Jen and Tim nineties nineties nineties nineties Denzel Washington nineties nineties virtual reality, nineties Russell Crowe nineties, nineties nineties nineties Virtuosity nineties!
Read the AV Club interview with Kelly Lynch where she describes Denzel’s motive...
2023-02-06 01:45:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen enlist animal expert Emma Bowers (Hyenas and Gin on YouTube) to explain why the fascinating story of two man-eating lions resulted in a boring movie called The Ghost and the Darkness.
Watch a 1996 documentary about the m...
2023-01-29 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Jen here to explain why you’re still waiting patiently for this month's episodes. It is the time of year for my customary Protracted Upper Respiratory Infection, which has put somewhat of a dent in productivity here at HYST headquarters (not to mention my voice). We are, however, planning a full complement of episodes for the month, including shows on the two films pictured here (a...
2023-01-19 08:08:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim welcome returning guest Darren Herczeg to go to bat for an almost universally loathed Netflix feature, Blonde. Naturally, the trio revel in the film’s grotesque and overt misogyny while twirling their mustaches.
Hey subscribers! While you're waiting for the next episode, why not sample a short video featuring your hosts? We riffed, MST3K-style, a weird old p0rnographic* cartoon we found embedded in a German sex film from the 1970s. This one's spicy, so maybe don't watch it around those with innocent eyes or delicate ears. 2023-01-01 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Our next episode will cover the widely reviled Netflix biopic, BLONDE, which is, of course, about Marilyn Blonde. We'll update you soon with a release date. In the meantime, we here at HYST wish you a joyous holiday if you celebrate, and if you're working, we hope they let you off early!
-Jen and Tim
2022-12-24 23:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen try and fail to recall the name of Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps as they discuss Olympian gymnast Kurt Thomas’s sole feature film, Gymkata.
Jen’s half-assed inaccurate anecdote about Phelps being considered to play Tarzan is actually true, albeit not the way she told it. Producer Jerry Weintraub (no relation to Gymkata producer Fred Weintraub) believed that he’d found ...
2022-12-18 21:59:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim welcome Speed Racer evangelist Paul Jay to talk about, uh, the 2008 flop Speed Racer.
Over at culture blog The Sundae, Dean Buckley makes a case against Speed Racer as “art film” and for the Wachowskis as purveryors of schlock (in a positive way). Agree or disagree...
2022-12-11 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In light of the holiday, look for our next free episode on Sunday, December 2nd. And remember, you don't have to argue with your conservative relatives; you can always just steal the pumpkin pie and eat it in your car!
2022-11-23 04:56:49 +0000 UTC View Post
They just can't stop witchin'! Tim and Jen continue the unending spooky season with a franchise entry that pleased no one, Halloween III: Season of the Witch!
Chris Evangelista defended the movie over at SlashFilm, as part of that site's The Unpopular Opinion series.
Le...
2022-11-20 22:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim attempt to purge the lingering memory of a certain occult-y art film with a viewing of an early George Romero work, Season of the Witch.
In case you had no idea what he was getting at, Tim’s latest thing is calling Chantal Akerman’s feminist classic...
2022-11-13 19:54:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Your hosts range widely and freely on the topic of horror: specifically, found footage horror. The films discussed are The McPherson Tape, The Blair Witch Project, Backrooms, and Horror in the High Desert.
Tim and Jen are dumbfounded by a universally praised and vacantly pretty auteur statement, The Love Witch!
Rotten Tomatoes shows The Love Witch to be a darling of critics with a rating of 95% (audiences were more lukewarm, with their rating sitting at 61%). 2022-10-24 02:35:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim enjoy a silly 1990 comedy with startlingly good practical effects, Spaced Invaders!
Director/writer Patrick Read Johnson’s long-gestating nostalgia trip, 5-25-77, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 22, 2022. In the meantime, you can read 2022-10-17 04:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey listeners! Due to everyone's schedule being chaotic, the bonus episode that would normally have appeared tonight will drop later in the week. You'll be getting a full slate of content for the month, it's just that some of it is still squeezing through the tubes, as it were. Stay tuned for further updates!
