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Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 126 - Young Guns - Going DeeperWelcome back as we tackle the questions nobody bothered to ask about our episode on Young Guns starring Emilio Estevez and everyone else who was hot in 1988.
Zack gives us a brief history lesson about the Lincoln County War and how this film is surprisingly probably the most accurate representation ever put on film. We go in detail about which of the Young "Buns" actors has showed his buns the most on screen and can't even believe the number that Charlie Sheen puts on the scoreboard. Side note, one of the actresses in an early sex scene wi...2024-07-141h 18Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 125 - Young GunsWe are back and this time with a proper movie. We watched Young Guns from 1988. There were 80's heartthrobs all over the place in what bizarrely seems to be maybe the most historically accurate film depicting the Lincoln County War. That's right, this is a biopic about Billy the Kid.
Spoiler alert, it is kind of serious and Bon Jovi is nowhere to be seen. We think all of our preconceived notions about this film were from Young Guns 2.
Come along with us as we see a Fagan-like General Zod teach a wayward band of misfits...2024-06-161h 22Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 124 - Red Shoe Diaries 213 - Some Things Never ChangeOne last time into the fray!
We have done it. We are now surely the internet's best and most complete resource for the first 2 seasons of 90's cable erotica Red Shoe Diaries.
David Duchovny and Stella are back to read another letter from a Parisienne ad executive and her old flame / impossible to work with auteur commercial director. We have (surprise) red shoes in an episode for the first time in forever. There are random elevator shots, no crazy bedroom sets, stair sex, and a very low abdomen shot of our lead actor for the lad...2024-05-2831 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 123 - Red Shoe Diaries 212 - Alphabet GirlJoin us as we continue what has to be the most exhaustive deep dive of the nineties erotica for women cable show Red Shoe Diaries. We are winding down this season hopefully to get back to some movies just like David Duchovny.
In Alphabet Girl we have a young model in a not terribly torrid affair with her famous photographer. There is not really a love triangle with his young assistant. Mostly everybody gives each other the space and time they need to grow, except for that one time where the photographer breaks into the assistant's house and t...2024-05-2030 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 122 - Red Shoe Diaries 211 - GinaDamn Gina...
This episode is wild... I mean the last episode was wild, but this one was almost incomprehensible. Off to Paris at the houseboat next to the Highlander we get an American woman who (hopefully doesn't murder) and assumes the identity of her Parisienne benefactor. It's the Talented Mr. Ripley meets a Harlequin romance novel.
This was probably the worst episode yet from a technical perspective, but we are here with you to work through the trauma of this atrocity. We are only 2 weeks away from getting back to actual movies.
God sav...2024-05-0628 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 121 - Red Shoe Diaries 210 - Love at First SightStop what you are doing, fire up Tubi, and watch this episode.
I know we usually talk about stuff from our childhood that our parents would not let us watch, but this is something special. This episode completely breaks the mold of the moody/broody/dreamy 90s erotica for women anthology series and goes bat crap insane.
This is 30 minutes of your life that you will be happy to have spent with us.
I can't imagine many people have watched this in the last 30 years, and they are missing out.
We h...2024-04-2934 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 120 - Red Shoe Diaries 209 - HotlineWhoah...
This one is getting Zack a little hot under the collar and Jenny a little annoyed at the logistics.
We have got an oddly traditional gender role world view from a guy with no sleeves and his new bride who finds work at a phone sex line apparently featuring Margaret Cho!?!?!?
This one has snapping rubber underpants, some playful spanking, a Friday Night Special from Leather Lana, kitchen table lovemaking, and the secrets of Stella the Dog.
Come along as we continue our deep dive of the 90s cable erotica...2024-04-0835 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 119 - Red Shoe Diaries 208 - In the Blink of an EyeBuckle up folks, this one is wild.
We continue our journey through early 90s cable erotica for women with Episode 208 of Red Shoe Diaries. This week we have David Duchovny actually playing for real with his doggy. There are vaguely European things, lots of establishing shots of castles that we never go to, a boxing ring in a stable, and some sex scenes that we think may have inspired Braveheart?
2024-03-1829 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 118 - Red Shoe Diaries 207 - Liar's TaleHey everybody, sorry for the short episode this week. There was not a ton of meat on the bones for this episode, but the Forbidden Crew are refusing to pull a Duchovny and phone it in this week.
We have the story of a photojournalist doing a story on "up market" sex workers who make $1500 a night. This one reads more like a psychological thriller where everyone is stalking everyone. Zack actually thinks he could work this into a thriller. We have a lady spying on sex, lots of red neckwear, so many still shots, darkrooms, car acci...2024-02-2623 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 117 - Red Shoe Diaries 206 - Night of AbandonIt's Carnival!
Join us as we have establishing shots of Rio, some Wild On clips from E! Network, and then some close ups of sex on a beach (that we assume is in southern California).
This one is wild. We have some samba that is more nude that we think is actually allowed at Carnival. We have a weird wine/blood orgy. We have a super horny grandma, a lady who is definitely not Brazilian, and a white horse tamed on the beach. We also wonder about the mechanics of a sacrifice brought back to shor...2024-02-2041 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 116 - Red Shoe Diaries 205 - Burning UpOk, things are getting wild.
We have sexy firefighters and the unreliable narrators who voyeur them in the shower.
Are there any actual fires happening? Is she setting these fires? Is a steamy night with a veterinarian who is actually a "real doctor" what this lady needs, or should she look up some BetterHelp (not a sponsor).
Come along as we wind down our Valentines binge of early 90's cable erotica for women. David Duchovny would approve.
2024-02-2034 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 115 - Red Shoe Diaries 204 - KidnapJoey is back! That's right, we have the second and apparently last appearance of a not-yet-famous Matt Leblanc as a modern day bank robbing cowboy?
In this episode we have people escaping from a bank robbery on horseback. We have a kidnapping. We have a winner-take-all highest stakes game of poker.
Come along with the Forbidden crew as we start to wind down this Valentine's Day / Carnival week binging as much early 90s cable erotica for women as we can and giving our feedback.
2024-02-1726 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 114 - Red Shoe Diaries203 - RunwayThree episodes down in a week. Join the Forbidden Crew on our Valentine's week binge of the 90's erotica for women staple, Red Shoe Diaries.
