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Steph, John & Dave dive into the past! This year is the 30th anniversary of the movies from… well if you’re doing the math at home or read the podcast title… 1994 – and we’ve chosen 5 of the biggest movies from that year to talk about their impact 30 years later. Talk to the hand if you don’t think it’s fly and all that, home skillet!! As if!   It’s 1994 you’re going through the newspaper, wondering what movie to see Friday night. You’ve got THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, a prison film that could make even a hardened criminal weep and long for the magic of friendship;  PULP FICTION, which would not just change movie storytelling, but would raise the bar on soundtracks, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE – Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise camping it up as vamps! “And they were ROOMMATES!”… THE CROW, the tragic last film of Brandon Lee as well as the blueprint for every emo story afterwards; and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, the multi-cast comedy that led us to Love Actually! Booooo!  So check us out because we’re gonna Be Kind and Rewind this baby back to 1994!Follow us onTwitter @CraptaculusInstagram @cinemacraptaculusIntro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Geeks make their picks for this year’s Academy Awards! Will it be a Barbenheimer or an Oppenbarbie kind of night? Or maybe it will be a night of American Fiction and everyone will feel like Poor Things. Join John HH, Doc, and Smoore for an Oscars Geek-Out as Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford"Star Monster" by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette.

Cinema Craptaculus presents: People Also WatchedTara, Adam & Dave dive into an awards frenzy double feature with MAESTRO and a movie people also watched, the 70’s classic ALL THAT JAZZ First up, it's the Netflix Original that could be called “OSCAR BID”! This limited theatrical release spent a month in theaters before moving to the Netflix Mothership! Directed by Bradley Cooper, and starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, on its limited release Maestro made about ½ million dollars at the box office. But it has won an award already as one of AFI’s Movies of the Year. Plus a movie that PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED…We’re going from a bio-pic featuring a troubled, creative genius to a semi-autobio-pic featuring a troubled, creative genius with a movie that people also watched – ALL THAT JAZZ! This classic was released on December 20, 1979 – exactly 24 years prior to Maestro landing on Netflix. Starring Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange and Ben Vereen, ALL THAT JAZZ was directed by Bob Fosse and made just over 37 million dollars at the box office. (PERSON) what’s your logline for this movie?****Order Tara O’Brien’s book TIPS FOR YOUR LAST YEAR ON EARTH here:Listen to Adam on Batsh!t here****Every month, studios release big-budget features and for every one of those, there are a ton of lesser-known movies you just might love. Join Tara, Adam, & Dave, industry insiders clinging onto the lower rungs of the Hollywood ladder, as they compare a new release to an older, nearly forgotten movie. If you love the big-name, big-budget movies and the little-known movies that you think everybody must see, then you’ll want to get to know what People Also Watched…! *** People Also Watched theme written & performed by: Brian Ruppenkamp *** Follow us on twitter/insta @PeopleAlsoWatchFollow Tara on twitter/insta @TarTarSauce1Follow Dave on twitter/insta @SuperDaveAwesumFollow Adam on Insta @UrJester

Steve Silverman (World Gone Good, Drown Town) joins Steph, John & Dave but can he save them as they take on NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU!There’s no dialogue, there’s no electricity and there’s no peace because NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU! That’s the name of the movie. No One Will Save You. In this sci-fi, psychologoical thriller, Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is an anxious, homebody because of a mysterious event in her past that left her the town outcast. Now this lonely, stay-at-home woman finds herself in survival mode, facing off against an alien invasion in the style of Invasion of the Pod People. Armed with sheer grit and an unmatched will to survive, Brynn has to face this extraterrestrial onslaught while facing her past! And when comes to your past, the movie title truly holds up – NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU!Follow us onTwitter @CraptaculusInstagram @cinemacraptaculusIntro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This holiday season, Steph, Dave & John switch it up for Christmas! What happens when you cross Freaky Friday with Like Father Like Son and throw in Christmas just for shits and giggles. And don’t forget an extra helping of McG directing and you get the Netflix original - the simply titled FAMILY SWITCH! FAMILY SWITCH is about the Walker Family as they switch bodies. The mother switches with the daughter, the son switches with the dad and the baby switches with the family dog! And it happens on the night before one of the most important days of everyone’s life – The mom (Jennifer Garner) is supposed to give a big pitch to a big client with a promotion on the line! The Daughter (Emma Myers) is supposed to play in the big soccer tournament with a scholarship on the line! The son (Brady Noon) is meeting with Yale to see if he can get into college a year or two before he graduates! And the Dad (Ed Helms) is going to play the..I don’t know…Christmas Festival? Or something for a chance to be on America’s Got Talent, I think? So the stage is set, the stakes are hight and, oh, did we mention it’s a Christmas movie as well? It’s FAMILY SWITCH! Follow us onTwitter @CraptaculusInstagram @cinemacraptaculusIntro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Happy Holidays from the Geeks! It’s the 40th episode, and John HH, Doc, and Smoore offer up some hilarious ideas from your favorite film directors who really need to make a Christmas movie! Listen up Nolan, Scorcese, Fennell, and Tarantino - these are the holiday films we’ve been wishing for! Join us for an Expanded Universe Christmas!Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford"Star Monster" by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette.

