Hey everyone! Here's a bonus episode exclusively for our supporters on Patreon. We discuss the surreal black comedy fever dream that is The Dark Backward! Let us know your thoughts below.
2022-10-05 23:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Here's early access to this month's movie catch-up. This time we discuss Elvis, Licorice Pizza, Confess Fletch, I Love My Dad, Barbarian, House of the Dragon, AND the first 10 minutes of Rob Zombie's The Munsters! Let us know if you had time to check out any of those movies and what you thought below!
2022-09-22 18:40:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Hot off GarageBand, here's our new episode for you! This time we're talking about a movie that Ryan suggested that I had never seen: Frailty from 2001. This is one of those movies that we really recommend watching before listening to our discussion. You can find it on HBO Max currently so go check it out if you haven't seen this yet! We also use the episode as a chance to talk a bit about Bill Paxton, who made his directorial debut with this film. Enjoy and stay tuned for our Pa...
2022-09-20 02:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Here's something we plan to do a little bit more regularly towards the end of each month, a chat about some of the movies we've been watching. On this episode we discuss Nope, Jurassic World: Dominion, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Everything Everywhere All At Once, as well some older releases that we decided to watch for the first time in years! Enjoy and let us know what you thought of the movies we discussed below!
2022-08-24 22:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, here's the Patreon follow-up to Episode 23. On it we discuss the Monty Python films, including Holy Grail & Life of Brian as well as some of the movies they made independently of one another, like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride & Clockwise.
Thanks for your support! We still have an August movie catch-up that we'll be posting for you in a few days. Let us know your favorite Python movie in the comments!
2022-08-15 20:29:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Here's early access to our new episode on 1997's Fierce Creatures! It was pretty hard to talk about this one without discussing A Fish Called Wanda so this episode is a little bit of a double-feature.
Stay tuned for our Patreon follow-up episode and our August movie catch-up. Thanks for your support! Let us know what you thought below.
2022-08-03 21:51:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, just wanted to let you know that we recorded our new episode on Fierce Creatures yesterday! We also did a Patreon follow-up episode on the Monty Python movies and some other John Cleese projects. Lastly we chatted about some of the movies we saw last month for a Sidetracks discussion!
They’ll all be coming to you as soon as I get them edited! Thanks for your patience and support.
2022-08-01 16:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! We've gotten a few inquiries about podcast t-shirts, so we decided to officially launch a merch shop: https://hats-off-entertainment.creator-spring.com/
Additionally, we wanted to offer our Patrons a special discount, so for the next week use the code PATREON at checkout for 15% off your order!
2022-07-03 02:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Here's early access to our new sidetracks. Following our discussion on Silent Movie (1976), we wanted to profile some more acclaimed silent movies, including Harold Lloyd's Safety Last (1923), Buster Keaton's The General (1926), Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931), and lastly The Artist (2011). We also surprisingly have a lot to say about Orson Welles via our mediocre impressions. Enjoy!
2022-06-18 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, here's a bonus episode just for you! We discuss Mel Brooks' penultimate film, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and why we think the movie had such a bizarre impact on 90's kids. Even more bizarre though is how this movie came to be - it involves a dentist, Michael Jackson, scientology, and Kevin Costner. We go through the full story though, as well as stuff we didn't get to in our Silent Movie episode, the unmade Mel Brooks films, bad 90's parody movies, and what to expect on our next ...
2022-06-07 17:41:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons, here's your early access to our newest episode on Mel Brooks' Silent Movie from 1976! Part 1 of a planned two-part retrospective on Mel's films, this episode deals with the early films of his career; The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, leading up to our spotlight on his fifth film, Silent Movie.
We had some differing opinions on this episode but we'd love to hear your thoughts below! Stay tuned for our Patreon episode on Robin Hood: ...
2022-06-02 02:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all, sorry for the delay but here's this month's bonus episode! On it, we chat about the films (mainly Spaghetti Westerns) of director Sergio Leone, including; A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, A Fistful of Dynamite, Once Upon A Time in the West, and Once Upon Time in America.
Stay tuned for our next episode on Mel Brooks' Silent Movie and our Patreon episode on Robin Hood: Men in Tights!
2022-05-29 02:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons! Here's early access to another episode. This time we sat down to talk about some of our favorite (and not so favorite) Comedy Western movies, including; The Kid Brother, Go West, My Little Chickadee, They Call Me Trinity/Trinity Is Still My Name, My Name Is Nobody, The Paleface, Cat Ballou, Support Your Local Sheriff, The Frisco Kid, Blazing Saddles, City Slickers, Three Amigos, and more!
This episode will eventually go out on our main feed but we wanted to post it here fir...
2022-04-19 01:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
More like a million ways NOT to do a comedy movie, amirite folks?
Thanks for bearing with us during our unexpected hiatus between episodes. We're so glad to be back with our discussion on A Million Ways to Die in the West - now available exclusively to you on Patreon! While we surprisingly had a lot to say about the movie itself, we also used the opportunity to chat about the career of Seth MacFarlane, other comedy westerns that do this concept better, as well as the cinema of the...
