Reel Ripe & Reel Rotten

The Pensky File

This podcast takes a look at the highs and lows of your favorite Hollywood artists! Each month, Wes and Clay will use Rotten Tomatoes to determine the best and worst film in one individuals filmography. Then you can listen along as they try to figure out what went right and what went wrong!

  • 54 minutes
    2020 Oscars – Marriage Story (95%)

    Wes and Clay wrap up their coverage of the 2020 Academy Awards by watching their B-Roll selection of the Best Picture nominees, “Marriage Story”. Directed and written by Noah Baumbach, “Marriage Story” stars Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a married couple going through a […]

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    24 March 2020, 9:30 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    2020 Oscars – Joker (68%)

    The lowest rated Best Picture nominee at the 2020 Academy Awards is Todd Phillips’ “Joker”. Currently at 68% with 543 reviews, the film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the eponymous villain. Based on the Joker character from DC Batman comics, Phoenix assumes the character of Arthur […]

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    8 February 2020, 10:30 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    2020 Oscars – Parasite (99%)

    Who would you say is the “Parasite” in this film? Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. […]

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    27 January 2020, 10:30 am
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    B-Roll: Wes Craven – Scream (79%)

    We are continuing our coverage of the “master of horror”, Wes Craven. We have already discussed “Vampire in Brooklyn” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street“. With our “B-Roll” selection, we chose to watch 1996’s “Scream”! Scream is a metatextual homage to the slasher films that […]

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    12 November 2019, 10:30 am
  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    Wes Craven – A Nightmare on Elm Street (94%)

    Happy Halloween! Our “Wes Craven” themed coverage continues with the director’s highest-rated film (according to Rotten Tomatoes), “A Nightmare on Elm Street”! It’s the film that gave the world one of the most iconic villains of all time: Fred “Freddy” Krueger! A child murderer who […]

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    31 October 2019, 9:25 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Wes Craven – Vampire in Brooklyn (10%)

    Happy Halloween! As is customary in podcast culture, Reel Ripe & Reel Rotten are covering something horror-themed: the “Master of Horror” himself, Wes Craven, and his critical low-point, “Vampire in Brooklyn”. Starting off with Craven’s lowest-rated film, Wes, Clay and Amanda watched “Vampire in Brooklyn”. […]

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    29 October 2019, 9:30 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    B-Roll: Kathryn Bigelow – Near Dark (88%)

    For the B-Roll selection of our coverage of Kathryn Bigelow, we are turning out the lights, pouring ourselves a tall glass of blood, and watching “Near Dark”! “Near Dark” is Bigelow’s 1987 attempt to meld the vampire and western genres. She had wanted to do […]

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    15 October 2019, 9:25 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Kathryn Bigelow – The Weight of Water (35%)

    In “The Weight of Water“, journalist Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) begins researching the 1873 axe-murder of two sisters and discovers new information in the case. Meanwhile, her marriage to writer Thomas (Sean Penn) begins to fall apart. The show has moved into the “rotten” side […]

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    1 October 2019, 9:25 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (97%)

    The show has moved onto Kathryn Bigelow because Clay “deparately wanted to do her” and that means we’re starting off with the critically acclaimed “The Hurt Locker“. Directed by Bigelow and scripted by Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker is regarded as the best film about […]

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    17 September 2019, 9:25 am
  • 58 minutes 28 seconds
    B-Roll: Amy Adams – Nocturnal Animals (73%)

    The B-Roll selection for Amy Adams has Wes and Clay watching a film that both of them are unfamiliar with, 2016’s Nocturnal Animals. Directed and written by Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals is the story of an art gallery owner named Susan (Adams) who reads a […]

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    3 September 2019, 9:30 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Amy Adams – Arrival (94%)

    For our coverage of the “best” Amy Adams film, we discuss the intellectual science fiction of Arrival! It’s currently at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and it secured several Academy Award nominations in 2016. Amy Adams stars as a linguist who is recruited by the US […]

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    10 April 2019, 12:28 am
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