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Truly Rotten Potatoes
by Quippurb Productions
Australia's toughest podcast. Morgan, Hayden, Declan & Mitch - Canberra's foremost film experts - watch, recap and review a film from Wikipedia's 'List of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, sometimes with special guests! We also interview filmmakers.
Episodes
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Filmmaker Interview Series: Sebastian Chan | Endling
Sebastian Chan is an award-winning filmmaker from Canberra, Australia who just completed production on his debut feature film as a writer/director: ENDLING. With a wide number of shorts under his belt, Seb has a long list of producing credits on short films that have played at major festivals…
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Filmmaker Interview Series: James Branson | Bunny
James Branson is a Sydney-based filmmaker and the writer, director, executive producer, co-editor, and co-writer of the original score to feature film Bunny - a post-apocalyptic quasi horror about a young woman roaming climate-ravaged Australia in search of sustenance. In this conversation we…
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Filmmaker Interview Series: James Hunter | The Latcher
James Hunter is an award-winning Melbourne-based filmmaker, originally from Canberra, who just completed his debut feature film The Latcher - a psychological horror starring Lucy Lovegrove under his production company Full Cycle Films. In this conversation, we delve into: James' life as a…
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Filmmaker Interview Series: Ché Baker | States of Mind
Ché Baker is a Canberra-based filmmaker who writes, produces, directs, edits, acts, does visual effects, martial arts, and authored the novel Rule of Knowledge under his penname Scott Baker. Under his production company Full Point Films he has directed two feature films: Blue World Order...
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Filmmaker Interview Series: Ujjwal Rai
Ujjwal Rai is a fast-rising Nepalese filmmaker based in Canberra, who has quickly made his mark on the local scene with his prolific award-winning productions through his company Sirujal Ever Films. He has directed music videos with 12 million views, won awards at Lights Canberra Action, Canberra...
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Filmmaker Interview Series: Craig Alexander | Snatchers
In this new chapter of the Truly Rotten Potatoes saga, Declan begins an interview series with filmmakers and creatives. Craig Alexander is an actor who just wrote, starred in, edited, and co-directed (with his wife Shelly Higgs) his debut feature film: Snatchers, an independent film produced in...
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50. Freelance
This is a controversial one because this episode's subject FREELANCE (2023) is not currently on our bible: the official 0% list. It was, briefly, but a couple late reviews came in which pumped it to 7%. We cover those in the episode. This potato stars wrestler John Cena and Alison Brie (best…
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49. John Henry
In this episode of Australia's toughest podcast, we discuss the death of Matthew Perry from Friends, read a bit of Calvin and Hobbs and most importantly... Terry Crews, former footballer and current actor, stars as the titular character in 2020's John Henry. John Henry is a strong man who lives…
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48. Hard Kill w/ Kyneisha Murray
Morgan and Declan invite filmmaker and musician Kyneisha Murray into the studio talk about 2020's Hard Kill a film from our 0% Bible - in fact, the LAST ONE chronologically! (as of this taping) This potato stars Bruce Willis (in his second appearance on the pod! Check out our episode on Precious...
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47. The Last Days of American Crime
Morgan, Declan and Mitch re-unite to talk 2020's American Netflix crime movie The Last Days of American Crime. The film was directed by Olivier Megaton who also directed action films like Transporter 3 and Taken 2 + Taken 3. It stars Edgar Ramirez as BRICKE and Michael Pitt as Jared Leto's Joker....
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46. The Queen's Corgi
The gang (sans Hayden who is off ill with covid) watch and discuss the Belgian kids animated movie The Queen's Corgi. They also discuss Brock and the Rock gym in Pokemon, and the late Robert Blake, and the woman (his wife) he allegedly had killed. Only a few movies left on the official bible of...
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45. Stratton
In this episode, we covered 2017's Stratton, starring Dominic Cooper, Gemma Chan and Tom Felton (AKA Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies) Directed by Englishman Simon West (Tomb Raider [2001] and Con Air) Logline: A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international…
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44.5 No Movie, Yes Nonsense
The four guys reunite for a quick episode where they discuss video games, James Cameron's Avatar and ask some tough questions. Follow Truly Rotten Potatoes on: Facebook Instagram Youtube Or send us an email: [email protected] Originally published 30 September 2022.
