Quaid In Full

If YOU had a time desk, you too would invite Rolling Stone's chief TV critic, Alan Sepinwall, to burn messages into it about Frequency, the year-2000 time-travel/father-son therapy/serial-killer thriller that kicks off QIF's sixth season. Twenty minutes of clumsy exposition to lead off, "special" effects, Pissy Cop Wife tropes, Chekhov's Mets trivia, Qing Of Queens accentry, and repeated violations of the prime directive AND quantum physics...the movie has zero business working, and yet, we're putty in its hands. Find out why we think that is, and which Emmerich owes Alan five bucks, in the season premiere of Quaid In Full. Overall score: 8.17 QQQ score: 6.5 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 84 SHOW NOTES Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/quaidinfullpod) Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance? (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153) Alan Sepinwall on Twitter (https://twitter.com/sepinwall) Roger Ebert's Frequency review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/frequency-2000) Stephen Holden's in the Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/042800frequen-film-review.html) Keith Phipps's for AV Club (https://www.avclub.com/frequency-1798192408) Dang, the CW show went THREE seasons? (https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/frequency) Special Guest: Alan Sepinwall.

Defector's David J. Roth pulls up a seat on the second footballiest day of the year as we talk about Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, a 157-minute "exploration of boundaries of filmmaking by peole who are permanently on LSD." Whether it's a #poppyfieldsmovie, why it looks so cheap, which Al Pacino(s) we get in this performance and what the F he's wearing, whose performance is most affecting (spoiler: LT's), what that smell is (spoiler: amyl nitrate), and much more in our discussion of a film that lists all the capital-I Issues with pro football, then chooses to run B-roll of lightning instead of engaging with them. Feast your ears on the fifth-season finale of Quaid In Full. Overall score: 7.33 QQQ score: 7 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 21 Breaks: "They Call It Pro Football" (1966); "The Autumn Wind" and "Round Up" by Sam Spence SHOW NOTES Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/quaidinfullpod) Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Listen to Dave Roth on Extra Hot Great 381 (https://www.extrahotgreat.com/381); It's Christmastown; (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/108-the-wine-clown-and-the-disappearing-children/id1407429849?i=1000539107743) and The Distraction (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast/id1525039108) Roger Ebert's AGS review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/any-given-sunday-1999) Wesley Morris's in the SF Examiner (https://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Oliver-Stone-drops-the-ball-3053547.php) Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Ep 073 on the noxious titular end-credits joint by Jamie Foxx (https://art19.com/shows/mark-and-sarah-talk-about-songs/episodes/eedb2037-801b-43d9-9ca3-b2de2e310d2e) Special Guest: David J. Roth.

Short Cuts waterboarded with sno-cone syrup...Love Actually from factory-irregular parts...a catastrophically premature Magnolia...it's Playing By Heart, which is 40 minutes too long, coy about a meaningless end reveal, and contains very few believable situations or lines of dialogue. How desperate is Angelina Jolie to get a reaction from her wooden scene partner? Why is James Bond obliged to deliver Intercourse PA jokes that are beneath even SDB? Why in god's name didn't Quaid and Anthony Edwards swap roles? And will your co-hosts ever agree on whether Serious Ack-tor DQ has to poo...or can't poo? We're aligned on the poo levels of the film, at least; it's an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 3 QQQ score: 4.5 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 14 SHOW NOTES Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/quaidinfullpod) Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Stephen Holden's review in NYT (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/012299heart-film-review.html) G. Allen Johnson's in the SF Examiner (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/What-a-cast-What-a-waste-3099164.php) Joe Neumaier's for EW (https://ew.com/article/1999/08/24/playing-heart/) Jonathan Bernstein's Pretty In Pink (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/532105.Pretty_In_Pink)

We're moving into the DILF era for Quaid with 1998's The Parent Trap, which is too long, too loud, and too blithe about the Unsolved Mysteries segment that is this family's narrative...and yet its "welcome unreality" is charming, and so is Quaid. And so is our guest, Tara Ariano, who joined us for a discussion of everything from LiLo charisma wattage to Elaine Hendrix's score-settling hair to whether this is a poppy-fields movie. Turn your Hallmark brains on and welcome Dennis Quaid's teeth back to the podcast: it's an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 6 QQQ score: 7.66 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 7 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Tara Ariano did; she's a pro! Hear her on Again With This (https://www.againwiththis90210.com/), Extra Hot Great (https://www.extrahotgreat.com/), Listen To Sassy (https://listentosassy.com/), and The Sweet Smell of Succession (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sweet-smell-of-succession/id1474242146) Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-parent-trap-1998) Special Guest: Tara Ariano.

