FilmDrunk Frotcast

Bret and Laremy (from Film.com) join FilmDrunk’s Vince Mancini for another #Content-filled Frotcast, from Mr. Robot and Show Me A Hero, to pharma bro villain Martin Shkreli and internet anti-hero Nicole Arbour. We also talk the 2015 Oscar race and Johnny Depp burying his baubles. Enjoy.1:00 – Laremy explains why Brad & Laremy on Movies no longer exists and why his dog is always biting people.3:45 – Mr. Robot Talk7:30 – Mr. Robot vs. Fight Club8:20 – Spoilery dicussion of Show Me A Hero. “Oscar Isaac, I am in his teenage fan club.” -Bret. (ends around the 11-minute mark)19:00 – The new Last Witch Hunter trailer. 23:00 – The Boston guys on the boat who have discovered A BABY FACKIN WHALE, MAN. Everyone sent us this clip today, but SUPRISE, we already heard and talked about it.28:00 – Johnny Depp’s burying-my-baubles commercial. 30:25 – Martin Shkreli, the AIDS drug-price-raising pharma bro, plus, my controversial theory that people hate his face more than anything he has said or done. 34:00 – I PREDICTED a pro-Martin Shkreli thinkpiece, which came to pass before we’d even edited.35:00 – The DirecTV commercials, and have they taken a weird, quasi-homophobic turn?40:00 – Coors Light ads. 43:20 – Nicole Arbour and her latest video. Our hypothesis: Nicole Armour is the monster that internet celebrity has created. Bret worries that he is Nicole Arbour. 1:03:55 – Oscar contenders. What will they be?? Our predictions.1:10:18 – Your emails, including how to deal with your terrible film school classmates. Bret and I swap college film class stories.

Did you miss the core Frot crew? Close to a full house this week with Vince, Bret, Brendan, and Matt Lieb all back in the Frotquarters to talk Steve Rannazzisi on 9/11, bad festival Q&A questions, Terrence Howard, and Draft Kings.com, the official sponsor of everything repetitive and terrible. 1:12 – We introduce our new fake sponsor, Draft Kings.com 5:00 – Brendan and Bret review the Lightning Elemental Pilsner I got for BeerDrunk last week. 8:20 – Brendan is still angry how often he has had to see that Draft Kings ad. 8:54 – The Tech Awfulness Update: Remember Leap, the fancy San Franciso bus company? Wellll, they’re bankrupt. That was fast, wasn’t it? 16:00 – We read our favorite parts of the Australian Monday Night Football live blog. 22:56 – Brendan finally gets to weigh in about Straight Outta Compton. 27:30 – A lengthy discussion of bad movie Q&As: why are they so terrible? Are terrible questions peculiar to movies, or does this happen at any question and answer session? People who ask terrible questions: do they ask them everywhere, or just about movies? Discuss. 41:13 – An example of a bad Q & A question that nearly kills Brendan. 51:50 – Matt Lieb shows up and we talk about his visit to Kink.com, and the complicated politics of BDSM. 1:02:45 – We talk about Steve Rannazzisi’s fake 9/11 story, with Bret dubbing him a “9/11 Non-Truther.” We decide Draft Kings.com is the official sponsor of 9/11. 1:13:15 – We accidentally discover a new character, “Truther Jerry Seinfeld,” and it almost kills Brendan. We have to take a recess while he composes himself. 1:14:23 – Terrence Howard and his controversial math theory. 1:24:00 – We finish off with your emails, including a strangely heartwarming success story about anal sex. The power of the frotcast is real!

Just Vince and Laremy talking movies, sports, and the VMAs this week! Topics include the VMAs, Hard Knocks, Idris Elba/James Bond-gate, The Danish Girl, and more. #Content! 2:00 – We get deep about Laremy’s Bell’s Palsy6:00 – Laremy wants to know about my trip to Montana9:00 – I tell Laremy about the German lady crashing her ATV.17:40 – Laremy gives us his long-awaited thoughts on Straight Outta Compton. 23:00 – Laremy and I argue about Southpaw.29:50 – The great “is Iris Elba too street to play James Bond” debate.37:54 – Laremy has discovered the new most asinine NFL column ever written. 43:30 – Hard Knocks talk48:50 – The VMAs and Miley Cyrus (did you guys know she f*cks now?). 52:35 – Laremy tries to sell me on Josh Gad.54:35 – I read Josh Gad’s brilliant treatise on why Mike Nichols and Bill Cosby are different people. 1:11:00 – We pour one out for the now-defunct Brad and Laremy on movies 🙁1:13:45 – I pose the question: what’s more potentially Oscar-baity, Cate Blanchett playing Lucille Ball in an Aaron Sorkin movie or Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl.

