CRUEL2REWIND: A Funny Movie Podcast
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -It's a funny movie podcast hosted by Jeff and Angie, who take turns sharing movies and deciding if they are cool or cruel to rewind. In other words, would they watch the movie together again or not? It's fun.
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Meatball Salad: Words That Get Wedged with Comedian Will Green
January 03, 2024 15:16 - 1 hour - 158 MB*This episode originally published in October of 2022* Welcome to Meatball Salad, the meaty pop culture podcast that keeps it light. What do Ke$ha, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin McCallister, Shaggy, Selina Meyer, Frank Egglehofer, and Electric Six have in common? They’re all responsible for words that have gotten wedged in our brains over the years. We brought in Will Green, a real live comedian and fine Michigander, to talk about the catchy, wordy brainworms that never seem to die. Ways to suppo...
Meatball Salad: Watch It Again (For Your Health) with Katie McCurley
January 03, 2024 15:11 - 1 hour - 139 MB*This episode originally published in March of 2023* This is Meatball Salad, the meaty pop culture podcast that keeps it light. On this episode, we chat with a very good pal, Katie McCurley, about our shared love of rewatching TV episodes. Again and again and again. Is that because it’s fun? Or is it to numb the anxieties of daily life? Maybe a little of both. Join us as we take turns sharing our favorite TV episodes that we watch for our health as much as our enjoyment. Check out this a...
Meatball Salad: 1995 Music Draft with C2R Research Czar Tony
January 03, 2024 15:05 - 1 hour - 196 MBWelcome back to Meatball Salad, the meaty pop culture podcast that keeps it light. We invited C2R Research Czar Tony to join us for a little friendly competition while drafting our favorite albums, songs, and music videos from 1995. It’s a pretty great trip down memory lane if you’re of a certain age. You might even learn something! Apologies in advance if you’re a fan of Phish or the swing revival of the 1990s (Jeff has some choice words regarding both). Ways to support Meatball Salad/C...
A Special Announcement from C2R Enterprises
January 03, 2024 14:58 - 2 minutes - 4.59 MBPrince Jeffrey, President & Co-Founder of C2R Enterprises, has a very special announcement about what you can expect to see in your podcast feed in the immediate future.
Ep 65 - Seasonal Favorites Christmas Movie Draft
December 23, 2023 19:56 - 54 minutes - 126 MBCan you Christmas believe your Christmas eyes? We're just in time with a Christmas surprise. Join Jeff, Angie, and special guest C2R Research Czar Tony as they draft their favorite Christmas movies (and characters). Yule love it.
Ep 64 - Planes, Trains & Automobiles
November 23, 2023 19:10 - 56 minutes - 128 MBCan you believe it's already time for C2R Seasonal Favorites?? Gobble gobble! I think you get it. Thanksgiving = Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Join Angie and Jeff as they wander around with Steve Martin and John Candy, traversing the Midwest in an attempt to get home for the holidays. We've got personal travel horror stories, anecdotes about how Jeff is bad at yelling, and the finest analysis of this John Hughes 1987 classic you've ever heard. Happy Thanksgiving, dear listeners. May all ...
Ep 63 - Gory Goopy Gloppy Grand Spookums Slam
October 30, 2023 00:02 - 39 minutes - 89.5 MBYes hi hello we’re back randomly just in time for Halloween. As the title suggests, this episode is kind of like your favorite combo meal at a certain crappy American diner chain: a little bit of everything (everything spooky that is). In the same way you pick your favorite candy out of the pillow case first after trick-or-treating, Jeff and Angie have their favorite Halloween-themed viewing rituals they seek among the streaming services each year. From sitcom stalwarts to cannibalistic cine...
30th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE: Cool Runnings
September 29, 2023 13:58 - 1 hour - 145 MBCan you believe it's been a whole three decades of butt-whippin' time? We wanted to commemorate the occasion by re-releasing one of our favorite episodes with a hopefully fun surprise at the end (which Jeff calls an "Easter Egg," but if you announce that out loud, it's not really an "Easter Egg" anymore, is it?). Please take this time to sit and contemplate what it actually means to feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme—and listen to this episode while you do it. Like Jeff with Wayne’s World, Coo...
