Tara and Andrew Versus The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide

65 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings

In what is (probably) the first movie podcast whose content is left largely up to Lady Luck, our hosts randomly select a movie from The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide, watch and research it, and then talk about what they thought and learned (if anything). Plus, it's short!

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Episodes

Halloween 2020 Ringstravaganza!

October 31, 2020 23:13 - 2 hours - 123 MB

So many rings!

Nightstream 2020 Recap

October 28, 2020 04:18 - 1 hour - 101 MB

We discuss the movies we saw through the Nightstream virtual film festival, as well as the overall experience

Episode #58 -- Faithless

September 16, 2020 02:14 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB

Written by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Liv Ullmann, Faithless is a fun romp from 2000 follows a family that, like in our previous episode, is utterly destroyed by an affair.

Episode #57 -- Le Bonheur

September 09, 2020 02:06 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MB

Wherein we watch Agnes Varda's 1965 idyllic depiction of a family that's about to take a real bad turn, and then sort of recover, in a weird and not entirely satisfactory way.

Episode #56 -- Matewan

September 01, 2020 13:18 - 55 minutes - 75.9 MB

Or: “Fun Movie Making Fact #127: If Your Movie Doesn’t Open With a Shot on a Train, Ideally a Space Train, You Done FUCKED UP.”

Episode #55 -- Enigma

August 26, 2020 02:30 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MB

We talk about boring-ass early 2000's spy code-breaking drama/thriller Enigma. Roger Ebert said "It's A Brilliant Film", which reminds me of the episode of Arrested Development where Tobias and Carl Weathers go to Burger King and Tobias announces "It's a wonderful restaurant!"

Episode #54 -- The Champions

August 19, 2020 01:59 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MB

Squarespace wants me to write a full description of the episode with detailed information, but to heck with that. In this episode we watch a 1983 football(soccer) fighting movie with snakes masquerading as belts, tango fights, and and ending that plays up the lighter side of unrequited amputation!

Episode #53 -- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

August 12, 2020 02:03 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MB

or: “Coming To Theaters In 2023: The Bathroom Edit of `Once Were Warriors’”

Special Super-Christmas-y Episode! We Watch Every Saw Movie For You, So That You Don't Have To! You're Welcome!

December 25, 2019 21:42 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB

We watch and talk about every single fucking Saw movie that's been released (so far).

Episode #52 -- Ken Park

September 30, 2019 03:20 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MB

j/k, it’s a pretty gross movie.

Episode #51 -- The Hunted

July 14, 2019 20:22 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MB

When you really think about it, more movies would benefit from cameos from Hulk Hogan. And I mean REALLY think about it.

Episode #50 -- The Loneliest Runner

May 09, 2019 01:33 - 51 minutes - 70.3 MB

In this episode, we: * appropriate the fanfare from the "Fire Ant" episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast * Talk about Michael Landon's mid-seventies made-for-TV movie about bed-wetting * Get very full of ourselves for managing to put out 50 episodes of this fuckin' thing. Insufferable, really. * Wax poetic about the greatness of the video oddities made by the folks behind Everything Is Terrible!

Episode #49 -- Contract Killer / Hitman

April 07, 2019 22:38 - 42 minutes - 59 MB

In this episode: Cat raising tips! Thorough (?) analysis of Hitman/Contract Killer! Insight into young Andrew’s plans to become a superhero! We talk about Running Man, our favorite Korean variety show!

Episode #48 -- Videograms of a Revolution

March 13, 2019 03:02 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MB

Wherein we watch a compelling, at times unsettling documentary filmed right as the 1989 revolution in Romania was taking place. Like, *literally* right as it was taking place. It is intense.

Hot Takes on the 2019 Academy Awards, of a sort!

February 27, 2019 04:18 - 8 minutes - 12.4 MB

it's definitely not a quick and cheap cop-out for recording a proper episode after losing all of the audio for the episode that we had intended to record. What would ever give you that impression?

Episode #47 -- Pumping Iron

February 06, 2019 00:42 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MB

In this episode we watch the documentary (*mostly*) that helped make Arnold Schwarzenegger a more recognizable face and/or body. As a result, we are now both super into getting pumped-- have you HEARD what he says it feels like? Sign. Us. Up!

Episode #46 -- All The King's Men

January 23, 2019 03:17 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MB

We talk about the 1949 adaptation of the Robert Penn William novel of the same name which TOTALLY isn't about Huey Long you guys, and how could you ever come to that conclusion in the first place? Also, and more excitingly, we talk about the 1970's tarantulasploitation classic (?) Kingdom of the Spiders. Who's in it, you ask? Oh, we don't know, have you ever heard of WILLIAM GODDAMNED SHATNER?

Episode #45 -- The Taste of Others

January 09, 2019 04:09 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MB

(or: “To Be Fair, If It Had Been A Movie About Cannibals, The Title Would Be A Little Too On The Nose”)

Episode #44 -- Goodbye, 20th Century!

December 25, 2018 22:44 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MB

(or: “Ho Ho HUH?!!?!”)

