A podcast where we look at old movies and ask "Does this still work?"
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This is a heartwarming story of a hitman who protects a 12 year old girl from murderous cops and the little girl turns around and…falls in love with him? Wait, what?! No, honestly what the f- Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-wo…
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238 The Evil Dead 1981 Guest Kitt Nowokunski
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See Bruce Campbell as you’ve never seen him before…with one eyebrow. Bruce’s unibrow is the least disturbing thing to come out of this film that kicked off The Evil Dead films series. Will that unfortunate scene with the tree ruin this horror epic? Listen in as Kitt and the boys discuss. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, p…
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With this film Richard Pryor became the first black actor in US history to get a million bucks for a movie.This is also the first R-rated comedy by a black director (Sidney Poiter!) to make more than $100 million. Which is great and all but does the film still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Sti…
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236 Little Shop of Horrors 1986
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On the 19th day of the month of December in a middle year of a decade not too long before our own the human race suddenly encountered a movie musical starring Rick Moranis. Join the boys as they tap their feet and discuss if it still works. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast http…
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235 Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2005 Guest Jacqueline Carr
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In the UK pants are what Americans call underwear. Was this movie called traveling pants in England? And if so, were people disappointed when they weren’t watching a film with everyone running around in their panties? Anyway, what did Joe and George think of this movie? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This…
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234 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996
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He’s a smut peddler. She’s a drug-addled stripper. And they are…in love? That aside, the most shocking thing in this pic is being reminded that the Supreme Court wasn’t always a rubber stamp for right wing BS. Join the boys as they discuss that and anything else that pops into their heads. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more,…
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233 Ten Things I Hate About You 1999
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It’s Taming of the Shrew but set in a high school because, honestly, would you sit through Shakespeare unless it had an updated spin? Shakespeare straight is boring. Dude wrote his plays over 400 years ago. You think his stuff is still fresh? And is this movie? The boys find out. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably)…
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Paul Giamatti plays a lawyer who engages in defrauding an elderly client while getting mixed up in the life of a nice teenager and his not so nice mom. Joe hasn’t seen this movie since it came out. George has never seen it. Will it win the boys over? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Po…
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One of the hosts of this program had to manage his anger as he sat through this Adam Sandler\Jack Nicholson movie that he…did…not…like.. Listen and find out which one. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This St…
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The world’s worst mom, Boston’s dirtiest cops , a very young PI and a missing child add up to one very unusual child abduction case. Or is it a child abduction case? George and Joe look into the mystery that was Gone Baby Gone. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podch…
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Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman star. Do you enjoy all male movies with lots of shouting and no sex? Then this may be the movie for you. But what do the boys think? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This St…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a priest who might or might not be a pedo. Meryl Streep is a nun who thinks there is no might about it, he’s a pedo. Meanwhile, poor Amy Adams doesn’t know what to think. But George and Joe do. Have a listen. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https:/…
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227 Death Race 2000 1975 w/ Kitt Nowokunski
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Ever hear someone refer to vehicular homicide as “earning points?” This is where that started. Joe takes a vacation, George does history, and Kitt Nowokunski tells us all about Death Race 2000 from 1975! Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-t…
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She’s a real American hero! Join the boys as they look back at this film about a woman who joins the Navy SEALS. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/…
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We Americans have had Love American Style. We’ve had a Love Boat. We had a Love Story. And 24 years ago we got Love and Basketball. Now the boys see if it still works. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This St…
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Are the bugs the baddies or is it the human race? Well, only one of them looks fascist as hell and it’s not the insects. The boys discuss. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts h…
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We’ve seen misfits in a police academy. We’ve seen misfits in a school. We’ve seent misfits in a mall. Now, we get misfits on a submarine! Oh, boy! Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Work? on Apple P…
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Hey, you maggot!. We will not love you long time. We will not sucky sucky. But we will tell you what we think of this movie. And you will be happy about it, you goddamn communist heathen. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1…
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Moo with us! Or maybe get a place in Santa Fe? We promise, it won’t take us 525,600 minutes to tell you what we think of this movie. Housing Bias https://www.newspapers.com/image/410110939/?match=1&terms=Rent%20strike HIV https://www.newspapers.com/image/709849253/?match=1&terms=HIV%20New%20York%20City Open Mic https://www.newspapers.com/image/7098…
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Released after 9/11 and the start of the war in Iraq this film left American audiences pretty damn angry. Criminal GIs and low life, if not outright incompetent military officers, were not going with the prevailing zeitgeist to say the least. Well, it’s now been over 20 years, why not join the boys as they explore how this film plays today? Links Y…
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219 Buck and The Preacher 1972
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It’s an old movie that George has never even heard but Joe sure has. He watched it in real time, so you know it’s old, and so is he, but does it still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Work? o…
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Show Notes Look, a movie can be dumber than a box of rocks and still work…or not. We will discuss. But here is the real question, were drinking and dining establishments wildly understaffed in the late 80s? Because every place in this film looks packed and yet only one or two people seem to be on staff. WTF? Links You can rate and review us in thes…
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217 Flight of the Navigator 1986
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Technically, a child abduction movie but as Disney is the producer the abduction is done for laughs. You see the abductor is an alien spaceship that sounds an awful lot like Pee Wee Herman. Definitely a kid’s movie but does it still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https:…
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216 Batteries Not Included 1987
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Living machines from out of space having nothing better to do with their time help a bunch of New Yorkers hang on to a condemned building. Does that sound stupid? Sure. But maybe it still works? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still…
