Questions abound in the Film Tweak of 1974’s revenge porno, Death Wish: The 70s, the golden era of wall coverings? The 70s, the golden era of character extras? The 70s, the golden era of murder with impunity? The 70s, the...

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Ep. XXVI – Death Wish [1974]

None of the following are metaphors; they are actual, real, literal topics discussed by your Film Tweakers. They are honest and true and good: Reductive understandings of suicide, pomo architecture, initializing your name to be pretentious, memorable cinematic musics, the...

Ep. XXV – Begotten [1991]

Film Tweak party tonight! The second Tweak in the Los Angeles is a Character series (see also: Barton Fink), was recorded 4am and it shows (sounds?). Hear Dick Warlock drift off to sleep as Roscoe repeats the phrase, ‘the city...

Ep. XXIV – Repo Man [1984]

In this second in a series of comedies from the 80s that are cripplingly depressing, and feature pre-2010s beard action, the Tweakers investigate whether you can be depressed if you are successful and sexccessful, which makes this sound like a...

Ep. XXIII – Skin Deep [1989]

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High School month continues at Film Tweakers! Of all the Nicholsons he’s done, Christian Slater does his best as he makes teenage suicide cool again in the film that made Mean Girls, Clueless, and Pump Up the Volume possible. Tweaked...

Ep. XXI – Heathers [1988]

Your Tweakers get serious as they expose the horrors in this 1985 experiment in Hughenics upon the Oreo Brat Pack. In the process, they ruin* what was your fondest memory of your tween years — believing yourself represented on the...

Ep. XIX – The Breakfast Club [1985]

Wolverines! Your Tweakers are still on holiday when they phone this one in. Try to stay awake–unlike the Tweakers–as they discuss immigration allegories, inflation (how does it work?!), off-brand Brat Packs, what real cities look like, white natives, sincere caring...

Ep. XVIII – Red Dawn [1984]

Season’s Greetings! There’s nobody home but us Tweakers for our annual holiday episode. We gather around the fire and roast some old chestnuts: working dumb jobs to maintain balance in life, domesticity in the 1980’s, what constitutes winter fashion in...

Ep. XX – Lethal Weapon [1987]

Bundle up!  It’s cold outside as your Tweakers fly over the not-Coen-Brothers’ addition to the Multi-Twist™ fiasco genre, A Simple Plan (1998).  Tweaked topics include: Hollywood visions of suburban poverty, Lou Ferrigno fandom, diabolique savants, celebrity swinger marriages, and ‘acting...

Ep. XVII – A Simple Plan [1998]

FILM TWEAKERS IS A SERIES of improvised movie commentaries. Unlike the slick studio commentaries that arrive polished into your dvds and blue rays, Film Tweaks are notable for their lack of insight and Shandean digression. Not recommended for weak-hearted film lovers or children.

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