Barely famous David Duchovny is phoning it in with Stella the Dog reading the diary of Amber Smith, a young fashion model who has a rendezvous with her cab driver.
We see no buttons on shirts of any kinds, a Matrix fashion show 5 years before the Matrix, more natural lighting than any episode so far, butt crack hair gleaming in the natural lighting even in SD, and a catwalk finale o...2024-02-1526 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 113 - Red Shoe Diaries 202 - Naked in the MoonlightLaissez le bon temps rouler.
Happy Mardi Gras and Happy Valentines Day!
Join the Forbidden Crew as we look at Red Shoe Diaries 202 - Naked in the Moonlight. We have some of the sexiest sex scenes so far in the series... but not much in the way of moonlight. Join us as we look at a lady with a bunch of cars getting a boner for a working class dude. There are lights dangling in the middle of industrial workspaces, open air showers, classic cars, jingly foley work on jewelry, and That...2024-02-1435 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 112 - Red Shoe Diaries 201 - Midnight BellsWelcome to Valentine's Day week and Carnival! Plus Zack is on Vacation.
We had an idea, we are going to try to do as many episodes of Red Shoe Diaries from the early 90's as we possibly can this week. They are going to be rough edits, but we are going to go until we drop.
Come back with us to the early 90s as (a now famous) David Duchovny and Stella the Dog introduce us to a middle aged Jewish man, his eccentric sculptor wife, and his daughter think is the voice of female de...2024-02-1331 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 111 - Caddyshack Going DeeperWelcome back! The forbidden crew look into the questions that were best left unanswered from our coverage of Caddyshack. We are back in 1980, people. We find newspapers from the week this film came out (the week Zack was born) and see what is going on in the world... spoiler alert... the world sucks in 1980.
We pause and take a look at the career of Harold Ramis, a man with 4 films on AFI's top 100 funnies. We also spend a little time looking at Brian Doyle, a strong contender for our 2nd favorite Murray brother.
We hit it a...2024-02-0546 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 110 - CaddyshackOk, we are in the 80s here, but just barely...
We watched the movie that came out when Zack was 6 days old, Caddyshack. There are old white guys going to 11 at every moment. Chevy Chase is a creepy golf guru. RIP Cindy Morgan who plays the siren of the piece. I'm pretty sure Sarah Holcomb isn't Irish. Did we mention Rodney Dangerfield is in the movie and is hilarious he dose scare one of our cats, though.
We watched the Kenny Loggins, gopher dancing, Bill Murray mumbling masterpiece that is Caddyshack and are now better for i...2024-01-221h 15Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 109 - Eyes Wide Shut - Going DeeperJoin us as we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about Eyes Wide Shut. We look at the original novel and how close it is to the film. We find out that this has not been the first time this has been adapted and look into the films of Mario Bianci who directed such classics as The Erotic Adventures of Zorro.
We talk about the Guinness world record grueling shoot for no apparent reason, and look a little into what is known about this time in Tom and Nicole's lives.
Jenny continues her insistence th...2024-01-151h 04Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 108 - Eyes Wide ShutMerry Christmas, ya filthy animals, and a happy new year.
We watched the final film of a master film maker, Eyes Wide Shut. Where do we even start. This thing took years to shoot. The tabloids went crazy about the sex and relationships of the stars. One of the best directors of all time stayed up all night talking to Zalman King to get the vibe just right for a weird dreamlike orgy. Did we mention Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are in this thing.
Welcome to the 2 hour 40 minute masterpiece? of Eyes Wide Shut. Come a...2024-01-021h 37Forbidden CinemaEpisode 107 - The Whole Nine Yards - Going DeeperHello friends, and welcome back to Forbidden Cinema!
This week we go deeper and answer the questions we had from our coverage of the late Matthew Perry's R-rated caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards.
If you know, you know. We start with looking into what we were curious about during our main episode on the movie. Then we look at the time it was released and try to find sources from the day to figure out what day to day life was like in news, entertainment, film, sex, drugs, and rockandroll at the time. All of...2023-12-181h 19Forbidden CinemaEpisode 106 - The Whole Nine YardsThe Forbidden Cinema crew take a moment to come out of our normal timeline to pay homage to the late, great Matthew Perry.
This week we go all the way in to the distant future of the year 2000 to look at the Bruce Willis / Matthew Perry caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards. This critically mixed (but must have been commercially valid as there was a sequel) film had it's flaws, but at a brisk 98 minutes with credits and 2 musical numbers it flew by with some incredible physical comedy from an immensely likable cast.
We welcome i...2023-12-101h 13Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 105 - Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Going DeeperWelcome back everyone!
We hope everyone had a great October / Halloween / Spooky Season. As we head into the holidays Zack and Jenny follow up with the questions nobody ever bothered to ask about our coverage of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
We threw a little bit of shade by omitting Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in our main episode, so we make sure to give him some love in this one. We talk about the Spanish language Dracula filmed at night on the same sets as the Tod Browning version. Have you ever heard of that, we had...2023-11-191h 11Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 104 - Bram Stoker’s DraculaHappy Halloween family and welcome back to the Jr high lunch table for Bram Stoker's Dracula. We go back to 1992 for Francis Ford Coppola's wild fever dream featuring so much blood, sex, and religious iconography that we are terrified to think about what would happen if our parent's had ever found out we wanted to see this movie.
This one slipped under the radar. It was always one we wanted to see, but had no idea how many forbidden elements would be present. This movie is a mess, but such a spectacular mess. Every frame is a mast...2023-11-061h 41Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 103 - Scream - Going DeeperJoin us as we answer the questions that nobody ever thought to ask about Scream. We answer the things that came up in our full episode covering the 1996 horror / slasher classic, Scream. This movie revitalized a genre, and showed studios that teens were a valid audience. Come along as 2 church youth group kids grow up, get married, and watch all of the things our parent's wouldn't let us watch.
This week we realize that Neve Campbell is a 3 time guest on our show. We try to figure out who Skeet Ulrich is and what he has been doing...2023-10-231h 05Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema - 102 - ScreamWelcome to spooky season in 2023 and welcome back to winter of 1996 as we look at the film that revolutionized horror and slasher films, Scream.