2022-04-17 01:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: This giveaway is NOW CLOSED! The winner will be messaged shortly! Thanks for participating and stay tuned for more in the future.
Hey everyone, thanks again for your continued patience during our unexpected hiatus. We are finally sitting down to record today and as a thank you, we wanted to do something special. As we’ll be talking about westerns on this upcoming episode, we’re going to be giving away this special edition BluRay of one of our favorite Spaghetti Westerns - A Fi...
2022-04-15 19:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, here’s the full list of films we plan on referencing for our upcoming episode(s) on Westerns. Ryan watched all of these in prep for this episode — 40 in total! A few of them I suggested, but most were ones he watched on his own. Any of you have favorites on this list? Let us know your thoughts!
2022-04-09 19:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Joe here. Just wanted to again apologize for the delay in episodes. Scheduling issues have just been preventing us from recording. I just got back from a trip to LA, which I’ll be talking more about on the podcast! Fortunately, we have finally lined up a time to record and we are going to do our best to give you as much content as possible for all of your patience.
First will be our episode on “A Million Ways to Die in the West”, followed by a sidetracks discussion o...
2022-04-02 23:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Sorry it's been so long in between updates/shows. We each got unexpectedly busy with other projects this month, but we are planning to record next week. We're going to finally do our episode on "A Million Ways to Die in the West" which will probably end up being more a discussion on the proper way to do a Comedy Western. We've taken a look at a ton of Westerns, a lot of comedic ones, and have a lot to say on the genre. We're going to be talking about the more comedic Spaghetti W...
2022-03-23 19:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, here's our second follow-up to our episode on Problem Child 1 & 2. We wanted to talk about the film that Dennis Dugan directed after Problem Child - Brain Donors. It's a loose remake/tribute to "A Night at the Opera" and the films of The Marx Brothers. We also chat a little bit about the Marx Brothers movies themselves, including their history and what we feel they did right and wrong, as well as the great Margaret Dumont.
2022-02-09 22:26:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, here's a bonus episode that follows our episode on Problem Child 1 & 2. On this discussion we chat about the other film written by Problem Child screenwriters Scott & Larry (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Dolemite Is My Name) leading up to a look at the only film they directed, Screwed (2000). We've got another one coming on Brain Donors (1992) and the Marx Bros. Enjoy!
2022-02-01 23:21:09 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's our compilation of Jack Warden's best lines in Problem Child 1 & 2!
2022-02-01 20:08:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, thanks for bearing with us in the delay on this episode. It was a huge undertaking to watch and talk about these two movies. We surprisingly had a lot to say on them both, including dissecting the films of the cast and crew that preceded and followed these two movies. Beyond that, we really dive into the logic and philosophy behind the comedy in the Problem Child movies and why they resonated with so many 90's kids. We kinda descend into madness towards the end of the episode, a...
2022-01-31 01:53:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The raw, unedited audio file for just our discussion on Problem Child 1 & 2 came to over 3 hours. Working on cutting it together now. Stay tuned.
2022-01-29 21:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Here's a quick digression that I cut out of our latest episode for timing purposes, but felt was worthy enough to share with you on Patreon. Ryan and I got into the heated debate affecting all Pennsylvanians, the convenience store war of Sheetz and Wawa. Which do you prefer?
Stay tuned for our Problem Child double-feature which we will be recorded soon. I got pretty sick last week so we had to postpone.
2022-01-19 22:29:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! Here's our recap of all of the movies we spotlighted in 2021. Was there a movie that you discovered thanks to one of our discussions? We've love to hear about it!
Happy New Year!
2021-12-29 20:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons, here's our newly released episode 19! On it we discuss the criminally underrated "The Ice Harvest", which was really just a fun excuse for us to talk in-depth about the films of Harold Ramis. As this is a Christmas-themed movie, we didn't have a chance to give you early access for this episode. We do have a Patreon-exclusive follow-up coming out shortly though as well as a retrospective episode on all of the movies we discussed in 2021 that will be posted here before we share it ...
2021-12-23 03:51:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons, here's something interesting I recently unearthed in the recesses of an old hard drive - the 2nd revision draft of the Bill Murray-helmed 'Quick Change'. I believe our discussion on this movie may have been our first episode of 2021. Regardless, it's a movie we're both pretty fond of. This draft is dated 1987 and it's very interesting to see how the story continued to develop. Hope you enjoy!
We're recording our episode on 'The Ice Harvest' next week, as well as our ...
Hey Patrons! Here's our newly recorded episode on 1992's Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. That was a lot of apostrophes. Ryan and I sit down to talk more in-depth about the career & wine of director Francis Ford Coppola and the events that led him to adapt Dracula in the early 90's. We also chat about other Dracula adaptations & the amazing special effects that went into this version. Stay tuned for our Patreon-exclusive follow-up where I change Ryan's opinion of the dump...
2021-11-17 21:39:46 +0000 UTC View Post