This week, we’re joined by video game champion/comedian/podcaster/documentarian Jason Dove, who tells us about his documentary about Dread Zeppelin, and his long journey into novelty music. The mash-up concept fits perfectly with the film I saw this week, We Are Your Friends. Other topics include the Suge Knight-Eazy E AIDS conspiracy, and the random “I’m Leaving You” essay generator. Enjoy!00 – Bret’s new job. “Same old trash, brand new dumpster.”5:30 – Fun with “Leaving Everywhere,” Darius Kazemi’s bot that automatically generates “Why I’m Leaving _____” essays for every city using the 2013 American Community Survey.13:30 – I discuss the Most San Francisco Street incident that I witnessed the other day, where a wannabe hall monitor waiting for the bus tried to drought shame a guy using a hose to clean the sidewalk, at which point he became indignant and called her a “snitch ass twat.” All while I live tweeted it from my fire escape. 26:15 – Matt Lieb turns Korn into Uptown Girl27:30 – I play the trailer for We Are Your Friends for the gang and then we discuss We Are Your Friends.41:00 – We talk about our new favorite conspiracy theory, that Suge Knight killed Eazy E by injecting him with AIDs.48:38 – Jason Dove talks about the documentary he’s making about Dread Zeppelin, a group that turns Zeppelin tunes into reggae songs with a 300-pound Elvis impersonator for a lead singer. 49:00 – Brief interlude with Matt Lieb’s new character, “Kevin the guy in the office no one really likes.”1:21:00 – We talk about Bret and I’s favorite musical games, including out-of-order Tom Petty lyrics, and new lines for “Thank God I’m a Country Boy.” (Try it at home!)1:25:00 – Your emails.

Jane Harrison joins Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini in the Frotquarters for an all-comedian Frotcast about The Fat Jew, the Ashley Madison hack, heckler videos, and YouTube prank videos. Plus, your emails, and the return of “Jewish John Lennon.” 2:17 – We talk about that “comedian destroys heckler!” video that was going around and why it’s kind of bullsh*t. 14:45 – We talk about the pogrom against the Fat Jew (Matt agrees with the outrage but worries people are pronouncing Fat Jew’s name with a hard J). Jane brings up an interesting Tosh comparison. 32:10 – Child actors with speech impediments! I brought a few clips for Jane and Matt to see if they find this phenomenon as terrible as I do. I find it patronizing and infuriating. 44:34 – Matt Lieb reads us his tweets he thinks should’ve gotten more retweets. 49:18 – The return of “Jewish John Lennon.” 55:50 – The Ashley Madison hack, Josh Duggar, and the viral miscarriage couple getting hacked 1:00:15 – The strange, awful phenomenon of YouTube prank videos, including the Russian guy who call random black people the N-word, and all the idiots who ask people a dumb sex pun. 1:16:00 – We answer your emails, including a follow-up from the guy who was worried his girlfriend was going to bang some guy in Europe, a story about gay Aussie sex mishaps, and a request for herpes advice.

This morning I posted my interview with Bobcat Goldthwait about Call Me Lucky (my review), which hits more theaters this weekend. Just for fun (or in case you want to hear it in your car), here’s the audio from that interview. Bobcat talks about his relationship with Barry Crimmins (the subject of Call Me Lucky), and with Robin Williams and Rowdy Roddy Piper. We talked about his early days of stand-up, and I asked him about performing at the Gathering of the Juggalos, since I knew we’d both been there. It was the first time since the Gathering that an interview subject has said “whoop whoop” to me. Enjoy.

Joshua Oppenheimer has spent 14 years in Indonesia, interviewing survivors of a 1965 purge of alleged communists that killed up to a million people. He co-directed the 2012 film ‘Act of Killing,’ which focused on commandos and militia leaders who bragged about the killings. Oppenheimer got them to open up under the guise of helping them make a film about their “heroic” actions. His latest, ‘Look of Silence’ is a companion piece, if much different, tonally, focusing on the victims. If ‘Act of Killing’ was lurid and macabre, even freewheeling, ‘The Look of Silence’ is somber, weighed down by ghosts of the past. It’s heavy, even oppressive. As Oppenheimer says, it’s “a film about memory and oblivion.”

