Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

A second look at our favorite movies, without the fog of nostalgia

Podcasting since 2022 • 169 episodes

Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

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

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 to completely disregard our audience and instead cover a movie just for our own warped...

June 15, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 11 • 1:01:22

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

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 Disclosure Day. Steve made the perfect UFO movie fifty (gulp) years ago so we invite you to ...

June 10, 2026 • 1:02:59

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

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 even one explosion, your hosts are forced to find new ways to find fault. They are...

June 01, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 10 • 55:51

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

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 sitters, our pacifiers, and our rage generators. So grab your quarters and prepare to reliv...

May 27, 2026 • 34:23

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

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 Brian De Palma's 1987 classic. In a time when Americans couldn't drink, we learn that ...

May 18, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 9 • 1:00:46

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