Sober Cinema

Thirty years of Brian De Palma making Hitchcockian events funny AND sexy. Well... maybe the sexy comes up for debate on our anniversary episode for RAISING CAIN. What is not up for debate is that the Boston Celtics did not need the front court depth offered here by one idiot host (Jairo) in their 2022 playoff series against the Milwaukee Bucks. We are nothing if not topical and on point as we continue to time travel back to 1992 at the movies. Some might say that this is the podcast that a quintessential STARZ cable movie like this deserves. And while we appreciate the hypothetical backhanded compliment we mainly thank you for the download. Continue to do just that at the links below: Support what we do on Patreon with bonus episodes and even more afterparties (you have been warned.) Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Mike @projectingfi

Thirty years of admiring the acting of Meryl Streep's butt. Along with Goldie Hawn's abs. And Bruce Willis doing his best to fend off all the lovely ladies Robert Zemeckis could throw at him all so SOBER CINEMA could come to the conclusion that objectifying women is not only funny... but right. To help us make this case we have Dr. Bone return to provide her female viewpoint on the charms of the undead. Enjoy but also check out the previous time one host discussed this film at this link as well as all the other links below: Support what we do on Patreon with bonus episodes and even more afterparties (you have been warned.) Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of remembering Jim Carrey from IN LIVING COLOR. But thankfully (?) MO' MONEY released in 1992 so we can properly immortalize the work of a couple of the Wayans brothers as they bring us a comedy... romance... thriller... that manages to be consistently off putting no matter the genre. While we attempt to not mention the much funnier sketch comedy veteran Eddie Murphy romcom BOOMERANG that released a few weeks earlier we are also struggling to not pay too many compliments to Stacey Dash. Enjoy. Maybe. Support what we do on Patreon with bonus episodes and even more afterparties (you have been warned.) Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of ignoring this entry in Sidney Lumet's filmography. That's okay though. We got to learn a thing or two from the extremely inquisitive and aggressive Ms. Griffith in this fish out of water detective story. One in which the ignorant barks out a lot of orders and is the hero for aggressively insulting the entire basis for the lives of others. As podcasters we understood the hero's journey that Melanie was on and we applaud her efforts. The movie... not so much. Support what we do on Patreon with bonus episodes and even more afterparties (you have been warned.) Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of self-imposed abstinence for Brad Pitt. But only because he's surrounded by cartoons in Ralph Bakshi's self-imposed check cashing return to animation in COOL WORLD. Unfortunately for us (and you, the listener) we get hung up on the world-building in COOL WORLD and perhaps the sexual politics of... COOL WORLD. It's uncomfortable. Enjoy! Support what we do on Patreon with bonus episodes and even more afterparties (you have been warned.) Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of the best women ballplayers being demeaned... ... by Penny Marshall! Which is not good. Shame on you, auteur. However when Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz contribute... it is admittedly pretty funny. Perhaps not so much when we do it. So we come to the defense of the best hitter to ever wear a Rockford Peach uniform and Jairo yet again gets to reminisce about another early 90s soundtrack he played while alone and unloved. Enjoy! Support what we do on Patreon with bonus episodes and even more afterparties (you have been warned.) Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of Ray Liotta being a good fella. Recorded before Mr. Liotta's passing we got an opportunity to praise him in our review of 1992 mainly because he terrorizes a possibly racist yuppie played by Kurt Russell. Sorry, Captain Ron but we will formally apologize with that film's anniversary in September. For now... one host is attacked for his love of grilled cheese while the another attacks the lovely Ms. Stowe for a notable speaking voice. It's titillating. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years ago Michael Keaton was not tall enough for Michelle Pfeiffer. Thank god. This eventually leads us to one host's undying lust for Ben Affleck but before that we discuss if Tim Burton's continued dorkdom in BATMAN RETURNS is appropriate Christmas season material for children, if using penguins with rockets is an appropriate Plan B and if Danny Devito is worthy of kissing at a Comic-Con. Another host says yes. Most definitely, yes. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years ago Goldie Hawn had a nice butt. Probably still does. Which made it all the more frustrating to listen to Steve Martin's complaints about Ms. Hawn's squatting in his empty home. An empty house constructed for Dana Delaney. This leads to a revelation from one host who knows quite a bit about early 90s television starlets. His name is Jairo. He is old. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of one host dismissing Samuel L. Jackson as any sort of threat. However that same host wants to emulate James Earl Jones upper management style. This is how SOBER CINEMA approaches Harrison Ford taking the reins from Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in PATRIOT GAMES. One thing we can all agree on though is that Mr. Baldwin may not have been the best Tom Clancy hero but he is most definitely an intimidating father figure and lover of Meryl Streep. Enjoy our well researched take on the IRA as based on this movie and the other Ford 90s joint THE DEVIL'S OWN! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of Whoopi Goldberg being a sexy nun. That's according to one person on my social media doom scrolling. However we don't take the bait there and instead mainly pick on Maggie Smith's horrible lack of martyr skills as Mother Superior along with her modest amount of racism. Also when we aren't distracted by a shirtless Harvey Keitel we make the horrific discovery that Bill Duke directed the sequel SISTER ACT 2: BACK IN THE HABIT. Nothing was learned, nothing was gained from this episode. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of Tom Cruise's hats getting no respect. This episode is about horses and so we bring on a graduate of a horse university to discuss Tom Cruise's ability or lack thereof in taming the wild stallion that is Nicole Kidman in Ron Howard's FAR AND AWAY. However one host has no need for equine experts and is more enamored with the boxing etiquette of a Scientologist while the other is oddly obsessed with Greg from DHARMA & GREG. Wasn't Dharma from DHARMA & GREG also a Scientologist? None of these answers are in the show. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Just to be clear... thirty years later Mel Gibson is still Australia's doing. Now that the elephant in the room is out of the way we get back to more topical podcast subject matter like declaring BOTH 1992's summer movie season and our 2022 Oscars recap special. We also feel very sorry for both Danny Glover the man and the character he plays in Richard Donner's (but NOT Shane Black's) LETHAL WEAPON 3. Jairo insults another beautiful white woman in Rene Russo and we insult our listeners ears by preparing them for another questionable episode on Scientology and even worse a Scientologist on a horse in FAR AND AWAY. Among all these horrific things we also shine a light on last week's guest Dave Giannini and his podcast on LETHAL WEAPON 3 on ATTACK OF THE 3RD. Awful all around. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @proj

