The 2014 film Under The Skin is not for everyone. It's dark, meditative, brutal, and terrifying. There are some shocking shots, but it's not your typical horror film. Michael and Abe sit down with Brooks Brown to discuss how Jonathan Glazer and Scarlett...
2020-06-22 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The good and bad of my relationship with the very wise Jennifer Moore.
Music by Chris Corlew.
Production and additional guitar by ...
2020-06-21 20:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Abe presents the case that while 1995's Clueless has flaws, its insistence on inclusive art forms and mundane art is actually a fantastic message for young teens from the 1990's and the film displays a more diverse culture snapshot than most genre films...
2020-06-19 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Abe discuss what's going on with this movie. Why did it flop so hard? Does it deserve the hate? Who said yes to Morgan Freeman's eyebrows? Like so many horrifying ass worms, there's plenty of unpack in this episode.
Features:
Mic...
2020-06-15 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Sarah and Bridgett review the fourth installment of the FFF (Fast and Furious Franchise). Sarah starts by nailing the play-by-play of the series up to this point. This film makes two things clear. The series is now about superheroes and sexy ...
2020-06-12 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Show You's start off with a pretty thorough discussion of coffee but things take a turn when Maggie chooses House of Wax. I mean, that is utterly ridiculous and Maggie's the only person we know who could pull this answer off. Listen to the whole epi...
2020-06-05 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you enjoyed the third episode of ISYMIYSMY! Here's the possible prompts for Episode 5 as they've already recorded a bonus episode for y'all that will come out in a few weeks. You have one week until this poll is closed! Huzzah!
2020-06-05 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As quarantine quontinues, IGN will continue to occasionally put out videos that are just us talking to each other via webcam. But as far as I can recall, that's what life is and always has been, so I don't see an issue.
2020-06-05 01:12:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone check on Michael. He wrote this...I don't know, short story? Anyway, it's not really that funny at all. I mean, there's one part at the end that's really hilarious, but the rest isn't that funny. You click the first image to open the gallery and click next to read it. There's four pages.
2020-06-05 01:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam tells Abe to pull over because he's taking the wheel for an examination of the 2005 British adventure horror thriller movie, The Descent, written and directed by Neil Marshall. In this episode, Adam examines the production hurdles that a fil...
2020-06-01 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Yippie Ki Yay, Mister Falcons! Abe returns with a lecture on Die Hard and how John McTiernan uses diagonal lines to draw your eye. Not very funny, but if you want to tell people while you're watching Die Hard that you kind of took film classes about it, that's up to you! So, yeah, Die Hard's great, you're great, and go watch it!
Abe Eppers...
2020-05-27 17:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We don't even summarize the film this time. It's just three dudes talking about what it means to be human for about an hour. Tom Reimann from Gamefully Unemployed stops by to drop some knowledge. What does it mean to be sentient? What does it mean...
2020-05-25 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael got to be on his own personal favorite podcast, My Gorgeous Son! It's about a dad and son who love one another varying amounts, and is brought to life by two of our favorite comedians, Mark Little and Andy Bush, as well as a third person named Everardo who is also there.
In this episode, Michael plays an aged Italian film dir...
2020-05-18 18:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by White People 4 Black Lives.
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Alright, cockadoodies! The kings catalog their third entry of their deep dive into the Kingiverse. So get ready to get smothered and sedated like so many Paul Sheldons as they discuss fiddely-foof and its impact on the entire rooty-patootie genre. How d...
2020-05-15 11:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan's back! Everybody Dan's back! Go Crazy! Alright, calm down.
It's murder most foul! A cacophony of crime! A Monty Python of ending retcons! The three guys talk about 1985's Clue and how(s) it holds up and hows it don't for an hour and a half. A...
2020-05-11 14:57:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The third installment of our Fast and Furious deep dive comes with many epiphanies, like Sarah learning what drifting is. Both the hosts are pretty confident in their scoring of how fast this film is, but less so in if it's truly furious. Not a lot of v...
2020-05-08 12:26:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Paranorman is a movie from 2012 that sneakily deconstructs American traditionalism, suburbia, and consumerism. Abe is a film nerd who believes that film school dissections of children's animated films are a good use of ninety of your minutes. Let's get ...
2020-05-04 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's our game night stream from last night! Lots of fun, fewer technical issues than we expected...we'll do this again. Hope you'll be in the audience! Otherwise just slap this on in the background while you cook something and boom, instant friend group.
2020-05-03 18:19:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes we talk about TV too! This one is the new FX miniseries starring Nick Offerman and Allison Pill, written and directed by Alex Garland. It's no secret that Michael and Abe have been smitten so far by Garland's work, but does his recent attempt ...
2020-05-01 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all! We have beans to report! This Saturday, May 2nd @ 7pm PST, 7 whole big beans will be streaming on our twitch.tv channel for a few hours. You'll get to vote on our suggestions and follow along by entering the 4-digit room key into http://jackbox.tv when we begin.
Small Bea...
2020-04-29 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Vanessa's back to help Michael and Abe unpack the dense time travel timeline of 2014's Predestination (starring Ethan Hawke). The gang asks: are all paradoxes in all time travel stories the same paradox? Why are a lot of seminal sci-fi writers thirsty a...
2020-04-27 12:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Swaim's burgeoning friendship with Brian Altano really hit a new plateau with the co-creation of this, a scathingly intimate portrait of two dudes discussing potential Mario Bros. remasters.
2020-04-24 16:54:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey wind bags! Hope you enjoyed the second episode of ISYMIYSMY! As promised, here's the possible prompts for Episode 3. You have one week until this poll is closed! Huzzah!
2020-04-24 12:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
So this is how it works. The title of the episode is the episode prompt. How Maggie and Adam define it will be determined by them. In this episode, Maggie defines it as "not your favorite necessarily, but if you could surround yourself with it as if it ...
2020-04-24 12:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Like the lazy titular character, John Hughes kind of takes it easy after Act I of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Adam runs down the directorial bag of tricks he employs in the first 25 minutes of the movie that seem to be non-existent in the rest of the movi...
2020-04-17 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Abe and Michael discuss the themes and relevancy of 2007's The Mist. In the last episode, Stephen King took issue with the movie version of his tale. In this episode, he seems to approve of it. While we're all confined to the indoors in 2020, we think y...
2020-04-13 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sarah and Bridgett of Rough Stuff are going to do a LIVE instagram broadcast of listener submitted stories tomorrow 4/12/20 at 4:30 PST. Perfect for Easter Sunday. Pl...
2020-04-11 23:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hot damn, a new podcast! It dawned on us that the most unlikely of pure friendships blossomed in the last few years between Big Beans Adam Ganser and 2020-04-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a public service announcement that while the world is on fire and we're all stuck in our homes, we're trying to find new ways to create content and connect with you guys remotely. Oh yeah. It's gonna get real remote in here. Somebody hit the lights. A lot of that will happen on Twitch, due to ease and expediency. So we're hoping to increase...
2020-04-07 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post