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The Film With Three Brains
A film podcast in which three lifelong friends review movies released between 1975-2001 as if the very future of the world depended on it.
Episodes
The Film With Three BrainsRomancing the Stone (1984) - The Film with Three Brains Review
A single woman meets two men in a jungle. One is better than the other. Both like emeralds. You can also watch us yapping at each other in HD video for this…
The Film With Three BrainsEvil Dead II (1987) - The Film with Three Brains Review
A man murders his hand, his girlfriend, and other demonic subjugates in a hellish AirBnB. Possession gets 9/10ths of the saw. You also can watch this, and many…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Birdcage (1996) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane have homophobes over for dinner. You can watch this and many more episodes with video at our YouTube channel.
The Film With Three BrainsPet Sematary (1989) - The Film with Three Brains Review
A literal sour patch kid kills a couple people before taking a (second) dirt nap. Keep on truckin’. Watch this full episode on our YouTube Channel…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Untouchables (1987) - The Film with Three Brains Review
The Treasury Dept busts a guy for cheating on his taxes cuz he isn’t the President. You can watch this, and many more episodes in full video at: The Film With…
The Film With Three BrainsAustin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) - The Film with Three Brains Review
A 1960’s spy is thawed in the 1990’s to stop his arch nemesis and hairless cat from blowing up the world. You can also watch this episode, and many more in…
The Film With Three BrainsDays of Heaven (1978) - The Film with Three Brains Review
A well-to-do farmer flirts with illness and the help, circa WWI; subsequent romance backfires spectacularly. Narrated by "Chicago" girl with thickest New York…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Ugly aliens come to Earth to make clothes for a teenage boy who has a crush on an older girl. You can watch this and many more episodes in full video on our…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - The Film with Three Brains Review
People build a bridge. Lions eat people. People kill lions. Final score: Lions 135, People 3. You can watch this episode, and many more on our YouTube channel…
The Film With Three BrainsApollo 13 (1995) - The Film with Three Brains Review
3 astronauts have a problem on the way to the moon. One is sick, but that’s not the problem. They fix it and fly home. You can watch this, and many more…
The Film With Three BrainsFrench Kiss (1995) - The Film with Three Brains Review
A neurotic American visiting Paris for the first time overcomes fear of flying, burglary and lactose intolerance to confront a cheating fiancé. A French thief…
The Film With Three BrainsChariots of Fire (1981) - The Film with Three Brains Review
A bunch of Brits run to inspirational synthesizers across beaches, yards, and tracks. Watch this episode and many more in full HD video on our YouTube channel…
The Film With Three BrainsRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Harrison Ford plays an archeologist with a finely honed penchant for punching Nazis while in pursuit of the face-melting Ark of the Covenant in this…
The Film With Three BrainsInnerspace (1987) - The Film with Three Brains Review
What better way to win back an old flame than to be miniaturized and injected into the body of a random guy that will win her over at your command, while…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Film with Three Brains Review
An FBI trainee matches wits with an imprisoned psychotic psychiatrist to help find a serial killer—a simple story that has influenced every psychological crime…
The Film With Three BrainsPoint Break (1991) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Keanu stars as a barely undercover "F.B.I. AGENT!!" turned newbie surfer searching for a band of beach bum bank robbers. Swayze, the big kahuna, takes him…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Wiz (1978) - The Film with Three Brains Review
This under-the-mainstream radar reimagining of The Wizard of Oz features Dorothy as a thirty-something inner city schoolteacher. Diana Ross stars, Richard…
The Film With Three BrainsDeathtrap (1982) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Superman sets aside his cape to prove his acting powers for this adaptation of a play about plays and murder. With an early death, numerous reversals, and…
The Film With Three BrainsBlade (1998) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Well before the box office dominance (or even existence) of the MCU, Wesley Snipes was kicking vampire ass as Marvel’s Blade. With apologies to Howard the…