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44. London Fields
The boys (sans Hayden) are BACK! Interested in the relationship of Amber Heard, Johnny Depp and a bit of Cara Delevigne as a messy drug addict? Based on the hit book, London Fields (2018) is the movie for you. It's one of those ones where the director and producers all sued each other and the...
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43. Precious Cargo
Bruce Willis stars (for 13 minutes) in Precious Cargo, an action thriller directed by Max Adams and also starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar. As IMDB says, the plot is simply: A crime boss tries to make off with loot that belongs to another thief. Mitch, Hayden and Declan analyse the film with special...
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42. Left Behind
Declan, Mitch and Hayden discuss Nic Cage as a pilot in Left Behind (2014), a cute Christian movie about the Rapture. Follow Truly Rotten Potatoes on: Facebook Instagram Youtube Or send us an email: [email protected] Originally published 13 June 2022.
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41. Max Steel
In this superhero origin story and adaptation of Mattel's 15 year running cartoon, the world was treated to a live action Max Steel (2016). With Hayden on suspension, Morgan, Mitch and Declan tackle everything about Andy Garcia's villainous Pacino-esque performance, and Ben Winchell's leading...
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40. The Disappointments Room
Back on the scriptures, the four boys are reunited to talk through the DJ Caruso movie The Disappointments Room (2016). Starring Kate Beckinsale and Mel Raido, this supernatural thriller/horror tomato treads the ground of paranoid and traumatised women not taking her meds and thinking she's…
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39. The Matrix Resurrections
The boys take some time to deviate from their Bible of 0% films and take a look at 2021's late release: The Matrix Resurrections, directed by Lana Wachoswki co-writer and co-director from the original trilogy, and starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. Resurrections is the fourth feature…
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38. Cabin Fever w/ Concetta Caristo
Comedian and TV personality Concetta Caristo joins the gang talk about the 2016 remake of Eli Roth's independent horror hit Cabin Fever. Released 14 years after the 2002 original, it found itself on the 0% list. At its core, its a gory violent horror film about 5 friends going to a cabin in the...
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37. Stolen w/ Reuben Styles from Peking Duk
Joining the gang on this episode, from a Brisbane balcony surrounded by birds during hotel quarantine, is Reuben Styles from platinum selling Peking Duk and his latest outfit Y.O.G.A (You're Only Great Always). In this episode, we covered 2009's Stolen, starring Mad Men's Jon Hamm with a goofy...
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36. A Thousand Words w/ Putri McMurray
In completion of her redemption arc, Putri McMurray joins us to talk through the latest 0% from our trusty bible: A Thousand Words (2012) starring Eddie Murphy, written by Steve Koren ('Click' and 'Jack & Jill')and directed by Brian Robbins (who also made Eddie Murphy movies Norbit and Meet…
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35. The Nutcracker + Space Jam 2: A New Legacy
In a special double-movie episode, the OG crew reunite to talk through 2010's 0% CGI, rat-Nazi extravaganza 'The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (in 3D)' as well as the new Space Jam movie starring LeBron James. What do you need to know? The Nutcracker movie stars a young Elle Fanning and also…
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34. Transylmania w/ comedian Bec Charlwood
On this episode of Australia's toughest podcast, the gang tackle 2009's Transylmania (AKA College Vampires) a college-based teen sex comedy, with a buttload of vampire stuff. Directed by David and Scott Hillebrand and starring a lot of 30 year olds playing college kids, this movie features an...
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33. Dark Tide w/ author Benjamin Stevenson
In this episode, the Potato Crew cover the Halle Berry 2012 shark movie Dark Tide. Directed by John Stockwell, the guy who also directed water-based movies like Into the Blue with Paul Walker (RIP) & Blue Crush. We're joined on Skype by special guest Benjamin Stevenson, one half of twin-brother...
