FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA

About FEAR AND LOATHING IN CINEMA

A weekly show with celebrity guests who revisit movies that people disliked and watch them now to see how great they are with hosts Bryan Kluger, Dan Moran, Preston Barta, and Chelsea Nicole.

Publisher

Bryan Kluger

Category

comedy · music · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Jul 2020

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

172 episodes in the feed.

1. 7 Oct 2026

   Episode #169 – Encino Man (1992)

   There are film podcasts that aspire to scholarship, and then there is Fear and Loathing in Cinema, which aspires mainly to survive its own conversations. Think of it as a 2 A.M. diner where the coffee has developed opinions, the fries have entered witness protection, and two friends are discussing cinematic history with the urgency of men who have just discovered that the Constitution may contain a section on buddy-cop movies. This week, on Episode #169, Bryan Kluger, Marc Ciafardini, and Sandi Glass are thawed from the Ice Age and dropped, somewhat irresponsibly, into 1992 California for Encino Man. You know, the movie that introduced Brendan Fraser to the world and gave Pauly Shore an entire dialect of his own. We dig into the film’s strange little heart, which is friendship, teenage survival, ’90s fashion, schoolyard hierarchies, the emotional trauma of being a frozen caveman in suburban Los Angeles, and the undeniable magic of Pauly Shore simply being Pauly Shore. It’s silly, sweet, surprisingly heartfelt, and somehow still feels like a time capsule you’d find buried underneath a Blockbuster. So grab your flannel, your Walkman, and whatever the hell a “weasel” is, and listen wherever you get your podcasts. FEAR AND LOATHING PODCAST APPLE PODCASTS (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fear-and-loathing-in-cinema/id1569243738) FEAR AND LOATHING PODCAST SPOTIFY (https://open.spotify.com/show/2mnewXgoxiUvAmnk3yfdIs) Thank you for listening. WRITTEN BY: BRYAN KLUGER (https://linktr.ee/bryankluger) Bryan Kluger is an entertainment critic, writer, and podcast host with a deep love for film, horror, and pop culture. His work has appeared in outlets such as Arts+Culture Magazine, High-Def Digest, Screen Rant, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, Fark, and Boomstick Comics. He hosts My Bloody Podcast and Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, along with a weekly radio show, where he brings sharp insight, humor, and an unabashed passion for movies to every conversation.

2. 28 Sept 2026

   Bonus Episode with Musician Randy Edelman

   There are film podcasts that aspire to scholarship, and then there is Fear and Loathing in Cinema, which aspires mainly to survive its own conversations. Think of it as a 2 A.M. diner where the coffee has developed opinions, the French fries have entered witness protection, and two friends are discussing cinematic history with the urgency of men who have just discovered that the Constitution may contain dirty jokes on an uninhabited desert island. For this special bonus episode, Bryan Kluger and Marc Ciafardini (https://goseetalk.com) welcome the legendary musician and film composer Randy Edelman (https://www.randyedelman.com), a man whose résumé is so packed with movies that there is a decent chance his music has been playing somewhere in your life without your permission. You may not immediately recognize the name, but you certainly recognize the sound in films like The Mask, Six Days Seven Nights, Ghostbusters II, Dragonheart, Twins, MacGyver, My Cousin Vinny, Billy Madison, and plenty more. Edelman has spent decades doing one of cinema’s strangest and most important jobs, which is making us feel things before we’ve quite figured out why we’re feeling them. On this very special 90-minute conversation, Randy takes us back to the beginning with his origins in music, the films that shaped him, the music that shaped him, the peculiar alchemy of writing for the screen, and the stories that accumulate when you’ve spent a lifetime wandering through Hollywood with a piano nearby. And because apparently one career wasn’t enough, Randy also has a brand-new album, Green Park (https://amzn.to/4hr6GDZ), available everywhere now (https://open.spotify.com/album/3RouTuQln5DGCEiLQZszMo?si=RlDo7PObR8Oqio0WC_5MjQ). It’s another chapter in a musical life that has moved comfortably between film, records, orchestration, comedy, drama, and the occasional giant Hollywood dragon. So pour yourself something questionable, put the phone down for ninety minutes, and join us for a conversation about movies, music, memory, and the man behind some of the scores you didn’t realize you knew by heart. And if you happen to find yourself in New York around the holidays, Randy will be performing at Carnegie Hall on December 19th (https://www.carnegiehall.org/Cart/Event-Seating?itemNumber=54931#/). Get your tickets. It is Carnegie Hall, after all. And unlike the diner, they may actually know where the coffee came from. Listen to Fear and Loathing in Cinema everywhere you get your podcasts. FEAR AND LOATHING PODCAST APPLE PODCASTS (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fear-and-loathing-in-cinema/id1569243738) FEAR AND LOATHING PODCAST SPOTIFY (https://open.spotify.com/show/2mnewXgoxiUvAmnk3yfdIs) Thank you for listening. WRITTEN BY: BRYAN KLUGER (https://linktr.ee/bryankluger) Bryan Kluger is an entertainment critic, writer, and podcast host with a deep love for film, horror, and pop culture. His work has appeared in outlets such as Arts+Culture Magazine, High-Def Digest, Screen Rant, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, Fark, and Boomstick Comics. He hosts My Bloody Podcast and Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, along with a weekly radio show, where he brings sharp insight, humor, and an unabashed passion for movies to every conversation.

3. 10 Sept 2026

   Episode #168 – Running Scared (1986)

   There are film podcasts that aspire to scholarship, and then there is Fear and Loathing in Cinema, which aspires mainly to survive its own conversations. Think of it as a 2 A.M. diner where the coffee has developed opinions, the fries have entered witness protection, and two friends are discussing cinematic history with the urgency of men who have just discovered that the Constitution may contain a section on buddy-cop movies. This week, on Episode #168, Bryan Kluger and Marc Ciafardini strap on their bulletproof vests and travel back to 1986 Chicago for Running Scared, which is the gloriously violent, ridiculously cool buddy-cop film starring Billy Crystal, Gregory Hines, Jimmy Smits, Joey Pants, and enough roller skates to qualify as a separate supporting character. Made before the great renaissance of the buddy-action movie, Running Scared arrived at a time when Hollywood still understood that cops could be funny, movies could be genuinely dangerous, and an R rating was less a warning than an invitation. Bryan and Marc get into the chemistry, the comedic banter, the action, the violence, the soundtrack, and why Running Scared deserves considerably more respect than it usually receives. It’s a movie about two cops trying to get out of the business, and, naturally, two podcasters trying to get through a conversation without getting arrested. Listen everywhere. Preferably somewhere with cut-off shorts. FEAR AND LOATHING PODCAST APPLE PODCASTS (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fear-and-loathing-in-cinema/id1569243738) FEAR AND LOATHING PODCAST SPOTIFY (https://open.spotify.com/show/2mnewXgoxiUvAmnk3yfdIs) Thank you for listening. WRITTEN BY: BRYAN KLUGER (https://linktr.ee/bryankluger) Bryan Kluger is an entertainment critic, writer, and podcast host with a deep love for film, horror, and pop culture. His work has appeared in outlets such as Arts+Culture Magazine, High-Def Digest, Screen Rant, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, Fark, and Boomstick Comics. He hosts My Bloody Podcast and Fear and Loathing in Cinema Podcast, along with a weekly radio show, where he brings sharp insight, humor, and an unabashed passion for movies to every conversation.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Quality

83

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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