Sober Cinema
268 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsA movie podcast that's late... but still too early.
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1992 at the Movies: THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
February 05, 2022 12:34 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBThirty years of white women having no reason or accountability. That may be a bit harsh but one host truly thinks that Julianne Moore deserved better. Not her character in Curtis Hanson's THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE... just Ms. Moore in general. She's great. As well as AS GOOD AS IT GETS. The movie we are discussing is not. But it does give another host the opportunity to air out his grievances as the president of his homeowner's association while also lamenting his useless knowledge of...
1992 at the Movies Begins with KUFFS
January 24, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBThirty years of confusion about how one becomes an officer of the law in the Bay Area. And this film starring early 90s It Girl Milla Jovovich does nothing to illuminate us on civilianauxiliary police (but thank you Wikipedia for the hyperlink!) so we resort to our kickoff of 1992 in film by attacking each other. Being noble historians of cinema is stressful work but we hope you enjoy another season of SOBER CINEMA! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Ins...
1996 at the Movies Ends with MICHAEL
January 15, 2022 01:30 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBTwenty-five years of Andie MacDowell singing about pie. As disgusted as we are with the auteur behind YOU'VE GOT MAIL in this Christmas release from 1996 we still take the time to discuss the important things. Like Joey Lauren Adams' voice. Or Bob Hoskins as Wolverine. And of course... a look back at our weekly selections at the movies of 1996. Spoiler alert: it ends up being a battle between the obvious choices of HEAVEN'S PRISONERS and CHAIN REACTION. Onto the year of cinema in 1992 in ...
1996 at the Movies: SCREAM
January 14, 2022 13:30 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBTwenty-five years of questioning the viability of Rose McGowan escaping through the garage door. For science. You will never hear a forty-something year old man talk more about Skeet Ulrich than on this podcast. Terrifying. Happy Scream Day! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfi...
1996 at the Movies: JERRY MAGUIRE
January 14, 2022 01:30 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MBTwenty-five years of Jay Mohr ever so briefly having power over Tom Cruise. When one thinks of the Cameron Crowe classic JERRY MAGUIRE... the infamous VALLEY OF THE DOLLS does not come to mind. Except on SOBER CINEMA. Yes, yes, we pay all proper respects to what is likely our most enjoyable watch of 1996... but it stills comes down to boobs. As it always would. Enjoy. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts...
1996 at the Movies: EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU
January 13, 2022 17:30 - 39 minutes - 18 MBTwenty-five years of listening to actors who can't sing do just that. But that's not really the problem here. It's two Kentucky hillbillies and the International Man of Mystery from Peru trying to understand the plight of the wealthy whites as often seen in Mr. Allen's filmography. Also the underage women (hello Ms. Natalie Portman) that are usually involved in the Woodmeister's films. Dangerous territory. But we are brave enough to tackle such things and also yet again mention the greatne...
1996 at the Movies: THE CRUCIBLE
January 13, 2022 09:30 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBTwenty-five years of Daniel Day-Lewis yelling. Joan Allen puts up with a lot in this flick. The lack of adequate dental care. A husband with a wandering eye. A young up and comer smearing her face with chicken blood and placing curses on you. And then... not even welcome at church. It's a party in THE CRUCIBLE. Enjoy. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENI...
1996 at the Movies: SLING BLADE
January 13, 2022 01:30 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MBTwenty-five years of waking up to the roommate from the garage holding a hammer over your bed. In what is our most important episode of 1996 we discuss the many merits of Billy Bob Thornton's SLING BLADE: Was John Ritter's version of the hight and tight a bold move in mid 90s Arkansas? Dwight Yoakam's drunk boyfriend is a man of many moods when imbibing. He contains multitudes. How many weeks old are the underwear that Robert Duvall wears in his silent confrontation from his command post...
