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Movielife CrisisBad BoysMike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are on the case—and so are we. This week, we’re diving into the 1995 action-comedy that launched Will Smith and Martin Lawrence into blockbuster stardom and taught a generation the value of slow-motion explosions. We talk Bayhem before it had a name, buddy cop tropes at full volume, and the weirdly electric chemistry between two guys just yelling at each other for two straight hours. Plus: a very 90s soundtrack, Tea Leoni’s underrated performance, and the eternal question—what IS Mike Lowrey’s actual job?Come for the nostalgia, stay for the ho...2025-06-231h 11
Movielife Crisis1994 Nathan's AwardsYeah, it is awards season on Movielife Crisis, here in the taint part of 2024. Our top performances, scores, movies, and more from our 1994 movie season!Support the show2024-12-3053 min
Movielife CrisisThe Shawshank RedemptionTurns out Stephen King books don't all feature scary clowns. In fact this one has zero clowns, but instead has incredible performances by Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, and others as well. Is it the best movie of 1994? The best King adaptation?Tune in to find out, this week on Movielife Crisis!Support the show2024-11-2559 min
SADurdays hosted by Hunter deBlancSADurdays Episode 41 (7/27/24) special guest Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife + I Am The Avalanche)Our guest on next weekend’s show will be Vinnie Caruana.
Vinnie is the singer of the bands The Movielife and I Am The Avalanche. You can also hear him releasing solo tunes under his own name.
We’ll be chatting about the history of both bands, getting signed to Drive Thru Records, a 40 hour train ride the band endured, and much more on the show.
I’ll be playing songs from both The Movielife and I Am The Avalanche, and a solo track or two from Vinnie, as well an eclectic mix of gen...2024-07-2814 min
Movielife CrisisThe MaskWe begin Jim Carrey Month here at Movielife Crisis with the surprise hit, The Mask.Other than wild FX and the first appearance on screen from Cameron Diaz, is there anything noteworthy about it? Well, yeah! Richard Jeni!Support the show2024-04-0154 min
Sappenin’ Podcast with Sean SmithEP. 271 - Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife / I Am The Avalanche)Face or Kneecaps? Self-proclaimed ageing frontman, pop-punks vocal blueprint and your favourite emo best friend, Vinnie Caruana, is our guest on Episode 271 of Sappenin' Podcast! The Movielife, I Am The Avalanche and solo creative, takes a honest look back on inspiring a generation of delinquent songwriters, never taking life for granted and experiencing two decades of childhood dreams. In this conversation, VC opens up on mentally balancing all his projects, why they were never meant to coexist, The Movielife original break-up vs nostalgic growth, celebrating twenty-one years of 'Forty Hour Train Back To Penn', starting to produce younger artists...2024-02-021h 17
Movielife CrisisCliffhangerOur first entree into the catalogue of Sylvester Stallone, here with John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, and a pretty deep ensemble cast. One of the top 10 box office movies of 1993, Stallone rock climbs in fingerless weightlifting gloves and fights John Lithgow on a helicopter.A wild time, 1993 was. Support the show2023-09-251h 01
Movielife CrisisFor Love Or MoneyOne of the two underrated Michael J. Fox movies that came out in '93, we wound up on this one over Life With Mikey just on pure chance.Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Raising Arizona), and co-starring Gabriel Anwar (Scent of A Woman, Burn Notice), this is a tight 90 minutes full of quips and behind the scenes in a big hotel. Unfortunately it doesn't exist digitally anywhere in 2023, so it's really hard to watch legally. But still, search the movie on youtube and you might get lucky!Support the show2023-09-111h 07
Movielife CrisisThe FugitiveTommy Lee Jones, in an Academy-award winning role. Harrison Ford, with a beard. Joe Pantoliano, aka Joey Pants, stealing scenes. Julianne Moore, mostly on the cutting room floor. The third biggest movie of 1993, it's the Fugitive! Now let's have a hard target search of every doghouse henhouse barnhouse and outhouse in the next fifteen miles!Support the show2023-08-281h 10
Podioslave PodcastEp 181: Vinnie Caruana and Brian McTernan on 20 Years of The Movielife - ‘Forty Hour Train Back to Penn’In episode 181 of the podcast, we’re rejoined by Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife, I Am The Avalanche) and Brian McTernan (Producer, Battery, Be Well) to discuss 20 years of The Movielife - ‘Forty Hour Train Back to Penn’.
