Fumbling Through Film

Fumbling Through Film

The only show that dares to bring together three dudes to talk about movies. These aren’t just any movies—these are the ones we’ve missed, overlooked, or feel are simply worth revisiting. Every week we get together in our massive screening room, the Fumble Dome, and make our way through the classics.

Episodes

July 10, 2025 58 mins

Episode Theme: Foodie Films

The Fumblers answers an unassuming sexy ad in the local paper and watch Eating Raoul. One of us jumps in a hot tub with a couple dozen swingers and it's electric. Which one of us dares to cram in a hot tub may surprise you.

Eating Raoul 1982 - R - 1h23m

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Director: Paul Bartel Writer: ...

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Episode Theme: Foodie Films

The Fumblers park their truck in front of a little ramen shop and watch Tampopo. Two of us seductively pass an egg yolk back and forth from our mouths and which two of us may surprise you.

Tampopo 1985 - 18 - 1h54m

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

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June 27, 2025 70 mins

Episode Theme: Foodie Films

The Fumblers pull up to the table with wide eyes and hungry tummies for a heaping helping of Big Night. One of us awkwardly walks into a flower case rather than talk honestly with another person and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to learn who.

Big Night 1996 - R - 1h49m

New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-compe...

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Episode Theme: Genre Defining

The Fumblers find themselves amongst some immortals that want to study us and our boners. We watch Zardoz and it really gets the blood flowing. One of us finds love with the immortals and who it is might surprise you.

Zardoz 1974 - R - 1h45m

In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

Director: J...

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Episode Theme: Genre Defining

The Fumblers are back on the case after they find a body in their boot and drag it into their basement to hide it. While waiting for the police we watch Blood and Black Lace. One of us falls off the roof onto an awning and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised who.

Blood and Black Lace 1964 - NR - 1h28m

A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.

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June 5, 2025 75 mins

Episode Theme: Genre Defining

The Fumblers stumble upon a shiny sword sticking out from what appears to be a Styrofoam boulder. We fail to retrieve the sword, so we do the next best thing: watch Excalibur. One of us is tricked into sleeping with our sister to produce an evil offspring and which one of us it is will surprise you.

Excalibur 2008 - PG - 2h20m

Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Roun...

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May 29, 2025 70 mins

Episode Theme: Genre Defining

The Fumblers find themselves the subject of bizarre experiments being conducted by an oppressive government and they are left with no choice but to turn to evil to save ourselves and our friends. One of us does mutate into a hideous body horror blob and I think you'll be surprised to find out who.

Akira 1988 - R - 2h4m

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a teenage biker gang mem...

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Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors

The Fumblers get wild and wacky with a new wild card episode. Our adventures lead us down the path to the scary and hip The Faculty. One of us snorts some caffeine and are exposed as a water loving alien freak. I think you'll be surprised to find out who.

The Faculty 1998 - R - 1h44m

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive...

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May 15, 2025 75 mins

Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors

WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE SINNERS The Fumblers venture out to the theaters to check the new Ryan Coogler vampire flick. One of us refused to eat the garlic butter popcorn or drink the holy Aquafina and who it is may surprise you.

Sinners 2025 - R - 2h17m

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discov...

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Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors

The Fumblers continue on their adventure with actors that are double dipping in the same movie with Adaptation. By the end we find out one of us is simply a character we created to get us here so we can kill them off. It may surprise you to find out which of us it is.

Adaptation 2002 - R - 1h55m

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlea...

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Episode Theme: Dual Role Actors

The Fumblers face off against their younger, more deadly selves and take on Ang Lee's Gemini Man. Which of us is real and which of us is CGI, the answer might surprise you.

Gemini Man 2019 - PG-13 - 1h57m

An over-the-hill hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself.

Director: Ang Lee Writer: David Benioff, Billy Ray, Darren Lemke Stars: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen

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Episode Theme: Baseball

The Fumblers get together at the first chime to square off over the underrated Sam Raimi Western, The Quick and the Dead. Which one of us will be left with a grapefruit sized hole in us? The answer may surprise you.

The Quick and the Dead 1995 - R - 1h48m

A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.

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April 17, 2025 53 mins

Episode Theme: Baseball

The Fumblers must kill the Queen.

The Naked Gun 1988 - PG-13 - 1h25m

Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Director: David Zucker Writer: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, OJ Simpson

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April 10, 2025 71 mins

Episode Theme: Baseball

The Fumblers take a swing at another Kevin Costner baseball movie. Was it an error? Risk Nothing, Gain Everything

For Love of the Game 1999 - PG-13 - 2h17m

After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there.

Director: Sam Raimi Writer: Michael Shaara, Dana Stevens Stars: Kevin Costner, K...

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April 3, 2025 75 mins

Episode Theme: Baseball

The Fumblers venture to tobacco country to check out one of Kevin Costner's many baseball movies. They find out about the Clown Prince of Baseball and their lives may be changed forever.

Bull Durham 1988 - R - 1h48m

A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

Director: Ron Shelton Writer: Ron Shelton Sta...

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Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers

The Fumblers check out De Niro's first attempt at a more light hearted action movie, they talk about lock picking, weird types of cameras, and read a review that will change the way you think about reviews.

Midnight Run 1988 - R - 2h6m

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

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Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers

The Fumblers endure the best from 80 years ago as Terry is duped by the title and they discuss Vikings, murder hornets, and the Osmonds along the way.

The Snake Pit 1948 - Approved - 1h48m

Virginia Cunningham can't recall how she landed in an asylum. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms. She remains in misery as Dr. Mark Kik tries to solve...

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Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers

The Fumblers debate the merits of bearing it all to make a few grand and check out the Oscar nominated comedy about hard steel and weird butts.

The Full Monty 1997 - R - 1h31m

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

Director: Peter Cattaneo Writer: Simon Beaufoy Stars: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark ...

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Episode Theme: Best Picture Losers

The Fumblers tackle an Oscar nominated move starring Jack Nicholson. Is Five Easy Pieces easy watching?

Five Easy Pieces 1970 - R - 1h38m

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Director: Bab Rafelson Writer: Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson Stars: Jack Nicholson, Karen B...

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Episode Theme: Reptiles

The Fumblers do some extreme fumbling with this week's Wild Card Movie. XXX has it all: skiing in the jungle, murder with satellite, and everything else that Vin Diesel thinks is awesome.

XXX: Return of Xander Cage 2017 - PG-13 - 1h47m

Xander Cage, left for dead after an incident, is recruited back into action for a new assignment, leading a team of death-defying adrenaline junkies.

Director: D.J. Caruso Wri...

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