Tomorrow, celebrate cinematic excellence at The Oscars, but today, celebrate cinematic feculence with our discussion of Whiteout. Meanwhile, Dan gets a strong hook contender, Elliott demonstrates his punning prowess, and Amanda tells the world’s best talking doll story. 0:00 – 0:31 – Introduction and theme 0:31 – 5:00 – We reintroduce guest co-host Amanda Melson, […]
I have been asked by the Writer’s Guild to join a group of far more distinguished writers than myself in live blogging the Academy Awards this Sunday evening. You can follow it on the “La Figa” blog on the FireDogLake site. So if you enjoy the sort of film commentary you get here, but would […]
My buddy Matt is the proprietor of of an excellent blog called Cockeyed Caravan, devoted to highlighting underrated or underseen films. Recently he’s asked various luminaries and/or people he knows to contribute their own list of movies. I think you can see where this is headed: you can see my list HERE. Thanks to Matt […]
You may associate Elliott’s expressive pipes with The Flop House, but did you know he was the announcer for The Daily Show “Decider” segments? Check a couple of them out here, in this collection of their greatest comic book moments.
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Repeat Flop House offenders Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl team up in The Ugly Truth, a terrible romantic comedy that Stuart really, really wanted us to watch for some reason. Maybe because he’s just an ol’ softie! Meanwhile, Elliott pitches his new hit tragicomedy “Bad Date,” Stuart reveals his NBC sitcom holodeck fantasy, and Dan […]
In the absence of a new movie minute this week (and the last several alternate weeks–something which will be addressed in the next full episode) we present a couple of notable non-Flop House projects from the busy Flop House crew. First off: Elliott has an article in Popular Mechanics! Yes, that Popular Mechanics! The popular […]
Don’t hate the player; hate the game. On second thought, hate the Gamer. Meanwhile, Dan laments the downfall of the previously-dependable entertaining-trash team of Neveldine/Taylor, Matt finds his new super-muscular bête noir, and Elliott comes up with a much wackier way to end an already wacky movie. 0:00 – 0:36 – Introductions and Theme 0:37 […]