Ep 62 - Rookie of the Year
June 28, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBHey listener! You got somethin’ hangin’ outta your nose! We’re overjoyed to share this episode in time for the 30th anniversary of Rookie of the Year, an iconic baseball-themed movie picked lovingly by Angie. Join us as we reminisce about one of the movie’s filming locations—and our home for more than a decade—Oak Park, Illinois. Also featured: Jeff shares a story of baseball heroism featuring his mom We learn all about the dubious origins of Salisbury steak We break down why Rookie o...
Bonus Ep 6 -The Inaugural C2R Cinematic Draft
May 30, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 224 MBYou may have heard us mention C2R Research Czar Tony in past episodes. Well, he’s a real person, and we had the pleasure of having him live in the studio for C2R’s very first Cinematic Draft. Join Jeff, Angie, and Tony as they nervously survey their draft boards and take their top picks in the categories of Drama, Comedy, Action/Crime/Horror, Blockbuster, Oscar, and Wildcard from 1999 to 2004. Prepare yourself for true psychodrama. This episode is a non-stop pulse-pounding thrill ride of on-...
Ep 61 - Stepping Out
May 10, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBIt’s time to shuffle off to Buffalo with Angie’s choice of movie: Stepping Out, starring the legendary Liza Minnelli. Queen Beas used to LOVE watching classic dance films growing up, and she would go on to do some dancing of her own as she emulated the likes of Liza, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly, all while wearing very spangly, sparkly outfits. But does Stepping Out match up to, say, Cabaret or An American in Paris? Will Jeff even like it since he’s like a guy and everything? T...
Ep 60 - Glengarry Glen Ross
April 04, 2023 12:53 - 43 minutes - 100 MB“Yeah, I used to be a podcaster. It’s a tough racket.” *lifts glass* If Jeff had a dollar for every time he put this movie on only for Angie to fall asleep before the ten minute mark, he’d have close to 82 grand, which just happens to be equal to Shelley “The Machine” Levene’s bogus deal with Harriet and Blah Blah Nyborg. Well, that’s not the case today on episode 60 of CRUEL2REWIND in which we discuss Glengarry Glen Ross. Prince Jeffrey gets his wish and has her full attention for the full ...
Ep 59 - Mermaids
March 27, 2023 14:01 - 40 minutes - 93 MBAngie introduces Jeff to Rachel Flax, the carefree mother of two daughters, Charlotte and Kate, who just can’t seem to stay in one place for too long. We examine all the “advice” Mrs. Flax has to offer, gush over a young and upcoming Winona Ryder, and decide where we stand on Cher’s performance. So, hit the mermaid play button and have a mermaid good time listening to this mermaid episode. Ways to support us: Call the C2R Helpdesk and tell us fun things at 929-456-0304 or send us an email...
Ep 58 - RoboCop (1987)
March 13, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes - 80.3 MBHe is a robot. He is a cop. He is a RoboCop. You'll gladly buy this podcast for a dollar because that's about how much we deserve for the sheer lack of research on this episode and our general unfamiliarity with the character. Oops! But don't listen to me. It's still a fun ride-along through Old Detroit. It's as enjoyable as watching ED-209 try to walk a flight of stairs, I swear. And it's a fitting movie since Prince Jeffrey and Queen Beas just moved back to Michigan, their home state, know...
Ep 57 - The Thing (1982)
October 28, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBWelcome to our cozy crypt…do we have a movie for you! Our second pick for Cruel 2 Rewind: Spookums Edition 2022 is one of the first examples of big budget horror movie gore that Prince Jeffrey ever laid eyes on as a kid: John Carpenter’s The Thing. Join us as we dissect the gory goopy gloppy grossness, the sweet-yet-gnarly signature synths, and what even the ending is (or isn’t). I mean, seriously, what was in the whisky bottle? Can you see the breath or can't you??? Happy Halloween, doofus...
Ep 56 - The Stuff
October 14, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes - 134 MBHalloween’s comin’, the spookiest time of year, so we’re kicking off C2R Spookums Edition 2022 with THE STUFF, a 1985 “cult classic.” The Stuff is a “delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth” that’s marketed as the “newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth.” How could you go wrong with gross-out effects and zombie-like shenanigans? Well, The Stuff [SPOILER ALERT] figured out how to completely shit the bed with arguably a perfect Halloween movie premise s...
