Frankie brings his expert knowledge of Marvel comics, race science, and medical cuckoldry to discuss the one hero who combines all three: Doctor Strange.
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Everyone’s favorite superhero movie, Spider-Man 2, discussed in excessive detail on everyone’s favorite podcast, this one. Don’t look at the play time just click Play and clear your afternoon. Featuring Cuji.
Adrian returns to help sort out whether Evil Dead 2 is a remake of or sequel to Evil Dead, whether the Evil Dead remake is a quality thrill ride or a boring sickening mess, and whether Ash is a real person who is good at sex.
We get our first corporate sponsor with Ambien and celebrate by tackling 3 movies about insomnia. Horror classic A Nightmare On Elm Street vs. its 2010 brain damaged clone. Guess which one was better.
Also a short chat about The Babadook, the horror movie adaptation of someone griping about parenting for two hours.
Romero vs Snyder in a Dawn of the Dead matchup. It’s gonna be close because neither movie sucks very much at all. Other questions: have there been any good zombie movies since Snyder’s remake, and and which film boasted the hardest man?
First appearance of longtime zombie fanatic Adrian.
The Magnificent Seven remake vs. the 1960 classic vs. Seven Samurai, the movie that started it all. Can Chris Pratt’s goofy charm match up to the likes of Yul Brynner and Toshirô Mifune?
Fuck no, but listen anyway.
Retro talk about Spielberg’s most overrated film, E.T. New-on-Amazon review of Pedro Morelli mind-bender Zoom, starring Alison Pill, Gael García Bernal, and Mariana Ximenes.
And finally, the shocking reveal of the insane, twisted secrets behind the podcast’s origins.
In a return to form, the Hard Boys ramble on about two films, neither of which are new in theaters: 2001’s Ghost World (which was shit) and 2015’s The Big Short, which was quite good other than Steve Carell (who was shit).
Two cinema reviews: first of of David Mackenzie’s modern Western Hell or High Water, starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster. Next, Fede Alvarez’s thriller Don’t Breathe, starring Jane Levy and Stephen Lang.
Then a retro talk about how fucking cool The Warriors is. Decision: Slightly problematic, but very fucking cool indeed.