Frame Rate

Frame Rate, the show where we rate frames.

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Brooks is back! So you know it’s weird! This time we all take a look at the experimental horror stop-motion film, Mad God. The labor of love of Phil Tippett (dinosaur supervisor). A film that took 30 years to make. The gang talk about its imaginative and rich world, the importance of story, and how sometimes artists create a situation where their reach exceeds their grasp. 

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527. Frame Rate: Mad God (Feat. Brooks Brown)

Jason drops by to talk about 2022’s Nope! We discuss the meaning of the film, the sci-fi concepts at play, and find out that sci-fi, horror, and comedy are our favorite genres. Oh wait, we’re sci-fi, horror, and comedy writers. This makes a lot of sense now. 

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532. Frame Rate: Nope (Feat. Jason Pargin)

Cody Ziglar (She-Hulk, Futurama, Rick & Morty) joins the boys to navigate American Movie, the documentary of fiercely independent filmmaker Mark Borchardt. The three discuss their own artistic journeys and what makes this story hilarious, sad, and beautiful.

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543. Frame Rate - American Movie (Feat. Cody Ziglar)

Michael and Abe are joined by Gamefully Unemployed’s David Bell to discuss the 1997 thriller The Game, directed by David Fincher. Michael Douglas finds himself in an expensive and existential game of cat and mouse. The gang talks about how they’re terrible at escape rooms! 

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675. Frame Rate: The Game (Feat. David Bell)

Amidst the fog of 2025, three men recollect and review a film shot 35 years previous. DJ Wooldridge joins us to discuss the unique dystopia that is the classic Total Recall. Verhoeven, Schwarzenegger, and a tiny little krang take center for this one.

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839. Frame Rate: Total Recall (1990) (Feat. DJ Wooldridge)

Michael and Abe discuss Saving Private Ryan, and suggest some alternate titles.

1. Frame Rate: Saving Private Ryan

Abe and Michael discuss 1999's The Mummy, and learn of Brendan Fraser's untimely death (and resurrection).

2. Frame Rate: The Mummy (1999)

Abe and Michael spoil Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in every possible sense of the word.

5. Frame Rate: The Last Jedi

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goOHMYGODSOMEONEISINTHEHOUSE!!!! The Beans talk Tension of the Highest sort.

8. Frame Rate: High Tension

Michael and Abraham, Mr. Celadon and Mr. Burgundy respectively, dive into Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.

13. Frame Rate: Reservoir Dogs

Host of The Bechdel Cast and comedian/hacker extraordinaire Jamie Loftus joins Michael and Abe in suddenly realizing that a movie they thought was really funny as teens is now wildly uncomfortable to sit through. If you like Small Beans AND Judd Apatow, listen to the episode and prepare for one of those things to change!

102. Frame Rate: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Feat. Jamie Loftus)

Frame Rate takes aim at the original Nazi-scalping history-changers, the  Inglourious Basterds! Daniel O'Brien sits in to help dissect Tarantino's bloody masterwork.

112. Frame Rate: Inglourious Basterds (Feat. Daniel O'Brien)

The Daily Zeitgang has us surrounded! They've demanded the release of Miles Gray, their second-rate co-chair, but we refuse to comply until he's bared his soul with us regarding a couple flicks. First up, perennial Christmas Coens/Zwigoff train wreck Bad Santa.

150. Frame Rate: Bad Santa (Feat. Miles Gray)

Hey, you remember that one Simpsons episode where Ruth Powers and Marge flee from Homer and Chief Wiggum across the desert? Wiggum tries to cook engine-block eggs? Well, hey, let's talk about the incredible Ridley Scott movie of which that was a parody! Maggie Mae joins to help us dive into a pretty kickass flick.

158. Frame Rate: Thelma & Louise (Feat. Maggie Mae Fish)

Teresa Lee has a love inside of her that makes her invincible and a light you can't even imagine, so we think you'd better say "that's that" and listen to our podcast before she comes over there and beats the Hell from you.

165. Frame Rate: Punch-Drunk Love (Feat. Teresa Lee)

"We three kings be stealin' the gold!" "You make Michael Jackson cut up his own face, my main man; you have the fucked up country." "David O. Russell is a lunatic asshole." TWO of those are indelible lines from Three Kings, one is just a fact. 

The Daily Zeitgeist's Miles Gray returns to revisit this George Clooney/Jamie Kennedy/Jim Gaffigan vehicle about assmaps the men who misuse them.

168. Frame Rate: Three Kings (Feat. Miles Gray)

The dream team of Fish, Swaim, and Epperson decode the dense, symbolist tome that is the "Weird" Al movie. And if they don't by noon tomorrow, the podcasting network will get sold to an evil old billionaire!!!!

171. Frame Rate: UHF (Feat. Maggie Mae Fish)

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