The Life Aquatic (with Nick Laskin)
There are only a handful of directors whose films feel like events. From the 90's class of directors, there's Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas...
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Rotten Rewind
A film podcast that digs through the bottom half of the Rotten Tomatoes barrel to reevaluate, over-analyze and show our appreciation for all things rotten.
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The Beach (with Alex Kolpan)
Danny Boyle and Leonardo DiCaprio head to Thailand to drink snake blood and cuck French guys in "The Beach." In 1996, Danny Boyle was riding...
We Own the Night & Triple 9 (with William Breen & Nick Laskin)
James Gray has quietly made a name for himself as one of the most underrated modern filmmakers of the 21st century. From his 2000 breakout "...
Summer of Sam (with Ryan Oliver)
Spike Lee tackles disco and serial killers in his 1999 flop “Summer of Sam.” 1999 was a landmark year for cinema with directors like Paul Th...
Mars Attacks & The Lost World: Jurassic Park (with Devon Hansen & Matthew Hayes)
In the mid-90s, Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg were two of the most beloved directors in Hollywood. Spielberg was coming off his first Osca...
The Pelican Brief & Conspiracy Theory (with Morgan Phillips)
We're back in action with a pair of political thrillers starring heavyweight stars of the 90's! That's right, there was a time when Hollywoo...
Clint Eastwood's "The Rookie" & John Woo's "Broken Arrow" (with Jake Ures)
Buckle your fucking seatbelts because it's time to go ballistic as Auteur Misfires enters the 90's. Kicking things off, it's Clint Eastwood'...
Coke Noir: 8 Million Ways to Die & 52 Pick-Up
We're kicking off month 3 of Auteur Misfires with a pair of 1986 coke-noirs from two of the most iconic directors of the 20th century. First...
Alex Cox's Walker (with Olivia Willke)
Just in time for the 4th of July, it's Alex Cox's radical, career-killing satire, "Walker." It's hard to imagine a more radical film being m...
Bad Timing & Eureka (with Alex Kolpan)
Ever listen to Simon & Garfunkel and wonder what Art Garfunkel's balls look like? Curious what an Austrian/Brooklyn accent would sound like?...
Swept Away Double Feature
It's rare that both the original and remake of a film are critically maligned, but that's exactly what happened to Lina Wertmüller's 1974 cl...
Reflections in a Golden Eye & Secret Ceremony
On this week's double feature, we're taking on a pair of 1960's psychosexual thrillers featuring Elizabeth Taylor in the prime of her career...
Ishtar (with Andrew Jacobson)
In 1999, Time Magazine compiled a list of The 100 Worst Ideas of the 20th Century. "Ishtar" was on the list. So was Michael Cimino's career-...
They All Laughed (with Nick Laskin)
Twenty-five years after Peter Bogdanovich's self-distributed critical failure "They All Laughed" was quietly released in a handful of theate...
One From the Heart (with Logan Kenny)
The Godfather. The Godfather Part II. The Conversation. Apocalypse Now. It's hard to think of a director with a better consecutive run than...
Foxfire & Sucker Punch (with Ella Talkin)
The male and female gaze clash in this week's Gaslight/Gatekeep/Girlboss double feature as we look back on two critically trashed stories of...
That Cold Day in the Park & Let's Scare Jessica to Death (with Olivia Willke)
It's Rotten history on the podcast today as we go all the way back to 1969 and 1971 for the two oldest films ever covered on the podcast. Ge...
Practical Magic & Forces of Nature (with Jean Yannarel)
For our Gaslight/Gatekeep/Girlboss finale, we're paying tribute to our Rotten Queen Sandra Bullock and two of her most unhinged romantic com...
By the Sea
Do you remember when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt spent their honeymoon making a movie about the disintegration of a married couple on the i...
Mommie Dearest (wth Kaycee Felton-Lui)
"No more wire hangers!" "Tina! Bring me the ax." "I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at the dirt." "She doesn't need an ambulance... She's drunk."...