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294. Frame Rate: Under The Skin (Feat. Brooks Brown)

The 2014 film Under The Skin is not for everyone. It's dark, meditative, brutal, and terrifying. There are some shocking shots, but it's not your typical horror film. Michael and Abe sit down with Brooks Brown to discuss how Jonathan Glazer and Scarlett Johansson pulled off this art film that's really about consent, celebrity, and the male gaze. 

This episode was produced by Martin, our mo...

Lisa Simpson

The good and bad of my relationship with the very wise Jennifer Moore.

Music by Chris Corlew.

Production and additional guitar by Abe Epperson.

293. Directorpiece Theatre - Clueless: Self-Identity and Subculture

Abe presents the case that while 1995's Clueless has flaws, its insistence on inclusive art forms and mundane art is actually a fantastic message for young teens from the 1990's and the film displays a more diverse culture snapshot than most genre films of the era. Adam and Abe debate its value and merit as a satire.

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292. Kings of King: Dreamcatcher

Michael and Abe discuss what's going on with this movie. Why did it flop so hard? Does it deserve the hate? Who said yes to Morgan Freeman's eyebrows? Like so many horrifying ass worms, there's plenty of unpack in this episode.

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291. The Cast and the Curious: Fast & Furious

Sarah and Bridgett review the fourth installment of the FFF (Fast and Furious Franchise). Sarah starts by nailing the play-by-play of the series up to this point. This film makes two things clear. The series is now about superheroes and sexy ladies. Our hosts talk about the nature of the Feds in this series and an initial misstep of pivoting to gratuitous licking of toes in your car movie....

289. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: Show Me Your Badly-Aging High School Film

The Show You's start off with a pretty thorough discussion of coffee but things take a turn when Maggie chooses House of Wax. I mean, that is utterly ridiculous and Maggie's the only person we know who could pull this answer off. Listen to the whole episode to hear Adam's choice along with some news about the future of this show and how you, the beans, can get involved!

For the next ...

ISYMIYSMY Episode 5 Prompt Poll!

Hope you enjoyed the third episode of ISYMIYSMY! Here's the possible prompts for Episode 5 as they've already recorded a bonus episode for y'all that will come out in a few weeks. You have one week until this poll is closed! Huzzah!

[IGN] Michael and Lucy Talk Leaks

As quarantine quontinues, IGN will continue to occasionally put out videos that are just us talking to each other via webcam. But as far as I can recall, that's what life is and always has been, so I don't see an issue.

RUN | TIME

Someone check on Michael. He wrote this...I don't know, short story? Anyway, it's not really that funny at all. I mean, there's one part at the end that's really hilarious, but the rest isn't that funny. You click the first image to open the gallery and click next to read it. There's four pages. 

288. Directorpiece Theatre: How Pragmatism Helped The Descent Achieve Artistic Success

  Adam tells Abe to pull over because he's taking the wheel for an examination of the 2005 British adventure horror thriller movie, The Descent, written and directed by Neil Marshall. In this episode, Adam examines the production hurdles that a film of its budget must overcome and how Marshall expertly navigated tough creative decisions for the benefit of the movie as a whole. From lighting, cre...

287. Small Beautiful Things: How Die Hard Trains Your Eye

Yippie Ki Yay, Mister Falcons! Abe returns with a lecture on Die Hard and how John McTiernan uses diagonal lines to draw your eye. Not very funny, but if you want to tell people while you're watching Die Hard that you kind of took film classes about it, that's up to you! So, yeah, Die Hard's great, you're great, and go watch it!

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Die Ha...

286. Frame Rate: Ex Machina (Feat. Tom Reimann)

We don't even summarize the film this time. It's just three dudes talking about what it means to be human for about an hour.  Tom Reimann from Gamefully Unemployed stops by to drop some knowledge. What does it mean to be sentient? What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be a bean? This episode is all thanks to our Pick the Flick patron Zac Schwartz! Thank you Zac! We'd lock you in an...

Guest Beans: Mike Gorgeous Swaim

Michael got to be on his own personal favorite podcast, My Gorgeous Son! It's about a dad and son who love one another varying amounts, and is brought to life by two of our favorite comedians, Mark Little and Andy Bush, as well as a third person named Everardo who is also there. 

In this episode, Michael plays an aged Italian film director that's built off of a running in-joke of the pod. So go ahead and listen to every episode, then this one! The tiny mouse that lives on Andy's he...

285. BOLD: Live Interview - Drugs, Race & Criminalization with Eunisses Hernandez

BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by White People 4 Black Lives.

In the first of our three live interviews, our co-hosts Dahlia Ferlito and 2020-05-18 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

284. Kings of King: Misery

Alright, cockadoodies! The kings catalog their third entry of their deep dive into the Kingiverse. So get ready to get smothered and sedated like so many Paul Sheldons as they discuss fiddely-foof and its impact on the entire rooty-patootie genre. How does Misery hold up? How does Annie Wilkes stack up in the rare sub-genre of female horror villains? What academic approach does Abe take this time to ...

283. Frame Rate: Clue (Feat. Daniel O'Brien)

Dan's back! Everybody Dan's back! Go Crazy! Alright, calm down.