It's DQ's directorial debut, a TNT movie called Everything That Rises -- and while there's no discernible connection to Flannery O'Connor, the flick's surprisingly good. Okay, the transfer we watched was very bad, and the dialogue's laconic sarcasm was a little TOO uniform across characters, but between Harve Presnell; an unnecessary but amusing barroom brawl; and Quaid being too busy directing to overact, the thing won us over. It's Hallmark meets Cormac McCarthy, plus the debut of Ask A Horse Girl, so quit Loaf-ing and listen to an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 7.75 QQQ score: 7.5 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 0 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry), including Kuffs (...sorry again), at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Watch (or listen to) Everything That Rises for yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54bHHUGCtM0) Ray Richmond's review for Variety (https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/everything-that-rises-3-1200454481/)

Our journey through the constipated-avenging-angel portion of DQ's c.v. continues with Savior, a harsh, weird, budge allegory of war and human connection set in the Balkans. Jeb adds to his collection of hall-of-fame Skarsgard quotes, Sarah doesn't know how sniping works, and a sociopath in a Luke Perry t-shirt trolls everyone, including the accent coach, in an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 7 QQQ score: 2.5 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 14 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Time Out's review (https://www.timeout.com/movies/savior) Stephen Holden's for NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/25/movies/film-review-in-the-butchery-of-bosnia-a-killer-becomes-a-humanitarian.html) Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/savior-1998)

Time is a flat Quaid in our Switchback episode: this miscast, dour late-'90s bag of action clichés is allegedly a remake of a German film called Kidnapped, but we can't find any corroborating evidence of that...or of Quaid's essential Quaidiness, as his Special Agent Hoint LaGlower roams the country trying to find the son someone -- Danny Glover? Jordan Catalano? -- snatched in the opening flashback. Fake map streets, Twitter fights, when you have to poo but you're on a call, useless car chases, broken ankles, and our other podcast, Tomatoes & Dicks on an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 3.75 QQQ score: 2.25 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 7 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? What about Kidnapped -- any intel there (https://twitter.com/quaidinfullpod)? What's left of that EW piece on the production (https://ew.com/article/1997/11/07/neverending-story-switchback/) EW's actual review from Bruce Fretts (https://ew.com/article/1997/10/31/switchback/) Stephen Holden's for NYT on Glover's too-niceness (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/gangrelatedhunt.htm) Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/switchback-1997) T 'n' D (http://tomatoesanddicks.com)

Kevin Smokler joins us for the third least Quaidy project QIF has covered to date: Gang Related. It's Tupac Shakur's last film, and he's very good, but it's also three or four different films patched together into a quilt of dropped threads and tone problems -- and it's NOT very good, despite an all-star cast, a couple of hilarious line readings, and a guy we'll call Nott William Winters. And as for Quaid, well, if you ever wondered what it might look like to throw Andy Dufresne's Shawshank testimony in a blender with Jason Priestley trying to cry? Here it is. Paul Blart, Rampart Suspect, the retiring-cop boat trope, Quaid's Fugitive, and why you should probably watch Stakeout instead in an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 4.67 QQQ score: 1.67 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 0 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Kevin Smokler's movie is actually good; find out more (https://www.kevinsmokler.com/) Lawrence Van Gelder's review for NYT (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/gang-film-review.html) Stephen Hunter's for WaPo (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/gangrelatedhunt.htm) Special Guest: Kevin Smokler.

For some reason, Dennis Quaid's PG-13 energy was deemed a good fit with the most famous kids' show of all time, which is how "Uncle Tommy From Da Bronx" ended up helping Telly learn about telling the truth and trusting your friends. After a review of the show's astronaut credibility from an actual child, we talked about Allan Sherman, Scully's cellphone, and whether Sarah's dad is a changeling. Don't scream "HELP" unless you really need it: it's an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 7 QQQ score: 2.5 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 7 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Watch "Uncle Tommy" for yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-077o7dC7ZU)

Welcome back! Return with us now to those Dragonheart days of yesteryear, as Quaid, Connery, Dina Meyer, and two-bucks-a-pound wigs team up to challenge The Old Code at Medieval Times Bratislava. David T. Cole joins us to discuss bottle-rocket accentry, the Harrison Ford you can afford, giving yourself up to stupid shit, post-zipline trauma, and what happens when a little Quaid alien gets trapped inside the John Hurt that is the one true knight. Overall score: 5.33 QQQ score: 8 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 0 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? IMDb's DragonHeart plot keywords (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116136/keywords?ref_=ttpl_ql_4) Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dragonheart-1996) Janet Maslin's for NYT (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/filmarchive/dragonheart.html) The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show (https://usaquizshow.com/) Special Guest: David T. Cole.

