Let's Go To The Show!

Yeah, it is awards season on Movielife Crisis, here in the taint part of 2024. Our top performances, scores, movies, and more from our 1994 movie season! Support the show

Take a bow, Madonna sings a song at the end of this movie. And who doesn't love Brendan Fraser and Joe Pesci together! With Moira Kelly, McDreamy, and that other dude from the thing? Support the show

Run, Forrest, Run! What is the 90s without this movie? This is one of the most quotable, most enjoyable, and most memorable movies of the entire decade, much less 1994. It also made nearly 700 million dollars and basically swept the Oscars. Support the show

Turns out Stephen King books don't all feature scary clowns. In fact this one has zero clowns, but instead has incredible performances by Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, and others as well. Is it the best movie of 1994? The best King adaptation? Tune in to find out, this week on Movielife Crisis! Support the show

The classic Gen X movie for us middle-aged slackers everywhere, Reality Bites is finally here! Starring Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofolo, Steve Zahn, and directed by Ben Stiller. Plus the soundtrack is great! Support the show

Anyone else remember the '94 movie where Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson have sex in a moving car? This is it. Also Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, written and directed by Adam Rifkin. It's entirely gone from the legal corners of the internet, so join us as we discuss! Support the show

Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, and introducing Kirsten Dunst, in the 4th movie in the saga of Brad Pitt's long hair: Interview With The Vampire. Based on the insanely popular Anne Rice book series and spanning nearly 200 years of "history", Jeff and JT struggle to figure out why this movie was popular. Maybe you can help us (please help us). Support the show

What's James Cameron up to between Terminator 2 and Titanic, I wonder? Oh, right, this massive action-comedy hit with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. Also Tom Arnold throwing heat as the funny sidekick, Charlton Heston with an eyepatch, and exploding helicopters everywhere! Support the show

A Coen Brothers movie (Fargo, Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Are Thou?) starring Tim Robbins and Paul Newman -- is it the weirdest movie of the year or does Pulp Fiction take that title? The important thing is that it's incredibly beautifully designed and shot, and also did we mention it's weird af? Support the show

Double D Squad reporting for duty! Danny DeVito, Mark Wahlberg (in his first movie), Stacey Dash, Gregory Hines, in a Penny Marshall film. Also we get a chance to talk to the writer of the movie, Jim Burnstein, who tells us how Penny Marshall got involved, why he's scared of Danny DeVito, and why the movie didn't make more money. Support the show

The long-awaited sequel to A River Runs Through It (🧢) is finally here. Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins teach us everything there is to know about how not to parent, and Jeff gets frustrated with life before AC and hair conditioner. Support the show

Meg Ryan as Einstein's (fictional) niece, Tim Robbins as her mechanic-turned-fake-physicist suitor, and Walter Matthau as Einstein in this '94 RomCom. Some memorable quotes, excellent performances, and Matthau-as-Einstein.... Yep, that happened. Support the show

The sequel to our very first podcast episode (og City Slickers, from 1991) is finally here! The gang is back, but with Jon Lovitz. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, with a script from Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Does it hold up? Come and see. Also learn about inflation as it relates to Vegas buffets. Support the show

Here we go! Biggest movie of the year and biggest animated film of all time (at the time of release)! It's bambi with lions crossed with Hamlet. Y'all know the drill. We sing, we dance, after all, this is France. Support the show

Pop quiz, hotshot -- what was the Oscar-nominated movie about quiz shows starring Ralph Fiennes and directed by Robert Redford? Shoutout also to our man John Turturro, who is always great! Support the show

How have we only done one Jean Claude Van Damme movie in 4 seasons?! Also, can he still do the splits? This and more on this episode.... Support the show

Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper coming at you in 1994's classic action movie about a bus that have to drive a certain speed or else...you know the joke. Also Alan Ruck, Jeff Daniels, and Joe Morgan! Is it the best action movie of the year? Decade? OUR LIVES?! Tune in and see. Support the show

The inaugural Kevin Smith movie, the darling of Sundance, the indie film sensation, is finally upon us! Clerks. And yes, your kids shouldn't listen to this episode. Support the show

The final episode of Jim Carrey month is here, and it's our favorite movie of the 3 he released in 1994 -- Dumb and Dumber! Jeff Daniels, Lauren, Holly, the Farrelly brothers, and also the John Hughes connection we never knew about.... Support the show

Alllllllrighty then, it's movie 2 in Jim Carrey Month: Ace Ventura. He's a pet detective. Hired to rescue the missing dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins. And Dan Marino is there. Support the show

We begin Jim Carrey Month here at Movielife Crisis with the surprise hit, The Mask. Other than wild FX and the first appearance on screen from Cameron Diaz, is there anything noteworthy about it? Well, yeah! Richard Jeni! Support the show

Shaq! Penny Hardaway! Nick Nolte! Or is it Gary Busey? We can never 100% tell. From writer Ron Shelton (White Men Can't Jump and Bull Durham), we've got the classic college basketball recruiting movie. Does it still matter? Listen and find out! Support the show

Tom Hanks in the performance that won him his first Best Actor Oscar, and the only movie in existence starring both Hanks and Denzel Washington. Directed by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs), and also featuring Antonio Banderas and Mary Steenburgen. Did it release in '93 or '94? Is it still great or is it actually kinda boring? These questions and more answered by Jeff and JT within! Support the show

Welcome back to Major League baseball (kinda)! In the words of Bob Uecker movielifecrisis is best and so are baseball movies that may or may not be good still. Spoiler alert: it is still good. Charlie Sheen's sleek, 90s apartment. Tom Berenger's gimp knee. Uncredited Randy Quaid stealing crowd scenes. Bob Uecker in the booth bringing heat. Omar Epps playing Wesley Snipes playing Willie Mays Hayes. And so, so, so much more! Support the show