1996 at the Movies: THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES
January 12, 2022 17:30 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBTwenty-five years of Barbara Streisand not being Michelle Pfeiffer. And that's just fine with two thirds of the hosts on this podcast. Rita Kempley of The Washington Post... well she had some harsh words for The Barbara. No matter. We can't all be Catwoman and in this film that's not what Mr. Bridges wants in a romantic partner. This opens the door for your hosts to try and figure out what exactly they want in a partner. If that partner happened to be Ms. Streisand. We come to no conclusi...
1996 at the Movies: RANSOM
January 11, 2022 17:15 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MBTwenty-five years of Lieutenant Dan hating Nick Nolte's kid. Delroy Lindo returns to the podcast from his rousing performance in FEELING MINNESOTA to once again be the voice of reason. Unfortunately he is trying to coach Mel Gibson... who has his own hangups. BUT as a movie podcast that hates children and mostly tolerates the films we select, a story about a father seeing a chance to not lose millions of dollars while ALSO losing his child? Intriguing. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spoti...
1996 at the Movies: ROMEO + JULIET
January 11, 2022 05:15 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBTwenty-five years of passing on Claire Danes. Because that is legal and right. However when she got to HOMELAND her crazy face was just the medicine three old men needed BUT let's get to less dangerous ground. Like the curiosity that was Dash Mihok's career. That was weird. A cat fight between John Leguizamo and Harold Perrineau? Not weird at all. Also Leo is in this too. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow...
1996 at the Movies: THINNER
January 10, 2022 17:14 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBTwenty-five years of Stephen King asking us to sympathize with an ungrateful husband. Here at SOBER CINEMA we are nothing if not sex positive. And sometimes we also talk about movies. This time it's the 1996 classic on oral pleasure amongst married individuals in Stephen King's THINNER. Enjoy it with a large meal. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: ...
1996 at the Movies: SLEEPERS
January 04, 2022 23:30 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBTwenty-five years since Kevin Bacon ordered the wrong dinner. And made some other mistakes along the way. Thankfully a cast of movie stars such as Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Billy Crudup and... Ron Eldard (?) fix the glitch of Barry Levinson's SLEEPERS. Then everything is as it should be again. We only avoid the plot of this film in show notes because it would make for terrible SEO so instead let's mention our love for Minnie Driver here. Especially in GROSSE POINTE BLANK. The rest of it... ...
1996 at the Movies: THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS
January 03, 2022 23:27 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MBTwenty-five years of Val Kilmer playing Home Alone in Africa... ...and still being more ridiculous than Macaulay Culkin. But not in a fun Christmas classic sort of way. More of a not-so-classic white savior trope. And normally we like that sort of thing here at SOBER CINEMA. But not this time! For there is no hand to hand combat with these lions. Only endless monologues and failure. Tom Wilkinson gets a pass for being a huge ass but everyone else in this movie turns us back to more BOUND d...
1996 at the Movies: BOUND
December 31, 2021 20:30 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBTwenty-five years of back and to the left with this Wachowskis caper. Apologies to Joey Pants but only one host has the appropriate appreciation for Ms. Tilly and Ms. Gershon's efforts in this gift from heaven in the barren wasteland that is cinema of 1996. Or you could listen to the idiot that loved CHAIN REACTION. Unfortunately you have to (only so much can be improved in the edit) but we eventually talk about the importance of a disciplined crew and which of these two lovely ladies woul...
1996 at the Movies: 2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY
December 30, 2021 20:36 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MBTwenty-five years of still being creeped out by James Spader being that close to Charlize Theron. The one thing we can all be grateful for when it comes to this mid90s Tarantino ripoff is that it gave Ms. Theron her start. And the world was a better place. We spend about half the episode on this fact and eventually make our way to a more titillating look at sad sacks in the valley with Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece BOOGIE NIGHTS. As it should be, Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotif...
1996 at the Movies: THE FIRST WIVES CLUB
December 29, 2021 03:02 - 39 minutes - 18 MBTwenty-five years of Stockard Channing being an unfortunate inspiration. The hosts of SOBER CINEMA were initially concerned about being two middle-aged men picking on older women... until this box-office hit from 1996 did it for us. But just to cover our bases we brought on the world's biggest Diane Keaton fan in Derek Stewart of THE GRAND GESTURE podcast and unfortunately for him he meets a new superfan of Bette Midler. Also Goldie Hawn. She's done well for herself. She slept with Kurt Rus...
