Podcasters Alex Mattis and Julio Olivera battle popular opinion by praising the movies you hate and trashing the movies you love.
To say this podcast has had a contentious relationship with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is putting it mildly. Could that change thanks to Wes Craven’s last hurrah in the series? Listen to Alex, Julio and special guest Reid Lansford as they deliver a running commentary to NEW NIGHTMARE - the remastered super meta revitalization of Freddy Kruger!
And don’t forget to attend the Otherworlds Sci-Fi Film Festival this weekend!
Read MoreThe Fly? What fly? This movie should’ve been called “The Man Covering His Head With a Jacket”. Listen to Alex and Julio as they ease out of The Autumn of the Remakes by discussing a 50s monster movie classic and discover Canadian scientists are even more irresponsible than American ones! Not just that, but it also turns out that Vincent Price was not above slumming it for cash!
Read MoreNow this is how you do it. If you’re going to dedicate a feature film to mindless carnage, then at least make it look beautiful. Listen to Alex and Julio tackle the stylish 2003 remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, a movie that proves it’s a lot easier to enjoy savagery when it’s happening to gorgeous people under a permanent Instagram filter! Is Jessica Biel’s new millennium scream queen the MVP or would R. Lee Ermey take that honor for his powerhouse performance as a guy who definitely doesn’t want you to take his guns? Only one way to find out!
Read MoreThere’s no way Texas was ever this bad, even in the 70s. Shame on Tobe Hooper for giving birth to a long running smear campaign against The Lone Star State! Listen to Alex and Julio discuss the most uneventful build-up to the most tasteless carnage ever put on a sensationalistic piece of film! And stick around for Real Talk, where they’ll search for an answer to that universal question… “WHY”.
Read MoreCelebrating five years of Contrarian Podcasting! We have games, we have clips from past episodes and, of course, we have all the awards. The Embries, The Rouseys, The Ruffalo and The Gad. If you’ve been listening to us for a while, this will be a nice trip down memory lane. If this is your first episode of The Contrarians… You might be a little confused? But still have fun? No idea. Let us know.
Read MoreAmericans. We take care of business. We fix things. We get the rights to a milquetoast French comedy and give it some oomph, make it relevant to our social issues, throw Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston in there. We’ll even add some Australian spice by giving Nicole Kidman a role. Basically, what we are saying is that THE UPSIDE, maligned as it is by the Tomatometer, is the movie The Intouchables should’ve been. Listen to Alex and Julio as they grow even prouder to be citizens of the United States while listing all the ways in which Neil Burger outperformed his French counterparts.
Read MoreFrance: a land of almost utopian racial equality. A land that gave us THE INTOUCHABLES, a much beloved film that pretends to be about friendship but actually is about psychological mind games and the most toxic relationship on that side of the pond. So much for the American remake to fix! Listen to Alex and Julio as they try to figure out how the unemployment services work in Europe, how rich you need to be to qualify for smutty junk mail and whether Omar Sy has dethroned John Travolta as the best dancer in the world.
Read MoreLong-time listeners already know how we feel about the Walter Mitty remake (if you don’t, check episode 50) but the original SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, starring Danny Kaye - the John Travolta of The 40s - is a completely different beast. It’s such a weird, contrived “star vehicle”, Alex and Julio needed the help of Ryan and Bartek, from the SPIT & POLISH podcast to analyze it properly! Listen as we find it easy to resist Kaye’s charms and struggle to endure the random fantasy sequences. And all while Ryan humble-brags about his knowledge of classic cinema!
Read MoreAs we hit the first actual remake in The Autumn of the Remakes, it becomes painfully clear that film critics don’t know what they want. The year 2010 gave them a movie that improved on the deeply flawed original adventures of one Frederick Krueger and they rejected it. They wrinkled their noses at its deliciously appropriate darkness, at Jackie Earl Haley’s monstrous performance, at the nerve the story had to try to actually make sense. Listen to Alex and Julio try to vindicate the completely underrated return to Elm Street and let them convince you it’d be awesome if we actually got a sequel or two to THIS version.
Read MoreLet’s be honest: what self-respecting adult could possibly find Freddy Kruger (the 1984 version) scary? More importantly, what self-respecting movie watcher could argue A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (original recipe) is a good film? Alex and Julio start The Autumn of the Remakes by tackling a so-called classic, the horror flick that gave us a liquified Johnny Depp, a flaky Robert Englund, and a collection of genre clichés that somehow earned a 94% on the Tomatometer. It’s almost like its only merit is that it would eventually give us an awesome remake.
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