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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.
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The Film With Three BrainsStand By Me 1986 - The Film with Three Brains Review
"Do you guys want to see a dead body?" Stephen King and Rob Reiner capture a weekend of 1950's boys being boys via future star-studded adventure. Can…
The Film With Three BrainsTrue Romance 1993 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Despite its glut of stars, memorable scenes, and winning performances, Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette's wild ride often gets overlooked. Can anyone…
The Film With Three BrainsCliffhanger 1993 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Sly Stallone tops this aptly-named blockbuster by literally hanging off cliffs. John Lithgow is a big bad guy (not Bigfoot) for this weathering heights…
The Film With Three BrainsThere's Something About Mary 1998 - The Film with Three Brains Review
This 90's (rom?)-com starring Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller was the inspiration for button-fly jeans and pet pythons. Is there still something about Mary? At…
The Film With Three BrainsSlumber Party Massacre 1982 - The Film with Three Brains Review
When a (30-year-old playing a) teenager invites her b-ball teammates over for a girls night, laughter turns to screams once an escaped killer arrives with his…
The Film With Three BrainsSomething Wicked This Way Comes 1983 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A spooky-ass carnival led by Mr. Dark preys on small town misfortune by granting Monkey's Paw wishes in this older-audience Disney experiment. But could Disney…
The Film With Three BrainsYoung Guns 1988 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A group of rootin' tootin' 80's heartthrobs strap on holsters and learn to cowboy to bring the exploits of Billy the Kid's Regulators to the silver screen…
The Film With Three BrainsAnnie Hall 1977 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Diane Keaton hauls in a Best Performance Academy Award on the Best Picture winner of 1977. How did Woody Allen funnel kvetching and pathos into an…
The Film With Three BrainsRingu 1998 - The Film with Three Brains Review
VCRs, landline telephones, tube televisions, the Dewey Decimal System... what is scarier: antiquated 90's technology or a cursed VHS tape that kills hapless…
The Film With Three Brains48 Hrs. 1982 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Detective Nick Nolte gets con Eddie Murphy out of the slammer for 48 hours to catch a thief in Murphy's first major film. This early 80's buddy "cop" comedy…
The Film With Three BrainsFargo 1996 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Joel and Ethan Coen helm a botched-kidnapping-indie-blockbuster boasting fascinating characters, Midwest accents, unapologetic violence, plus a search for a…
The Film With Three BrainsRobin Hood Prince of Thieves 1991 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Kevin Costner stars as a Robin Hood with the winning smile and bow skills to make maidens quiver. Yet it's Alan Rickman who steals the show portraying a…
The Film With Three BrainsAkira 1988 - The Film with Three Brains Review
This late 80's adaptation of a cyberpunk graphic novel kicked off America's fascination with Japanimation [sic]. Akira explores what happens when children have…
The Film With Three BrainsStarship Troopers 1997 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Can satire be so subtle no one gets it? Would Paul Verhoeven make an over the top space war movie just to mock the genre without letting the actors in on it?…
The Film With Three BrainsReal Genius 1985 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A precocious scientist goes to college at 15 for lessons on lasers and love. His roommate, Val Kilmer, earns an easy A as the unicorn of nerds: an extroverted…
The Film With Three BrainsApocalypse Now 1979 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A rogue Martin Sheen surfs upriver in simultaneous pursuit of a mythical leader, a fellow soldier, an enemy and his destiny. There is no making sense of the…
The Film With Three BrainsThree Amigos 1986 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short - what more could could a 1980's comedy ask for? The answer is more than just a plane with cajones, pero we'll get…
The Film With Three BrainsStrange Brew 1983 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Ya der hey. Welcome to our movie review, ya hosers. This week is a beauty... we go to the Great White North to the Elsinore Brewery to see what's in der…
The Film With Three BrainsAliens 1986 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A creature feature sequel that echoes the plot of the original is usually a Hollywood recipe for disaster. So how did James Cameron simultaneously out-Alien…
The Film With Three BrainsAlien 1979 - The Film with Three Brains Review
While everyone was trying to make the next Star Wars, Ridley Scott unleashed the face-hugging, chest-bursting alien sci-fi horror film that inspired decades of…
