Podcast
Travolting
A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.
- Episodes
- 280
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 24 min
- On air since
- 2021
- Latest episode
- 2 months ago
Episodes
280 episodes, newest first
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55 min
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Season 4, Episode 75
Show notes
Robin Williams plays... well... a slightly grumpy man... in Brooklyn. After being given only 90 minutes left to live, Robin goes all over Brooklyn trying to make amends with all of the people he wronged in his life.
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39 min
Boulevard
Season 4, Episode 74
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Robin's last dramatic role is about a man who feels as though his entire life has been a lie and sets out on a course of rediscovery.
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2 hr 53 min
The Butler
Season 4, Episode 73
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Robin Williams plays one of the five presidents in a story about a White House Butler making an impact on how each President handles and reacts to the civil rights movement. Williams, as President Dwight Eisenhower, is one of the first faces we see through the protagonist starting his journey at the West Wing.
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1 hr 42 min
The Face of Love
Season 4, Episode 72
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This small budget drama is about a widow who meets a man who looks exactly like her dead husband and starts a romantic relationship with him. What could possibly go wrong?? Joined by very special guest, Victor Macias, who was one of the camera operators on the production.
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1 hr 8 min
The Big Wedding
Season 4, Episode 71
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An all-star cast featuring a reunion between Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, The Big Wedding offers a couple laughs for the casual viewer but nothing of any further substance such as a cohesive plot.
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2 hr 8 min
Happy Feet Two
Season 4, Episode 70
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In 2006, George Miller directed an animated film about singing and dancing penguins. Five years later, the penguins are back, and they need our help.
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2 hr 37 min
Old Dogs (again)
Season 4, Episode 69
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You read that title right. We covered this movie back in March 2022 when it was the Travolting season. Well now we're giving it a rewatch and a reassessment, this time focusing on Robin Williams!
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55 min
SpongeBob's Truth or Square
Season 4, Episode 68
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After a two episode hiatus from Robin we return to his first and only appearance in the classic animated series, Spongebob Squarepants.
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2 hr 3 min
Pressure
Season 2, Episode 68
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Fraser's newest project which takes him to the role of General Dwight D. Eisenhower just days before D-Day in World War 2. All of the "pressure" is on Eisenhower to make this invasion happen soon to save the world as they know it, but wouldn't you know it... it's gonna rain...
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1 hr 8 min
Propeller One-Way Night Coach
Season 1, Episode 83
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You might be looking at the title of this episode and thinking: "wait a minute, John Travolta's book he wrote way back in the 90s?". Well now our boy is making his directorial debut by adapting his fable for all ages to the screen. John does more than wear an interesting hat in this movie we can tell ya that!
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1 hr 4 min
Robin Williams: The Old Dog (Recap Episode)
Season 4, Episode 67
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"An Old Dog can't learn new tricks". Ever since Patch Adams, Robin's career had taken a major shift. From his blank check/post-oscar trilogy, to his evil-dark trilogy, to his family comedy roles; Robin's career goes from it's highest to its lowest in a decade. Jeff and Stuart talk about where Robin was, where he is now, and where he's heading.
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2 hr 18 min
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Season 4, Episode 66
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We're back with the sequel, only this time we travel to the Smithsonian where Robin Williams gets maybe three scenes max in this movie, one which he's a bronze statue with no limbs. In this movie you will be tested on the strange world-building properties of the mystical tablet that brings all of the exhibits to life. What's the tablets range? Does it reach through walls, tunnels and other buildings? How come Ben Stiller doesn't just deactivate the tablet at the beginning of this movie like Dick Van Dyke does in the first one?? None of these questions will have answers.
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1 hr 24 min
Shrink
Season 4, Episode 65
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Robin Williams plays Jack Holden, an actor whose career has gone down the drain and is struggling to cope with his addictive tendencies. Hmm...
Shrink is one of those movies thats about the inner workings of the hollywood machine with the self-inserted writer character struggling to write his next screenplay.
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2 hr 16 min
World's Greatest Dad
Season 4, Episode 64
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Our second Bobcat Goldthwait and Robin Williams collaboration, only instead of killer clowns and mimes we have... an incel. Oh dear.
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1 hr 16 min
August Rush
Season 4, Episode 63
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11-year-old August Rush, a musical prodigy who runs away from his group home to New York City to search for his long lost parents using the power of music which brings everybody together. For a movie as whimsical and fantastical as this would seem, Robin Williams' 'Wizard' character sure doesn't seem to add that much whimsy.
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1 hr 50 min
License to Wed
Season 4, Episode 62
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Jim Halpert from the Office moves to Chicago and is engaged to Mandy Moore in this romantic comedy about an engaged couple having to go through a challenging marriage course with none other than Reverend Robin Williams who puts their relationship through the ultimate test... and also happens to be maybe one of the most evil human beings to ever exist??
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2 hr 17 min
Night at the Museum
Season 4, Episode 61
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When Ben Stiller gets a job working as the night guard at the New York Museum of National History, he finds that all of the exhibits come to life! WOW! CRAZY!! Walking dinosaur skeletons, lions, monkeys, cavemen? Wait a second... civil war mannequins? Theodore Roosevelt? What kind of museum was this? Checks notes. The Museum of Natural History. Hmm...
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2 hr 2 min
Happy Feet
Season 4, Episode 60
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Brought to you by the same director who made Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome as well as... wait a second... The Witches of Eastwick? Lorenzo's Oil? BABE!?
Wow this guy's got range cause after the pig movie he makes an animated movie about penguins who sing and dance. Not likely to get existential or super dramatic at all right??
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1 hr 28 min
Man of the Year
Season 4, Episode 59
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In 2006, Barry Levinson (Director of Good Morning Vietnam), decided to make a movie about a TV personality running for President and actually winning the election... what a totally unrealistic concept...
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33 min
Everyone's Hero
Season 4, Episode 58
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We're back! After taking a short hiatus the Travolting boys are back with the next Robin Williams installment: Everyone's Hero. An animated film about a young boy named "Yankee" who goes on a quest to retrieve Babe Ruth's lucky bat to ensure the New York Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs in the World Series.
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