We take a look at the movie that was on Zack's top 10 for all time wanted to see but couldn't. We talk about longing and nostalgia. We look back at the time and welcome Queen Neve Campbell to the 3 timers club along with Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas. In 100 years, we would not have predicted she would get in so early.
Wes Craven comes back with a bang and makes maybe the...2023-10-161h 50Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 102 - Jade - Going DeeperWelcome back,
This week we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about our coverage of Jade. Zack dives deep on this one. We uncover a surprising link between this movie and Basic Instinct. We talk about the box office and business of this critical and commercial flop. Zack gets disappointed when he realizes the "For Strippers Only" album in the iTunes library is research for a class Jenny is teaching, not a new career move.
We go from an article about sex in cinema in 1995 to a Playboy model to a sports star that lite...2023-10-101h 23Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 100 - JadeAre you even joking right now. We just hit 100 episodes.
It's time for our most requested episode ever, the 1995 Joe Esterhas / William Freidkin collaboration with the guy from NYPD Blue, the femme fatale from The Last Seduction, and that guy from The Sopranos who has the awesome restaurant who I think did A Bronx Tale.
We hit up the least erotic and least thrilling erotic thriller of the 90s. This thing is a train wreck, but we had so much fun. Come along as we spend more than 2 hours breaking down a 94 minute disaster that is...2023-09-252h 01Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 99 - True Lies - Going DeeperJoin us as we deep dive the behind the scenes of True Lies. There are Oscar winners besides Dame Jamie Lee. We discover that Tom Arnold isn't as trash as we originally assumed.
This was the most expensive move ever made and is high on the list of the top grossing R rated films ever, but didn't make all that much money.
We also deep dive Dame Tia Carrere's 36yo newly single mother of 2 appearance in Playboy in 2003. There are some wild things that happen, but nothing as crazy as the survey of Sex in the...2023-09-1153 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 98 - True LiesWe are back and we are talking about True Lies.
Welcome to the podcast, Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold. How have we made it to 98 episodes without either of you getting on board. Both of you will be back... see what I did there.
Jenny and Zack are a married couple who grew up in the most conservative purity culture church around and are now unpacking what that meant by watching the movies that were forbidden in our childhood (hint, Zack's parent's took him and his friends to see this for his 14th birthday). Horrific vio...2023-09-051h 37Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 97 - Cruel Intentions - Going DeeperWelcome back to our first deeper dive into the history and time behind Cruel Intentions. It's been a while since we have done a Going Deeper episode. Zack has got his research hat back on and Jenny has been drinking Rose. Come along as we talk about the 2 adaptations of Les Liaisons Dangerous that were released back to back in the 80s. Zack was today years old when he realized Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person. It's almost like next week you are going to tell me that Toulouse Lautrec from Moulin Rouge was based on a real perso...2023-08-221h 03Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 96 - Cruel Intentions'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony that's life... sucker love is heaven sent..."
Holy 1780's erotica Batman, we just did Cruel Intentions. Zack loved this movie so much he owns most of the wardrobe from the filming. Jenny is vaguely aware of it. Come along with us as we dive back in 24 years later and see if it holds up. Spoiler alert... some of this is problematic at best, but there are some beautiful people doing wild things, and that is what Forbidden Cinema is all about.
2023-08-141h 18Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 95 -Red Shoe Diaries The MovieBuckle up, folks, this is going to be a long one. Zack and Jenny return to the world of feature length films after our season of TV shows. And boy do we do it with a bang!
This is where it all started. This made for Showtime pilot walked so that Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and Game of Thrones could fly.
Join us as we discuss all of the dick grabbing techniques in play. We get to see our favorite mopey David Duchovny's awesome dog Stella. We get one of the dirtiest players from Am...2023-08-021h 25Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 94 - Mix on Stars -Episode 201God save the Queen of Dicks!!!
Minx is back!!!
Pandemics, network changes, and buyouts couldn't kill this show. We are back to recap the last season and move forward into the next.
2023-07-2450 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 93 - Red Shoe Diaries - How I Met My HusbandOk, here it is. We have finished Season 1. It is back to standard def if we want to watch any more.
Come back with us to the Ramada Inn for a Dominatrix workshop. Our protagonist surprises the staff with her whipping technique and craziness ensues. This one is quick and to the point. We have figured out a formula and now we are running with it.
We have Indiana Jones whip sounds. We get to see yet another lightbulb striptease, but this time of a man. We get a new kind of therapy session. Zack spends a...2023-07-1835 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 92 - Red Shoe Diaries - Double or NothingWe are almost at the end of our journey through the first season of this groundbreaking show. This one has it all. Two pool hustlers find each other and go on a journey of self discovery, shouting at each other, overly intense power games, and steamy sex.
This episode has biker bars in the middle of the day, pool contests at a strip club, apartments that are way too nice for the jobs people have, dirty water alley sex, and so many 90s outfits. Also, this has Paula Barbieri in it. If you don't know, listen to the...2023-06-2051 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 91 - Red Shoe Diaries - Weekend PassHey everybody, we are rounding the corner and coming to the end of our dive into the 1992 first season of everybody's favorite ladies cable erotica show starring Mulder and Joey.
This episode is wild...
Four badass soldier ladies have the weekend off from armying and go to a dive bar in ball gowns and things go off the rails... Is this the origin story of the Nashville bachelorette party?
This episode features motorcycle bullfighting, irresponsible playful assault rifle use during sex, so much licking of tequila off of bodies, opera length gloves at...2023-06-0739 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 90 - Red Shoe Diaries - The Bounty HunterWe are almost done with the first season of the 1992 Showtime erotica series, The Red Shoe Diaries. David Duchovny and his trusty dog Stella have taken us on a journey through the secret desires of women in the early 90s. It has been a blast!
This episode we have some action, some guns, some knives, a lot of handcuffs, bad guys straight from the dust bowl, a Matrix lady in a power suit, lots of pie, more cigarettes than the entire series so far, several shots of both a quarters and a jukebox that never gets played, a...2023-05-2337 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 89 - Red Shoe Diaries - Accidents HappenJoin us as we head down the home stretch on covering the early 90's cable erotica series for women, Red Shoe Diaries. Zack and Jenny are a married couple who grew up in conservative youth group together and watch things that were not allowed in our youth. This podcast is dedicated to nostalgia, film history, a peak behind the forbidden curtain, and a healthy dose of retrospection.
