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Cinemanimals
by Cinemanimals
Aftercare for animal films by Simon Barrett, Mikal Britt, and Mike Loughran.
Episodes
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COVID STIMULUS #1: AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
Take it to the bank! We dug deep into the pit of the SINERFAMICALS archive for this gem, recorded over a year ago and nearly lost: an hour of absolutely scalding takes and forceful zingers about the saddest animal movie ever made: Robert Bresson’s 1966 bleak as hell AU HASARD BALTHAZAR about a…
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Nightmare 27: D.T. in ‘Dawg Territory’
This week we honor America’s Real Team the Cleveland Browns, historic defeaters of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the NFL franchise most associated with classic animal-based cinema. We’re talking, of course, about D.T. IN ‘DAWG TERRITORY’, a 1988 film featuring Lil’ John Rinaldi as a dog from outer...
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Nightmare 26: Sky Dog
Welcome to SEASON FOUR of Cinemanimals, a podcast about relationship problems. This week we watched SKY DOG, which made us sad and angry. It’s mostly Allen’s fault. Most of the episode is about Allen, who recommended SKY DOG to us. Allen is a great guy but he messed up. SKY DOG theorizes a world...
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Nightmare 25: The Great Rupert
WE ARE BACK! Season 3 of cinemanimals. This week we watched THE GREAT RUPERT, the 1950 squirrel movie starring Jimmy Durante as a vaudevillle performer who moves his family into a basement apartment, discovering later that the apartment has a hole that rains $16,000 in cash every Friday…
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Nightmare 24: Guard Dog
There are many movies that feature guard dogs, but there can be only one GUARD DOG, an insane 2015 movie about Chance, a boy whose mom dies of cancer, and Abba, a talking dog played by a grown man in a dog suit and voiced by the director. Abba and Chance have a series of adventures that devolve...
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Nightmare 23: Night of the Lepus
This week we put our therapists on retainer and tuned in to NIGHT OF THE LEPUS, the most frightful film in the entire history of American cinema, in which a colony of rabbits meets the hubris of Texas Science and mutates into a colony of larger, bloodthirsty rabbits. Before certifying NIGHT OF…
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Nightmare 22: QUIGLEY
America asked, and as usual, we over-delivered: this week we watched QUIGLEY, a 2003 film in which Gary Busey slips on dog poop and later . . . becomes a dog. Can the dog talk? Why does Gary Busey fall in a bush? What is Oz Perkins doing here? What are some things women have invented? Is heaven...
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Nightmare 21: Day Of The Animals
This is a throw-back, one of our very early episodes, originally recorded around Halloween 2019. We review this 1977 “classic” which at the time was the first animal-themed horror movie for the podcast. But we’ve grown up and if you are familiar with our podcast, you might notice how the show has...
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Nightmare 20: A Summer to Remember…
We watched A SUMMER TO REMEMBER…, a 1985 film about an ASL-literate orangutan who escapes captivity only to stumble into an even bleaker reality: the prison of the American family. Is blasting the Sesame Street theme song into a cornfield considered an example of PSYOPS? Is it good or bad for a...
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Nightmare 19: Special Game Show Episode
After launching an exciting new social media celebrity challenge, that may or may not involve marijuana and slicing off fingers, and may or may not include the singer of Smashmouth eating too many eggs, the #22 top-ranked animal movie podcast, CINEMARMIANLS, risks it all by trying something new....
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Nightmare 18: Dunston Checks In
We talk about Robo-Dog months before having watched it. Which I’m sure we all forgot about. We talk a lot about Paul Reubens, mostly in a positive way. We dissect this film Dunston Checks In and while we have some positive remarks about the technical filmmaking, it remains a mystery if anyone...
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Nightmare 17: Robo-Dog
* * This week’s episode is un-edited, uploaded “as is” * * This week we watched ROBO-DOG, a 2015 film about a dog who suffers an excruciating death and is revivified by an Inventor Dad, who installs a vacuum in Robo-dog’s butt. We get deep on what exactly a “real” “life” “live-action” “dog” is…
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Nightmare 16: The Amazing Ape
**UPDATE: episode has been fixed! It is now one hour and forty-five minutes instead of abruptly stopping at one hour. Hopefully quality is a little better as well. Thanks for understanding! The lost episode that at least one fan specifically asked for. And here at Cinemanimals, the fans get what...
