Podcast Like It's 1999

This week Kenny and Phil and special guest Norm Wilner, (senior film writer @ Now Toronto, Host of Someone Else's Movie Podcast) take a twisted trip to talk Neil Jordan's 1999 psychological horror movie IN DREAMS, starring Annette Benning, Robert Downey Jr., Aidan Quinn among others.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Kenny and Phil talk about the barely remembered and barely existent LA high school comedy, TRIPPIN, starring Deon Richmond, Donald Faison and Maia Campbell.    This episode was previously slated for a Friday Dump but due to scheduling issues is now our regular Wednesday drop, hope you enjoy us being baffled and daydreaming of a world where this movie was better.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Kenny and Phil talk THE BIG KAHUNA, the (tragically) Kevin Spacey starring adaptation of a recent (at the time) award winning play, The Hospitality Suite. Come listen to these two men talk and shout in a room about a movie that’s mostly three men talking and shouting in a room. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Did you know that Steve Martin had multiple comedies in 1999, do you know that it was a remake of a moderately successful Neil Simon movie, do you know that its was not only a flop critically but also a massive flop financially? Well if you did than you might have already realized that this week Kenny and Phil are talking about The Out-of-Towners on our Friday Dump.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Phil and Kenny talk about Three to Tango, a rom-com with the deliciously late 90's cast of Neve Cambell, Dylan McDermott and Matthew Perry. And in an effort to bring in a third dance partner and out de facto FRIENDS cast expert, writer and producer Tia Napolitano (Station 19, Grey's Anatomy).  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We are taking the Dump Truck for a second ride as this Friday, Kenny and Phil talk about VIRUS, a film which can be best described by its star Jamie Lee Curtis once saying "That would be the all time piece of shit...It's just dreadful... That's the only good reason to be in bad movies. Then when your friends have [bad] movies you can say 'Ahhhh, I've got the best one.' I'm bringing Virus." Hope you enjoy!!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Phil, Kenny and special guest Actress Rachelle Lefevre (Proven Innocent, Under the Dome) go Wilde for AN IDEAL HUSBAND, the witty adaptation of one of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays with starring Cate Blanchett, Minne Driver and Julianne Moore. Is it husband material or will they start writing up divorce papers? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Friday Night Dumps, where we are going to take quick and dirty looks at some of the worst, most Rotten (less than 25% on Rotten Tomatoes) films of 1999. We kick it off by taking a look at INSTINCT, the Cuba Gooding Jr. and Anthony Hopkins thriller directed by Jon Turteltaub, that was a box office bomb and probably best remembered for a video cover you might mistake for Silence of the Lambs at a Blockbuster.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kick It! This week we are busting out the CD Cases and cranking up the car stereo as we talk about some of the best jams, hits, songs and singles of 1999!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone) makes his triumphant return to Freaky Friday to discuss Discos and Dragons, the untimely demise and the long, storied legacy of one of the great series of all-time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Phil and Kenny break their furmat to dumpster dive into 2019’s meow-sical, Cats! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are excited to have a dynamic duo of dames to talk about a dynamic duo with Danes. We bring on returning guests and stars of STATION 19, Danielle Savre and Barrett Doss to talk about BROKEDOWN PALACE, the Kate Beckinsale/Claire Danes thriller about a pair of high school grads getting into some trouble. We talk to them about acting, female dynamics on screen and what they thought about the movie then and now.This week we are excited to have a dynamic duo of dames to talk about a dynamic duo with Danes. We bring on returning guests and stars of STATION 19, Danielle Savre and Barrett Doss to talk about BROKEDOWN PALACE, the Kate Beckinsale/Claire Danes thriller about a pair of high school grads getting into some trouble. We talk to them about acting, female dynamics on screen and what they thought about the movie then and now. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Melancholy begins to arise as we begin to approach the end of this fun journey we have taken. This week we talk to Deputy TV Editor at Vulture and host of the The Next Picture Show, Genevieve Koski to talk about The Little Things, the penultimate episode of Freaks and Geeks, her relationship with the show, approaching the end of a great thing and our time with these characters.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We start to year off right with an incredibly special episode as we take a look back at one of the films we’ve already covered, 200 CIGARETTES, and we talk to some of the people involved in making. First of we have Betsy Beers, a producer on the film and a variety of hit television programs such as Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. And we also have actor Guillermo Diaz(Scandal) to y’all about the non speaking part he has in this film and his career. If any podcast was ever gonna get deep into the making of a 1999 Ben Affleck, Courtney Love, Kate Hudson vehicle you’re know it would be this one! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Freaky Friday, Phil and Kenny are joined by writer, actress and comedian Becky Feldman(Talking Tom and Friends) move out of their parents' house to talk about Smooching and Mooching, the 16th episode of Freaks and Geeks.  We get into Becky’s relationship with the show, getting into fights with our parents, the awkwardness of having a crush and having to tell them, the power of smooching, our favorite moments from the episode and our thoughts on the beginning of the end for Freaks and Geeks as the show begins to come to a close for its first and only season.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This jolly old, merry old Christmas we are joined once again by one of our absolute favorites returning guests Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff to talk about the Christmas Cinema of 1999. We get into the Cheese, Shmaltz, Corny and maybe even Horny? Stuff that was released for or around Christmas in 1999 and what it says about how we were treating Christmas in ‘99. We also reminisce about our own Christmas’ that year and genuinely have a Merry old time talking to one of our nicest friends.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Freaky Friday, Kenny and Phil are joined by TV writer Chuck Hayward(Dear White People, Mixed-Ish) and struggle to figure out whether to tell you that they talk about the Noshing and Moshing, the 15th episode of Freaks and Geeks. We get into Chuck’s relationship with the show, going to parties, being attracted to older people, having to keep secrets from someone and our favorite moments from the episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Week, Kenny and Phil break out their glasses and calculators to take a look at the Box Office Numbers of 1999. And to be able to get in depth and know what we are talking about we brought on not just a Box Office Guru but THE founder of the website Box Office Guru, Gitesh Pandya. They talk about the flops, bombs, surprise hits and record breaking successes and everything in between because in a year with this many wonderful movies there are sure to be winners and losers at the Box Office. They say numbers don’t lie so we figure out what movies they tell harsh truths about, what movies they sing the praises of and what movies we as audiences just plain let down. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are double dipping on the Hunter Convington (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Stacy Traub (Black-ish)of it all as we bring them back to get morbid over DEAD DOGS AND GYM TEACHERS THE 14th episode of Freaks and Geeks. This 14th Freaky Friday we talk to them about their relationship with the show, our favorite moments from the episode and how we feel about the show this late in its run.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are rejoined by writer/producers Hunter Covington (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Community) and Stacy Traub (Black-ish, The Real O'Neals) to talk about one of the best comedies of 1999, the Eddie Murphy/Steve Martin film making farce, BOWFINGER. We talk about the careers and our fandom of two of the biggest stars of the 80s pushing their stardom into the Late 90s, the film's randomly impressive supporting cast and run through some of our favorite bits from the movie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.