Episode #43 -- Once Upon A Time In China

December 12, 2018 03:00 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MB

(or: “A Rare Case Where A Thousand Pardons May Be Insufficient”)

Episode #42 -- The Playgirls and the Vampire

November 27, 2018 22:37 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MB

(or: “An Episode So Great, It Was Two Months In The Making! Wait, What Do You Mean That The Length Of Time It Takes To Create Something Has No Bearing On Its Quality?”)

A Very Timely Episode About Horror Movies That We Like

November 07, 2018 02:42 - 37 minutes - 68.9 MB

Wherein we take a break from watching movies selected at random and instead talk about some of our favorite horror movies.

Hiatus

October 17, 2018 00:37 - 7.01 MB

Episode #41 -- At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

October 10, 2018 01:14 - 41 minutes - 76.5 MB

(or: “Boy, Chris Hardwick’s Late-Night Game Show Sure Had A Weeeeeiiiird Origin”)

Episode #40 -- True Romance

September 25, 2018 21:32 - 40 minutes - 54.9 MB

(Or: “The Movie So Nice, We Had To Talk About It Twice, Mostly Because Andrew Forgot To Hit The Record Button The First Time Around”)

Episode #39 -- Some Like It Hot

September 12, 2018 01:52 - 40 minutes - 74.3 MB

(or: “Nuance Over Shitty, Lazy Comedy? Will Wonders Never Cease?”

Episode #38 -- Nico and Dani

August 29, 2018 02:01 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MB

(or: “Jerkin’ It: The Movie”)

Episode #37 -- Blue Collar

August 14, 2018 23:34 - 35 minutes - 65.8 MB

(or: "In Conclusion, Paul Schrader is a Land of Contrasts")

Episode #36 -- Funny Girl

August 01, 2018 02:58 - 38 minutes - 69.8 MB

(or: "Roger Ebert, Betrayer of Trusts")

Actual Episode #35 -- Elektra, My Love

July 18, 2018 01:17 - 39 minutes - 72.5 MB

(or: “Fuck You, Keep Listening!”)

Episode #35 -- Our 2018 Seattle International Film Festival Roundup!

July 04, 2018 05:10 - 55 minutes - 102 MB

(or: "`People Get Murdered All the Time' -- Andrew Wagster, 2018")

Episode #34 -- Joe Dirt

June 20, 2018 00:34 - 37 minutes - 69 MB

(or: "The Textbook Definition of Grading on a Curve")

Episode #33 -- Magnificent Obsession

June 05, 2018 21:07 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB

(or: "A Thorough Critique of Rock Hudson's Kissing Technique— Hey, That Rhymes!")

Episode #32 -- Space Monster Gamera

May 22, 2018 13:40 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MB

(or: "Spoiler Alert: The Story of How Gamera Died For Our Sins")

Episode #31 -- Permanent Midnight

May 09, 2018 02:46 - 35 minutes - 49 MB

(or: “So, in summation: who cares?”)

Episode #30 -- Demonlover

April 24, 2018 13:38 - 24 minutes - 46.9 MB

(or: "You Had Us At `3D CGI Anime Porn (not really, though)'")

Episode #29 -- Pink Flamingos

April 10, 2018 14:54 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MB

(or: "Just How Uncomfortable Can Two People Get While Talking About the Details of a Movie's Plot? The Answer May Surprise You!")

Episode #28 -- Destry Rides Again

March 27, 2018 14:37 - 34 minutes - 47 MB

(or: "What is the Sound of One Man Sadly High-Fiving the Air?")

Episode #27 -- The Circle

March 13, 2018 13:31 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MB

(or: "All Cakes Must Be Destroyed!")

Episode #26 -- The Thief of Bagdad

February 28, 2018 03:05 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MB

(or: "If the Octopus Doesn't Get Ya, The Spider Will")

Episode #25 -- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

February 13, 2018 14:59 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MB

(or: "Way to spoil a pivotal point in your movie-- you don't see them calling `Star Wars' `The Boy Who Blew Up the Death Star', do you? DO YOU?")

Episode #24 -- The Hellbenders

January 31, 2018 01:40 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB

In this episode we watch a movie where a family of former Confederate soldiers try to get a coffin full of stolen money back to the south so that the south can rise again, and then a lot of them end up dying, and good riddance.

Episode #23 -- Samurai Fiction

January 17, 2018 01:46 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MB

(or: "Tara and Andrew Versus Upper Respiratory Infections")

Episode #22 -- The Junkman

January 02, 2018 21:22 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MB

(or: "No One Wants to Know How the Podcast Sausage Gets Made")

Episode #21 -- The Last Temptation of Christ

December 20, 2017 01:09 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB

(or: "Exhibit A in the Case of Why We're Doomed to Eternal Damnation")

Episode #20 -- Down With Love

December 12, 2017 23:44 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MB

(or: "Irrefutable Evidence That We're in the Pocket of Big Ginger Ale")

Episode #19 -- Cleopatra Jones

December 06, 2017 01:10 - 28 minutes - 51.8 MB

Wherein we watch a Blaxploitation classic, talk about the TV show Search Party, and make our feelings about watching a Bonaroo festival movie undeniably clear.