Forbidden Cinema

We revisit the movies that were too scandalous in our youth. Did they deserve all the hype? Join us as we dive deep into Forbidden Cinema.
We revisit the movies that were too scandalous in our youth. Did they deserve all the hype? Join us as we dive deep into Forbidden Cinema.
Episodes
Episodes



Feb 19, 2024
Feb 19, 2024
34 min
Ok, things are getting wild.
We have sexy firefighters and the unreliable narrators who voyeur them in the shower.
Are there any actual fires happening? Is she setting these fires? Is a steamy night with a veterinarian who is actually a "real doctor" what this lady needs, or should she look up some BetterHelp (not a sponsor).
Come along as we wind down our Valentines binge of early 90's cable erotica for women. David Duchovny would approve.
Feb 19, 2024
34 min



Feb 16, 2024
Feb 16, 2024
26 min
Joey is back! That's right, we have the second and apparently last appearance of a not-yet-famous Matt Leblanc as a modern day bank robbing cowboy?
In this episode we have people escaping from a bank robbery on horseback. We have a kidnapping. We have a winner-take-all highest stakes game of poker.
Come along with the Forbidden crew as we start to wind down this Valentine's Day / Carnival week binging as much early 90s cable erotica for women as we can and giving our feedback.
Feb 16, 2024
26 min



Feb 15, 2024
Feb 15, 2024
26 min
Three episodes down in a week. Join the Forbidden Crew on our Valentine's week binge of the 90's erotica for women staple, Red Shoe Diaries.
Barely famous David Duchovny is phoning it in with Stella the Dog reading the diary of Amber Smith, a young fashion model who has a rendezvous with her cab driver.
We see no buttons on shirts of any kinds, a Matrix fashion show 5 years before the Matrix, more natural lighting than any episode so far, butt crack hair gleaming in the natural lighting even in SD, and a catwalk finale outfit that would have fit perfectly in place at the Grammy's last week.
Feb 15, 2024
26 min



Feb 13, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
35 min
Laissez le bon temps rouler.
Happy Mardi Gras and Happy Valentines Day!
Join the Forbidden Crew as we look at Red Shoe Diaries 202 - Naked in the Moonlight. We have some of the sexiest sex scenes so far in the series... but not much in the way of moonlight. Join us as we look at a lady with a bunch of cars getting a boner for a working class dude. There are lights dangling in the middle of industrial workspaces, open air showers, classic cars, jingly foley work on jewelry, and That 70's Show looking disturbingly like 1994.
Feb 13, 2024
35 min



Feb 12, 2024
Feb 12, 2024
31 min
Welcome to Valentine's Day week and Carnival! Plus Zack is on Vacation.We had an idea, we are going to try to do as many episodes of Red Shoe Diaries from the early 90's as we possibly can this week. They are going to be rough edits, but we are going to go until we drop.Come back with us to the early 90s as (a now famous) David Duchovny and Stella the Dog introduce us to a middle aged Jewish man, his eccentric sculptor wife, and his daughter think is the voice of female desire. In this episode the bad guy from D2 The Mighty Ducks and the girl from the Dolph Lungren flick Men of War meet up every New Years for a wild night. How can this possibly end well?
Feb 12, 2024
31 min



Feb 4, 2024
Feb 4, 2024
46 min
Welcome back! The forbidden crew look into the questions that were best left unanswered from our coverage of Caddyshack. We are back in 1980, people. We find newspapers from the week this film came out (the week Zack was born) and see what is going on in the world... spoiler alert... the world sucks in 1980.
We pause and take a look at the career of Harold Ramis, a man with 4 films on AFI's top 100 funnies. We also spend a little time looking at Brian Doyle, a strong contender for our 2nd favorite Murray brother.
We hit it all. Who is Sarah Holcomb and where did she go? Was our hometown pizza place with local or a chain? What is the deal with Fresca? How was this, Blues Brothers, and Airplane in the theater at the same time?
We take a brief Forbidden Cinema True Crime Corner interlude to look at the case of Helen Mintiks, the young violin prodigy at the MET who disappeared in the middle of a show.
Zack also makes Jenny guess which type of ad was most heavily featured in Playboy magazine this month. Will it be tobacco, alcohol, or gadgets? Also Dudley Moore is featured in one of the photoshoots this month???
Feb 4, 2024
46 min



Jan 21, 2024
Forbidden Cinema 110 - Caddyshack
Jan 21, 2024
Jan 21, 2024
1 hr 15 min
Ok, we are in the 80s here, but just barely...
We watched the movie that came out when Zack was 6 days old, Caddyshack. There are old white guys going to 11 at every moment. Chevy Chase is a creepy golf guru. RIP Cindy Morgan who plays the siren of the piece. I'm pretty sure Sarah Holcomb isn't Irish. Did we mention Rodney Dangerfield is in the movie and is hilarious he dose scare one of our cats, though.
We watched the Kenny Loggins, gopher dancing, Bill Murray mumbling masterpiece that is Caddyshack and are now better for it. Come along with us to all of the politically incorrect 1980 glory.
Jan 21, 2024
1 hr 15 min



Jan 15, 2024
Jan 15, 2024
1 hr 4 min
Join us as we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about Eyes Wide Shut. We look at the original novel and how close it is to the film. We find out that this has not been the first time this has been adapted and look into the films of Mario Bianci who directed such classics as The Erotic Adventures of Zorro.
We talk about the Guinness world record grueling shoot for no apparent reason, and look a little into what is known about this time in Tom and Nicole's lives.
Jenny continues her insistence that her hot take on the Tri Corner Hat Guy is accurate and she brings evidence to back it up. Look out, true crime podcasters, she is coming for you.
We finish looking through Playboy in July of 1999. There are some naked ladies, but we spend the most amount of time on an advertisement for a sweepstakes from Basic Cigarrettes.
Jan 15, 2024
1 hr 4 min



Jan 1, 2024
Forbidden Cinema 108 - Eyes Wide Shut
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 1, 2024
1 hr 37 min
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals, and a happy new year.
We watched the final film of a master film maker, Eyes Wide Shut. Where do we even start. This thing took years to shoot. The tabloids went crazy about the sex and relationships of the stars. One of the best directors of all time stayed up all night talking to Zalman King to get the vibe just right for a weird dreamlike orgy. Did we mention Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are in this thing.
Welcome to the 2 hour 40 minute masterpiece? of Eyes Wide Shut. Come along with us. This misunderstood piece of film history gets digested and probably even more misunderstood by us. We stay in our "barely legal" timeline of films that came out just as we were actually able to start seeing them for this one and hit up one of the Forbidden Cinema classics.
Jan 1, 2024
1 hr 37 min



Dec 17, 2023
Dec 17, 2023
1 hr 19 min
Hello friends, and welcome back to Forbidden Cinema!
This week we go deeper and answer the questions we had from our coverage of the late Matthew Perry's R-rated caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards.
If you know, you know. We start with looking into what we were curious about during our main episode on the movie. Then we look at the time it was released and try to find sources from the day to figure out what day to day life was like in news, entertainment, film, sex, drugs, and rockandroll at the time. All of the time Zack goes on crazy tangents and answers the questions better left unasked.
We have trouble finding newspapers from the early 2000s, they seem to lie in that strange pre-digital time from 2000ish to 2006ish when much of the digital world seems to have disappeared, and no one has bothered to preserve the print. We did, however, find the Playboy magazine that would have been on the shelves when this was released, and on the cover is an old friend of the podcast.
Dec 17, 2023
1 hr 19 min



