Have You Seen This?

  Jen is joined by reproductive justice activist Mellie Macker to dissect the mendacious thinking behind a notorious piece of pro-life propaganda. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim look at a slapdash TV movie with roots in moral panic. Oh and it was also the first feature role for Tom Hanks, wow. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim talk with animal expert Emma Bowers about Roar, which stars 50 or 60 uncontrollable wild animals and a handful of terrified humans. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim welcome a mysterious podcast newbie to praise this magnificent work of queer cinema to the skies. We’re not kidding, you need to watch this movie, and how fortuitous that it’s on YouTube! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and guest Mike Rosen finally get back around to silent classic Häxan, a topic for which Mike is perfectly suited due to his expertise in witch-hunting manuals, proto-MGTOW inquisitors, and torture devices of the early modern period (not joking). Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim are joined by laser-sharp media critic Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable on Twitter) to talk over a movie that close to 50 years later is still too hot for TV: Ken Russell’s The Devils! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Rosen returns to vituperate the sequel to Vile Pervert, The Truth Awakens! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen, Tim, and guest Kristian Boruff of the Harmontown crew dissect something even more pointless than Funko Pops: a Ghostbusters fan film from 2007!  Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Once again Tim refuses to discuss a musical, so Jen entices friend of the show Darren Herzceg to visit Shangri-La! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just in time for Halloween, Tim and Jen attempt to make head or tail of a homebrew Canadian nightmare! Possibly one of the worst and most inexplicable films ever made, Things went direct-to-video in 1989…and straight to our hearts. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Rosen returns to discuss Marlo Thomas’s most lasting work! Listen to find out if gender stereotypes actually ended in 1973 and we all missed it. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean Morris joins Jen and Tim to discuss a favorite forgotten comedy, Livin’ Large, which prefigured “Marxist propaganda” film Sorry To Bother You! We make the connections and also ramble about symptoms of dystopia like SoundCloud rappers. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim are honored to speak with martial arts cinema legend Cynthia Rothrock! Among many other things, Cynthia talks about the pitfalls of acting with non-sync sound, meeting with A-list directors, and taking her career into the 21st century on YouTube. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen welcomes Mike Rosen to discuss a traumatic event from his childhood: an ill-fated animated feature directed by Richard Williams. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Menaker blesses us with his presence to discuss a biopic of St. Francis of Assisi starring…Mickey Rourke?! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim pick apart King Vidor’s demented vision of Ayn Rand’s equally demented The Fountainhead. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

YouTube Kids Spiderman Elsa puppet finger family bad baby songs buried aliveDrop us a line at @HYSTpod on Twitter! The Medium article that kicked off the discussion, James Bridle’s “Something is Wrong on the Internet,” may be read here: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Christman returns to talk about that disease unique to the 90s, the Tarantino ripoff! We discuss Killing Zoe and Love and a .45, and briefly touch on oddball pics like The Immortals and the inexplicably beloved Boondock Saints. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Put on your mirrored shades! Jen and Tim welcome back Will Menaker to talk over the often-unfairly-maligned Cruising! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim are joined by writer K. Thor Jensen to discuss a true example of outsider filmmaking, Wonder Boy. It turns out that Uwe Boll is only the second worst video-game-based film director currently living. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.