Ep 55 - The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
May 31, 2022 17:10 - 1 hour - 144 MBWe’re kicking summer off right with one of Angie’s favorite summertime flicks from 1995: The Baby-Sitters Club, based on the popular book series by Ann M. Martin. Angie was a big fan of the series, but not so much babysitting in real life. She gave up her stint in the profession by age 16. So, we thought it would be fun to put Jeff, an inexperienced sitter, to the test (again). Angie presents him with a series of situational questions to see how good of a babysitter he’d make. Plus, we discu...
Ep 54 - She's All That
April 26, 2022 13:14 - 54 minutes - 126 MBGet in losers, it’s Angie's turn this week. We’re here for another one of her favorite 90’s teen rom-coms: She’s All That. Hot shot, Zack Siler, makes a bet with his friends to turn nerdy outcast, Laney Boggs, into prom queen. He has just six weeks to get Laney to take her glasses off so everyone realizes how pretty she is!!! OMG. Do you think it will work? Jeff is put to the test this week, literally. Angie surprises him with an oral POP QUIZ to find out if he was really paying attention. Be...
Ep 53 - Batman Begins
April 04, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 94 MBC2R was overdue for another Batcast (especially with all the hype surrounding Matt Reeves' The Batman) so Prince Jeffrey and Queen Beas decided to revisit the last time the Dark Knight rebooted in 2005. Of course we're talking about Christian Bale’s first appearance in the cape and cowl: Batman Begins. That guy always seems to be beginning, and we can't get enough. Jeff and Angie's adventures in Christopher Nolan's vision of Gotham get derailed when Jeff receives a very important voicemail ...
Ep 52 - Cool Runnings
March 11, 2022 14:09 - 1 hour - 148 MBWE’RE ON THE AIR, SLED GODS. Angie was feeling “very Olympic” last month and picked an all-time favorite, Cool Runnings, in the spirit of the 2022 Beijing games (if you even noticed the Olympics happened last month). Like Jeff with Wayne’s World, Cool Runnings was one of the first movies Angie memorized all the way through. She practiced her Sanka impression religiously, and thankfully there is no tape recording or home video proof (it was 1993, ok?). We discuss the likeability of this movie...
Ep 51 - Wayne's World
February 28, 2022 15:38 - 1 hour - 144 MBHello? Is this thing on? Hey, we’re back! We missed you. And we’re stoked this week to discuss an iconic comedy that turned 30 years young in February: Wayne’s World. Based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, Wayne’s World follows Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) as their cable access show gets picked up by a sleazy producer (the ageless Rob Lowe). Have you ever noticed how just about every podcast is trying to capture the magic that happened in Wayne’s fictional ba...
Ep 50 - The Exorcist III
October 30, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBWhat’s spookums season without a good ol' exorcism? We’re digging into Exorcist III this week for some extra spooks and scares from 1990. The film stars everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, George C. Scott, and Brad Dourif, who famously played Wormtongue in the Lord of the Rings films. Did you know there are some creepy true crime tie-ins to this movie? We get into those and taste test another new candy corn flavor town explosion. But before anything, we stop into a trendy Exorcist-themed pop-up ...
Ep 49 - The Lost Boys
October 19, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBWait until you sink your teeth into this second episode of C2R Spookums Edition, Michael. We’re revisiting the teen horror comedy, The Lost Boys, from 1987. The movie follows two brothers who move with their single mother to the fictional town of Santa Clara, California, and discover that the area is a haven for vampires and big, muscle-y saxophone men. We posthumously welcome Joel Schumacher to the C2R Hall of Fame, this being the third Schumacher film we’ve covered after Batman & Robin and...
Ep 48 - Batman & Robin
October 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBC2R Spookums Edition is here! You might even call it…Son of Spookums?? We have a full month of goofs and spooks planned for you. To kick us off, we’re continuing our Batman Odyssey (that is, watching Batman movies Angie hasn’t seen yet) with Batman & Robin, which hit theaters in 1997 and stars George Clooney and C2R Hall of Famer Arnold Schwarzenegger. Think of this movie as the “campy” piece to our spooky season movie puzzle. Jeff has waited patiently for years to share what he calls “The T...
Bonus Ep 5 - Chat with Lisa Downs (Life After the Navigator)
September 30, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBIn this very special episode, we chat with Lisa Downs, director and producer of Life After the Navigator. The documentary details the making of Flight of the Navigator and examines the life of child star, Joey Cramer, who experienced difficulties after starring in the film. It’s a true celebration of this childhood classic (which we had a blast watching for Ep 41). We talk to Lisa about making the documentary, her love of sci-fi classics, and the fact that Joey Cramer is just an all-around ...
