Ex Rated Movies

You want tension? We’ve got crates of it! It’s William Friedkin’s often overlooked and horribly titled gem, Sorcerer (1977). Are people who work on Woody Allen films called wappers? Is Bubble Boy era Jake Gyllenhaal hot? Is the X-Files theme appropriate music for bath time? Answers ensue and suspense abounds on this episode Ex Rated!

For our first animated movie we chose the fun yet sophisticated musical romp The Brave Little Toaster (1987). Come along on a journey that includes Ryan imagining the saucy letters of Eleanor Roosevelt, Matt reminding the world of the text atrocity “CUL8R”, and a response to a listener who praised our most objectively boring conversation. It’s your favorite podcast about tape, Ex Rated!

John Hyams’ Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) is more than just things going boom and people going punch. It’s an arthouse martial arts horror hybrid that also happens to be the subject of this week’s episode. Come along with us as we get heady about the action movie genre, tarnish Robert Hazard’s legacy, and imagine hammer-related hobo murder. Ex Rated: Call me The Colonel!

For this episode we watched Jonathan Glazer’s ambitiously ambiguous alien character study, Under The Skin (2013). We also brainstorm ideas for a biopic about a tyrannical president, take a stand on the subject of ScarJo, and coin the term The Schumacher Ceiling. Join us as we go full question mark on Ex Rated!

This week we take a look at Lodge Kerrigan’s rich and compact depiction of mental illness, Clean, Shaven (1993). Would footage of Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine accurately represent Ryan in his 20’s? Could Elaine Stritch Nutty Professor Matt’s biopic Tupac-style? The answers to these questions (along with some fingernail puns) are here, on this episode of Ex Rated!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s talk about suicide! It’s Billy Wilder’s AFI-listed classic The Apartment (1960). Aside from the movie’s many merits we also discuss the ASFABAB typing system, Mildred Pierce 2: Vita’s Revenge, and Annette Bening’s costume fatigue. Who says romance is dead?

For this episode we voluntarily left the house to watch Juzo Itami’s light-hearted food-sex romp, Tampopo (1985). In addition, we ponder the fidelity of mallards, the consumer hustle of the tape industry, and the theoretical physical shape of a podcast. Come hungry, leave bloated. It’s a slurpy, burpy installment of Ex Rated!

We made it to episode 10! The Big X! To commemorate the occasion we decided to subject ourselves to a double dose of true cinematic punishment: Joel Schumacher’s frenzied superhero fiascos, Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). Join us as we laugh through the tears on this extra masochistic episode of Ex Rated!

This week we watched Bong Joon-ho's fantastic, twisty-plotted thriller, Mother (2009)... or did we??? Find out along with Matt's idea for a Susan Boyle reality show, Ryan's impression of Susan Boyle on said reality show, and other things not related to Susan Boyle at all. It's a hard-Boyled episode of Ex Rated!

This week, we use our BRAINS to dissect Dan O’Bannon’s 1985 zombie horror comedy, The Return of the Living Dead. Also included: Ryan’s ambivalence towards Richard Linklater, Matt’s exuberance towards exposure, and a brief discussion regarding Michael Fassbender’s carpet. It’s a Poddy Award nominated episode of Ex Rated!