Hope you guys are still planning to come to our next Movies vs. Humans show!

This is going to be a very special show in honor of the season, but in light of what happened last time we did an MvH show, we thought we’d try being a little bit more cryptic about what movie we’ll be showing.

Anyway, that show is going to be Tuesday, December 8th, at 9:30, and the movie in question will be a very special holiday treat. A supremely unworthy sequel to a Best Picture Oscar nominee that you have almost definitely seen, this motion picture broke the hearts of hundreds of thousands of small children.

This is the Movies vs. Humans that you have to see if you ever wanted to know what Bruce Vilanch, Art Carney, and Jefferson Starship have in common.

We hope to see you there in person so we can wish you a happy Life Day!

Well, many thanks to everybody who came to the second Movies vs. Humans show! It wasn’t the show we planned, but it was a terrific and intimate time!

See, for those of you who don’t know, we found out Thursday afternoon, to our dismay, that our plans to screen Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu was in direct conflict with the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s plans to screen Hausu a number of times over the Halloween weekend.

Well, we lost that argument, and were unable to show the film we’d planned, and with hours to go before showtime, we did as much damage control as possible to let as many people as possible know that the plans were changing. Changing to what, we didn’t quite know yet.

We considered doing any of the dozen notorious movies we had on our laptops for future MvH consideration. These are movies that we’d heard about but not had the chance to watch yet. We thought that maybe it might be fun to have that communal experience with a movie that would be fresh to everyone in the room.

We also considered showing one of the movies that we’re already intimately familiar with, but for which we had not yet done the research and writing that usually goes into MvHifying a movie.

With time a-wastin’, and two fun but less-than-ideal options before us, we ultimately went with a more familiar and recently-made favorite of ours, and had a terrific time sharing it with our guests Mike Still and Adam Bozarth, and with the lovely but sparse crowd that heroically came out to take a chance.

What did we show?

The 2005 made for TV classic in which, to put it in Tropic Thunder terms, Rosie O’Donnell goes full retard, winning exactly zero hearts along the way, because in addition to being one of the most retarded characters ever put to film, she is also one of the worst, most manipulative, and most malicious as well. It’s a “movie” called Riding the Bus with My Sister

This very brave, very special film was made for the Hallmark channel, and also features Andie Macdowell as Rosie’s sister, an amazing photographer, who has to put her amazing photography career on amazing hold to take care of her challenged sister after their father dies.

Anjelica Huston is the director for some reason, and you can really tell that she’s a consummate actor’s director (in that she seems to be incapable of telling an actor, “No, don’t do that, that is offensive and insensitive, and horrible!”).

Riding also features a title sequence that prominently features the font Comic Sans, and a dynamic score, composed on a Casio keyboard by one of the great drummers of all time, Stewart Copeland of the Police.

So that was Movies vs. Humans 2! Keep it tuned to this website for more information about Mvh3, in November!

Tonight is going to be a different kind of House party than the kind of House Party that was in the movies House Party, House Party 2, House Party 3, and House Party 4.

This is the kind of House Party only found in the movie Hausu, and we need your attendance if we’re going to make this party as big as the parties that were in the houses that were in those other movies.

Seriously, though, we could not be happier that we’re getting a chance to show the world this amazing piece of batshit crazy film, with the amazing guests we’ve got (Mike Still and Adam Bozarth, two of the funniest dudes at any given house party, even house parties that Kid and Play are at.)

I guess what we’re saying is we’ll see you at the Creek at 9:30!

10-93 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, accesible by the E, G, or V.

To Comedy Nerds Listeners: Greetings to everyone who may have come here after hearing the latest episode of The Comedy Nerds!

This is a bad movie blog/show information blog for the bad-movie screening series Movies vs. Humans, curated by Nate Kushner and Matt Little.

Each month we guide you through a screening of something from our joint library of the worst films you’ve never heard of. Click around on the site for more info about what we do, and come see our upcoming show on Thursday, where the featured film is Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu.

To Movies vs. Humans readers: The Comedy Nerds is one of our favorite podcasts. Every week, our friends Dustin D’Addato and Dan McInerney and often a special guest lead a rousing, analytical discussion on some topic involving comedy theory, or trends in comedy, or the history of comedy.

