Film Threat Meets Beer’d Al
Film Threat meets Beer’d Al! Lauren and Russ are joined by Alan Ng, editor-in-chief of Film Threat, for a conversation about Weird Al’s wonderfully weird movie career. We dig into UHF, the 1989 box office bomb that somehow survived one of the most...
Film Threat meets Beer’d Al!
Lauren and Russ are joined by Alan Ng, editor-in-chief of Film Threat, for a conversation about Weird Al’s wonderfully weird movie career.
We dig into UHF, the 1989 box office bomb that somehow survived one of the most brutal movie summers ever to become a beloved cult classic. Why didn’t audiences get it the first time around? Has its rapid-fire, sketch-heavy humor actually gotten funnier with age?
Then we jump ahead to Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, the completely trustworthy and historically accurate account of Al’s life. We talk Daniel Radcliffe, music-biopic clichés, cameos, fake history, and why turning Al’s life story into a parody of biopics may have been the most Weird Al approach possible.
Two Weird Al movies. One actual film critic. And two podcast hosts who are perhaps just a little too invested in all of this.
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