The Film With Three BrainsRambo-First Blood Part II 1985 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Off-screen it's Stallone versus Schwarzenegger. On-screen, Rambo's an unstoppable monosyllabic army of one, leaving a trail of death and destruction in the…
The Film With Three BrainsArthur 1981 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Dudley Moore is a rich Manhattanite tipsy with privilege and alcohol. Resigned to marry the high society bride of his family's choosing, a vivacious Liza…
The Film With Three BrainsOffice Space 1999 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Beavis & Butthead creator, Mike Judge grows up and gets - a desk job? Three software programmers discover the ultimate loophole to beat the system: stop…
The Film With Three BrainsCommando 1985 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Arnold is back: a retired Special Forces Colonel looks for his kidnapped daughter and demolishes anyone in his way in this progenitor of John Wick…
The Film With Three BrainsL.A. Confidential 1997 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe share a precinct while being a world apart in their approach to policing the dirty underbelly of 1950's Hollywood. Are drugs…
The Film With Three BrainsMarathon Man 1976 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Crooked clandestine government agents and a sadistic Nazi dentist give chase to Dustin Hoffman in this shoestring-plotted thriller. Does solid acting and a…
The Film With Three BrainsGrumpy Old Men 1991 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Lemmon, Matthau and Ann-Margret form a love triangle that both threatens and redefines the men's grumpy friendship. Do they have enough spark to fuel this…
The Film With Three BrainsSomething Wild 1986 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels are flirting with disaster (and each other) in this unpredictable flick. Does Something Wild refer to their weekend adventure…
The Film With Three BrainsJurassic Park 1993 - The Film with Three Brains Review
In 1993, Sam was given a Jurassic Park t-shirt. He put it in storage assuming he would pull it out in 30 years and no one would remember it. The brains discuss…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Adventures of Ford Fairlane 1990 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Andrew "Dice" Clay, toxic misogynist comedian, becomes LA's Rock 'n' Roll Detective Ford Fairlane in this scarce cult film, chock full of raunchy jokes and…
The Film With Three BrainsThe Jerk 1979 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Carl Reiner's steady collaboration with Steve Martin began with this cross-eyed comedy. Irreverent, uneven in execution yet imbued with Steve's charm and…
The Film With Three BrainsStalker 1979 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A barren Russian landscape is the setting for this acclaimed, barren "psy-fi" film that explores whether or not we really want our deepest wishes to come true…
The Film With Three BrainsBroadcast News 1987 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Hunt, Hurt, Brooks: a coworker love triangle, each angling to create ideal TV news at another's expense. Smart comedy always rings true, but does the integrity…
The Film With Three BrainsMidnight Run 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review E157
Robert De Niro hones his comic chops with Charles Grodin in this odd couple road trip flick. Grumpy bounty hunter De Niro is bound for L.A. with (and sometimes…
The Film With Three BrainsCronos 1993 - The Film With Three Brains Review E156
Guillermo del Toro's creepy debut gives a new origin to the age-old vampire story. How did this low budget body-horror flick give birth to del Toro's career?…
The Film With Three BrainsPee-Wee’s Big Adventure 1985 - The Film With Three Brains Review E155
Tim Burton's unique directorial style was evident in his debut—a quirky tale of a stolen bicycle—featuring gags galore, no ground floor, and many things never…
The Film With Three BrainsDonnie Brasco 1997 - The Film With Three Brains Review E154
Johnny Depp and Al Pacino develop a bromance as undercover Fed and mobster in this true story of a mafia mole mentored by a made man who hasn't got it made. A…
The Film With Three BrainsComing to America 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review E153
Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall star/costar/cameo/come-of-age in this princely fish-out-of-water (romantic) comedy. Eddie and director John Landis disagreed at…
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Dawn of the Dead 1978 - The Film With Three Brains Review E152
Zombies run rampant in George Romero's seminal undead apocalypse sequel. Romero laid the foundation for decades of zombie flicks, but more importantly, how…
The Film With Three BrainsBeing John Malkovich 1999 - The Film with Three Brains Review
The big screen debuts of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman show us what it's like to see through the eyes of a celebrity. Literally. John Cusack plays master of…
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The Breakfast Club 1985 - The Film with Three Brains Review
A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal walk into a high school library...