Thirty years of Billy Bob Thornton refusing to cut his ponytail even when on the run from the law. God bless that man. Or at least that character (who knows what sins Mr. Thornton has committed.) Okay, so maybe not even his character in ONE FALSE MOVE for although he admirably hates children he also commits some other less noble crimes that lead him on a collision course with the greatest cop in Arkansas cinematic history: The Hurricane as played by Bill Paxton. One of the finest dumb characters ever committed to film we discuss this MTV Movie Award winner from Carl Franklin and how much we enjoyed it along with guest Dave Giannini of OFF SCREEN DEATH replacing a much hated co-host (Jairo.) Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is po

Thirty years of a child actor shocking us before retiring to a daytime talk show. For our regular listeners we want to apologize for not being particularly aroused by one of the pioneers of 90s "slutsploitation genre" for we do not have our regular old man Jairo on this episode. Instead guest Dave "Hey Bobby" Giannini of OFF SCREEN DEATH steps in to tell the rest of the hosts about a time before WILD THINGS existed. We choose to not believe in events before Neve Campbell and Denise Richards got in that pool but here we are; someone filmed it and we watched it. Now you listen and enjoy the titillation. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of Larry Fishburne having to field stupid questions from Jeff Goldblum. But seriously... what is a brown shower? To answer such a question we bring on our expert on bathing in Tangible Teddy from the offensive episodes of THE GRAND GESTURE. Along the way we actually watch a good movie in the month of April in Bill Duke's DEEP COVER. If you haven't seen it the clips included are carefully curated so as to just get us close enough to cancellation without crossing the line. Like we said... a good movie! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years ago Dr. Melfi was just beginning a long career of watching grown men throw temper tantrums. As you can see already (those few of you who appreciate the genius show notes) we would rather have been rewatching THE SOPRANOS than John McTiernan's MEDICINE MAN. Although one host has childhood memories of a VHS taping off of cable... he remembered the ants. The sugar. But not the thongs. This episode corrects that. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of being absolutely positive that your high school transcript holds up to English teacher investigations. This movie is silly and we disparage cats by the end of it. Also too much sex talk for a movie about dorks who are afraid of the kitty. All in all... not a bad Stephen King movie. Takes the bronze behind THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and obviously THINNER. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of Dolly Parton proving that expertise is not needed on talk radio. Thanks for that, Dolly. But also thank you for financially aiding a Covid-19 vaccine. So we here at SOBER CINEMA consider that a draw as we have our first experience of 1992's STRAIGHT TALK. Our research team had more experience with America's newest oldest sweetheart more in pictorials but even our jaded hearts have a tough time saying anything negative about this pleasant movie. James Woods is the romantic lead though. That's not great. Enjoy our latest episode anyway! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thirty years of Rosie Perez being thirsty and men just don't understand it. But we do. Well us and Siskel & Ebert. The natural progression of film criticism. What does that sound like? A Peruvian voice is no authority for black culture in America as seen in the films of 1992. So instead we rely on the two white guys on the show. White men from Kentucky. Who have no time to appreciate a man's California tan. But can VERY MUCH appreciate Rosie Perez and her needs. One thumb going up somewhere in our latest episode of SOBER CINEMA! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.