(Occasionally Gregg will play “Stump the Buff,” where he answers film trivia to win money for a charity, only to get just about every single one wrong.)
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Meanwhile, Gregg is a sort of sad sack whose entire identity is wrapped up in being a movie fan but can barely manage to answer a simple trivia question correctly. Tim is a self-absorbed, right-wing blowhard who doesn’t care much for movies but loves the notoriety that comes with having a show. (These movies are then deemed “five baggers.”) Tim stumbles over every actor’s name when describing the film, while Gregg offers useless, if cheerful, “expertise.” They rate each movie on a scale of one to five bags of popcorn the vast majority of the time they both give every film five bags, no matter what it is.
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The podcast turned web series that started it all, On Cinema at the Cinema, at first, has a simple premise: Host Tim Heidecker and “frequent guest” and film expert Gregg Turkington review and bicker about the latest movies, even though it’s clear that neither one of them has seen the movie in question. (By the way, for clarity’s sake, when I mention Tim and Gregg from now on, I’m speaking about the fictionalized versions of themselves they play on the show, unless I say otherwise.) On Cinema at the Cinema Naturally, that means there are spoilers ahead, though this really isn’t a show where spoilers matter too much. Given a franchise of this size, there’s way too much to break down in a single article, but here’s a rundown of some of the most important pieces of the puzzle. Getting into it isn’t hard there are just a few basic points worth going over before diving in. Plus, at twelve seasons and counting, On Cinema is the biggest project of Heidecker’s career, as well as Turkington’s most major work outside of Neil Hamburger.īut On Cinema isn’t as impenetrable as all this makes it seem.
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Keeping up with the narrative can take real effort on the part of the viewer: Plot threads carry over from the web series to TV and then move onto Twitter where Tim and Gregg hash out arguments while in character, making it easy to miss a development if you aren’t keeping up with it all.
(And that’s after you take into consideration that the audience for On Cinema’s exceptionally dry, dark sense of humor is already pretty self-selecting.) Of course, as fun as all of this can be for those in the know, it can be overwhelming, even alienating, for newbies who are just curious to see what it’s like. Beginning as a parody film-review podcast in 2011, it has since grown into a sprawling multimedia universe, encompassing a dizzying array of content: a web series, a TV show, a movie, multiple music projects, annual Oscar specials, an official fan club, a mobile app, and even a few VR experiences tucked into the tenth season. You see, there are comedies, there are cult comedies, and then there’s On Cinema. I can’t imagine what overhearing that crowd would have been like for an outsider.
He was doing a bit, the same bit that the hundreds of other fans there also silently agreed they’d be doing that night. He asked me if I was a “Timhead” or a “Gregghead,” then quickly assured me he was “100 percent germ-free,” having used the “Rio-Jenesis Germ Assassin” for the last few weeks, so I shouldn’t worry about getting sick. Sure enough, within a minute of getting in line, the guy in front of me turned around, eager to chat about all things On Cinema. What I did anticipate, however, was that everyone in attendance would be super into it. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from the performance, it being a live version of their Adult Swim web series and all. In the fall of 2018, I nabbed a ticket to the Brooklyn stop on Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s On Cinema Live! national tour. The On Cinema universe has expanded much more since then, so this guide has been updated. This article was originally published on February 27, 2019.
Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington in On Cinema.
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