Guys... Welcome to the podcast Dame Ally Sheedy!!! That's right, she is in this episode. Stop what you are doing this moment and go watch the 1992 intersection of David Duchovny and...2023-05-1652 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 88 - Red Shoe Diaries - Jake’s StoryOk guys, here is the one that Jenny wanted. We finally get to Jake's story. We finally figure out who he is and what makes him tick. Record scratch---- nope, that is the movie. Jenny is pissed.
In this episode we get to see David Duchovny actually interact in the narrative. He has his own Red Shoe Diary.
2023-05-0854 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 87 - Red Shoe Diaries - Auto Erotica"I live my life a quarter mile at a time"
We are finally their. We just hit the highest rated episode of the early 90's Showtime erotica series, Red Shoe Diaries. Talk about things we were not allowed to see as kids. This is full of fast cars, insane Tony Scott level editing, sex, speed, and power plays.
As usual, Jenny finds the whole thing a bit ridiculous, and Zack is along for the ride. This episode is fast and furious, famiglia.
In other news, Minx is back. Get Starz and binge it. Red Sh...2023-04-2535 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 86 - Red Shoe Diaries - Another Woman’s LipstickThanks for coming along on this journey through early 90s cable erotica with us. This week we take on the episode, Another Woman's Lipstick. Hang on, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
We have got lipstick stains, more of Zalman King's women-with-a-moustache cliché, and a wild dance with a full on floor lamp.
We watch the things that were forbidden in our conservative childhoods and teenage years and comment on them now. We had so much fun with a single episode, we are doing the whole series.
2023-04-1740 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 85 - Red Shoe Diaries - Just Like ThatGuys... Joey is in this one.
That's right, welcome to the podcast Matt Leblanc. We are assured he is a loyal listener, but this time he is in the show we are watching. We simply can't imagine what it must have been like to be him or David Duchovney at this time. Both were making cable erotica for ladies but were just about to achieve superstardom.
This was a fun one. There were bike messengers, rich guys, flowers, elevator sex, and more. Come along as we continue our underwear ripping, foot licking, motorcycle sexing good time g...2023-04-0940 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 84 - Red Shoe Diaries - Talk to Me, BabyOk, guys, this show has redeemed itself with this episode. We were on board, and then last week really turned us off. We open in a dive bar on a wet t-shirt contest, hop in a super 90s muscle car, and then listen to 30 minutes of a guy in a mullet try to convince a woman to love him without stopping so long as to take a breath.
Stay with us, here. This sounds ridiculous, but somehow they manage to make it work. Fire up Tubi, watch this episode, and come on the journey with us. Everyone in th...2023-03-2638 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 83 - Red Shoe Diaries - The Right to Remain SilentWhoa boy... here we go... buckle up and pull over, people (wait does that even make sense, why bother buckling up if you are pulling over, oh well). Guys we are venturing in the the sexy, erotic themes of police misconduct??? This thing is wild and has aged... poorly.
This episode stars Denise Crosby of Star Trek TNG fame as a police officer who names off every male body part imaginable for 5 minutes and then kidnaps and assaults a guy because he doesn't notice her.
Join us for some extremely over-intense racquetball, so many different hats...2023-03-1941 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 82 - Red Shoe Diaries - Safe SexWe had so much "fun" watching an episode of Red Shoe Diaries for our last episode that we decided to spend a quick mini-season watching this early 90s erotic anthology show hosted by David Duchovny at the same time he was making the X-Files. How are those words even a thing.
Join us as we watch the first episode, Safe Sex, which starts out as a second draft of 9 1/2 Weeks and then just gets weird. Laughs abound, there are tears on screen, and Zack gets a little hot under the collar.
2023-03-061h 19Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 81 - Red Shoe Diaries - s1e02 Double DareAlright people, it is time to get 90s horny.
That's right, Zack just left streaming on upstairs and the algorithm decided that we should watch Red Shoe Diaries. Did we mention that David Duchovny was in 6 seasons of this weekly erotica show at the same time he was in the X-Files. That is a thing that happened.
Get ready for sexy fax machines, ladies starting to wear black underwear, lots of pearls, the freaking Mummy!, sax music, and Stella who is such a good girl.
Do yourself a favor. Fire up Tubi (I'm pre...2023-02-2738 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 80 - Vacation - Going DeeperWelcome back as we look at the questions nobody thought to ask about National Lampoon's Vacation. We find out more about the careers of the child actors that I could ever have imagined. BDA's (Beverly D'Angelo) history is so much more interesting than we would have figured. And we hit tangents on everything from Conan the Barbarian to Mr Mom.
2023-02-121h 02Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 79 - National Lampoon’s VacationPull over, folks... Zack has never seen this movie. We watched the original Vacation from back in 1983. Hold on, this movie has 80s racism, jokes about gun violence, animal cruelty, policing in need of reform, a lady we know only as a classic holiday film mom whipping her boobs out, cigarette machines, Harold Ramis as the voice of a moose, Anthony Michael Hall, Chevy Chase being mostly likable, a custom car build to be specifically ugly American, and a variety of roadside set pieces all across the American Southwest.
We get a classic road trip comedy, with a...2023-01-311h 11Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 78 - 2022 Year in ReviewGreetings everyone. Sorry for the silence for a few weeks. We hope your holidays were amazing, but if they were a nightmare like ours, we feel for you. Ours were full of overwork, family drama, sick pets, and another round of COVID-19. Nowhere to go but up from here.
Join us as we recap the questions no one thought to ask on Gremlins and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. We wrap up 2022 and look forward to a better 2023.
2023-01-221h 13Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 77 - GremlinsWelcome to our Holiday Season kickoff episode that is dropping on New Years. It is amazing how optimistic we are about how our work, life, and families are not going to be a living nightmare. Well, that didn't happen.
