Tales from the Bargain Bin Ryan Bessin/Claire Thomas

Get the tree down from the attic and prepare your best over dinner arguments, cos it's about that time again as Claire and Ryan take a deep deep look into the Christmas abyss (abyssmass?), this time watching the wonderfully immature Will Ferrell in 2003s 'ELF' and its claymation family-friendly sing-along sequel 'Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas' using the voice talent of Gilbert Gottfried and the voice of that Turkey from the Big Bang Theory.
 
Is this the most harshly maligned SNL alumni to Movie to Broadway Musical to Claymation special ever made?
 
Is this the most selfish representation of a Santa there has ever been?
 
And can somebody please check if James Caan is awake, please?
 
Listen in, check it out, have a damn good Christmas x
 
Yell at us:
INSTA: TFTBBPODCAST
TWITTER: TFTBBPODCAST
EMAIL: TFTBBPODCAST@GMAIL.COM
 
 

Claire and Ryan have gone full renegade cop with this month's offering, watching 76's The Enforcer, the third offering into Right-Wing Gun Nut Police Brutality fantasy Dirty Harry series and Italian Poliziotteschi clone 'Shadows in an Empty Room aka Blazing Magnum' from the same year. Get your police scanners a whirling as we ask the questions round here...
Will we ever work our way through all the layers of Cpt. Saitta, to reach the gooey centre inside?
How many Magnum deaths is too few magnum deaths?
and is a prolonged car chase sequence standard Police Operating Procedure?
Listen in as we play bad cop, bad cop on this most villainous title.
 
Emergency lines:
Twitter: @tftbbpodcast
Email: tftbbpodcast@gmail.com
Insta: @tftbbpodcast

Tales from the Curmudgeonly Crypt returns this October with an Insectoid special as Claire and Ryan take a deep look into Baboon Butchery Caper, David Cronenberg's 1986 'The Fly' and it's straight to no point at all sequel, 1989's originally named 'The Fly II' starring Eric Stoltz and his lovely head of red hair.
 
What's the end game here?
Why did the constant sacrificing of animals in the name of whatever the end game is?
and why oh why is Dr. Seth dressed like Mr. Bean!?
*These questions may or may not be answered on this episode of TALES FROM THE CURMUDGEONLY CRYPT!
 
Shout at us and call us names:
Twitter: @tftbb
Insta: @tftbbpodcast
Email: Tftbbpodcast@gmail.com
Music: Brains by Lifejacket
 

This month is spy month, and Claire and Ryan certainly spied something dreadful on the horizon as they trudge through the mire to watch 1967s a classic Bond 'You only live twice', a misogyny fest featuring the most pointlessly inane plot device of all time and a not nearly racist enough (for Ryans taste) face changing operation.  Follow that cocktail up with the same years much under-discussed (see: scornfully judged) contribution to the 'Bond-verse', 'O.K Connery' (AKA: Operation Kid Brother), starring none other than Sean Connery's Plastering tradesman brother, Neil (not even a joke) and a full complement of previous Bond stars.
 
Is this how trade union disputes are normally settled?
Why does Bond fake his death so elaborately?
and Plastic Surgery, Lip Reading and Tibetan Hypnosis.  Are these the new weapons for the new spy of the new age?
Find out and possibly more on Tales From The Bargain Bin.
 
Call us names:
@tftbbpodcast
tftbbpodcast@gmail.com
Look at funny pictures on Insta to calm the screaming anxieties:
@tftbbpodcast
 

For this year's Summer Blockbuster Month Ryan and Claire enjoy a 1st class trip on 1997's RomTradge Titanic, before careening broadside-first into the floating frozen turd that is The Asylum and sinking into the fathomless depths to suffer an eternal nightmare at the bottom of the sea alongside 2010's Titanic II.
Are the icebergs getting revenge for global warming?
Can the sinking of the Titanic be attributed to a single pair of binoculars?
And when is someone going to get justice for Hubert?!?!
Join us on TALES FROM THE BARGAIN BIN!
T: @tftbbpodcast
I: @tftbbpodcast
E: tftbb@gmail.com
Music by Lifejacket

Strap yourself in, put your helmet and adjust the crotch of your Carpe Diem custom bike leathers whilst Claire and Ryan take you on a real wild ride this episode, as they take a look at 2001s High Octane, Low brow culture car toss fest 'Fast and The Furious' and then take a delve into the darkside and go a little off piste, to take a look into 2004's not so much a rip off as a failed cloning attempt 'Torque' under the instruction of Ryans good friend Neil.
Who did Adams Scotts hair in this movie?
While we're on the subject, who dressed him like that?
And where the fucking hell did he get that comedy sized key!?
Find out, and more, on Tales from the Bargain Bin.
 
Special thanks go out to Neil, who contributed much of the idea behind this episode and also his voice, opinions, and creative swearing.
 
Shout at us:
T: @tftbbpodcast
I: @tftbbpodcast
E: tftbb@gmail.com
Music by Lifejacket.