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Two film-loving friends devour entire franchises, tracing their theatrical rise, direct-to-video-fall, and occasional redemption. Banter, bits, and bad impressions follow.
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Comedy is now illegal in America and by extension Canada... we regret to inform you that this will have to be the final episode of The Franchisees. But boy are we going out with a bang! SPINAL CRAP POO is here to make us all laugh and remind us of the ravages of time! Is this movie worth seeing? Is it fun to be back with the boys again? Or is it just sad? Listen to find out but you know already come on. We also talk about the fate of James Christian Kümmel (aka Jimmy Kimmel) and the late Char...
In ancient times Hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived a strange race of people, the druids No one knows who they were Or what they were doing But their legacy remains Hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge Stonehenge, where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well Stonehenge Where a man is a man and the children dance to the pipes of pan Stonehenge Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise With a dragon's face Stonehenge Where the virgins lie And the p...
Not a great franchise tbh! But here we are at the end anyway, at least the end for now. It'd be funny if they just called the sequel to this legasequel I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. Just keep it going. Alex has seen no new movies this week. Ben watched WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE IRON LADY, THE SECT, BRING HER BACK, THE BROTHERS GRIMM, PROVIDENCE, MERMAID LEGEND, PAVEMENTS, BABY INVASION, SHIFTY, HIGH TENSION, HIS MOTORBIKE HER ISLAND, THE NEW WORLD, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and HIGHEST 2 LOWEST. ...
This piece of shit, I mean really what are we doing here talking about this garbage, life is short, it's summer time we're supposed to be surfing and sunbathing and sucking cock, what is this, what are we doing with our lives, what have we done to deserve this, I'm going to fucking blow my fucking brains out! Just kidding, we're back with the third and clearly worst instalment of the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID franchise (or is it more the LAST SUMMER franchise?). This is some god damned direct-to-vi...
More like I still know what you did two summers ago am I right? It's summertime again and the survivors of the first film win a free trip to the Bahamas... what could possibly go wrong? This film is filled with 90s horror sequel hilarity, including an inspired turn by Jack Black as a white guy with dreads who loves, you guessed it, weed and pussy! We got Brandy, we got Mekhi Phifer, we got Jeffrey Combs and Bill Cobbs, we have all these new characters to kill. Alex and Ben also find time to t...
A killer fisherman? A web of lies and guilt? 90s teens standing together on a poster in a vaguely triangular formation? It's all from the #twisted mind of Kevin Williamson! We're back with a new franchise: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. It's still summer right? August 17th is still summer. Not even up for debate really. Anyway, it feels kind of funny doing this franch before Williamson's superior SCREAM but they made too many of those and this series has a new one out, also titled I KNOW WH...
We're back on track with a fresh new episode on the new NAKED GUN film starring Liam "Leslie Nielsen" Neeson and directed by Akiva "Lonely Island Boy" Schaffer. Are comedies back? Can America finally laugh again? How many jokes are there over the entire 85 minute runtime? Worry not, listener: we're going through this film bit by bit, gag by gag, larf by larf. We also find time to talk about some other recent movies we've been watching, including HAPPINESS, BULLY, THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION, M...
we're phoning it in again. it's summer!
We're back and we're spoofin' and goofin' yet again with THE NAKED GUN 2 1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR. Is this sequel, full of laughs and gags, as funny as the first film? Or is it the start of those dreaded diminishing returns? Or can we barely remember what happens in it and try to avoid talking about it for as long as we possibly can? Listen to find out. We also talk about our favourite bizarre Toronto eatery Fancy Induced Burger and discuss a few films we've been watching recently including THE...
In anticipation of the upcoming, similarly titled THE NAKED GUN (2025), we're looking back through the files of Police Squad an covering the beloved, hilarious, zany, and ZAZy NAKED GUN franchise. We're talking, spoofs, goofs, laughs, larfs, farts, and toots. We're talking Leslie Nielsen and Zucker Abrahams Zucker. Many of us have fond memories of watching these films on TV back in the day, but do they hold up? But wait, there's more! Ben talks about the rom(?)-com(?) MATERIALISTS and also ce...