The Film With Three BrainsWeird Science (1987) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Two teenage dweebs create a beautiful woman with their computer, a la the Bride of Frankenstein. This screwy sci-fi departure for John Hughes tells teenagers…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Dead Zone (1983) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Christopher Walken awakens from a coma with clairvoyance and the dilemma of what to do with it. Should he spare himself from the future cowbell skit? Or focus…
The Film With Three BrainsFight Club (1999) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Rule #1: You do not talk about Fight Club. Rule #2: You do NOT talk about Fight Club. Rule #3: You must listen to The Brains talk about Fight Club. You can…
The Film With Three BrainsEvent Horizon (1997) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Event Horizon: you never know what Hollywood will pull out of its black hole. Stars from Jurassic Park and The Matrix find a reason to scream in space. The…
The Film With Three BrainsWe Hot American Summer (2001) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler and Molly Shannon? Sounds like it could be a current comedy, yet this “campy” farce was forged 25 years ago! This heap…
The Film With Three BrainsHollywood Shuffle (1987) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Does an ‘80’s comedy film that ridicules Hollywood ethnic stereotypes still hold true? Or does it even matter as long as the film is funny? Or are stereotypes…
The Film With Three BrainsFlash Gordon (1980) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Flash! Ah-Ahhhhhh! Watch this, and many more episodes in full video on our YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFilmWithThreeBrains
The Film With Three BrainsThe Game (1997) - The Film with Three Brains Review
David Fincher's follow-up to Se7en thinks outside the box with a head in it. Michael Douglas receives a mysterious gift from his brother (Sean Penn) that is…
The Film With Three BrainsPulp Fiction (1994) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Travolta and Sam Jackson star as henchmen who shoot the breeze (and the occasional person) while running the crime boss's errands, in this eminently quotable…
The Film With Three BrainsStranger Than Paradise (1984) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Jim Jarmusch gained accolades for showing the studio world that a movie can be just as slow, aimless, and infused with deadpan humor as real life—a notion…
The Film With Three BrainsEdward Scissorhands (1990) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Tim Burton siphoned the sentiment of his oddball childhood into the fairytale of Edward Scissorhands: a teenage creation with scissors for hands who struggles…
The Film With Three BrainsDirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Michael Caine is a debonair con man who takes a wager with a gauche scam artist (Steve Martin) about who is the best swindler, loser leaves town. Does an…
The Film With Three BrainsPitch Black (2000) - The Film with Three Brains Review
You know it’s a bad day when your spaceship crash lands on a planet the very same day a 22-year swarm of alien, flesh-eating locusts breaks free from the hive…
The Film With Three BrainsWonder Boys (2000) - The Film with Three Brains Review
More aptly titled “Weekend at the English Professor's," this deadpan comedy is also a quirky drama satirizing the literary sphere within academia. It's held…
The Film With Three BrainsSlap Shot (1977) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Paul Newman was more than just a salad dressing, at one point he was a hockey player-coach for a rowdy Midwest minor league team about to go skates up. With a…
The Film With Three BrainsRad (1986) - The Film with Three Brains Review
This is the Karate Kid of BMX bikes, except no one remembers what in the world a BMX bike is. When a stuntman directs a bicycle movie how could the results be…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Outlaw Josie Wales (1976) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Clint Eastwood stars in and directs his second Western, adapted from a book on the many factions and foibles of a nation ending its bloody civil war. Now…
The Film With Three BrainsFast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Come back to 1982 when high school was totally awesome and the only thing people bothered "liking" was the restaurant where you worked. Fast Times set the…
The Film With Three BrainsPoltergeist (1982) - The Film with Three Brains Review
While the directing credit goes to Tobe Hooper, it was Producer Steven Spielberg who had the Midas touch in the 1980's, but does a zero-body count horror movie…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Spanish Prisoner (1997) - The Film with Three Brains Review
Steve Martin steps out of character and into a sophisticated, straitlaced con man in this David Mamet heist flick. Long before spoofing, fake relatives, bogus…