1996 at the Movies: FEELING MINNESOTA
December 06, 2021 17:22 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBTwenty-five years of Keanu being confused. And why wouldn't he be by the uncomfortable shifts in tone in this mid90s Tarantino ripoff? However we have bigger questions, SUCHAS: How dirty does a bathroom have to be before you wouldn't have sex with Cameron Diaz in it? Does it matter if said bathroom has been used more than once (though once is enough) by the bug from MEN IN BLACK? And back to the bathroom business... one host is ready to answer in the affirmative even if it's the stall fr...
1996 at the Movies: SWINGERS
December 02, 2021 16:45 - 14.5 MBYes, this is kind of like Vince Vaughn unpausing the Sega Genesis game of hockey... ...but if we didn't cover HAPPY GILMORE then we most certainly were not talking Adam Sandler's lesser known 1996 comedy BULLETPROOF. Unlike that wide release Jon Favreau and friends were making the festival circuit in fall of 96 and your hosts of SOBER CINEMA were nowhere near it. For one host it would be stumbling across this gem on cable. For another host it was the above host quoting this movie incessan...
1996 at the Movies: THE TRIGGER EFFECT
December 01, 2021 16:45 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MBWe prepare for the breakdown of society caused by confusing Dermot Mulroney with Dylan McDermott. As 2020 proved... nothing can be agreed upon ESPECIALLY with the talents of Ms. Shue standing in between with her futile attempts at mediation in David Koepp's THE TRIGGER EFFECT. Along the way we learn about the inherent madness of participating in one host's homeowner's association and perhaps less strangely the participation of auteur David Cronenberg in a Tom Arnold comedy called THE STUPI...
1996 at the Movies: THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
November 30, 2021 16:43 - 30 minutes - 14 MBThis is an episode about blowholes. And penile implants. Also it's sometimes about John Frankenheimer's bullpen assignment for the Val Kilmer starring THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. Two boys lost all faith in cinema that day while somewhere in Peru... a man wanted to become a bigger man. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jar...
1996 at the Movies: THE FAN
November 29, 2021 16:38 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBWesley Snipes vs. Robert De Niro in a movie that is not HEAT. It's also not SEVEN. Or even THE SANDLOT. It just stinks. And we'd rather be watching Tony Scott's THE HUNGER. But that also goes for every movie. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co...
1996 at the Movies: JACK
November 28, 2021 02:35 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBFrancis Ford Coppola apologized for the third GODFATHER with... JACK. And we never knew how good we had it with Sofia Coppola's acting until we saw a much beloved comedian facing impending death and impending baldness in a film now relegated to terrifying children on Disney Plus. But back in 1996 we were innocent. And then Bill Cosby walked onscreen as a mentor to a ten year old kid with the sexual desires of a forty year old. On that day we turned into men. Deviant men. Enjoy! Listen: A...
1996 at the Movies: CHAIN REACTION
November 24, 2021 14:39 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MBTwenty-five years of Michael Shannon being The Pride of Chicago. That may be a bit misleading but one of our hosts named Jairo is an idiot. He attempts an overcorrection by praising the followup to THE FUGITIVE from auteur Andrew Davis in the Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz on the run movie about some science stuff. Morgan Freeman uses that great voice to try to talk Keanu down from the public fat shaming that never came for his girth in this film while Ms. Weisz waits for SPEED to drag her a...
1996 at the Movies: A TIME TO KILL
November 16, 2021 19:15 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBTwenty-five years of choosing Ashley Judd over Sandra Bullock... ...along with some other tragedies in Joel Schumacher's adaptation of John Grisham's A TIME TO KILL. The finest film podcast from the South have a few notes to give the filmmakers: We accept all cast members sweating profusely EXCEPT for Brenda Fricker. More Oliver Platt. Less Kevin Spacey. More Olvier Platt sweating. PROFUSELY. All of this and more as one Florida Man schools two Kentuckians on just why this film represen...
