Total Movie Recall

Written by: Steve Albertson & Ryan Mixson
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  • Total Movie Recall is a free-wheeling film nostalgia podcast in which hosts Steve Albertson & Ryan Mixson each have painstakingly assembled a list of movies that have touched them in some way at a specific moment in their lives. The hosts alternate rolling dice at the end of each show to determine which film will be explored in the following episode.
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  • TMR 066 – Full Metal Jacket

    TMR 066 – Full Metal Jacket
    May 4 2021
    This week on Total Movie Recall, we go to the suck. Steve develops a thousand yard stare reserved for veterans of nightmare wars and mediocre podcasts. Ryan chalks up another point in the Irresponsible Father column, reflecting on his father’s prudent decision to let him watch this vision of insanity at a tender age yet again. If you listen to this episode, you can go to my house and fornicate with my sister. Full Metal Jacket (1987) d. Stanley Kubrick w. Gustav Hasford based on his novel The Short-Timers Starring: Matthew Modine as Pvt. Joker Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Pyle R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman Dorian Harewood as Eightball Kevyn Major Howard as Rafterman Arliss Howard as Pvt. Cowboy Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis, quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant, and pudgy Private Lawrence, nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué. Things discussed in the show: Willy Wonka Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall) Zack Snyder's Justice League (Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, J.K. Simmons) The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah) Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer) 300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham) Joss Whedon gets canceled Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford) Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison) Mel Gibbson uncancelable? Toxic fandom Firefly (Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass) Moulin Rogue! (Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo) Luc Besson Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Carson Daly) Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, Thunder Levin, Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard) Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) George Burns Sean Connery Larry Sanders Show (Dennis Klein, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Wallace Langham, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Piven) Billy Crystal Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly) Kitbag - new Napoleon film (Ridley Scott, David Scarpa, Joaquin Phoenix, Jodie Comer) Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch painter Visual Tone Poem François Truffaut on war films Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore) John Wayne The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien The Mickey Mouse Club theme song Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) Jungian duality of man Next week: UHF
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • TMR 065 – Harold and Maude

    TMR 065 – Harold and Maude
    Apr 27 2021
    This week on Total Movie Recall, we watch the first Manic Pixie Dream Girl ever on screen, who is not a girl at all, but is most decidedly a woman. It’s the perfect post-2020 movie, and not just because of the constant suicides. It’s twee and precious and we absolutely loved it. Harold & Maude (1971) d. Hal Ashby w. Colin Higgins Music by: Cat Steven (Yusuf Islam) Starring: Ruth Gordon Bud Cort Vivian Pickles Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic relationship, in which they explore the tired theme of the meaning of life with a fresh perspective. Things discussed in the show: Savages (Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively) Santa Muerte Dunkirk (70mm, Christopher Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance) Overlord (Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier) Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki) 1917 (Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays) Rolling Thunder (Vietnam POWs, John Flynn, William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes) Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino) Mental health and the military The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith) The Last Blockbuster (documentary, Smash Mouth, Taylor Morden, Lauren Lapkus, Sandi Harding, Ken Tisher, Doug Benson, Doug Loves Movies podcast, Kevin Smith, Samm Levine, Brian Posehn, Jamie Kennedy, Ron Funches, Ione Skye, Lloyd Kaufman, Troma, Paul Scheer) Clerks (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Scott Mosier) Letterbox app Streaming services Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) King Billy Corgan, monarch of Chicago Suicide Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden) Next week: Full Metal Jacket
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • TMR 064 – The Neverending Story

    TMR 064 – The Neverending Story
    Apr 18 2021
    This week on Total Movie Recall, we learn that while some stories never end, mothers do, and that’s the beginning of how a serial killer is made in this unflinching look inside the mind of one disturbed little boy. Hang in there with us, listen to this, and watch it again and try to tell us you didn’t witness a psychotic break as this poor boy retreats inside the dark fantasies of his mind. The Neverending Story (1984) d. Wolfgang Petersen w. Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel Music by Giorgio Moroder Starring: Noah Hathaway as Atreyu Barret Oliver as Bastian Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny Frank Oz On his way to school, Bastian ducks into a bookstore to avoid bullies. Sneaking away with a book called "The Neverending Story," Bastian begins reading it in the school attic. The novel is about Fantasia, a fantasy land threatened by "The Nothing," a darkness that destroys everything it touches. The kingdom needs the help of a human child to survive. When Bastian reads a description of himself in the book, he begins to wonder if Fantasia is real and needs him to survive. Things discussed in the show: Christopher Nolan Carl Jung Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James) Snowden (Edward Snowden, Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo) Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney) Oliver Stone's memoir - Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game The Social Network (David Fincher, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake) 3rd Rock From the Sun (Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Wikileaks and Julian Assange The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill) Natural Born Killers ( JFK ( Any Given Sunday ( The Disaster Artist ( The Room ( Rocky Horror Picture Show ( Midnight screenings of Rocky Horror and The Room The Crown ( Repo Man Dangerous Liaisons ( Downton Abby The Remains of the Day - novel ( Conan, Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs George Miller Next week: Harold and Maude
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    1 hr and 45 mins

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