Ep 47 - The Princess Diaries
August 31, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBOur C2R Cruel Summer Series must sadly come to an end this week with our look at an early-2000s Disney flick. Once upon a time 20 years ago, Teen Queen Beas watched The Princess Diaries, a movie that, over the course of two decades, would transform from a guilty pleasure watched behind closed doors into a shared favorite with her college gal pals. Mia, an awkward and shy 15-year old, takes a comical journey toward the throne of Genovia when she finds out she’s a real life princess. We break ...
Ep 46 - Con Air
August 17, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBYes hi hello to you, beloved listener. The third installment of our C2R Cruel Summer series is a Jeff pick: the summer action and adventure blockbuster from 1997, Con Air. After being wrongfully imprisoned for defending his wife in a bar fight, Cameron Poe (played by Nic Cage) does 50 million prison push-ups and then boards a flight to finally go home to his family. But it just so happens he's joined by ten of the most dangerous men in the American penal system. Led by Cyrus the Virus (playe...
Ep 45 - Wet Hot American Summer
August 03, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBGooooood day, listeners. Well, it’s another episode here for you from WC2R, The Breast. We’re watching a joint pick for the second installment of our C2R Cruel Summer series, the satirical comedy from 2001, Wet Hot American Summer. We cannonball into what this movie meant to us separately back in our younger days and what it means to us now as a couple that watches it every 4th of July (SPOILER ALERT: this movie is COOL to rewind). And of course, we can’t talk about a camp movie without shar...
Ep 44 - My Girl
July 14, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBSchool’s out, camp’s open, the pool’s full, and the bees are buzzing. Our C2R Cruel Summer series kicks off with Angie’s pick, the 1991 coming-of-age comedy-drama, My Girl. Although this is one of the saddest and most morbid movies we've done, Angie is nonetheless excited to turn the tables on Prince Jeffrey by showing him an infamous pop culture reference for the first time (hint: it's got bees in it). And it wouldn't be C2R without tangents and rambling, so we share what we’ve been watchi...
Ep 43 - Willow
June 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBIt’s time for another glorious listener pick! We take a journey to a land filled with myth, magic, and people named “Burglekutt,” where a young man is chosen to carry out a dangerous adventure to save an overly expressive baby from an evil queen and has to do it all with Val Kilmer! You guessed it: we’re watching Willow from 1988, the dark fantasy from Ron Howard and George Lucas. It’s been a minute since we recorded an episode, so we do a rapid(ish) fire of what we’ve been doing, watching, ...
Bonus Ep 4 - The Princess Bride: Revisited
June 11, 2021 15:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBPrince Jeffrey is headed back to the Fire Swamp, but this time he’s joined by two surprise guests (Queen Beas is sitting this one out in order to preserve their mawwiage). You know and love their voices from their many wacky voicemails…now join us in welcoming Spicy Pete and C2R Super Fan Will to the program! Jeff selfishly wanted to talk to people who actually like The Princess Bride (and baby always gets his bottle), so who better than the co-hosts from his previous podcast, Dudes Night In...
Ep 42 - Sister Act
May 28, 2021 11:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBPraise Jesus Lord God in Heaven—we’re getting spiritual on this week’s episode. And when we say “spiritual,” we mean we’re following Deloris, a Reno lounge singer turned nun, as she takes cover in a convent to hide from the mob. Yep, you guessed it: we’re talking about the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg hit Sister Act, a favorite fish-out-of-water comedy that Angie grew up watching. Before we get into the “hot takes” Queen Beas has on the film, we share a case of action movie whiplash we recently expe...
Ep 41 - Flight of the Navigator
May 14, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBWe’re excited to leave high school in the past where it belongs and get back to our regularly scheduled C2R programming. Jeff is up this month with an 80s classic known for being one of the first examples of CGI on film, Flight of the Navigator. We also chat about Rolling Stone’s recent list of the 100 greatest sitcoms of all time, and we suffer through an unwanted country music lesson from a disgruntled C2R Super Fan Will. If you’re a fan of this movie, we highly recommend checking out Lif...