1996 at the Movies: TRAINSPOTTING
November 15, 2021 19:08 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBTwenty-five years of borrowing videotapes from your mates that have the same results as THE RING. As three upstanding citizens we don't have much experience with the drug culture as presented in this Danny Boyle film... but we do know a thing or two about taking movies from your buddy's highly cultivated collection. With that in mind we feel free to condemn one of the most well regarded cinematic experiences of 1996 as well as one host being rather insistent of his fandom for one cast memb...
1996 at the Movies: COURAGE UNDER FIRE
November 09, 2021 15:30 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBTwenty-five years of Denzel Washington not taking sass from Lou Diamond Phillips. Also Matt Damon got skinny. Uncomfortably skinny. We try to be respectful of our military on the silver screen but then Bronson Pinchot shows up and we just give up. And in the end it's Sean Astin's fault. As it always would be. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sne...
1996 at the Movies: PHENOMENON
November 08, 2021 15:35 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBTwenty-five years of John Travolta being the smartest guy in the room. And yet... everyone still hates him. This includes one of our hosts who maintains his unnatural rage anytime he sees this great actor on screen. Unfortunately that includes this Capraesque film from 1996 that is about a small town man who just wants to solve simple problems. Usually involving animal excrement to fix cars. Also he holds hands with Kyra Sedgwick. It's a joyous episode of SOBER CINEMA! Support what we do w...
1996 at the Movies: STRIPTEASE
October 25, 2021 19:28 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBTwenty-five years of Annie Lennox killing STRIPTEASE for us all. This is it. The entire reason we are covering the year of 1996 in film. And all we have to show for it is: One of our co-hosts (his name is Jairo) ruining the official SOBER CINEMA group text thread with an image of himself in a bathtub. One of our co-hosts (Jairo again) insisting on doing his Burt Reynolds impression talking about "feeling it in his boots" as a once great man is now covered in Vaseline. And also one co-hos...
1996 at the Movies: ERASER
October 20, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 19.7 MBTwenty-five years of James Caan's moving parts. We didn't remember much about Arnold Schwarzenegger's last hurrah as an action star but ERASER somehow managed to provide us room to provide the definitive guesswork on the motivations of James Cromwell in this film: Upset with James Caan's nipples. Upset with Vanessa Williams' ability to burn a CD. Upset with Arnold Schwarzenegger's antics with a CGI alligator. As we said. DEFINITIVE. Support what we do with bonus content and early episo...
1996 at the Movies: THE CABLE GUY
October 19, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBTwenty-five years of obscene word games with Matthew Broderick's family. The above is not the only sin Jim Carrey committed as THE CABLE GUY, one of the "bombs" of 1996 that accomplished the goal of revealing all of the buzzkills in our society. Such as: Those that don't appreciate a deluxe home entertainment as a friendly gift. Or an arranged date with a lady of the night. Or warm eggs lovingly prepared by a new best friend. In honor of no buzzkills ruining Ben Stiller's comedy masterp...
1996 at the Movies: THE PHANTOM
October 18, 2021 16:02 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBTwenty-five years of white saviors in purple spandex. Okay, so maybe it was more like one terrible opening weekend for that particular superhero trope and for that we lay the blame all around for the auteur Simon Wincer's summer blockbuster that wasn't: Treat Williams being bad... but not bad enough as the villain. Catherine Zeta-Jones being sidelined to a volume shooter off the bench. And Kristy Swanson's strange fascination with Jon Lovitz which we didn't know at the time... but we cou...
1996 at the Movies: DRAGONHEART
October 15, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MBTwenty-five years of evil gingers and dragons moved to tears over a pet names. The only good thing about this podcast experience was that the host who was most excited to do his Sean Connery as a dragon impression was absent. That's it. Enjoy our episode on DRAGONHEART! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jai...
