Whitney Houston may always love you but will the boys love this movie? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id14925708…

Show Notes Before he got turned into a cartoon who dreamed race didn’t matter Martin Luther King was a flesh and blood human being who knew full well race totally mattered. This movie attempts to set the record straight. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.co…

We continue our black history movie watch with the film that got Denzel Washington his first Oscar win. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Show Notes No, it’s not about being a food service worker. 12 Years A Slave is about an actual slave. And, spoiler alert, being a slave is really, really bad. But is the film? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does…

Will George and Joe be the number one fan of this movie about the bookworm who goes way, way too far? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

He’s half man and half vampire but all Wesley Snipes. Join the boys as they go back to 1998 and chat about the very first entry in what would one day become the Marvel Cinematic Universe. https://riverside.fm/studio/253-blade-1998?t=3c5d9df1520f042d1442 Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV…

This film is described as loosely based on the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics. But the word, loosely, is doing a lot of work there. Regardless of that though, does this picture still hold up? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.c…

In popular culture the term Family Values originated with George W. Bush Administration and was used in the 1990s as shorthand for morally upright but really meant, no social safety net and “let’s discriminate against The Gays.” Fortunately, this movie has nothing to do with that so that’s a point in its favor. But does it offer anything more? Link…

It’s our 250th episode! Join the boys in celebration by listening to them do what they do every week. But just because it’s not out of the ordinary doesn’t mean this episode isn’t special. On today’s show we look at a Japanese horror classic that is considered both feminist and anti feminist at the same time. Links You can rate and review us in the…

Were this a drama, this would be the story of someone suffering from severe psychopathy but it's a comedy so when a kid sets up a blow torch to fry someone’s scalp it becomes a laugh riot. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-…

This story of a slaughterhouse employee living in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the late 70s certainly has it’s fans but will the boys be among them? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Wor…

At one time in America you couldn’t be a convicted felon and rapist and still get to be President of the United States. The boys take look at a film from that bygone era. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This…

Don't you forget about this movie. Don't, don't, don't, don't don't you, forget about this movie. Join the boys as they discuss this popular John Hughes flick otherwise they’ll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podc…

We pop back a mere 10 years ago (doesn’t it seem longer than that?) and check out this film about black college students on a predominately white campus and the tensions that went along with it. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still…

Baby faced Randy Quid gets led to the hoosegow by a mustachioed Jack Nicholson and a not- as-famous-as-those-two-Otis Young. And that’s it. That’s the movie. Could a story this basic not work? Have a listen and find out. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.co…

Spoiler: She got her groove back by schtupping a guy half her age. Would you like to know more? Join the boys as they discuss. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podca…

Show Notes We’re going back over 70 years to explore this story of sick crooks and the attempt to bring them in before they contaminate the whole town with bubonic plague. This flick is a way long time ago, can it possibly still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://ww…

We hear this movie got a sequel. Did you know about that? Anyway, the boys take a look at the original. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

No, it's not Archie Bunker’s daughter (Wait, does anyone born after 1983 get that reference?). Rather she’s a mob moll with a little boy to protect. It’s the pod’s first John Cassavetes movie. Cassavetes was a big deal director in his time but are the boys impressed? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This St…

This is a heartwarming story of a hitman who protects a 12 year old girl from murderous cops and the little girl turns around and…falls in love with him? Wait, what?! No, honestly what the f- Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-wo…

See Bruce Campbell as you’ve never seen him before…with one eyebrow. Bruce’s unibrow is the least disturbing thing to come out of this film that kicked off The Evil Dead films series. Will that unfortunate scene with the tree ruin this horror epic? Listen in as Kitt and the boys discuss. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, p…

With this film Richard Pryor became the first black actor in US history to get a million bucks for a movie.This is also the first R-rated comedy by a black director (Sidney Poiter!) to make more than $100 million. Which is great and all but does the film still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Sti…

On the 19th day of the month of December in a middle year of a decade not too long before our own the human race suddenly encountered a movie musical starring Rick Moranis. Join the boys as they tap their feet and discuss if it still works. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast http…

In the UK pants are what Americans call underwear. Was this movie called traveling pants in England? And if so, were people disappointed when they weren’t watching a film with everyone running around in their panties? Anyway, what did Joe and George think of this movie? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This…

He’s a smut peddler. She’s a drug-addled stripper. And they are…in love? That aside, the most shocking thing in this pic is being reminded that the Supreme Court wasn’t always a rubber stamp for right wing BS. Join the boys as they discuss that and anything else that pops into their heads. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more,…

It’s Taming of the Shrew but set in a high school because, honestly, would you sit through Shakespeare unless it had an updated spin? Shakespeare straight is boring. Dude wrote his plays over 400 years ago. You think his stuff is still fresh? And is this movie? The boys find out. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably)…

