Forgotten Video Store: The Fake Movie Review Show

A movie review show, but the movies are fake and we’re making them up as we go.

"Forgotten Video Store: The Fake Movie Review Show" is the finest podcast for fans of movies, comedy, storytelling, and of course video stores. Pairs best with sauvignon blanc.

Podcast key art features photography by Sean Benesh.

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Episodes

Monday Apr 20, 2026

TV writer Anise Overton discovers an unreleased French children's film about a motherless little girl, a kidnapping plot, and a magic spell housed in the brown part of a banana. Typical French shit.
Episode art incorporates photography by Azzedine Rouichi, Elizaveta Boitsova, and Natassia Ustyan.

Monday Apr 13, 2026

What if a bisexual man was totally straight half the time, and totally gay half the time, like a queer Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde? Writer/musician/comedian/philosopher Sara Caplan joins David to review the 2005 romantic drama "Switch Hitter" - if she can find the right video!
 
Episode artwork incorporates photography by Leio McLaren, Med Mhamdi, Michal Turkiewicz, Neoman Magazine, and Or Hakim.

Monday Apr 06, 2026

The only place in the city that's safe from the digital eyes and ears of the surveillance state is... Keanu's SLUMBERCUBE! Liz Shannon Miller (senior entertainment editor at "Consequence") takes a trip to the video store to rent this lost 1990s dystopian science fiction romance movie. 
 
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Episode artwork incorporates photography by Rick Rothenberg, Filip Mroz, and Valeria Reverdo.

Season 2 Trailer

Wednesday Apr 01, 2026

Wednesday Apr 01, 2026

All-new episodes starting Monday, April 6.

Monday Dec 08, 2025

Stop me if this sounds familiar: A big-city career woman returns to her small hometown during the holidays, and her mom tries to set her up with a local guy. But this local guy has a big red coat and a long white beard and is hundreds of years old! Biomedical scientist Dr. Bethany Carboneau returns to the video store to examine the Hallmark Christmas romance "Fill My Stocking" in the season finale of "Forgotten Video Store!"
 
Episode artwork incorporates photography by Annie Spratt, Donna Spearman, JE Shoots, and Randy Fath.

Monday Dec 01, 2025

Could a scrawny, cabbage-soup-poor kid like Chandler Dimples ever make the Santa School soccer team? Will Candace Cane, the prettiest girl in school, ever notice him? Or will toxic mold claim his life and the lives and everyone he loves? Gorgeous young North Hollywooders Isabelle Carasso and Roger Carnow take a trip to the video store to rent the 1980s holiday favorite "Santa School!"

Monday Nov 24, 2025

A private dick is tracking down a mystery dame, but every witness he interrogates claims they've already had this conversation. Is this detective just really forgetful? Emmy-winning writer Matt Price ("Regular Show") visits the Forgotten Video Store and rents the lost film noir masterpiece "Already Told You Everything." Happy Noir-vember to all!
 
Episode artwork incorporates photography from the New York Public Library and Nereid Ndreu. Show key art incorporates photography by Sean Benesh.

Monday Nov 17, 2025

A regular dude who runs a movie meme instagram account gets in WAY TOO DEEP with some of Hollywood's most dangerous power players! St. Paul comedian Tido Maldonado takes a trip to the Forgotten Video Store to rent the ripped-from-the-headlines thriller "@cinemafoo."

Monday Nov 10, 2025

Would a gradeschool outcast who's obsessed with dinosaurs fit in with... a group of dinosaurs??? Independent filmmaker Luke Matthews (writer/director of the new film "Tricks Can Go Wrong") takes a trip to the video store to rent the forgotten 1990s children's dinosaur fantasy adventure "DinoDoor"!
 
Episode artwork incorporates photography by Denny Muller, Engin Akyurt, and Leo Visions.

Monday Nov 03, 2025

You know all those flashy billboards with the personal injury lawyers? One brave documentarian is going to find out who's the best billboard lawyer in all of Los Angeles! 

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