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Craft Disservices

20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings

The good "bad" movies of cinematic history

TV & Film Comedy
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Episode 18: Superman III

December 01, 2022 05:55 - 1 hour - 100 MB

This week, impressive computer magic can do anything as we hit the slopes (and the streets) to save the reputation of Superman III! Writer and podcaster Joe Mazel joins the show to talk about the probably not as bad as you remember third installment in the Christopher Reeve Superman franchise. With Lois out of town and things quiet in Metropolis, Clark Kent takes an opportunity to return to his hometown of Smallville for his 20th high school reunion. But unbeknownst to him, a new and more in...

Episode 17: Constantine

October 31, 2022 21:46 - 1 hour - 109 MB

This Halloween, Craft Disservices rises from the dead for a discussion about an early comic book film so underrated it's scary: 2005's "Constantine"! Film critic and author Darren Mooney of the Escapist joins the show to talk about the only recently remembered film adaptation of the classic Vertigo comic "Hellblazer". Post-"Matrix" Keanu Reeves stars as the blue-collar warlock Constantine, a paranormal investigator damned to Hell for his sins and his generally lousy attitude. When police det...

Episode 16: Atlantis: The Lost Empire

February 04, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB

Come for the Disney name, stay for the treachery, death by misadventure, and rampant tobacco use . . . we're battening the hatches and diving to "Atlantis: The Lost Empire!" Blogger, podcaster, and critic Noel Thingvall joins the show to talk about the ambitious Disney film that failed to reach a broader audience but succeeded in showing what animated features could accomplish. Milo Thatch wants to follow in the famous footsteps of his explorer grandfather, but he'll find himself caught up i...

Episode 15: Space Jam

December 25, 2019 02:51 - 1 hour - 156 MB

Everybody get up, it's time to slam as we do a real jam on 1996's “Space Jam"! Musician and podcaster Gooey Fame joins the show to talk about the classic basketball/Looney Tunes/Michael Jordan comeback film that launched 1000 Hot Topic t-shirts! His Airness has gone from dunkin' on faces to running the bases but when the Looney Tunes find themselves facing slavery on Moron Mountain, Bugs and crew will have to convince the GOAT to lace up his Air Jordans for one last game! It's hard to fully...

Episode 14: Super Mario Bros.

November 26, 2019 22:35 - 1 hour - 102 MB

We're done playing games this week as we jump into the first video game movie adaptation, 1993's “Super Mario Bros."! Author and returning guest Melissa “Frickin” Olson is back to talk about another ground-breaking film project swallowed by its own ambitions. Mario and Luigi Mario just want to fix pipes and beat the Scapellis, but when Daisy is kidnapped into an alternate version of New York, the Mario Brothers will have to confront a strange new world, an army of devolved monsters, and defe...

Episode 13: The Lady From Shanghai

October 04, 2019 20:35 - 1 hour - 91 MB

Craft Disservices makes its belated return in style as we reflect on Orson Welles's 1948 noir classic "The Lady From Shanghai"! Writer and game designer Robin D. Laws joins the show to talk about another near-masterpiece from the iconoclastic actor/director. Michael O'Hara thought he knew about trouble, but when he falls for the beautiful wife of a bitter, ruthless lawyer, he finds himself drawn into a game of revenge, murder, and tarrrrrget practice! Orson Welles burst onto the Hollywood s...

Episode 12: Alien

October 31, 2018 05:59 - 1 hour - 98.4 MB

It's our first pièce de résistance this week as we present a film whose merits were evident on its release, but the movie industry had to catch up before it was heralded as a classic. Just in time for Halloween, it's 1979's Alien! New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling Author and film critic David R. George III visits the show to talk about a film that's more than a monster movie and more than a "haunted house in space." When the menial crew of the mining ship Nostromo stop to investigate...

Cinema Crudités 2: M (1931)

October 01, 2018 21:24 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

Join us on a new series of shows that look at forgotten masterpieces of cinematic history! Fritz Lang is the Godfather of film noir, the police procedural, and the modern thriller, and M is the film that cemented his status as one of early cinema's greatest visionaries and innovators. A child killer stalks the streets of Berlin, and the city is gripped by fear and ready to explode. While the police search for the shadowy culprit, the city's criminals decide to take the law into their own blo...

Episode 11: Nothing But Trouble

August 11, 2018 06:54 - 59 minutes - 54 MB

Grab a warm Hawaiian Punch and fix yourself up a couple of DOGS as Craft Disservices returns to go where Roger Ebert feared to tread . . . Valkenvania! Author and film critic Mark McPherson is back on the show and he's brought "Nothing But Trouble" with him! When four New York yuppies take a leisurely drive upstate, they figure a minor traffic ticket is the least of their worries. But when they appear before Alvin Valkenheiser, Valkenvania's 106-year-old judge, jury, and executioner, they re...

Cinema Crudités 1: Medium Cool (1969)

July 22, 2018 22:49 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

Join us on a new series of shows that look at forgotten masterpieces of cinematic history! Haskell Wexler is arguably one of cinema's greatest cinematographers, but his debut feature, Medium Cool, is all but forgotten. Against the backdrop of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Medium Cool blends scripted scenes with documentary footage with chilling and poignant results. Just Enough Trope co-host Diane Blumenfeld joins the show to parse the brilliance and chaos of this neglected classi...