Anyhoo, come back with us to 1984 as we watch and discuss the Spielburg, Collumbus, Dante collaboration, Gremlins. This movie brings Zack back to so many specific places and times, but it is the first time Jenny has ever seen it. Join us as we talk about this classic small town holiday creature feature with one of the cutest puppe...2023-01-011h 14Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 76 - Planes, Trains and AutomobilesWelcome to the holiday season. We start off with the only Thanksgiving banger, Planes, Trains and Automobiles... yes we all noticed the missing comma. Welcome Steve Martin, John Candy, and John Hughes to the podcast. This week we discuss the movie that was not so much forbidden as told, you wouldn't like it.
We talk about how much as adults we absolutely loved this classic and can't wait to get deeper on it.
2022-12-051h 10Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 75 - Ghost - Going DeeperWelcome back to Going Deeper. This week we take a look at the questions nobody thought to ask on the 1990 film, Ghost. We look into the people involved in making it and discover it was one of the biggest movie hits of all time at the box office when it was released. We also look into newspapers and magazines from around when the movie came out to get a feel of what the world was like.
Tangents in this episode include converting the $80,000 that cost Swayze his life into Cryptocurrency, more about the life of Patrick Swayze, mul...2022-12-031h 11Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 74 - GhostSpooky season is officially over for the year. We have decided on a palate cleanser before we get into the holidays. As a nod to our recent trip to New Orleans and the multiple ghost encounters we have decided to go back to 1990 for the blockbuster film, Ghost. Patrick Swayze is at his shirtless best and Demi Moore joins Michael Douglas and Madonna in the Three Timers Club on our podcast. Have we mentioned the pottery wheel scene yet... whew... sexier than we even remember.
This movie rocks, go see it and then listen to our podcast. Pleas...2022-11-211h 39Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 73 - Interview with a Vampire - Going DeeperWe are back from our spooky New Orleans Halloween trip and ready to answer the questions that nobody thought to ask while watching Interview with a Vampire from 1994. We look at the culture and the box office of the day to see where this fit in. It turns out this episode is actually dropping on the 28th anniversary of this film hitting theaters, Happy Birthday!!!
Diversions and tangents abound. Some of my favorites are Zack and his vampire contacts, trying to remember Jenny's quote "tits to the chin", Jenny's laughter breakdown about a dark joke in a mov...2022-11-121h 08Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 72 - Fright Night (Bonus)Welcome to our spooky season wrap up. For this week we look at the movie that is Jenny's first forbidden experience. We wonder what our parents were up to during these times. We spend a lot of time talking about who the intended audience was for this movie and about the time of the mid 80s where we have lived for a while now. Welcome to the podcast Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell, 2 actors Zack loves but probably won't show up all that much on our forbidden lists. This one is a lot of fun, if you haven't had the c...2022-11-021h 28Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 71 - Interview with a VampireJoin us in October as we prepare for Halloween. This week we take a look at a classic that Zack remembers from being on a tape with a Batman Forever. We take a look at the nostalgia of having 3 movies on a tape that had nothing to do with each other. We remember rewinding and checking to see where we were on the VHS and coming upon something we were not meant to see.
The Forbidden Cinema journey is about excitement and longing and the sheer rush that comes with stumbling across something in the pre-internet world tha...2022-10-231h 23Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 70 - Angel Heart - Going DeeperBrace yourself as the Zack and Jenny tackle the questions nobody thought to ask in the 1987 supernatural thriller Angel Heart.
Zack crunches the numbers of movie rentals to decide if this thing made back it's budget. We also look at the top grossing films of 1987 and wowza what a curve ball. Coming off a year when Top Gun and Crocodile Dundee(not a typo) battled neck and neck for the top spot, this year came out of nowhere.
We find the original serialized story in the podcast's favorite nudie mag, and you will never guess who i...2022-10-1458 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 69 - Angel Heart"Sixty Nine, Dudes!"
Can you believe we have made it this many episodes. This week we start Spooky Season 2022 off with a bang with the 1987 flick, Angel Heart. This movie stars Mickey Rourke and features a fresh off The Cosby Show Lisa Bonet. Also Robert Deniro is in this for only a small role, but steals the entire movie.
This thing has it all. There are gruesome killings, steamy sex, trippy religious hallucinations, spooky nuns, voodoo, New Orleans, Harlem in the 50s, so much smoking, black magic, and more. On top of that it is a rea...2022-10-031h 35Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 68 - 9 1/2 Weeks - Going DeeperWelcome back to the fold.
Soooooo... Zack bought a first edition of the book and has read it since the last episode. We go into the differences and look at the making of the film. Did you know "You Can Leave Your Hat On" was not a stripping song before this movie. News to us.
As always we look at news media of the time. Did you know Joan Rivers was a late night host? This is wild. We also do our weekly deep dive into a Playboy magazine of the era. We manage to get throu...2022-09-201h 28Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 67 - Nine 1/2 WeeksWhoah, buckle in folks, this one is going to be a doozy. This week we tackle the 1986 erotic drama, 9 1/2 Weeks. Content warning, this one has some coercive control and consent evocative of almost 40 years ago.
That being said, welcome to the podcast to Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. There is some icky and sticky stuff happening, but these two heat up the screen with sex appeal and chemistry. And have we mentioned the costuming and the soundtrack, yes please. Oh yeah, Christine Baranski is in this credited in the top 5 and doesn't even speak.
Come back...2022-09-121h 39Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 66- Body Heat - Going DeeperJoin us and Zack answers the questions nobody thought to ask about 1981's steamy thriller, Body Heat. We try to figure out who this JA Preston guy is and should we know him. Tangentially from there we figure out that Kim Zimmer "Mary Ann Simpson" has been in almost 2500 episodes of TV entertainment. We hit the career of Ted Danson and the unusual slow burn that was Cheers.
We take a trip down Forbidden Cinema True Crime Lane discussing the history of forensics and whether it would matter how much DNA was left behind in the film. We a...2022-09-071h 16Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 65 - Body HeatGo watch this movie. Spoiler Alert. You want to watch this before listening. There aren't many movies we have done on this podcast that we recommend more than this.