We're talking about the newest entry in the 28 DAYS franchise, 28 YEARS LATER. Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Anthony Dod Mantle... they're all back baby and they've cooked us something real interesting. We talk about the crazy camerawork, the zany and wild tonal shifts, and try to make sense of the film's nutty ending. Next week we're starting a new franchise: THE NAKED GUN. Join us for some laughs and gaffes! Follow us @thefranchisees on Instagram and Twitter and email us at thefranchisee...
Robert "Hitler" Carlyle stars as Johnny Weeks in 28 WEEKS LATER, the underrated(?) sequel to 28 DAYS LATER. Join us next week for 28 YEARS LATER, here's a preview: it's good! Follow us @thefranchisees on Instagram and Twitter and email us at thefranchiseespod@gmail.com
They made the chimps watch too much LiveLeak and it infected them with Rage, cut to 28 days later and the entire British Isle is fucked. That's right, we're getting our MiniDV cams out and going back to the glorious days of post-9/11 with 28 DAYS LATER. This film reinvented a genre when it came out... but how does it hold up now? Joining us are the three lads from a new screening series in Toronto: Truth and Dare. Each month Nick Armstrong, Adam Bovoletis, and Sacha Kingston-Wayne program cut...
So it's come to this... the FINAL RECKONING. We've had so many reckonings over this series but this is the last one, we promise. To help us process this reckoning we've enlisted friend of the show, past + future + current guest, and musician extraordinaire Rob McLay. There's much to talk about but before we get into the film we also discuss some other movies we've been watching lately: THE SWIMMER, BAD SHABBOS, SCARFACE, and two less-than classic Tom Cruise vehicles KNIGHT AND DAY and T...
We're back and we're talking about MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, the first reckoning of an epic two-part reckoning. Ben remembers enjoying this one back in theatres in 2023, Alex has never seen it. Does it hold up? Is it a mess? Is the franchise past its prime??? Before we answer these questions (and more!) we also talk about the Cannes Film Festival and some other films we've been watching: FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES, A BETTER MAN, THE MONKEY, THE SHROUDS, FLIGHT RISK, M. ...
We're back, Ben's been fired and replaced with friend of the pod/past and future guest Jordan Seccareccia, and Ethan Hunt saves the world again. We're talking MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT, what some consider the zenith of the franchise. Who are those some? Why your good friends Jordan and Ben. Will they be able to convince Alex to join the Fallout team? It's our most impossible mission yet! We don't talk about any other movies on this episode (save for Jordan's brief review of the new FINAL ...
We're back, we've formed a Rogue Nation whatever that is and we have two very special guests leading the revolution: Corporal Niko Block of the Fail Army (and AWOL social media coordinator of The Franchisees) and Dr. Yuki, foremost scholar of and PhD-haver in Tom Cruise Studies. We also talk about some other movies such as WARFARE, SINNERS, CHILDREN OF MEN, BETWEEN THE LINES, and PYAASA. Then, Dr. Yuki shares her Top 5 Cruise Performances, followed by the similar but different Top 5 Sex...
We're initiating ghost protocol, we've initiated it before and we're initiating it again. People have said some very bad things about our friend Ethan Hunt, some very nasty things. But we're going to initiate ghost protocol and make the IMF great again! We're back after a brief hiatus (sorry) with MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL. Tom Wilkinson initiates ghost protocol (whatever that means) before getting shot in the head. Jeremy Renner of the famous Jeremy Renner App joins the team and T...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to remember the name of the Hollywood Hack who directed MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III... who is it... what's his stupid name again... ah whatever I forget. Devin Shears joins us again to talk M:I III, the GOAT Philip Seymour Hoffman, and what is in many ways the craziest iteration of Tom Cruise/Ethan Hunt yet: the normal wife guy. He loves his wife! We also talk about some movies we've been watching including THE APPRENTICE, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, and ...
Three incredible artistic talents came together at the beginning of the millennium to create an astounding work of art: Tom Cruise, John Woo, and Limp Bizkit... together they produced MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 and we thank them every goddamn day of our lives. We're back to discuss M: I 2 with connoisseur of early 2000s cinema/vibes Katherine Vienneau. We've got the Chimera Virus, we've got Thandiwe Newton, we've got Dougray Scott oh my god we've got Dougray Scott. We've got masks galore, we've go...
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