Tara Ariano returns to send Season 4 of QIF out on an ice floe with Something To Talk About, 1995's marriage/family dramedy starring Julia Roberts; directed by Lasse Hallstrom (!); and written by Callie Khouri (!!). What is it about this "Hallmark movie, but with an associates degree" that lets it hold together despite what Tara called "a fundamental 'should this have happened? maybe not?' quality"? Good sister chemistry with Kyra Sedgwick and a couple of relatable town gossips triumph over zyde-faux, flagrant reshoot-wig fouls, and a BS excuse for infidelity; and WE triumph over the early-to-mid-nineties portion of Quaid's c.v. If you're the one person who would have appreciated SDB's in-and-out joke, high five; everyone else, grab a helmet: it's an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 6 QQQ score: 8 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/something-to-talk-about-1995) Mick LaSalle's for SFGate (https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Roberts-Suppresses-Smile-New-3027178.php) The origins of the "dazzy" "joke" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/096-the-elf-developer-trust-continuum/id1407429849?i=1000501082119) Get more Tara Ariano at Again With This: Melrose Place (http://againwiththispodcast.com), Extra Hot Great (http://extrahotgreat.com), and Listen To Sassy (http://listentosassy.com) Or follow T-Bone on Twitter (http://twitter.com/taraariano) Special Guest: Tara Ariano.

The good news is, Dennis Quaid is great in Wyatt Earp! The bad news is...the "in Wyatt Earp" part, as the film is interminable, perfused with beige Costnerian self-regard, and did we mention how long it is? It's long, which I guess is what happens when you cast literally half of SAG. Tom Sizemore, the poor man's Tom Sizemore, apparitions of fatherliness, and the endless wait for arrival at the corralworks factory all detract from a fascinating steampunk performance from Quaid in an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 2.5 QQQ score: 7.75 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wyatt-earp-1994) Rita Kempley's for WaPo (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/wyattearppg13kempley_a0a46d.htm) Walter Chaw's at Film Freak Central (https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2016/07/wyatt-earp.html)

Is it in your blood? We're tackling 1993's Flesh & Bone, featuring Jimmy Caan shoulders; a hall-of-fame patented "look bored and smoke" performance from Gwynnie; armadillo fan fic; Sophoclean MFA-program writing prompts; Car Guy Sarah not being a car guy; the conflation of Johnnies Damon and Depp; and a successful iteration of Dennis Del Mar. Pack up your painted chickens -- it's an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 6.75 QQQ score: 6.25 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/flesh-and-bone-1993) Rita Kempley's for WaPo (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/fleshandbonerkempley_a0a3d0.htm)

Our second ep in a row with the I Don't Even Own A Television crew features JW Friedman -- and a much better, fizzier film all around, despite dragging us back to Nawlins and almost going full zydeco. This "nearly totally frictionless" caper is "a happier flavor of so-so" than we anticipated, but we still have questions, like whether the Coens are secret Quaidheads, if/how Herbert Ross directs his actors, what an Ocean's Two would look like, and why we're being punished with a combination of Vince McMahon hair, Reagan voice, and Trump smug smile on DQ. Get your best pleat euphemisms ready; it's an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 6.67 QQQ score: 7.33 (damn repeating decimals) SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Friedman did! Barely. Enjoy his better edited pod with Chris Collision instead (https://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/) Vincent Canby's review (https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/11/movies/review-film-a-loving-pair-of-spies-take-baby-to-work.html) Ty Burr for EW (https://ew.com/article/1993/09/24/undercover-blues/) Horwitz for WaPo (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/undercoverbluespg13horwitz_a09e4f.htm) Special Guest: JW Friedman.

Chris Collision of the I Don't Even Own A Television podcast is joining us for the misbegotten Wilder Napalm, the early Vince Gilligan joint that would have made a much better X-Files episode than it did a feature film. Arli$$ jokes, aggressive quirk, a Van Helsing comparison somehow, beefcake snarling at each other, Manic Pixie Dream Winger, and a lead who should have failed out of clown college all add up to a very nineties pyrokinetic love triangle with no figurative fireworks. Close up the Quik Foto; it's an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 4 QQQ score: 3.92 (don't ask) SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? ...Us either. Try Chris's pod with JW Friedman instead (https://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/) Janet Maslin's review (https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/20/movies/review-film-brothers-fight-fire-with-fire-in-wilder-napalm.html) And Owen Gleiberman's for EW (https://ew.com/article/1993/08/27/wilder-napalm/) Special Guest: Chris Collision.

