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Episode 88: Killing American Style (1990)

August 9, 2016 admin Leave a comment

Aaaand we’re back. Flippin’ finally!

As some of you know, it’s been a rough month here at SCC… but after all the roadtrips, mountain-climbing, and hospital stays (not in that order), we are back and ready for action. We missed bad movies, and we missed every gosh damn one of you!
Tom picked the movie this week, and we watched the 1990 action flick, Killing American Style- directed by the one and only Amir Shervan. Tyler stopped by to watch this one with us- making it the third Shervan film we’ve covered on the show, and the second that Tyler has joined us for.

Killing American Style stars Robert Z’Dar as hardened criminal, Tony Stone, who -along with his partner, John Lynch- are on their way to prison for a failed heist. When Stone’s brother is shot in the process of helping them escape, they force their way into a nearby home and wait for help. The only problem is that the house belongs to all-American bad-ass/80s fashion victim, John Morgan. Morgan comes out strong but essentially becomes their errand boy for the entire movie, until finally he gets fed up and decides to unleash some good ol’ fashioned American whoop-ass on everyone! Hurray!

We discuss the obvious parallels between this and Shervan’s other films, including his bizarre perspective on American culture. We also discuss watermelon etiquette, bizarre set “design”, and lack of a solid goon game in this flick. We’re back!

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Action, Drama, Group/Submission, Sci-Fi

Episode 87: PASS THRU (2015)

July 6, 2016 admin Leave a comment

I Dream of Breenie is back!

Neil Breen has a new movie out and you bet your sweet ass we went to see it.
Having recovered from The Neil Breen Spectacular (in which we watched all 3 of Neil’s movies – in one sitting- and then discussed), we decided to pack our bags and take a Second Class field trip to the sold-out show at the Somerville Theatre. We were joined, once again, by the only person we know who can tolerate as much Breen as we can- our BFF Aaron.

PASS THRU follows artificial intelligence from the future (played, obviously, by Neil himself), who has come to earth to eradicate all the evil corporate and media scum who are waging wars and destroying our planet. Breenie kills about 3 million people in the blink of an eye- going on a rampage of mass murder, all the while touting his very infantile grasp of quantum physics and odd anti-immigration rhetoric. There is a subplot involving child astronomers… but it has literally zero to do with the rest of the film. Also, there’s a tiger.

How has Neil progressed as a filmmaker? Is this his best movie to date? Will his unfounded God-complex ever be explained? We try to answer all these questions and more in this episode. Our standard structure fell by the wayside a bit on this one- so apologies in advance. Listen up!

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Comedy, Drama, FUCK YEAH! (Fucking Sweeps), Group/Submission, Sport, Vinegar Syndrome

Episode 85: Rad (1986)

June 22, 2016 admin Leave a comment

Good afternoon, gentlefolk!

For this week’s episode we were joined by our friend and first time guest, Christopher Brown. Christopher also picked the flick this week, and he graced us with the 1986 BMX movie, Rad.

Rad follows high school student, Christopher “Cru” Jones, in his quest to qualify for a major BMX race- Helltrack- which just happens to be taking place in the small town in which he lives. The only problem is that the race takes place the same day as the SATs, and Cru’s mom has strictly forbidden him from competing. However, this proves to be the least of his problems when he learns that Duke Best (owner of Mongoose), is throwing any and every rule at him to keep him from racing. Can the town band together and help Cru overcome this barrage of new obstacles, so he can triumph at Helltrack at last?

The title of this film pretty much describes exactly how we felt about it. This movie gave us a plethora of topics to discuss including (but not limited to) trick-riding as foreplay, ass-sliding, and the beta prep-course for T-1000 training.

Special Guest: Christoper Brown

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Drama, FUCK YEAH! (Fucking Sweeps), Group/Submission, Most Recent

Episode 75: The Room Spectacular part 1 of 5

April 1, 2016 admin Leave a comment

The time has finally come for us to dive in to the cult classic The Room! This episode is the intro to a 5 part series we’ll have discussing Tommy’s masterpiece. There’s too much to talk about it in one episode so we had to spread this out through the whole month of April. Enjoy our introduction and stay tuned for next week!

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Action, Drama, Group/Submission, Most Recent, Sci-Fi

Episode 48: The Neil Breen Spectacular!

September 23, 2015 admin 2 Comments

The Trailer for Double Down (2005)

The Trailer for I Am Here…. Now (2009)

The Trailer for Fateful Findings (2013)

On this week’s episode, we did something we’ve never done before…. We covered THREE movies. That’s right. That means we sat through 3 movies in a row and then recorded this VERY long episode after. It was grueling. Aaron’s back in town to discuss all three of Neil Breen’s movies; Double Down (2005), I Am Here…. Now (2009) and Fateful Findings (2013). Listen up to find out how they all measured up during our ratings! This episode is a healthy 1 hour 45 minutes, so god bless you all.

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Special Guest: Aaron Bouchard

Drama, Horror, Most Recent, Tom's Picks, Vinegar Syndrome

Episode 45: Blood Harvest (1987)

September 1, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Watch this weird scene from this movie because that’s what I wanted to post from YouTube here!

God Bless Tiny Tim! Seriously, because if it weren’t for him this movie would have been more unbearable than it already was. That movie was the 1987 horror movie “Blood Harvest”. This was Tom’s pick because it missed getting watched “too many times”. Yikes. Mr. Tim is a creepy clown in a small town where people are being hung upside down and… killed! Sounds promising right? Find out how we all rate this movie on this week’s discussion!

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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, Martial Arts, Most Recent, Tom's Picks, Vinegar Syndrome

Episode 30: Death Force (1978)

May 20, 2015 admin Leave a comment

In this episode Tom picked the 1978 blaxploitation revenge film Death Force. AKA Vengeance is Mine. Alternate title: Fighting Mad. Ratings were all over the place and almost entirely ruined by one specific moment of the movie. If you’ve seen this film you might know what it is. All of that and more as we discuss successes, failures and risks of this samurai vengeance story!

Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Most Recent, Tom's Picks

Episode 27: Only The Strong (1993)

April 28, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Tom selects this week’s topic of discussion with a movie from his childhood, 1993’s Only The Strong starring none other than Mark Dacascos. We find out that capoeira is a pretty cool thing to watch, or at least we hear Tom defend this movie due to his bias growing up with it. Either way we still cover it’s successes, failures and enjoy a nice ratings session. We also have first time guest Tyler on to help us break this movie down.

Special Guest: Tyler Loiselle

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