Episode 10: Jupiter Ascending

July 04, 2018 05:50 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB

Strap on your space rollerblades and get ready to wait in line at the DMV as Craft Disservices returns to explore a cult camp hit! Jacob Gulliver of Hot Chocolate Media is back on the show and he's brought the overlooked "Jupiter Ascending" with him! Jupiter Jones is a mild-mannered toilet cleaner with a dog fetish, but when the tater-tot of her dreams skates in to protect her from Soylent Blue-swilling aliens, she embarks on a galaxy-spanning adventure and discovers that she owns the Earth!...

Episode 9: Exorcist II: The Heretic

December 14, 2017 21:11 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

Slip on the electrodes and get ready to synchronize with another notorious Hollywood head-scratcher! Alex Bledsoe, author of over 20 fantasy novels, joins the show for a look at the second-worst movie of all time, Exorcist II: The Heretic, aka E2TH! Linda Blair is back as Regan MacNeil, but this time she's traded her pea soup for a pair of tap shoes and has to use her vaguely-defined spiritual powers to defend the world against a swarm of demons and her own evil, sexy self! It's a film that ...

Episode 8: The Travelling Executioner

November 18, 2017 06:22 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

Fire up the generator and dust off Ol' Reliable because we're back with an episode that will send you to a better place! John Edward Moret is the programmer for the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis and he joins the show this week to sing the praises of a lost classic, The Travelling Executioner! Stacy Keach stars as Jonas Candide, an ex-convict and ex-carny with a portable electric chair and a gift for putting the condemned at ease. But when he's tasked to put the beautiful Marianna Hill to deat...

Episode 7: Last Action Hero

November 03, 2017 00:44 - 1 hour - 73.9 MB

Grab your big gun and disregard the currently negative view of firearms regulation in the modern political climate and lock and load for a new episode! Author and returning guest Melissa "Frickin" Olson is back on the show to put the collar on Last Action Hero! We partner up on this episode to take shots at the action movie satire that was so ahead of its time, it was way too early and frankly had trouble finding an audience. While we're on the beat, we'll indulge in a little more film schoo...

Episode 6: Drop Dead Gorgeous

October 20, 2017 07:18 - 1 hour - 75.9 MB

Take that hotdish out of the oven because it's time for a forgotten Midwestern classic! Co-host of the Just Enough Trope podcast Diane Blumenfeld joins the show this week as we strap on our tap shoes, don our Mount Rushmore hats, and smear Vasoline on our teeth for Drop Dead Gorgeous! We look at the 1999 satire of a small-town Minnesotan beauty pageant and judge just how well it did in the accuracy round. Along the way we wonder why all the smoking, whether or not Amy Adams could pass for "r...

Episode 5: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

October 05, 2017 05:28 - 1 hour - 80.4 MB

Hickory dickory your dock because it's time to rock out to The Adventures of Ford Fairlane! Writer, actor, and podcaster Sam Landman joins the show this week, as we wade into the septic masculinity of this 1990 headstone to Andrew Dice Clay's shtick and career . . . and we maybe find a watchable movie in there? We take on the "Delirious Dilemma" as we ask ourselves if a film that has aged poorly can still provide entertainment outside of its offensiveness. Especially if it's a Renny Harlin f...

Episode 4: The Island of Doctor Moreau

September 22, 2017 06:34 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB

Put on your dog mask and sneak back onto the set of your own movie because it's time to watch The Island of Doctor Moreau! Blogger, podcaster, and theater manager Matt Gamble joins us this week as we examine this cautionary Hollywood tale of ego, excess, and eatin' the hand that feeds you. We take on the role of the Victorian protagonist as we chronicle the travails of this doomed pic, from the muddled themes to the dual tyrannies of Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. Along the way, we examine t...

Episode 3: Congo

September 08, 2017 08:32 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB

Strap on your Power Glove and spit out that sesame cake 'cause we're headed into Congo! Author Melissa F. Olson joins the safari as we explore this throwback, "lost world" movie, the "flop" that somehow made more in 1995 than Braveheart, Get Shorty, Heat, 12 Monkeys, and Bad Boys. BAD BOYS. On our adventure through this "perfect storm of nonsense", we talk the joy of bad movies, snake vision, gorilla head shots, Winston flashbacks, living in the shadow of Jurassic Park, and being trapped in ...

Episode 2: Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever

August 25, 2017 07:35 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MB

The colon train keeps rolling along and then explodes this week as we shoot through Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever! Author and film critic Mark McPherson joins the show to look at the world's worst reviewed film, and we try to figure out the math on how many dead Canadians $70 million will buy you. In our discussion of this "film", we talk about critical impartiality, how easy it is to hide a microscopic robot, using landmines as an offensive weapon, making Ray Park look stupid, and whether or not...

Episode 1: Punisher: War Zone

August 03, 2017 03:56 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

Come take a listen to the only movie-related podcast on the internet, Craft Disservices! Our mission: to review the films that critics rejected but audiences embraced; be they prime rib or pulp, genre or general, we give films a fighting chance to entertain us. On our first episode, we enlist with 2008's Punisher: War Zone, a movie that asks the question, "What would happen if you tried to recycle that guy from The Wire?" I don't know if we find the answer, but I do know it would be written ...

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