Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

617. The Usual Suspects (1995): The Greatest Trick This Podcast Ever Pulled Was To Convince The World It Didn't Exist

Send us Fan Mail After a brutal summer full of bombs, the gang gleefully review a great 90s thriller that exemplifies why our generation's movies were so much bette

Fight Club (1999): We Want You To Hit Us As Hard As You Can

Send us Fan Mail GenX boys were strange little creatures (still are by all accounts). Back when you couldn't use the internet to fight your battles, some of us actu

616. KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978): Rock N Roll All Night, Poopy Every Day

Send us Fan Mail Headbangers Hamlet! Things go crazy this week as Mike's absence throws the Grumpy Nostalgia studios into disarray. But every crisis is also an oppo

Roadhouse (1989): Most Craziest, Haziest, and Swayziest

Send us Fan Mail Drop by the Double Deuce to see an amazing tale that somehow manages to be wonderful and vile all at the same time.  We could not get enough of this one

615. Jaws 3D (1983): Stinky Enough to Require an Extra Dimension

Send us Fan Mail We wrap up our brutal "Bombs Away" summer series with some real teeth.  We travel back to 1983 to revisit the gimmicky, yet somehow still boring, Jaws 3

Battlefield Earth (2000): Travolta Revolta. A Retrospective

Send us Fan Mail We swear we will cover a good movie eventually, but this week do not. But that doesn't mean for even a second that we didn't completely love r

614. Cutthroat Island (1995): Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Crap

Send us Fan Mail Pirate songs and horrible puns litter this podcast as the boys get their peg legs stuck knee high into this infamous pile of poo.  When a movie loses $1

Tombstone (1993): Skin Your Smoke Wagon, Where Applicable.

Send us Fan Mail Before Yellowstone made the gangster western cool, our cowboys from the 90s were shootin', drinkin' and acting all over the place.  We go back

613. Howard the Duck (1986): Feather Fungus and Casual Bestiality.

Send us Fan Mail If you love duck puns, bad special effects, and crimping irons we have the film for you. It's been 40 years since this turkey (not duck) graced our

Flash Gordon, Part 1 (1980): Our Comic Book Movies Were Actually Good.

Send us Fan Mail Flash and the gang face off against the glorious villain Ming the Merciless (who could easily take Thanos's lunch money). There's ridiculous s

Flash Gordon Part 2: Our Comic Book Movies Are Still Better

Send us Fan Mail One episode couldn't do this one justice, so the boys present a special two-parter in order to squeeze in all the pew pew pews, the red sateen, the

612. Dream A Little Dream (1989): The Two Coreys Destroy Western Civilization

Send us Fan Mail There's a scene where Corey Feldman, dressed as Michael Jackson, does a 4 minute dance routine in a gym and its not even the worst scene in the mov

The Last Action Hero (1993): Blazing The Trail For Crappy Summer Blockbusters

Send us Fan Mail Even our bombs bombed bigger in the 90s.  With the 2026 summer blockbuster season folding like Superman on laundry day, we thought we'd go back 33

611. Bloodsport (1988): Jean Claude Steals Your Heart and Breaks Your Face

Send us Fan Mail Five years in and we've yet to talk about the Muscles from Brussels.  This ends here.  In one of our most serve-serving episodes to date, we decide

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (1977): Build A Mountain In Your Living Room: A Retrospective

Send us Fan Mail Being the grumpy jerks we are, we're guessing you can simply stay home this weekend and listen to this podcast instead of braving theatres to see D

610. Shakespeare in Love (1998): A Cloying Pageant Which Yet Doth Feast Upon Private Ryan's Tears

Send us Fan Mail Come listen as two brutes scratch their heads and furrow their brows as the try to review an art house film.  Having nary a special effect and nor not e

Grumpy Nostalgia ReMembers Only #9: These Video Games Are Just a Fad

Send us Fan Mail The boys go back to the golden era of brain rot to explore our long obsession with the video game.  From Pong to XBOX, these consoles were our baby sitt

609.The Untouchables (1987): You Send Our Podcast to the Hospital, We Send Your Podcast to the Morgue

Send us Fan Mail You Send Our Podcast to the Hospital, We Send Your Podcast to the Morgue. That's the Grumpy Nostalgia Way.  The boys go full OG this week reliving

Return of the Jedi (1983): Kill Your Father. You'll Feel Better

Send us Fan Mail Mandalorians and Grogus are fine, but us 80s kids would rather see some stop motion terror and a galactic build-a-bear workshop taking down the Empire. 

608.Contact (1997): Nerds Discover New Life in Our Galaxy. And New Cheese

Send us Fan Mail This week's brand new episode features what we call a "thinking man's Sci-Fi" movie.  Generally, that's code for boring. And there's