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The World is Burning. Why Can't I Stop Watching Mission Impossible?
Jenna watched every Mission Impossible movie while under quarantine and she was shocked to find that, instead of the nationalistic action-schlock she had anticipated, the entire franchise is actually an unwitting call to true anarchistic revolution.
I Watched It Five Times in Theaters So You Don't Have To: Tom Hooper's Cats
The experience of seeing Cats, especially at a late-night or rowdy screenings, is like trying to solve a brain-teaser in a karaoke bar on a rollercoaster. Guest contributor PJ Kryfko lays out who, what, and how of Cats, as well as why he will be watching it for the rest of his life.
Hoser Horror: Interview with Jesse D'Angelo
This time on Hoser Horror, Dan is hosting without Carlo because he had a chance to sit down with Jesse D’Angelo, step-son of writer-director John Fasano and son of screenwriter/author Cindy Cirile (who wrote Rapid Fire and Black Roses as well as produced Fasono’s The Jitters.)
I Watched It So You Don't Have To: Irreversible
Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible is known for its unflinchingly brutal rape scene, but what Veronica found more unforgivable was how boring the whole movie was.
Hoser Horror: Humongous & Cross Country feat. Shea Mossefin
Carlo and Dan taking another look into the filmography of Paul Lynch as they watch his island-set slasher Humongous and the cross-country sleaze-o-rama... Cross Country.
Hoser Horror: Radioactive Rabids
This time on Hoser Horror Dan and Carlo talk about Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter and Rabid!
Noah Hawley's Lucy in the Sky Loses the Cosmos for the Stars
Picture yourself on a truck on a lawn, with a general unease and an outer space high. Lucy in the Sky indulges in tired tropes and gimmicks, but its most egregious mistake is focusing on space when the drama’s down here on earth.
Male Anxiety Movies That Fear the Future is Female
In this day of blurred lines between gender, sexual orientation, and what those words even mean, the axiom of the “every man” is fading away. Veronica looks at three movies that anticipated this inevitable sea change with varying degrees of male tears.
The 2020 Back Rowsie Awards: The Best Movies of the Decade
Join Dan, Carlo, Jenna and Veronica as they hold their annual Back Rowsie awards, this time for the best films of the decade. From Best Picture to Best Movie I Thought Sucked But Later Realized Was Phenomenal, don’t miss out on the fun and excitement.
Back Row's Third Year in Movie Reviews, Podcasts & Lists
We’re three years old today! Check out the most popular articles from our third year on this mortal coil–including I Watched It So You Don’t Have To, Hoser Horror, I Watched It So You Don’t Have To, Hoser Horror, and I Watched It So You Don’t Have To and Hoser Horror.
Three Men, and a Baby In The White House: Onur Tukel's The Misogynists
Onur Tukel’s The Misogynists tickles an intellectually vouyeristic itch by peering into the minds of people who were actually happy after the 2016 election. There is something cathartic about the film’s fly-on-the-wall approach to analyzing people through their political convictions–though the darts Tukel throws at the left hit much closer to home.
Back Row Book Club: Nick Nolte's Rebel
Veronica was impressed by how honest Nick Nolte’s autobiography Rebel is. From being open about his struggles with mental illness and drugs, to his love to acting and unconventional women, there’s more to Nick Nolte than that one mug shot.
Hoser Horror: The Clown Murders & The Clown at Midnight
Carlo & Dan both watched The Clown at Midnight and The Clown Murders and it was no laughing matter!
Ep# 37 - The Late Jerry Lewis: Cracking Up & The Nutty Professor Cartoon
Guest Ben Nash joins Jenna to discuss two later Jerry Lewis offerings. One of the overlooked genius type, aka Cracking Up, and one of the don’t-even-look vomit type, aka The Nutty Professor II: Facing the Fear.
Carlo's C.R.A.P. (Cinematic Rarities And Peculiarities) 2019
Carlo’s caught a bad case of Movietitis B in 2019 so stay clear if you don’t wanna get sick.
Sill going for it, eh? Sick.
Jenna's Top Ten Movies of 2019
Jenna rejects all your parasites, irishmen, gems uncut and once upon a times for a list of films that leans heavily on character development and themes of redemption.
Ep# 36 - Hoser Horror: Phone Murder by Death Ship (with Paul Corupe)
Guest Paul Corupe joins Dan & Carlo to discuss two notable tax shelter era horror movies featuring inanimate objects as murderers: Murder by Phone and Death Ship.
Dan's Top Film Discoveries of 2019
Dan’s top film discoveries of 2019 include made for TV movies, found footage, documentaries about dating objects, arthouse slashers and overlooked 1990s dramas–it’s a cornucopia of the strange and great!
Old & New: Veronica's Top Ten for 2019
Veronica’s top ten for 2019 is a mix of old and new and includes everything from murderous cults, murderous alligators, murderous ice, murderous frat boys, murderous dancing… you get the idea.
Back Row Patreon: It Exists and You Should Join
We have a Patreon now and if you like us as much as we like you, maybe throw us a dollar to show us you care? Please? No? Okay. Well. I mean, we still like you.