FilmDrunk Frotcast

This week on the Frotcast, Matt Lieb and Jane Harrison join Vince and Brendan to discuss Donald Trump’s McDonald’s order, deliver our holiday movie guide, and talk about the Netflix documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. Method actors, right? With only a tiny bit of sexual harassment news this week! Thanks, Bryan Singer. Enjoy and Frot on, donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast. 

This week, former Film.com head critic Laremy Legel joins us to talk about the curious phenomenon of trailer reaction videos — specifically as it relates to Avengers: Infinity Wars — and, because it’s inescapable, the latest round of sexual harassment firings. We go deep on Matt Lauer interviews to see if there were red flags we should’ve seen all along. We have a Tales From NPR, answer your emails, and even digress into football. Enjoy, and Frot on! Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast.  2:15 – Kevin Smith cries about the new Avengers trailer 21:00 – This week in sexual harasser scandals! 25:00 – Keith Olbermann and the curious phenomenon of “smug elevator pictures” 31:50 – Matt Lauer’s super gross Anne Hathaway interview 41:00 Garrison Keillor 51:00 – Tales from NPR

This week on the Frotcast, the Frot-crew is all traveling, but I do have this phone interview I did with author/journalist/screenwriter Jon Ronson. Ronson is the author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, a book about internet shaming, Men Who Stare At Goats, and the co-writer of the movie Okja, and more recently he produced a multi-part podcast called The Butterfly Effect. The Butterfly Effect traces the rise of free porn and its effect on porn and wider society. The way tech has affected porn seems like a useful (and possibly scary) analogy for the “disruption” of other industries. Enjoy and Frot on!

Columnist Drew Magary wrote in GQ this week, “Why are all the comedy men so awful?” And was immediately deluged with indignant comedy men, averring that they were not defensive. “I am not mad, I am actually laughing.” Questions remain. Is comedy especially bad or just a symptom of society? Did comedians screw up or did we screw up pretending they were sage truth tellers? Is a laugh an endorsement of a higher truth, or the teller’s personal life? And hey, what’s the deal with airline food? Comedians Matt Lieb and Joe Sinclitico also join, to talk Louis CK, the season finale of Nathan for You, the latest creepo allegations — against Sylvester Stallone — and answer your emails. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast, email us at frotcast at g mail dot com. Frot on!  4:36 – Drew’s article and the blowback 8:35 – Matt Lieb joins 39:27 – Talking the Nathan For Your Season Finale 46:00 – Email questions 1:08:00 – Joe runs down the Sylvester Stallone allegations

This week on the Frotcast, SB Nation’s Matt Ufford joins us to recap the week in movies, discuss Rand Paul’s BRUTAL NEIGHBOR FEUD (as well as recap some past celebrity neighbor feuds), get Orange County PTSD with the Dirty John podcast (“a Californians sketch on Klonopin), and finish things off with some Royalty Freestyle. Matt Lieb and Brendan join Vince in the studio. Donate at Patreon dot slash frotcast.

From The Fat Jew on the TRL reboot to Thor: Ragnarok (my 110% spoiler-free review), this week on the Frotcast, we ponder a future (or a present, really) where repping for the big #brands is the only way to eat. Matt Lieb and Joey Avery join Vince Mancini this week, where, naturally, there’s also lots of news to discuss on the Hollywood Sexual Harassment front. Kevin Spacey, Andy Dick, Jeremy Piven… who’s the next Hollywood personality to screw up? Should we start a pool? All that, plus a Sebastian Gorka update, on this week’s Frotcast. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast. 2:00 – Reeling from the TRL reboot 13:00 – An extremely non-spoilery review of Thor: Ragnarok 22:00 – The Hollywood sexual harassment update, first up, Kevin Spacey 36:19 – Sebastian Gorka can’t park 45:00 – Matt feels bad for Osama Bin Laden 52:07 – Hollywood harassment part 2: Andy Dick edition 1:15:30 – Hollywood harassment update part 3: Jeremy Piven edition

Ex-NBA player Paul Shirley joins the Frotcast this week to talk about his new book, plus, we discuss Guy Ritchie’s KING ARTHUR and do the internet’s first live podcast review of “Doughp,” San Francisco’s first “hip hop-themed cookie dough kiosk.” Matt Lieb and Vince are in studio. We also talk Stephen Dorff, Pauly Shore, PFT Commenter, and George Bush Sr. groping women. Frot on and enjoy, donate at Patreon Dot Com Slash FROTCAST. 

Ever wondered what it’s like to drive 5,000 miles scouting a location and spend eight years shooting a movie in a language you don’t speak? That’s the story of director Michael Matthews and writer Sean Drummond, the South African filmmakers behind Five Fingers For Marseilles, a Western set in South Africa’s Eastern Cape and shot entirely in Sesotho, a Bantu language. In this week’s bonus Frotcast #content, my interview with Matthews and Drummond about the creation of their movie. Will you ever get to see it? Sorry, no idea, but it’s a cool story whatever the case. Subscribe to the Frotcast on iTunes, donate at Patreon.com/Frotcast. (Apologies for the sound quality this week, the handheld mics are noisier than what we usually use). 

If you like timely pegs for classic movies, you’ll love this week’s Frotcast about the 1982 Ridley Scott classic, Blade Runner. Comedian Allison Mick calls it the “un-fun Fifth Element,” while Twitter’s favorite PR man Ed Zitron defends Harrison Ford’s extremely laconic voice over. Comedian Joey Avery just tries to get a word in every now and then. We also talk Harvey Weinstein and Terry Crews (and Rob Schneider and Seth MacFarlane), and Eminem’s Trump diss track. It’s extremely #content and incredibly blah blah blah. It’s not our best work but it’s free. 

What do Harvey Weinstein, Harry Knowles, the leader of a vegan mayo cult, and Juggalos have in common? Well, probably nothing except that they’re all #content on this week’s Frotcast. Every week we try to be Ira Glass and we end up Harry Carey. But hey, that’s why you love us, right, 13 remaining listeners?! Jk, jk, it’s a great show. Comedian Joey Avery and Jane Harrison are in the studio this week, with Matt Lieb (LA Matt) and Vince Mancini. Donate at Patreon.com/Frotcast, Frot on and enjoy and please Frot responsibly.