Stephanie, John & Dave pledge a sorority where they take things slow - Slothlike slow! This is the untrue story of several sorority sisters picked to live in a house and have their lives taken… Where we find out what happens when an adorable sloth with anger issues stops being polite and starts getting real. It’s SLOTHERHOUSE!!! Here's the rapid recap to catch you up! Emily Young is a college Senior who will do anything to attain her dream of becoming house president of her Sorority. But standing in her way is current president and mean girl Madison – I think it’s Madison. I didn’t really catch the name of anyone in this movie and all the Sorority sisters basically looked the same to me. So Emily does the one rational thing – she adopts a Sloth in order to win over friends and become president. But does any of that really matter? Because we’re watching a movie called SLOTHERHOUSE. There’s a Sloth, there’s a house and there’s a lot of dead bodies. You’re re-capped!Follow us on:Twitter @CraptaculusInstagram @cinemacraptaculusIntro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Geeks go monster mashing as they carve out their best and least favorite trick-or-treat candy, party cocktails, songs, and the popular costumes for 2023. From Taylor Swift attire to lighting candy corn on fire, let’s debate and celebrate with wicked delight by candlelight. It’s a HALLOWEEN extravaganza episode of Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford"Star Monster" by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette.

The Geeks take a look at what’s at stake in the big Hollywood strikes and are joined by Cinema Craptaculus’ own Emmy-winning writer Stephanie Coggins as well as actor and SAG-AFTRA committee negotiator Zeke Alton. Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford"Star Monster" by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette.

Summertime at the movies! The geeks check in on which films are on fire and which have flamed out and what’s coming up. Is it summer lovin’ or endless summer? Find out as Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford"Star Monster" by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette.

SNEAK PEEK EPISODESubscribe to PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED to never miss an episode.This week we're going out for REVENGE!! It’s the movie that revived Keanu Reeves career…again! It made over $66 million at the box office but started a franchise that has made over 1 billion dollars. Besides Keanu Reeves it stars Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Adriene Palicki, and William Dafoe. It’s the first JOHN WICK!Here's a movie that PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED…Now here’s a movie that PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED…when stunt people need to make a reel and don’t have a movie, what do they do? They make a movie. Now that sentence is completely made up. I have no idea of the history of this movie except that Adam sent us the trailer and we couldn’t pass it up. Avialable on YouTube and made in 1994, it’s PAROLE VIOLATORS!Order Tara O’Brien’s book TIPS FOR YOUR LAST YEAR ON EARTH here: Every month, studios release big-budget features and for every one of those, there are a ton of lesser-known movies you just might love. Join Tara, Adam, & Dave, industry insiders clinging onto the lower rungs of the Hollywood ladder, as they compare a new release to an older, nearly forgotten movie. If you love the big-name, big-budget movies and the little-known movies that you think everybody must see, then you’ll want to get to know what People Also Watched…! *** People Also Watched theme written & performed by: Brian Ruppenkamp

