Reiner.
• Mother: Retta
• Westley/The Man in Black/Dread Pirate Roberts: Chris Pine, Common, Sam Rockwell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sophie Turner, David Spade, Jon Hamm, Kaitlyn Dever, Brandon Routh, Courtney Ford, Tommy Dewey, Taika Waititi, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack Black, Lucas Hedges, Paul Rudd, and Cary Elwes (who played the role in the 1987 film).
• Princess Buttercup: Tiffany Haddish, Penélope Cruz, Jennifer Garner, Leslie Bibb, David Burtka, Annabelle Wallis, Zoe Saldana, Joe Jonas, Mackenzie Davis, Kimberly Brook, Zazie Beetz, Alice Oswalt, Brandon Routh, Courtney Ford, Zoey Deutch, Jenna Ortega, Beanie Feldstein and Robin Wright (who played Princess Buttercup in the 1987 film).
• Prince Humperdinck: Hugh Jackman, Thomas Lennon, Penélope Cruz, Elijah Wood, José Andrés, Don Johnson, Ernie Hudson, Dennis Haysbert, James Van Der Beek, David Oyelowo, and Cary Elwes (who played Westley in the 1987 film).
• Inigo Montoya: Diego Luna, Oscar Nunez, Finn Wolfhard, Javier Bardem, Keegan-Michael Key, Nick Kroll, Sarah Cooper, Catherine Reitman, John Cho, Natalie Morales, and Pedro Pascal.
• Fezzik: Dave Bautista, Brian Baumgartner, Nick Kroll, Shaquille O'Neal, Catherine Reitman, Zoey Deutch, Craig Robinson, Charlize Theron, and Jason Segel.
• Vizzini: Patton Oswalt, Angela Kinsey, Nick Kroll, Rainn Wilson, and King Bach.
• Count Rugen: Meredith Salenger, Oliver Lennon, B.J. Novak, Stephen Merchant, Bryan Cranston, and Andy Serkis.
• Miracle Max: Seth Rogen
• Valerie: Ari Graynor
• The Impressive Clergyman: John Malkovich
• The Albino: Nicholas Braun
• The Ancient Booer: Jennifer Garner
• Yellen the Messenger: Richard Speight Jr.
• R.O.U.S.: Leo James Routh

The Crow (Alex Proyas, James O'Barr, Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis)

Ladyhawke (Richard Donner, Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer)

The Beastmaster (Don Coscarelli, Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn)

Liam Hemsworth

WarGames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood)

Wes Anderson coffee table book

The Mandalorian (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito)

Terry Gilliam

Jackie Chan

Kung Fu Cult Master

Fright Night (Tom Holland, Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse)

Robin Hood Men in Tights (Mel Brooks, Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees)

Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino)

Criminal Minds (Jeff Davis, Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, A.J. Cook)

PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman)

John Waters

Next week: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan stares out the window of his furniture-less modernist home at the endless, uncaring ocean while Steve sleeps on the floor with his hand gripped around his pistol. The pseudo-philosophy of this movie seems deeper than it is because it’s endlessly reflected in all the glass buildings of Michael Mann’s uber-masculine vision. Sure, it may be pretentious, but that’s the point, and if you’ve got a problem with that, I will take you down, because we ain’t exactly doin’ thrill-seeker podcasts with “Born to Lose” tattoos on our chests.

Heat (1995)

d. Michael Mann

Starring:
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Val Kilmer
Jon Voight
Tom Sizemore
Natalie Portman
Ashley Judd
Kevin Gage
Hank Azaria
Danny Trejo
Henry Rollins
AND Xander Berkeley as RALPH!

Master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is trying to control the rogue actions of one of his men, while also planning one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna (Al Pacino) attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife (Diane Venora) and the mental health of his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman). McCauley and Hanna discover a mutual respect, even as they try to thwart each other's plans.

Things discussed in the show:

Zatoichi

At First Sight (Irwin Winkler, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis)

Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves)

Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat)

Dead Snow 2 Red vs. Dead (Tommy Wirkola, Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr)

Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan)

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton)

Idle Hand (Rodman Flender, Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox)

Fatman (Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms, Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste)

The Witches 2020 (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Roald Dahl, Guillermo del Toro)

Return to Oz

Zoroastrians

Soul (Pixar, Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton)

Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin)

Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kyle MacLachlan, Paula Poundstone, Bobby Moynihan, Frank Oz, Flea)

Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Zoë Kravitz)

The Bechdel Test

The Handmaiden's Tale (Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes)

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright)

Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright)

Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss)

Wonder Woman and BDSM

The Cleveland Steamer or The Chi-Chi Rodriguez

Allen Moore

The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 (French Revolution, Madame Guillotine & the Reign of Terror, Harold Young, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey)

The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Looney Toons, Daffy Duck, Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese)

Frank Miller's Batman

The Godfather Part III (the re-edit, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Joe Mantegna, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola)

The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito)

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan)

Adaptation (The Orchid Thief, Spike Jonze, Susan Orlean (book), Charlie Kaufman, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper)

Rex Stout and his character Nero Wolfe

Spike Jonze music videos: Yeah Yeah Yeah's - "Y-control," Fatboy Slim - "Weapon of Choice," Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"

Her (Spike Jonze, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson)

Where the Wild Things Are (Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin, Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book, Yippie movement and the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention

The Murder of Fred Hampton

The Hunger Games franchise (Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow)

Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati)

Willow

Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore)

Tombstone (Doc Holiday, George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton)

Brian Eno

Thief (Michael Mann, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson)

Neil McCauley, a calculating criminal and ex-Alcatraz inmate and Detective Chuck Adamson met in real life for a coffee

The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means)

The Keep (Michael Mann, Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson)

Miami Vice (Anthony Yerkovich, Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago)

The Hays Code

Moby

Kevin Gage's stint in prison

Alex Colville painting "Pacific" as inspiration for Heat scene

Manhunter (Hannibal Lecter, The High Museum of Art, Michael Mann, William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen)

MC Chris - "Half corn beef and cabbage. Half Fred Savage."

Next week: The Princess Bride