1996 at the Movies: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
October 14, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutes - 11 MBTwenty-five years of still not being able to pronounce the French female lead's name. And we wish we could forget that idiot Jon Voight's name who has managed to out crazy Tom Cruise. Also he's far less handsome. And far less charismatic. What a jerk. Meanwhile we find ourselves being jerks to Leslie Neilson of all people. Our apologies but enjoy our episode on one of the biggest hits of 1996 in Brian De Palma's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes...
1996 at the Movies: HEAVEN'S PRISONERS
October 13, 2021 14:00 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBTwenty-five years of staying away from fighting Eric Roberts. Especially when he has cornrows. A lot of interesting visuals in Phil Joanou's HEAVEN'S PRISONERS. Including the entirety of our research material which includes perusing Teri Hatcher on Mr. Skin. But then like the Grinch... our cynical movie watching (and deeply perverted) hearts grew three times larger than our nether regions as we came under the sway of Alec Baldwin's bayou detective. That and we insult our missing host Jair...
1996 at the Movies: TWISTER
October 12, 2021 14:00 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBTwenty-five years of living in The Suck Zone. Apparently your three hosts can't agree on the greatness of Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt's tank top, or Bill Paxton... but Philip Seymour Hoffman does move us in interesting ways. Jan de Bont's TWISTER is a look at a profession/hobby that is "one step above LARPing" according to one super-Jamie Gertz fan. We continue to misunderstand the movies of 1996 but we do understand wet t-shirts. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Pat...
1996 at the Movies: THE PALLBEARER
October 11, 2021 14:14 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBTwenty-five years of supporting Goop and hating Ross. On this episode your three hosts ignore what Entertainment Weekly once put on the cover of their Spring Movie Preview THE PALLBEARER to instead learn how to change their Zoom backgrounds. Also we discuss breadsticks. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS...
1996 at the Movies: THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS
September 08, 2021 02:33 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBTwenty-five years of Janeane Garofalo needing a box to stand next to Uma Thurman. As three enlightened men here are our takeaways from THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS: Jairo would have preferred Ms. Garofalo's character have a pig nose like Christina Ricci in PENELOPE. Jared will bump up a movie's star rating on Letterboxd if at any time it features a dog in roller skates. And Mike is (of course) okay with Uma Thurman bringing a turtle to bed. We hope those are enough insights into a movie ...
1996 at the Movies: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
September 06, 2021 06:09 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBTwenty-five years of robot puppets beating podcasters to the punch. But the one podcaster who has taken the biggest L is our co-host Jairo. A list of things that Jairo does not understand: The humor of one Tom Servo. The joy of one Crow T. Robot. The value of Justise Winslow as an NBA prospect. All of this and more as the other two more refined hosts take in one of the best films of 1996 in MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE! Support what we do with bonus content and early episode...
1996 at the Movies: FEAR
August 23, 2021 02:01 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBTwenty-five years of the Funky Bunch not being suitable son-in-law material. If you ever wondered about possible wrist injuries on a roller coaster... Or perhaps the appropriate eye level that a man who would one day be in CSI needs to maintain with his daughter's school friends... Or even the obscure rental activity of schoolmates in an obscure (but allegedly wildly promiscuous) small Kentucky town... well we have the podcast for you on James Foley's FEAR! Actually we never mention dire...
1996 at the Movies: PRIMAL FEAR
August 19, 2021 22:00 - 26 minutes - 12 MBRears of Alfre Woodard just wanting a drink after witnessing endless Edward Norton twitches. Richard Gere has a massive ego. That's no different in PRIMAL FEAR. Maybe he's wrong in this one. But he is Richard Gere. And he still looks like Richard Gere. So he's probably not. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: J...
1996 at the Movies: A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE
August 17, 2021 22:00 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBTwenty-five years of Martin Lawrence stroking his ego by writing, directing and starring in a comedic FATAL ATTRACTION. As hard as the above sentence is to believe... one of your hosts actually enjoyed these shenanigans from Mr. Lawrence. In particular the part where either himself or his property is assaulted for his scoundrel ways. But we think that was the point. On the other hand this same host finds GONE GIRL to be an aspirational look at marriage. Enjoy! Support what we do with bon...
