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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 Fisher King 1991 - The Film with Three Brains Review 130
The Fisher King features neither fish nor kings, but it does have Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams firing on all cylinders. Terry Gilliam brings his trademark…
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Scrooged 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review 129
Bill Murray shines in the other Christmas Story. Does it take guts to retell a classic. Can star power win over the scrooges? Is this a better way to spend…
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American Movie 1999 - The Film With Three Brains Review 128
An aspiring indie filmmaker chasing his destiny in a clown car shines as the star of this right-place-right-time documentary. Hindsight separates fool from…
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Private Benjamin 1980 - The Film With Three Brains Review 127
Goldie Hawn is an entitled twenty-something whose privileged whimsy and whiny co-dependence find her two DOA marriages (one quite literally), then an impromptu…
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Shoot to Kill 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review 126
A diamond heist-double murder-getaway sucks street savvy Sidney Poitier out of his element into the backwoods. Mountain man, Tom Berenger is his mismatch made…
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Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight 1995 - The Film With Three Brains Review 125
Tales from the Crypt presents a common horror comedy recipe: one part disparate group of social outcasts, one part Billy Zane/hoard of demons, and one part…
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Bird 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review 124
Clint Eastwood directs Forest Whitaker as swinging Charlie "Bird" Parker. Neither drugs, race, the FBI, nor critics - ever came between Bird and his alto sax…
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Trainspotting 1996 - The Film With Three Brains Review 123
Danny Boyle directs Ewan McGregor in this acclaimed indie endeavor about heroin addicts destroying everything in their path. It's amusing, disgusting…
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The Changeling 1980 - The Film With Three Brains Review 122
A boy haunts a house from a hidden grave and George C. Scott is hellbent on unearthing why. This 1980 horror flick helped set the stage for the next decade of…
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The Hunt for Red October 1990 - The Film With Three Brains Review 121
The once "Sexiest Man Alive" (now deceased), Sean Connery pilots a killer Russian sub into the open arms of the original Jack Ryan, Alex Baldwin (also a…
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Dragonslayer 1981 - The Film With Three Brains Review 120
Dragons, sorcerers, magical amulets, secret identities, virgin sacrifices, reincarnation, enchanted weapons, early Christianity and more. Does this 1981…
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Back to School 1986 - The Film With Three Brains Review 119
Rodney Dangerfield is a rich businessman who joins his son at college to "help" him find his way - and finds himself hot for teacher. Can the kind of…
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Major League 1989 - The Film With Three Brains Review 118
Is it possible - To watch a movie so much it stops being funny? - To root for a fictional version of an actual franchise? - To cast actors so perfectly it…
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Rounders 1998 - The Film With Three Brains Review 117
Damon, Norton, Malkovich, Turturro... the greatest hits of the late 90's play big stakes underground poker instead of getting real jobs. In short, you've got…
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The Outsiders 1983 - The Film With Three Brains Review 116
This brat-packed adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel follows the rumbling teens of Tulsa through traumatic times. Coppola nails casting, but is out of his…
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Straight Time 1978 - The Film With Three Brains Review 115
Dustin Hoffman is out of the pen and claims he's going legit. When his sour parole officer serves him a double dose of "doubtful hard ass," all bets are off…
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Three Kings 1999 - The Film With Three Brains Review 114
We Three Kings of film review are Talkin' about Ice Cube & costars... Wahlberg, Clooney, & gold robbery. Still a film above par?
