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Elliott in The Onion

Check out this interview with Elliott from the NYC edition of The Onion (yes, that The Onion). He’s talking about his 92Y screening series Closely Watched Films and not The Flop House, but it’s Elliott and movies, so we here at the podcast count that as a win.

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The Flop House: Episode #50 – Delgo

When a podcast reaches a certain age–say 50–it may find itself susceptible to a midlife crisis. It might buy itself a shiny red convertible mixing board. It may dump one of its hosts for a hot young blonde. Or maybe it just regresses, with an animated kid’s film like Delgo. Meanwhile, Elliott tries out some […]

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The Flop House: Episode #49 – Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Does the failure of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li mean we’ll never get that long-awaited Blanka biopic? We fail to answer these and other questions. Meanwhile, Stuart discusses how thugs benefit from Outlook and multi-tasking, Elliott explains how this movie would be right at home in classic Hollywood, and Dan reveals he knows far […]

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The Flop House: Episode #48 – The Chaos Experiment

Flop House’s annual SHOCKTOBER celebration concludes with the most obscure movie we’ve ever tackled (and that includes Memory)–a ecologically-minded Saw knockoff called… The Chaos Experiment. Meanwhile Dan sets himself up for one-upmanship failure, Elliott explains why some topless scenes are created less equal than others, and Stuart struggles with technologically-induced laryngitis. 0:00 – 0:56 – […]

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The Flop House Movie Minute #31 – VIDEO – The Flop House Live

Our first ever video podcast lets you join us at midnight in NYC, at the UCB Theater, for the Flop House’s guest appearance on Andy Rocco’s Hipster Show. Press the play button above to listen to this episode. Download it here, or paste https://feeds.simplecast.com/EOAFriME into iTunes (or your favorite podcatching software) to have new episodes […]

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The Flop House: Episode #47 – The Unborn

Flop House’s annual SHOCKTOBER celebration begins with the only horror movie we can think of featuring a dybbuk: The Unborn. Perhaps writer/director David Goyer should have learned the old vaudeville lesson–words with a K are funny (not scary). Meanwhile Stuart reveals his complete ignorance of celebrity scandals, Elliott shows how he passed the bar in […]

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The Flop House LIVE at the UCB Theater New York

Hey everyone who checks this blog in-between new podcast episodes* and also lives in New York City and also doesn’t mind going to a comedy show at midnight (we realize this is an ever-shrinking segment of our audience) — the Flop House is gonna do a LIVE appearance at the UCB theater in New York […]

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The Flop House: Episode #46 – Obsessed

How can an erotic thriller with horrible racial politics, starring BeyoncĂ© Knowles, be what founding Flop House co-host Simon Fisher would call “a real snore factory?” Who knows, but somehow they managed it. Meanwhile, Stuart reveals a surprising fact about sex in public bathrooms, Elliott explains how BeyoncĂ© is like a Looney Tunes character, and […]

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