The Film With Three BrainsDazed and Confused 1993 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Alright, alright, alright — Dazed and Confused rolls up a fat slice of 1976. It’s the last day of school, and everyone’s lighting up and ditching rules. From…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Gate 1987 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Is there any better way to sum up 80’s tween horror than to send mom and dad away for the very weekend two boys accidentally open the doorway to hell in the…
The Film With Three BrainsCarrie 1976 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Creepy Carrie epitomizes the sage advice: Don’t mess with a telekinetic teenager on prom night. Do people ever learn? Did Stephen King really say the movie is…
The Film With Three BrainsHeat 1995 - The Film with Three Brains Review
This much anticipated cops and robbers showdown from movie maven Michael Mann featured a film first: DeNiro and Pacino sharing a scene. Criminals found it…
The Film With Three BrainsQuick Change 1990 - The Film with Three Brains Review
What if the bank robbers got lost on their way to the airport after the robbery? This premise was not only Bill Murray’s brand of comedy, but his directorial…
The Film With Three BrainsTommy Boy 1995 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Holy Schnikes! Saturday Night Live alumni have crafted some of the best and worst comedies. Their success boils down to whether sketch bit actors can stretch…
The Film With Three BrainsMikey and Nicky 1976 - The Film with Three Brains Review
When Nicky the narcissist gets a contract on his head for ripping off the gang’s boss, he calls childhood pal and gang co-member, Mikey, for help. As the night…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Fugitive 1993 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Action, mystery and drama adorn an updated story appreciated by audiences and critics alike. Using the plot from a 60's black-and-white TV show (and a slew of…
The Film With Three BrainsSpaceballs 1987 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Possibly the ultimate parody - or parody of the ultimate movie - this spoof was just what the universe needed, back when then was now. Star Wars remains…
The Film With Three BrainsAlmost Famous 2000 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Cameron Crowe scores the assignment of a lifetime - follow the rock 'n roll lifestyle of a rising band on the brink of stardom. Heartbreak ensues when like a…
The Film With Three BrainsCrimson Tide 1995 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Did the world need a third submarine movie? Tony Scott thought so. He stuffed superstars Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington and their diametrically opposed…
The Film With Three BrainsAI: Artificial Intelligence 2001 - The Film with Three Brains Review
The creation of a sentient A.I. humanoid to fill the emotional needs of a childless parents (or in this case, parents of a child in a coma) seems more relevant…
The Film With Three BrainsSafe Men 1998 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Of course you'd want to see a movie starring Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Mark Ruffalo and Paul Giamatti - so why haven't you seen Safe Men? The Brains…
The Film With Three BrainsTo Live & Die In LA 1985 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A reckless, thrill-seeking federal cop whose partner is "getting too old for this 💩" is the focus of this 80's movie that somehow is NOT Lethal Weapon…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 - The Film with Three Brains Review
One Brain can't get enough of amnesiac movies! This time it's Geena Davis suffering from the world's longest brain fart, with Samuel Jackson as her detective…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Butcher Boy 1997 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Eamonn Owens plays the charismatic only child of a troubled 60's family, courting disaster in his struggle with identity. His desperate search for connection…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Karate Kid 1984 - The Film with Three Brains Review
This is the movie that brought karate to every kid Bruce Lee missed. Audiences loved the teenage fish-out-of-water whose great mentor shows him it takes more…
The Film With Three BrainsDark City 1998 - The Film with Three Brains Review
An amnesiac awakes from SLEEP to find something strange is at HAND where there's never RAIN and it's always dark. He finds his back against the WALL as reality…
The Film With Three BrainsGood Will Hunting 1997 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck kick off their careers with this Oscar-bait tale of an angry young genius who can't find his way in life. But what you really are…
The Film With Three BrainsWarGames 1983 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Pre-too-cool-for-school, future Ferris starred as a gifted underachiever gamer who hacks (before it was a word!) his way into an Air Force supercomputer name…
The Film With Three BrainsCritters 1986 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Ferocious fuzzballs from outer space descend upon a Midwest family farm for a feeding frenzy while morphologically-fluid alien bounty hunters give chase…