Bonus Ep 3 – C2R Class of ’21 Superlatives
April 26, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBWe close the book on our anniversary month by celebrating (and cringing at) all things high school with the C2R Class of ‘21 Superlatives. In other words: It’s a best-of-style clip show! Join us as we take a look back and talk about some of our favorite episodes, moments, clips and drops from the past year. Thank you so much for hanging out with us, dear listener. We look forward to another year of watchin’ movies and makin’ goofs. Ways to support us: Buy merch from the C2R shop Tell us f...
Ep 40 - Napoleon Dynamite
April 19, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBA year ago today, we released our first two episodes of C2R, so what better way to celebrate our one-year anniversary than with a COOL-to-rewind movie from both of us: Napoleon Dynamite. High school is a special, horrific time and we can’t get enough of the movies that take us back there. How did this uniquely oddball movie manage to strike a chord with people of all ages and tastes without being a “broad comedy” that depended on Vince Vaughn or Ben Stiller to make everyone laugh? In our opi...
Ep 39 - Can't Hardly Wait
April 02, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBFor our one-year anniversary month, the theme is everyone’s favorite peak time of life: HIGH SCHOOL. Thanks to our dear listeners for picking the first movie in this series, Can’t Hardly Wait. Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Ethan Embry star in this “school’s out, let’s rage” flick. It’s a who’s who of late 90s teen movie stars and has a rockin’ soundtrack that’s chock-full o’ Smash Mouth!!! We have a lot to unpack in this one—get ready to hear Prince Jeffrey get surly and triggered as he wrestles ...
Ep 38 - Save the Last Dance
March 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBHere we go with our second dance movie (and it certainly won’t be the last). Angie shares another favorite from high school, Save the Last Dance, which just hit its 20-year anniversary. Jeff puts his best dance pants on to get into this early 2000s teen classic and answers an important question: Does Julia Stiles belong in the C2R Hall of Fame? Buckle up as we take a wild, nostalgia-fueled ride around the soundtrack and gush over late 90s/early 2000s R&B and hip hop. Also, somehow, we make t...
Ep 37 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
March 05, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBWe’re diving into the sewers this week to chat about one of Jeff’s favorite childhood movies (and arcade games), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1990. Before we get into the good stuff, we have a lot to catch up on with our new bi-weekly schedule: We sound the Tim Taylor Alarm for some hot-off-the-press Tim and Al news, Jeff ponders where his “edge” has gone, and Angie unveils her dream TV show set prop while chatting about our favorite pop culture artifacts (because what is more fun than ...
Ep 36 - The Princess Bride
February 20, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBWe’re rounding out our two-part Cruel to Be Mine: Smoochums Edition with the infamous adventure-romance-kissing-book movie, The Princess Bride. This is one of the movies that fueled the idea for this show: Jeff grew up watching it while Angie had never seen or even heard of it. Find out what Angie thinks of one of the most important movies of Jeff’s childhood and who she would recast in a 2021 remake. It gets a little tense; I really mean it.......anybody wanna PEANUT? Also, don’t miss Jeff ...
Ep 35 - The Notebook
February 13, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBWe’re kicking off our two-part Cruel to Be Mine: Smoochums Edition series with one of the quintessential romance movies of our generation, The Notebook. Smoochums Edition is all about celebrating the kind of gushy, smoochy movies you typically save for the cheesiest of Valentine’s Day celebrations, and this 2004 smoochfest fits the bill perfectly. Angie hit the jackpot when she found out Jeff has never seen the origin of “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.” Find out what he thinks of Allie and No...
Ep 34 - Troop Beverly Hills
January 29, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBHey listeners, it’s cookie time this week for Angie’s pick, Troop Beverly Hills. This 1989 flick starring Shelley Long was a staple growing up, when Angie dreamed of a magical place called Beverly Hills. Come to find out, it’s a whimsical who’s who of 80s TV and film celebrities. And in other news, Angie finally finds out why her mom didn’t put her in the “Wilderness Girls” (a.k.a Girl Scouts). Also, we have a couple of voicemails to get to and get this: They're not both from C2R Super Fan W...
Ep 33 - The Rock
January 23, 2021 18:08 - 1 hour - 44.4 MB“Can you smell what The Rock is cook—” wait sorry what we mean to say is, “Welcome to The Rock!” We venture back to 1996 when mommy’s special little Prince Jeffrey saw his first R-rated movie in the theater, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage: The Rock. Angie is thrilled to finally see the source of countless Saturday Night Live celebrity impersonation sketches. We discuss the unintentionally timely parallels between The Rock and the recent storming of the Capitol Building and how this m...