Come back to 1981 with Zack and Jenny as we watch the origin of the Erotic Thriller and the Neo Noir genre all in one. Kathleen Turner and William Hurt steam the place up and things get murdery. Oh, did we mention Ted Danson is turning in an Oscar caliber supporting performance. And heads up, this thing is written and directed by the guy that did Raiders of the Lost A...2022-08-291h 29Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 64 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Going DeeperJoin your hosts as we go deeper on the questions nobody wanted answered on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Zack reaches his hand into the dark, insect ridden hole of the internet, pulls the lever, and figures out what opens up.
This week we try to figure out what the world was like in the 80 days between this movie and the first PG-13 movie ever to be released. We find out that the Iran-Contra affair is just starting. Zack realizes that he finds Joan Collins, Julie Andrews, and the wife from Raging Bull far hotter tha...2022-08-221h 00Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 63 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomGather around children. Today we are watching the gross-fest that Jenny's parents kept out of the house. Zack first saw this when he was 8 and didn't know any other Indiana Jones until much later. This was a film so violent that it basically led to the creation of the PG-13 rating. Watching back, Zack goes back to being a little boy again and Jenny just kind of sighs at the gross stuff.
If you don't hear from us next week, it is because Zack tried to whip-swing off the roof. Also, Jenny defends the Kingdom of the Cryst...2022-08-161h 31Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 62 - Ghostbusters, Die Hard, and more...Welcome to the first Forbidden Cinema Lightning Round.
We are back from Mexico and have finished binging How to Build a Sex Room. It occurs to us that there are many movies that may be problematic or forbidden, but we have watched them so often as adults that we may not be able to truly view them with a fresh eye. Not wanting to eliminate them completely we decided to do a 10 minute lightning round on each. Join us as we hit the forbidden and nostalgic elements of the films:
1. Ghostbusters
2. Die Hard
3. Jaws...2022-08-081h 11Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 61 - How to Build a Sex Room 2Here. We. Go. In this episode we finish How to Build a Sex Room. We talk about how to relate to our friends who are swingers, apparently. We discuss the ethics of polyamory and why only the women of color get stripper poles.
2022-07-251h 18Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 60 - How to Build a Sex Room 1Ok guys, if you haven't started binging Netflix's new hit show How to Build a Sex Room, you should stop right now and go do it. When you are done with the first couple episodes, come on back and let's unpack it.
While it is a bit of a departure from movies we couldn't watch as children, we are enjoying going on these detours to cover fun, sexy, entertainment for adults.
Join Melanie (or Maggie as Zack can't figure out) Rose and Mike as they restrain the home improvement show genre and spank it on i...2022-07-181h 01Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 59 - Madonna Truth or Dare - Going Deeper***We spend several minutes talking true crime style about Paul Dennis Reid's spree killing that affected us greatly when we were growing up. If this is a trigger for you you can skip ahead to about 30 minutes when we get there***
This is the week the podcast goes off the rails.
It's been a weird couple of weeks, guys.
This week we delve deeper into Madonna's Truth or Dare, but get really sidetracked. We go from antiretroviral treatment of HIV to the Tony Scott / Kiera Knightly vehicle, Domino. On the way we g...2022-07-151h 00Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 58 - Madonna Truth or DareMadonna... is... amazing...
Why were we not just a little older when this happened? We feel like we know that Madonna was a popular singer in the 80s and 90s, but had no idea about how fabulous this tour actually was.
Come with us as we view our first concert film. We get to see a lot of people in their early 20's being really terrible to each other in black and white and then... Boom... Brilliant color footage of Madonna rocking stadiums, night after night, for months.
2022-07-031h 23Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 57 - Dick Tracy - Going DeeperWelcome back to Forbidden Cinema. On our going deeper episodes, Zack goes into deep research mode to find the answers to questions you never thought to ask. Sometimes the answers are fascinating. Sometimes they are so horrifying that you wish we hadn't bothered.
This week we look start to look at the career of Warren Beatty, but get distracted by how many famous lady's he had affairs with. Then we look at the rights and box office, and everybody's gets dizzy so we move on.
We get distracted by the complex and potentially problematic career of Sea...2022-06-261h 04Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 56 - Dick TracyJoin us as we wrap up our "What were they thinking" series looking at movies with which our parent's had no objections, but had content that looking back seems a little crazy. This week we looked at Warren Beatty's 1990 passion project, Dick Tracy.
This is a movie Zack saw at the drive-in theater. We have trading cards and movie props from the film in our collection. This movie was so dark that they took the Disney name off of it, and put it in the newly formed Touchstone Pictures instead. This movie had McDonald's cups, Madonna's nipples in a...2022-06-131h 41Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 55 - Tremors - Going DeeperEngineering school time!!! Zack takes Kevin Bacon's hair length and nudity and tries to determine if there is a statistically significant correlation. There are graphs. You should probably check social media, I don't think this translates very well in audio.
Zack also calculates the number of animals required for a stampede. The best thing about science is it has to give you an answer. If you decide a formula is credible, you can put all sorts of numbers in, and science has to give you an answer even if it is absurd.
We talk more about...2022-06-011h 06Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 54 - TremorsThis week the forbidden couple take a time out from their "What were our parents thinking" series to pay homage to the great Fred Ward. We dig into a film that was a staple of Jenny's adolescence, but was completely forbidden from Zack. This is a movie that Zack can specifically remember the moment in which it was turned off by his aunt.
We watched the 1990 film, Tremors. Come along with us as we watch Fred Ward, Kevin Bacon, and the Dad from Family Ties fight a bunch of under-ground mother-humping monsters.
We try to break...2022-05-161h 21Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 54 - Speed - Going DeeperWelcome back to Forbidden Cinema. This week we go deeper on the 1994 action film, Speed. We figure out the Keanu timeline, try to place his accent, and try to figure out why Sad Keanu is so sad and how to make him happy again. Showgirls, Dolly Parton, and Alice Cooper all show up in some form or another. We discuss briefly the tragic story of River Phoenix.
We mythbust the crap out of some of the physics of this film. We also are able to find detailed specs for both the cars and the guns and determine if th...2022-05-091h 10Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 52 - SpeedPop Quiz - What were our parents thinking. Zack's parent's turned off Spaceballs and Jenny's family turned off A Knight's Tale, but both of us were completely allowed unlimited viewing of Speed when we were 13-14 years old. We start a short series about movies our parents were completely ok with, but we wonder if they should have been forbidden.