1996 at the Movies: FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
August 15, 2021 22:06 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBTwenty-five years of sex comedies where the best the ladies can do is Josh Brolin licking their armpit. And so with that in mind, we show the same amount of respect to Ben Stiller and company in 1996's FLIRTING WITH DISASTER. A film where all manner of swapping is taking place... but Richard Jenkins finds no shelter from the storm. Except here on SOBER CINEMA. And it should go without saying that this does a great man such as Mr. Jenkins absolutely no good. Enjoy! Support what we do with ...
1996 at the Movies: EXECUTIVE DECISION
August 10, 2021 03:01 - 39 minutes - 18 MBTwenty-five years of celebrating Steven Seagal learning how to fly. In perhaps the biggest deep dive in SOBER CINEMA history we discuss John Leguizamo as one of our favorite trash talkers, Marla Maples as our favorite Trump wife and the importance of all hosts being vaccinated as we continue our journey through the movies of 1996. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on ...
Not-So-Sober Cinema: ARMY OF THE DEAD
August 05, 2021 00:42 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBTwo months later and America looks like it's hell-bent on shutting down Las Vegas again. So we change our late summer vacation plans and stay inside... just as Netflix likes (although we must admit other factors were in play) and see what Drax can do when his oddly-shaped head takes on zombies both of the slow and fast-moving variety. We also lay claim to our new American prince and princess in Harry and Meghan. Sorry-not-sorry to the United Kingdom and Canada. Actually we like Canada. W...
1996 at the Movies: FARGO
August 03, 2021 00:30 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBTwenty-five years of awkward criminals, awkward high school reunions and three men awkwardly discussing the merits of a pregnant Frances McDormand. FARGO comes to SOBER CINEMA's retrospective of 1996 at the movies as one of the Best Picture nominees... and that's not good enough for one host. Wishing he could go back to the salad days of BOTTLE ROCKET finds your least favorite podcasters wondering if there can be no satisfaction, much less happiness, when it comes to watching movies from a ...
Not-So-Sober Cinema: THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD
July 05, 2021 11:11 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBAlmost two months after Jon Bernthal was beaten up in up in another Taylor Sheridan joint. This episode starts (strangely) with a little HE-MAN talk, moves on to the merits of The Boy from ABOUT A BOY as a lazy hitman and then we break up Taylor Sheridan's no-hitter. Or rather his latest film THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD does that for him. It did nothing for us. But for you, dear listener... well, now you have this podcast. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Pat...
1996 at the Movies: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
June 06, 2021 21:42 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBTwenty-five years of one movie star eating the lens and the other movie star eating... something else. Ignoring the advice of Michael Douglas we encourage the bedroom shenanigans of Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford in UP CLOSE & PERSONAL. That's about all we are enthusiastic about though as we ponder the difficulty of an illiterate person choosing a career solely based on reading off a prompter, the office politics of borrowing another person's desk for lovemaking and choosing an altern...
Not-So-Sober Cinema: WRATH OF MAN
June 02, 2021 22:57 - 35 minutes - 16 MBA month after Jason Statham went undercover as a transporter (but not THE transporter) surrounded by desperate bros. Guy Ritchie has never been known for subtlety and our hosts find themselves charmed by the neediness of other men to have Mr. Statham's approval in the new to video-on-demand WRATH OF MAN. Speaking of neediness, your hosts finally made their way back to the theater to catch this one (the auteur of KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD deserves such respect) and by god they were go...
1996 at the Movies: MARY REILLY
June 02, 2021 00:35 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBTwenty-five years of America's sweetheart looking sad and rightfully so in MARY REILLY. Julia Roberts gets down in the mucky muck by playing a maid to John Malkovich and Hollywood's version of his monstrous alter ego... which is just John Malkovich with longer hair and no tact. On this episode we pine for the days when Ms. Roberts had a less icky screen role, say as a prostitute or even Hugh Grant's lover. All manner of sins which she has done in her service as a genuine movie star, but THI...