Okay you hosers, so welcome to our podcast. So today we’re gonna chug a couple cold ones, put on our tuques and watch as comedy titans Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas take their beloved characters from television and comedy albums to the big screen in The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew! While it would have been perfectly acceptable for them to do their small screen schtick on the big screen and call it a movie, this ambitious duo instead decided to cast themselves as Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern in a brewski-themed remake of… Hamlet? Join Paul, Javier, and the ever sober Producer Brad as they brave the dark corridors of the haunted Elsinore Brewery, where the cyber-ghost of a murdered patriarch cries out for justice from a haunted coin-op video game console as the evil Brewmeister Smith - played by Ingmar Bergman regular Max Von Sydow in prosthetic buck teeth - plots to take over the world using mind-control beer and hockey-playing stormtroopers! Can our hapless duo stop this evil plot? All we can say is that any movie that features a climactic duel between Ming The Merciless and Gold Leader from Star Wars is a beauty way to go, eh!

Show Notes:

1983 Box Office

August 26, 1983 Weekend Box Office

Strange Brew Movie Box Office Results

Strange Brew AFI Catalog Entry

Rick Moranis' Second City Bio

Dave Thomas' Second City Bio

CBC Oral History of Kids in the Hall's "Headcrusher"

Globe and Mail "Best Canadian Comedies"

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Cavemen. Dinosaurs. Lasers. Robots. A mysterious medallion. A talking box. Choice meats! And oh that theme song. This barely begins to dip into the brain-bending fountain of wonders that is YOR, THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE. Javi, Paul and - intrepidly - Producer Brad have ventured to Yor’s World and returned forever changed by this Italian adaptation of an Argentinian graphic novel that was distilled from a four-hour television mini-series, and is criminally unavailable on any streaming service or for digital rental or purchase. But they would not be denied (thank you Internet Archive), even though it required Javi to heed the film’s counsel (“We will need a lot more hemp before we’re through.”), while Paul Plot was sent into a fugue state. Because while we’re all well-versed in spaghetti Westerns, this is a spaghetti fantasy that takes a stunning turn into spaghetti sci-fi, and somehow blurs the lines between bad and great, and stupid and genius — rendering this week’s episode an absolute fever dream. There is simply no way you can prepare yourself… for YOR!!!

Show Notes:

Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983) [Internet Archive]

Yor's World (Theme Song) on iTunes and Apple Music

1983 Box Office - The Numbers

1983 Box Office - Box Office Mojo

August 19, 1983 Weekend Box Office

Yor Movie Box Office Results

NYT/Janet Maslin Yor review

Archived Antonio Margheriti bio

Archived interview with Edoardo Margheriti, Antonio's son.

Fanbasepress article speculating on Antonio Margheriti connection to 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Behold the birth of the cinematic icon that is Nicolas Cage. Bask in the glory of his historic first on-screen freak-out. Witness his wondrous weirdness expertly unleashed by director Martha Coolidge, who made the most of a tiny budget, tight schedule, and tepid script to deliver a (sub-)cultural landmark by way of the Sherman Oaks Galleria. This week, Javi, Paul - and for sure, like totally, Producer Brad - pop their pastel polo collars as they venture valiantly into the strange suburban vortex of vapidity that is VALLEY GIRL. Demure Julie (Deborah Foreman) falls for pseudo-punk Randy (Cage) from the scary side of the Hollywood Hills, but when her high school social circle disdainly disapproves, she’s torn between lofty love and crushing conformity. Will peer pressure prune her passion? Or will she stop the world and melt with Randy a million miles away on Electric Avenue? Whether you’re in the mood for the valley or not, our hosts have got the vibe, even if their brains are bad news from that creepy clown doll. Have a nice flight!

Show Notes:

1983 Box Office

Valley Girl Weekend Box Office, April 29, 1993

Valley Girl Box Office, August 12, 1983

Valley Girl Box Office Results

AFI Catalog entry for Valley Girl

Roger Ebert review of Valley Girl

AFI Movie Club segment on Valley Girl with DP Frederick Elmes

NYT 2020 article on Valley Girl quoting Martha Coolidge exploiting nudity requirement loopholes.

Indie Wire article with quotes from Nicholas Cage praising Martha Coolidge.

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