In this series we talk about nostalgia and how it feels to be "getting away with something" when your parents relent and let you check out something above your level. Come with us as Zack get's annoyed by...2022-05-031h 34Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 51 - Showgirls - Going DeeperWe end our year with a bang going deeper on Showgirls. Join us as we do extra credit and watch You Don't Nomi and try to figure out if this movie was better than our first impressions.
Zack spends a lot of time looking at the history and physical demands of being a showgirl. Zack spends too much time looking into bananas strip club laws around the country. Zack spends way too much time looking up current pubic barbering trends and the risks associated with them.
We talk about the sad ending of both the showg...2022-04-251h 00Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 50 - ShowgirlsFor our 50th episode join the hosts as we tackle our most requested, and probably the most forbidden of the 90s. Guys, this thing is wild. If you had asked me what this was before I saw it, I would have said the guys who made Basic Instinct got back together with a lot of drugs and hired the girl from Saved By The Bell to spend 1/3 of the movie nude in a spectacle of flesh and grit/glam of Vegas. I think that is exactly what we got, but we aren't quite sure if that is what we nee...2022-04-181h 44Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 49 - Weekend at Bernie’s - Going DeeperJoin us as we break down all the unanswered questions from our discussion on Weekend at Bernie's. We take time to try to understand the reviews, box office, and reason for a sequel for this move. We discuss but don't really get to a finishing point on why this movie is so poorly reviewed, only a modest financial success, but has entered into the lexicon to where everybody knows the premise.
We take some time going deeper on the careers of Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman. Zack accidentally stumbles on MrSkin's Anatomy Awards. We find out that the...2022-04-1050 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 48 - Weekend at Bernie’sWelcome back to Forbidden Cinema, Spring Break Edition. This week we tackle Weekend at Bernie's from 1989. This is a movie that Zack saw in his friend's rec room at 10 or 11 years old, had on VHS, and spent many hours hoping his parent's never took the time to watch it to see what was in it. This is one of those PG-13 movies from the 80s with content not catering to children, but jokes that nobody with a fully formed brain would not find funny. But underneath that is one of the best dead-weight slapstick performances of the last 50 years.
2022-04-041h 10Forbidden CinemaMinxOnMax Going Deeper - Episode 2We are dropping this in the main feed because Apple is taking a bit.
We go deeper on Episode 2 - Au revoir, le double dong of HBO Max's Minx. Off to the country club for some hijinks with the Bottom Dollar crew. Come along with us as we get lost in this fantastic 70s dream of erotica for ladies.
2022-04-0146 minForbidden CinemaMinxOnMax Going Deeper - Episode 1Minx has landed on HBO Max and it is awesome.
Join your hosts as we branch off in an entirely new direction. We have spent the last year podcasting about movies our parent's wouldn't let us watch and Zack has been elbows deep in explicit print journalism from the 70s, 80s, and beyond. In the midst of all of this, HBO Max releases a new show about a new erotic magazine from women in the 70s... and it has Nick Miller in it.
We are there. We watched the first episode and are hooked. We are...2022-03-2955 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 47 - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Going DeeperHere we go. Guys, the Chicken Ranch was real. This whole thing is based on a true story. Zack buys the books, reads the newspapers from the time, and finds local news coverage from the time. The true story is almost crazier than the musical. All the wondering we did about why Dom Delouise didn't get his comeuppance is finally answered. He is based on a real person who became a local legend after this story.
This has been one of our favorite surprises in our journey and we hope you come along with us. Come along with us...2022-03-271h 00Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 46 - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"Have you ever just been reading Playboy magazine from the mid-80's and saw a picture from a movie and thought let's go watch that and had this much fun?"
We watched The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. This thing is an R Rated musical. We knew Burt Reynolds would show up eventually, but I don't think that this is how we assumed. Also, have we mentioned that St Dolly Parton is in this thing. We shouldn't have to say more, but we go on for a bit. We talk about Zack getting busted cussin, and Jenny going...2022-03-201h 05Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 45 - Porky’s - Going DeeperThis week we look back at the unanswered questions from our discussion of the 1981/82 film Porky's. Zack goes a little funny trying to figure out where the fictional town of Angel Falls really is and where Porky's would have to be located in order for the geography all to work out. This is a tough one, because most of the questions we asked had really simple answers that didn't lead down deep dark holes of the internet. Spoiler Alert, the fact of the podcast for the last couple of weeks is that there was a Porky's video game for the...2022-03-1336 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 44 - Porky’sWow... This one... Things are different 40 years later. In this episode we look back at a film that Zack turned off on basic cable because he was afraid it was too dirty. This is a film that was a huge commercial success that basically made A Christmas Story able to happen. It is racist, homophobic, and has a view on women that would have been outdated even in it's setting. But it also made Zack almost fall off the couch laughing. This is the birth of the teen sex comedy and is influential in a way that much better movies...2022-03-061h 17Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 43 - Fatal Attraction - Going DeeperBuckle in people, we are all over the place in this one. We start off detouring into our Valentine's Day date at the Forbidden Ballet. We talk about the history of filmmaker, Adrian Lyne (the first 2 time director on our list, but we will see him again). We talk about the year's awards season and Jenny can't figure out the difference between Empire in the Sun and The Last Emperor. Zack deep dives etiquette manuals to try to figure out the right way to eat spaghetti. We discuss the potential DSM-IV diagnoses that could be applied to the film and t...2022-02-271h 00Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 42 - Fatal AttractionWe return once again to 1987 and to Michael Douglas as we evaluate Fatal Attraction for this Valentine's Day Week. We go deep on Donald Ducking Douglas and some of his fashion choices. We spend an inordinate amount of time talking about how good of a boy Quincy the Dog is and how scared we are for his well being. We divert into the best high school lunch trade and talk about times where something big happened when we were somewhere we weren't supposed to be. We compare the D grabbing techniques of Glenn Close to that of Madonna and Juli...2022-02-211h 18Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema - 41 - Adventures in Babysitting - Going DeeperWelcome back to Going Deeper with your Forbidden Cinema crew. Today Zack gets into the weeds looking at the careers of some of the minor cast members of the film. We actually find some opinions on diverse representation in the film from the time it was released. Zack goes crazy deep looking at the career of the Crystals and our favorite wacky murder producer Phil Spector. We also look at some of the filming locations and uncover the fantastically seedy history of The Silver Dollar Room.
