Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

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A second look at our favorite movies, without the fog of nostalgia

  1. 4D AGO

    602: Red Dawn (1984). Cold War Problems Answered With Hot Lead. An Eighties Tale.

    Send us a text This 80s brat pack weren't your standard yuppie romantics, they were hardened killers. Swayze puts his Roadhouse kill count to shame in this cold war thriller that scared the crap out of us, but taught us the only good commie was a dead commie.  Wolverines!

    1h 1m

  2. JAN 28

    Planet of the Apes (2001): Spreading Monkey Pox To Every Movie Since

    Send us a text The movie that bravely pooped in its hand and flung it at the audience.  The boys short circuit after their viewing of this Burton remake of one of their favorite childhood movies.  Ape puns, unwarranted cynicism, and nervous breakdowns are only the start in this infamous episode from years ago.

    1h 3m

  3. JAN 19

    601 Robin Hood (1991): Everybody Has An English Accent Except Kevin Costner.

    Send us a text Season Six begins with possibly our least favorite selection in the history of the podcast. We were taught if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. We managed 53 minutes though. Not bad.

    53 min

  4. JAN 14

    Cliffhanger (1993): Rocky plays Die Hard in the mountains. A retrospective

    Send us a text Gabe (Stallone) manages to keep the vaguely European terrorists flummoxed but only when he's not making the googly eyes to annoyingly cute 90s girl Janine Turner.  Lots of catch phrases, toxic masculinity and enough quality deaths to keep even the most cynical viewer in a state of guilty pleasure.  Uber dorky head villain John Lithgow steals the show as far as your hosts are concerned.  So enamored, the boys decide to discuss their favorite over the top movie villains.

    53 min

  5. JAN 5

    Escape From New York (1981) SE05;EP26

    Send us a text The gang celebrates their Season 5 finale with a real pisser, Escape From New York from 1981.  Riddled with violence, gratuitous nudity, smoking, and Ernest Borgnine, this beauty is a true product of its time.  The boys can hardly contain their joy as each wonderfully dirty scene is flushed out with pure guilty pleasure confidence.  Inspired the ridiculously cast Donald Pleasence as the President, the boys discuss other movie presidents that make us wish real life could be more like the movies.

    57 min

  6. 12/24/2025

    Grumpy Nostalgia: ReMembers Only - #7: Chestnuts Roasted

    Send us a text New content? A Christmas miracle.  The gang go down memory lane this time to relive Christmas in the 70s.  A time when we put lead tinsel on our tree and added enough hot lights to a dead, dry trees that Prometheus himself was worried.  From barfing at your elementary school Christmas program to debunking the entire Kris Kringle conspiracy, we're covering it all.  Oh and Lite Brites!   Keep the change you filthy animals!

    37 min

  7. 12/15/2025

    Elf (2003): A Grumpy Nostalgia Half-Assed Christmas Special, part III

    Send us a text OH MY GOD! We know him. We know him.  Our Christmas memories episodes come to a welcome close with the arrival every everybody's favorite holiday movie except for Christmas Vacation and a Christmas Story.  We haven't done those yet so they don't count.  Merry Christmas you filthy animals

    1 hr

  8. 12/08/2025

    Die Hard (1988): A Grumpy Nostalgia Half-Assed Christmas Special, part II

    Send us a text Is it or isn't it? Who cares, we say. The boys go back to 1988 to ponder when a man could be the lead in an action movie.  And that man could smoke, swear, kill people, and still be the hero.  This one also features one of our greatest performances ever, Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber.  All other movie villains have paled in comparison since.  The gang attempts to tackle the issue of this being a xmas movie or not, but their argument runs out of gas pretty quickly and they simply move on.  Welcome to the party pal!

    52 min
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