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Return of the Living Dead 1985 - The Film With Three Brains Review 113
It takes a campy zombie movie to prove that true love never dies, but it sometimes comes back from the dead and tries to eat your brains! This early zombie…
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Goodfellas 1990 - The Film With Three Brains Review 112
A whole lotta Liotta, De Niro, and Pesci make Scorsese's screenplay sizzle. Does one of the best films of the 90's stand tough, or back away from The Brains'…
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UHF 1989 - The Film With Three Brains Review 111
"Weird Al" parodies 1980's pop culture in this skit-ish sketch-fest co-starring a not-yet-Kramer, Michael Richards. A Free Spatula or a drink from the firehose…
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Tremors 1990 - The Film With Three Brains Review 110
Meat-eating sandworms atttack A-listers Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward in this horror comedy B-movie. On paper it's drier than old Nevada cow dung - so what makes…
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Married to the Mob 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review 109
Big accents and even bigger hair abound in this 80's flick from Jonathan Demme. Michelle Pfeiffer wants out of the mob and the don offing her husband is just…
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Ordinary People 1980 - The Film With Three Brains Review 108
Tragedy exposes the flaws of an outwardly perfect family in Robert Redford's directorial debut. Can heartfelt grief, forgiveness, and recovery still draw an…
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Rapid Fire 1992 - The Film With Three Brains Review 107
Before he was The Crow, Brandon Lee single-footedly kicked the ass of each and every bad guy in this martial arts mishmash. (The inaccurately titled) Rapid…
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Grave of the Fireflies 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review 106
Studio Ghibli - known for creativity and dazzling animated mythology - also created this uncomplicated tearjerker. Wars not make one great; what might it take…
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 - The Film With Three Brains Review 105
Jack Nicholson must be insane to think an asylum is an escape from a prison work farm. He's shocked to learn how wrong he was when he tangles with Nurse…
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Tron 1982 - The Film With Three Brains Review 104
Getting sucked into a video game is every kid's dream. Turns out every movie reviewer too. Jeff Bridges takes a byte out of crime in this cyber-adventure. Is…
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Open Your Eyes 1997 - The Film With Three Brains Review 103
Realty unravels for a rich playboy after surviving a car cash and then being accused of killing his dream girl. Penelope Cruz costars in this and the US…
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Croupier 1998 - The Film With Three Brains Review 102
Odds are you haven't seen Clive Owen's debut: a neo-noir casino crime story about a croupier with a sense of morality as random as the roulette wheel he spins…
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The Money Pit 1986 - The Film With Three Brains Review 101
Tom Hanks and Shelley Long go wrong when they buy a home for a song. Is this fixer-upper comedy still worth the time? We tear down The Money Pit in this wreck…
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The Film With Three Brains 100th Episode Retrospective Review 100
Pick the two best, two worst and the two that surprised you most and see how your taste overlaps with ours! We go "meta" for our 100th episode. Join us and…
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The Man With Two Brains 1983 - The Film With Three Brains Review 099
Out namesake film star Steve Marin as an outrageous neurosurgeon stuck married to a gold digger (Kathleen Turner) but in love with a disembodied brain. Is this…
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Groundhog Day 1993 - The Film With Three Brains Review E098
It's 6am and today we review Groundhog Day. It's 6am and today we review Groundhog Day. It's 6am and today we review Groundhog Day. It's 6am and today we…
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Soggy Bottom USA 1981 - The Film With Three Brains Review E097
Soggy Bottom USA might imply you’ll wet your pants watching this swampy comedy. Or, not. This moonshinin', dog-racin', country-singin', fur-tradin'…
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The Lost Boys 1987 - The Film With Three Brains Review E096
Never grow old. Never die. But you must feed, Michael. This Peter Pan-inspired vampire flick from 1987 does the impossible - makes the 80's look cool and…
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Brewsters Millions 1985 - The Film With Three Brains Review E095
Richard Pryor (after the fire) is a pitcher who can get 10x richer if he spends 30mil whilst revealing nil, leaving nothing to his name at the end of this…
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April Fools Day 1986 - The Film With Three Brains Review E094
The Friday the 13th producer made this much tamer murder mystery about a group of friends spending a scary night in an old house on an island. It begs the…
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Fitzcarraldo and Burden of Dreams 1982 - The Film With Three Brains Review E093
Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo follows a man so obsessed with bringing Opera to the Amazon he enlists natives to carry a steamboat across land. Burden of Dreams…
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Can’t Hardly Wait 1998 - The Film With Three Brains Review E092
Can't Hardly Wait for this episode.
