This week the Rabbit Fighters revisit a dreamworld of magic: Tempe, Arizona! In the 80's! Why, it's the Coen Brothers' second film, Raising Arizona!

Its a madcap story about a convict (Nicholas Cage) who falls in love with a cop (Holly Hunter), cleans up his act and marries her, settles down to experience the "salad days", but things quickly spiral out of control when they discover they can't conceive or adopt. And so they decide to kidnap one of the Arizona Quintuplets (as one does).

Is it all a dream? Is Nicholas Cage actually good in this? Are spherical balloons funny? Join us, won't you?

Next Week - Joshua's pick: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

[Published November 19, 2024]

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The Rabbit Fighters travel back in time to NYC's Lower East Side in the 1930s, where a humble Irish delivery boy named Johnny Kelly is about to become New York's most notorious gangster, Johnny Dangerously. Amy Heckerling directs this parody of gangster movies that 2/3rds of the Rabbit Fighters absolutely hate.

Michael Keaton is the suave, fast-talking gangster Johnny.

Former funnyman turned greaseball gym rat Joe Piscopo is the villainous Danny Vermin.

Taxi alum, redhead, and MENSA member Marilu Henner is Johnny's main squeeze, Lil' Sheridan.

Maureen Stapleton is Johnny's foulmouthed, hardworking, bisexual mom, Ma Kelly.

Peter Boyle is peak-Boyleness Irish mafia boss, Jocko Dundee.

Griffin Dunne is Johnny's weasel-faced, clueless, horny younger brother, District Attorney Tommy Kelly.

Dom DeLuise plays Dom DeLuise in a Pope costume.

Danny DeVito plays Danny DeVito in a smoking jacket.

And for absolutely no reason, legendary Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus plays some schmo with 4 lines driving a car.

[Published November 12, 2024]

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The Rabbit Fighters hop on their BMX bikes and pedal past the full moon as they examine this beloved Steven Spielberg movie about a blobby, hammerheaded alien with googly eyes and glowing fingers that fix boo-boos and geraniums.

E.T.'s ship lands in Los Angeles to gather California kindbud for their condom garden. When men with jingly keys approach, E.T.'s comrades ditch him on Earth, where a lonely boy named Elliott lures him into captivity with free candy.

From there. E.T. makes a phone out of a Speak-N-Spell, gets drunk on Coors Banquet beer, brings fame to Reese's Pieces, telepathically forces Elliott to free hundreds of frogs, bumbles around the house in front of Elliott's clueless mom, and finally dies and comes back from the dead...destroying the hearts of Gen-X kids and preventing them from ever crying again as adults.

This episode brought to you by special guest, #1 E.T. fan, and professor of Xenobiology and Exobiology: RYAN!

Next Week - Greg's pick: Johnny Dangerously

[Published November 5, 2024]

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Whether it's "Dead," "Un-Dead," "the Zed-Word," "White Walkers," or "Zombies," back in the mid to late aughts you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some sort of media that featured societal collapse at the hands of these brain eaters.

And the 2004 Edgar Wright comedy horror film Shaun of The Dead had a lot to do with that. This Halloween Week we find the Fighters going crate digging across the zombie and horror movie genres and swing by the Winchester to talk about late 90's British Comedy's place in the world when everything comes crashing down and the dead walk the Earth.

How's that for a slice of fried gold?

Next Week - Special Guest Star Ryan's pick - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

[Published October 29, 2024]

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Never before has a pick proved so divisive to the Rabbit Fighters as "Weird" Al Yankovic's 1989 absurdist opus "UHF." Filmed entirely in Tulsa, Oklahoma and filled to the brim with Weird Al's brand of pop culture parody and inanity, the Rabbit Fighters find themselves debating this time capsule of a film.
Will Brian try a Twinkie Weiner Sandwich(TM)? Will Greg figure out how to get turtles unsuction-cupped from the ceiling? Will Joshua finally admit that some of this movie has aged poorly?
Join us this week as we take a drink from the firehose!
Next Week - A Very Special Halloween Episode: Shaun of The Dead
[Published October 22, 2024]

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In today's episode we hit the eject button on our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a state-sponsored experiment entitled “Desertion and the Psychological Effects of Music.” Liability waivers have been forged, beneficiaries replaced and blindfolds distributed as the gang is whisked away in their respective ornithopters towards the deep desert.

Equipped with piss suits, food pills and a crate of 10 albums, our three Fighters must survive the harsh vastness whilst continuing to bring the thumpty thump. Only he who playeth the best 10 shall entice the maker and drink the water of life. All else shall be consumed and forced to live out their days within the belly of the beast ... naked, alone with only the entire Steely Dan discography to comfort them....

"can I volunteer?

"“NO, BRIAN YOU CAN'T F*CKING VOLUNTEER!”

Let the games begin.

The Rabbit Fighters dive into this Cord Jefferson-directed adaptation of the 2001 novel Erasure, by Percival Everett.

American Fiction follows a frustrated African-American novelist-professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. While his novels receive academic praise, they sell poorly, and publishers reject his latest manuscript for not being "Black enough".

In a fit of despair about his writing not being taken seriously, he writes a book full of stereotypes called My Pafology as a joke under the pseudonym Stagg R Leigh…except the book rockets him to fame in the publishing and movie world. He has to decide whether to reveal himself and accept the fame or blow the whole thing up.

The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody and Keith David.

Next Week - Brian's Pick: Desert Island Selections

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What happened to The Bad News Bears?

Welllll, we decided to throw Old Uncle Charley at ya and watched this slightly less old Ron Shelton pic about adult men playing a kids' game, and the ladies who love them.

So snap on your garter belts, breathe through your eyelids, tap that voodoo charm on your bats, and follow the Rabbit Fighters as we discuss whether this 1988 movie about minor league baseball in the city of Durham is the best baseball movie...or best sports movie...ever made.

Oh yeah, and..the rose goes in the front, big guy.

Next Week - Greg's Pick: American Fiction

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