FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA

On Episode #162 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, Bryan, Dan, and Chelsea strap themselves to the wings of the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot and attempt to survive the turbulence. Starring Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, the film operates on the charmingly deranged belief that if one adventure-movie cliché is good, then twelve must be better. Deadly viruses? Certainly. Long-lost parents? Naturally. Wild animals, ancient tombs, possible zombies, international conspiracies, and, for reasons known only to screenwriters in a panic, a bicycle courier weaving through city traffic? All present and accounted for in this Tomb Raider. The post Episode #163 – Tomb Raider (2018) 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.

On Episode No. 143 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, we four self-appointed munchkins, each of us barely tall enough to see over our own opinions, link arms, step onto the yellow brick road, and march straight into the emerald wreckage that is Wicked: For Good. What follows is less a film discussion and more a group therapy session conducted at a brisk, panicked trot. The post Episode #143 – Wicked: For Good (2025) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

On Episode #141 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, there are, depending on how many voices you hear in your head, two, possibly three people who dared to confront The Number 23, Joel Schumacher’s 2007 cinematic thriller of numerology, noir, and naked Jim Carrey angst. Yes, that Joel Schumacher. You know, the maestro behind The Lost Boys, Flatliners, and the Batman movie that introduced us to the concept of heroic rubber nipples. He was a man of texture, you might say. The post Episode #141 – The Number 23 (2007) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.