We talk the start of their relationship including Brian producing The Movielife’s previous releases, the writing of the album, memories in the studio, the history of the album artwork, and the band's subsequent breakup that same year. We also dig into Vinnie and the band recently playing this album in it’s entirety for a string of live shows. This could...2023-08-281h 10
Movielife CrisisTombstoneNot only one of the finest frozen pizzas of our childhood, this classic western is both fairly historically accurate about the last chapter of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the OK Corral, and also a tour de force from Val Kilmer. Insanely quotable still today!With a wild ensemble featuring Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Charlton Heston, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Priestley, Billy Zane, Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese from Terminator), and Michael Rooker (Yondu from GotG).Support the show2023-08-141h 12
Movielife CrisisThe ProgramThe deep cut gritty college football flick from David S. Ward (Sleepless in Seattle, Major League), starring James Caan, Kristy Swanson, Craig Sheffer, Omar Epps, Halle Berry, Duane Davis, and Andrew Bryniarski is coming at you like Lattimer's head comes at a car window after he gets a starting job. JT loves it, Jeff hasn't seen it -- how does it hold up?Support the show2023-07-311h 05
Movielife CrisisRookie Of The YearRosenbagger! This classic kids/sports comedy from Daniel Stern (director, brilliant comic sidekick) and starring Thomas Ian Nichols (American Pie) is an absolute blast. Especially if you're ages 5-13. Or if you were that age in 1993. Join Jeff and JT as they break it all down, plus our annual check-in from intern Mike Jones. Support the show2023-07-171h 00
Two Week Notice#149: Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife / I Am The Avalanche)This is Vinnie Caruana's second time appearing on the podcast (part one was recorded in 2021). Vinnie currently has three active musical projects: The Movielife, I Am The Avalanche, and he sings / plays acoustic guitar as a solo act. On this episode, we discuss: the current state of the hardcore / punk / emo scene, nightmare international border crossings, touring, the children's book that he wrote, micro-dosing psilocybin mushrooms, and more.
This podcast episode features cameos from:
Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional)
Travis Stever (Coheed & Cambria / L.S. Dunes)
Eddie Reyes (Taking Back Sunday 1999...2023-07-0658 min
Movielife CrisisLast Action HeroThis bizarrely entertaining action-genre satire is one of the most fun movies we've ever done on the pod. Arnold Schwartzenegger stars, with cameos from Danny DeVito to Sharon Stone to Little Richard. Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator), written by Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, A Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), and scored by Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), this thing should've been huge.It eventually found it's niche as a cult film, but it's an absolute delight!Support the show2023-07-031h 03
Movielife CrisisJurassic ParkJaws on land coming in hot as the biggest movie ever when it was released. From Spielberg and Michael Crichton, with help from ILM, John Williams, and Jeff Goldblum, this monstrosity of a monster movie made nearly a billion dollars in 1993, becoming the biggest movie of all time (until it was dethroned by a large boat in 1997). Support the show2023-06-191h 16
Movielife CrisisSleepless in SeattleTom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Nora Ephron team up for one of the best romantic comedies in history.Does it feature Meg Ryan being super creepy towards Tom Hanks while wearing a trenchcoat? 100%.Does it also feature Rob Reiner and Rosie O'Donnell as hilarious best friends to our respective leads? 100%.Support the show2023-06-051h 05
Movielife CrisisThe SandlotPICKLE! Listen up, you L7 weenies, it's finally time for the Sandlot.Nothing like a cult classic ensemble comedy about pre-teens in 1962 playing baseball to get our nostalgia juices really flowing.Man, do we love us some baseball movies!Support the show2023-05-221h 01
Movielife CrisisThe FirmTom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gary Busey, Wilford Brimley, and David Straitharn (+ Holly Hunter) all "star" in this John Grisham adaptation that ends up being the 5th biggest movie of 1993.How did it happen? Is this the first movie Tom Cruise does the now famous Cruise run? These questions and more answered by Jeff and JT within the episode. Support the show2023-05-0859 min
Movielife CrisisDazed and ConfusedThe Richard Linklater cult classic coming of age comedy from 1993, here with us at long last. Featuring Jason London, Anthony Rapp, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Cole Hauser, and introducing Matthew McConaughey!Stellar cast, incredible soundtrack, and a must watch for potheads of all ages. Support the show2023-04-2458 min
Movielife CrisisSo I Married An Ax MurdererBefore there was Shrek, Fat Bastard, or the Pentavarit, there was Stuart Mackenzie in So I Married An Ax Murderer. Jeff and JT go back to the cult classic dark comedy that's highly quotable and also mildly watchable, because how could they not?Support the show2023-04-1051 min
Movielife CrisisSister Act 2 featuring Ryan Toby & Mervyn Warren!Jeff and JT pulled out all the stops for this cult classic sequel to 1992's Sister Act.There are exclusive interviews with not just Ryan Toby, who plays Ahmal (and destroys Oh Happy Day), but also the guy responsible for those timeless choir arrangements: 5-time Grammy winner Mervyn Warren!Incredible never heard before stories from the making of Sister Act 2, yeah, that happened. Support the show2023-03-271h 18
Movielife CrisisRobin Hood: Men In TightsMel Brooks, the king of film parody, writes and directs this 1993 movie taking on Prince Of Thieves and just generally lampooning the Robin Hood mythology. Cary Elwes (with an English accent!), Richard Lewis, Dave Chappelle (in his first ever movie), Tracy Ullman, and more round out the cast. Highly quotable but strangely slow, and Jeff and JT break it all down for you. Support the show2023-03-1358 min
Movielife CrisisIndecent ProposalThe classic erotic thriller (that's not especially thrilling or erotic) featuring Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson, and Demi Moore. Plus the always delightful Oliver Platt!Support the show2023-02-2754 min