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Eddie Murphy, Action Star?
Mike and John revisit Memorial Day weekend 1994, which saw the release of Desperate Remedies, Beverly Hills Cop III, Little Buddha, & The Flintstones.
Highly Stylized
Mike and John revisit the weeks of 5/6 and 5/13 in 1994, which saw the release of Being Human, Crooklyn, and the seminal superhero work, The Crow. Of the features released, The Crow, Brandon Lee's final film due to the tragic accident that occurred...
It's Bad, Girls
Mike and John are back, revisiting the the last two weeks of April 1994. April 22, 1994 gave us Bad Girls, Chasers, and The Inkwell. April 27, 1994 gave us You So Crazy, Martin Lawrence's concert movie. April 29, 1994 gave us The Favor, I Am My Own...
Surviving This Podcast
Mike and John explore the week in 1994 which saw the release of Naked in New York, Serial Mom, Living Buddha, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Backbeat, Cops and Robbersons, In Custody, Surviving the Game, Two Small Bodies, and Disney's White...
Why Don't I Like This?
Mike and John revisit the sole release from this week in 1994, "Threesome." Starring Lara Flynn Boyle, Josh Charles, and Stephen Baldwin, it explores the sexual mores of the era and tries to deconstruct them to tell a human tale of three people...
Bluth, Short & Sheen
25 years ago this week, studios were hoping to capitalize on families gathering for the Easter weekend. Movie theaters saw a veritable flood of new releases. Don Bluth continued to challenge the Disney machine with Thumbelina, featuring music by...
Tupac, The Actor
Mike and John revisit the week in 1994 that saw the release of The Blue Kite, D2L The Mighty Ducks, and Above the Rim, a basketball-high school-family-coming-of-age-inner-city-crime-drama featuring Tupac Shakur and Leon.
They're Brothers
Mike and John continue walking through 1994 as they encounter the week that released Bitter Moon, Oh, Woe is Me, Monkey Trouble, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, The Paper, and Suture.
When Quirky Comedies Roamed Free
Mike and John revisit the week in 1994 that saw the release of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Guarding Tess, The Hudsucker Proxy, Lightning Jack, and The Ref.
It Could've Been Number 1
Mike and John revisit this week in 1994, which saw the release of Angie, The Chase, China Moon, Greedy, Latcho Drom (Safe Journey), Sirens, and Where the Rivers Flow North. Which did they see? Which was promised as a forgotten awards contender?...