It's murder most foul! A cacophony of crime! A Monty Python of ending retcons! The three guys talk about 1985's Clue and how(s) it holds up and hows it don't for an hour and a half. Abe tries to get them to dissect the jokes. They're all into Tim Curry and Martin Mull (spoilers). You'll have to listen to the episode to hear whether...

282. The Cast and the Curious: Tokyo Drift

The third installment of our Fast and Furious deep dive comes with many epiphanies, like Sarah learning what drifting is. Both the hosts are pretty confident in their scoring of how fast this film is, but less so in if it's truly furious. Not a lot of violence in this one, as the franchise is starting to understand what it's broad appeal is and starts using more green screen. Sarah pitches Vin Diesel...

281. Directorpiece Theatre - Paranorman: The Failure of the American Tradition

Paranorman is a movie from 2012 that sneakily deconstructs American traditionalism, suburbia, and consumerism. Abe is a film nerd who believes that film school dissections of children's animated films are a good use of ninety of your minutes. Let's get real though. That Jon Brion score, Laika's beautifully grotesque animation style, and some superb voice acting keeps this movie afloat. I don't care w...

Jackstream: The Repost

Here's our game night stream from last night! Lots of fun, fewer technical issues than we expected...we'll do this again. Hope you'll be in the audience! Otherwise just slap this on in the background while you cook something and boom, instant friend group.

280. Frame Rate: Devs

Sometimes we talk about TV too! This one is the new FX miniseries starring Nick Offerman and Allison Pill, written and directed by Alex Garland. It's no secret that Michael and Abe have been smitten so far by Garland's work, but does his recent attempt to break into the world of the small screen work? Figured this would be a great companion podcast with our other Frame Rate about Predestination that ...

Jackbox Games Stream Team!

Hello all! We have beans to report! This Saturday, May 2nd @ 7pm PST, 7 whole big beans will be streaming on our twitch.tv channel for a few hours. You'll get to vote on our suggestions and follow along by entering the 4-digit room key into http://jackbox.tv when we begin.

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279. Frame Rate: Predestination (Feat. Vanessa Gritton)

Vanessa's back to help Michael and Abe unpack the dense time travel timeline of 2014's Predestination (starring Ethan Hawke). The gang asks: are all paradoxes in all time travel stories the same paradox? Why are a lot of seminal sci-fi writers thirsty and extremely problematic? Which two of the three podcasters are sleeping with each other? The last one is a trick question. They're all fucking Ethan ...

[IGN] How to Make the Mario Remasters Meaningful

Swaim's burgeoning friendship with Brian Altano really hit a new plateau with the co-creation of this, a scathingly intimate portrait of two dudes discussing potential Mario Bros. remasters.

ISYMIYSMY Episode 3 Prompt Poll!

Hey wind bags! Hope you enjoyed the second episode of ISYMIYSMY! As promised, here's the possible prompts for Episode 3. You have one week until this poll is closed! Huzzah!

278. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: The Album That I Could Live In

So this is how it works. The title of the episode is the episode prompt. How Maggie and Adam define it will be determined by them. In this episode, Maggie defines it as "not your favorite necessarily, but if you could surround yourself with it as if it were tangible you could do it." Adam defines it as "will continue to mean something to you or express an aspect of yourself (you hope) forever." Liste...

276. Directorpiece Theatre: John Hughes' Day Off (From Directing)

Like the lazy titular character, John Hughes kind of takes it easy after Act I of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Adam runs down the directorial bag of tricks he employs in the first 25 minutes of the movie that seem to be non-existent in the rest of the movie. Now, it's a fantastic first act, it's just that he took two acts off. Abe finally makes that big decision to tell off his dad!

275. Kings of King: The Mist * EARLY ACCESS

Abe and Michael discuss the themes and relevancy of 2007's The Mist. In the last episode, Stephen King took issue with the movie version of his tale. In this episode, he seems to approve of it. While we're all confined to the indoors in 2020, we think you'll all find something in this episode that will grab your attention, like so many-tentacled dimensional monsters.

Rough Stuff Live Show (on Instagram) TOMORROW!

Sarah and Bridgett of Rough Stuff are going to do a LIVE instagram broadcast of listener submitted stories tomorrow 4/12/20 at 4:30 PST. Perfect for Easter Sunday. Please join and submit as anonymously as you like @roughstuffpod.

Can't wait to hear your weird awkward stories, you maniacs. We will be there...

274. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: What Movie Got You Into Show Business?

Hot damn, a new podcast! It dawned on us that the most unlikely of pure friendships blossomed in the last few years between Big Beans Adam Ganser and Maggie Mae Fish. These two friendos are unexpectedly wholesome together and so we locked them in a room wit...

Bean Team Dreams Streams And More!

Just a public service announcement that while the world is on fire and we're all stuck in our homes, we're trying to find new ways to create content and connect with you guys remotely. Oh yeah. It's gonna get real remote in here. Somebody hit the lights. A lot of that will happen on Twitch, due to ease and expediency. So we're hoping to increase that style of content on our Twitch channel.

For example, in the las...