Down with Love

Down with Love

Today's movie is 2003's Down with Love, a movie that somehow arrived 40 years too late on purpose. It's part romantic comedy, part satire, part love letter to the Doris Day and Rock Hudson sex comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. And depending on who you ask, it's either criminally underrated... or proof that audiences don't actually want irony wrapped inside nostalgia. Music brought to you by Dixon Hill Beats [https://www.dixonhillbeats.com/]

Con Air

This week, we're hopping aboard the world's most chaotic prison transport because we're talking Con Air—the 1997 action movie that asked, "What if every insane character actor in Hollywood got locked on the same plane with Nicolas Cage's accent?" Nicolas Cage stars as Cameron Poe, an Army Ranger who survives prison only to survive something even more dangerous: John Malkovich with hair. When a transport flight carrying America's worst criminals gets hijacked, Poe becomes the only man standing between the passengers and complete anarchy—all while trying to make it home to see the daughter he's never met. Music brought to you by Dixon Hill Beats [https://www.dixonhillbeats.com/]

One Hour Photo

Tonight we're talking about One Hour Photo, the movie that single-handedly made an entire generation uncomfortable picking up pictures from CVS. In just 90 minutes, Robin Williams takes every ounce of goodwill he built from Mrs. Doubtfire, Aladdin, and Jumanji and uses it to make your skin crawl. He plays Sy Parrish, a lonely photo technician who develops pictures for a suburban family and slowly becomes obsessed with their seemingly perfect life. And when that fantasy starts to crack, things get very weird, very fast. Music brought to you by Dixon Hill Beats [https://www.dixonhillbeats.com/]

Idle Hands

Alright, today we’re spinning the wheel and landing on one of the weirdest, horniest, most stoner-coded horror comedies of the late ‘90s… Idle Hands. Devon Sawa plays Anton, a burnout teen whose right hand gets possessed by a demonic force and starts murdering people—casually, efficiently, and with zero regard for Anton’s general laziness. After accidentally killing his own friends (who come back as very chill zombies), Anton has to stop his evil hand before it goes on a full killing spree… all while trying to smoke weed, watch TV, and maybe hook up with the girl next door. Music brought to you by Dixon Hill Beats [https://www.dixonhillbeats.com/]

Showgirls

Welcome back to Wheel of Film, the podcast where we spin the wheel, hit play, and ask the important questions—like: how did a movie this insane get made by this many talented people? Today we’re talking about Showgirls, the most expensive NC-17 movie ever made, a film that was marketed like prestige trash, received like a cultural crime scene, and then somehow circled all the way back around to becoming a camp classic. Here’s your 30-second plot summary: Nomi Malone is a drifter with a mystery past, a switchblade attitude, and absolutely zero chill, who blows into Las Vegas determined to dance her way to the top. She starts out grinding at a strip club, claws her way into the chorus line of a big casino show, and then goes full social assassin trying to take the crown from the reigning goddess of the Vegas stage. It’s ambition, betrayal, sex, rhinestones, and pool thrashing—all turned up to a level the human body was not designed to sustain. Music brought to you by Dixon Hill Beats [https://www.dixonhillbeats.com/]