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The Specs Present: Double Feature
by The Specs
Welcome to Double Feature, the dumbest movie podcast (and, we hope, your new favorite). The two films we watch every episode aren't based on genre, topicality, or theme, but a metric so pointless it might just be the best way to broaden your cinematic horizons: titles that rhyme.
Episodes
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Episode #12: Boo! A Madea Halloween/Hubie Halloween
Happy Halloween! Prepare to ENTER SANDMAN as we return once more to the Sandlerverse for the premiere of Adam's newest film, Hubie Halloween (2020). We also discuss the exhausting Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) and make a case for why YouTubers should stop starring in movies. Music: Monster Mash...
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Episode #11: Bubble/Female Trouble
In this episode, we embrace absurdity while fawning over John Waters' 1974 film Female Trouble and wander into the world of hyperrealism with Stephen Soderbergh's disconcerting Bubble (2005). Music: Tune by Sam Spence
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Spotlight: A Million to Juan
Tonally inconsistent, terribly paced, weirdly charming... why, it's the subject of our latest spotlight episode, A Million to Juan (1994)! Bet you can't guess the main character's name.
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Episode #10: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation/Lost in Translation
Choose your fighter! While talking about Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) and Lost in Translation (2003), I finally learn who Sylvia's preferred Mortal Kombat character is and we discuss the strange intimacy that can spring up between strangers in a foreign land—whether that's two Americans...
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Episode #9: Django/Rango
Yeehaw, baby! We’re taking a trip to the Wild West this week with Django (1966) and Rango (2011). Whether our protagonist is a plucky chameleon or a hard-edged gunslinger, we’ll encounter all matter of bar fights, tumbleweeds, and ghost town shootouts along the way. Music: Django (Main Theme) by...
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Episode #8: My Dinner with Andre/It's Such a Beautiful Day
This week we fall out of love with one movie, My Dinner with Andre (1981), and in love with another, It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012). Topics of discussion include dementia, sweaters, and my irrational fear of being blindfolded. Music: Dinner Music by David Byrne & Kronos Quartet
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Episode #7: LEGO Scooby Doo: Blowout Beach Bash/LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash
In our longest-titled and most dejected episode yet, we face the consequences of our choice to watch two terrible Lego movies made for children. Join us as we talk about animation, superheroes, inexplicable musical numbers, and how consumerism will destroy everything you love! Music: Scooby Doo,...
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Episode #6: Click/White Boy Rick
Into the Sandler-Verse! After getting our brains broken by the 2006 "comedy" Click, we spend a comparatively brief amount of time talking about the 2018 film based on the true story of a 14 year old FBI informant, White Boy Rick. Music: MMM "Moskau-Moskwa-Mitternacht" by Peter Thomas Sound Orchester
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Spotlight: Joe Versus the Volcano
In this week's spotlight episode, we talk at length about one of our favorite movies, the criminally underrated romantic comedy/modern fairytale/masterpiece, Joe Versus the Volcano (1990). Music: Sixteen Tons by Eric Burdon, Ol' Man River by Ray Charles, Come Go with Me by the Del-Vikings
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Episode #5: The Blackcoat's Daughter/The Shape of Water
In this week's episode, we return to our old bugbear, the only movie we've ever walked out of, del Toro's inexplicably Oscar-winning The Shape of Water (2017) and pair it with another movie that's somehow less scary, The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015). This episode is marked 'explicit' for mentions…
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Episode #4: City of God/Harold and Maude
For the first time, we discuss two films that people have actually heard of: City of God (2002) and Harold and Maude (1971). Somehow we wind up trashing a 79-year-old woman's moral philosophy along the way, and Mia reveals her irrational dislike of the Portuguese language. Music: Sylvia by Sam...
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Episode #3: Home Alone/Bugsy Malone
We're coping with a global pandemic by staying indoors and doing what we do best: talking about movies. This week we discuss two films starring children, Home Alone (1990) and Bugsy Malone (1976), one a beloved classic and the other a strange forgotten gem. Child actors don't get enough credit....
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Episode #2: The Purge: Election Year/Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
For our first episode of 2020, we wind up discussing the sequels to two films we haven't seen: The Purge: Election Year (2016), the third installment in the Purge franchise, and Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013), the follow-up to 2009's Ninja. While we try to analyze them, we discuss Russian…
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Spotlight: Cats
For our first spotlight episode, we're highlighting the magnificent disaster known as Cats (2019). These are our unfiltered reactions directly before and after seeing it in the theater on opening night. We had a bit of a jellicle breakdown trying to comprehend the film's logic and adequately…
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Episode #1: Can't Hardly Wait/The Perfect Date
Our very first double feature! Can't Hardly Wait (1998) is a party comedy featuring some of the best-known teen actors of the 90s and The Perfect Date (2019) is a Netflix original rom-com about a befuddling app. While discussing this surprisingly well-matched pair, we talk about cliques, cool...
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Episode #0: Introduction
Hello and welcome! In this brief introduction to the podcast, we introduce ourselves and talk about our ethos when it comes to movies: that no film is too weird, too obscure, too dumb, too abstract, or too silly to be looked at critically. Also my mom makes a short appearance.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Double Feature, the dumbest movie podcast (and, we hope, your new favorite). The two films we watch every episode aren't based on genre, topicality, or theme, but a metric so pointless it might just be the best way to broaden your cinematic horizons: titles that rhyme.
HOSTED BY
The Specs
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Welcome to Double Feature, the dumbest movie podcast (and, we hope, your new favorite). The two films we watch every episode aren't based on genre, topicality, or theme, but a metric so pointless it might just be the best way to broaden your cinematic horizons: titles that rhyme.
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