October 15, 2023 Specials 2023 Halloween Special Part 2: The Beyond and Bottom 5 Gore Effects The guys continue celebrating the 2023 Halloween season with the second of three special horror episodes! This week, Mike attempts to review Lucio Fulci's 1981 gore-fest, "The Beyond," which -… READ MORE
October 1, 2023 Specials 2023 Halloween Special Part 1: Thirteen Ghosts and Bottom 5 Ghosts We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming - sorry "Police Academy" fandom! - to bring you part 1 of 3 horror-themed episodes centered around the reason for the season, Halloween! In… READ MORE
September 17, 2023 Shows Episode 15: Larger Than Life and Bottom 5 Sidekicks Jay forces Mike to address the elephant in the room, or more precisely the elephant in Bill Murray's career, by assigning 1996's "Larger Than Life" as this week's main review.… READ MORE
September 3, 2023 Shows Episode 14: Knight Rider 2000 and Bottom 5 Cars Unimaginably, Mike assigned a movie so terrible that it made Jay believe he'd rather be stuck in traffic. The movie? The failed pilot for the 1991 "Knight Rider" reboot: "Knight… READ MORE
August 20, 2023 Shows Episode 13: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Bottom 5 Gods Mike boldly goes where he has never gone before in the fascinatingly awful fifth installment of the original Star Trek franchise, which leads to entirely too much giggling on Trekkie/Trekker… READ MORE
August 16, 2023 Shows Episode 12: Brainscan and Bottom 5 Games After a brief, unplanned hiatus caused by Jay's traveling to Spain, the globetrotter returns with the most cursed episode of Filmjitsu yet! While Mike takes a blissful walk down memory… READ MORE
July 23, 2023 Shows Episode 11: I am a Ghost (w/A Ghost Story) and Bottom 5 No/Low-Budget Movies In this episode, Mike goes into the deep waters of no/low-budget cinema where Jay holds all the life-preservers. Will he sink or swim while tackling writer/director H.P. Mendoza's "I am… READ MORE
July 9, 2023 Shows Episode 10: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Bottom 5 Diseases Awards-bait isn't the usual kind of cinema Filmjitsu is known for, and films directed by David Fincher typically wouldn't be found around these parts either. Yet Mike shoves Jay in… READ MORE
June 25, 2023 Shows Episode 9: The Happytime Murders and Bottom 5 Puppets After being tormented mercilessly by Mike with several crushing cinematic blows, Jay retaliates with a haymaker: Brian Henson's 2018 dirty-puppet movie, "The Happytime Murders." An uber-dud the likes of which… READ MORE
June 11, 2023 Shows Episode 8: Amityville 3-D and Bottom 5 Houses Jay demonstrates the rule of diminishing returns when Mike challenges him to watch "Amityville 3-D," the tertiary installment of the enduring franchise that should have been put out of its… READ MORE