Remember, remember the 5th of November... Well, WE certainly won't forget it. One of us is literally named Fawkes, and Katie's youngest was BORN on November 5th. 😂 We're wrapping up our "spooky" month of movies that may have eerily predicted the future with V FOR VENDETTA (2005)! Yes, we…
What if The Matrix wasn't science fiction... but a WARNING? 💊🤯 We're continuing our "spooky" month of movies that may have eerily predicted the future, and this week we're plugging into THE MATRIX (1999)! Back in 1999, the Wachowskis gave us a world where machines controlled humanity, reality wasn't what…
What happens when the dumbest possible future starts looking a little too familiar? 😂 This week on The VHS Club, we're jumping into the wonderfully ridiculous (and slightly terrifying) world of Idiocracy (2006)! Directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard, Idiocracy follows Joe Bauers,…
Warriors… come out to play-ay! 🍾 This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat are heading into the gritty, neon-soaked streets of 1979 New York City for one very long trip back to Coney Island. We’re reviewing The Warriors, Walter Hill’s cult classic about a street gang falsely accused…
Hasta la vista, baby. 🤖 This week on The VHS Club, we're going back to 1991 for one of the biggest, loudest, most technologically groundbreaking sequels ever made: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the Terminator, except this time, he's the GOOD guy. Linda Hamilton completely transforms…
Before Once. Before Sing Street. Before every movie about a scrappy group of musicians coming together to form a band… There was The Commitments. And this band had absolutely NO business sounding this good. 😂 This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat are going back to 1991 to…
Before Pretty Woman made her a star, and before she became one of the biggest actresses in Hollywood… Julia Roberts was in a movie called Satisfaction. And somehow, we’re watching it. 😂 This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat are going back to 1988 to revisit Satisfaction, starring…
It’s time to grab your platform heels, put on something shiny, and prepare an extremely convincing story about inventing Post-its. This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat are heading back to 1997 to revisit Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. Romy and…
Before the MCU... before Iron Man... there was Howard the Duck. This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat are joined by film critic Chris Bumbray to revisit one of the strangest comic book movies ever made. Was it really the disaster everyone remembers? Has it secretly become a…
Can two lovable idiots accidentally lock themselves inside a high-tech environmental experiment... and somehow save the day? This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat revisit Bio-Dome (1996), the outrageous cult comedy starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin. From slapstick chaos and unforgettable one-liners to its surprising environmental message,…
We watched every Cinderella movie we could find... from A Cinderella Story to Ella Enchanted to Disney's classic. After all of that? We're still convinced that Ever After is the greatest Cinderella adaptation ever made. Agree... or are we completely wrong? 👇 Watch the full Ever After review on The…
What if the best Cinderella movie wasn't animated... or even magical? This week on The VHS Club, Katie is joined by special guest Marielou Mandl to revisit Ever After, the beloved 1998 retelling of the classic fairy tale starring Drew Barrymore, Dougray Scott, and Anjelica Huston. Is this the greatest…
One of the things we loved most about The Fifth Element wasn't the action—it was the story behind the story. Luc Besson first imagined this world as a teenager, and we think that's part of what makes it feel so magical. As kids, we create without worrying if an idea…
Doc Rock shared a theory about Leeloo that completely changed how I watch The Fifth Element. What if those moments where she suddenly goes dark aren't random... What if she's actually absorbing the evil around her before she fights it? It's never stated outright in the movie, but it's such…
Did you know Milla Jovovich learned 400 words of a completely fictional language for The Fifth Element? Even more impressive? She and director Luc Besson would actually hold conversations in that made-up language on set. It's easy to overlook just how much of Leeloo's performance relies on expression, tone, and…
Multi-pass? More like multi-watch. This week on The VHS Club, Katie is joined by special guest co-host Doc Rock to revisit one of the most beloved sci-fi films of the VHS era: The Fifth Element. Directed by Luc Besson and starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, and Chris Tucker…
"Hey buddy!" Decades before memes, TikTok slang, and viral catchphrases, Pauly Shore was creating his own language in Encino Man. In this clip from The VHS Club Podcast, Katie and Nat discuss how many of Stoney's iconic lines were ad-libbed, why Pauly Shore's unique way of speaking feels surprisingly modern,…
Brendan Fraser has always had something special. In this clip from our Encino Man review, we talk about why Brendan Fraser shines even when the movie around him doesn't, why we're fully on board with the Fraser renaissance, and why his sons looked like they walked straight out of a…
A glass Coke bottle falls from the sky and somehow launches one of the most unexpected movie hits of the 1980s. This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat head to the Kalahari Desert to revisit The Gods Must Be Crazy, the quirky South African comedy that became a…
Why did critics hate Encino Man while audiences couldn't get enough of it? In this clip from Episode 134 of The VHS Club, Katie and Nat discuss why Siskel & Ebert were never going to understand Pauly Shore's unique brand of 90s comedy—and how Encino Man found its audience through…
This week on The VHS Club, we're saddling up for one of the most fun and unexpected movies of the early 2000s: A Knight's Tale. Join us as they revisit the film that asked an important question: What if medieval jousting tournaments felt like a rock concert? Starring Heath Ledger,…
This week on The VHS Club, we're hitting the road with one of the most unique and talked-about films of the 1990s: My Own Private Idaho. Join us as we revisit Gus Van Sant's cult classic starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. From unforgettable performances and dreamlike storytelling to Shakespearean…
Did you know Strange Brew is basically Shakespeare's Hamlet? Two beer-loving Canadian brothers accidentally uncover corporate espionage, mad scientist experiments, and a plot that follows the story of Hamlet surprisingly closely. The weirdest part? It actually works. We talked about one of the strangest movie adaptations ever during our Strange…
A dog stops an evil brainwashing beer plot, gets painted like a giant skunk, flies through the air, ruins Oktoberfest, and helps put the bad guys behind bars. And somehow that's only part of the plot of Strange Brew. We broke down one of the most ridiculous movie heroes of…