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 golden era of double-breasted men’s outerwear? Homeland, the golden era of Dropped Chekhovs? Who does Bernard Goetz look like? W…

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 grotesque actualities of the human leg and the human face, the number of song…

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 is a character’, an embarrassing 61 times. Also discussed: some other cities and the theory that every actor should play on…

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 pretty serious tweak. Directed by Blake Edwards (Pink Panther, 10), Skin Deep stars Jack Ritter, Martin Mu…

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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 topics include high school showering rules, declining working class buying power, alcohol/music parings, dream seque…

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 screen by one of the club totems. Also discussed: “Real Holidays”, Fort Kempf, True Detective, and why movies starring/…

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 about death, logical consistency when supporting guerillas/insurgents, and tactics o…

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 Los Angeles, the fastest way to draw a side arm, the legal age for dating a father’s partner, and…

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 dumb’ to get info and to get out of work/favors. A Simple Plan …