FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA

Bryan Kluger

A weekly show with celebrity guests who revisit movies that people disliked and watch them now to see how great they are with hosts Bryan Kluger, Dan Moran, Preston Barta, and Chelsea Nicole.

  1. 6D AGO

    Episode #152 - The Rules of Attraction (2002)

    On the show’s 152nd episode, Bryan and Preston head back to campus with The Rules of Attraction, the 2002 collegiate fever dream starring the late James Van Der Beek alongside a parade of early-aughts luminaries. Adapted from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, yes, that Bret Easton Ellis, of American Psycho infamy, and directed by Roger Avary, the film follows a semester in the chemically enhanced lives of morally unmoored college students. It plays, at times, like Stanley Kubrick wandered onto the set of Animal House and decided to dim the lights. The post Episode #152 – The Rules of Attraction (2002) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    2h 5m

  2. FEB 11

    Episode #151 - Milk Money (1994)

    For their 151st episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, the gang ups the ante, literally, with Malibu 151 and revisits 1994’s Milk Money, that improbable artifact in which Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris (in one of his rare turns as a gentle, flustered dad rather than a granite-faced authority figure) anchor a plot that hinges on middle-school boys pooling allowance money to hire a sex worker for research purposes. Yes, that one. It was the nineties. We were unsupervised. The post Episode #151 – Milk Money (1994) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    1h 55m

  3. FEB 5

    Episode #150 - The Pest (1997)

    Certain milestones demand champagne. Others demand a collective cry for help. For our 150th episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, the four of us, pestering podcasters marooned in Texas, chose the latter and marked the occasion by revisiting the 1997 cinematic curio The Pest. The post Episode #150 – The Pest (1997) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    2h 8m

  4. FEB 3

    Episode #149 - Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

    By the time we arrived at Episode #149 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, Gerarduary, the sacred month in which we collectively reflect on the brawny altar of Gerard Butler was breathing its final, heroic breaths, we chose to close it out not with subtlety or restraint, but with Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). This is a movie whose title alone sounds like it was generated by shaking a box of rejected Dan Brown novels. This is not to be confused with Cradle 2 the Grave, a distinction worth making if only to reassure listeners that Jet Li will not be drop-kicking anyone through a stained-glass window. The post Episode #149 – Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    1h 52m

  5. JAN 26

    Episode #148 - RocknRolla (2008)

    On Episode #148 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, the four of us are still trapped in Gerarduary, which is our month-long cinematic endurance test disguised as a tribute to Gerard Butler. Texas, in solidarity, has chosen this exact week to become the Arctic. The power grid is nervous. We are bundled up. Spirits are high. Because if you’re going to freeze, you might as well do it with a British gangster movie blasting through your living room. The post Episode #148 – RocknRolla (2008) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    1h 46m

  6. JAN 15

    Episode #147 - Geostorm (2017)

    On Episode #147 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, we find ourselves still lingering in January of 2026, a month that has overstayed its welcome and thus demanded a rebrand. We now call it Gerarduary, a ceremonial observance devoted to Gerard Butler. He's the cinematic Spartan who has spent the last two decades shouting his way through global catastrophes with admirable lung capacity. The post Episode #147 – Geostorm (2017) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    1h 53m

  7. JAN 6

    Episode #146 - Dracula 2000 (2000)

    On our first Fear and Loathing in Cinema episode of 2026, we do what any sensible group of adults would do to welcome a new year. We consecrate January to Gerard Butler. Or, as it will now be known in perpetuity, Gerarduary. This is not a bit so much as a lifestyle choice. And what better way to kick things off than Dracula 2000, the movie that announced Butler to the world with the subtlety of a leather trench coat snapping in the wind as the titular character. This was a film greenlit less because of artistic necessity and more because someone, somewhere, apparently said, “It’s called Dracula 2000, what more do you want?” History is complicated like that. The post Episode #146 – Dracula 2000 (2000) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    1h 45m

  8. JAN 4

    End of Year 2025 Awards

    The end-of-the-year episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema has arrived, like a tipsy friend barging into your living room on December 31st with a notebook full of opinions and absolutely no intention of keeping them to themselves. This isn’t an episode devoted to a single film so much as it is a cinematic reckoning or a long look back at the movies we saw in theaters in 2025. The post End of Year 2025 Awards first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

    1h 44m
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A weekly show with celebrity guests who revisit movies that people disliked and watch them now to see how great they are with hosts Bryan Kluger, Dan Moran, Preston Barta, and Chelsea Nicole.

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  • Creator
    Bryan Kluger
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    150
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    Copyright © Boomstick Comics: Your guide to Comics, Music, Film and Events in Dallas, TX 2019
  • Show Website
    FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA