A podcast that looks back on the films of the 1990s, an "undiscovered decade" for the four co-hosts.
For July 1994, get ready for an explosive showdown between two of our finest American actors, Jeff Bridges & Tommy Lee Jones. One's a bomb squad captain, the other a mad bomber formerly affiliated with the IRA. Hopefully they won’t end up…Blown Away!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Boston Bomb Squad leader Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges, in his first action role at 45 years old) is on the verge of retiring so that he ca…
For June 1994, we all got some basic training about the Bard! Danny DeVito returns as Bill Rago, an ex-ad man who must teach some army brats English aptitude if they’ll ever become worldly soldiers. If anyone can do it, it’s Bill, a true…Renaissance Man!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: If you’ve been living under a rock all these years, then you may have missed out on one of the greatest animated sitcoms in television…
For May 1994, we dug up the live-action adaptation of one of the most beloved cartoons on TV. If you’re hoping for a boulder slate this month, look no further than our review of John Goodman and Rick Moranis as we talc about…The Flintstones!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: If you’ve been living under a rock all these years, then you may have missed out on one of the greatest animated sitcoms in tele…
For April 1994, another Ray Liotta film pops up, where he plays an ex-Marine imprisoned on an island (in a futuristic 2022)! There he’s left to fight against roving gangs led by Stuart Wilson & Lance Henriksen. Will he ever get out, or is there…No Escape!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: In the dystopian future of 2022 (!), ex-marine John Robbins (Ray Liotta) is sent to a prison island for murdering his commanding offic…
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage) feels like he is stuck in the Siberia of all assignments while looking after the widowed former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). The oddball pair are often at odds, because Doug wants to see some action while Tess just wants some peace and quiet....
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage) feels like he is stuck in the Siberia of all assignments while looking after the wido…
Here are the winners of the 23rd Annual Golden Raptors! Thanks to everyone who voted!
The Barbenheimer effect has been strong for the entire course of awards season, and the Golden Raptors are no different! Both Barbie and Oppenheimer scored the most wins at the 23rd Annual Golden R…
For February 1994, we check in on 1992’s Sexiest Man Alive! Nick Nolte finds himself in charge of his estranged daughter after his ex-wife gets shipped off to jail. Can he take care of her and balance an acting career? Maybe he’ll say…I’ll Do Anything!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Actor Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte) is forced to take in his daughter (Whittni Wright) after his ex-wife gets sent to jail. How can he balan…
Voting is now live for the 23rd Annual Golden Raptor Awards, my personal picks for the best in film of 2023! Click through to read about the nominees, and vote for your favorites!
Welcome once again to the Golden Raptor Awards! This is our 23rd year, believe it or not, and we’ve no signs of stopping! We’re in a bit of a crunch mode this year, as we want to be in …
It is deglamorizing stunt casting for Barbra Streisand to merely sully herself as a sooty, choleric pr******te and her closeup in the jail cell looks like an Annie Leibovitz photoshoot about streetwalking. When it is expounded that she is a ho**er of white-collar clientele, her pret-a-porter demeanor is suddenly elucidated. Streisand's apoplectic tantrums consist of too much succubus mugging (ex. Her tirade against "quacks" is a monologue out of drama class and her acting is synthetic). ...
It is deglamorizing stunt casting for Barbra Streisand to merely sully herself as a sooty, choleric pr******te and her closeup in the jail cell looks like an Annie Leibovitz photoshoot about street…
An aversion to anything in modern society could vulcanize a character like author Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) as a sedentary monument of golden-age thinking but Hurt is charmingly amenable to the vagaries of today's innovations. Rather than being aghast over quiz shows and other pastimes, he is beautifully tabula-rasa. The movie-within-a-movie ('Hotpants College II') is a torrentially funny send-up of the 80's s*x romps like 'Porky's' (the disciplinarian female teacher's appearance is redolent of Beulah Balbricker)....
An aversion to anything in modern society could vulcanize a character like author Giles De’Ath (John Hurt) as a sedentary monument of golden-age thinking but Hurt is charmingly amenable to th…
For January 1994, we look at a film that Tim Burton turned down (to make his masterpiece Ed Wood). The goth king almost combined his talents on SNL star Chris Elliott’s silver screen debut, but the oddball antics may have been too much? This is…Cabin Boy!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: To start out the latest season, we take to the high seas to watch Nathaniel Mayweather’s misadventures! Chris Elliott takes his …
In typical Sterling Archer fashion, he is festooned with the Bond trope of two sc****ly clad women in his bed. The offbeat, quizzically uncouth twist in which the series and character upends the espionage genre when the nominal spy is so hungover that he is baffled as to what country he is in. This delectably picaresque, nonsequitir-chockful series finale augments the show's strengths as the globe-trotting adventure is spliced with the mundane drudgery of workplace water-cooler tedium like a mutiny spurred by the misunderstanding of an interoffice memo. ...
In typical Sterling Archer fashion, he is festooned with the Bond trope of two sc****ly clad women in his bed. The offbeat, quizzically uncouth twist in which the series and character upends the es…
On the first day of the new year, why not look back…..thirty years in the past, for our Best of 1993 episode! We picked our favorites and combined them for an inclusive look at the fourth season of our podcast!
For the latest episode of the Undiscovered Decade podcast, we’re doing something a little different. Over the past year, we’ve looked back at the hidden gems of each month from the year 1…
For December 1993, we looked back to the pivotal moment when the US attempted to negotiate with warrior Geronimo to ease the subjugation of the Apache people. Wes Studi, Matt Damon & Robert Duvall lead an all-star cast with…Geronimo: An American Legend!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Cavalry Lieutenant Charles Gatewood (Jason Patric) is tasked by General George Crook (Gene Hackman) with looking over the Apache tribe…
For November 1993, two directing titans of the 90s got together to make an underrated film! Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner followed up their Oscar wins with a cat and mouse chase across Texas. Will everything go right for them? Maybe in…A Perfect World!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Career criminal Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) finds himself on the run alongside a child hostage after breaking out of jail. While Texa…
Gregory Peck being propositioned for a braille party is hastily risque in the best way. A blackout is a prime setting for nocturnal cloak-and-dagger tomfoolery and Peter Stone enlists it as a clandestine metaphor for the clockwork amnesia-fugue case of David Stillwell (Peck). Amidst his diurnal routines and beseeching the "usual" elixir at a local watering hole, Peck is as mystified as the viewers as to why he is recognized by certain people and is a virtual unknown to others....
Gregory Peck being propositioned for a braille party is hastily risque in the best way. A blackout is a prime setting for nocturnal cloak-and-dagger tomfoolery and Peter Stone enlists it as a cland…
Ivan Passer morcellates the druggie philosophy of J.J. (George Segal) into a montage of box transition in an effort to pacify them as diurnal banalities. By doing so, the caper aspect of J.J. unsuccessfully heisting a safe is palatable without being romanticized. 'Born to Win' is a shaggily terse elixir in which Segal's reprobate charm is firing on all cylinders (especially when he is casually confronted by Parm (Karen Black, the insouciant owner of the car that he is plundering)....
Ivan Passer morcellates the druggie philosophy of J.J. (George Segal) into a montage of box transition in an effort to pacify them as diurnal banalities. By doing so, the caper aspect of J.J. unsuc…
For October 1993, we listened in and found a film whose soundtrack was more famous…When four pals take a bad detour, they end up on the run after witnessing a murder. Putting their friendships - and lives - on the line, this is their…Judgment Night!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Four friends (Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr, Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff) just want a night on the town to relive old adventures.…
'Anguish' isn't just clenchingly nerve-fraying for those with acute eye sensitivity. Within ten minutes, a scalpel is perforating a retina during surgery and it is exceptionally squeamish. But before that, a pigeon is fluttering around John Pressman's (a sorrowfully henpecked Michael Lerner in Norman Bates mode) antiquated abode and its re-captivity is wrung for asphyxiating suspense as well. Zelda Rubenstein is creepily offbeat (her telepathic-link device is a seashell and her fe**sh is snails) as John's hypnotizing mother....
‘Anguish’ isn’t just clenchingly nerve-fraying for those with acute eye sensitivity. Within ten minutes, a scalpel is perforating a retina during surgery and it is exceptionally s…
As a casual kibitzer of 'Cheers' and a devout addict of the 'Frasier' spin-off, the trailer for Frasier's 2023 reprise chronicling his repatriation to Boston left me unenthusiastically inert. However, coinciding with the release date for the Paramount+ reboot was the announcement of a crowdfunded project in which a cavalcade of creators splice together their own sectarian version of a 22-minute episode within the span of 6-12 seconds....
As a casual kibitzer of ‘Cheers’ and a devout addict of the ‘Frasier’ spin-off, the trailer for Frasier’s 2023 reprise chronicling his repatriation to Boston left me u…
For September 1993, we found Bruce Willis playing a boat patrol cop down on his luck in Pittsburgh. When a serial killer he never caught turns back up, he’s forced to reckon with his messy past. Can he beat the menace, or come within…Striking Distance!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Thomas Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a Pittsburgh homicide detective who blew the whistle on all the corruption in his precinct. Problem is,…
With a Henry Mancini overture and a runtime of nearly three hours, 'The Great Race' is almost an omnibus road comedy and those are notoriously too undisciplined. The dedication to Laurel and Hardy at the onset is a lofty goal but Blake Edwards was the screwball auteur de jeur back then. Tony Curtis certainly was a photogenic daredevil and the glint off his teeth is a subtly aggrandizing touch....
With a Henry Mancini overture and a runtime of nearly three hours, ‘The Great Race’ is almost an omnibus road comedy and those are notoriously too undisciplined. The dedication to Laure…
Roald Dahl is an author who doesn't dichotomize what would be family-friendly and what would potentially produce goosebumps within his young readers. In fact, he was like a kindergarten William Castle with his hand on the buzzer for each of the children who dared to venture into the olive-black wilderness of his pages. Wes Anderson's adaptation of his 'The Fantastic Mr....
Roald Dahl is an author who doesn’t dichotomize what would be family-friendly and what would potentially produce goosebumps within his young readers. In fact, he was like a kindergarten Willi…
With such a miscellaneous career in front and behind the camera, Clint Eastwood's curse is that some of his pictures were swept under the proverbial rug during their theatrical run. 'Honkytonk Man' is a richly Homeric, tender Depression-Era drama in which the elder Eastwood is saddled with his son Kyle on a cross-country journey to the Grand Ole Opry. The coverage of a dust storm wreaking havoc on Red's (Eastwood) Oklahoma farm is peptonized with a whirlwind of painstakingly zestful period detail....
With such a miscellaneous career in front and behind the camera, Clint Eastwood’s curse is that some of his pictures were swept under the proverbial rug during their theatrical run. ‘Ho…
What happens when the main character of an increasingly lucrative franchise is essentially laid to rest? The think-tank for Lionsgate and Peacock attempt to prolong the John Wick macrocosm without the participation of Keanu Reeves or his alter-ego with this feature-length miniseries that spelunks through the sordid history of the Continental Hotel, its posh owner (Winston (Colin Woodell)) and the league of pret-a-porter assassins....
What happens when the main character of an increasingly lucrative franchise is essentially laid to rest? The think-tank for Lionsgate and Peacock attempt to prolong the John Wick macrocosm without …
An I.C.E. officer collaring a motel of illegal aliens is license for a symposiacal message about border patrol. In the case of Ryan Prows' ganglionated, labyrinthian black comedy, it is merely a plot thread for organ donation. As Grand Guignol as the bodily dissection and extractions are, Prows is winkingly coquettish about the subject matter. While the literary chapter divisions are a staple of Quentin Tarantino, the film isn't a parvenu knockoff....
An I.C.E. officer collaring a motel of illegal aliens is license for a symposiacal message about border patrol. In the case of Ryan Prows’ ganglionated, labyrinthian black comedy, it is merel…
For August 1993, we revisited our old friend Robert Downey Jr, who plays a banker haunted by four ghosts hoping to use him to help them all with unfinished business. Will he help them figure everything out? Only if he has enough…Heart and Souls!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Thomas Reilly (Robert Downey Jr.) is a ruthless foreclosure banker whose four invisible friends have just shown up again after fifteen…
For July 1993, we chose a film that joined two of our favorites, Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery, for a rousing murder mystery pitting Japanese businessmen against the LA police force. It’s also a Michael Crichton adaptation! Get ready for the…Rising Sun!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: When a call girl is found brutally murdered at the top floor of an influential Japanese business in the heart of Los Angeles, detectiv…
Did you know that in June 93, a film dared to come out the same day as Jurassic Park? James Spader & Mandy Patinkin are forced into indentured servitude to pay back poker debt in an esoteric contemplation on the meaning of life. It’s…The Music of Chance!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Jim Nashe (Mandy Patinkin) decides to pick up a drifter, Jack Pozzi (James Spader) who tells him of a cash cow poker game that could s…
For May 1993, we decided to take on a genre that’s sadly become a hidden gem. We had a litany of laughs from classic spoofs like Airplane! & Blazing Saddles, so we took this film as an excuse to talk about them all! Join us for….Hot Shots! Part Deux!
The Undiscovered Decade is back with yet another “hidden” gem: Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) returns from hiding to take on yet another dangerous mission for the government, one that he might not r…
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