Silver Linings Playback

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. And this week is their 300th episode! To celebrate their 300th episode, Joel and Andy watching Francis Ford Coppola’s infamous self-financed film Megalopolis. Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music “Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here. Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. This week, Joel and Andy are joined by comedian Lisa Curry. Together, they discuss Vision Quest; the 80s coming-of-age wrestling film. Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music “Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here. Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com. SUBSCRIBE

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. Joel and Andy have watched a dog save Christmas, Halloween and “the holidays,” but this week they find out if that same dog can save summer. Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music “Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here. Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. This week, Joel and Andy are joined by Molly Regan. Together, they tackle Emerald Fennell’s steamy Wuthering Heights adaptation. Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott Pivot Music: “Fanfare” (Cinematic Sound Effects) by Michael Schuller Music “Time Lapse of a Thunderstorm at Night” stock footage courtesy of Pexels Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, which you can sign up for here. Silver Linings Playback is is presented by HoboTrashcan.com and is a part of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. Hear more shows at PeakSloth.com. SUBSCRIBE

This week, Johnny 5 is alive! Joel and Andy are joined by the hosts of We Have to Ask to discuss the classic 80s robot film Short Circuit 2.

Jonathan Davenport returns and forces Joel and Andy to watch Disney's 2025 live-action Snow White.

To honor the late, great Catherine O'Hara, Joel and Andy watch Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration this week.

Joel and Andy are watching The Electric State; which on paper should be great. It's a film about fun robots battling humans made by the creative team behind Avengers: Endgame.

Joel and Andy are watching Flight Risk; which sees Topher Grace as a witness for the prosecution who must battle with a contract killer posing as a pilot (played by Mark Wahlberg).

This week, Joel and Andy are watching Honey Don't! It's a film that is somehow surprisingly horny and surprisingly underwhelming.

This week, we bring you the best movie pitches of 2025, including The Insane Clown Policy, The Seventh Sense and Anaconda 2.

Joel and Andy are joined by Ernest-aficionado Michelle Faulkner-Forson to discuss Ernest Saves Christmas; a film that may be maligned, but one that may have also inspired The Santa Clause.

Joel and Andy have stumbled across a truly bizarre film: A Wrestling Christmas Miracle. In it, a high school wrestler makes a film to wake his friend from a coma; only to have the film stolen days before Christmas.

This week, Joel and Andy are joined by Jillian Vitko. Together, they have A Very Jonas Christmas.

This week, Joel and Andy are joined by Anthony Leonelli. Together, they discuss the bowlingest bowling movie so far ... Kingpin.

This week, Joel and Andy are watching the live-action Flintstones film, starring John Goodman in a role he was born to play.

This week, Joel and Andy watch The Jesus Rolls, a film that is billed as a spinoff of The Big Lebowski, but is instead a remake of the controversial 1970s French film Going Places.

Joel and Andy kick off the month with King Ralph, a movie where a brash American becomes the King of England and bowls inside Buckingham Palace.

With Edgar Wright's remake right around the corner, Joel and Andy revisit the original 1987 The Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson.

This week, Joel and Andy set out in search of the Man in Black and the elusive Dark Tower. They discuss the 2017 adaptation of one of Stephen King's most beloved book series starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.

Joel and Andy are continuing to discuss the 1997 The Shining miniseries. They have reached the final installment, which features an epic final showdown between man and boiler.

Joel and Andy are continuing to discuss the 1997 The Shining miniseries. Things are getting tense at the Overlook Hotel as Danny finds his way into Room 217.

Joel and Andy kick off the month with the 1997 The Shining miniseries. Stephen King wasn't happy with Stanley Kubrick's iconic version of his film, so he wrote the screenplay for this version in hopes that it would be more faithful to his original version.

Joel and Andy close out the month with the 2014 film Rage. Nicolas Cage plays a reformed criminal pulled back into his old life when his daughter goes missing.

