Have you ever seen a movie so bad that you decide you had to show all your friends and loved ones so they can experience the same negative experience that you have suffered through. Comedians JP Fournier and Shawn Gramiak have taken sharing cinematic nasties to a whole new level. Each week they and their guest choose a movie for the other to watch, exploring the dark, scary, confusing, and sometimes pathetic world of bad movies. They are The Movie Jerks.
We had the privilege of sitting with storyteller Martin Dockery (www.martindockery.com) playwrite/performer for such works as "INESCAPABLE" and "Delirium" and discuss one what may be considered the complex time travel film ever created. Do we get any further in understanding this puzzle of a film?
We bring back our favorite positive guest, Christian Zyp to tackle the topic of Talking Animal films. The episode was recorded back in June and kept for a rainy day. No matter when it gets released, it's still a bunch of fun.
In this episode, we invite Marcus Ryan to join us right before he starts up his Edmonton Fringe Show, "Marcus Ryan - ¿Hablas Inglés?". He wanted to see a bad action film, turns out that's precisely what we gave him... but not the way he was had hoped.
On this week's episode we get the pleasure of welcoming in Dana Andersen to the podcast. He brought to us, John Frankenheimer's "The Train", 1964's suspense/action classic starring Burt Lancaster. We get a great film to watch and wouldn't you know it... Gramiak is off doing something else. Luckily Dallas Friesen was able to take a bullet and... watch a great film.
For our 300th episode we invited back David Rae in hopes to mend some broken bridges. In the last couple of episodes that David has joined us, he has watched some films that didn't exactly sit well with him. So we invited him back to watch a Film Festival Film. All the movies in this Mystery Movie Challenge have been official selections from respectable film festivals from around the world. How could this possibly go wrong for David?
Matt Alden has returned along side with Alice Kelly, in hope of watching a film with an alien in it. Did he succeed? Well let's just say there was at least an alien in the title.
After seeing "Upgrade" we noticed that a lot of science fiction films feel the need to show body upgrades and modifications. So we bring back Kevin Alexander to explore films with biological upgrades.
To celebrate our beloved country, we brought on our favorite Canadian, Liam Leroux. Liam has unconsciously been one of the biggest fans of Canadian film, so instead of our usual 20 mystery movies we laid out 20 cases with two films each. Liam picks the case then Gramiak picks one of the two films to watch. The results redefine us as The Movie Jerks.
This episode we take a look at body horror films with Paul Matwychuk (Trash, Art, & the Movies). What we watch is so bizarre that it has to be seen to believe... or just listen to us watch it and discuss can do the trick too.
Artist of the Month is 2018 Edmonton Music Award Nominee - Kane Incognito. www.kaneincognito.com.
Taking on the Mystery Challenge once again, this time James Ross picked buddy comedies from the 80s. Will a bad comedy from the 80s hold up today?
