From Left Field

From Left Field

After a home run filled season one, From Left Field’s second season takes us from the baseball diamond to 30 Rock. Join us as we take a look at the 11 official SNL films. With Wendy Simmons and JJ Summers. From Left Field is produced by Down Home Creative, an Austin-based creative collective.

Episodes

December 24, 2019 106 mins
The whole family showed up (eventually) to talk over an entire movie. That’s right, Wendy is home for the holidays and joins Ronnie, Trumaine and JJ for an all tine classic. We watched Home Alone, and invite you to join us, From Left Field.
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A Christmas Carol must be one of the most filmed works of all time. But honestly, about 95% of y’all picked the same two versions as your favorites. We watched A Muppet Christmas Carol and Scrooged, From Left Field.
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December 13, 2019 57 mins
A bittersweet holiday tale about immigration, appropriation, loss, neglect and eating. We watched Gremlins, From Left Field
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December 13, 2019 48 mins
It’s got Whitney and it’s got Denzel and you really don’t need to know much more. We watched The Preacher’s Wife, From Left Field.
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November 26, 2019 60 mins
What would happen if all the characters (except your two favorites) from Friday came back? Again? For the holidays? And added Terry Crews in a problematic role? We watched Friday After Next, From Left Field.
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November 21, 2019 55 mins
If all you want for Christmas is Jim Belushi in a Santa suit, you’ve got that and more! Phil Hartman at his creepiest. Sinbad at his Sinbaddest. And Arnold and Rita as Anakin’s parents. We watched Jingle All The Way, From Left Field.
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November 13, 2019 53 mins
Kids, guns, cold metal and warm tongues. It’s not nostalgia if the narrator won’t shut up for a second. We watched A Christmas Story, From Left Field.
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November 6, 2019 37 mins
New hosts Ronnita Miller and Trumaine Bradley sit down with JJ and Morgan to pick out some holiday movies to watch for this season’s podcast.
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October 23, 2019 68 mins
Greg Williams and Stefan Gill drop by to discuss attending a world premiere, the appeal of Kristen Wiig in drag, and how there will never be another Powers Booth. We watched MacGruber, cuz they made a fucking movie. MacGruber.
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October 16, 2019 57 mins
Ronnita Miller and Ava Smartt stop by for a game of “Fuck, FUCK, don’t fuck” with Tim Meadows, Billy Dee Williams, and John Witherspoon. We watched The Ladies Man, and that’s disgustin’.
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October 8, 2019 35 mins
Meghan Ross and Melody Shifflet stop by to chat about rich girls, Tom Green, and which one of them is NOT going to take home a DVD copy of this week’s movie!
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October 1, 2019 67 mins
Kat Ramzinski and Jer Moran drop in to talk about our relationship to the film Clueless, juicy celebrity conspiracies, and what an absolute piece of trash is Jeffrey Tambor. We watched a A Night At The Roxbury, and baby, don’t hurt me, no more.
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September 24, 2019 88 mins
Lana Knight and Trumaine Bradley discuss departed friends, bad wigs, and what was Lil Nas X doing in 1998 when we watch Blues Brothers 2000. Buckle in, this ride is twice as long as Blues Brothers 1000!
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September 17, 2019 63 mins
Jon Bender and Michael Haywood visit and together we come to the breakthrough realization that not all SNL films have to be comedies, and there’s a little bit to love in Stuart Saves His Family.
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September 10, 2019 82 mins
Beautiful genius Virgil Shelby stops by to discuss how everything about this movie is wrong. Wrong. WRONG! And then we try to say nice things.
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September 3, 2019 72 mins
Kelty Dorsey and Robyn Reynolds join us to discuss our eternal disappointment upon finding out this fact: Mike Myers' original script for Wayne's World 2 had Wayne and Garth forming their own country and seceding from the US after finding an ancient scroll, in a story taken from the 1949 British comedy Passport to Pimlico. This version was well into pre-production before it came to light that the studio had no idea the script was b...
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August 27, 2019 70 mins
Malina Panovich and Dylan Garsee stop by to discuss Crystal Skull vodka, Frankenstein ER, and the creepy gaze of a prom dad.
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August 20, 2019 53 mins
Ariel Greenspoon and Rob Gagnon, one of the greatest comedy duos of our time, join us to discuss another great comedy duo of yesteryear, Alice Cooper and Donna Dixon.
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August 13, 2019 51 mins
Marcia Andrea has never seen the Blues Brothers. Sam Dickenson loves the Blues Brothers. We discuss the shitty part of Chicago, how everything Dan Akroyd has ever done was supposed to include John Belushi, and throw in a little Carrie Fisher worship for good measure. If you ever thought Matt Guitar Murphy should have his own string of action films, this one’s for you.
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Wendy, JJ and Morgan meet up for the first time since Season One to discuss SNL and what it has meant to them., and to preview Season Two.
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