This week, I, Nate Kushner, was happy to be the special guest on a show devoted to “Unintentionally Funny Things.”

We had a terrific time recording it, and I hope you’ll give it a listen.

It’s really a consistently solid and interesting show, with an impressive backlog of dozens of episodes, and it is highly recommended.

See you Thursday!

Ladies and gentlemen, the next Movies vs. Humans show is coming up really soon. Hausu is a very fantastical and trippy movie, so I want to make one thing plain and ambiguous about how you folks should act when you come to see it:

Don’t not not not not come in an altered state, because that would be SO MUCH FUN IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL, and I am not allowed to encourage such behavior. So let me make it perfectly clear: CONSUMING CANNABIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA to not do.

That show, again, is Thursday the 29th, at 9:30, at the Creek: 10-93 Jackson Avenue, Queens. It’s free, and we’ll be showing Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu.

Also, what the hell, let’s do another Bronson.

SO MUCH COLOGNE!

We are super psyched to announce the special guests for Movies vs. Humans, show 2!

Just to remind, that show will be Thursday, October 29th, at 9:30, at the Creek.

Joining us to get mindboggled by the movie Hausu will be two of the funniest people we know, who should be well-known to anybody who follows New York’s improv scene.

It’s Mike Still (Badman, A Week of Kindness), and Adam Bozarth (The Bishop, The Onion News Network)!

Let’s celebrate these two men’s men with another cologne commercial, directed by Hausu director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

You smack that kid, Bronson! Don’t let him give you any sassmouth!

When you think of the word “lover,” Charles Bronson comes to mind. Here’s a commercial from the 70’s by Hausu director Nobuhiko Obayashi for Mandom cologne. Enjoy that, because THERE ARE AT LEAST 7 MORE OF THEM.

Thanks again to Jeff Rubin for experiencing Street Wars for the first time with us in September. Below is a summary of his thoughts on the film. You can catch Jeff regularly doing awesome things for College Humor, or at his blog.

What separates the good-bad from the bad-bad? That’s a question you’ll have to ask your heart over and over again when you watch Street Wars.

Whenever I bring up this age-old question (usually on a first-date kinda situation), I find myself explaining the distance between good-bad and bad-bad by comparing Perfect Strangers to Full House. Though I was a fan of both when I was young, I am no longer able to tolerate Perfect Strangers. I can’t even take the 8 minute “Best of Belki” compilation currently sitting at around 50,000 views on YouTube. Conversely, I can still watch several episodes of Full House in a row, even those later episodes with Gia, even without drugs. Both Perfect Strangers and Full House are obviously terrible shows, not to mention they’re not intended for adults, so why can I enjoy one and not the other?

I posed this question to Movies vs. Humans host Nate while watching Street Wars (and also as often as possible) and he suggested that the magic ingredient was sincerity. I thought about it and he’s right. Belki is a C+ Urkel, but Full House was nothing if not sincere. Everyone loved each other, and you knew it because the music told you so at least once an episode.

It’s so obscure it doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, so you’ll just have to trust me when I say Street Wars may be the most sincere movie of all time. I’m not exactly sure what director Jamaa Fanaka was trying to say was trying to say, but he was definitely screaming it. They’re not quoting me on the DVD box or anything, but I would describe StreetWars as 100% watchable, and definitely good-bad.

Thanks to Dan Chamberlain for finding this.

Here are Jamaa Fanaka’s only 4 tweets, which you can find and follow at @jamaafanaka

• March 15th: Just twitering around
• April 29th: Oh, just twittering about. How about you?
• May 21st: Trying to tweet my daughter, Twyla.
• May 21st, 5 minutes later: jamaa fanaka

We’ll be turning the month of October into the month of SHOCKtember, when we present the movie Hausu at the second Movies vs. Humans show!

You know how Japanese commercials are weird? What would happen if one of the weirdest of the Japanese commercial directors wrote a horror movie with the help of his 7-year-old daughter?

Well, what would happen is you’d get a feature film where this scene is nowhere near the weirdest thing that happens.

This free show is Thursday, October 29th at 9:30, at the Creek: 10-93 Jackson Ave in Queens, accessible by the E, G, or V.