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32. Homecoming w/ comedian Frankie McNair
After Misha Barton left The O.C, she found herself in "horror" films like Homecoming (2009), directed by Morgan J. Freeman (not to be confused with Morgan Freeman the actor everyone knows). Follow our guest comedian Frankie McNair on Instagram. Follow Truly Rotten Potatoes on: Facebook ...
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31. Redline w/ rapper Seth Sentry
2007 brought the subprime mortgage crisis and the subsequent financial crash and global financial crisis. In a directly connected way, it also brought this Fast and the Furious knock-off: Redline. ARIA award winning rapper Seth Sentry joins us to talk everything Redline - the cars, the excess,...
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30. One Missed Call
In 2008, there was a US remake of a popular Takashi Miike Japanese horror film about people getting a phone call from themselves 3 days in the future that foreshadows their own sudden death. This is that film: One Missed Call (2008) It's kinda like Final Destination meets The Ring. A young Ariel...
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29. Scar 3D
The gang was reunited to nearly watch the wrong movie and then eventually watch the right movie: Scar 3D (2007) This is a low-budget grungy horror film, in a similar vein to Saw. The only actors we recognised were Christopher Titus and Angela Bettis (from the 2002 Carrie TV movie) and Devon Graye...
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28. The Love Guru
Mike Myers writes and stars in the 2008 movie that derailed his career as a force of character comedy. Hot off the heels of Austin Powers - but without his director Jay Roach who wanted to move more into political films - this would become the only director credit for Marco Schnabel who now works...
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27. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
In this episode, Canberra's smartest film reviewers tackle 2004's Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 directed by Bob Clark and the sequel to 1999's Baby Genuises. Here's the plot: A group of smart-talking toddlers find themselves at the center of a media mogul's experiment to crack the code to baby…
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26. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Gold Diggers is a 2003 movie that marks one of the many teen comedies put under the National Lampoon's brand. It stars Chris "The Sherminator" Owen and Will "Eric Matthews from Boy Meets World" Friedle with Renee "Fran Fine's mother in the Nanny" Taylor and is directed by Gary Preisler, who never...
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25. Pinocchio w/ Putri McMurray (TERRIBLE AUDIO! NOT WORTH A LISTEN!)
We lost this episode then found it again in way worse quality. With guest Putri McMurray, we talked about 2002's live action Italian version of Pinocchio, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. Sorry for how bad the audio is, feel free to skip this one. Originally published 24 January 2021.
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24. Me and My Mates vs. the Zombie Apocalypse w/ Producer Dan Sanguineti (Live!)
The boys go off the official list to hold their first ever live show, at the 5th anniversary screening of indie oz-zom-com "Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse" in Canberra. With special guest Dan Sanguineti, producer of the movie. This film stars Alex Williamson, Jim Jefferies, Greg Fleet,...
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23. Merci Docteur Rey
The gang refuse to subject a guest to Merci Docteur Rey (2002), a comedic French film about a gay man trying to find the killer of his estranged father. This marks the first potato that the boys all watched together and then recorded the podcast immediately after. Written and directed by Andrew...
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22. The Ridiculous 6 w/ Scott Owen from The Living End
Scott Owen from legendary rock band The Living End joins the gang via mobile phone to talk through Adam Sandler's first Netflix movie "The Ridiculous 6" (2015) - A comedy western about 6 half-brothers who find out their father is a notorious robber. The brothers are played by Rob Schneider, Terry...
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21. The Fanatic w/ filmmaker Michael Shanks
As we veer off the 0% list to satiate our first return guest, filmmaker Michael Shanks (NOT the actor from Stargate) convinces us to watch a film with 16% positive reviews. Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst writes and directs this... thriller? The Fanatic (2019) stars John Travolta as an...
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20. 3 Strikes w/ Citizen Kay
Kay Ansah AKA Citizen Kay - Canberra rapper and producer - let us into his studio to talk about 2000's LA street comedy 3 Strikes. Written and directed by famed hip-hop producer DJ Pooh, who also co-wrote Friday and directed The Wash with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, this potato tells the story of Rob...
