Forbidden Cinema

Forbidden Cinema 42 - Fatal Attraction

We return once again to 1987 and to Michael Douglas as we evaluate Fatal Attraction for this Valentine's Day Week.  We go deep on Donald Ducking Douglas and some of his fashion choices.  We spend an inordinate amount of time talking about how good of a boy Quincy the Dog is and how scared we are for his well being.  We divert into the best high school lunch trade and talk about times where something big happened when we were somewhere we weren't supposed to be.  We compare the D grabbing techniques of Glenn Close to that of Madonna and Julia Roberts.  We use Glenn Close's technique to compare the unknown variable of Michael Douglas's size and shape to the known variable of Dafoe and Gere.  This is some classy stuff here, people!

Forbidden Cinema - 41 - Adventures in Babysitting - Going Deeper

Welcome back to Going Deeper with your Forbidden Cinema crew.  Today Zack gets into the weeds looking at the careers of some of the minor cast members of the film.  We actually find some opinions on diverse representation in the film from the time it was released.  Zack goes crazy deep looking at the career of the Crystals and our favorite wacky murder producer Phil Spector.  We also look at some of the filming locations and uncover the fantastically seedy history of The Silver Dollar Room.

Forbidden Cinema 40 - Adventures in Babysitting

Come back with us to 1987 where an early example of the PG-13 movie first introduced a generation of children to the concept of men's magazines and a certain word starting with the letter F.  We look back at how the world has changed in the time since the release and continue our path of nostalgia.  We try to figure out who this movie was really for and what a 17 year old would reasonably be able to handle in a wacky night.  We once again experience the trope of criminals escalating to mass child murder really quickly.  Remember... Don't FOOL with the babysitter.

Forbidden Cinema 39 - Pretty Woman - Going Deeper

Join us as we go deeper on the Class of 1990 Hollywood Walk of Fame.  Who made the cut and who got a trading card?  We go deep on Julia Robert's butt double and George from Seinfeld being a creeper.  We discuss the tragic life of Carole Lombard and the wild history of the Lotus Esprit.  We look at obscure 5th century Sanscrit plays and also spend some time on the tragic life of John Ritter.

Forbidden Cinema 38 - Pretty Woman

Hold on to your thigh high boots, it's time to dive into Pretty Woman.  Join us as we go all the way back to 1990  and discuss Jenny's clandestine viewing of this classic romantic comedy.  We wonder how George from Seinfeld ever recovered from being such a sleaze and this.  If you have been spending your entire life wanting someone to do a detailed comparison between the junk grabbing techniques of Julia Roberts and Madonna, fret no more, we have done the work for you.  Boy, my targeted adds and search history are getting really wierd.

Forbidden Cinema 37 - Body of Evidence - Going Deeper

Brace yourselves, we go too deep in this one.  Zack has all the sales numbers for Madonna's Sex book and describes it staring at him on the bookshelves for months.  We throw down the gauntlet and challenge the Razzies.  We find out that the writer of this movie also wrote the #2 movie on Zack's forbidden pantheon.  Zack tries to translate a 9th century Persian medical text to find out if you can snort peony root to calm your superpowered vagina.  We explore the lore of Willem Dafoe's member and Zack makes Jenny watch the only video evidence available.  She is too busy staring at his mustache to even bother with the peen.

Forbidden Cinema 36 - Body of Evidence

Join us as we go back to the very beginning of this podcast.  We go into the genre that we were aware of, but was completely banished from our homes as children.  Double whammy, this one also has Madonna who was also not allowed in our homes growing up.  We saw the movie Body of Evidence, or should it be called Body the Murder Weapon.  Guys, this is a court procedural about a woman literally being accused of murdering a rich older man through sex.  This was not a good movie, but we had such a great time.

Forbidden Cinema 35 - Christmas Vacation - Going Deeper

The holidays are over and hopefully we all survived.  We went deeper than should be expected on Christmas Vacation.  We as the question, "Who is National Lampoon?"  We talk about family gatherings, action figures, and 8mm porno.  We talk about how ubiquitous racist depictions of AAPI are in holiday movies an how happy we are that this didn't have them... then we read the source material... frowny face...  We take on squatters rights and bring the legislature of our home state to task for having extremely draconian laws about breastfeeding in public.  We ask Alexa questions about human anatomy that she is not prepared to answer.  We also have 2 surprises, a present for Jenny, and the opportunity to let fate decide our next film.

Forbidden Cinema 34 - Christmas Vacation

Welcome to the nuthouse, we watched Christmas Vacation to get in the holiday mood.  Join us as we look back and ponder how this fits into the established Vacation cannon.  We ponder the little things, little things, like you.  We skewer Santa and talk about the porno section of the local video store.  We rent movies from the library long before that was a thing.  Zack admits to past crimes and details the story of his Christmas house fire.  Zack also makes a dire prediction that only Jenny's side of the family is capable of driving him stark raving bonkers this holiday season.  

Forbidden Cinema 33 - Scrooged - Going Deeper

Join us as we go back to 1988 and go deeper on our unanswered questions from Scrooged.  We try to figure out why Jenny's mom dislikes Bill Murray so much and go on a tangent about his random late night calls to writer Mitch Glazer.  We take a look at the wacky budget for this film compared to others of the time.  Zack finds an internal memo about the amount of service calls that Xerox attributes to butt copying.  We look at the time of 1988, the end of the Reagan years.  We look at the music charts and the headlines in the Observer Reporter.  Also Zack deep dives the December 1988 issue of Playboy and goes on an unnecessarily thorough look at the resumes of the year's playmates.