- Jen and Tim
P.S. GIF related
2022-10-10 04:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen start spooky season early with a shockingly dark release from Disney, Return to Oz.
Jen forgot to mention that the main reason the film does not resembles the MGM film from 1939 apart from the Ruby Slippers™ is because all of the trappings of the MGM version were and are copyrighted. In fact, Disney had to shell out to use that plot device in the film. Hence, while Walter Mu...
2022-09-25 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For their one hundred and fiftieth episode (!), Jen and Tim welcome animation expert Jerry Beck to talk about the worst cartoons ever made and the Monkees’ super freak out, Head!
Visit Jerry’s website for all the animation news and discussion you can eat.
You can watch 2022-09-20 19:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to familial obligations, our next episode will be delayed until Tuesday. Please accept our apologies and this link providing a hint as to the episode’s content!
-Jen
2022-09-19 06:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen hosts the delightful Jane Altoids of Pacino Pod to perform an autopsy on one of the worst vanity projects ever made: Give My Regards to Broad Street!
Director Peter Webb’s BAFTA-winning short Butch Minds the Baby is up at the...
2022-09-11 23:43:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen defend a movie you either love or hate, Darren Aronofsky’s mother!
See crybaby Kyle Smith’s review of mother! at the world’s worst magazine if you want to know what kind of thing gets your hosts into a theater to se...
2022-08-28 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim finally tackle one of their shared albatrosses— the Robocop before Robocop, R.O.T.O.R.!
Isadora Fox wrote a piece in memory of actress Margaret Trigg for New York magazine back in 2004. The article details her struggles with disordered eating and poor mental health, but also serves as a ...
2022-08-25 03:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The next bonus episode will drop later today! Thank you all for your patience.
-Jen
2022-08-24 18:02:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to unforeseen circumstances (see attached gif), Sunday's bonus episode will be delayed. We'll let you know when it's on the way, ideally in a day or two, and thanks in advance for your patience!
In the meantime, may we recommend a deep dive into the sordid story of Harry Knowles and Ain't It Cool News from the Dow...
2022-08-20 22:48:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim gets a little treat this month— we talked about one of his personal favorites, Gaspar Noé’s trippy version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Enter the Void!
Read an interview at Den of Geek with a voluble Noé about Enter the Void.<...
2022-08-14 23:24:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim marvel at the cursed, ill-conceived, bloated sequel to Chinatown, The Two Jakes.
Errata: Jen was wrong and Polanski fled the country in February of 1978, not 1977.
The Two Jakes derailed the Robert Towne/Jack Nicholson friendship, which had been forged in the early 60s while both worked for Roger Corman, for at least a decade. Towne admitted as much in Peter Biskind’s...
2022-07-31 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen host Jacques of the Seeking Derangements podcast so they can hold forth about a personal favorite: Fatal Beauty starring Whoopi Goldberg!
Jacques somewhat confused the timeframe of Whoopi’s brief relationship with Ted Danson. They had an affair on the set of the 1993 film Made in America...
2022-07-25 05:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Jen and Tim fight to a standstill over a comedy that flopped in theaters, Wet Hot American Summer.
Tim incorrectly identifies co-writer Michael Showalter as director. It was David Wain, not that Tim gives a fuck.
The five episodes of sketch comedy show The State produced by MTV have been 2022-07-19 02:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends!
Remember that if you’re supporting us at the $5 or above, you have access to the Have You Seen This Discord! So far it’s been a low-key place for joking around and sharing links to anything media-related that strikes our fancy. Tim and I intend to keep sharing little ...
2022-07-04 21:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim and Jen welcome Doug Waugh of B-Movie TV and the Slashers podcast to discuss an overlooked Australian heist film that’s heaps good: Money Movers!
Purchase Umbrella Entertainment’s...
2022-06-27 00:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post
No truer words were spoken about this movie than “So Fucking What.” Jen and Tim welcome Bryan Quinby of Street Fight Radio to talk about a justly forgotten 90s something-or-other called S.F.W.