Slop Culture
Slop Culture is a happy hour podcast that strives to see the beauty in stupidity. Movies, books, video games, media--anything that falls under the theater of the macho and the campy, we can't get enough of. Join us for a drink, a few laughs and then send us your angry letters when we have opinions you don't like.
Episodes
45 episodes
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - A Shonen Manga About Clowns
The society of 2004 did not call out for a 1930s retro adventure, they did not demand a story about planes fighting robots, they did not clamor for an aggressively gormless romance between two people reciting lines while quietly wondering if it...
Reign of Fire - An Extroverted Wad
In days long past, in the forgotten era of 2002, mankind walked this earth with all manner of primitive, early CGI. It was an age of darkness. It was an age where Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey couldn't turn down work. It was an age whe...
Congo - I Think They're Very Magical Creatures
The year is 1995. Cinemas thrive. The success of Jurassic Park has awakened in America a panicked and perverse need for stories about playing God and then being horribly consumed by primal life forms beyond our control. And like a jazz drummer ...
Ultraviolet - You Just Won't Stop Spitting In God's Eye
Today on Slop Culture, Will and Sam take a journey back to the primitive days of 2006 to explore a vampire action sci-fi romp that flew so far under the radar it had to be located with one of those rats they train to discover unexploded ordinan...
Big Trouble In Little China - John Lick
The boys take a swig of Tsingtao and power through their second John Carpenter-directed, Kurt Russell-starring cult classic movie. Except instead of being about colorful goons in the decaying ruins of a dystopian New York, it's a movie about co...
Smokin' Aces - A LAN Party For Hookahs
Will and Sam put on their leisure suits for their look at Smokin' Aces, the only movie that can give you the same kind of rush as seeing a pyramid of carefully-arranged wine glasses come crashing down right before the last one goes on. Join the...
Red Dawn (1984) - You Tug, You Toss
This week, the boys treat themselves to an American classic which asks the question that every young American has ever asked themselves: "what if school got canceled because World War III broke out and Patrick Swayze was also there?" Also featu...
Jason & The Argonauts (1966) - My Close Comrade, Thaddeus the Magnificent
It is Slop Culture's utmost pleasure to introduce an iconic film about hairy skinny dudes rowing boats and slapping skeletons--Jason & The Argonauts. Join Will and Sam in a discussion on topics such as Ray Harryhausen's vision, cinema's ear...
The Gauntlet - Vanillainous
In a very special episode of Slop Culture, the podcast talks about its very first film featuring America's favorite morally-dubious, spiritually-lugubrious, gun-toting, chain-smoking, grizzled gizzard son of an onion, Clint Eastwood, in The Gau...
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky - The Chalupacabra
The boys revisit the joys of Hong Kong cinema with the spectacularly gory, spectacularly ridiculous, spectacularly beefy opus that is Riki-Oh, the story of one man's passionate desire to bring about prison reforms by punching through walls and ...
Terminator Salvation - Leave A Pack Of Camels Out For Florida Santa
Today on Slop Culture, Will and Sam journey to the moment where the Terminator franchise stopped and the Terminator Cinematic Universe began. Join us for a thoughtful discussion on what makes a character, what makes a plot, what makes a human--...
Deathstalker (1983) - Horrifically Entombed Among Layers of Blubber
This week, the boys investigate a piece of Argentinian Cinematic History in the form of the extremely violent, extremely low-budget, extremely body-hairless legendary film, Deathstalker. Join us for a discussion of pop culture history, Will's b...
Sloppy Seconds - Baby Got Backrooms
On the inaugural session of Sloppy Seconds, the boys talk about horror film sensation, THE BACKROOMS, one of Sam's very favorite settings and, now, one of his very favorite movies. Also included in this episode: bad endings to good shows, the t...
Atomic Blonde - I'll Give You One Hint: Domino Theory
Today, the boys take a look at Charlize Theron's spectacular Cold War thriller, Atomic Blonde--the ONLY movie where you can get a stunning 1980s soundtrack, John Goodman in a suit and a verifiable chorus of Eastern European dudes getting whacke...
Point Break (1991) - They Crucify The Gorilla
The boys take a course in Early Keanu History with his action-filled role as FBI agent Johnny Utah, playing opposite the chillest sociopath you'll ever meet in Patrick Swayze. Thoughtful deep dives into the relationship between action and roman...
Bloodsport - Crucifix Spurs Is A Vibe
The boys talk about one of the most foundational films to the martial arts genre, defining many of its most treasured tropes--secretive high-stakes tournaments, fists soaked in gore, the burning warrior spirit and dudes threateningly making the...
The Meg - This T-Rex Is Just Too Comfortable With His Body
Today, Will and Sam enjoy a monster movie for a new era. Jason Statham turns in a mostly-hairless performance as a deep sea rescue specialist hired by a multinational team of scientists to dive to the bottom of the ocean and punch the hell out ...
Sahara - All Is White And Empty
This week, Will introduces Sam to his favorite movie that has been or ever will be--Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt, which is a name that sounds like a dude who has been involved in numerous last stands and is linked to at lea...
The Magnificent Seven (2016) - Gaze Into Infinity, Brother
The boys talk about Antoine Fuqua's take on a classic western action flick starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and more in a sprawling study of what it means to be a man who can't move beyond his past and the best he can do with the curse o...
Escape From New York - We Should Absolutely Be Wearing Spats
The boys take a moment to pour a glass of classic Kurt Russell and savor the heady aroma of a classic commando story about what happens when politics are decided via guys with eyepatches and New York is finally allowed to live its authentic sel...
Krull - It's Like Something Bad That Happens To You, Physically
In a very special episode of Slop Culture, Will and Sam pay attention and homage to one of the earliest and most ambitious attempts at fantasy cinema: Krull. The boys discuss what it means to be a creative flop that laid the groundwork for clas...
True Lies - Stay Off The Lovecraftian Section of Grindr
Will and Sam do more glazing than a donut factory over James Cameron's action movie touchstone in which Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis show off the fun, quirky and romantic side of brazen misappropriation of government resources and...
Dredd - Illegal Go-Gurt
This week, the boys journey to pay their respects at the shrine of New Zealand's patron saint, Karl Urban, in his gritty dystopian action flick, Dredd. Included inside: slasher bars, crucial updates on how Sam's curry turned out, and so much gl...
2 Fast 2 Furious - You Wanna See Some Flamingos?
In honor of our 22nd episode, Slop Culture is proud to present its thorough critical analysis of one of the most profound entries into the most sacred wings of cinema's hallowed halls: 2 Fast 2 Furious. Enclosed within: how to run a zoo as a ma...
The Expendables 2 - Ah, Le Goonage
This week, Will and Sam take a look at Sylvester Stallone's Expendables 2, a thoughtful and nuanced study of the relationship between masculinity, intimacy and conflict. Also, Jason Statham dresses up like a priest and stabs a dude and says "I ...