Silver Linings Playback 276 - Nicolas Cage Month: The Trust (ft. Lisa Curry)

Joel and Andy watch Between Worlds; a supernatural film that finds Nicolas Cage in a love triangle with a mother her daughter (who is possessed by Cage's dead wife).

Joel and Andy kick off Nic Cage Month with Looking Glass, a Lynchian drama about a husband and wife who buy a seedy motel and discover it has a secret tunnel that allows you to watch one of the rooms through a two-way mirror.

Joel and Andy watch the 2025 film War of the Worlds, which at one point had a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And, Ice Cube attempts to join them, but has some technical difficulties.

Joel and Andy watch The Lawnmower Man, a Flowers For Algernon story about a man who uses virtual reality to become a genius ... with telekinetic powers.

Joel and Andy are joined by Marty McGuire this week. Together, they discuss the Sandra Bullock film The Net; which sees her stumbling into a vast online conspiracy and having her life turned upside down when all she wanted was to go on vacation.

Joel and Andy kick things off with Virtuosity, a Denzel Washington/Russell Crowe precursor to The Matrix that examines what happens when a computer world crosses over into the real world.

Joel and Andy are once again joined by artist Joe Dunn. They talk about the sordid history of the 1994 Fantastic Four film directed by Roger Corman; which was never released.

This week, Joel and Andy are joined by artist Joe Dunn. Together, they discuss Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

This week, Joel and Andy watch Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and talk about Cannon Films, the unhinged studio that made it.

Joel and Andy kick off the month with Superman III, in which Superman battles his shadow self and ... Richard Pryor?

Joel and Andy close out the month strong. They discuss the once-maligned cult classic film Wet Hot American Summer with a very special guest ... co-writer/director David Wain.

Joel and Andy discuss Camp Nowhere. The film stars Christopher Lloyd as a grifter who is convinced to run a fake summer camp by some scheming kids.

Joel and Andy are joined by the Baltimore Improv Group's managing director and Ernest P. Worrell scholar Michelle Faulkner-Forson. Together, they discuss Ernest Goes to Camp.

This week, Joel and Andy watch Heavyweights, a Judd Apatow penned Disney film about a fat camp for kids run by a maniacal Ben Stiller.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre kick off the month by watching Shelley Long in Troop Beverly Hills. She plays an entitled mom who must figure out how to lead a scout troop of similarly-entitled kids.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre are joined by fellow podcaster Katie Long. She gets her revenge by having them watch Anaconda.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre are joined by Coach Anthony Leonelli. Coach Leonelli gets his revenge by making them watch the Brat Pack western Young Guns.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre are joined by Heather Moyer. Heather gets their revenge by forcing Joel and Andy to watch M. Night Shyamalan's Signs.

Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre are joined once again by Jonathan Davenport. Davenport gets his revenge by forcing Joel and Andy to watch the 2006 Milla Jovovich film Ultraviolet.

Joel and Andy are joined this week by indie wrestler Eel O'Neal. Together, they close out the month with the infamous John Cena film The Marine.

This week, in honor of 4/20, Joel, Andy and guest Li watch Rob Van Dam's 2010 action film Wrong Side of Town, which features cameos by Dave Bautista, Viscera and Stormy Daniels.

This week, Joel dresses up like Cactus Jack and Andy goes full Juggalo in honor of the Insane Clown Posse's film Big Money Hustlas, which features a cameo from Mick Foley as Cactus Jack ... er, um ... Cactus Sack.

Joel and Andy kick things off with Trish Stratus' super Canadian action film Bail Enforcers (or is it called Bounty Hunters?).

Joel and Andy end the month by watching a film that was actually made in Ireland. In fact, it is Ireland's first martial arts film ... the extremely-low-budged Fatal Deviation.

Joel and Andy watch Troy Duffy's 2009 sequel to his cult classic film The Boondock Saints, which was released 10 years after the original (and failed to live up to the original's hype).