FilmDrunk Frotcast

We’ve got three comedians in the Frotquarters this week to discuss a movie about a comedian, Obvious Child, along with Bret, who hates comedy, story, humans, and existence itself. Asked by his wife what he wants for Christmas, Bret answers “I don’t want to be,” and so she bought him a gift certificate to a sensory deprivation tank. Other topics include Collective Soul Bird, ‘Girls’ Vs. ‘Entourage,’ the Josh Gad Gad Movie Game, Kid Rock saying rap rock is gay, and lots of weird sex stuff. Guests: Matt Lieb, Vince Mancini, Jane Harrison, and Bret. We ate pizza. Won’t you be our friend? http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/

It’s the FilmDrunk Frotcast Best of 2014, edited by Most Valuable Listener Token. Intro Ep 2220:01:08 Ep 219 Introduction of Gary from Freemont0:06:38 Ep 223 Andrew Roberts solves/worsens America’s Racial issues0:09:13 Ep 221 Alison gets a dating profile message0:21:12 Ep 210 Bret’s Town house Ghost/Ufford makes a salad0:30:24 Ep 224 Gone Girl/Ben’s Girlfriend/LAX bro Voicemail0:42:37 Ep 209 China’s dick sucking robot0:50:21 Ep 218 Joe Sinclitico pitches “The Forest”0:54:56 Ep 222 Kentucky Kindergarten names0:59:52 Ep 226 Purssey, Merney, Kerffee1:01:54 Ep 226 The Linkin Park movie/Marlins Will Soar1:08:44 Ep 221 Rating Alison’s Dick Picks1:14:46 Ep 216 Vladimir Putin steals Bob Kraft’s Super Bowl ring1:21:55 Ep 213 Matt Lieb Loves Red Dragon1:25:31 Ep 230 Jane Starling vs Bret Lectre1:39:58 Ep 227 Lieb’s interview with Joe Hanh1:52:26 Ep 218 Joe Sinclitico responds to China’s dick sucking robot tech2:00:24 Ep 224 Jumper outroBonus clip Ep 217 The Internet wasn’t worth it Guests Featured:Matt UffordLaremy LegelJane HarrisonAlison StevensonAndrew RobertsPatrick SchumacherJustin HalpernO.J. PattersonJoe SincliticoWilliam HeadHeather Dockray Episode Clips used:184,198(2),202,209 (2),210(5),211,213 (3),216,217,218 (4),219 (2),221 (2),222 (3),223,224 (6),226 (5),227,230(3)

This week on the Frotcast, Vince, Matt Lieb, and Brendan welcome artist Lucy Owen via Skype. Owen’s series of Juggalo portraits, Where The Juggalo Roam, is currently on display in Detroit. We swap her stories about this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos with ours about last year’s and compare our, American male reactions to the Gathering and Juggalo culture with her British female ones. We also talk about Matt’s latest commercial gig. And of course, we couldn’t not mention the Sony hack, The Interview’s canceled release clusterf-ck, and all about North Korea and doxxing. Enjoy.

SF comedians Jane Harrison and Matt Lieb are in the Frotquarters this week to talk about Australian indie horror The Babadook. But before we get to that, we go through the leaked power points from Sony that show that movie marketing is apparently done by aliens. Seriously though, that company’s brainstorming sessions must be pretty f’d up. That of course leads us to Jonah Hill’s awesome email and North Korea’s insane propaganda. Of course, Sony’s marketing plans lead us to wonder, is North Korea the bad guy in this situation or are we?

Have you noticed that the movie industry is trying to sell our childhoods back to us? Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Dumb and Dumber, Kickboxer, Encino Man, The Crow… the list goes on and on. Are these movies for people who lived through the 90s or those who didn’t? That’s the topic on our minds this week, as well as ‘Sheik,’ the documentary about the Iron Sheik, Bret saw Interstellar, Vince saw Exodus, Bret saw The Babadook, and more. Bret, Brendan, Matt Lieb and Vince in the Frotquarters this week, with Ben joining via Skype. Enjoy.

Bret, Brendan, and San Francisco comedian Jane Harrison are live in the Frotquarters this week to talk Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, a 1976 film starring Madeline Kahn, Bruce Dern, Shecky Greene, Art Carny, and a million other people, which I was sort of hoping would be terrible in a hilarious way, but is actually just not something I would ever recommend to anyone. Ever. Jane described it as “Sort of like a dark The Artist if the dog was trying to f*ck the girl.” Other topics include: The survivorship bias as it relates to SNL and Peanuts nostalgia. Can we see through our childhoods enough to ever be accurate about whether something was good? Hey, what’s up with Vine stars? We need a tween to explain this. The Serial backlash and the state of god dammit why can’t you just let me enjoy this? Dave & Busters and the “No Juan” joke bitched about ’round the world. Enjoy.

It’s just Bret and I on this week’s podcast, so plenty of room for nihilism and self-loathing. We open discussing Bret catching up with the stuff that’s “all that” in pop-culture, like Adult Swim’s Too Many Cooks and the Serial podcast. We discuss Serial and whether we think Adnan is guilty, and whether it’s all going to end with everyone horribly disappointed. At 25 minutes in, we bring on directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins of Bad Turn Worse, which opens today. They tell us about their favorite Texas crime movies, Jim Thompson, their screenwriter’s many pseudonyms, and then we talk famous filmmaking siblings. Turns out the Hawkinses got mad beef with the Duplass Brothers. The interview lasts until 53 minutes, at which point we talk about genre films, Kim Kardashian’s butt, and our favorite Christopher Nolan and Farrelly Brothers movies. Boom

This week on the Frotcast, San Francisco comedian OJ Patterson joins Vince, Brendan, and Matt Lieb in the Frotquarters to talk about Listen Up Philip, the Jason Schwartzman celebration of navel gazing. We talk about Monique’s treatise on “Team Little Dick,” the Lena Dunham “molestation” drama, and rank our favorite Christopher Nolan movies, in honor of Interstellar. Enjoy!

This week on the Frotcast, we open discussing the Giants’ World Series win and the respective ways in which we as San Franciscans chose to riot. We discuss some film news, like Seth Rogen being cast as Steve Wozniak in the Steve Jobs biopic, and what an Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs movie is going to look like. Then we get into the infamous Cat Call Video and the thinkpieces it has spawned, dissecting the three stages of Cat Call thinkpieces. We all saw Coherence, which we discuss (with spoilers) from about 59 to 70 minutes. Ben joins us via Skype, Matt Lieb tells us about his Linkin Park interview, and we finish up talking some Homeland. Frot on and enjoy!

The whole gang minus Ben is in the Frotquarters this week, and we open talking about Renée Zellweger thinkpieces. That leads us into her new faith-based movie project, Same Kind Of Different As Me, in which a Texas couple seems to have manifested their own magical negro. We bring on Laremy from Film.com who saw Birdman and Fury, we argue about our favorite films of the year so far and whether Michael Keaton is going to win the Oscar. Matt Lieb talks about the time he tried to interview the Linkin Park DJ about his new film, and then he sings us a rap about what he’s been doing with his life since he became a Chobani yogurt pimp. Listen! Enjoy! Tell your friends!