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9 To 5 1980 - The Film With Three Brains Review E091
Dolly Parton steals scene after scene from Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in this revenge comedy about three women getting even with their misogynistic boss. Do…
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Little Voice 1998 - The Film With Three Brains Review E090
A demure mimic sounds golden to sleazy star-maker, Michael Caine when he hears the pitch-perfect imitation of her late father's favorite songbirds (Ella, Judy…
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Stakeout 1987 - The Film With Three Brains Review E089
After a prison breakout, two laugh-out-loud cops stakeout the knockout that the bad guy used to take out. Detective Richard Dreyfus falls for the girl at the…
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Beat Street 1984 - The Film With Three Brains Review E088
Rushed to the screen (just behind rival flick, Breakin') to capitalize on the breakdancing fad, this forgotten flick captures the birth of hip hop like no…
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A Fish Called Wanda 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review E087
Four thieves steal diamonds as a team but when it comes to dividing the loot, double crosses abound in John Cleese's comedy. This forgotten award-winning film…
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Race With The Devil 1975 - The Film With Three Brains Review E086
This Peter Fonda, Warren Oates vehicle is literally a 36 ft camper. It's also a front runner for the horror on wheels genre. There's no devil, but a bunch of…
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The Cable Guy 1996 - The Film With Three Brains Review E085
Jim Carrey stars as The Cable Guy who tries too hard to make friends with a customer (Matthew Broderick, again!) and things go haywire. This Ben Stiller comedy…
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Midnight Express 1978 - The Film With Three Brains Review E084
Do you like movies about gladiators? You ever seen a grown man naked? Have you ever been in a Turkish prison? No, not Airplane... Billy Hayes'…
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A Simple Plan 1998 - The Film With Three Brains Review E083
An average guy (Bill Paxton) and two underachievers (Billy Bob Thornton & friend) come across four million "lost" dollars in the woods and agree to a plan to…
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Fright Night 1985 - The Film With Three Brains Review E082
A teenage boy tried to out the vampire next door in this campy 80's horror flick. The vamp raises the stakes by stealing the teen's girlfriend and soon…
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Death Becomes Her 1992 - The Film With Three Brains Review E081
When does Death Become Her? How does Death Become Her? Why does Death Become Her? And who is her? This isn't just another Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn CGI-ridden…
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Clerks 1994 - The Film With Three Brains Review E080
Sharp-tongued store clerks shoot the sh*t in this slacker gen-X comedy. Kevin Smith's debut influenced a generation of indie filmmakers but is it worth being a…
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SpaceCamp 1986 - The Film With Three Brains Review E079
Disney accidentally launches 5 kids into space (but only three are propelled to stardom) in this feel good family flick from '86. Are Space Shuttle movies…
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Ladyhawke 1985 - The Film With Three Brains Review E078
Have the brains reviewed enough movies to say this is a Beastmaster/Ferris Bueller's Day off mashup? Are they mature enough to say it takes more than Michelle…
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Matinee 1993 - The Film With Three Brains Review E077
John Goodman plays a larger than life B-movie maker in Joe Dante's not quite coming-of-age homage to 1950's creature features. When the film with a film is…
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The Fly 1986 - The Film With Three Brains Review E076
Jeff Goldblum plays an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over and the insect is awake. Be afraid. Be very afraid. We bring in a…
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Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 - The Film With Three Brains Review E075
Denzel stars as an out of work mechanic turned detective in this 1940's film noir adaptation of Walter Mosley's first "Easy" Rawlins book. Does the film…
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When Harry Met Sally 1989 - The Film With Three Brains Review E074
Nora Ephron and Rob Reiner examine the age-old question of whether or not men and women can be 'just friends.' The answer: this Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan…
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The Verdict 1982 - The Film With Three Brains Review E073
Paul Newman (salad dresser extraordinaire to the Gen Z crowd) plays a downtrodden alcoholic attorney trying to redeem his soul on a legal long shot. David…
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Die Hard 1988 - The Film With Three Brains Review E072
Bruce Willis makes a name for himself in a feel-good Christmas movie released in summer, 1988. Alan Rickman debuts as the leader of 'who said we were'…
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Hearts of the West 1975 - The Film With Three Brains Review E071
Hearts-of-the-what now? Jeff Bridges is a wannabe Western writer who seeks experience being a real dude in Nevada. He quickly runs afoul of grifters & actors…