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 O.K. Video Batch 2 Episode 5 The Whole Nine Yards It’s time for the flagship of Franchise Pictures, their one certified money-maker, The Whole Nine Yards. This mayonnaise-hating, Elmore-Leonardish bit of crime comedy stars Chandler (Matthew Perry) as Oz, the lovable dentist, who just so happens to live next to Jimmy the Tulip, a notorious hitman played by Bruce Willis. This kickstarts a goofy tale of murder and mayhem in Montreal. Where will it ultimately rank in Ryan and Nathan’s appraisals of Franchise Pictures? Only five more episodes to go before all will be revealed. Thanks for listening and feel free to send queries to ryan@okvideo.ca and nathan@okvideo.ca -N

 O.K. Video Batch 2 Episode 4 Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever The movie that inspired not one but TWO Gameboy Advance games is the subject of this week's episode, that's right, Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever. Starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, this Vancouver Library destroying rampage earned the most legitimate zero percent rating in Rotten Tomatoes history. Ryan and Nathan discuss the infamy of this film and whether it stands out in the catalog of Franchise Pictures, a studio with no shortage of duds on hand.  If you have a question for us shoot it on over to ryan@okvideo.ca and nathan@okvideo.ca -N

O.K. Video Batch 2 Episode 3 The In-Laws What is the shelf-life of a comedy? Ryan and Nathan investigate the comic pairing of Albert Brooks and Michael Douglas in Franchise Pictures’ reboot of the 1979 film, The In-Laws. Has this movie aged like a fine wine or a bottle of Sunny D left in the hot sun of a Vancouver summer? Will Canadian heart-throb Ryan Reynolds ever break out of thankless supporting roles like this and get to shine? Will Robin Tunney ever get to team up with the Deschanel sisters in a hilarious crime-solving caper? We can hope, but in the meantime these people were all participants in this forgotten farce from yesteryear. If you have any questions or feedback give us a shout at ryan@okvideo.ca and nathan@okvideo.ca. Thanks for listening. We are now listenable on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Stitcher, so rating and reviewing the show would help if you are so inclined. -N

O.K. Video Batch 2 Episode 2 Driven   2 Video Store Clerks. 1 Movie. 7 Razzie Nominations. 40 Million Dollars Down the Drain.  The Movie is Driven  .The Clerks, Nathan and Ryan. The Razzies results, one win. The 40 Million Dollars were likely an exaggeration.  Welcome to Episode Two of our Franchise Pictures Batch, the movie studio that managed to populate much of the Bottom 100 list on IMDB before closing forever in 2007. This movie re-teams the Cliffhanger duo, Sylvester Stallone and Renny Harlin as they take a look at open-wheel racing, manhood and the answer to the eternal question posed by that GameCube case at the bottom of a dump bin at the Real Canadian Superstore, What Drives You?  If you have any questions or answers regarding our lack of car knowledge, email us at nathan@okvideo.ca or ryan@okvideo.ca (or both). Thanks for listening. If you want to suggest a podcast platform that would make listening more convenient, give us a shout as well. Currently ...

O.K. Video Batch 2 Episode 1 FeardotCom  Welcome to Batch 2 of OK Video!  This batch focuses on selections from the Franchise Pictures catalog, a studio notorious for bad movies and malicious bookkeeping, resulting in lawsuits that shuttered the studio in 2007.  Our first film is FeardotCom, a tale of evil websites, vengeful spirits and domain name registration issues. Just in time for Halloween! This movie does fall under the "torture" sub-genre so some grim and morbid things come up in the discussion, but we try to focus on how absurd this movie gets before rendering our verdicts and crowning MVPs. If you have any questions or feedback, email us at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca (or both).  - N

  O.K. Video Episode 9 Ranking Batch 1 That's it for Batch 1, Monster Movie Remakes. Nathan and Ryan organize this season's films in order of preference and discuss the relative pros and cons one last time.  Thanks for joining us for our first season at O.K. Video. We are working on batch 2 and hope to sort out the last headaches with podcast services before we start posting them, hopefully at most a couple of weeks. We tease the topic of batch 2 at the end of this week's episode. If you have any questions or suggestions send us an email at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca - N 

  O.K. Video Episode 8 Mary Reilly It’s the final movie of the first batch! Thanks for joining us for our inaugural season of O.K. Video.  This week we are looking at a posh costume drama directed by Stephen Frears, starring future Oscar Winner Julia Roberts, the inimitable John Malkovich, marble-voiced maestro Michael Gambon, and a puckish young Michael Sheen, amongst many other familiar faces. That’s right, Mary Reilly is our eight and final feature and in case you can’t tell from the title, this is Jekyll and Hyde for the 90s y’all! Ryan and Nathan puzzle over this one a bit as it adopts a new vantage point on the classic tale but doesn’t seem that interested in being monstrous until it does all of the sudden. Hark, is that a Howie scream I hear? (90% sure I forgot the actual name of moviedom’s second-most famous scream during the recording). Anyway, next week is our batch one finale where we rank this season’s films.   Thanks again for listening, and if you want to gi...

  O.K. Video Episode 7 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Toast of the West End, Kenneth Branagh, directed a big, bold and certainly boisterous take on Mary Shelley's definitive work, Frankenstein , back in 1994. Surely a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, Helen Bonham Carter and the aforementioned spiritual reconstitution of the Bard himself won the hearts of the Academy and all who saw it, but the O.K. Video guys will determine exactly how high it should rank in the hall of cinematic masterworks.  If you want to ask us any questions about John Cleese's teeth or anything else, you can reach us at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca Thanks again for being part of our first batch of shows. We are hopefully on the verge of appearing on at least one major podcasting platform. Technology. What a miracle. It gives life to inanimate corpses and spreads audio data far and wide via scripts and codes and metadata and whatnot. If properly formatte...

 O.K. Video Episode 6 Wolf A Jack Nicholson passion project. A bizarre departure for Mike Nichols. Another "is this a remake?" for the O.K. Video staff to puzzle over, Wolf  is a film that dances between genres and has a lot of strange 90s pleasures to fawn over.  Thanks for joining us again for our sixth episode in this batch of movies focusing on monster movies derived from older monster movies that happened to come out when we were young and impressionable.  I've had some struggles with podcatchers and RSS feeds and default emails this past week so we are still a secret, direct link show for now. Hopefully that will change before batch's end.  Enjoy! - N

  O.K. Video Episode 5 Body Snatchers Five, the magic number for RSS feeds. With any luck our humble little show will start to appear on podcast platforms in the near future.  For magic number five we get into this remake (or is it a sequel?) of the classic paranoid tale of invasion and body swapping, Abel Ferrara's severely underexposed Body Snatchers . This movie barely saw the light of a projector's booth when it first came out in 1993 but thanks to video tapes and television, it eventually found an audience.  Don't listen to Meg Tilly, there are at least a few people like you left here at O.K. Video. If you want to email us a question or concern we can be reached at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca Thanks again for listening as our pod slowly grows into a fully formed creature.  - N