Ty Freer (writer) joins John & Dave to jump into the action of Chris Hemsworth’s latest Netflix shenanigans! The Russos take off the superhero costumes and replace superhero powers with super powered guns in EXTRACTION 2! Here's the rapid recap to catch you up! At the end of EXTRACTION 1, Chris Hemsworth’s character Tyler Rake (wait, that’s really his name? Anyway…) Tyler Rake fell off a bridge and was presumed dead? Maybe. I don’t know, I didn’t see it. But he wasn’t dead! Just really injured. And they save him. Facing the possibility of hanging out in the most beautiful cabin in the most beautiful woods in the world, Tyler Rake has the need, the need for speed killing. So some guy comes in who I don’t know who he is, but I know he’s important because he’s all Nick Fury like and he has a job for Tyler Rake – a job only Tyler Rake can do – rescue a family who is living in a prison to be close to the husband who is in the prison because he’s part of some sort of eastern bloc mafia and they….are going to…– you know what, let’s get to the blowing up and the killing. Tyler Rake gets the family which starts a 2-hour chase sequence that pretty much goes, bang, bang, bang, boom, helicopters, explosions, trains, buildings, bang, boom, glass breaking, people fall, car chase, more people die, church, stab, stab, stab dead, dead, dead. The END! Follow us on:Twitter @CraptaculusInstagram @cinemacraptaculusIntro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Like sands through the hourglass, the Geeks ponder the incredible popularity of soap operas. WHO are Smoore’s favorite soap characters? HOW GOOD is HH’s impression of one daytime’s best heroes? WAS Doc really named after a telenovela character? Tune in for these answers and more as Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford"Star Monster" by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette.

This week we’re bromancing the action! At its release, it was the most expensive Indian movie to date. And you just watch the ½ hour sequence before the opening credits and you’ll instantly see why! This Telugu-language epic is based on the imaginary friendship to two of India’s revolutionaries. It’s RRR Available on Netflix, RRR cost about 72 million dollars to make and has made more than double than that in box office. Because of delays in filming due to the pandemic, the movie took years to make – but the wait was worth it! Here's a movie that PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED…America has its own tall tale hero’s and is never shy about pairing them together. From the bevy of buddy cop movies, we went to the mother of them all – TANGO AND CASH, starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. Back in 1989, this big budget action movie cost 54 million dollars and grossed 120 million at the box office. Order Tara O’Brien’s book TIPS FOR YOUR LAST YEAR ON EARTH here: Every month, studios release big-budget features and for every one of those, there are a ton of lesser-known movies you just might love. Join Tara, Adam, & Dave, industry insiders clinging onto the lower rungs of the Hollywood ladder, as they compare a new release to an older, nearly forgotten movie. If you love the big-name, big-budget movies and the little-known movies that you think everybody must see, then you’ll want to get to know what People Also Watched…! *** People Also Watched theme written & performed by: Brian Ruppenkamp

Tara’s book “Tips for Your Last Year on Earth” so instead of reading, we’re watching two movies about the last days on earth! The first, WHITE NOISE, is a satirical contemplation of modern life, major fears and denying death in a Netflix Original Movie starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle. Directed by Noah Baumbach this movie premiered during the death throes of summer on August 31st 2022. And then premiered on Netflix at Thanksgiving, another time with family where you want to die. And a movie that PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED…This 80’s classic is also about people’s last days of life on the planet, it’s NIGHT OF THE COMET– From 1984 it stars Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney and is directed by Thom Eberhardt who also wrote and directed Captain Ron. Night of the Comet cost a mere 700 thousand dollars and made over 14million! Why hasn’t there been a TV Show about this last night on earth?***Order Tara O’Brien’s book TIPS FOR YOUR LAST YEAR ON EARTH here:***Every month, studios release big-budget features and for every one of those, there are a ton of lesser-known movies you just might love. Join Tara, Adam, & Dave, industry insiders clinging onto the lower rungs of the Hollywood ladder, as they compare a new release to an older, nearly forgotten movie. If you love the big-name, big-budget movies and the little-known movies that you think everybody must see, then you’ll want to get to know what People Also Watched…! *** People Also Watched theme written & performed by: Brian Ruppenkamp *** Follow us on twitter/insta @PeopleAlsoWatchFollow Tara on twitter/insta @TarTarSauce1Follow Dave on twitter/insta @SuperDaveAwesumFollow Adam on Insta @UrJester