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It’s the movie that launched a sequel, a cartoon, a TV show and a remake. But does that mean it still works? Also, just how many montages can a 90 minute movie have? A lot of them, evidently. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-wo…
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214 Manhattan Murder Mystery 1993
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Our patreon people picked this minor Woody Allen movie. Can’t say here if it still works but we can mention that the women are all age appropriate and nobody wants to bed an underage child.so that’s different from Woody’s usual fare. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www…
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213 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Guest Calvin Williams
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It’s not a sequel. It’s not a remake. It’s simply another Bad Lieutenant but this time he’s in New Orleans and he is Nicolas Cage. Does that make it better or worse? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Stil…
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It is the final movie in our Union Films Series. Here we look at an 80s movie about 20s coal miners attempting to unionize under horrible circumstances. Have a listen. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This St…
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Before her Oscar willing performance here, Sally Field was a flying nun on TV and starred in a movie about smuggling 400 cases of Coors beer. So, this was a step up. Anyway, join the boys for our latest installment of Union movies month. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https:/…
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We continue our union films month with this forgotten Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto flick from 1978. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.…
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209 The Devil and Miss Jones 1941
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We kick off union movie month (in March, get it?) with this chestnut from the forties picked by our Patreons. This comedy, about a boss spying on workers who want to form a union, was a box office hit back in its day. How does it hold up over eighty years later? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still W…
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Four guys in 2010 go back in time to the 1980s and do almost exactly the sort of humor you got out of many 1980s comedies. Now two guys in 2024 go back to 2010 and judge them for it. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-108810…
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Remember Shelley Long? No? How about Bette Midler? She’s still working isn’t she? Well, Midler and Long did a movie together and a non AI George Carlin was also in it and the boys are gonna discuss. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-s…
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Boy meets girl. Girl treat’s boy like boy treat’s girls. And boy does not like this one bit. But what do Joe and George think? You’ll have to listen to find out. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Wo…
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The first and only X rated movie to win an Oscar, this story about a hustler and his ratty friend was devastating for its time. But is it still? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Work? on Apple Podc…
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204 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Guest Hillary Schwartz
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Love might lift us up where we belong and the eagles cry, on a mountain high but does that make for a good movie? Links Hillary Schwartz https://www.youtube.com/hilaryes You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still …
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Is life a malfunction? According to science we exist due to random mutations and planetary conditions developed over billions of years. Which could be read as an accident but this movie says otherwise so by all means let’s listen to it. Also, enjoy the brownface. Links Electronics Boom https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/02/business/camcorder-cd-sales-…
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Take a touch of Hackers, add a little Weekend at Bernie’s and throw in some Footloose and what have you got? A very 1980s movie, that’s what. But does it still work? Links Skateboard Technology https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune/137246679/ Poll https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/137316804/ You can r…
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When did you fall in love with hip hop? How about romcoms? When did you fall in love with those? If the answer is never to both then this may not be your movie. But what do the guys think? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-…
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It’s our 200th episode! To celebrate we hopped into a Tardis and went all the way back to 1949. Why? Because that’s where you’ll find Joe’s favorite movie of all time, The Third Man. Yes, the show's only black host loves a movie set in post World War 2 Vienna that stars absolutely no POC. Yikes. Anyway, enjoy. Links You can rate and review us in th…
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You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout. I’m telling you why. Santa Claus is coming to town. And he’s Tim Allen. You know,what? Never mind. Go ahead and cry. That’s actually the correct reaction you should have to that news. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcas…
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According to Wikipedia this film is lauded by attorneys for its accurate depiction of criminal procedure and trial strategy to which one might say, Uhhh, really? Okay, I guess.” But that aside, our hosts only care if it still works. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.…
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The son of Satan is born but, to Joe’s surprise, it’s not George! Anyway, join the boys as they decide if The Omen is a good one. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://po…
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This movie was released on November 1,1967. 10 months later Joe was born. Coincidence? Probably. But Joe never asked his parents if they were watching this flick when they were banging and now they're both gone so we’ll never know the truth.. Anyway, the film is a classic. But does it still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (an…
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You know it’s a Robin Williams movie. You know LL Cool J plays his cousin. You know the recently deceased Michael Gambon is the bad guy. Hell, you even know it’s set in a toy factory. What you won’t know is who this film was made for. Can George and Joe help solve that mystery? (Spoiler: ABSOLUTELY NOT) You can rate and review us in these places (a…
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What happens when you're a guest at a beach house and you find your host’s dead body? You pretend he’s still alive so you can keep the party going, of course. You know, like any normal person would. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-s…
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193 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994
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On the old sitcom, Married With Children, Al Bundy said four weddings and a funeral was kind of like 5 of the same thing. But that's because he was an a-hole. Listen to the podcast and find out what Joe and George think. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.co…
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192 Mean Girls 2004 Guest Kit Nowokunski
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De către Joe Dixon & George Romaka
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191 The Craft 1996 Guest Kit Nowokunski
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Our Girl Bullies series continues with girls who really don’t start out bullying anybody unless you think making a racist’s hair fall out and giving an abuser a heart attack is bullying. Some of us don’t. Anyway, Kit Nowokunski continues to sit in with the boys. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still W…
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190 Jawbreaker 1999 Guest Kit Nowokunski
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We continue our Girl Bullies series with a movie that’s a 1/3 Better Luck Tomorrow and ½ Heathers but all dead white girl. Kit Nowokunski sits in again as our guide. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 Does This Stil…
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