Twenty-five years of Wes Anderson's quirks have worked one host's nerves.

But mainly it's the audacity to try and do DUMB AND DUMBER on the cheap. That's what we keep coming back to when we discuss the Wilson brothers breakout in BOTTLE ROCKET. Is the world of cinema big enough for TWO films examining the bonds between men formed during a life of crime and affection for travel by moped? Martin Scorsese (and more importantly the other two hosts on SOBER CINEMA) say yes. The other host is an idiot.

His name is Jairo. But you may call him Bob Mapplethorpe.

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Twenty-five years of embracing John Travolta's hyper-masculinity.

John Woo brought his over-the-top sensibilities to mainstream American success with BROKEN ARROW (never mind the earlier HARD TARGET) and landed right in the middle of the John Travolta renaissance. Unfortunately he paired this mugging masterpiece of a performance with fuddy-duddies like Christian Slater (PUMP UP THE VOLUME baby) as unbelievably his kickboxing sparring partner, Samantha Morton (also of the great PUMP UP THE VOLUME) as the world's best park ranger, and Frank Whaley as an ROTC DORK.

Thankfully SOBER CINEMA is here to make this a true two hander with Travolta and his main man Howie Long hanging out with phallic symbols in the desert.

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Twenty-five years of everyone having a crush on Demi Moore.

On this episode Alec Baldwin will teach us many a thing. First... that he is still a better parent than at least one of your hosts. Second... that even a mobster hit man must be wary of a group of people wearing discarded Super Bowl losing team t-shirts. And lastly that having an interest in Demi Moore does not make you special. You are just a dork like us. Ladies and gents, we present to you the 25th anniversary of the classic piece of cinema: THE JUROR.

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Twenty-five years of Christian Slater being a bit much.

BED OF ROSES is a sweet movie about two creeps who shouldn't be creepy together... but then again they are both saving another life by combining their creep powers. And while none of us have Christian Slater's hair (probably far closer to Mary Stuart Masterson in that department) we still produce a weekly(ish) podcast about our creepy thoughts.

And we still don't get this flick. An expert commentary track ready for your ears as we eventually talk about one host's latest Amazon purchase that avoids awkward flower deliveries or Christmas proposals. All it needs is a microwave and the occasional cleaning. Romance!

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Twenty-Five Years of Tarantino as Clooney's ugly brother.

As we continue to get lazier on this show (once there were two movies an episode, how foolish) we have handed over our film-watching fates to the gods of 1996 as we begin our journey to go week by week through the year that is well-known as the peak of cinema!

Also Salma Hayek as a vampire stripper is an obvious place to start.

Not just with movies. With anything. And who are we to question this simple fact? Along the way we debate if two and a half decades have revealed our initial enthusiasm for Ms. Hayek's monsters as the product of teenage hormones or perhaps life is a truly a flat circle and we will come to terms with now just being horny old men.

Spoiler alert: yes.

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Meryl Will Talk Anywhere... This Time on Water

We cruise (excuse us, a crossing) into the new year with The GOAT, Meryl Streep, in her latest LET THEM ALL TALK. This improvised Steven Soderbergh film finds her doing battle with Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and the next member of that gang, our co-host The Nasty Hellcat.

THE RIVER WILD from 1994 may be more his speed as in this Curtis Hanson directed film we find Streep in charge of nature but taking orders from a Kevin Bacon who can't swim. But chooses his mode of getaway travel to be water. Good decisions being made in 2021 like listening to SOBER CINEMA!

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Since not even Google Assistant will scan the content of this podcast, consider this a safe space for your hosts to prefer the comedic stylings of A.I. assisted dating in the new HBO Max original SUPERINTELLIGENCE to the endless complaining of one Theodore Trombley as seen in the Academy Award winning HER.

Also one host trains the other two on how to increase their sex line operator performance. It's a disturbing episode of SOBER CINEMA.

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Grandpa Jairo officially joins the show to defend himself against impotence.

That's the episode.

Also it's the ten year anniversary(ish) of Ed Zwick's LOVE & OTHER DRUGS. You may not know who Mr. Zwick is, nor should you care because in this film about Viagra coming to market (that's where Grandpa Jairo comes in) we get a glorious bounty of sex scenes with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. So who cares about Zwick?

Not us.

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We get our act together from the De Palma trash for a more serious minded thriller in Steve McQueen's WIDOWS. This includes playing "which of the WIDOWS has the best scowl and/or would go on a date with me?" and to answer such pressing questions about this very important heist movie we bring on David Giannini who continues to hate any and every movie that doesn't have Natalie Portman in it. Or Winona Ryder.

He is, without a doubt, the worst person you will ever hear on a movie podcast. Enjoy this episode and subscribe to his show A PODCAST DIRECTED BY!

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Noted buzzkill of lesbian activity everywhere, our guest David Giannini of A PODCAST DIRECTED BY joins the show to continue being an absolute downer at what is most assuredly the best film of 2002 in Brian De Palma's FEMME FATALE.

That is of course if your favorite movie podcast hosts could hold onto the thread with Rebecca Romijn doing a striptease and Antonia Banderas draped in leather.

Spoiler alert: they could not.