Steph, John and Dave move in only to discover WE HAVE A GHOST! Here’s the Rapid Recap as written by Netflix RAPID RECAP Seeking a fresh start in Chicago, the Presley family moves into a dusty fixer-upper they soon realize comes with a catch: a ghost in the attic named Ernest (David Harbour). Despite Ernest's attempts at scaring teenage son Kevin (Jahi Winston), the detached, music-obsessed teen soon finds a kindred spirit in this trapped soul from the '70s and commits to helping him.Meanwhile, Kevin's affable-yet-harsh father Frank (Anthony Mackie) looks to cash in on Ernest by turning him into a social media sensation. When Frank's video of Ernest goes viral and captures the world's attention, the family lands on the radar of Dr. Leslie Monroe (Tig Notaro), a washed-up paranormal scientist who alerts her old boss, Deputy Director Arnold Schipley of the CIA (Steve Coulter), restarting a clandestine program aimed at capturing a ghost. As crowds, reporters, and government agents descend upon the Presley home, it's up to Kevin and his sharp-witted, fellow outcast neighbor Joy (Isabella Russo) to break Ernest out, uncover the mysteries of his past, and bring him the closure he needs before it's too late. It’s WE HAVE A GHOST! Follow us onTwitter @Craptaculus Instagram @cinemacraptaculus Intro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Tara, Dave & Adam trip out into the woods for a black bear double fur-ture because it’s the year of the bear! Well, maybe not officially, but it feels that way in the movies! Well, it may not feel exactly like that – but we have a theme with these two movies here and we’re sticking to it.The first, COCAINE BEAR, Elizabeth Banks take on Jaws remake that takes place in a national park in 1986. It stars Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alden Ehrenreich, and the late great Ray Liotta. Cocaine Bear is still in the box office snorting up all the cash earning over 38 Million dollars worldwide already!And a movie PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED…A 2020 small film called Black Bear starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbot, and Sarah Gadon written and directed by Lawrence Michael LevineOrder Tara O’Brien’s book TIPS FOR YOUR LAST YEAR ON EARTH here: https://www.amazon.com/Tips-Your-Last-Year-Earth/dp/1839194529/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1Q4IHBTXW4IP2&keywords=tara+o%27brien&qid=1674061324&sprefix=tara+o%27brie%2Caps%2C137&sr=8-3 Every month, studios release big-budget features and for every one of those, there are a ton of lesser-known movies you just might love. Join Tara, Adam, & Dave, industry insiders clinging onto the lower rungs of the Hollywood ladder, as they compare a new release to an older, nearly forgotten movie. If you love the big-name, big-budget movies and the little-known movies that you think everybody must see, then you’ll want to get to know what People Also Watched…! *** People Also Watched theme written & performed by: Brian Ruppenkamp *** Follow us on twitter/insta @PeopleAlsoWatchFollow Tara on twitter/insta @TarTarSauce1Follow Dave on twitter/insta @SuperDaveAwesumFollow Adam on Insta @UrJester

Can James Gunn save DC Studios? After the bold slate of films and series announced, the Geeks take a hard and hopeful look at the ambitious plans laid out by the new WB leadership supercharge the Superfriends. Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe! Subscribe to Cinema Craptaculus on iTunes or SpotifyTwitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford"Star Monster" by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette.

It’s Valentine’s Day Season so John, Steph & Dave pack their overnight bags to stay at the Rom-Com b&b that's YOUR PLACE OR MINE! Peter (Ashton Kutcher) is a successful marketing brand expert, who lives in New York city and runs from every relationship as fast as he can get into it. Debbie (Reese Witherspoon) is a successful single mother who left her dreams behind in order to be a responsible adult. Together, their one night stand from 20 years ago is what made them the best of friends today – you know the kind of best friend you talk to almost daily, but never visit each other? Well, when she has to go to New York to…be in a one-week “I’m a responsible adult” class, I guess? He has to go to California to take care of her 13-year-old son Jack. Over the course of the week she learns to have fun and he learns to be more responsible – ie, he’s able to make lunch and breakfast for the kid. Though they barely share any screen time, through the magic of split-screens, we see them talking to each other like people who really, really know and love each other. So with the help of their zany friends like Tig Notaro, Steve Zahn and Zoe Chao, they’ll learn that they may be right for each other! In short, it’s the best cast Hallmark Movie you’ll never want to watch regardless of where you’re not watching it– It’s YOUR PLACE OR MINE Follow us on Twitter @Craptaculus and on Instagram @cinemacraptaculusIntro Music: "The Builder" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/