2022-02-1345 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 40 - Adventures in BabysittingCome back with us to 1987 where an early example of the PG-13 movie first introduced a generation of children to the concept of men's magazines and a certain word starting with the letter F. We look back at how the world has changed in the time since the release and continue our path of nostalgia. We try to figure out who this movie was really for and what a 17 year old would reasonably be able to handle in a wacky night. We once again experience the trope of criminals escalating to mass child murder really quickly. Remember... Don't FOOL with...2022-02-051h 01Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 39 - Pretty Woman - Going DeeperJoin us as we go deeper on the Class of 1990 Hollywood Walk of Fame. Who made the cut and who got a trading card? We go deep on Julia Robert's butt double and George from Seinfeld being a creeper. We discuss the tragic life of Carole Lombard and the wild history of the Lotus Esprit. We look at obscure 5th century Sanscrit plays and also spend some time on the tragic life of John Ritter.
2022-01-2359 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 38 - Pretty WomanHold on to your thigh high boots, it's time to dive into Pretty Woman. Join us as we go all the way back to 1990 and discuss Jenny's clandestine viewing of this classic romantic comedy. We wonder how George from Seinfeld ever recovered from being such a sleaze and this. If you have been spending your entire life wanting someone to do a detailed comparison between the junk grabbing techniques of Julia Roberts and Madonna, fret no more, we have done the work for you. Boy, my targeted adds and search history are getting really wierd.
2022-01-161h 10Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 37 - Body of Evidence - Going DeeperBrace yourselves, we go too deep in this one. Zack has all the sales numbers for Madonna's Sex book and describes it staring at him on the bookshelves for months. We throw down the gauntlet and challenge the Razzies. We find out that the writer of this movie also wrote the #2 movie on Zack's forbidden pantheon. Zack tries to translate a 9th century Persian medical text to find out if you can snort peony root to calm your superpowered vagina. We explore the lore of Willem Dafoe's member and Zack makes Jenny watch the only video evidence available. She is too...2022-01-101h 15Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 36 - Body of EvidenceJoin us as we go back to the very beginning of this podcast. We go into the genre that we were aware of, but was completely banished from our homes as children. Double whammy, this one also has Madonna who was also not allowed in our homes growing up. We saw the movie Body of Evidence, or should it be called Body the Murder Weapon. Guys, this is a court procedural about a woman literally being accused of murdering a rich older man through sex. This was not a good movie, but we had such a great time.
2022-01-021h 11Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 35 - Christmas Vacation - Going DeeperThe holidays are over and hopefully we all survived. We went deeper than should be expected on Christmas Vacation. We as the question, "Who is National Lampoon?" We talk about family gatherings, action figures, and 8mm porno. We talk about how ubiquitous racist depictions of AAPI are in holiday movies an how happy we are that this didn't have them... then we read the source material... frowny face... We take on squatters rights and bring the legislature of our home state to task for having extremely draconian laws about breastfeeding in public. We ask Alexa questions about human anatomy that s...2021-12-2752 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 34 - Christmas VacationWelcome to the nuthouse, we watched Christmas Vacation to get in the holiday mood. Join us as we look back and ponder how this fits into the established Vacation cannon. We ponder the little things, little things, like you. We skewer Santa and talk about the porno section of the local video store. We rent movies from the library long before that was a thing. Zack admits to past crimes and details the story of his Christmas house fire. Zack also makes a dire prediction that only Jenny's side of the family is capable of driving him stark raving bonker...2021-12-191h 07Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 33 - Scrooged - Going DeeperJoin us as we go back to 1988 and go deeper on our unanswered questions from Scrooged. We try to figure out why Jenny's mom dislikes Bill Murray so much and go on a tangent about his random late night calls to writer Mitch Glazer. We take a look at the wacky budget for this film compared to others of the time. Zack finds an internal memo about the amount of service calls that Xerox attributes to butt copying. We look at the time of 1988, the end of the Reagan years. We look at the music charts and the headlines in th...2021-12-121h 10Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 32 - ScroogedGrab some eggnog and get into the holiday spirit. We saw Scrooged, a film that was completely off the radar at Jenny's due to her mom's heeby-jeebies about Bill Murray and kept of the table by Zack's parents because of nipples. We unpack this thing and go for longer than ususal. We talk, we tangent, we wonder, and we just generally try to get into that holiday spirit early this year. Happy Holidays everyone.
2021-12-051h 17Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 31 - Batman Returns - Going DeeperWe are your reckoning, Batman. Join us as we go deeper on the unanswered questions regarding our Batman Returns episode. We try to find the line in the sand on who should not get a Happy Meal toy. We go back to 1992 to determine if Zack could have seen this for his birthday in July and whether Bill Clinton was assaulting women on a national or local level at the time. We go a little true crime discussing the police record of Paul Reubens and explore the tragic story of Miss November 1992, Stephanie Adams. We also look at the decad...2021-11-2853 minForbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 30 - Batman ReturnsJoin us as we talk about the movie that Jenny's mom straight walked the family out of at less than 3 minutes of watching. We tackle the sexier than expected Tim Burton film Batman Returns. Michael Keaton got rich doing this, Danny Devito got gross, I was a 13 year old boy who learned to spell Michelle Pfeiffer. We get in to the wild physics and tone for this. We One-der who in the world this was intended to please. We also do a creepy amount of impressions. We promise to stop if you don't like it.
2021-11-211h 11Forbidden CinemaForbidden Cinema 29 - Wild Things - GoingDeeperJoin us as we talk about all the things we forgot and left unsaid in both Poltergeist and Wild Things. We talk about the trope of the native burial ground. Zack gets really confused when trying to figure out how to count fake boobs. We go deep on advertisements for fragrances in 2004 Playboy. Zack tries to call Playboy to order a chainmail dress featured in 2004 for Jenny. Is the 800 number still valid. Are we going to post pictures. You have to listen to find out.
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