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The podcast that covers the movies that help you identify your friends...and maybe make a few more along the way. Every week, Jacob, Cody, and Marten introduce a new title into their ever-growing collection of shared favorites, break them down to the basics, and decide whether or not they deserve to be bestowed with the oh-so-holy award of being a Certified Facemelter. What spine number will they cover this week? Tune in and find out.
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The second film from sturdy genre workman Stephen Hopkins to enter the SH collection (following the gory glory of PREDATOR 2), Marten gets to wax lyrical about everything from Dennis Leary to bloodthirsty lions to Gene Hackman's addiction to Puerto Rican prostitutes. Don't play yourself and tune in now.
Because "belated" is our middle name, the boys sit down and discuss the best movies they saw in 2023, which cover everything from Copenhagen Cowboys, Italian race-car magnates, and Leo's teeth. Tune in and zone out.
It's a new year and the boys are here to protect the hive. In celebration of THE BEEKEEPER, Jason Statham's latest bit of bald badassery, Jacob and Marten dive down a rabbit hole filed with headbutts, foul language, and kung fu to try and figure out what makes Statham one of our essential action stars. It's possible no one survives.
Feliz Navidad fuckfaces! For the last episode of '23, Jacob and Marten throw one of the sleaziest slashers of all time into the canon: the nasty killer Santa body count opus, SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT. Just so you know, you're all NAUGHTY on our list.
We're back baby! After a (too long) hiatus, the boys sit down with Ridley Scott's long, winding filmography, ultimately ending on BLACK RAIN being their favorite. Oh, and they also check out a little (pun intended) French Emperor named Napoleon while they're at it. Secret Handshake returns!
2023 has Dracula Fever!* To celebrate, the boys revisit Francis Ford Coppola's phantasmagoric experimental interpretation of Bram Stoker's infamous novel, before traversing down the cinematic history of the world's most iconic vampire. We vant to suck yo blood!*Well, not really, according to box office reports.
Ka-BOOM! The boys return following a brief hiatus to discuss the biggest movie of the summer (not based on a children's toy). The stoic, violent blockbusters of Christopher Nolan are broken down in order to properly celebrate Nolan's latest epic, the A-Bomb biopic OPPENHEIMER.
The boys stay up journaling well into night as they spend time with Paul Schrader's lonely men. It's the Season Four finale and of course we went back to the filmograpghy of Secret Handshake's Patron Saint of Existential Despair.
Separation can be so terrifying. To celebrate the new Amazon limited series remake, the boys revisit David Cronenberg's 1988 art house classic about twin gynecologists. Who's ready for hours of graphic childbirth?
DEAD BY DAWN! DEAD BY DAWN! To celebrate the release of EVIL DEAD RISE, the boys set their sights on yet another heralded cult horror franchise: Sam Raimi's deadite dismembering EVIL DEAD series.
We did it y'all! Spine #50! Spring Fever has hit America as we dive into MONEYBALL and a slew of cinematic baseball staples. Because, after all, how can you not be romantic about baseball?
THERE'S NO EASY WAY OUT! THERE'S NO SHORT CUT HOME! The boys talk Rocky Balboa and his legacy of being the ultimate underdog sports champion, breaking down Stallone's greatest series before diving into the CREED saga. Lace up the gloves, it's time to build some hurtin' bombs!
They called me...Mr. Glass! In celebration of Night's newest spookfest (KNOCK AT THE CABIN), the boys break down Shyamalan's ahead of the curve secret superhero opus, UNBREAKABLE, and how it fits into the rest of the auteur's odd, idiosyncratic body of work.
Gather 'round, lovers, as the boys regale you with the ballad of Harry Warden, celebrating Cupid's favorite holiday with what might be the greatest slasher film of all time?
When the moon is full, the boys become Constant Readers, hanging out with their drunk uncle Gary Busey and reminiscing about all the Stephen King flicks they've loved (and hated) over the years, starting with the famed horror author's small town werewolf epic, SILVER BULLET.
![Bonus Episode - The Best Films of '22 [Feat. Brandon Streussnig]](https://media.rss.com/secrethandshakepod/ep_cover_20230106_080108_a0ec8c752df67050dce089e3848f91e8.jpg "Bonus Episode - The Best Films of '22 [Feat. Brandon Streussnig]")
That's a wrap! The boys get together with Brandon to talk about their fave flicks of '22.
Jacob and Marten discover that they really groove on THE WAY OF WATER and discuss the movie that started James Cameron's incessant need to improve the blockbuster for generations of movie fans. Is TERMINATOR 2 the greatest sequel of all time? Possibly.
Autobiography is the running theme of '22, so the boys read Quentin Tarantino's new book ("Cinema Speculation") and then revisited his Proustian masterpiece, ONCE UPON A TIME IN...HOLLYWOOD to try and zero in why all these old masters are looking to put themselves on screen.
Tonight is what it means to be young. The boys looks back on the filmography of Walter Hill and wonder aloud if he's one of the finest action cinema storytellers who ever lived.
Todd Field is back, baby. To celebrate the writer/director's first movie in 16 years - the Cate Blanchett classical music cancel culture drama TÁR - the boys look back on his entire filmography through the lens of where it all began: with the Bergmanesque New England domestic tragedy, IN THE BEDROOM.
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