Episode 103: Rants and Recommendations

In this episode, Scott tells a folksy, heart-warming story about failure, while Jeff goes on not one, but two epic rants about Beau is Afraid and Renfield. 

And here are links to the first two posts on Scott's new Substack, Better Living Through Bad Movies:

Fiend With a Face (1956)

Tom Cruise in The Mummy (2017)

The Slumgullion Podcast · Slumgullion 103: Rants & Recommendations

A Lobster Pinched Tom Hardy's Winky

In honor of the first woman Doctor, Jeff and Scott recruit expert woman Mary C to give the woman's point of view on womaning. Then they try to figure out why Venom sucked so bad, and why they loved it so much.

It's The Woman Who Fell to Earth versus The Parasite That Fell to Earth, so grab your headphones and your umbrella and listen to things go SPLAT!

It's Like a Lifetime TV Movie with Muff

Jeff and Scott watch The Predator and The House With a Clock in Its Walls. and try to decide if this much "meh!" is the byproduct of an industrial accident, or whether it's cooked up deliberately in mobile Meh! Labs by renegade high school chemistry teachers.

Then they tackle the Unknown Movie Challenge -- Strip Nude For Your Killer -- and are forced to turn in their Man Cards and burn their Italian bun-huggers, much like women incinerated their brassieres during the height of Second Wave Feminism.

The Last Jedi

Our pilot episode was The Force Awakens. Last holiday season was Rogue One. And now for our second anniversary show, it's The Last Jedi. Scott and the New Movie Crew dive into the film, while Jeff wades into the Swamp of Sadness and goes bobbing for butt-hurt fans.




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Supermen Against the Orient (1973)

Jeff and Scott are joined by distinguished porn researcher Indy McDaniel to discuss zombies and superheroes, Klingon breasts, The Disaster Artist, the Forgotten Shannons of Softcore,  I, Tonya, why Star Wars Battlefront II is like a casino, but not a nice one on the Las Vegas strip, but more like a crappy one next to a gas station and diner on a frontage road off I-15. For the Unknown Movie Challenge we suck it up and take on the 1973 Hong Kong-Italian kung fu superhero smash-up, Supermen Against the Orient, which has a theme song you have to hear to believe. And believe me, you're gonna hear it.


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Guardians of the Sleepy Hollow

Season 2, Episode 8

Scott arrives late! Jeff leaves early! There's a game show, a funeral, and a lengthy arbitration process governing who gets screenplay credit for Elektra (2005). In other words, it's the Confuse-A-Cat edition of The Slumgullion this week, as we mourn the passing of Sleepy Hollow, dead at the age of four. But the show gets a deservedly stylish send-off as we chat with M. Raven Metzner (the "M" stands for "Mysterious" we've decided, since he never did tell us what it actually means), co-executive producer, and writer of the season (and series) finale, "Freedom".

Then the New Movie Crew arrives to review Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 by playing "What's My Line?"

It'll make sense when you hear it.

(In the spirit of making sense, we should mention that the interview was conducted before Sleepy Hollow's cancellation was announced, so you're spared our joint crying jag.)

A Slumgullion Special “Grumpy McGrumpnuts Goes Viral”

Starring Jeff Holland and 85% of Scott Clevenger

Music by Benny the Jukebox

They were so happy last episode.  Good films, good music.  All seemed right with the world.

That was then.

There is some drama currently happening on the internet and this potential Orwellian nightmare has Jeff annoyed for entirely the wrong reasons.  He then proceeds to go back on a vow he makes earlier in the episode by calling someone out who desperately deserves it.

Not a happy special at all.

But it ends with some good TV talk and a great song.