Ep 32 - 9 to 5
January 15, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBHappy New Year, C2R listeners! We stumble into 2021 with Angie’s pick, 9 to 5, which just hit its 40th anniversary. Angie introduces Jeff to Violet, Judy and Doralee, the badass working women who take matters into their own hands when they’re sick and tired of their sexist, egotistical, son-of-a-bitch boss. Find out how this office satire about women in the workplace holds up forty years later and *GASP* what a man thinks about it!!! ("Who even cares...") BIG NEWS: Merch! Merch for sale! We...
Bonus Ep 2 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
December 30, 2020 23:47 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBOur nephew, the coolest five-year-old on the block, had a very special C2R request for a movie featuring his all-time favorite superhero! Join us as we dive into Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for our second-ever bonus episode. We cover it all: the importance of doodling on your schoolwork and making sound effects, Miles’ custom Spidey costume, and meeting the Spider-People from all the other universes. Although this episode is structured a little differently and made specifically for a k...
Ep 31 - Mickey's Christmas Carol
December 23, 2020 22:50 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBWelcome to the final installment of our very first C2R Seasonal Favorites series, something we hope will be an annual tradition. Join us as we take a look at a short Disney film that young Prince Jeffrey was pretty much raised on, Mickey's Christmas Carol. But before we get to the movie, we get a Christmas miracle in the form of a voicemail apology from C2R Super Fan Will and we take a somewhat deep (and confused) dive into the KFC/Lifetime collaborative mini-movie-ad-monstrosity known as Re...
Ep 30 - All I Want for Christmas
December 19, 2020 15:55 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBThe holiday season is in full swing this week at the C2R Network. For the second installment of our C2R Seasonal Favorites series, we’re discussing an obscure 90s gem from Angie’s childhood, All I Want for Christmas. We kick things off with more toy talk, fun Christmas drops and a surprise look at a new Lifetime movie that defies description. The holiday good-time train gets momentarily derailed at the start thanks to a Brutal Takedown from Super Fan Will and a creepy call from Arnold, but w...
Ep 29 - Jingle All the Way
December 09, 2020 17:44 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBThe holiday season is upon us so that means it’s time for Christmas movies! We’re kicking off C2R Seasonal Favorites edition with Jingle All the Way. This 1996 flick features a triple threat of C2R hall-of-famers: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, and Phil Hartman. Jingle All the Way is loosely based on the Cabbage Patch doll frenzy of the 80s, so in the spirit of the non-meaning of Christmas—consumerism—we go on a tangent about some of the biggest toy crazes we can remember from our childhoods...
Ep 28 - The Fifth Element
December 02, 2020 15:43 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBIt’s time for another listener pick! Today we’re doing the Luc Besson sci-fi-action-comedy from 1997, The Fifth Element, which has been requested multiple times. In this densely packed, overstimulating 127 minutes, we’re shot into the 23rd century where Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich have the fate of the world in their hands. Nobody talks to himself on film like Bruce, and just like in Diehard, his character helps us feel grounded in this strange, scary world where a Supreme Being is the on...
Ep 27 - The NeverEnding Story
November 25, 2020 03:10 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBIt's Jeff's turn this week, and he picked a bonafide 80s classic: The NeverEnding Story, a tale about Fantasia, a land threatened by "The Nothing," a darkness that destroys everything it touches (which can only be defeated with the help of a human child). If Jeff knows anything, it’s that Angie is super into fantasy-type deals that involve rockmen, trolls and racing snails. Maybe this is revenge for making him sit through Miss Congeniality (editor's note: it is). We go on a pizza tangent, li...
Ep 26 - Miss Congeniality
November 17, 2020 23:58 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBHey listeners! How are we doing? It’s been an intense couple of weeks, and we’re excited to be back with our regular scheduled sillies this month. We’ve got voicemails to catch up on (yes, Super Fan Will is one of them) and fun updates on what we’ve got cooking for C2R. Angie is up with her pick: Miss Congeniality. This light-action-rom-com was a favorite of hers as a teen. Find out what Jeff has to say about yet another fish-out-of-water comedy from his dear wife and how it holds up 20 year...