We wrap up our look at the 1995 Golden Raspberry Award nominees for Worst Director with a conversation about Kevin Reynolds’ Waterworld, and you know what? It’s a fun movie! It has its problems, but may have gotten a bad wrap because of the production problems. We have a lot of fun talking about it. Tune in!
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We jump whole hog into the world of Vegas strippers and exotic dancers with Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 big budget exploitation film Showgirls, next in our series on the nominees at the 1995 Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director. Do the reappraisals as a great satire make sense or was Verhoeven going for something he just never quite achieved? Tune in!
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We continue our series looking at the 1996 Golden Raspberry Award nominations for Worst Director, today with an in-depth conversation about Roland Joffé’s misguided adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic ‘The Scarlet Letter.’
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Our members voted and for January 2024, we’re talking about Batman Forever as a potential contender for the 1996 Golden Raspberry Awards nominations for worst director. But does Joel Schumacher warrant that or did he deliver exactly what everyone wanted? And how does this movie hold up today?
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We continue our look at the Worst Director nominees at the 1996 Razzies. Today, it’s Renny Harlin’s pirate adventure Cutthroat Island. Does it warrant a worst director nom? Script and casting issues aside, Harlin delivers a fun film. Tune in!
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We kick off our look at the 1996 Golden Raspberry Award noms for Worst Director – that’s right, it’s time for the Razzies! – with a conversation about Frank Marshall’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Congo. Is it terrible yet entertaining or just terrible?
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We wrap up our conversation about five films – nominated and not – at the 1988 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects. Today, we discuss one of our favorites – Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop.
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We continue our look at nominees and non-nominees for the 1988 Academy Award Best Effects – Visual Effects category. Today, we’re chatting about Rob Reiner’s perfect fantasy comedy romance film. That’s right, we’re digging into The Princess Bride.
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It’s our December Member Bonus Episode, and the members have spoken — we’re adding Joel Schumacher’s 1987 teen vampire horror comedy “The Lost Boys” to the list of films that coulda been a contender at the 1988 Academy Awards nominations for Best Visual Effects. It’s a fun one to return to, and has a lot more going on than we realized when we first saw it in the 80s. Tune in!
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We continue our look at the 1988 Academy Awards Best Visual Effects Nominees – and some non-nominees – with a conversation about the fantastic John McTiernan 1987 muscle-filled alien battle. That’s right, we’re taking on Predator.
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