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Nightmare 15: Dolphin Tale
Sorry for the extended absence from posting. We have no excuse and we know we have let the fans down. We know there are people out there whose lives were negatively impacted by this. But fear not, because WE ARE BACK. In today’s nightmare, we examine the “based on a true story” movie that stars…
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Nightmare 14: A Dog For Christmas and More…
Notice the various posters for this movie. The dog definitely never rides in a flying sleigh. Notice the different dogs featured on the covers. Notice the various Dean Cains. Notice the Dustin Diamond. Yes, we wish everyone a happy holiday in the worst way possible. By recommending terrible…
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Nightmare 13: Andy the Talking Hedgehog
From the dungeon of unpublished Cinemanimals episodes, we unearth a movie that you might not believe actually exists, but sadly, it does. Or maybe magically it does. And when the movie about the talking hedgehog also stares Tara Reid and Dean Cain, well it would be stupid NOT to watch this movie....
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Nightmare 12: Going Bananas
Ah, back in the simple times of the 1980s, when placing random characters in Africa was funny. Back when Africa was funny enough on its own. Throw in Dom DeLuise (father of 21 Jump Street star Peter DeLuise) and a naughty, talking monkey, played not by a real monkey but rather by a little person…
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Nightmare 11: Mooch Goes To Hollywood
Mooch Goes To Hollywood really destroyed us. This is not an “alone movie” as Mike says in this episode. So many things about this “movie” make no sense. And the parts that do make sense are deeply problematic and misogynist. But hey it was the early 70s right?!? Compares to Linda Lovelace’s sad...
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Nightmare Bonus #1: Gus
Do you the difference between a mule and donkey? Neither do we, but we almost figure it out on this episode. Do you know what a “hinny” is? You will if you listen to this special bonus episode. Why is it special and bonus? I’ll tell you why. Because we recorded it back on 4/20. Four twenty dude!...
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Nightmare 9: A Talking Pony?!?
A TALKING PONY?!? is actually about a talking horse, not a pony, but neither the fact that it talks nor its status as a horse has any bearing whatsoever on the plot. And it’s not the horse seen on the cover of the DVD. Like many of the films we watch, this one exudes a palpable contempt for its...
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Nightmare 8: Top Dog / Cop Dog Part Two
I had to break this episode up into two parts. As a gift to the listeners. But definitely listen to this because Mike’s description of the plot of this movie is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. This movie might change the whole way you think about movies. The movie actually barely...
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Nightmare 8: Top Dog / Cop Dog Part One
Top Dog is a movie. So is Cop Dog. But they are very different movies. However both feature dogs and cops. Kind of. Why we were crazy enough to think reviewing two animals films in one episode was a good idea is lost on me now. However, as usual, we are able to draw deep truths, interesting...
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Nightmare 7: K-9
Cops month continue!!! Here we find “the Belush” wearing a too large suit trying to be funny. Inevitably, the comparisons to Turner & Hooch begin. But K-9 is its own movie with its own charm. The more one talks about K-9, the more one falls in love with it. Other things in this episode: we…
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Nightmare 6: Poochinski
Poochinski oozes and pulsates with a bizarre energy that is both sickening and confounding. It takes the guys nearly 30 minutes to even get up the courage to talk about the darn failed TV pilot. Mikal is calling from a webinar inside his car, Simon explains why his dog has started taking Xanax…
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Nightmare 5: Turner & Hooch
This week we begin our study of dog cop buddy movies, starting with everyone’s favorite or least favorite Turner & Hooch. A young Tom Hanks yells at the dog a lot and is in his underwear a lot. But he remains curiously charismatic. The spoiler train arrives early. We also discuss Henry Winkler…
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Nightmare 4: MAX
Patriotism! POC! Racism! Race bikes! War! Bootleg video games! Bombs! Betrayal! A dog! A movie! Max has it all and yet delivers nothing. Or does it? Nobody knows the answer, but at least we are brave enough to try to find out.
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Nightmare 3: Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever
In this episode, we memorialize the internet’s beloved cat with a bad mood as she “stars” in her very own Lifetime movie. We collectively vomit and cry. Dazzle us with your complaints: [email protected]
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Nightmare 2: A Dog’s Journey
In episode 2, the guys dissect A Dog’s Journey, sequel to A Dog’s Purpose. (A Dog’s J vs. A Dog’s P) Topics include dog deaths, dog acting, removal of glasses to make an ugly character hot, Josh Gad naked and playing a dog, vaping marijuana, empty movie theaters, spilling popcorn, commemorative...
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Nightmare 1: A Talking Cat!?!
Welcome to Cinemanimals, named one of the 30 best podcasts about movies starring animals. In this premiere episode, we discuss the grueling, inexplicable, and sublime film titled A Talking Cat!?! Did you know that the "!?!" at the end of the title is part of the title and the "!?!" symbol…
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Aftercare for animal films by Simon Barrett, Mikal Britt, and Mike Loughran.
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