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The Rocketeer 1991 - The Film with Three Brains Review
In yesteryear there was a rocket. Stored in a swashbuckler's cockpit. Saving girl, USA Mob and Nazis at bay Will the Brains embrace or knock it?
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The Shootist 1976 - The Film with Three Brains Review
In John Wayne's swan song, he plays a dying gunslinger who has outlived his era and wants nothing more than to ride off into the sunset. He settles down at…
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The Truman Show 1998 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Peter Weir posits: what if Orwell's Big Brother cameras were there just for the ratings? Can reality be reality TV? What's true, man? Jim Carrey tones it down…
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Last Action Hero 1993 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Last Action Hero: SatisfAction? StupefAction? MalefAction? OverreAction? Fecal ImpAction!? Or, Last Action Zero?
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Born on the Fourth of July 1989 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Tom Cruise set aside his looks and 80's charisma for this mostly-true story of Ron Kovic, a paraplegic Vietnam veteran turned anti-war activist. Oliver Stone…
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Jacob’s Ladder 1990 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Fractured Vietnam Vet, Tim Robbins as his best. spirals into the sinister unknown as his inner (and outer) demons claw their way to reality. Losing one's mind…
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Beetlejuice 1988 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis are recently deceased and dying to rid their house of the new family that moved in. They summon Beetlejuice, the scene stealing…
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But I’m a Cheerleader 1999 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Natasha Lyonne's cheerleading is put on hold when friends and family force her into a reformation program (Don't Say Hoortay). Lighthearted satire about…
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The Straight Story 1999 - The Film with Three Brains Review
For this no-frills true tale of an aging man determined to see his sick brother, David Lynch plays it straight. Watching an old coot ride a lawnmower across…
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Face/Off 1997 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Good badge, John Travolta swaps spit-&-image with bad seed, Nicolas Cage to infiltrate the latter's scheming empire in this case of disordered identity. With…
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Mad Max 1979 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Mel Gibson's Mad Max debut is also George Miller's first step into the fast and furious world of vehicular mayhem. Does one of the most successful indie movies…
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Ruthless People 1986 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Danny DeVito is a snickering toad of a husband who hopes kidnappers make good on their pledge to kill his wife if he doesn't pay a ransom. Do Abrahams, Zucker…
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Heathers 1989 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Winona Ryder and Christian Slater give teen angst a body count in this anti-John Hughes high school revenge romp. This irreverent suicide flick is satiric and…
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Short Circuit 1986 - The Film with Three Brains Review
Johnny 5 is alive! Can we say the same of the movie? Does the charm of the puppeteer's voice (and Steve Guttenburg) create a winning metal Pinocchio? Or do…
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Chungking Express 1994 - The Film with Three Brains Review
This acclaimed 90s foreign flick tells two tales of lovesick policemen in Hong Kong who frequent the same takeout joint. Does putting two stylish stories…
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Fire in the Sky 1993 - The Film with Three Brains Review 134
It's a lumberjack's worst nightmare: abducted by aliens on the way home from work. While veracity and quality inform good filmmaking, can just one suffice?…
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An American Werewolf in London 1981 - The Film with Three Brains Review 133
Where wolves roam far north of London, two yout(h)s meet their fate: one undead, the other succumbing to a lycanthropic curse. Can award-winning effects and…
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The Commitments 1991 - The Film with Three Brains Review 132
Working-class Dubliners cause a stir playing in Alan Parker's fictional band of misfits. It takes more than music to give a movie soul. Does this cult classic…
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Gattaca 1997 - The Film with Three Brains Review 131
In a dystopian future, DNA is the basis of life's caste system. Flawed Ethan Hawk plans to fake it until he makes it... to space, until a murder investigation…