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19. Truly Rotten Potatoes
The potato boiz take a break from talking movies to talk about other things; lawsuits, name changes, actors, and (of course) movies. Originally published 22 September 2020.
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18. Killing Me Softly w/ Michelle Brasier
Michelle Brasier (Aunty Donna, Mad as Hell) joins the gang to talk about 2002's erotic thriller Killing Me Softly starring Heather Graham (Austin Powers) and Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love). There's also an appearance from Ronan Vibert who looks exactly like a short-haired Alan Rickman. It's…
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17. Derailed
In this episode, the OG (old geezers) get back on the list to discuss the 2002 direct-to-DVD Jean-Claude Van Damme "bioweapons on a train" movie Derailed. And its mysterious end credits song. They also discuss how much money they'd need to be paid to break a finger, the discography of Aussie...
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16. The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
The original hosts deviate from the list to talk about this new tomato that ISN'T a 0%, but needed to be discussed. It currently has a 13% critic rating on RT, so it's close enough. Paul Hogan stars as himself, a washed-up formerly successful comedic actor living in LA in his 80s, in this weird...
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15. Simon Sez w/ Lewi McKirdy
Following on from the success of Michael Jordan's SPACE JAM (1996), the world demanded MORE films starring legendary NBA players, specifically from that Chicago Bulls team that won 6 championships. So this is what we got. Dennis Rodman playing a spy in SIMON SEZ (1999), a spy-action-comedy....
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14. Shadow Conspiracy w/ comedian Lauren Bonner
Comedian Lauren Bonner joins the pod to talk about 1997's SHADOW CONSPIRACY, an action thriller that goes to the highest level of the Government! Starring Charlie Sheen (HIV positive), Linda Hamilton (former wife of James Cameron) and Donald Sutherland (HIV negative, as far as we know), this…
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13. Wagon's East w/ comedian Nina Oyama
Wagons East was released in 1994 and is best known for the fact that it killed legendary Canadian comedic actor John Candy. Seriously, the man best known for his roles in Uncle Buck, Cool Runnings, Home Alone and Planes, Trains & Automobiles died during production of this film. They had to finish...
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12. Bolero w/ filmmaker Michael Shanks
Starring a young Bo Derek, Bolero was written, directed and filmed by her husband John Derek and released in 1984. It's an erotic, romantic story about a young wealthy woman who finishes university and wants to travel the world and lose her virginity. Michael Shanks is our guest for this episode…
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11. A Low Down Dirty Shame w/ Tom Armstrong
Tom Armstrong from The Roundabout Crew and the Tom and Frenchy Podcast joins us this episode to discuss Keenan Ivory Wayans' auteur effort from 1994. Following his success on In Living Color, but before his smash hit Scary Movie, this tomato pivots from his famous outrageous parody style, instead...
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10. Look Who's Talking Now w/ Nick Delatovic
Our main man John Travolta finds his way back onto the list, with 1993's "Look Who's Talking Now," the third in the Look trilogy, also starring fellow Scientologist Kirstie Alley. In the first films, it was babies who talked. Now, it's dogs! Basketballer Charles Barkley is also in this movie.…
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9. Folks!
Tom Selleck stars in this 1992 "comedy" film about a guy whose Dad is suffering from dementia. Thanks to COVID-19 isolation, we recorded this remotely. The real question is, can we get Malcolm Turnbull on the podcast? Originally published 11 May 2020. Email us at [email protected] if...
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8. Return to the Blue Lagoon
In this episode, the gang figure out what to call their fans and review 1991's Return to the Blue Lagoon, starring a young Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause. This film is the direct sequel to the 1980 film Blue Lagoon, which starred Brooke Shields and explores similar themes of island-stranded...
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Australia's toughest podcast. Morgan, Hayden, Declan & Mitch - Canberra's foremost film experts - watch, recap and review a film from Wikipedia's 'List of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, sometimes with special guests! We also interview filmmakers.
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