FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA

This week on Episode #168 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, Bryan Kluger, Marc Ciafardini, and Sandi Glass do what any responsible adults in 2026 should do. They reconnect their old video-game consoles and revisit The Wizard. You know, the 1989 film that has long been accused of being less a movie than a two-hour Nintendo commercial with a plot attached. The post Episode #168 – The Wizard (1989) With Luke Edwards first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

For their 151st episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, the gang ups the ante, literally, with Malibu 151 and revisits 1994’s Milk Money, that improbable artifact in which Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris (in one of his rare turns as a gentle, flustered dad rather than a granite-faced authority figure) anchor a plot that hinges on middle-school boys pooling allowance money to hire a sex worker for research purposes. Yes, that one. It was the nineties. We were unsupervised. The post Episode #151 – Milk Money (1994) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

By the time we arrived at Episode #149 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, Gerarduary, the sacred month in which we collectively reflect on the brawny altar of Gerard Butler was breathing its final, heroic breaths, we chose to close it out not with subtlety or restraint, but with Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). This is a movie whose title alone sounds like it was generated by shaking a box of rejected Dan Brown novels. This is not to be confused with Cradle 2 the Grave, a distinction worth making if only to reassure listeners that Jet Li will not be drop-kicking anyone through a stained-glass window. The post Episode #149 – Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

On Episode #147 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, we find ourselves still lingering in January of 2026, a month that has overstayed its welcome and thus demanded a rebrand. We now call it Gerarduary, a ceremonial observance devoted to Gerard Butler. He's the cinematic Spartan who has spent the last two decades shouting his way through global catastrophes with admirable lung capacity. The post Episode #147 – Geostorm (2017) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

The end-of-the-year episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema has arrived, like a tipsy friend barging into your living room on December 31st with a notebook full of opinions and absolutely no intention of keeping them to themselves. This isn’t an episode devoted to a single film so much as it is a cinematic reckoning or a long look back at the movies we saw in theaters in 2025. The post End of Year 2025 Awards first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

On Episode No. 145 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, we set out with the mild intention of having a civilized conversation and immediately abandon it. Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea welcome director Todd Rohal, making his inaugural appearance, and, if we’re lucky, not his last, just as his new film, Fuck My Son, is busy lodging itself permanently in the cultural memory. Or, depending on your disposition, another nearby mental filing cabinet. The post Episode #145 – Electroma (2007) with Todd Rohal first appeared on Boomstick Comics.