Paul Giamatti plays a lawyer who engages in defrauding an elderly client while getting mixed up in the life of a nice teenager and his not so nice mom. Joe hasn’t seen this movie since it came out. George has never seen it. Will it win the boys over? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Po…

One of the hosts of this program had to manage his anger as he sat through this Adam Sandler\Jack Nicholson movie that he…did…not…like.. Listen and find out which one. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This St…

The world’s worst mom, Boston’s dirtiest cops , a very young PI and a missing child add up to one very unusual child abduction case. Or is it a child abduction case? George and Joe look into the mystery that was Gone Baby Gone. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podch…

Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman star. Do you enjoy all male movies with lots of shouting and no sex? Then this may be the movie for you. But what do the boys think? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This St…

Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a priest who might or might not be a pedo. Meryl Streep is a nun who thinks there is no might about it, he’s a pedo. Meanwhile, poor Amy Adams doesn’t know what to think. But George and Joe do. Have a listen. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https:/…

Ever hear someone refer to vehicular homicide as “earning points?” This is where that started. Joe takes a vacation, George does history, and Kitt Nowokunski tells us all about Death Race 2000 from 1975! Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-t…

She’s a real American hero! Join the boys as they look back at this film about a woman who joins the Navy SEALS. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/…

We Americans have had Love American Style. We’ve had a Love Boat. We had a Love Story. And 24 years ago we got Love and Basketball. Now the boys see if it still works. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This St…

Are the bugs the baddies or is it the human race? Well, only one of them looks fascist as hell and it’s not the insects. The boys discuss. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts h…

We’ve seen misfits in a police academy. We’ve seen misfits in a school. We’ve seent misfits in a mall. Now, we get misfits on a submarine! Oh, boy! Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple P…

Hey, you maggot!. We will not love you long time. We will not sucky sucky. But we will tell you what we think of this movie. And you will be happy about it, you goddamn communist heathen. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1…

Moo with us! Or maybe get a place in Santa Fe? We promise, it won’t take us 525,600 minutes to tell you what we think of this movie. Housing Bias https://www.newspapers.com/image/410110939/?match=1&terms=Rent%20strike HIV https://www.newspapers.com/image/709849253/?match=1&terms=HIV%20New%20York%20City Open Mic https://www.newspapers.com/image/7098…

Released after 9/11 and the start of the war in Iraq this film left American audiences pretty damn angry. Criminal GIs and low life, if not outright incompetent military officers, were not going with the prevailing zeitgeist to say the least. Well, it’s now been over 20 years, why not join the boys as they explore how this film plays today? Links Y…

It’s an old movie that George has never even heard but Joe sure has. He watched it in real time, so you know it’s old, and so is he, but does it still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? o…

Show Notes Look, a movie can be dumber than a box of rocks and still work…or not. We will discuss. But here is the real question, were drinking and dining establishments wildly understaffed in the late 80s? Because every place in this film looks packed and yet only one or two people seem to be on staff. WTF? Links You can rate and review us in thes…

Technically, a child abduction movie but as Disney is the producer the abduction is done for laughs. You see the abductor is an alien spaceship that sounds an awful lot like Pee Wee Herman. Definitely a kid’s movie but does it still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https:…

Living machines from out of space having nothing better to do with their time help a bunch of New Yorkers hang on to a condemned building. Does that sound stupid? Sure. But maybe it still works? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still…

It’s the movie that launched a sequel, a cartoon, a TV show and a remake. But does that mean it still works? Also, just how many montages can a 90 minute movie have? A lot of them, evidently. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-wo…

Our patreon people picked this minor Woody Allen movie. Can’t say here if it still works but we can mention that the women are all age appropriate and nobody wants to bed an underage child.so that’s different from Woody’s usual fare. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www…

It’s not a sequel. It’s not a remake. It’s simply another Bad Lieutenant but this time he’s in New Orleans and he is Nicolas Cage. Does that make it better or worse? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Stil…

It is the final movie in our Union Films Series. Here we look at an 80s movie about 20s coal miners attempting to unionize under horrible circumstances. Have a listen. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This St…

Before her Oscar willing performance here, Sally Field was a flying nun on TV and starred in a movie about smuggling 400 cases of Coors beer. So, this was a step up. Anyway, join the boys for our latest installment of Union movies month. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https:/…

We continue our union films month with this forgotten Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto flick from 1978. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.…

We kick off union movie month (in March, get it?) with this chestnut from the forties picked by our Patreons. This comedy, about a boss spying on workers who want to form a union, was a box office hit back in its day. How does it hold up over eighty years later? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still W…