Everybody is in 1990 Mike Nichols joint Postcards From The Edge -- and almost everybody's on our episode discussing it! Returning guest John Ramos and first-time longtime Tara Ariano join us to talk about forgotten addiction storylines, if it's possible to miscast Meryl Streep, the Gene Hackman podcast we all long for, acting-legend master classes, and character studies of yesteryear that would be TV shows today. Plus, ONE of us listened to The Dennissance...and another one of us feels pretty guilty that that occurred. Get ready for an endolphin rush in an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 8.5 QQQ score: 2 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Tara did! Honor her sacrifice by listening to her legit-rad pod with Pam Ribon, Listen To Sassy (https://listentosassy.com/) Get in the (bridge) mix (https://losangelesbridgelessons.com/bio/) with John Roger Ebert's Postcards From The Edge review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/postcards-from-the-edge-1990) And Desson Howe's review (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/postcardsfromtheedgerhowe_a0b29d.htm) Special Guests: John Ramos and Tara Ariano.

It's a love story, a family story, AND a history that probably got sold on the strength of Dennis Quaid's involvement...even though he really shouldn't be Great White Savioring it up with the windows closed in the first place, but we do find a handful of things to like about 1991's Come See The Paradise . It's from the director of Birdy, Fame, and other fondly remembered properties; it's also miscast, oddly scored, and about 20 more minutes of reading The Japanese Internment Camps: An Explainer than we needed. So, we talked about Quaidspiracy theories, why DQ didn't play the Joker, and butt ratios instead. Overall score: 5 QQQ score: 2 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/come-see-the-paradise-1991) Rita Kempley's review (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/comeseetheparadiserkempley_a0a0d0.htm)

What can we say about this offensively misconceived slice of Jerry Lee Lewis's late-'50s life, one that casts his "relationship" (ugh) with his 13-year-old cousin (blerf) as a quirkumstance of romantical fate? Well, we can say cocaine was involved; we can wonder if the estate of Foghorn Leghorn sued Dennis Quaid's performance for copyright infringement; and we can admire Winona Ryder's performance as Myra Gale while thinking it makes the story immeasurably ickier. On a scale of one to Hasselhoff, we give DQ's effort a (NC-)17, but very little about this bowdlerization of Myra Gale's memoir works. Also, "Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Swaggart." MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVER'BUDDEH! Overall score: 3 QQQ score: 3 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-balls-of-fire-1989) Rita Kempley's review (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/greatballsoffirepg13kempley_a09fca.htm) William Poundstone explains how Copperfield disappeared the Statue of Liberty in Bigger Secrets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Secrets)

Craig Calcaterra joins us this week for a very sports-movie-y sports movie: Everybody's All-American, a "one wedding and one long funeral" look at a college gridiron star's early peak and interminable fall that doesn't know which set of Quarterback Agonistes clichés it wants to use, and recycled Sophie's Choice's Stingo as Timothy Hutton's Cake, with merkinacious results. The three of us had a lot of questions -- why the hot cousin is A Thing in the Quaidverse, why the movie isn't about Jessica Lange's Babs and Carl Lumbly's Blue, and how Wayne Knight feels about that "Fraternity Pisser" credit, just for starters. At least Craig was a good sport about watching this dud, even Overall score: 3 QQQ score: 3 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everybodys-all-american-1988) Janet Maslin's review (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/04/movies/review-film-the-glory-fades-in-everybody-s-all-american.html) John Cheever, "O Youth and Beauty!" (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1953/08/22/o-youth-and-beauty) Special Guest: Craig Calcaterra.

It's another thriller, but we aren't thrilled by 1988's D.O.A., featuring Dennis Quaid as a former wunderkind novelist turned tenured professor in a rut. No: really. Is that off-label casting why this confrontationally sweaty film doesn't work? Is it the lack of onscreen chemistry between Quaid and Jane Kaczmarek...AND Jane and Meg Ryan? Does a fetal Robert "T-Bag" Knepper need more to do? New Coke, Silk Stalkings, Wonder Boys, Binder & Binder, and the heartbreak of chronic zydeco all factor into our discussion of a "noir" in which noir wit doesn't factor...at all. Overall score: 3.5 QQQ score: 3.5 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? THREE stars, Rog? idk (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doa-1988) Desson Howe's WaPo review (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/doarhowe_a0b150.htm)