This week’s FilmDrunk Frotcast really has everything: big name guests, insightful interviews, original bits, clever pop culture analysis, engaging hosts, and really just a lot of heart. Comedian Matt Lieb joins FilmDrunk’s Vince Mancini and Brendan in the Frotquarters, with Shit My Dad Says/I Suck At Girls author Justin Halpern joining via Skype. 2:35 – Matt refuses to believe that Al Pacino is in Jack & Jill. Brendan and Matt do dueling Al Pacino/Adam Sandler impressions 3:45 – The “Uptown Girl” talent redux, where Matt Lieb can turn any song into “Uptown Girl.” Brendan hadn’t played before. 8:05 – I attempt to get Matt Lieb to “Uptown Girl” the top 100 songs, before quickly realizing we only know about three of them. 8:42 – Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” gets Uptown Girl’d. 9:40 – “Uptown Funk” gets Uptown Girl’d 13:00 – Justin Halpern joins us via Skype. 17:15 – Big question for Justin as someone who has worked on multiple sitcoms: Have multi-cam sitcoms started mixing the studio audience louder? Why are studio audiences so much more present in multi-cam comedies? 23:00 – The phenomenon of studio audience members saying weird things during shows and how much time it takes to mix them out. 26:50 – The strange phenomenon of laugh-track shows being so much more popular than non in syndication. 33:30 – Justin’s story about Robert Downey Jr. on the set of Due Date. 37:30 – Justin’s Mark Wahlberg encounter, about how Wahlberg initially hated ‘The Departed,’ and called it ‘Gayfellas.’ 46:19 – We read some of Nikki Finke’s hard-boiled Hollywood insider fiction. 54:00 – Brendan describes Michael Jordan getting owned by middle schoolers, and how that’s Brendan’s greatest fear. 1:00:00 – We discuss Miles Teller’s Esquire profile. Is Miles Teller the new Shia Labeouf? Discuss. 1:06:18 – We read your emails and play your voicemails, including a listener who wonders about shoplifting the pootie from a single mother that’s a stripper, and another about Dave Matthews Band, which leads us into a discussion about music nerd rock.

Great show this week, as our guest, comedian Joe Sinclitico either makes or ruins my show with his audible vaping. Matt Lieb and Bret were also in the Frotquarters to talk Cecil the Lion, Woody Allen, True Detective, and horrible press tour interviews. Also, Matt Lieb introduces his new segment, the “Uptown Girl Game.”2:34 – Matt Lieb’s incredible “Uptown Girl” talent. Matt Lieb can turn ANY SONG into Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl.” It’s really quite something.9:16 – Cecil the Lion and the cyber lynch mob. “Yeah, but somebody has to go in the wicker man, and I’m glad it’s this guy.” -Bret23:30 – Ave Maria becomes Uptown Girl. Matt Lieb has the voice of an angel.24:18 – I try to explain Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” to the frot crew. 33:40 – Joe Sinclitico calls in. We listen to him vaping.37:37 – We talk about this season of True Detective and how much we like it and how people that keep whining about it can suck it.38:50 – Joe Sinclitico was apparently making tea.53:00 – Joe also has some thoughts about Cecil the Lion. 1:05:00 – Cara Delavigne’s awful interviewers and the trouble with trying to keep up with psychotically caffeinated morning show hosts on awkward press tours.1:12:20 – My OTHER favorite awkward press tour interview, the Australian Amy Schumer interview that feels like a Christopher Guest sketch. 1:15:28 – We bring Joe back. It was a mistake.1:17:47 – We talk about Southpaw and the trouble with boxing movies.1:20:00 – We answer a question from the emails about hooking up at weddings. 

SB Nation video (and text!) personality Matt Ufford guest stars this week (with Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini) as we talk about Pixels/Adam Sandler, and this week in pop culture, including Gawker’s Geithner drama, getting to the bottom of Taylor Swift’s latest beef, and our Pistol Drone for President campaign. Plus, your emails.00:00 – Matt Lieb’s wonderful comedy bit about electric skateboards.2:00 – PIXELS. I describe the plot for Ufford. “I would not have come on this week if I knew this was what I was in for.”6:30 – We talk about Ufford’s tweet about Adam Sandler’s ‘Fart Vacation,’ and what it says about Adam Sandler movies that some people thought this was a real movie.8:43 – GAWKER DRAMA. We talk about Max Read and Tommy Craggs resigning from Gawker after Gawker took down the Geithner post, and what would have to happen for us to resign in protest from a job we otherwise liked (this from a current Vox employee and an Uproxx employee).19:30 – The way the current advertising system creates an environment that produces the kinds of shitty, click-bait content everyone hates, even the people writing it. 20:50 – Matt Lieb finds his new least favorite Gawker post, “the bravery of Judd Apatow knows no bounds,” a snarky takedown of Judd Apatow’s Cosby impression. Ufford and I explain the inside-baseball factors that cause a post like that to get written, and Lieb and I discuss the viability of Cosby jokes.33:36 – We breakdown my new favorite Amy Schumer thinkpiece, from the Guardian, about how Amy Schumer is now *too* successful, and how that could be “potentially problematic” for her. And society. Or something.44:22 – PISTOL DRONE FOR PRESIDENT! Ufford and Bret’s new social media campaign48:30 – THE TAYLOR SWIFT BEEFDOWN. We try to parse Katy Perry’s incredibly obtuse tweet, and the Matts help us get to the root of the now-legendary Katy Perry/Taylor Swift/Nicki Minaj beef triangle. “I used to know calculus!” sighs Ufford. 58:26 – Your emails. Starting with the guy whose friend named his son “Revin,” continuing with the guy whose on-again-off-again girlfriend is banging her platonic friend on a European island somewhere and how he should feel about that.